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Payments Futures is a thought leadership hub with original content that focuses on ways in which innovation and technology are transforming payments and digital banking in Canada. This newsroom features opinion pieces from industry voices and news coverage from across the Canadian payments, banking and prepaid ecosystem. Payments Futures publishes this content via a newsletter quarterly.

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Lithic Expands into Canada offering Multicurrency Processing Capabilities

Lithic , a leading card issuing technology company known for enabling growth-oriented businesses with bespoke card programs and seamless...

Canadians Open Prepaid Accounts at Higher Rate than Debit or Credit

By Anna Kragie — June 27, 2024 Canadian Prepaid Market Set to Surpass CA$19 billion by 2028 as Canadians seek flexible, digital-first...

Symposium 2024 Recap: The Promise of Payments Innovation

By Anna Kragie — May 22, 2024 The 2024 CPPO Symposium covered every corner of payments innovation — financial inclusion, open banking,...

How Mobile and Digital Payments are Powering Prepaid’s Growth

By Anna Kragie — March 25, 2024 Prepaid, the modern payments technology platform flourishing in Canada, is the foundation behind the...

What's Next for Prepaid in 2024 and Beyond

Providing insights on behalf of CPPO's new member, H&R Block, James Klassen, director of products and services at H&R Block Canada,...

Fintech.ca Interview: CPPO Executive Director Jennifer Tramontana on Prepaid's Growth

This interview was first published in Fintech.ca Prepaid financial services are thriving in Canada, with collaboration between financial...

What's Next in Prepaid: Innovative Use Cases to Watch

The CPPO interviewed Arvind Agarwal, who is head of platform for Mydoh, a money management app for parents and kids by RBC, to share his...

CPPO 2023 Year-In-Review

Don't miss the year that was for the CPPO - packed with government realations win, dozens of in-person meetings, 2 in-person events, 2...

Mastercard, EQ Bank Leaders Elevate Role on CPPO Board of Directors

The Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), the collective voice of the $10 billion open-loop prepaid payments industry in...

What's Ahead for Prepaid in Canada: A Q&A with Peoples Group's Jeremy Bornstein

In an interview with the CPPO, Peoples Group’s Chief Revenue Officer Jeremy Bornstein shared what’s behind prepaid’s immense growth, how...

Playing to Win: How Prepaid is Raising the Stakes on Gaming and Gambling

During the 2023 CPPO Prepaid Symposium, the theme of the event was "innovation without limitations." Part of that innovation is enabling...

New Research: Canadian Consumers Shift to Embrace More Digital Payment Options

New research shows affinity for non-traditional, digital financial services grows as Canadians turn to more payment methods for different...

2023 CPPO Prepaid Symposium Recap: Innovation Without Limitations

At the 2023 CPPO Prepaid Symposium, we celebrated how prepaid is propelling innovation without limitations. During a day packed with new...

An Interview with EQ Bank’s Kartik Kamat on the New EQ Bank Card

Early in 2023, EQ Bank announced the launch of EQ Bank Card, an innovative new way for customers to withdraw cash for free at any ATM in...

An Interview with Visa Canada’s Brian Weiner on What’s Next for Prepaid in Canada

Visa is the newest CPPO member to join our robust group of issuing banks, networks, fintechs, program managers, processors and service...

SightSpan’s John Walsh Talks Payments Regulation with Canadian, International Government Leaders

John Walsh, the president and CEO of CPPO member SightSpan, was a featured panelist as the Washington Parliamentary Intelligence-Security...

Hill Day Recap: CPPO Gathers with Canadian Government Leaders to Advocate Prepaid’s Potential

On Tuesday, October 18, the CPPO held its first ever Hill Day in Ottawa. Led by CPPO’s Executive Director Jennifer Tramontana, members...

The State of Fintech in Canada

Fintech is a fast-paced industry that requires companies to constantly innovate to keep up with business and consumer demand. On Oct. 20,...

Recap: 2022 CPPO Prepaid Symposium

The growth of the Canadian open-loop prepaid market has cemented the case for prepaid moving far beyond just a card, and instead being a...

Canadian Prepaid Payments Now CA$8.5 Billion Industry, Up 18% Since 2020

The Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), the collective voice of the open-loop prepaid payments industry in Canada, today...

Prepaid’s B2B Canadian Payments Moment: Disrupting the Future of Business Payments

In the past few years alone, the rapid acceleration of technology innovation, digital payments solutions and a rise of financial services...

Why Canadian Businesses Can (and Should) Lean on Prepaid Cards

More flexible and efficient than cheques and other outdated reward options, prepaid cards offer cost savings, reach a broad audience and...

About Payments Futures

This platform is run by the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), a not-for-profit organization and the collective voice of the open-loop prepaid payments industry in Canada. The CPPO is focused on awareness and education so that consumers, governments and businesses understand the value of this platform and have the best experience with these popular solutions.

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