Swarm (www.swarm.fund), the blockchain for private equity, today announced that pre-funding of the Robinhood Equity Token (RHET) is now live on the Swarm platform.

OpenFin, the operating system powering digital transformation across financial desktops globally, today announced that Stephen Wood has joined the firm as Global Head of Enterprise Deployment.

ITRS Group (“ITRS”), the leading provider of real-time monitoring and analytics for financial services, has acquired OP5, a Stockholm headquartered global leader in providing IT monitoring and log analysis technology built by enhancing the open source software of Nagios/Naemon and ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash & Kibana). OP5 addresses the needs of enterprise customers by providing greater scalability, APIs for controlling the software and its configuration, and enhanced visualisation of the data.

Recognized as one of the most disruptive technologies of recent times, Blockchain technology is now at the forefront of the information age having a vast array of applications. UNICOM through its six Summits on this theme has shown how the blockchain technology is a smarter way to track financial transactions and contracts and how they are faster, safer and more efficient than any ledger ever before.

A survey conducted by Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has revealed that despite 84% of consumers regularly making contactless payments, they are still not considered to be secure.

From today (15 August 2018), banks must publish information on how likely people would be to recommend their bank – as well as its online and mobile banking, branch and overdraft services – to friends, relatives or other businesses.

OneTrust, the global leader in privacy management and marketing compliance with 1,500 customers today opened registration for its global user conference, PrivacyTECH 2018 taking place 8-10 October at Hotel Novote