OANDA, a global leader in online multi-asset trading services, has announced that Neil McDonald has joined the firm as Global Head of Trading and Quantitative Analytics. Based in New York, Neil will be responsible for driving the strategic growth of OANDA’s electronic trading business as well as leading the global trading, quantitative analytics, and research groups.

 Sapient Global Markets, a leading global provider of business technology and consulting services for the financial and commodity markets, today announced the latest development to its award-winning CMRS platform that will enable firms to comply with Bank of Israel reporting requirements.

Societe Generale today announces a new agreement with Smartkarma, a curated online platform for investment insight focused on the Asian markets. Under this global agreement, Societe Generale will provide its institutional clients access to a new form of equity research based on demand driven and customised content* provided by the industry’s highly ranked analysts**, academics, data scientists and strategists.

 TWINO, Europe’s fastest growing peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, today announces that it has begun listing Russian consumer loans, making it the first P2P lender to offer European investors the chance to invest in the region.

The Russian loans will be offered to investors with bank-beating returns of c.14% per annum. Investors will also be offered TWINO’s BuyBack Guarantee, which protects from borrower default risk.

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced the addition of IBM Connections to the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a leading automated cloud services platform that allows resellers to purchase, provision, manage, and invoice cloud technology with confidence and ease.

Fitch Solutions, leading provider of credit intelligence and the primary distributor of Fitch Ratings content, has signed a four-year agreement with Deutsche Bundesbank, acting as the lead central bank and contracting authority in the context of the Eurosystem Procurement Coordination Office (EPCO) to provide Fitch credit ratings and research.

TriCo Bancshares (TCBK) (“TriCo”), the holding company for Tri Counties Bank, is pleased to announce that John S. Fleshood has been hired as the new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for TriCo and Tri Counties Bank effective December 1, 2016.

Mr. Fleshood will replace Carol Ward, TriCo’s current Chief Operating Officer, who previously announced her retirement earlier this year. Mrs. Ward’s retirement was disclosed by TriCo in a Form 8-K dated August 12, 2016.

NYMBUS Inc., a provider of the world’s most current mission-critical core banking technology, today announced