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FSS Partners with India Post Payments Bank to Advance Financial Inclusion

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global payment processor and provider of integrated payment products, has continued to promoted financial inclusion among underserved and u...

Mogo to Acquire Saving and Investing App Moka Financial Technologies

Mogo, a digital payments and financial technology company, today announced its intent to acquire Moka Financial Technologies Inc., one of Canada's leading saving and investing apps.

AML Webinar Recap: Revised Regulations under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act

On March 17, CPPO board member Jacqueline Shinfield, a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, provided an informative webinar on what prepaid providers need to know about the revised re...

CPPO New Member Spotlight: IOT Pay

To gain insight into what's driving change across the prepaid ecosystem, we conducted a Q&A with IOT Pay's Co-Founder and COO, Max So.

Mastercard Launches Prepaid Card for Faster Access to Funds

MasterCard announced it is working with Liberty Tax to launch to Netspend Liberty Tax Prepaid Mastercard to enable Americans faster and secure access to their stimulus and tax return paym...

Payfare Completes $65.4M IPO

Payfare, the global financial technology company powering digital banking and instant payout solutions for today’s gig workforce, has successfully completed an initial public offering (IP...

Refreshed 2021 Canadian Prepaid Heatmap Released

CPPO has partnered with the Fintech Growth Syndicate to refresh the 2020 Prepaid Heatmap for 2021. See if your company is on the list. Get your copy of the newly refreshed heatmap, availa...

Study: Canadian Open-Loop Prepaid Market Grows to $4.8 billion in 2019

The Canadian Open-Loop Prepaid Market: 2019 reveals $4.8 billion in total dollars loaded onto open-loop prepaid cards. According to the study commissioned by the CPPO and conducted by Mer...

First-Ever Canadian Prepaid Heatmap

The Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO) released the first-ever Canadian prepaid heatmap as industry reaches almost C$5B in loads. The research captures 74 incumbents and new f...

Positioning Prepaid as a vital tool amid the Covid-19 crisis

As countries around the world unveil Coronavirus stimulus measures, the need to get emergency relief funds to those in need has been brought sharply into focus. The International Working ...

Achieving Leadership in Payments: 20022 Labs Releases Discussion Paper on Models for Corporate Ad...

The paper is designed to help key beneficiaries of ISO 20022, corporations and governments identify opportunities to achieve the financial, operational and customer service benefits offer...

Payments Canada: COVID-19 pandemic dramatically shifts Canadians’ spending habits

According to the study, 75 per cent of Canadians spending less than pre-pandemic; 62 per cent using less cash; 42 per cent avoid shopping at places that don’t accept contactless payments.

AML Webinar Recap: Revised Regulations under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act

On March 17, CPPO board member Jacqueline Shinfield, a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, provided an informative webinar on what prepaid providers need to know about the revised re...

CPPO New Member Spotlight: IOT Pay

To gain insight into what's driving change across the prepaid ecosystem, we conducted a Q&A with IOT Pay's Co-Founder and COO, Max So.

Where Prepaid Fits into Canada's Faster Payments Push

The faster payments conversations have come to the surface again in early March when Payments Canada announced that Interac as the exchange solution provider for Canada’s real-time paymen...

Open Banking Opportunities for the Canadian Payments Ecosystem

The gaps in the Canadian payments infrastructure are substantial. Finding common ground toward a financial ecosystem that works for all stakeholders is critical in making an open banking ...

The Role of Prepaid and Virtual Cards in a Digital Payments Ecosystem

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically accelerated the development of ubiquitous e-commerce and contactless payment solutions by an estimated 3-5 years. Learn what payments experts say thi...

12 Stats that Show How COVID-19 Has Shifted Payment Preferences

Results from a recent Payments Canada survey indicate how consumer payment preferences have and will continue to shift as a result of the pandemic. Overall, the results indicate a payment...

What to Expect from the 2021 CPPO Prepaid Symposium

The 2021CPPO Prepaid Symposium on Wednesday, June 9 from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT, will bring together thought leaders from across the payments industry to underscore how the pandemic has ac...

Webinar: Virtual Cards in the Era of Digital Payments and Open Banking

Save the date to join FSS and the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO) for a webinar on January 19 that explores implications of the emergent landscape on prepaid issuers and th...

Prepaid is the Platform for Payments Innovation

In the final Keynote of the 2020 CPPO Prepaid Symposium, Sue Kelsey of Mastercard delivers insights from across continents to help set the stage for what a prepaid future in Canada could ...

The Customer Experience Journey: The Key to Fulfilling the Mission

In this 2020 CPPO Symposium session, BankMobile and Ubiquity share a case study on how the digital bank is driving record breaking Net Promoter Scores by focusing on mission, culture, cal...

Gradually Then Suddenly, Covid Accelerates Digital Transformation

This 2020 CPPO Symposium session explores how financial institutions are speeding innovation in the next wave of the digital era to enhance customer engagement and the customer experience.

Operating in an Uncertain Regulatory Environment

This discussion features two of the CPPO’s top legal and government relations advisors and covers the federal regulatory environment, provincial harmonization of GPR rules and how the pay...

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