FinTechIntegrated Payments

Ingenico brand launches PPaaS, Payments Platform as a Service offer

Combining payments solutions and third-party services, PPaaS empowers acquirers and Independent Software Vendors to enable merchants to create compelling commerce and payment options for their customers, bringing instore what has up to now only been possible online PARIS, FR–Ingenico, a Worldline brand, announces the full commercial launch of PPaaS, its …

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BNPLPayment Processing

Uplift Launches Enhancements, Solidifies Canadian Travel Market Leadership

Uplift doubles number of partners within travel market TORONTO, ON–Uplift, a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solution serving the world’s top travel brands, sees record growth in Canada by doubling the number of partners with some of the top brands in travel and launches many new products and services. Throughout …

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BNPLIndustry News

Canadians Ready to Spend but Will Stay Home Again This Holiday Season

Household Items, Gift Cards and Tech Among Holiday Must-Haves TORONTO, ON—-Zip Co Limited released its Holidays Unzipped: Zip Canada’s 2021 Holiday Spending Report. The report* finds that while all Canadians are likely to spend more this year, it’s the younger generations (Gen Z and Millennials) who plan to spend the …

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Integrated PaymentsTransportation

Moneris rolls out Open Payments for Transit

Transit authorities processing with Moneris now have the ability to accept a greater variety of cards issued outside Canada in their open payments solution TORONTO, ON–Moneris Solutions, the Canadian leader in unified commerce, has received certification from Discover and UnionPay to process transactions from their respective cardholders in an open …

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Industry TrendsIntegrated Payments

Regal Partners with Flexa to Enable Digital Currency Payments for Movies and More

Using Flexa, Regal patrons in the U.S. can buy tickets and concessions today using dozens of digital currencies at over 500 theatres NEW YORK, NY–Regal, a subsidiary of Cineworld Group and the operator of one of the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuits in the United States, today announced …

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Fall 2021 IssueIndustry Trends

Reimagining the Future of Finance: How Financial Services Can Thrive in a Post-Pandemic World

By Aqsa Zubair The COVID-19 pandemic was life-changing in many ways. For business leaders, it forced a break from simply focusing on routine day-to-day tasks and emphasized the necessity for thinking future forward. For me, it solidified the hard-earned lessons I have always applied to my work. My experience growing …

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Fall 2021 IssueFinancial AnalyticsIndustry Trends

Creating Hyper-Personalized Financial Services in the Age of Data

By Reg Marrinier The global pandemic has accelerated the rise of the digital economy, driving financial institutions to continuously contemplate the next big innovation to differentiate their service offerings. With huge stores of transactional data and client histories, financial institutions need to activate the value of data assets if they …

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Data AnalyticsFall 2021 IssuePayments

Why Purchase Data Drives Customer Engagement

By Jason Howard Who hasn’t looked at their bank statement at one point and thought, “wait a minute, what’s this transaction again?” And often, there isn’t enough information on our digital bank statements to help us make sense of our purchase history. In most cases though, these confusing statement descriptors …

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Fall 2021 IssueLeadership

How Finance Leaders Set the Pace for Businesses to Thrive

By Daniel Oh No preceding crisis in our lifetime could have prepared Canadian businesses for the impact of COVID-19, which transformed a swath of industries at an unprecedented scale. Yet even as vaccination rates increase and workers slowly return to the office, fewer than 40 per cent of businesses with …

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Fall 2021 Issue

Futurpreneur’s Black Entrepreneur Startup Program Opens New Doors

Futurpreneur has been celebrating the early success of its Black Entrepreneur Startup Program (BESP), which has provided critical financing, mentorship and business resources to Canada’s Black entrepreneurs during its first six months of operation. The program, which is a funding collaboration with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with additional loan …

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