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The Current State of Fintech in Canada: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Prof. Michael R. King ([email protected]) FFCON18: VELOCITY, Toronto March 5, 2018

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The Current State of Fintech in Canada:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Prof. Michael R. King ([email protected])FFCON18: VELOCITY, Toronto

March 5, 2018  

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Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab @ Ivey

• Founded April 2016 with $3 million gift from Scotiabank; independent• Co‐Directors: Prof. Michael King (Finance) & JP Vergne (Strategy)• Objectives: 

1. Research: practitioner‐focused & academic2. Education: students & public3. Outreach: alumni, practitioners & public 

• Key annual deliverables:– Student projects, internships, hackathon & case competitions– Speaker series, practitioner & academic conference – Refereed publications, PhD theses, Ivey cases, educational material

https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/scotiabank-digital-banking-lab/

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AGENDA

• Fintech Ecosystem• Talent• Capital / Funding• Demand• Policy & Regulations Ranking of 14

Global Fintech Hubs#7 Toronto#8 Vancouver#12 Montreal

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FINTECH ECOSYSTEMGOODGOOD

• 800+ Canadian startups• Strengths: AI, Blockchain, P2P, Digital ID, Robo, Payments, Mobile Banking, Crypto

• Incubators, Accelerators & Hubs across country

• Consultancy & Legal• Dedicated conferences• Associations & lobbies • University centres

BADBAD• Few partnerships with big Banks & Insurance (FIs)

• Not enough Cdnstartups pitching FIs

• Productivity of FI Innovation Labs (innovation theatre)

• Fintech concentrated in a few cities

• Fragmented• Data availability

UGLYUGLY• Explosion of stand‐alone apps with little integration

• Fraud in ICOs• Money laundering• Cyber threats• No Fintech supercluster

• …No national strategy & champion

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Corporate Finance

Crowdfunding

Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

PaymentsInsurance

Enabling Technologies

Lending

PFM

Wealth Management

Health & Wellness

Confidential, FGS Inc., 2018

Compliance & Security

Other

Data 

Challenger Bank

www.fintechgrowthsyndicate.com

FinTech in Canada ‐ Tracking over 700 Canadian FinTechs

Capital Markets

FinTech Growth Syndicate

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Noteworthy successes

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TALENTGOODGOOD

• Depth & breadth of financial expertise

• Visa schemes to attract foreign talent

• Success of Waterloo in Silicon Valley

• Creative Destruction Labs across Canada

• Blockchain Institute• Bank investment AI

BADBAD

• Talent shortages: tech, coders, data scientists, machine learning & AI

• Little on curriculum at universities & colleges…

UGLYUGLY

• Waterloo alumni in Silicon Valley

• Turnover of FI innovation leaders

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CAPITAL / FUNDINGGOODGOOD

• Record VC dollars invested 2017 $3.5B

• Increased VC funding to Fintech USD 456m 2017

• More Fintech VC funds • Dedicated Corporate 

VCs (Portag3, National Bank, Intact)

BADBAD

• Availability of Late Stage / Growth Equity

• Few unicorns • Few exits• Foreign acquisitions (hollowing out)

UGLYUGLY

• $$$ hard to get!!!

• Funding for AI & cybersecurity

• Outreach by C100

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VC dollars 2017 C$3.5 billion

VC dollars in Fintech 2017 US$456 million

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See: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/

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DEMAND (Consumers, Business, Govt)GOODGOOD

• Mobile transactions > branches

• Provincial efforts to raise awareness at home & abroad

BADBAD• Low fintech adoption• Poor consumer awareness & high risk aversion

UGLYUGLY• FIs: 120+ bank signatures to partner with fintech

• Lack of government procurement

 25.0

 30.0

 35.0

 40.0

OLB LoginsMobile Logins

LOGINS (M

ILLIONS)

June 2017 marked the first time mobile

logins surpassed online banking logins.

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Canada at 18%

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POLICY & REGULATIONSGOODGOOD

• Competition Bureau 2017 Fintech Study

• Ontario Experts Panel • CSA Sandbox; OSC 

LaunchPad • Review of Federal 

Financial Sector Framework (Bank Act)

• Open banking / data, flexibility to make non‐controlling investments

• CSA approach to ICOs

BADBAD

• Pace of legislative implementation of revised Bank Act

UGLYUGLY• No national strategy & champion

• Equity crowdfunding rules

• Regulatory spaghetti (26 bodies), cost, uncertainty

• Lack of engagement (OSFI, FINTRAC)

• Promotion of Cdnfintechs abroad

• MOUs with foreign regulators

• BoC Proof of Concept on e‐money & blockchain (Jasper) + research

• Modernization by Payments Canada

• Focus on innovation

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Federal Financial Sector Review 2019• For FinTech, focused on open data & ability of Cdn FIs to invest in FinTechs.

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https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/scotiabank‐digital‐banking‐lab/events/