Canada

American Express has added a new mobile payment service to the growing list of "Pays" available to consumers in Canada.

ACT Canada has named Suzan Denoncourt, the country's managing director at Ingenico Group, to be co-chair of its board.

Samsung Pay has gone live in Canada – but only for a subset of customers using certain Visa cards from CIBC Bank.

Blockchain and the 'Internet of Things' are enabling a lot of new payments innovation. In Canada, they're part of a huge project that could radically change ID security for more than just payments.

A group of Canada's largest banks has invested $27 million in SecureKey Technologies as the Toronto-based security company preps a new digital identity service for 2017.