Plaid entered the Canadian market in 2018, and has been adding to its Canadian based team and is rumoured to be opening an office here. Ben and John have been very active in the open banking consultations with Finance Canada, the Advisory Committee on Open Banking and numerous industry groups such as FDX and Fdata. As our guests on this podcast, you can hear from Ben and John about their views on policy for Canada - both are very optimistic about Canada's opportunity. Plaid raised a $425m US Series D in April 2021 "financing to help scale our platform to support the massive growth in fintech, and enable the next generation of digital financial services. We brought on new investors Altimeter Capital, Silver Lake, and Ribbit Capital who joined existing investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, and Thrive Capital," according to Zach Perret's blog https://plaid.com/blog/digital-finance-is-everywhere-but-its-just-getting-started/ Thanks for listening!

Join Jeet and Sue to discuss the fintech news of the week.

Join Jeet and Sue to discuss the fintech news of the week.

Join Jeet and Sue to discuss the fintech news of the week.

In this podcast, we had the opportunity of talking with Kris Hansen, a long-time core banking guru and architect of many innovations, to hear about Synctera and their experience working with community banks and FinTechs in the US. Synctera was launched in 2020, it enables banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together! Exactly what the industry needs right now to move fast and launch new solutions faster! The co-founders of Synctera - Kris Hansen, Dominik Weisserth, and Peter Hazlehurst have tons of experience, and many investors, notably a few successful Canadian VCs like Portage Ventures, Diagram Ventures, and Lightspeed. Enjoy the discussion!

Jose Ribau, EVP Digital & Innovation at CF, shares his latest news about new products, learnings from the pandemic and advice for innovators. Jose created RavelbyCF, their digital business, and has launched several first-to-market apps and products designed to remove the friction from shopping and office to improve the commercial real estate experience. Cadillac Fairview is one of the world’s most innovative retail and commercial real estate companies with 68 landmark properties, including the Toronto-Dominion Centre, CF Toronto Eaton Centre and CF Pacific Centre - and because of their Board and CEO commitment to invest in innovation prior to the pandemic, Jose and his team have shifted and embraced “digital" for CF's clients with amazing speed.

Join Jeet and Sue to discuss the fintech news of the week.

This interview is with the Co-Founders of Zūm Rails, Miles Schwartz and Marc Milewski. Zūm just got started, and already powers Questrade's new instant deposit feature allowing millions of users to start trading instantly through real-time payments. One way they do this is through a partnership with Visa and solution enabled by Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push payments platform and made available through Zūm’s financial institution, which allows users to send and receive payments quickly. Any payment rail, real-time. Miles and Marc are ones to watch (and genuinely awesome humans too) !

The Foresight Edition is our newest series that highlights new startups that are changing the market with different business models, and innovative incumbents who are making progress in future proofing their companies. It used to be that hindset was 20:20. That was so 2020! In 2021 and beyond, now its foresight that we need in order to stay relevant. Mike Bradley from Clik2pay joins co-hosts Sue Britton and Surinderjit (Jeet) Bhatti to tell us about his new venture and we learn how he is filling a key gap in the market.

What Canadians and businesses truly want to service their financial needs is not reflected in the banking space today. Andrew Chau, CEO and Co-Founder of Neo Financial and Co-Founder of SkipTheDishes took action with the people and businesses in mind in launching Neo Financial, with a mission to modernize everyday banking and rewards in Canada. Tune in to learn more about the innovation happening in financial services in Canada with Andrew with co-hosts Sue and Jeet!