Finance Canada Payments Consultative Committee
| Name | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Julien Brazeau (Chair) | Assistant Deputy Minister, Financial Sector Policy | Department of Finance |
| Ron Morrow | Executive Director of Payments, Supervision and Oversight | Bank of Canada |
| Nathalie Bertrand | Assistant Deputy Minister, Receiver General and Pension | Public Services and Procurement Canada |
| Manon Bombardier | Interim Deputy Commissioner, Research, Policy and Education | Financial Consumer Agency of Canada |
| Donna Kinoshita | Chief Payments Officer | Payments Canada |
| Brent Mizzen | Acting Senior Vice President, Payments and Digital | Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) |
| Two rotating seats are reserved for CBA member institutions, which are chosen by the CBA | ||
| Bernard Brun | Vice President, Government Relations | Desjardins |
| Jeff Guthrie | President and CEO | Canadian Credit Union Association |
| Sarah Hobbs | Vice President, Policy | Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association |
| Keiller Zed | Head of Government Relations and External Affairs | Interac |
| Jennifer Sloan | Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement | Mastercard Canada |
| Jay Dorey | Head of Global Strategic Initiatives and Head of Canada Government Affairs | Visa Canada |
| Adriana Vega | Executive Director | Fintechs Canada |
| Faeron Trehearne | Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | Moneris* |
| Jessica Oliver | Head of Government and Regulatory Relations | Wealthsimple |
| Tanya Woods | Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs and Policy Counsel | Questrade |
| Josh Rowat | Banking and Expansion Manager | Wise |
| Christopher Wassenaar | Chief Legal and Compliance Officer | Reach |
| Don Mercer | President | Consumers Council of Canada** |
| Alexandre Plourde | Lawyer and Analyst | Option consommateurs** |
| Dan Kelly | President and CEO | Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
| Karl Littler | Senior Vice President, Public Affairs | Retail Council of Canada |
| Michael Geist | Law Professor and Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law | University of Ottawa |
| Kristy Duncan | Founder and CEO | Women in Payments |
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* Intention is to always have one acquirer representative on the committee, with the representative rotating every two years amongst the acquirers. ** Intention is to always have two consumer group representatives on the committee, with the representatives rotating every two years amongst consumer groups. |
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FinPay (or the Committee) is a forum of public and private sector representatives to discuss industry level developments in the Canadian payments system.
FinPay’s mandate is to:
- Advise Finance Canada on developments related to public policy aspects of payments issues (e.g. competition, innovation, safety, user needs or consumer protection);
- Discuss approaches for dealing with emerging and ongoing challenges/opportunities in the payments system; and
- Inform Government policy-making about the Canadian payments system.
Working groups may be established under FinPay as appropriate to further these objectives.
FinPay is chaired by the Assistant Deputy Minister, Financial Sector Policy Branch, Finance Canada.
Membership of FinPay is determined by Finance Canada and includes stakeholders from the public and private sectors, representing established payments industry players, newer entrants, corporate users, merchants and consumers. There is a mix of permanent and renewable term members. For permanent member organizations, individual representatives may change but members should seek to promote some continuity in their representation. For the renewable term positions, efforts should be made to stagger appointments so that annual turnover in membership will be no more than one third of the group.
The Committee may also draw from time to time on experts from the industry to inform the dialogue on select issues. Experts may be invited to meetings on an ad hoc basis.
FinPay meets no less frequently than bi-annually. The frequency of meetings may be adjusted as necessary.
Finance Canada is present at all Committee and any working group meetings and performs the secretariat duties for FinPay. Finance Canada distributes meeting materials to members two weeks in advance of each meeting.
Minutes of meetings are taken on a non-attribution basis and made available to all members. The recorded proceedings of this Committee could be subject to Access to Information requests.
Finance Canada does not ask members to share commercially sensitive information with the Committee, and will foreclose any discussions among members on this topic.
Each meeting begins with a tour de table. Members are encouraged to raise issues that should be considered by the Committee at future meetings.
Members are invited to provide input (submissions, comments, etc.) to Finance Canada at any time on payments-related issues.