Canada's Payments Report in 2026: Cards Win the Count, EFT Wins the Value
The short answer: Payments Canada's 2026 report counted 26.7 billion payments worth $12.9 trillion in 2025. Credit and debit cards made up 68 percent of the count, while electronic funds...
TLDR: Expanding beyond card acceptance means giving your merchants and ISVs the money movement around the card, under your brand, without rebuilding your acquiring stack. VoPay's embedded finance platform adds...
Cards Win the Count. Bank Rails Win the Value. Acquirers Need Both.
Key takeaways Every acquirer I meet, in Toronto, Atlanta or Montreal, can tell me its authorization rate to the decimal. Far fewer can tell me how much money their merchants...
The gig economy is booming, with more and more people turning to gig work for either their livelihood or a side hustle Given that one of the biggest...
Canada's payment market experienced 197 billion transactions to a total value of $108 trillion Every company can capitalize on this market, and this...
We're in the midst of a revolution spurred by the boom in APIs and innovations such as Open Banking APIs play a critical role in allowing third-party...
At a time when businesses are under pressure to do more with less, diversify their revenue streams, and offer financial services to their customers,...