Deutsche Bank today announced that as part of the bank’s Strategy 2020 plan to rationalize its global footprint, it has entered into an agreement to sell its subsidiaries (Deutsche Bank Mexico, S.A. Institucion de Banca Multiple and Deutsche Securities, S.A. de C.V., Casa de Bolsa) in Mexico to InvestaBank S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple. Deutsche Bank will centralize its Mexican Global Markets and Corporate & Investment Banking coverage function in its global hubs.

OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, has announced that Alec Ellison, former Vice Chairman of Jefferies, LLC, and Chairman of the Technology Investment Banking group, has joined the OurCrowd Advisory Board. Prior to Jefferies, Ellison was President of Broadview International (which Jefferies acquired). He began his banking career at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ellison holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Northern Trust, a leading global provider of wealth management services, has been named the nation’s best private bank by Professional Wealth Management and The Banker magazines, publications of the Financial Times Group. Northern Trust Wealth Management is a leading provider of services to affluent individuals, family offices and business owners, with US$242 billion in assets under management.

NICE announced that it has again been acknowledged by DMG Consulting LLC as the worldwide leader in the contact center Workforce Optimization (WFO) market.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Services Providers For Next-Generation Oracle Application Projects, Q3 2016. Accenture is cited as the largest Oracle partner in terms of people and revenues by a significant margin, and received the highest scores in the current offering, strategy and market presence categories.

During the CCH Connections User Conference, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting showed its new user interface for CCH® Accounting Research Manager (ARM), the complete research solution dedicated to accounting, financial reporting and audit professionals.

NGDATA®, the customer experience management solutions company, today announced the appointment of Joe Pilkerton as President of North American Operations. Pilkerton will oversee NGDATA’s sales and delivery operations and will be responsible for expanding the company’s presence in the North American market.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment solutions, was honored at the 2016 FStech Payments Awards on October 20. The UP eCommerce Payments solution, as a leading payments and fraud solution for merchants and payment providers, was recognized in the ‘Best Online Payments Solution (Merchant)’ category.

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, has partnered with the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, in an initiative that will see £2.75 million invested in Scottish SMEs across the LendingCrowd platform. It is expected that the move will stimulate loans of up to £35 million for SMEs while leveraging significant private sector investment.