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NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services, currency data and

analytics, OANDA(http://oanda.com/) is pleased to announce the appointment of

Lisa Shemie as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Responsible for

overseeing the firm's legal function worldwide, Shemie will also sit on the

executive committee from her base in New York.

An accomplished financial services lawyer with more than 20 years of

experience, Shemie joins OANDA from Cboe Global Markets, where she was Chief

Legal Officer of each of Cboe's foreign exchange trading venues, Cboe FX

Markets and Cboe SEF. Before this, she spent 15 years working with financial

powerhouses such as JP Morgan Chase.

In addition, Shemie has served on the Financial Markets Lawyers Group, which

comprises senior lawyers of FX market participants who meet under the guidance

of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She also served as Co-Chair of the

Market Structure Subcommittee of the CFTC's Market Risk Advisory Committee, and

as Chair of the Foreign Exchange Professionals Association, an industry group

representing the collective interests of professional FX market participants.

She was part of several working groups under the Global Foreign Exchange

Committee, which is responsible for the ongoing development of the FX Global

Code.

Gavin Bambury, Chief Executive Officer of OANDA, said, "Given her reputation as

a respected member of several FX industry committees and impressive credentials

in the foreign exchange and broader financial services sector, we believe Lisa

will be a considerable asset to the firm. She brings with her proven

commercial, managerial, regulatory, operational and strategic expertise, which

will enable her to help drive corporate growth while serving as a trusted

advisor to the company in the years to come. We look forward to welcoming her

to OANDA."

Further commenting, Shemie said, "Over the years, OANDA has earned a reputation

for integrity in the FX community, emerging as an industry leader, widely

recognised for its dedication to the success of its clients. I'm looking

forward to partnering with the business to help capture new opportunities and

fuel company expansion in the future."

About OANDA

Founded in 1996, OANDA was the first company to share exchange rate data free

of charge on the Internet, launching an FX trading platform that helped pioneer

the development of web-based currency trading five years later. Today, the

group provides online multi-asset trading, currency data and analytics to

retail and corporate clients, demonstrating an unrivalled expertise in foreign

exchange. With regulated entities in nine of the world's most active financial

markets, OANDA remains dedicated to transforming the business of foreign

exchange. For more information, please visit oanda.com(http://www.oanda.com/)

or follow us on Twitter(https://twitter.com/OANDA),

Facebook(https://www.facebook.com/OANDAfx) or

YouTube(http://www.youtube.com/user/oanda).

SOURCE: OANDA