Canada’s #1 Fintech Conference.
The 2026 Canadian Finance Summit is Canada’s largest and most significant financial services conference, serving as the country’s premier FinTech event. Hosted by Finance Events, this annual gathering focuses on the Canadian financial services ecosystem, including payments, lending, capital markets, and banking. The event targets C-Suite and senior executives driving financial strategy. Attendees include leaders from major Canadian banks, credit unions, FinTech/InsurTech firms, and capital markets. It is the essential forum for over 800 professionals seeking to forge partnerships and gain competitive intelligence in Canadian finance. See last year’s sold out event.
The event is divided into three sections: networking, main stage and innovation stage.
Canadian Finance Summit is partnered with Toronto Tech Week. TTW is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech.
Fairstone Bank
Fairstone Bank / Home Trust / First National
RBC
BMO
KOHO
EQ Bank
goeasy
Clutch
Financeit
TD
goeasy
Scotiabank
8:00am - 6:00 pm
Rewiring Canadian Finance: Canada’s investing landscape is being reshaped by higher-for-longer rates, new product wrappers, and AI-driven personalization. In this fireside, Som Seif will share what innovations actually matter (vs. hype), how Canadian portfolios evolve over the next decade, and the tradeoffs between broader access, transparency, and risk.
Rewriting the Rules of Credit: The traditional bureau score was built for a thinner-data economy. Today’s lenders deploy cash-flow analytics, alternative data, AI-assisted underwriting, and consortium intelligence. Speed has increased. So have losses in unexpected tiers. This panel examines how to expand access without underwriting illusion and how collections and recoveries are evolving in parallel.
Fighting Fraud at Machine Speed: Attackers can now probe systems and adapt in real time, while most defenses still move on human timelines. This session explores “agentic fraud ops”— using AI agents to investigate alerts, connect signals, surface emerging patterns, and help teams update defenses faster—with practical examples and a framework for where agents fit in modern fraud operations.
The Infrastructure of Prevention: Fraud is shifting from brute force to persuasion—social engineering, account takeovers, and synthetic IDs across banking, lending, and wealth. This session explores the modern prevention stack—ID verification, device and behavioural signals, and KYC/AML—designed to stop bad actors without adding friction that breaks approvals or the customer experience.
The M&A Ecosystem in Canadian Finance: This panel explores the comprehensive financing environment in Canada from sponsors’ and acquirers’ perspectives. Discussion topics include public markets, strategies for raising capital, and closing transactions, offering insights into the entire deal process.
Stablecoins vs Real-Time Payments: Will Canada’s Real-Time Rail define the 24-hour economy, or will tokenised money become the preferred settlement layer? This debate focuses on liquidity economics, compliance programmability, cross-border efficiency, and finality.
How Fintech Programs Get Off the Ground: Behind every successful card, lending, deposit or payments program is a complex partnership between fintechs, banks and infrastructure providers. This session explores how products actually get launched and scaled, from sponsorship and compliance to operations, economics and long-term program management.
Embedded Finance and the Fight for Distribution: Financial services increasingly appear inside platforms that are not banks. Embedded lending, cards, and payments promise scale, but margins compress and ownership blurs. Who owns the customer? Who carries the risk? And does embedded finance create distribution leverage or channel conflict?
When the Consumer Starts to Crack: Delinquencies are rising across credit cards and consumer loan portfolios, and lenders are shifting from growth mode to defence. This panel examines what’s driving the uptick, which segments are flashing first, and how leading teams are adjusting underwriting, limits, and pricing—plus what “modern” collections and loss-mitigation looks like before the cycle turns.
Scaling Customer Experience with AI and Workflow Automation: Banks are using AI to deliver faster, more personalized service at scale—while keeping cost-to-serve under control. This panel looks at what’s working in production across onboarding, servicing, proactive financial health, and segment-specific journeys, and how teams measure impact (NPS, containment, conversion, churn) without compromising trust or compliance.
Fireside Chat: In this fireside chat, Tangerine’s CEO will share her perspective on the future of banking a year into her tenure as CEO of the bank. The conversation will cover changing customer expectations, where innovation is reshaping the industry, and how banks can balance speed, simplicity, and trust in the years ahead.
Closing the Execution Gap: Financial institutions have invested heavily in data, analytics, and AI—but turning insight into timely customer action is still hard. This panel looks at what’s blocking real-world execution (tech, compliance, operating models) and what’s working across personalization, acquisition, cross-sell, and engagement.
AI is everywhere… except in retail wealth: Consumers trust AI for search, writing, and service, but most still rely on familiar models for investing and advice. This panel explores what’s really slowing adoption – accountability, regulation, data and integration, and the bar for proving better outcomes – and what “responsible” AI in portfolio management could look like next.
How Servus is Modernizing Member Banking: Servus Credit Union operates at major-institution scale, but with a cooperative, member-first mandate. In this interview, we’ll dig into how a leading Canadian credit union is approaching digital transformation, core technology decisions, fintech partnerships, lending and deposit strategy in a higher-rate world, and what “competing with banks” looks like while staying true to the credit union model
The CLA is proud to present the 2026 EQ Bank Finance Awards: Executives and thought leaders who think outside the box to develop and foster innovative concepts and strategies that help advance lending and finance in Canada. Nominate close on April 26th. Nominate candidates here: https://www.canadianlenders.org/awards/
The Quay
100 Queens Quay East
Toronto, Ontario M5E 1V3
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Canada’s #1 Fintech Conference
Yes, our venue is wheelchair accessible.
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Tickets can be purchased in either CAD or USD – you can pick whichever currency you’d like to shop in while reviewing the event details, before you check out. Our payment partner processes payments in multiple currencies, so you can still pay from any country supported by Stripe, regardless of which currency you choose for your ticket.
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The Finance Events Mobile App lets you build your schedule, view the agenda, and connect with other attendees — but it’s not set up for every summit. Where it’s available, you’ll find the download link and setup instructions sent via email to the attendee or specified in another question. If you don’t see it mentioned for your event, that summit isn’t using the app.
Yes, Canadian Lenders Association (CLA) members receive a discounted rate. If your company is a CLA member check with your organization’s primary contact for the details or reach out to the CLA directly.
Yes — an invoice is sent to the purchaser as a PDF along with your order confirmation email. If you need another copy, it’s also available from My Orders
Invitation letters are handled on a case-by-case basis and can’t be guaranteed. A confirmed ticket purchase is generally the first step before we’re able to consider a request, so once you’ve registered, please reach out via the Contact page with your details and we’ll see what we can do.
We’d love to have you involved. Sponsorship and exhibitor packages for each of our summits — including pricing, benefits, and available tiers — are hosted on the Canadian Lenders Association website at canadianlenders.org/sponsorship. There you can browse packages specific to the event you’re interested in and see what’s still available. If you have a question that isn’t answered there, or you’d like to talk through the best fit for your company, just reach out through our Contact page and a member of our team will get back to you.
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Unless otherwise noted on a specific event page, tickets are non-refundable. If you can’t attend, the ticket purchaser can transfer it to a colleague directly from My Orders — attendee edits close 48 hours before the event, so make the change before then. If Finance Events ever needs to cancel or reschedule an event, you’ll be offered a credit or refund.
You’ll receive a confirmation email immediately after registering with your order details and invoice. If you purchase multiple tickets, the purchaser receives the order confirmation email with the full purchase details, and each individual attendee will also receive their own separate email confirming their registration
Selected session recordings, transcripts, and highlights are shared after each summit. You can browse past sessions on our Featured Panels page, and full transcripts are published via the Canadian Lenders Association here. Not every session is recorded or transcribed, so availability can vary by event
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