Payments Canada

69 results about this entity

Period: 24 Oct 2008 - 09 Sep 2024

Convenience and rewards drive Canadians' payment choices

Convenience and rewards are the dominant themes in this year’s Canadian Payment Methods and Trends (CPMT) report by Payments Canada.

TMX, Bank of Canada and Payments Canada to run blockchain settlement tests

Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada and TMX Group have come together to experiment with an integrated securities and payment settlement platform based on distributed ledger technology.

Sibos 2017: Blockchain - reality or utopia

Sunny optimism faced off with hard-nosed pragmatism during an early Sibos session on blockchain in the cash and securities settlement space, as ConsenSys rep Monica Singer tried desperately to win over cynical bankers.

Payments Canada provides a boost to batch payments

Payments Canada, the country’s financial market infrastructure for payments, today announced new rules that will enhance automated funds transfer, a type of payment commonly associated with employee payroll and bill payments.

Payments Canada names FinTech Cup finalists

The Payments Canada Summit will again play host to a competition between some of Canada’s most innovative FinTech, PayTech, AI and RegTech startups.

Canada publishes multi-year roadmap for payments overhaul

Payments Canada has gone into public consultation on far-reaching plans for a throughgoing overhaul of the nation's payments architecture and legal underpinnings.

In Canada, cash is king...for now

Payments Canada has released new research that reveals the changing payment behaviours of Canadian consumers and businesses.

Bank of Canada research highlights global trend towards faster payments

Research released today by Payments Canada and the Bank of Canada exploring payment system modernization initiatives around the world reveals a global trend towards infrastructure enhancements that support faster payments.

Bank of Canada trials blockchain-based digital dollar

The Bank of Canada has been working with the country's biggest banks and the R3 consortium on a blockchain proof of concept that uses a digital fiat currency dubbed Cad-Coin.

Swift's Perez-Tasso warns of defining cybersecurity moment

As Swift grapples with the fallout from a spate of recent attacks on bank websites, the messaging network's chief executive of the Americas and UK, Javier Perez-Tasso, has warned that the financial services industry is facing a defining moment in the fight for cybersecurity.

Canadian Payments Association rebrands as Payments Canada

The Canadian Payments Association (CPA), the country's financial market infrastructure for payments, announced today it has changed its name to Payments Canada.

Bank of Canada designates ACSS prominent payments system

The Bank of Canada announced today that the Canadian Payment Association’s (CPA) “retail” payments system, the Automated Clearing Settlement System (ACSS), has been designated a Prominent Payment System and, as such, will be subject to more stringent risk-management criteria.