Yesterday, a week after Equifax reached a whopping $650 million dollar settlement from their 2017 breach, Capital One disclosed in a press release that it suffered a massive data breach exposing the personal information of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Again, another huge...
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...
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...
The American Democratic National Convention kicked off this week amidst the release of 20,000 of their emails by Wikileaks. In addition to adding fuel to allegations that the DNC had unfairly worked against runner-up candidate Bernie Sanders, thousands of social insurance, passport numbers, and credit card...
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...
Hyatt Hotels, the chain that owns over 600 properties around the world recently found malware on their payment processing systems. They are the latest hotel chain to be breached in the past few months. Last month both Starwood and rival hotel chain the Hilton announced...
Obama has proclaimed October 2015 to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month. In conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, Obama promoted events focused on cyber security and training cyber professionals. In this post we will gloss over EMV and...
Having the right process and efficiencies for executing your company’s invoicing and payments is integral to its financial wellbeing. Discrepancies, delays and all things associated with human error can leave your company with greater sales outstanding, unnecessary overhead costs, and potentially customer discontent. In the infographic (PDF)...
Are you interested in leaning something new? Or maybe taking an evening course to brush up your skills? RED Academy – Vancouver’s first fully tech-focused school is launching their summer and evening courses in July. RED Academy, founded and operated by a team of local tech professionals...