Team RS at Payments Canada Summit 2025

May 27, 2025

A Strong Showcase of Innovation, Engagement & Thought Leadership

RS Software had a strong and visible presence as a lead sponsor at the Payments Canada Summit 2025 in Toronto, reaffirming our position at the forefront of secure, real-time digital payments. Raj Jain, Sumit Misra, Abhishek Gupta, and Abhishek Seal represented us at the event. They actively engaged with clients, partners, and industry leaders throughout the summit. We were also honored to have our Board member, Peter Sweers, join us at the venue—his presence added valuable perspective and support to our engagements.

Booth Presence & Product Showcases

Our booth featured a striking backwall with key messaging around our core offerings:

RS IntelliEdge™ – Fraud & risk management
RS DigitalEdge™ – Intelligent payments orchestration
RS AssureEdge™ – Resilience, assurance, and operational readiness

Each product zone included a QR code directing visitors to a dedicated landing page with detailed product insights, brochures, and explainer videos—giving prospects a seamless way to engage with our offerings.

The booth attracted a steady flow of clients, prospects, and industry influencers, creating several high-value conversations. Videos showcasing RS Software’s innovation culture, global reach, and product capabilities ran continuously on screen, adding energy and visibility to our space.

Digital Experience

RS Software was invited to contribute to Payments Canada's Digital Experience Series. A pre-recorded webinar on "Real-time rails, real-time risks: evolving Canada’s fraud strategy” featured Paul Andrusyshyn from IBM as a moderator and Peter Sweers, Sumit Misra and Abhishek Gupta as panelists. This session offered a sharp perspective on industry trends and RS Software's value proposition. Currently hosted as gated content on the summit’s event page, it will be publicly available on Payments Canada’s YouTube channel from June 2025—offering further visibility to our thought leadership.

Breakout Sessions with IBM

RS Software partnered with IBM Payments Center to co-host two high-impact breakout sessions comprising RSites and industry leaders:

  • The best of human and AI collaboration to manage fraud: Learning from global experiences
  • Sandbox for Minimizing Risk and Enhancing Confidence in Real-time Payment Deployments

These sessions saw an encouraging turnout and engagement. The audience responded positively to our insights, with many highlighting the practicality, clarity, and forward-looking nature of our contributions.

Key takeaways from the event

  1. Real-time Multi-channel Fraud and Risk Management will be needed for Real Time Payments.
  2. Bringing Fraud Scoring and AML closer to each other is another need (FRAML).
  3. Real-Time Payments use cases are needed for inclusion of un/under banked population.
  4. AI is a central theme cutting across payments ecosystem which is driving efficiency, resilience, security, risk management, automated payment processing, personalized customer experience powered by consumers’ preferred payment options and more.
  5. Globalized economy is driving faster cross-border payments, increasing interoperability, decreasing cost and inefficiency and
  6. Real-time payment is supporting cross-border innovation.

PIX and UPI are the only RTPs which support externalization of authentication, that is driving RTP based innovative use cases in Brazil and India, developed market faces a challenge due to a different risk ownership model. This is driving considerations for preserving financial stability and security while supporting innovation and growth.

A big thank you to the team

A big thank you to our delegation of four who represented RS Software on-site—engaging with partners, prospects, and peers with professionalism, knowledge, and passion. Your efforts made a lasting impact.

This success was made possible through the seamless collaboration of our Sales, Marketing, Product, and Management teams, who came together with a shared vision to ensure every detail—before, during, and after the event—was executed with excellence.

As we continue our journey of enabling secure, scalable, and future-ready payments, events like these remind us of the trust and responsibility RS Software carries in the global financial ecosystem.

Let’s keep pushing the boundaries—together.