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CPPO Report Examines How Canadians Can Access Government Benefits and Tax Refunds Faster

The CPPO, the voice of the prepaid payments industry in Canada, released a white paper examining opportunities for Canadians to receive government benefits and tax refunds faster and more...

Regulatory Roundup: Canada’s Budget Implications for Prepaid and Digital Payments Innovation

The Canadian government has taken steps to recognize digital payments as a gateway to greater economic growth — paving a path for prepaid to make a larger impact in the evolution of the d...

FSS Enhances Prepaid Multi-Currency Card Offering

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a globally leading provider of integrated payment products and a payments processor, has introduced significant enhancements to its prepaid multi-cur...

Mastercard Partners with Conservation International on Virtual Prepaid Card

The Wildlife Impact Card program is available to issuers globally. The first card offerings launch in the U.S. in partnership with Usio, with virtual prepaid cards available now that can ...

EML Supports AptPay's Instant Payment Disbursements in Canada

EML announced its inaugural reloadable program as AptPay intends to roll out its new EML-built prepaid card payout solution in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.

FSS Partners with Zwipe to Offer Contactless Cards Globally

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global provider of integrated payment products and a payment processor, has secured a partnership with Zwipe to bring its next-generation c...

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...

CPPO Member Spotlight: EML Payments

As part of our monthly member spotlight to showcase the voices driving innovation and change across the prepaid ecosystem, we we conducted a Q&A with Ailie Kofoid, Chief Executive Officer...

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...

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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