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 June 2007
6/27/2007
As Wall Street workers continue to furiously use their BlackBerrys, email, text messages and instant messaging to communicate, regulators have become increasingly concerned about the potential spread of confidential information through unsecure devices.
6/26/2007
Financial services firms continue to lead the way in offshoring. More than 75 percent of global financial institutions now have operations offshore, compared to less than 10 percent in 2001. And it is no longer just IT departments that are being outsourced: transaction processing, finance, HR, investment banking analytics and research, are all increasingly heading overseas.
6/21/2007
Connotate Technologies, a New Jersey-based Web mining company, has launched its new Information Agent Community GEN2.0 at the SIFMA TMC show.
The upgraded solution, a scalable platform based on Connotate's web mining technologies, provides Wall Street firms with intelligent agents that can interact with the Web and intranets, 24 hours a day, in a Web 2.0 environment.
6/21/2007
As enterprise instant messaging continues to grow in popularity, Reuters is making a bid to become a one-stop shop for real-time collaboration and compliance, launching its Reuters Messaging Compliance Manager (RMCM) at the SIFMA show.
6/20/2007
It is a multi-billion dollar industry. Today's IT attacks are regional, targeted, going after specific people and companies in the world, and entirely driven by profit, according to David Rand, CTO of security firm Trend Micro.
"Yesterday's hacker was typically aged 15 to 34, had no girlfriend and was living with his parents. This is no longer true today," Rand told the audience at the SIFMA trade show.
6/19/2007
ESpeed is well positioned to benefit from the growth of computer-based and algorithmic trading. By acquiring BGC, the company will be able to develop new products more effectively and will benefit from a larger capital base. But some industry insiders wonder how much impact the merger will have on the market.
6/18/2007
Wall Street firms slowed business continuity planning in recent years due to high costs and an uncertain market, but with new regulations in place and the market back on track business are taking a second look at their BCP.
6/18/2007
Scalent Systems' Virtual Operating Environment V/OE 2.0 DR Edition will allow customers to take their data centers from powered-off hardware without any installed software to live and connected to network and storage servers in less than five minutes, the company claims.
6/18/2007
STN Settlements is an automated service that consolidates and controls multiple messaging interfaces on one browser-based platform, eliminating the need for Wall Street firms to build and manage separate bilateral connections and providing low-risk migration to straight-through processing.
6/18/2007
EquityFeed Pro is a real-time streaming platform that offers market makers' quotes, Level Two data feeds, information about top movers, SEC filings, filtering and technical trading tools
6/18/2007
The 3300 IP Voice Trading Platform is a rack-mountable, dual-bus voice switch that supports both legacy TDM (time-division multiplexing) switches and converged IP environments simultaneously on the same controller.
6/18/2007
BT's new service, targeted in particular at firms with less than 25 trading positions, enables financial firms to enjoy all the benefits of BT's ITS Netrix trading turret without the overhead associated with installing and supporting on-site equipment, the vendor says.
6/15/2007
Over 50% of certified fraud examiners say they have personally observed financial misconduct in the past year, according to a new survey on corporate fraud.
Around three-quarters of participants also said they felt institutional fraud was more prevalent today than in 2002, when the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was passed in response to accounting scandals at companies such as Enron and WorldCom.
6/14/2007
With the aim of boosting its analysis of buy-side technology issues, Boston-based think tank Aite Group has appointed industry expert Denise Valentine as a senior analyst.
6/12/2007
6/12/2007
Despite the fact that most U.S. banks have boosted their investment in cash management initiatives, most middle market companies continue to bank with large financial institutions.
6/12/2007
IT staff must take responsibility for their professional development, survey says.
6/12/2007
Aite Group report on institutional FX trading platforms shows bigger profits from multiple platforms make banks reluctant to switch.
6/12/2007
Large U.S. businesses expected to spend more on acquisitions due to outsourcing and need for competitiveness.
6/12/2007
As Chief Regulatory Officer Charles Whitcomb will initially lead the exchange through its transition to being full electronic in January 2008.
6/12/2007
Jeffrey Linderman's immediate focus will be on research projects regarding settlement and clearing in the U.S and European Union (EU).
6/12/2007
David Dart joins HSH-Nordbank from HVB Americas
6/12/2007
Securent's new version 3.0 of its Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) provides end-to-end protection for databases and more support for third party applications.
6/12/2007
6/12/2007
Following the SEC's recent ruling, DST unveils a proxy solution which includes electronic materials delivery and voting support, consent adoption and consent management.
6/12/2007
Most financial firms have been working on boosting their order-routing capabilities and their infrastructure. But now is the time to see whether their systems can efficiently handle the data Reg NMS requires.
6/8/2007
Wall Street firms are one step closer to getting a fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with northeastern Pennsylvania as part of a total back-up solution in the event of a disaster.
Level 3 Communications, a global provider of telecommunications solutions, has been selected as the company that will build the fiber optic network, following an agreement between the governor of Pennsylvania, Edward G. Rendell, and Wall Street West.
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