Data AnalyticsMarket Research

What traditional brand metrics miss about financial relationships

By Michelle Walkey, Executive Vice President, Research, Angus Reid Group After more than two decades working in financial services, one pattern became clear. The biggest shifts rarely announce themselves through headline numbers. Across roles in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S., I have spent years looking at market landscapes, primary …

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Business BankingEFT & WireIntegrated Payments

Adyen Launches Intelligent Money Movement To Unify Enterprise Payments, Liquidity Management And Payouts

NEW YORK, NY–Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announced Intelligent Money Movement, a new product offering that connects payments, liquidity management, and payouts together on a single platform. Designed for large global enterprises, the solution enables businesses like Etsy, Expedia Group, and Vinted to move …

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Industry Trends

Celebrate This International Women’s Month with Five Career Tips for Women in Finance

Insights with Heather Cooke, CFA, Board Chair of CFA Society Toronto The finance industry has historically been challenging for women to enter and build careers in, with leadership roles often dominated by men and opportunities harder to access. This International Women’s Month offers a timely opportunity to highlight how more …

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AIE-commerceFinTech

TELUS Digital showcases AI transformation in telecom: Unlocking value

How 2 trillion tokens and 20+ production use cases help telecoms escape ‘Pilot Purgatory’ with insights from NVIDIA, F3 Networks and TELUS VANCOUVER, BC–TELUS Digital will showcase production-ready artificial intelligence (AI) driven customer experience (CX) and network optimization solutions for telecommunications providers at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona, …

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E-commercePayments

Nuvei Selected by Leading Consumer Electronics Retailer, MediaMarktSaturn, for Online Marketplace Payments

Selection driven by Nuvei’s extensive local payment coverage and pan-European reach MONTREAL, QC–Nuvei, the global fintech providing the infrastructure for every payment, everywhere, has been selected by MediaMarktSaturn to support online marketplace payments across its European markets. MediaMarktSaturn is Europe’s leading retailer of consumer electronics and related services, serving millions …

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Industry News

Loop Ends Broken Banking Data for Businesses with Canada’s First Direct API Infrastructure for Accounting

As Canada moves toward formal Open Banking policies, Loop becomes the first business banking platform to deliver dedicated API connectivity for QuickBooks, Xero, and Wave, replacing outdated “screen scraping” technology for sharing businesses’ financial data TORONTO, ON–Loop, the leading global financial platform for Canadian businesses, launched Direct API Connectivity for …

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Advisory & ConsultingTrendsWealth Management

The Human Quotient: Building Future-Ready Wealth Professionals

By Fred Pinto, CFA, ICD.D, CEO of CFA Society Toronto In 2026, CFA Society Toronto marks 90 years since a small circle of investment professionals began meeting in 1936 to sharpen their craft and advance the practice. In the decades since, private wealth management has transformed from traditional brokerage and …

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Industry TrendsMarket ResearchRisk Management

Geopolitical, macroeconomic and technology risks rank highest in Global Risk Institute survey of Canada’s financial sector

TORONTO, ON–Geopolitical/policy risk, macroeconomic risk and technology/cyber risk rank as the most significant risks facing Canada’s financial sector, according to a new survey released by the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (GRI). GRI’s Canadian Financial Services Risk Outlook Survey 2026, which draws directly on the views of Chief Risk …

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FinTechPayments

The Real-time Rail is coming! What can Canada learn from other instant payment schemes?

Payments Canada has announced a revised plan for its instant payments scheme, the Real-Time Rail (RTR), with a target for industry testing in 2026 By Kellie Johnson, SVP, Payments America at RedCompass Labs Canada’s payments ecosystem can breathe a sigh of relief as Payments Canada has announced that the Real-Time …

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AIFinTechWealth Management

The $190B Data Lockdown: Why ‘Sovereign Tech’ is the Next Massive Wealth Transfer

VANCOUVER, BC–The global internet is being carved into digital fortresses. New data sovereignty laws are fragmenting the massive AI and cloud markets as organizations are now forced to keep their most sensitive data within their own national borders. This isn’t just a trend; it’s a regulatory earthquake, with 2026 marking …

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