{"id":154025,"date":"2024-02-20T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interac1.wpengine.com\/?post_type=content&#038;p=154025"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:35:08","slug":"payments-modernization-lessons-for-canada-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/en\/content\/business\/payments-modernization-lessons-for-canada-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments modernization: Lessons for Canada from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a world of instant, account-to-account payments, money moves at a faster velocity, improving cash flow for businesses, creating convenient experiences, and lessening the economy\u2019s reliance on credit. More of the world is now living that reality: As of 2022, 60 countries, representing 72 per cent of the world\u2019s population, had access to real-time payment systems according to one tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global advance of modernized payments systems that offer instant clearing and settlement of funds is a technical accomplishment for the financial system, but it\u2019s also much more than that: It\u2019s a march toward greater convenience and opportunity for everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries with real-time payment systems bring a lot of overlapping goals to payments modernization, and there are parallels in their experiences. Canada can look abroad for lessons in successful implementation \u2014 the Canadian economy can hope to reap many of the same benefits as other countries have as it continues to modernize its payments infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-s-driving-the-movement-toward-modernized-payments\">What\u2019s driving the movement toward modernized payments?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/content\/business\/the-moment-has-arrived-for-faster-business-payments-in-canada\/\">Canadian businesses recognize a need for modernized payments<\/a> that enable them to compete globally, and that can integrate seamlessly into their operations. Switching from cheques and to faster payment methods can help make business processes more efficient and catalyze competition and innovation within the broader ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And modernized payments bring other benefits, too, including cross-border flows (to connect domestic systems with the global marketplace, enabling money to move more easily around the world), access to rich remittance data to help businesses better manage their operations, and improvements to security and fraud prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These needs and desires exist in other markets, too \u2014 as we\u2019ll see, they\u2019re relevant just about everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the United States, for example: A 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.usbank.com\/rs\/451-RQS-232\/images\/Rapid-rise-of-instant-payments_Infographic.pdf\">survey of business leaders by US Bank<\/a> found that adoption of real-time payments in several sectors (retail, travel and hospitality, and healthcare) was largely driven by a desire to enhance customer service, improve cash flow, and make reconciliation instant. Modernized payments can also address pain points: For example, among small- to medium-sized U.S. businesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/b2b-payments\/2022\/most-smb-buyers-pay-more-slowly-than-their-suppliers-want\/\">PYMNTS research discovered a mismatch<\/a> between SMB buyers (38 per cent of which tend to pay by cheque, or by ACH, a U.S. form of EFT&nbsp;) and SMB suppliers, which would prefer faster channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so on in other markets: When developing its Pix instant payment system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\/en\/financialstability\/pix_en\">the Brazilian central bank considered<\/a> lower financial costs, increased security, improved customer experience, and higher market competition and efficiency among its objectives \u2014 all of which would sound familiar in Canada, despite the vast differences between our two markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-four-real-time-payment-case-studies-brazil-india-the-united-states-and-australia\">Four real-time payment case studies: Brazil, India, the United States and Australia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As Canada continues to modernize and update its payments infrastructure, what kind of results from other countries should we look for \u2014 and what kinds of lessons can we learn about successful implementations? Let\u2019s look at interesting developments in four markets, each on a different continent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-brazil-inclusivity-leads-to-rapid-wide-adoption\">Brazil: Inclusivity leads to rapid, wide adoption<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Brazil\u2019s Pix system launched in November 2020, proponents hoped to modernize a largely cash-based economy. They faced a daunting task: Tens of millions of Brazilians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elibrary.imf.org\/configurable\/content\/journals$002f002$002f2023$002f289$002farticle-A004-en.xml?t:ac=journals%24002f002%24002f2023%24002f289%24002farticle-A004-en.xml\">had no experience of digital payments prior to Pix<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet within the first two and a half years, Pix had been used by 140 million individuals, or about 80 per cent of Brazil\u2019s adult population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did the Brazilian central bank do right? Among other things, it made inclusivity (that is, increasing financial inclusion) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcb.gov.br\/en\/financialstability\/pix_en\">a key driving principle guiding Pix<\/a>. The initiative was successful in part because of a user experience that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbestechcouncil\/2022\/10\/31\/five-lessons-from-brazil-for-implementing-fednow\/?sh=17cabb557c4c\">observers said<\/a> was positive from Day One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rapid adoption has set the stage for the growth of Brazil\u2019s digital economy \u2014 as has been the case with India, the next example we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-1024x545.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154061 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-1024x545.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-300x160.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-768x408.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-1536x817.png.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/DE226AA8-CC63-4FBC-84A5-C5F34F955C7D-2048x1089.png.webp 2048w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/545;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-india-rapid-rise-of-the-digital-economy-thanks-to-upi\">India: Rapid rise of the digital economy thanks to UPI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>India launched the United Payments Interface (UPI) in 2016 to help transform a cash-dominated economy into a digital one. As in Brazil, India\u2019s National Payments Corporation (a joint effort by the central bank and the banking association) focused on making the system easy to use, embracing ubiquity and simplicity (aided by a largely QR code-based interface), interoperability, and a \u201cfree public good\u201d approach that includes little-to-no fees for merchants and none for consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in Brazil, making digital payments more accessible has been a rousing success. The UPI system processed <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/09\/14\/bolt-ceo-america-fednow-service-has-india-breakthrough-payments-system-banks-finance-tech-maju-kuruvilla\/\">almost US$2-trillion in payments in 2022<\/a>, making it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisglobal.com\/en\/global-payments-report\">the largest real-time payments network in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst this rapid digital transformation, small businesses have been major beneficiaries: <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/newsletters\/ettech-unwrapped\/how-digital-payments-became-democratic-the-upi-way-and-other-top-tech-startup-stories-this-week\/articleshow\/103293579.cms?from=mdr\">Lending based on cash flow data<\/a> has allowed them to prove their income to potential lenders in a way that wasn\u2019t possible before, which has opened up borrowing opportunities \u2014 and potential for growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For businesses of all sizes, UPI has led to the development of comprehensive solutions, including POS systems, mobile payment and e-commerce payment options. All of this has streamlined businesses&#8217; payment processes and enhanced consumer choice around payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the bigger picture, India\u2019s digital economy has boomed in its era of instant payments, from 8 per cent of GDP in 2018 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortuneindia.com\/enterprise\/how-upi-is-making-indias-digital-economy-boom\/105433\">an estimated 18-23 per cent by 2025<\/a>. This expansion has coincided with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tice.news\/tice-trending\/india-fintech-landscape-growth-startup-trending\">a rise in fintechs and equity capital flows into fintech<\/a>, a trend that is expected to only further accelerate India\u2019s transition to a digital economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-1024x577.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154054 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-1024x577.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-300x169.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-768x433.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-1536x866.png.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-2048x1154.png.webp 2048w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-880x495.png.webp 880w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-480x270.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/92E67DC3-E787-4A63-9E70-3B8EC4BF2BB2-640x360.png.webp 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-australia-use-cases-have-proliferated-with-the-platform-operator-s-support\">Australia: Use cases have proliferated, with the platform operator\u2019s support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia, a country that resembles Canada in many ways, adopted its New Payments Platform (NPP) in 2018. Like the other modernized payments initiatives covered in this article, NPP has been a success: According to <a href=\"https:\/\/treasury.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-06\/p2023-404960.pdf\">a recent government report<\/a>, it processed more than a billion transactions in a 12-month period ending in 2022, representing more than a quarter of all account-to-account transactions (a key metric, given the Australian government\u2019s goal of phasing out cheques).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a senior member of the NPPA (the platform operator) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/faster-payments\/2021\/new-payments-platform-australia-real-time-payroll-b2b-c2b-transaction\/\">explained in an interview<\/a>, the NPP\u2019s growth has been fuelled in part by the development of new use cases. Whereas the NPP was originally conceived as a means for consumers and merchants to pay each other easily, the system now facilitates many use cases for many people, including underpinning a share-trading app, allowing governments to deliver relief aid payments quickly, and enabling companies to pay employees in real time. Microbusinesses, meanwhile, are using NPP to take payments on the go, using smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To encourage these kinds of innovations, the NPPA has taken an active role by setting out rules and standards for financial institutions and fintechs to follow when developing new products and experiences \u2014 setting out data formatting standards for certain types of transactions, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-1024x577.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154629 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-1024x577.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-300x169.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-768x433.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-880x495.png.webp 880w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-480x270.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942-640x360.png.webp 640w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/9496DC5B-912B-41AB-8EB5-4D9ACEE04942.png.webp 1167w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/577;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usa-businesses-have-been-quick-to-realize-the-benefits\">USA: Businesses have been quick to realize the benefits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States currently has two schemes: the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system, launched in 2017, and FedNow, launched in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that businesses have had several years to take advantage of RTP, PYMNTS.com and The Clearing House \u2014 a banking association that runs RTP \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/payment-methods\/2022\/the-data-point-real-time-payments-are-the-norm-at-nearly-9-in-10-big-businesses\">surveyed US executives<\/a> to discover the benefits that early adopters have experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early adopters cited a long list. The benefits they mentioned included better cash flow (cited by 24 per cent as the most important benefit, and by another 51 per cent as an important benefit but not <em>the <\/em>most important); increased accounting efficiency (7.7 per cent most important; 46 per cent important); more efficiency in reconciliation tasks (7 per cent most important; 42 per cent important). Other benefits cited included easier integration of accounts payable, accounts receivable and enterprise resource planning systems; easier payment tracking; and mitigated risk of payment failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the cost of adoption was the downside mentioned most often, 54 per cent of organizations surveyed \u201cexpect to have lower costs once they introduce new features made possible by RTP transfers, meaning these upgrades may very well pay for themselves in compressed time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, the PYMNTS.com\/Clearing House survey found that 86 per cent of businesses generating US$500 million to $1 billion in revenue were taking advantage of RTP to send real-time payments as of 2022. And in a separate PYMNTS poll earlier this year, sixty-one percent of U.S. executives said they believed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/b2b-payments\/2023\/61-percent-businesses-expect-competitive-advantage-with-real-time-payments\/\">real-time payments would give them a competitive advantage<\/a> \u2014 especially in a world where customers expect speed. In other words, adoption spreads as more and more businesses come to understand and experience the advantages that real-time payments bring them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-1024x574.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154040 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-1024x574.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-300x168.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-768x431.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-1536x862.png.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-2048x1149.png.webp 2048w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-480x270.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2024\/02\/4B88B7B7-0FD5-4E56-B12C-C43B8BCB3212-640x360.png.webp 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/574;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-modernized-payments-in-canada\">Modernized payments in Canada<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has a strong record of payment innovation and adoption, from being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/about\/our-company\/history\/\">early adopters of debit and peer-to-peer money transfer transactions<\/a> to more recent milestones: Canadians made a billion <em>Interac<\/em> e-Transfer transactions in a 12-month period <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/content\/life\/how-millions-of-shared-moments-led-to-a-billion-interac-e-transfer-payments\/\">for the first time as of April 2022<\/a>, and they followed that with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/content\/news\/1-billion-transaction-milestone-for-interac-shows-growth-of-mobile-payments\/\">more than a billion <em>Interac<\/em> Debit on mobile transactions<\/a> in 12 months ending July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, <em>Interac <\/em>e-Transfer already offers Canadian enterprises many of the features that have been heralded as new tools during the rollout of real-time payments in other jurisdictions. Using<em> Interac <\/em>e-Transfer for Business, for example, an organization can send a payment for up to $25,000 in real time, with rich data conforming to the ISO 20022 standard \u2014 features in line with the experience that \u201cfaster payments\u201d initiatives have aimed to create around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Canada\u2019s payment system adds the capability of instant clearing and settlement of funds, even more possibilities will emerge. Interac is excited by the future innovations that we can enable working collaboratively across the payments ecosystem and will continue to advance new product capabilities and opportunities for increased access to benefit the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Interac <\/em>e-Transfer for Business can help power your organization\u2019s finance transformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"button-ochre-block_46b6effdc810cfd6a8015c7fd66134eb\" class=\"button-link\">\n    <div class=\"grid-container\">\n        \n                        <div class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x align-center\">\n                        \n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interac.ca\/content\/business\/business-payments-why-interac-is-investing-in-finance-transformation-inside-our-own-walls\/\" class=\"button-ochre\" aria-label=\"Learn how\">Learn how<\/a>\n            \n                            <\/div>\n                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world of instant, account-to-account payments, money moves at a faster velocity, improving cash flow for businesses, creating convenient experiences, and lessening the economy\u2019s reliance on credit. 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