Technology Strategies International

06/06/2024

Canadian Online Buy Now, Pay Later expenditure exceeds $12 bn in 2023 and set for high growth over the next five years.

https://canadianpaymentsinsights.com/pages/canadian-online-bnpl-expenditure-exceeds-12-bn-in-2023

03/25/2022

Canadian Payments Forecast, 2022 - Early Subscription http://p0.vresp.com/mJjLkn

Two years of the COVID-19 pandemic have seen drastic changes to the performance of the Canadian economy, and dramatic shifts in consumer spending and payment habits. The war in Ukraine is also set to have a significant impact on the global economy, with ripple effects filtering through to Canada and...

09/22/2021

Canadian Consumer Payments Recover in 2021: Pandemic gives rise to permanent shifts in consumer payment behaviour

– Pandemic gives rise to permanent shifts in consumer payment behaviour – (September 22, 2021) – The number of consumer payments in Canada is expected to increase by 770 million transactions in 2021 after falling by 1.68 billion in 2020, according to the recently released Canadian Payments For...

12/21/2020

Happy Holidays 2020! http://p0.vresp.com/SuwKKr

09/17/2020

– New opportunities emerge through the turmoil of the pandemic – The number of consumer payment transactions in Canada is expected to be 1.7 billion lower than in 2019, a decline of 8.

03/31/2020

https://www.chrystech.com/2020/03/here-be-dragons-navigating-uncharted-waters-in-the-canadian-economy.html

One of the things that I regularly get involved in is preparing forecasts for clients, usually in specific technology markets. Invariably these forecasts relate in some way to what is happening in the economy at large. In many cases, prospects for the economy drive these forecasts so it is very...

02/14/2020

Retail Payments Tokenization - Who Wins and Who Pays? - Free Webinar Feb 27 http://p0.vresp.com/RapaNm

Tokenization of payments is much more than just replacing the PAN with a proxy. It will have a profound impact on retail payments in Canada. Existing and new stakeholders are positioning themselves for new roles in a world of proliferating tokens, because they see that tokenization provides immense....

01/13/2020

https://canadianpaymentsinsights.com/blogs/insights/understanding-mobile-payments-diffusion-an-agent-based-model

Companies succeed or fail based on their ability to innovate. Over the last century we have seen how rapid changes in technology can alter the economic landscape dramatically – and increasingly quickly. One of the challenges that businesses face is understanding which factors influence the uptake ...

12/20/2019

Happy Holidays 2019! http://p0.vresp.com/f5PKHW

11/05/2019

Tokenisation: A High Stakes Game for Stakeholders - New in-depth analysis of payments tokenisation in Canada http://p0.vresp.com/9ZVflE

(Oakville, Ontario – November 5, 2019) — Tokenisation has become an important component of enabling secure payments in Canada, and the payment networks are using tokenisation to extend their reach and control over the payments ecosystem, according to a new in-depth analysis by Technology Strateg...

11/02/2019

https://canadianpaymentsinsights.com/blogs/insights/retail-payments-tokenisation-who-are-the-real-winners

The retail payments tokenisation offerings by Visa, MasterCard and to a somewhat lesser extent by Interac, represent a significant expansion of their reach into traditional merchant, issuer and processor territory. In my thirty plus years of developing, managing or advising on payments, I have come....

10/24/2019

https://canadianpaymentsinsights.com/blogs/insights/credit-cards-silent-war-of-attrition-on-debit-new-research

The number of credit card transactions in Canada exceeded the number of debit purchase transactions by 5 million transactions in 2018. Debit card purchase transactions have dominated, by volume, since 1998 – until now. The difference in transaction volumes was only 0.1% in 2018, a miniscule differ...