The Loans Canada (CreditMarketing.ca) team will be at the 2026 Canadian Finance Summit on Thursday, May 28th at The Quay in Toronto. If you're a lender, fintech, or affiliate working in the Canadian lending space, we'd love to meet up.
About the Summit
The Canadian Finance Summit is one of the largest financial services conferences in Canada. Hosted by Finance Events in partnership with the Canadian Lenders Association, it pulls together 800+ executives across banking, fintech, lending, capital markets, and payments for a single day of programming and deal-making.
This year's agenda runs deep on the topics that matter most to Canadian lenders:
- Practical AI in finance and lending operations
- Banking-as-a-Service and fintech partnership models
- Risk, fraud prevention, and compliance
- The M&A landscape in Canadian finance
- Stablecoins, Real-Time Rail, and the future of payments
- Embedded finance across auto, home, and travel
The event is also part of Toronto Tech Week (May 25 to 29), so the surrounding days will have plenty of community-led programming worth checking out.
Why We're Going
Loans Canada works with Canadian lenders on lead generation, affiliate distribution, and conversion-side fraud prevention. The Summit is one of the few rooms where the full ecosystem shows up at once: bank product leaders, alt-lender operators, fintech founders, and the compliance and risk teams who decide what good looks like.
A few things we're paying attention to this year:
- Lead quality and fraud trends. Synthetic identity, conversion fraud, and SMS OTP abuse continue to shape what lenders demand from affiliate traffic. We want to hear how risk teams are thinking about it heading into the back half of 2026.
- AI in underwriting and origination. Real deployments, not slideware. Specifically how lenders are layering AI into the top of the funnel without breaking compliance posture.
- The next wave of lender-fintech partnerships. Where the gaps are and how non-bank originators are expanding their reach.
Let's Meet Up
If you're attending and want to talk lead gen, affiliate distribution, fraud-resistant funnels, or anything else in the Canadian lending stack, get in touch. The Canadian Lenders Association is donating $25 to Sinai Health Foundation for every meeting booked through the Summit platform, so there's a good reason to lock something in.
Reach out to Scott or Sharon or email us at contact@creditmarketing.ca and we'll find a time on the floor. See you in Toronto!