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Walmart Canada Launches Mobile Pickup In 22 More Stores

Walmart Canada announced that it has expanded its mobile pickup service in 22 additional stores. The company plans to expand the feature...

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International

Canada’s Legalized Pot Sales Off To Slow Start With Limited Stores Open

Canada became the first country to legalize recreational use of pot on Wednesday (Oct. 17), but response was tepid – in part...

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Credit Unions

NEW REPORT: Credit Unions Help Marijuana Businesses Cut Through Financial Haze

When it comes to making financial decisions, businesses and consumers alike need to be well-informed — and in recent weeks, several credit...

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Walmart Canada Eyes Cannabis Industry

Walmart’s Canadian unit might start selling cannabis-based products in the future, although there are no immediate plans in the works. “Walmart Canada...

Canada’s Largest ISP Suffers Website Glitch

Internet provider Altima Telecom — one of the largest independent Canadian internet service providers, serving Montreal and Toronto — had to repair a...

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Daily: $100M Canadian Mining Farm Could Go Dark In A Heat Wave

Medicine Hat, a city in Canada, reportedly has plans in place to shut off the power to the Hut 8 crypto mining should...

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Ridesharing

Uber Autonomous Unit Invests $150M In Toronto

Uber’s CEO used his first visit to the company’s Canadian tech hub to announce a new engineering hub in Toronto. Dara Khosrowshahi...

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Authentication

Jumio On Montreal As AI Tech Hub

There are many locales that come to mind in looking toward the next big thing in FinTech, in payments, in AI and...

Authentication

Mixing Humans Into The AI-Powered IDV Workflow Loop

In the world of Digital Identity Verification, convergence is when AI-tech and human intelligence converge to keep the cybercrooks at bay, says...

Why Corona’s Parent Company Is Investing In Cannabis

Constellation Brands is not a household name, but the intoxicants it stands behind sure are — Robert Mondavi wine, Corona beer and...

International

Visa, Mastercard Cut Canadian Interchange Fees

Visa and Mastercard have agreed to cut Canadian credit card transaction fees, which could save smaller businesses (SMBs) C$250 million ($192 million)...

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Regulation

Money Laundering Runs Rampant On Canadian Border

Law enforcement officials are seeing a rise in money laundering cases in Canada, and some say the country isn’t doing enough to...

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Innovation

PDFs Are No Good — How, And Why, Governments Are Going Digital

For foes of paper cuts, recent news from Hawaii should offer encouragement: A six-month test designed to showcase the appeal of making...

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Startup Check-In

nanopay: Proposed Canadian Payments Act Changes May Spur Innovation

For many companies, 2018 is a year of regulatory change: In Canada, for example, there are proposed changes to the Canadian Payments...

OnDeck Secures Credit Facilities In Australia And Canada

Alternative small business lending platform OnDeck is expanding financing to businesses in Canada and Australia, the company announced on Wednesday (July 18)....

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Canada Finance Department Assesses Cyberattack Risk

Internal analysis at Canada’s federal Department of Finance is warning of the risk of a cyberattack that could have significant effects on...

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Startup Check-In

Emailage: Prudent Fraud Prevention Is Key To Canadian FinTech Startups

Emailage, the online fraud prevention startup that uses email addresses to assess risk, is expanding its operations in the Canadian market. The...

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Canada’s FinTech Firms Move Posthaste Toward Open Banking

While Open Banking is not exclusive to the European markets, recent PSD2 and Open Banking regulations that came into effect earlier this...

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Payment Methods

UnionPay Partners With Bank of China To Bring QR Code Payments To Canada

UnionPay International is partnering with Bank of China’s Canadian unit to launch its QR code payment service in Canada. According to a...

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Artificial Intelligence

RBC To Spend More Than $3B On Advanced Technology

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is gearing up to spend $3.2 billion on technology with a focus on artificial intelligence, digital products...

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PayStand Brings Its Blockchain B2B Payments To Canada

PayStand, a B2B payments company powered by blockchain, is launching in Canada. A press release on Tuesday (June 12) said PayStand is...

Canada, France Organize Transatlantic Small Business Investment Fund

A group of investors in Canada and France has announced a partnership to launch a transatlantic fund aimed at facilitating investment in...

Cash

For Canadian Convenience Stores, Cash Is More Convenient

Despite the availability of new payment options, Canadian customers prefer to use cash to make small-ticket purchases like lottery tickets and tobacco...

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Bank of Montreal, CIBC Announce Cyberattacks

Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) announced Monday (May 28) that hackers stole data on close to 90,000...

Partnerships / Acquisitions

Xero Makes Its Debut In Canada

With the small business accounting software market competition heating up, Xero is vying to get ahead and announced its launch of operations...

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Visa And PayPal Extend Partnership To Canada

Visa and PayPal announced news on Wednesday (May 9) that they have expanded their strategic partnership to include Canada, where the two companies...

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VISA

Visa Expands Real-Time Push Payments Platform In Canada

Building upon its global network for domestic and cross-border payments to businesses and consumers, Visa is expanding Visa Direct in Canada. Peoples...

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Earnings

Wayfair Books 48 Percent Revenue Gain As It Seeks To Improve Shipping

Wayfair aims to use investments in warehouses, shipping and hiring to boost earnings, company executives said on Wednesday (May 2) when announcing...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Data Breaches Are Stressing Americans, Canadians Out

Kaspersky Lab, the cybersecurity company, revealed in a new survey on Tuesday (May 1) that 81 percent of Americans and 72 percent...

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Today In Data

Around The World With Payment Methods

It’s a big world out there, but it’s also a world that technology and digitization are gradually making smaller by connecting people...

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Payment Methods

Square On Canadian Merchants And Cash(less) Payments

Today’s average Canadian consumer is more cash-enthused than their average American counterpart. Canadians still make about 51 percent of their purchases in cash,...

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Alipay Consumers Pay At POS In Canada

Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, is reportedly reaping the rewards of its partnership with Motion Pay Technology, the payment company in...

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Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Breathe New Life Into Cabs In Calgary

Uber Eats or Grubhub? Postmates or Instacart? For last-mile delivery, there are several choices for consumers to get take out, household products...

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Canada’s IBM Payroll Plans Go Bust — Costing $1 Billion

Canada has spent CAD $1 billion (about $780 million) on a government payroll solution operated by IBM, but reports in Bloomberg on Thursday...

Amid Job Gains, Canada’s FinServ Sector Sees Drop In Headcount

Canadian companies added 10,700 new jobs in January, according to new data from ADP, but not every industry benefited from the boost....

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Payments Innovation

A Decade In The Making, Here Comes Interac 2.0

It took a while but the new Interac debuted earlier this month, bringing together two companies and disparate functions across payments, from...

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ANTITRUST

Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll

Oh, Canada, Open Banking and finTech innovation? No frozen landscape there, if regulators look toward a recent study of competition (and cooperation)...

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Canada’s Marijuana Legalization Entices Smaller Financial Players

While legal marijuana companies in the U.S. struggle to gain access to financial services, their industry peers north of the border are...

Anonymous twitter account linked personal data

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Personal Identity Dealer Arrested In Canada

The man behind LeakedSource.com has been arrested in Canada. According to The Hacker News, Canadian authorities arrested 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom in...

Canada Economic Growth Slows, SMB Lending Cools

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Canada Economic Growth Slows, SMB Lending Cools

Data is expected to show slower economic growth across Canada for the second half of 2017 and, along with it, a slowdown...

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Amazon

Alexa Makes Her Way North (To Canada)

Amazon’s line of Echo speakers powered by Alexa, its digital voice assistant, has made its way to Canada. First spotted by TechCrunch,...

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Investing In The Startups That Invest In Innovation

The startups and small businesses that innovate aren’t just coming up with new technologies — they’re creating entirely new business models that, while...

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Ridesharing

Uber Pulling Out Of Quebec In October

Uber, the ridesharing startup, announced news on Tuesday (Sept. 26) that it will no longer operate in Quebec in October. The decision...

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Dubai’s Shedul Is Giving Beauty A Digital Makeover

“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. A...

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Mastercard

Flywire Offers Tuition Discounts For Using A Mastercard

Flywire, the cross-border payment company, announced news on Tuesday (Aug. 15) that it is providing students and their families discounted prices on...

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