The promise of payments innovation is to create more convenient, cheaper, secure, and inclusive payment methods that enhance the overall financial experience.
While significant progress has been made, Canada’s inability to enact an open banking framework has been accused of slowing that innovation and limiting the ability of new fintech offerings to take hold and expand.
Prepaid has filled the gaps and provided the critical platform for innovation for many significant improvements in payments convenience, value and inclusivity for consumers, SMBs and governments.
But has it been enough to say that payments innovation has lived up to its promises? And what is next for this critical sector?
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The 2024 CPPO Symposium will examine the critical role prepaid has played in achieving the vision for payments innovation and view how it has lived up to its promises through the lens of the critical stakeholders: consumers, SMBs, merchants, neo banks, banks and fintechs.
Among the sessions on the agenda is What’s New with the Neo Banks? moderated by the Globe & Mail’s Rob Carrick.
This panel that includes representatives from KOHO, Wealthsimple, EQ Bank, and Neo Financial will explore the questions on everyone’s minds: What’s the future of these digital natives — and who are the real movers and shakers?
Carrick will unpack the ‘who’ and the ‘how’ behind which Canadian neo banks are really disrupting the financial services ecosystem.
The 2024 CPPO Symposium takes place on April 18th at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Register online to participate.
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