Canada

August 31, 2023 @ 4:57 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Uplinq, a global credit and scoring assessment platform for small business lenders, has teamed up with digital payments giant Visa to provide scoring and risk assessment tools to small business lenders throughout the US and Canada. As per the agreement, Visa will facilitate the introduction… Read More

August 30, 2023 @ 5:39 pm By Michael Wong  |  

FlipGive, the pioneering cashback rewards and fundraising solution for youth sports teams, has announced raising C$5 million (about $3.7 million) in a recent financing round. The fresh capital is poised to drive the expansion of FlipGive’s direct-to-consumer app across North America while also supporting the… Read More

August 30, 2023 @ 2:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is announcing the launch of its alias solution, Global Digital Disbursements to its commercial clients holding deposit accounts at the bank’s branch in Canada. Global Digital Disbursements facilitates “the processing of multiple B2C payments and C2B collections where the identifier… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Michael Wong  |  

BIGG Digital Assets, the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE)-listed owner of online cryptocurrency brokerage Netcoins, has agreed to acquire shares of Web3 company Terrazero Technologies Inc that BIGG does not currently own in a transaction valued at $20 million. This transaction, which is expected to close… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Synechron, Inc., a global digital transformation consulting firm focused on the financial services and big technology organizations, announces the opening of its new Canada Delivery Center, located in the heart of the Montreal financial district. This expands Synechron’s Canadian footprint and “enables it to consult… Read More

August 18, 2023 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Iris Powered by Generali (Iris), provider of a proprietary identity and cyber protection platform, announced the launch of a white-labeled Identity Theft Resolution and Insurance offering for global enterprise and consumer cybersecurity leader, Trend Micro. This service will be “included in Trend Premium Security Suite… Read More

August 15, 2023 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has announced its official entry into the Canadian market, “backed by the integration of Interac payment rails, with banking and payment partners, enabling seamless fund transfers, and the introduction of Coinbase One – a 30-day trial offering zero trading fees, enhanced staking rewards,… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 11:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

B2B buy now, pay later solutions provider Tabit has partnered with embedded lending multinational company Jifiti to serve Canadian B2B merchants, the companies announced this week. Jifiti’s embedded lending platform was white-labelled for Tabit. Online merchants can download the Tabit plugin from one of several… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) released financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 for both itself and Galaxy Digital Holdings LP. Michael Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Galaxy, said: “Galaxy’s operating businesses performed well in the second quarter against… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping destination, announced its continued momentum in Canada. Since launching in the market in February 2022 less than 18 months ago, Klarna claims it has achieved “a rapidly expanding network of over 640,000 active consumers; processed over… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, announced the launch of fractional shares trading for Canadian stocks and ETFs. Clients of Interactive Brokers can now buy and sell fractional shares of “all stocks and ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEI), the Canadian fintech company, and Plaid, a data network that enables consumers to connect their bank accounts to more than 8,000 apps and services, announce an extension of their existing global partnership “to support a wider range of businesses with accepting… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) recently announced that Canadian Tire Bank (CTB), the financial arm of Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) – one of the largest Canadian retail companies – will adopt Temenos Banking Cloud to accelerate its core modernization. In 2022, Canadian Tire Bank chose the Temenos… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 3:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayIt, the leader in digital customer experience solutions with integrated payments for local and provincial governments, has appointed Jon Telch as Vice President, Canada. Telch joins the growing team at PayIt’s Canada headquarters and will “focus on partnering with government leaders to enable them to… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently published guidance to help fund managers understand and comply with securities law requirements for public investment funds holding crypto assets (public crypto asset funds). The guidance aims to provide “an overview of public crypto asset funds operating in Canada… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluesphere Ventures, a pioneering venture studio specializing in incubating environmental fintech ventures, announced its definitive agreement to acquire Climate Carbon, Canada’s leading broker of carbon and renewable energy credits. This acquisition is expected “to reshape the industry and accelerate the global adoption of sustainable practices.”… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment service provider Clik2pay announced it has developed a Clik2pay plugin for WooCommerce, “enabling any business on the platform to quickly and easily enable Clik2pay for their online store.” WooCommerce users can now “offer their customers a direct-from-account payment option and begin accepting debit payments… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 1:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the entity that represents all provincial/territorial regulators, says some crypto trading platforms are siting relations with bogus regulatory or dispute organizations. These trading platforms are simply trying to burnish their creditability, hoping that an unsuspecting investor may fall for the… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group , a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and cryptocurrency and digital asset training, is announcing the latest release of its renowned Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) training program; CCI ETH. This new certificate course… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 7:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

DealMaker has emerged as a top online capital formation platform providing services to enable the primary issuance of securities across the full stack of crowdfunding exemptions. This includes Reg CF, Reg A+, and Reg D. At the same time, due to its base of operations… Read More