Canada FinTech Forum kicks off with a bang after shots fired over Real-Time Rail delays

When Visa Canada’s Chris Ferron asked the audience at the Canada FinTech Forum how many thought Canada matched its global peers on payments modernization, few hands were raised. To one of Canada’s biggest FinTech companies, seven years’ worth of delays in delivering a real-time payment rail is a key contributor to that tepid response. The news: In conversation with Tetra Digital Group product manager Lily Hansen-Gillis and Ramp digital assets engineer Alex Bazhenov, Wealthsimple’s head of govern