Interac

Interac Acquires Canadian Rights to Vouchr’s Engagement Platform
Interac Acquires Canadian Rights to Vouchr’s Engagement Platform
April 16, 2024  |  Digital Payments

Interac has acquired the exclusive Canadian rights to use Vouchr’s engagement platform. This platform allows users to send and receive personalized multimedia notifications along with money transfers,...

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Interac Says Small Innovations Will Bring Outsized Digital Payments Benefit
Interac Says Small Innovations Will Bring Outsized Digital Payments Benefit
February 16, 2023  |  Opinion

Market disruptions, innovations and collaborations will continue to challenge traditional payment methods, Interac AVP Anurag Kar writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “2023 Payments New...

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Public Transit Authorities Mull Adding Payment Options to Boost Ridership
Public Transit Authorities Mull Adding Payment Options to Boost Ridership
November 30, 2022  |  Payments Innovation

Public transit is still reeling from pandemic impacts that left trains and buses mostly empty in 2020 and 2021. Recently, there’s been a push by...

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Digital, Real-Time Payments Will Unlock Efficiencies for Canadians
Digital, Real-Time Payments Will Unlock Efficiencies for Canadians
July 19, 2022  |  Opinion

Anurag Kar, AVP, money movement, at Interac, writes in the PYMNTS eBook “Baseline 2022: What the Next Six Months Holds” that digital, real-time payments will...

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After Outage, Payment Service Interac Adds New Provider
After Outage, Payment Service Interac Adds New Provider
July 11, 2022  |  Digital Payments

Toronto-based online payment service Interac is adding a network provider following an outage at Rogers Communications last week that prevented millions of Canadians from making...

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Canada’s Real-Time Rollout Offers Glimpse of Payments Possibilities
Canada’s Real-Time Rollout Offers Glimpse of Payments Possibilities
June 30, 2022  |  Faster Payments

Real-time payments are coming to Canada in 2023 as the country’s Real Time Rail (RTR) scheme gets switched on for a nation that’s been making good...

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Interac Marks 1B Annual e-Transfers
Interac Marks 1B Annual e-Transfers
May 31, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Canadian payment and value exchange service provider Interac said it has reached a “money movement milestone,” with customers using its e-Transfer service making more than...

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AI, Passive Authentication Are ‘Game Changers’ for Frictionless Commerce
AI, Passive Authentication Are ‘Game Changers’ for Frictionless Commerce
May 26, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

The best fraud prevention goes on in the background — stopping the bad actors, quietly, while enhancing the customer experience. Jason Paguandas, vice president of...

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Data-Driven Decisions: Why Digitizing Back-Office Payment Tech Needs to Be on the Agenda
Data-Driven Decisions: Why Digitizing Back-Office Payment Tech Needs to Be on the Agenda
April 20, 2022  |  Opinion

Businesses of all stripes face mounting pressure to deliver post-pandemic success, and treasury and accounting teams are feeling it. Digitizing finance systems and processes can...

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