Bank of Canada stories
Canada's new stablecoin regime could decide whether users can earn rewards on CAD-backed tokens, as Kraken warns of split oversight.
The bank plans to add 440 net new roles in British Columbia by 2029 as it widens its artificial intelligence and banking operations.
The deal gives National Bank of Canada new fraud tools as lenders race to curb losses without adding friction for customers.
The funding gives the Vancouver quantum group fresh capital to hit milestones, expand hiring and deepen partnerships as it pursues commercial-scale systems.
Canadian banks will test how AI agents can initiate card payments as Visa prepares issuers for new controls over consent, fraud and liability.
Canadian banks and fintechs now have a regulated on-chain settlement option as CADD enters a market long dominated by US-dollar stablecoins.
Fewer Canadian startups attracted funding as late-stage deals swelled, with one USD $750 million Waabi round driving the quarter's total.
Growth has spread beyond banking in Canada, with telecoms, utilities and retailers helping lift the country’s top brand values 16 per cent.
Avion Rewards members will soon get a new booking portal with flexible point redemptions and pricing tools as RBC shifts travel tech to Hopper.
Banks could cut settlement delays and treasury friction as Deloitte Canada and Stablecorp prepare QCAD stablecoin rails for regulated use.
Canada's tokenised markets hinge on OSC engagement, institutional uptake and hybrid blockchain rails, speakers told a Toronto summit.
The data centre developer gains extra funding headroom as tightening power access makes new sites harder to secure across Europe and North America.
The move targets vulnerabilities in software used by large firms, as AI makes it easier to find and exploit flaws.
The next phase could ease delays and settlement risk in wholesale cross-border transfers as Project Agorá moves to real-value testing.
Compact language models from the Spain-based firm aim to ease offline AI deployment for mobile, industrial and defence users.
Investor appetite for AI remains intense as OpenAI's new cash haul lifts its valuation to USD $852 billion and deepens its compute push.
Banks and fintechs are increasingly using payments data for fraud checks and rewards as Spade expands its merchant-matching platform with fresh funding.
LemFi gains Bank of Canada oversight under the new Retail Payment Activities Act, bolstering trust in its cross-border remittance services.
MariaDB moves to buy in-memory specialist GridGain in a bid to deliver sub-millisecond latency for agentic AI and real-time workloads.
Multiverse launches CompactifAI, a quantum-inspired app that runs compressed AI models offline on mobiles, targeting strict data regimes.
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