Teradata, a leading analytics solutions company, announced important new deployment options for Teradata Aster Analytics, the world’s most advanced multi-genre analytics engine:  Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop and Teradata Aster Analytics on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Although previous versions of Aster Analytics required dedicated systems, now companies have the flexibility to accelerate valuable analytic insight from their data wherever it resides, building on their existing investments in Hadoop.

 Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that its award-winning platform has been used by its customers since Coupa’s inception to bring more than $250 billion of cumulative spend under management, which Coupa estimates has resulted in more than $8 billion of customer savings to date, based on applying certain savings rates derived from industry benchmarks.

Nordea and DNB have entered into an agreement to combine their operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to create a leading main bank in the Baltics with strong Nordic roots.

The Standard has announced the addition of a second Stable Asset sales professional. Joe Bruns has joined Jim Roche, who has served in this role for the past several years.

Nordea Bank AB (“Nordea”) has announced that it has entered into a synthetic risk transfer trade related to EUR 8.4bn of Nordea’s loan portfolio. Under the transaction, investors have agreed to invest in notes linked to the junior credit risk of the portfolio.

Chicago-based Rival Systems (Rival), a trading software company established last year, today announced an Agricultural Options Trading desk within Budo Group has selected Rival Trader for its electronic market-making and trading activities. Veteran trader Rod Valeroso said the move to adopt the derivatives front-end platform followed an extensive search to find an advanced platform with optimal speed and features, as well as robust analytics and strong support.

Mortech^®, a Zillow Group business providing mortgage technology solutions for mortgage bankers and secondary market teams, announced a new integration between Mortech’s product and pricing engine (PPE) and Daric, an online based mortgage application tool, to help streamline the loan origination process. The new integration provides mortgage lenders with a suite of web, mobile, and tablet-friendly tools to automate borrower verification, mortgage rate pricing, loan decisioning and servicing.

Logility Inc., a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions, announced it has acquired privately-held AdapChain, a US-based developer of advanced integration solutions.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners announces the appointment of Claus Hecher as Head of Business Development for Germany, Austria and the German-speaking regions of Switzerland, as it continues to strengthen its indexed fund and ETF business in Europe.