Profile of Melanie Rodier
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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.
Articles by Melanie Rodier
posted in April 2010
4/30/2010
In this video clip from the Daily Show, Jon Stewart jokes that Goldman banker Fabrice Tourre, the self-described Fabulous Fab, has already picked his prison nickname, and that Senators at the hearing probably only really wanted Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein to answer one question..."Are You Hiring?"
4/30/2010
Techcombank is the first financial institution in Vietnam to adopt an automated front- and middle-office treasury solution.
4/29/2010
Based in Guernsey and Bermuda, the private equity administration services business currently has $6.2 billion in committed capital under administration.
4/28/2010
The enterprise-wide brokerage software system is designed for processing of front-, middle- and back-office securities transactions.
4/27/2010
Un-netted market data serves as an input to develop algorithms and verify and optimize existing strategies.
4/26/2010
Panopticon's visual analysis software is used across the trading life cycle, from investment research, pre-trade analytics, trading (including basket trading), post trade, and real-time market risk monitoring.
4/23/2010
In this scene from NBC's The Office, employees compare Michael and Jim's managing styles and decide which one they prefer...
4/23/2010
The post-trade services market value in the interest rate swaps (IRS) space is expected to skyrocket from US$200 million in 2009 to US$500 million in 2012, according to a new report from Celent.
4/22/2010
Touchscreen offers faster, more intuitive way to access markets, Linedata says.
4/20/2010
Images of the next version of Apple's iPhone have hit the web, and if the photos are real, it looks like the popular gadget will be getting a camera in front that can be used for video conferencing, as well as longer battery life and a clearer display.
4/20/2010
The module is designed to support stringent requirements in pricing and publishing for secondary market making and gives traders the capability to be active across a wide range of instruments such as equity and credit linked notes, convertible bonds, warrants and cross-asset structured products.
4/19/2010
The new trading system - named ALGO M2 - has an external round-trip latency of just 16 microseconds measured from customers sending orders and receiving an acknowledgment or trades.
4/19/2010
New services include live video webcasting for earning calls, full-day analyst conferences, CEO vignettes and corporate profiles.
4/16/2010
Does modern technology affect the way we communicate? In this FunnyorDie video, host Jessica St. Clair explores how our plugged-in culture could be making us all monosyllabic.
4/16/2010
Portfolio Master is a fully hosted and combines front and front-office trading tools and comprehensive middle- and back-office portfolio management functionality.
4/15/2010
Revere, a New York, London and Singapore based investment group and hedge fund platform said its new partnership with Statistical Research Laboratory reflects its commitment to provide investors with state of the art technology and operational infrastructure.
4/13/2010
Harmonic will use Numerix’s CrossAsset library to power independent valuation and risk platform for clients.
4/13/2010
Integrated hardware-based ticker plant and messaging systems to offer faster, simpler delivery of market data.
4/12/2010
Options IT has completed the six-month optimization project of its Options PIPE Velocity market connectivity service to provide lowest-latency access to the major European trading venues.
4/12/2010
RealTick clients can now use Goldman Sachs' latest algorithms, worked and direct access execution services for futures and options markets.
4/9/2010
Robust processes and better technology are needed to support the risk inherent in the market, according to findings of a survey carried out by TowerGroup and SunGard.
4/9/2010
In this video clip from MAD TV, Steve Jobs introduces the latest Apple product: the I-Rack...
4/9/2010
OFI Asset Management develops and provides tailored investment solutions to its clients. The group operates over $28.2 billion in the form of mutual funds and management mandates.
4/8/2010
Offering extensive global market information coverage delivered with ultra-low latency, SuperFeed has a measured transmission speed of only 70 ms, the lowest registered so far in connections between the U.S. and Brazil.
4/8/2010
The firms were found to have committed multiple breaches that resulted in failures to provide transaction reports promptly and correctly to the FSA.
4/7/2010
Tradeweb announced that the first electronic swap trade on a multi-dealer platform has been centrally cleared by an institutional client.
4/7/2010
The compliance feature for brokerage firms and wire houses provides compliance officers with automatic daily reports on FA's activity.
4/6/2010
Across Wall Street, leading firms paid out $140 billion in compensation and benefits, the highest number in history, based on a final tally of the pay disclosures at 38 financial-services firms, according to the Wall Street Journal.
4/6/2010
Solace's Unified Messaging Platform provides backbone for institutional investment liquidity service.
4/5/2010
In this CNBC video, Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., says the media should better inform the public on what exactly is contained in the two financial reform bills. He also talks about the "Too Bill To Fail" bill, and how regulators will now have the ability to delve into organizations and limit the products of companies that seem too big to fail but that could cause future systemic risk to the financial system.
4/2/2010
In this SNL digital short, a manager calls an office meeting to ask his employees where they think cuts should be made...
4/2/2010
By creating a focused, shared view of order flow Pivot allows brokerage desks to identify and react quicker to customer orders, match orders faster, and get orders into OMS and trade execution systems with one click.
4/1/2010
Intel Xeon 5600 and Intel Xeon 7500 processors to enable lower latency, increase data and order throughput, and improve risk management.