Overview
Canada’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex payments environment sees a broad range of regulatory and commercial factors impacting the way transactions are conducted - how can businesses make sense of it all?
Our panel of legal experts bring their perspectives on what businesses need to know – and how they can flourish - in the Canadian payments ecosystem.
Our discussion addressed many of the questions and issues on the minds of industry stakeholders and provided an overview on the following topics:
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Update on the Retail Payment Activities Act and Open Banking
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AML update including the impact of the Emergencies Act
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Key issues to address in payments-related agreements from the perspective of different payment ecosystem participants
- An analysis of privacy and data security issues in the context of the payments ecosystem
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Update on crypto as a payments platform
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Emerging payments markets including i-gaming and restricted goods