New Technology

26 Aug Apple makes moves in the payment industry with Mobeewave acquisition

Posted at 13:00h in Banks & Fees, Business, Contactless Payments, Credit Cards, EMV, Mobile Payments, New Technology by Eric

Mobeewave Inc. a Canadian-based startup has been recently acquired by Apple. According to Bloomberg, the California tech-giant paid roughly $100 million USD for the company. What does Mobeewave do? Mobeewave developed technology that allows merchants to use their iPhones as mobile payment terminals. The technology allows you to...

29 Jul 7.5 Million Users Exposed By Dave Banking Security Breach

Posted at 11:46h in Banks & Fees, Business, Credit Cards, Data Breach, New Technology, Payments Security by Eric

Dave, the personal finance app and challenger bank, announced a security breach this Saturday. Dave is a unicorn tech company leading as a US challenger bank that offers free overdraft cash, budgeting, credit building and more. Approximately 7.5 million Dave users had their information exposed on a...

12 Jun New Pandemic Scams On The Rise

Posted at 14:32h in Banks & Fees, Data Breach, New Technology, News, Payments Security, Tips and Tricks by Eric

The WHO was one of the first major organizations to warn about the increase of cyberattacks and online scams happening over the past few months. In late April WHO reported a fivefold increase in cyber attacks stating that some 450 active WHO email addresses and...

28 May How Coding Bootcamps Are Transforming Education

Posted at 23:31h in Inspiration, New Technology, Tips and Tricks by Eric

Technology is quickly transforming every sector and education is no exception. From online curricula at every stage of learning that accelerates the pace that students can complete their education or virtual classrooms and learning software, technology is aiming to dramatically change how people learn. Perhaps...

01 Feb Amazon envisions the next level in biometric payments: Waving with your hand

Posted at 14:33h in Business, Contactless Payments, Credit Cards, New Technology by Eric

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...

30 Jun What is Facebook Libra?

Posted at 17:11h in New Technology, News, Payments Security by Eric

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...

05 Feb Payments Trends to Watch in 2017

Posted at 00:00h in Banks & Fees, Business to Business, Contactless Payments, Credit Cards, Ecommerce, Mobile Payments, New Technology, News, Payments Security by Eric

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...

23 Nov US EMV Rollout: Where are we now?

Posted at 16:55h in Contactless Payments, Credit Cards, EMV, Mobile Payments, New Technology, PCI Compliance by Eric

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...

03 Oct Bitcoin’s Blockchain Technology Breaks into the Mainstream

Posted at 12:33h in Banks & Fees, Business, New Technology, News by Eric

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...

24 May When Will Mobile Payments Take Off?

Posted at 11:15h in Mobile Payments, New Technology, News by Eric

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...