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.

Oppenheimer & Co. fined $1M by FINRA

10/30/2007
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges it produced "flawed, incomplete and untimely data" in breakpoint self-assessment, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said.

FSA Dives into Hedge Funds and Sets Out Guidelines to Prevent Market Abuse

10/29/2007
The UK's FSA is launching a formal assessment of the systems hedge fund managers have in place to prevent market abuse, after being "disappointed" by the controls at firms it visited.

SEC heightens battle against "rampant" insider trading among Wall Street professionals, hedge funds, international rings

10/29/2007
The SEC is stepping up its efforts to fight what a senior official called "rampant" insider trading among Wall Street professionals, and has formed a working group to focus on the crime. The agency is seeing a trend in larger rings involving more people, international cases, as well as those involving securities professionals and hedge funds.

MiFID Uncertainty Persists as Implementation Day Approaches

10/24/2007
With the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) just days away, a new study has found that a massive 93% of financial services institutions do not believe that MiFID will be consistently implemented and enforced across Europe.

How Are U.S. Businesses and Lawmakers Responding to Data Breaches?

10/23/2007
Nearly 77 million individuals have been affected by data breaches so far this year. But even after suffering a data breach, 46 percent of businesses failed to implement encryption solutions and 82 percent did not seek legal counsel prior to responding to the incident -- even though they had no prior response plan in place.

Financial Firms Continue to Struggle to Plug Security Loopholes

10/23/2007
New technologies, such as pattern analysis, as well as awareness and training can help financial services firms keep attacks at bay.

How can Companies Avoid Fines? Ex-SEC commissioner Offers Some Clues

10/23/2007
Former SEC acting chairman and commissioner Laura Unger suggests that to keep ahead of the regulators and avoid costly fines, Wall Street firms should adopt cutting-edge technology and....

Regulator Probes Bear Stearns

10/19/2007
Bear Stearns is being investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge funds that collapsed last summer, burdening investors with added losses.

Euroclear Hires Michael Shipton as Managing Director and Head of Corporate Technology

10/17/2007
Euroclear is currently developing a new technology platform to consolidate all of its securities-settlement activities -- from Belgian and French to U.K. securities -- onto one processing system.

Bank of New York Mellon’s Pershing Advisor Solutions Hires Mark Tibergien as new CEO

10/17/2007
Pershing Advisor Solutions provides financial business solutions to more than 1,150 institutional and retail financial organizations as well as independent registered investment advisors.

Reuters Launches New Enterprise Data Management Solution Offering Full Automation

10/17/2007
The ability to deploy a comprehensive and cost-effective enterprise data management strategy allows participants to improve the management of trading and operational risk.

Milestone Unveils Flagship Funds Processing Solution in the U.S.

10/17/2007
The Flagship Funds processing solution is used primarily for cutting NAVs on mutual funds.

Asset Flows Move to Hedge Funds, says TABB Group

10/17/2007
Most fund managers believe the growth of active-extension funds will increase as the pressure for increased yield and increased fees push traditional managers into this new area.

Mass Affluent Use Online Banks

10/17/2007
With an increasing number of high net-worth consumers now using Internet-based financial insitutions, traditional banks must rise to the challenge or face losing out.

Gen X Has Biggest Demand for Financial Solutions, Offers Wealth of Opportunity to Financial Insitutions

10/17/2007
Gen Xers have greatest need for financial solutions out of any age group. But financial institutions need to provide more transparent guidance to earn their trust.

Financial Firms to Increase IT Hiring in Fourth Quarter

10/17/2007
Corporate growth is driving the need for more IT staff in the financial industry. But the market for skilled candidates is increasingly tight.

Exchange Market Share Set to Decline Due to Competition from Nimble Dark Pools and ECNs

10/17/2007
Aite Group expects to see an increasing decline for the exchange market share as NYSE, NASDAQ and regional exchanges struggle against price-competitive ECNs and dark pools.

SEC sues New York Hedge Fund Over Illegal Trades

10/15/2007
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which recently heightened its scrutiny of the hedge fund industry, is suing a New York hedge fund and its principal, alleging the fund made more than $1.48 million in profits from illegal trading.

Trading Technologies wins $3.5 million patent suit against eSpeed

10/11/2007
A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois jury has awarded Trading Technologies $3.5 million after finding that certain versions of eSpeed's futures-trading software infringed on its patents...

Regulators slap Morgan Stanley with another $7.5 million fine

10/10/2007
Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine to settle charges that over a five year period it provided customers with insufficient written trade confirmations for municipal securities and bonds, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said. It is the second, unrelated but substantial fine that Morgan Stanley has settled in less than two weeks.

EU Regulators Probe Thomson-Reuters deal

10/9/2007
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the $18.4 billion takeover of Reuters by Canadian financial information company Thomson, saying the merger raises "serious doubts" about fair competition in the financial information business.

NYSE fines Citigroup, DeutscheBank, UBS, JP Morgan and 11 other Wall St firms $10.4 million

10/8/2007
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) fined 15 Wall Street firms a total of $10.4 million for violating rules governing delivery of prospectuses and other information to investors...

Pump-and-dump spam down 30 percent following SEC drive

10/8/2007
Pump-and-dump spam touting particular stocks has become one of the most common type of nuisance e-mail worldwide. But the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s anti-spam drive, code-named Operation Spamalot, has now caused a massive drop in this type of spam, according to new findings.

SEC Enforcement Cases Rise for the first time Since 2003

10/5/2007
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been particularly busy this year, increasing enforcement actions in fiscal 2007 for the first time in four years. Accusations against companies or individuals have ranged from charges of insider trading to backdating of stock options...