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...
We are finally at the precipice of a new financial world in Canada On August 4th, 2021, the Canadian fintech community collectively let out a sigh of...
Of all the trends that popped up in 2021, we can't think of any that has affected the world of payments more than buy now pay later (BNPL) By the end...
Payments, money lending and financial transactions of all sorts have been present throughout history In the very early days, payments took a physical...
Hamed Arbabi, CEO and Founder of VoPay, shares how VoPay is altering the Open Banking landscape and helping Canadians embrace digitization along the...
This content was recently presented by our friends at FDATA North America to one of the big 5 Canadian banks How Consumer Financial Data Access Works...
In recent years, countries around the world have been moving to upgrade their legacy systems to enable real-time payments and data-rich transactions...