Canada

September 15, 2020 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

 Visa Canada announced on Tuesday the expansion of the “Click to Pay” feature in Canada. According to Visa Canada, the feature helps consumers make secure, swift purchases across various merchants and platforms, which is now more important than ever before given the world’s accelerated shift… Read More

September 14, 2020 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EQ Bank, which is a digital, branchless platform offered by Equitable Bank, a Canadian banking challenger, recently surpassed $4 billion in total deposits, which has come about three months after it reached the $3 billion mark. Although the demand for digital banking services has been… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Cash as a payment option continues to decline in popularity around the world due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. It has long been known that cash can be a transport vehicle for germs and just very dirty in general. The Coronavirus has brought this… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

goPeer, a Canadian peer to peer lending platform, is now accepting retail investors to fund loans. The move follows the Ontario Securities Commission decision earlier this year to grant goPeer an EMD [Exempt Market Dealer] license. Now non-accredited investors may invest in an asset class… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 2:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech Mogo Inc. (TSX:MOGO) (NASDAQ:MOGO) announced on Monday it is planning to launch a mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) payment solution, which will enable users to quickly and easily make and share payments with friends and family through Mogo’s mobile app. According to Mogo, the payment… Read More

August 26, 2020 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Afterpay, a digital platform that offers interest-free installment plans for online purchases, announced on Wednesday it is offering its services to consumers and merchants in the Canadian market through its new partnerships with various brands and retailers, including American Eagle, Ardene, BikeExchange, Dermalogica, FragranceX.com, Herschel Supply… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 12:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontario, Canada’s Tahinis Restaurants, which claims to be the world’s best Middle Eastern restaurant, revealed that it has converted its entire cash reserves into Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency. The company explained that it experienced significant challenges during the historic market crash in March 2020,… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 2:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) reports that its COVID-19 Enforcement Task Force, has taken actions against 220 scams allegedly seeking to profit from the pandemic. These actions include including administrative actions, cease-and-desist orders, referrals to other regulators, and to social media and hosting… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 7:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Conflux Network, a permissionless blockchain network, has received a second public endorsement from a Chinese government entity. In a release, Conflux said that the Hunan government has joined the Shanghai government in blessing their blockchain. Conflux notes that they are the only privately created blockchain… Read More

August 16, 2020 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Montreal (BMO), a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company with over 45,000 employees and a more than 850 billion CAD in assets, has created an API portal to allow small business clients to easily and securely share their data with… Read More

August 16, 2020 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uruguay’s Kona, a company focused on enhancing customer experience with machine learning (ML) enabled solutions for businesses, which includes chatbots and various cognitive solutions for call centers, has reportedly landed a deal with a major Canadian bank. Established in Montevideo, and now headquartered in Toronto,… Read More

August 13, 2020 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Katipult Technology Corp (TSXV: FUND), a Canada based Fintech software provider for capital markets, has been selected by TSX Trust Company, a subsidiary of TMX Group Limited (the parent company of the Toronto Stock Exchange), to provide its new digital deal management platform designed to automate… Read More

August 11, 2020 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NetCents Technology Inc (CSE:NC) (FSE:26N) has reportedly joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program in order to enhance its payments platform. NetCents is a digital currency payments technology firm that will now be offering a Visa payment card to customers in the US and Canada. Like… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Smith School of Business at Queen’s University has introduced Canada‘s very first Fintech Masters course. According to the Smith School of Business, the course has been designed mainly for financial or tech professionals who are already working in the industry. The first Master of… Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Brane Inc., a digital asset custodian based in Canada, announced on Thursday its plans to expand into the U.S. The company reported that the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) revealed that federally chartered banks and thrifts in the U.S. may provide… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has announced that in light of the COVID-19 crisis and difficulties regarding small businesses accessing capital, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has made an interim local order that adopts the start-up crowdfunding regime currently in place in certain other Canadian… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Agora Dealer Services, a digital technology-focused Carrying Dealer that specializes in supporting mutual fund dealers and independent financial advisors, and Pascal Financial, a Canadian Fintech firm with an integrated, AI-enhanced wealth management platform with active behavioral finance, announced on July 29, 2020 that they’re developing… Read More

July 27, 2020 @ 10:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Celero, a solutions integrator, recently announced they have signed a 7-year agreement to modernize and transform Celero’s data center and data center network environments.  The duo reported that through this agreement, Celero will significantly advance the digital banking technologies, cloud services,… Read More

July 24, 2020 @ 9:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canada-based point-of-sale financing and payment tech provider Flexiti announced earlier this week that it has it signed a buy now pay later financing agreement with Canadian furniture retailer Mobilia. According to Flexiti, Mobile will launch its omni-channel 0% interesting financing solution. “With Flexiti’s buy now… Read More

July 24, 2020 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market cap, has reportedly shifted applications under developments at its AI research division, Borealis AI, to a private cloud infrastructure. The high-performance cloud platform will be supported… Read More