2018 Canada Fintech Forum

The Canada FinTech Forum, presented for the 6th year in a row, is a unique annual gathering organized by Finance Montréal whose primary objective is to identify and develop business opportunities for the global financial services and information technology industries. The Canada FinTech Forum also seeks to discover new talents, facilitate networking, raise interest towards new IT trends applied to finance and promote Canada's financial technology expertise.

Panel — The new business opportunities in the Canadian payment industry

October 31, 2018: 2 p.m. — 3 p.m.

With less cash in our pockets and more and more payments made instantaneously via our smartphones, the question remains unanswered: is it the end of cash as we know it? Real-time payments are taking over by facilitating cash flow management and improving the customer experience. The number of innovating solutions keeps growing but so does security issues and the risk of a data breach. How can we manage this new reality?

Speakers:

Andrew Boyajian, Head of Banking, North America, TransferWise (United States)

Justin Ferrabee, Chief Operating Officer, Payments Canada

Stephen J. Redican,, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais

Harinder Takhar, CEO, Paytm Labs

Adriana Gliga-Belavic,  Partner, Cyber Security & Privacy, Canadian Payments Security Practice Leader, PwC