Profile of Melanie Rodier

Senior Editor and Head of Video Member Since: 5/8/2014
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Melanie Rodier has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for over 10 years, covering business and finance, general news, and film trade news. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology in April 2007, Melanie lived in Paris, where she worked for the International Herald Tribune, and Rome, where she wrote for Reuters and Screen International, a film trade publication. Melanie was born in London, and graduated from Oxford University where she studied Spanish and Italian. She is also a fluent French speaker.

Societe Generale Selects Quartet FS For Global Risk Management Solution

5/31/2011
The bank is using ActivePivot to manage risk and sensitivity updates in real-time.

Irving Picard Could Be Biggest Winner In Madoff Scandal

5/27/2011
According to Bloomberg, Picard charges $5,803 for a day's work. And now 800 Madoff investors who are trying to recover the funds they lost in the sprawling Ponzi scheme, are understandably angry at the trustee's hefty pay day.

SEC to Vote On Exactly How To Compensate Corporate Whistleblowers

5/25/2011
The Dodd-Frank provision for whistleblowers was created in the aftermath of the Bernie Madoff scandal.

NYSE Technologies Expands Connectivity into China

5/25/2011
The partnership is designed to further expand NYSE Technologies' network reach in China and enable traders and investors to more easily trade cross-borders with unmatched speed and reliability.

Goldman Sachs Exec Leads New Industry Options Market Share Working Group

5/25/2011
The group will operate under the Financial Information Forum, which addresses issues that impact financial technology operations.

Fidelity Allows Investors To Manage Cash Through Mobile Brokerage Apps

5/24/2011
Clients can move money using the iPhone, iPad or Android.

On Wall Street, Social Media Needs To Be A Leap Of Faith

5/23/2011
Many banks still forbid their employees from using Facebook, Twitter or any other social media tools.

Electronic Trading Pioneer Launches Ogg Trading

5/23/2011
David Ogg is the founder and former CEO of both Hotspot FX and LavaFX.

Global Coordinated Regulatory Reform For OTC Derivatives Is Creating A New Interest Rate Swap Market

5/20/2011
Alternative methods of managing exposure will see greater adoption due to regulatory reform, according to a new report from TABB Group.

Sybase Launches New CEP Product

5/19/2011
The new version of the CEP platform enables users to deliver real-time applications such as continuous risk assessment.

Speed-to-Market Is Biggest Benefit Of Cloud Computing

5/18/2011
Executives at the Wall Street & Technology Capital Markets Cloud Symposium noted that while cost savings and the ability to scale up and down are attractive cloud propositions, they were swayed to move to the cloud primarily by the ability to push products to the market much more quickly.

Thomson Reuters Extends Elektron with StreamBase CEP Technology

5/18/2011
The relationship will result in a trading platform that combines real-time and historical data, high capacity network connectivity and managed hosting services with a CEP platform.

Activ Financial Releases Consolidated Feed That Cuts Latency And Reduces Footprint

5/16/2011
ActiveFeed 1.5 has reduced bandwidth requirements by over a third, according to the vendor.

Misys Sophis Releases Enhanced Risk Management Solution For Buy-Side

5/16/2011
Enhancements include broader coverage and enhanced support for each asset class as well as improved portfolio swaps and price return swaps capabilities.

Advent To Acquire Black Diamond Performance Reporting

5/13/2011
The software company's purchase of the provider of web-based, outsourced portfolio management and reporting platforms for independent advisors will be completed in the next few weeks.

Headhunting On The Rise On Wall Street

5/12/2011
More than half of the 1,422 people surveyed said between 1 and 5 headhunters had contacted them since the beginning of 2011.

Thomson Reuters Embeds Data Visualization Technology Into Quant Trading Platform

5/11/2011
The fully integrated high-performance, low latency platform enables firms to move seamlessly from strategy development and testing to deployment and monitoring.

ConvergEx Offers Custom LiquidPoint Technologies to Support Options Routing

5/10/2011
This suite is designed for technology-demanding traders who require differing speeds and capacities for their unique trading styles, ConvergEx said.

Charles River Development Makes Mark On South Africa

5/10/2011
The vendor announced it is helping investment managers in South Africa offer more complex instruments and comply with upcoming regulations that their existing systems cannot support.

Telx Launches cloudXchange

5/9/2011
Telx said cloudXchange makes the delivery of cloud services more cost-effective to deploy because providers can "scale up" as their cloud computing offerings evolve.

LexisNexis And Recommind Form Strategic E-Discovery Alliance

5/6/2011
Through its hosted litigation solutions group, LexisNexis provides a service litigation offering which includes a hosted approach to managing discovery and pre-discovery documents that now offers access to Recommind's Axcelerate On-Demand.

TradingScreen Expands Low Latency Access to Brazilian Markets

5/5/2011
Clients will have better cross-border communication and the ability to trade a range of products on a global scale, the vendor said.

Plenty More Madoffs In The Sea

5/3/2011
A criminologist claims that white collar crime is proliferating in the financial industry due to a continuing lack of adequate regulation.

UBS Launches New Options Algorithms

5/3/2011
The offering is now being expanded to include an array of more nuanced liquidity and volume-sensitive order types.

SaaS Provider INDATA Releases Reconciliation App iPM Recon

5/3/2011
iPM Recon automates the daily reconciliation activities of investment management firms.

TAG Launches Meteor Platform for Custom Analytics

5/2/2011
Meteor is an analytics platform that enables firms to create their own TCA and execution quality tools on-demand.