Inc. magazine today revealed that Abacus Group has been placed on its Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions and service for alternative investment firms, is ranked No. 3950 with three-year revenue growth of 90 percent.

ATMs rely on operating systems just like domestic computers, so it is common for ATMs to use versions of Windows or Linux. And just like with home PCs, owners need to keep their systems up to date with the latest releases of security software patches. Without such defences, enterprising criminals may be able to discover vulnerabilities in the operating system. They may be able to plant viruses, malware or modified programs which allow them to alter the computer’s program. For domestic users, this leads to distress when digital accounts and passwords become compromised.

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.