The PayPod
The PayPod is Payments Canada’s multi-episode podcast which explores the trends and topics influencing payments in Canada and around the world. Hear Elizabeth Dempsey, Lead, Event Content and Communications at Payments Canada and host of The PayPod, interview leading experts and respected thought leaders about the changing payments landscape, the needs of Canadians and the future of modern payments.
Episodes
46 episodes
Finding your path in Canada’s payment ecosystem
Canada’s payment landscape is rapidly transforming, offering a growing range of participation options for emerging players. This conversation explores how organizations can effectively navigate the ecosystem to power their growth and examines t...
Takin’ care of business (every working hour) - the RTR reality
Canada is flipping the switch on 24/7 banking, but the real challenge isn’t the tech—it’s the strategy. When the "9-to-5" window closes for good, how does your institution stay ahead? This expert panel moves past discussions of tech...
Banking in disguise - when every app becomes a bank
What happens when your favourite ride-sharing, shopping or accounting app starts offering a debit card, credit line or instant payment feature? Welcome to the era of banking in disguise - where financial services are no longer delivered by “ban...
Fraud prevention strategies for real-time, open banking and digital payments
This episode is an important conversation around financial crime prevention in a rapidly evolving landscape. Experts from Feedzai and top financial institutions explore the paradigm shift toward unified decisioning, emphasizing advanced fraud c...
Economies of machines - tokenization for agentic autonomous finance
We are entering the era of agentic autonomous fnance, where AI agents are transitioning from simple digital assistants to active financial participants. As these agents begin to negotiate, transact, and manage complex workflows independently, t...
Sharing open banking success stories - spotlight on UK fintech innovation
Supported by regulation and fueled by innovation and investment, open banking has fundamentally reshaped the UK's financial landscape, establishing it as a global leader and a vibrant hub for fintech innovation. This panel will explore the conc...
Participant onboarding - Unlocking access for RTR participants
This summer on The PayPod, we're bringing you some of the most popular and best reviewed sessions, from the deep dives and breakout stages at The 2026 SUMMIT. We're calling it The SUMMIT Summer series.This session brings together industr...
Accelerating economic growth
In anticipation of The SUMMIT, Payments Canada's annual event coming to Toronto this May, we're exploring this year's theme: accelerating economic growth. To do that, we brought together leading experts for a panel on how payments a...
Keeping your money safe
Billions of dollars are held by Canadian financial institutions and every day, money is sent and received between bank accounts, safely. But how is your money so safe? In this episode of The PayPod, Payments Canada’s CIO is joined by CDIC’s CEO...
A world of payments: national stories, global impact
Revisiting a main stage panel discussion from The 2025 SUMMIT, Payments Canada’s Chief Financial Officer Kristina Logue interviews global industry leaders at the forefront of payment transformation as they share the innovations, challenges and ...
The RTR, an update on our approach to delivery and beyond
As a follow-up to last year's The SUMMIT main stage panel, Payments Canada's Chief Delivery Officer, Jude Pinto interviews executives from our Real-Time Rail delivery partners, IBM, Interac, CGI and Deloitte on the tremendous progress made on t...
CP Act consultation results
Earlier this year, Payments Canada issued a public consultation on policy proposals in relation to membership expansion, with the intention of collecting responses to inform drafting instructions for amendments to Payments Canada by-laws. In th...
2024 in review and looking forward to 2025
From the renewed momentum of the Real-Time Rail payment system, to the Retail Payments Activities Act, to open banking legislation and Canadian Payments Act amendments receiving Royal Assent, 2024 was a year of great change for payment...
The Canadian Payment Methods and Trends report and real-time payments
Payments Canada released its annual Canadian Payment Methods and Trends report in early October, which analyzes retail payment transactions. In 2023, that number was 21.7 billion. The report compares year-over-year payment method trends and als...
The RTR, a team Canada approach to delivery and beyond
The real-time movement of money enabled by the RTR will give Canadians more control over their finances by allowing payments to be cleared and settled in seconds and providing greater confidence that payments have been finalized. In this episod...
Future trends in payments
From commercialization opportunities in real-time payments, to harnessing the power of ISO 20022, to the game-changing potential of AI, innovation is everywhere across today’s payment ecosystem, in Canada and around the globe. In this episode o...
If you made a payment today, thank a rule!
Payments are becoming increasingly easier, smarter and safer for Canadian businesses and consumers. There are multiple enablers for this change - technology, innovation, consumer demand - but the real reason payments keep getting better and bet...
The HVPS+ ISO 20022 Payments Interoperability Charter
The High Value Payment System Plus (HVPS+) group, whose mission is to drive best practices and proper usage of payment messaging standards for interoperability and harmonization across high value payment systems, has developed an ISO 20022 Inte...
CP Act amendments: so now what?
In the 2023 Fall Economic Statement (FES), the federal government committed to amendments of the Canadian Payments Act (CP Act). This is tremendous news for the Canadian payment ecosystem, because we are now on the path to expanded Pay...
Leading through modern payments
Modern payments is an evolution, it will always continue to progress. Join The PayPod’s guests Tracey Black, President and CEO of Payments Canada and her former colleague and mentor, senior financial services executive John Ambrose as they disc...
The best of The 2023 SUMMIT | Abraham Tachjian; Ron Morrow; Grant Mackenzie; Hanna Zaidi; Nick Catino & Tracey Black
In this episode, we take you back to the main stage of The 2023 Payments Canada SUMMIT. Industry experts from across the payment ecosystem share insights and perspectives on some of the most important cha...
Regulate to innovate: A call for modern payment legislation in Canada | Lisa Sattler, Nick Cicchino, Cyrielle Chiron
In December 2022, a diverse coalition of organizations from across the payment industry came together to sign an open letter to the Minister of Finance
Financial literacy in an increasingly digital world | Dr. Supriya Syal & Kristina Logue
According to recent research from Payments Canada, there’s an alarming gap in working Canadians' understanding...
The best of The 2022 SUMMIT | Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins, Hanna Zaidi, Anna Rossetti, Akshay Rumalla
This episode of The PayPod takes us back to the virtual stage at The 2022 SUMMIT. Moderated by host Cyrielle Chiron, this interactive discussion explores the biggest takeaways from speakers at this year's event and their predictions about what ...
The future of modern payments | Andrew McFarlane, Edgar Barbosa, Michelle Beyo, Ryan Rabin
In this episode, host Cyrielle Chiron introduces a pre-recorded webinar from The SUMMIT Series that took place earlier this year. The discussion explores what’s in store for modern payments, including what payment modernization initiatives are com...
