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.

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Online Investment Site Cake Moves into Facebook

2/27/2008
Cake Financial, the social network investment service that lets investors track and share the performance of their actual brokerage accounts, has launched a Facebook application...

Ineffective Access Management Poses Risk to Businesses

2/25/2008
Employees have too much access to information, according to a new Ponemon survey.

Fidelity Top Online Brokerage for Customer Satisfaction, says Survey

2/20/2008
A new survey carried out by the American Customer Satisfaction Index and ForeSee Results has ranked Fidelity as the top online brokerage in terms of customer satisfaction. Bottom of the list was....

SIFMA Appoints Tim Ryan CEO

2/19/2008
Tim Ryan was vice chairman of investment banking for financial institutions and governments at JPMorgan before joining the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

TABB Group Promotes Sussman

2/19/2008
Adam Sussman says one major industry trend he will be focusing on as research director at TABB Group is the significant increase in buy-side derivatives trading.

FundQuest Hires Prescott

2/19/2008
Leslie Prescott will lead the development of FundQuest's Retirement Management Solutions platform, which enables financial advisors to deliver advanced planning, implementation, and monitoring services to their clients.

DTCC Streamlines Managed Accounts

2/19/2008
DTCC launches Managed Accounts Service to streamline communications among investment managers, sponsors and service providers.

Ineffective Access Management Poses Risk to Businesse

2/19/2008
Employees have too much access to information, according to a new Ponemon survey.

What is the banking future of Second Life?

2/13/2008
Dutch banking group ING is closing the online community it launched in the virtual Second Life world last year. Although it still is too early to tell if and how companies can ultimately leverage Second Life...

ISO Promotes Biometric Standard for Financial Firms

2/12/2008
ISO says the proliferation of electronic transactions — and the security risk inherent in these transactions -- has led it to promote biometrics as an integral part of a financial company's overall information security management program...

Soc Gen: Kerviel Messages with Broker Revealed

2/11/2008
With a second trader now in custody in the Soc Gen fraud scandal and rogue trader Jerome Kerviel in jail, a French magazine today published a series of instant messages Kerviel and his broker at Newedge exchanged over the course of several months leading up to their arrest.

World’s Biggest Bank Frauds

2/11/2008
The Société Générale $7.14 billion fraud is the most recent in over a decade's worth of major bank fraud.

Is the Risk Manager to Blame for the Subprime Crisis and the Société Générale Scandal?

2/11/2008
In the wake of the credit crisis and the Société Générale fraud, the spotlight -- and much of the blame -- has fallen on the risk manager.

Société Générale Fraud: A Timeline of Events

2/11/2008
The Société Générale fraud began to surface in 2007 when junior trader Jerome Kerviel's losses started to materialize.

Cyber Crime Film Draws Attention

2/6/2008
Several dozen financial industry and technology professionals recently gathered at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York, to attend a private advanced screening of "The New Face of Cybercrime," a documentary film by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Fredric Golding...

Soc Gen: Bank's Controls Didn't Work, says report

2/4/2008
Some of Societe Generale's internal controls failed to work, leading to the scandal of the junior trader who "lost" $7 billion. Meanwhile, industry experts suggest that in the U.S. too, a broad number of banks do not have sufficient controls...