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.

Hedge Funds Expect Regulatory Hammer to Fall Within Six Months

4/29/2009
The hedge fund community are scrambling to update technology to meet new regulations, which are expected within the next six months.

SEC Starts Tweeting In Effort To Revamp Image and Increase Transparency

4/28/2009
The watchdog recently took a severe and prominent battering in the Bernard Madoff fraud case, which agents failed to stop despite the best efforts of whistleblower Harry Markopoulos.

Interactive Brokers Sees More Registered Reps Becoming Independent Advisors

4/28/2009
As portfolio values decline, many large brokers have decided that servicing smaller balance client accounts is no longer profitable, according to the electronic market maker.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Execs Named to DTCC Board

4/27/2009
DTCC said that as it looks to grow its business in these "difficult economic times," it expects that the new board members' global executive experience will help provide insight and direction.

Financial Firms Face Massive Market Data Infrastructure Challenges

4/23/2009
If U.S. equities message volumes continue to grow at their current pace, they should average 1.2 billion messages per day by 2011, according to new Aite Group report.

Skyler Releases Solution for Management of Multiple Market Data Sources

4/22/2009
Solution targeted at firms that rely on more than one source of data for the pricing of the instruments they trade.

kasina And Horsesmouth Provide Insight Into Advisors’ Investment Behavior

4/21/2009
kasina and Horsesmouth teamed up to provide insight into advisors' investment behaviors, preferences for working with asset managers, and opinions on specific firms.

Sungard Launches New Adaptiv Enterprise Risk Solution

4/21/2009
The solutions features enhancements to areas such as collateral management, market risk and operational efficiency and control.

Iraq Stock Exchange Goes Electronic

4/20/2009
The system was paid for with a $6.5 million grant from the U.S. government and has taken three years to install, according to the WSJ.

Axios Systems and DataCenter Sign Strategic Agreement to Penetrate Growing Nordic Market

4/17/2009
Partnership expects to benefit from market growth, as IDC forecasts Finland's IT market will grow by up to 3.4% during 2009.

Scottrade Promotes Tech Execs Bourzikas and Meitz

4/16/2009
Scottrade has promoted Grant Bourzikas to director of operations technology and enterprise information security and Chris Meitz to director of operational controls.

Oracle Releases New Solution to Help Banks Manage Exposure

4/16/2009
The enterprise application enables banks to achieve a holistic view of their exposure by helping them to centralize collateral management, limits definition, and tracking and measurement of exposure across the institution, according to Oracle.

Pricing Partners Offers Source Code Version of Its Valuation Platform

4/15/2009
The vendor's pricing and risk management solution can price derivatives virtually on all major assets classes.

EverKey Global Partners Deploys Linedata’s Hosted Hedge Fund Suite

4/15/2009
Linedata's solution provides EverKey with the ability to view its exposure to prime brokers and counterparties with the click of a button and delivers a customized daily view of NAV, positions and performance.

Veracode Introduces SecurityReview for Application Risk Management

4/14/2009
Enhanced cloud-based service simplifies security and compliance risk management across a diverse enterprise application portfolio, according to Veracode.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading Releases New Version of EMS

4/13/2009
New options enhancements to REDIPlus include the introduction of three new algorithmic strategies, the ability to auto-hedge options orders, and active limit support.

LV= Asset Management Selects SunGard’s APT for Risk Management

4/10/2009
LVAM will use APT's global balanced risk model, a multi-factor risk model, to measure and attribute risk for a multitude of asset classes.

Ex-Deutsche Bank Trader Launches New Social Networking Site for Retail Traders

4/9/2009
As public sentiment turned against Wall Street, Peter Shepard launched a new web site for retail traders not to have to rely on Wall Street who let them down.

UniCredit Selects Odyssey for Portfolio Managers in Italy, Austria, Luxembourg

4/8/2009
UniCredit Private Bank Italy, Bank Austria and HVB Luxembourg will together equip more than 1,000 portfolio managers and relationship managers for their discretionary and advisory portfolio management business.

CA Cheuvreux Incorporates Smart Trade’s Technology Into European Equity Crossing Network

4/7/2009
The technology enables broker's clients to execute orders from their desktops, to optimize execution and to reduce latency.

Aleri Develops Real-Time Risk Monitoring Solution

4/6/2009
The solution enables real-time analysis of credit and market risk, with ability to manage exposure by counterparty, asset class, industry sector and trader.

RISE Launches Retirement Planning Solution for Financial Advisors

4/3/2009
The marketing system is aimed at financial advisors seeking to educate, engage, and sell clients on retirement income solutions.

Financial Services Consortium Launches Biometrics Initiative

4/2/2009
The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) announced the launch of an initiative aimed at enabling the financial services industry to gain a better understanding of how biometric technologies can be used to combat fraud across all delivery channels.

Electronic Content Still Out of Control for Most Firms, says AIIM Report

4/1/2009
The report also revealed that managing electronic office documents is still a challenge for 47% of organizations.