Finance Canada Payments Consultative Committee
| Name | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Julien Brazeau | Associate Assistant Deputy Minister | Department of Finance |
| Ron Morrow | Executive Director, Retail Payments Supervision | Bank of Canada |
| Lucie Séguin | Assistant Deputy Minister, Receiver General and Pension Branch | Public Services and Procurement Canada |
| Supriya Syal | Deputy Commissioner – Research, Policy and Education | Financial Consumer Agency of Canada |
| Donna Kinoshita | Chief Payments Officer | Payments Canada |
| Andrew Ross | Senior Vice President, Payments and Digital | Canadian Bankers Association |
| Two representatives from CBA member institutions* | ||
| Alex Vronces | Executive Director | Fintechs Canada |
| Jeff Guthrie | President and CEO | Canadian Credit Union Association |
| Bernard Brun | Vice President, Government Relations | Desjardins |
| Bryan Bossin | Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs | Interac |
| Sasha Krstic | President, Canadian Operations | MasterCard Canada |
| Michiel Wielhouwer | President and Country Manager | Visa Canada |
| Faeron Trehearne | Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary | Moneris |
| Jessica Oliver | Head of Government and Regulatory Relations | Wealthsimple |
| John Zajic | V.P. Trust Operations | TelPay |
| Josh Rowat | Banking and Expansion Manager | Wise |
| Laurence Cooke | CEO | NanoPay |
| Dan Kelly | President and CEO | Canadian Federation of Independent Business |
| Karl Littler | Senior Vice President, Public Affairs | Retail Council of Canada |
| Grace Jung | Head Industry Relations, Payments & Operations | Square |
| Stephen Frank | V.P. Policy Development and Health | Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association |
| Don Mercer | President and CEO | Consumer Council of Canada |
| Alexandre Plourde | Lawyer and Analyst | Option consommateurs |
| Sue Britton | CEO and Founder | Firefly Growth |
| Michael Geist | Independent | |
* Two rotating seats are reserved for a member institution, which are chosen by the CBA |
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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.
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