This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Banking companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Banking industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Canada Banking Startups
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Instant Financial
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Instant is an Employee Financial Wellness platform that provides employees timely and free access to their earned income.
Zafin
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Zafin is a global enterprise software banking company that enables banks to optimize multiple revenue streams across retail/corporate banks.
Sensibill
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Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts.
Relay
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Relay is a digital bank designed for growing businesses.
RBC Capital
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Royal Bank of Canada is a financial services company that focuses on banking, wealth management, insurance, investment, and capital markets.
Finn AI
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Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Tier1 Financial Solutions
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Tier1 Financial Solutions is a provider of client relationship management (CRM), KYC & AML compliance, and fraud prevention solutions.
Moka
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Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app.
FISPAN
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Fintech Service Management for Financial Institutions
Salt Edge Inc.
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A leader in providing banks, fintechs, lenders, credit bureaus with Open Banking API solutions, connected to 5000+ banks in 50 countries
Brim Financial
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Brim Financial is a provider of a credit card infrastructure and digital platform used in users’ payment experience.
Canaccord Genuity Group
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Canaccord Genuity is a global, full-service investment bank focused on growth companies.
BlocPal International Inc.
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BlocPal is a digital transaction solutions provider delivering a suite of integrated financial services and applications to our partners.
Owl.co
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Owl is a data aggregator/analyzer that helps Financial Institutions know their customers like never before.
Progressa
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Millions of Canadians have had their credit rating impacted by overdue bills and items that have gone to collections.
TickSmith
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TickSmith provides a cloud-based Enterprise Data Web Store that enables firms to monetize their data
CIBC
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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian financial institution that provides its clients with banking services.
Payment Rails
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Payment Rails is an API first payouts platform for businesses and platforms to pay on-demand workers globally.
Lendified
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The Lendified story begins with a wealth of banking experience, a deep knowledge of the Canadian financial services marketplace.
Scotiabank
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Scotiabank offer personal, commercial, corporate & investment banking products and services.
JUDI.AI
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JUDI.AI is an AI-driven financial platform for credit unions and banks that want to grow their small business lending and analytics.
First Mining Finance
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First Mining Finance is a development company with a diversified portfolio of gold projects.
PitchPoint Solutions
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PitchPoint Solutions is a leading provider of fraud prevention services with the systems, people and experience to quickly validate loan
Black Banx
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Black Banx is digital Bank offering online, real time account opening for Private and Business clients from 180 countries.
Ario Platform
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Ario Platform is a modern digital banking platform built for enterprises.
Mosaic Capital Corporation
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Mosaic Capital Corporation is an investment company based in western Canada that owns a portfolio of established businesses operating.
CGI
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CGI is a canada-based information technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company.
BCI
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BCI offers investment management services that help clients generate investment returns, be financially secure while protecting their funds.
Fostrum
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All in one money management for creators, inluencers & solopreneurs | A Techstars Backed Company
Bank of Montreal (BMO)
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Bank of Montreal, a financial services provider, offers retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.
Emperor Investments
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Emperor Platform provides the technologies that power the modern financial advisor.
Wingocard
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Wingocard is a mobile banking app designed to connect teens to the mobile, cashless economy, and strengthen financial literacy skills.
Payfare
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Providing instant payout and digital banking solutions for today’s workforce.
BMO Corporate Banking
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BMO Capital Markets is a financial company by BMO Financial Group for the wholesale banking businesses of Bank of Montreal.
HomeEquity Bank
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The first canadian bank and is the only provider exclusively focused on reverse mortgages for homeowners aged 55 and over
National Bank of Canada
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National Bank of Canada is a bank to provide financial services to consumers and businesses.
Waleteros
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One-stop-shop Mobile Banking solution addressing the very specific needs of the 20M+ unbanked and under-banked US Hispanics.
Duo Bank of Canada
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Duo Bank is a Canadian Bank founded on a mission to provide value-driven financial products that are clear and simple.
SmartPay Me
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White-Label Mobile Instant Checkout (EMV/SCA/PSD2/PISP/TISP) solution with Biometry for banks & retailers, disrupting payments cards rails
Celtic House Venture Partners
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Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm that invests in technology and innovation companies.
AcceptLocal
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A powerful turnkey platform providing customer management, fraud prevention and real-time end-to-end funds transferring solutions.
Quinsam Capital
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A merchant bank based in Canada and operating internationally.
Toronto Dominion Bank Group
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Toronto Dominion Bank Group offers a full range of financial products and services.
Desjardins Group
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Largest cooperative financial group in Canada
Interac
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Interac is a provider of financial banking and debit card services.
STACK
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STACK delivers a smarter way to spend, save and share your money, straight from your mobile and fee-free, like it should be.
Tangerine Bank
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Tangerine Bank known as the bank that helps Canadians save their money.
Intercap
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Intercap Inc. is a merchant bank based in Toronto, Canada.
Boss Insights
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Your Business Customers’ Financial Data… In Minutes
Bond Capital
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Bond Capital provides private debt, equity, and other structured junior credit financing solutions to mid-market businesses.
VoPay
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VoPay is a leader in payment innovation, digitizing online bank account payments with speed and transparency.
4Front Capital Partners
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4Front Capital Partners operates as an independent investment bank.
Cypress Hills Partners
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Cypress Hills Partners is a boutique alternative merchant banking firm based out of Vancouver
The Plastic Bank
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The Plastic Bank is globally recognized as one of the most important solutions to stop Ocean plastic.
ASAPP Financial Technology
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ASAPP Financial Technology provides omni-channel account and loan origination solution for retail and small-business banking.
Central 1 Credit Union
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To provide credit unions with the critical scale economies that we can access cost effectively working together.
eSignLive by VASCO
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eSignLive e-signatures are white labelled behind some of the world’s most trusted brands and known as a leader alongside DocuSign and Adobe.
CMLS Financial
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CMLS Financial provides independently owned mortgage services.
DBRS
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DBRS is an independent, privately held, globally recognized credit ratings agency.
Nava Ventures
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Nava Ventures is a SaaS company that offers an ecosystem of socially responsible fintech products.
HealthBank
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The leading consumer & enterprise healthcare payments infrastructure for patients, providers, pharmacies, insurance carriers, benefits & HR.
Interfacing Technologies
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Interfacing Technologies helps organizations to efficiently govern business complexity.
Paramount Commerce
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Paramount Commerce is a financial services company that enables customers to make purchases online directly from their bank account.
The Canadian Securities Exchange
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CSE is the only exchange in Canada providing trading and market information services for all domestically listed instruments.
Alterna Bank
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Alterna Bank offers e-banking as well as brick-and-mortar banking to clients across Canada.
Peoples Group
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Peoples Group has been providing boutique financial services to the Canadian marketplace.
Baker Tilly Canada
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Baker Tilly Canada provides a full complement of financial services across every major industry sector.
RBC
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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution.
ME Bank
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ME Bank is a genuine banking alternative with a range of personal and business banking options to suit your needs.
Cavirtex
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Cavirtex is a Canadian bitcoin exchange platform.
Technicost
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Technicost has been providing Canadian Credit Unions with successful LOS solutions.
Spend
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Spend develops a universal bank account that merges cryptocurrency seamlessly to fiat.
Fasken Martineau
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Fasken Martineau DuMoulin is an international business law firm with more than 770 lawyers and offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto.
Laurentian Bank of Canada
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Laurentian Bank of Canada is a Quebec banking institution operating across Canada.
Versabank
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Versabank is committed to the ongoing support of a variety of charitable and non-profit organizations in communities.
Everlink Payment Services Inc.
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They’re a leading provider of payment solution and services for credit unions and banks in Canada.
Acxsys
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Acxsys Corporation engages in the development and operation of electronic payment serivces.
Global Care Capital
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Global Care Capital is a global investment company which specializes in providing early stage financing to private and public companies.
Payments Canada
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Payments Canada is responsible for the clearing and settlement infrastructure, processes and rules essential to Canadian economy
Prodigy Labs
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Prodigy Labs is a product development service organisation
Dwello
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Dwello is a Canada-based company that helps its users process rental payments.
Hillcore Group
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The Hillcore Group is a leading independent Canadian investment and advisory firm.
Servus Credit Union
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Servus Credit Union is a Financial service company.
Inverite
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Inverite is the Canadian designed, developed, and focused real-time bank verification service.
HSBC Bank Canada
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HSBC is a one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.
Bayview Credit Union Limited
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Bayview Credit Union is a Financial co-operative Bank providing to its members a complete slate of financial products and service.
Haventree Bank
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Haventree Bank is a financial services banking company located in Toronto.
Founders Advantage Capital
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FA Capital is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “FCF” and employs a passive and permanent investment approach.
PWL Capital
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nvestment management & financial planning firm for affluent Canadian individuals, families, & professionals.
IBK Capital
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IBK Capital Corp. is an independent, privately owned investment banking firm which offers a full range of services.
St Stanislaus-St Casimir’s Polish Parishes Credit Union Limited
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St Stanislaus-St Casimir’s Polish Parishes Credit Union Limited is a banking & financial services firm.
ManuLife Bank
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ManuLife Bank is a federally regulated bank that offers banking, financial and investment services.
Libro Credit Union
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Libro Credit Union deals with financial services such as loans, credit cards, mortgage, investment and wealth management.
Covarity
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Covarity is a developer of post-origination commercial loan monitoring and analysis solutions for financial institutions.
CST Consultants
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CST help families keep their money safe and growing in a registered education savings plan (RESP).