Retail Payment Activities Act

Navigating the future of payments

This seminar features Victoria Graham and Elizabeth Sale discussing, among other topics, various aspects of RPAA, including the registration process,...

Are you a payment service provider? You may be subject to the new Retail Payment Activities Act

The Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA) establishes a general supervisory framework for the regulation of payment service providers (PSPs). Under...

The future of payments regulation has arrived: final regulations to the Retail Payment Activities Act released

We look at the key changes between the draft and the final regulations, next steps and what payment service providers can do to prepare for...

Retail Payment Activities Act: Draft regulations published for comment

On February 11, 2023, the Department of Finance published draft regulations (the draft Regulations) under the Retail Payment Activities Act (the...

Levelling Up: Payment services providers to be subject to Bank of Canada oversight under the new Retail Payments Activities Act

Payment service providers, outside of banks and other regulated financial institutions, are currently lightly regulated in Canada.