The PayPod

In anticipation of The SUMMIT, Payments Canada's annual event coming to Toronto this May, we're exploring this year's theme: accelerating economic growth. 
To do that, we brought together leading experts for a panel on how payments are essential to a thriving economy, enabling new services that deliver value to both businesses and consumers. 
Guests:
Janet Lalonde, Vice President of Business Program Delivery, Payments Canada
Abraham Tachjian, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, Brim Financial
Rebecca Tasona, Chief Operating Officer of Canadian Personal and Business Banking, BMO
Kathleen Woodard, Head of Banking and Industry Advisory for the Americas, Microsoft

Billions of dollars are held by Canadian financial institutions and every day, money is sent and received between bank accounts, safely. But how is your money so safe? In this episode of The PayPod, Payments Canada’s CIO is joined by CDIC’s CEO to discuss the role each organization plays in keeping Canadians’ money safe.

Revisiting a main stage panel discussion from The 2025 SUMMIT, Payments Canada’s Chief Financial Officer Kristina Logue interviews global industry leaders at the forefront of payment transformation as they share the innovations, challenges and milestones of modernizing payment systems at the national level in their respective countries.

As a follow-up to last year's The SUMMIT main stage panel, Payments Canada's Chief Delivery Officer, Jude Pinto interviews executives from our Real-Time Rail delivery partners, IBM, Interac, CGI and Deloitte on the tremendous progress made on the program since The 2024 SUMMIT, and discusses the upcoming critical milestones that will bring the RTR to go-live.

Earlier this year, Payments Canada issued a public consultation on policy proposals in relation to membership expansion, with the intention of collecting responses to inform drafting instructions for amendments to Payments Canada by-laws. In this episode of The PayPod, Payments Canada’s Director of Policy discusses why Payments Canada initiated this public consultation, what key themes emerged and how we will incorporate this public feedback into our by-laws.