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.

Algo Traders Connect To Twitter

6/23/2009
Twitter is catching on as a source of news and information for traders, who can feed tweets into their algorithms in real-time to help them make trading decisions.

Hedge Funds Must Be Prepared For Swine Flu Pandemic

6/23/2009
The H1N1 virus isn't waning, despite the fact that the media is now largely ignoring the epidemic.

CaseCentral Extends eDiscovery Review Platform with Integrated Early Case Assessment

6/23/2009
CaseCentral's new platform enables clients to start with ECA and extend through analysis, review, production and post-production re-use, facilitating collaborative assessments of new case merits and liabilities.

NYSE And DTCC To Create Joint Venture

6/19/2009
The joint venture will be for the clearing of U.S. fixed income securities and derivatives.

List Provides Access To CME Group’s Globex Electronic Trading Platform

6/17/2009
The connection enables List's buy- and sell-side clients to access benchmark products across all major asset classes.

The Urgency and High Price of New Cost Basis Reporting Law

6/17/2009
Even while many firms are unaware of new cost basis reporting requirements, the deadline for compliance is fast approaching -- and the cost to comply won't be cheap.

Omgeo Extends Central Matching Platform to Broker/Dealers

6/16/2009
Twelve early adopter brokers have now signed on to Omgeo CTM around the globe, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

Kaplan Develops Solution To Meet New FINRA Regulations

6/15/2009
Under the new regulation, firms are required to provide responses to the new disclosure questions for existing registered representatives by mid-November 2009.

Tamalpais Asset Management Selects Lindata’s Hedge Fund Solution

6/12/2009
Tamalpais will use FundManager to help manage the risk of its entire portfolio, including credit, equity, volatility and interest rate hedges.

Recommind Provides New Tools To Fight Information Risk

6/11/2009
Despite the recession's impact and the documented effects of uncontrolled information, most enterprises are still not working proactively to limit exposure, according to Osterman Research.

Proofpoint Enhances SaaS Email Archiving Solution

6/10/2009
Proofpoint ARCHIVE combines storage and search in the cloud with an on-premises appliance to deliver the performance, scalability and cost savings of SaaS while providing high security, according to the vendor.

Transparency and Integrity of Data Key to Effectively Managing Valuation Risk

6/9/2009
The days of treating the valuation process as a pricing or reporting function are long gone, according to the Thomson Reuters and Aite Group report.

Omgeo And EuroCCP Partner To Streamline Prime Broker/Hedge Fund Trade Processing

6/8/2009
Omgeo and EuroCCP will launch in 2010 a pan-European equities central counterparty (CCP) service for hedge fund transactions.

Misys Releases New Risk Management Solution

6/8/2009
There is a significant shift towards proactively measuring, monitoring and controling risks in tandem rather than in parts, says Celent's Cubillas Ding.

Primary Technology Vendors in China

6/4/2009
Many vendors are already at work providing services in China. Here are some of the key Chinese financial technology vendors, as well as a short list of some of the Western technology providers with operations in China.

20 of the Top Chinese Fund Management Companies

6/3/2009
The Chinese mutual fund industry is currently 1/10th of the size of the U.S. industry, but is growing fast. Here are 20 of the top Chinese fund management companies, which also include joint ventures with some big Western banks.

7 Tips for Doing Business in China

6/3/2009
Those doing business in China must remember that the country is steeped in strict cultural and social traditions, so we've compiled some tips on what you really need to know to succeed.

China's Mutual Fund Industry Goes International

6/3/2009
China is opening its notoriously closed mutual fund industry to international investing, injecting more than 1 billion potential investors into the global markets. Meanwhile Western fund managers and technology providers hope to provide much-needed expertise to Chinese investment firms.

China Wealth Management Market Has Huge Potential

6/2/2009
The market is expected to reach US$700 billion in 2014, almost doubling what it was in 2007, according to a new report from Celent.

CFN Services Expands Financial Network With Telx

6/1/2009
Telx customers in New York and Chicago will be offered a complete, low-latency financial networking solution.