Friction-free payments + costs to Canadian businesses | Lauren Fleming & Jan Pilbauer

Welcome to The PayPod podcast, a multi-episode series of everything to do with Canada’s ambitious payments modernization mission. In this inaugural episode, Justin Ferrabee and Jan Pilbauer of Payments Canada are joined by Lauren Fleming, a financial services advisor from Ernst & Young who recently completed a study for Payments Canada that, among other insights, quantified that the manual matching of payments to invoices cost businesses billions of dollars a year. Lauren explains how, according to the study, a good portion of between $3 and $6 billion dollars annually, currently invested in reconciling account receivables and payables, could be eliminated, ushering in a new wave of service and product innovation among fintech and paytech companies.