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3 Reasons to Offer eTransfers

3 Reasons to Offer eTransfers Canada’s email money transfer (EMT) service, commonly known as eTransfer and owned by Interac, has beensteadily growing in popularity since…

What Is The Payment Hub?

What is the Payment Hub?   One payment platform to rule them all! The Apaylo Payment Hub is a payments-as-a-service platform that allows merchants to…

Do Digital Payments Really Reduce Friction and Frustration?

In physics class, we all learned that friction is the force that resists the relative motion of materials (be it surfaces, fluid layers etc) from…

Open Banking; The Definitive Next Step in Financial Data Sharing

Open Banking; The Definitive Next Step in Financial Data Sharing The CEOs and CTOs of many financial institutions have made inaccurate, even downright preposterous statements…

Move Over Recession, Regression is Equally Concerning for Canadian Banking

Despite the freedom that Canadians have in how they live their lives, a shocking number face hurdles when it comes to basic financial functions. Years…

EFT or EMT; which one should I use?

EFT or EMT; which one should I use for Canadian payments and banking? So, by now I’m sure you have heard of both Electronic Funds…

Why Apaylo Is In Business: Interview With Chairman Gary Seveny

Interview with Gary Seveny, Chairman, Apaylo Finance Technology Inc. (Apaylo) Why Apaylo Is In Business? Apaylo is a fintech operating within the payments sector, which…

Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Use EMTs In Your Business

Email Money Transfers, or EMTs, have long been a popular method of money transfer amongst Canadians. Therefore, if your business still does not use them,…

The History of Email Money Transfer in Canada

Pioneering Digital via Payments Canada and Interac Digital payments have become an essential method of money transfer in Canada, used by both private individuals and…

Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees

The recent release of the IPCC Climate report has got me thinking about money and the climate. It really got me thinking about the saying……

Apaylo’s Top 3 Compliance Consulting Partners (seriously)

Look I get it. You’re thinking to yourself. Compliance? Trust me. You can save big dollars 💰, using sense 🧠. This is even more true…

Apaylo makes Daily Finance’s “Top Transaction Processing Companies in Canada (2021)”

What can we say? A great big thank you to Tenner Smith, Fupping Ltd, and Daily Finance! Apaylo Finance Technology has been identified as one…

Apaylo Fireside Chat: Jon Lister from Satstreet

Canadian Paytech News – Apaylo Fireside Chat · Apaylo Fireside Chat: Jon Lister (Satstreet) Shea Malcolmson Market and Client Experience Lead at Apaylo Finance Technology…

Payments With Purpose And The Birth Of An Industry

It isn’t all bad news. As we enter 2021, we are surrounded by the awful social unrest and unease that are a result of both…

How Much Does That Christmas Cheque You Got, REALLY Cost?

This 2016 article from the Ottawa Citizen highlights a public opinion research report commissioned by Public Works and Government Services Canada, which asked about 500…

Payments Canada Canadian Payments: Methods and Trends Report 2020

Payments Canada Canadian Payments: Methods and Trends Report 2020 In 2019, the total payments market in Canada grew to 22 billion consumer and business transactions…

Fintech News: Federal Government Re-Opens Open Banking Consultations

Exciting industry news that makes 2020 a little less dark and depressing: it was recently announced that Canada’s Department of Finance has resumed special open banking…

Digital Currencies and Central Banks: What You Need to Know

The rapid advancement and development of digital currencies has extended its reach beyond the private sector- as governments are now involving themselves in integrating digital…

4 Winning Ways to Streamline Delivery Processes in As-a-Service Firms

The rapid rise in As-a-service firms (which are API-driven services for customers that commonly connect at an endpoint via a web-based console) have transformed the…

How COVID-19 Has Impacted Contactless Payments; And What You Can Expect to Happen Into 2021

As 2020 surges to a close, this has without a doubt been a year shaped largely by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a year…

3 Reasons to Offer eTransfers

3 Reasons to Offer eTransfers Canada’s email money transfer (EMT) service, commonly known as eTransfer and owned by Interac, has beensteadily growing in popularity since…

What Is The Payment Hub?

What is the Payment Hub?   One payment platform to rule them all! The Apaylo Payment Hub is a payments-as-a-service platform that allows merchants to…

Do Digital Payments Really Reduce Friction and Frustration?

In physics class, we all learned that friction is the force that resists the relative motion of materials (be it surfaces, fluid layers etc) from…

The History of Email Money Transfer in Canada

Pioneering Digital via Payments Canada and Interac Digital payments have become an essential method of money transfer in Canada, used by both private individuals and…