Last week, Amazon made plans to introduce terminals that will allow consumers to make payments by waving the palms of their hands. These terminals would be placed in brick in brick and mortar shops and would be enabled to link consumers’ credit card information to...
In the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard and seen it all over the news, but what is Libra coin? What does it do? The goal of Libra is to “enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people”. To put things...
Between lots of new technology, evolving regulations, and emerging threats to data security, 2017 is gearing up to be an exciting year in the payments space. Here are Kubera’s Payment's stories to watch for 2017. Tech Breakthroughs Some of the most exciting payments stories to watch in 2017...
As November draws to a close, 2016 is officially almost over. This also marks just over a year since the EMV liability shift for US merchants occurred in October 2015. So how are US merchants doing when it comes to chip-and-pin adoption? Wait, what is EMV...
If you follow payments and financial technology news, you may have heard the word "Blockchain" popping up more and more over the past little while. Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin and is an unalterable public ledger of all transactions that have been ever been executed...
In an article for Forbes, Token CEO Zohar Steinberg writes that mobile payments developers have failed to ask what consumers will get out of mobile payments. In order to see higher adoption rates, he argues, those working in the space will have to figure out...
Globally, the majority of other countries have already migrated to EMV Chip and Pin technology. This made the US an easy target for credit card fraud activity. The EMV liability shift is helping address credit card fraud security vulnerabilities related to the poor payment processing...
This coming Tuesday, on December 15th, 2015 at ISACA Vancouver's December Education Session, Ryan Wilson will be teaching us and exploring the difference between PCI compliance and PCI risk Management. At this event, expect to learn about PCI Compliance, practical methods for risk qualification based on...
The U.S. is the last developed country in the world to throw away the magstripe card and move to EMV. So begins the October 2015 liability shift. Starting this October, until the end of the year, an expected 6-8 hundred million EMV enabled credit and/or debit cards...
To protect consumers and reduce the costs of credit card processing fraud in the US, banks and credit card issuers have pushed the liability of fraudulent transactions to merchants who have out of date credit card processing technology. The deadline to update your credit card processing...