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Many prominent economists have argued that Canada is in a housing bubble, while the real estate associations and other economists predict that house prices may continue to accelerate. 

Canadians are suffering an affordability crisis - how should lenders react?

There are millions of “credit invisible” or no-hit/thin-file customers who have a clear need for various financial products.

Remember when you had to be a bank to build financial products? With the explosion in API-driven technology and the increasing appetite of banks to partner with fintechs, now any company can!

Should lenders start using a more optimistic decisioning scenario?

With COVID, things are more uncertain than ever before - so what does the future hold in 2021 for lenders?

They say that the water level drops precipitously in the moments right before a tsunami hits. For lenders, it feels eerily similar to this right now.

Lenders, in the weeks immediately following the outbreak of COVID-19, have been in fully fledged crisis mode. Now, the attention is starting to shift to how to cautiously re-enter the market.

To thrive in a rapidly transforming digital world requires a different mindset than the past. A new leadership mindset has emerged, that of the servant leader. Yet, old habits are hard to break!

Awake Labs is building technology to empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live healthier and more independent lives.

Data-driven decision making is all the rage these days - so why are so many organizations still struggling to unlock the power of their own data?

It has been exactly one year since I left Bay Street and the cozy confines of Capital One. It has been an amazing journey, but it was probably the hardest decision I’ve had to make in my life.

September 15th, 2008. Do you remember what happened that day? I do. You may not recall the specific date, but if you were a risk professional or a financial services executive back then, you’ll...

When I was growing up, I went to a one-story school with a flat roof. Every recess, we would play games on the asphalt beside the school – games like handball and foot hockey. I can remember sittin...

I learn something from my daughters, Payton and Addison, every day. Their curiousity, their zestfulness, and their learning agility are such a huge inspiration to me. It is so amazing to see the sp...

We are always searching outside of ourselves for ideas and inspiration. There is so much great literature out there on leadership with more mediums than ever before – from blogs, to podcasts, to we...

I woke up one day and started heading into work, just like any other day. But as I was walking to the subway and thinking about my day ahead, I suddenly had this jarring revelation – I was stuck in...

Digital ad spend is now a $300 billion a year business and growing, with Google and Facebook grabbing over half of that. That’s a lot of money. And as spend has increased, so has the demand for mor...

Big data. Blockchain. And now, Artificial Intelligence. Mention these two words to a group of hard-core data scientists and you will more than likely elicit giggles. Yes, AI has become the biggest...

Futurist Alvin Toffler said, “Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.” This is truer today than ever before. The rate of change is constantly accelerating, and all organizations are fa...