Retail Payment Activities Act

Statute Canada · 2021

The Retail Payment Activities Act is Canada's federal law bringing payment service providers under supervision by the Bank of Canada, requiring registration and operational-risk and safeguarding standards for retail payments. It is part of the modernization of Canadian payments — alongside Payments Canada's Real-Time Rail — that forms the infrastructure backdrop to the country's emerging consumer-driven banking regime.

Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them generally fall outside it.

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Industries

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