Canada

SecureKey Technologies has partnered with Canada’s top banks and telcos to launch the country’s first federated digital identity network. The blockchain-based Verified.Me platform uses customer information from multiple databases to address a key problem in the digital world — proving you are who you claim to be.

Canada is making a big leap in modernizing identity verification, tapping blockchain technology to let consumers digitally prove who they are to securely access banking and other personal services.

Silicon Valley, New York, London and several of China’s largest cities are the world’s leading fintech hubs, but many other locales are gunning for their crown.

Flywire is partnering with True North to allow Canadian educational institutions to better manage payments from international students by integrating them with application, enrollment and accounts receivable processes.

SnapPay has grown rapidly in its role as an acquirer and payments gateway for Chinese mobile payment acceptance in North America, and it is ready to show merchants the next step.

The speed of technological change is forcing Britain’s retail payments authority Pay.UK to redesign its core infrastructure.

Merchants are often the last in the payments ecosystem to know when card fraud occurs, and their losses tend to escalate in the meantime.

Mastercard is bringing Ethoca—a fraud solution powered by collaboration between banks and merchants—in-house.

Our annual Most Influential Women in Payments feature, now in its seventh year, highlights the women who are creating change and opportunities in the payments industry. For the first time, the editors of PaymentsSource have also recognized one woman for lifetime achievement.

A good way to gauge the future is to watch where technology money goes, and that makes Janet Bannister one of fintech’s best barometers.