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About
Paramount Commerce built a pay-by-bank business two decades before the category had that name. Its first product, INSTADEBIT, let Canadians pay online directly from a chequing account without a card or an e-wallet, and the company says it was clearing more than $50 million a month within its first year and had crossed a billion dollars in cumulative transactions by 2006. The modern business wraps Interac e-Transfer and EFT into a single real-time payments API for merchants that need bank-rail settlement — high-value, high-risk-scrutiny sectors such as regulated iGaming, financial services and marketplaces, where card acceptance is expensive or restricted. The company states it has processed over $100 billion in volume across more than twenty years. Sam Kawtharani is its VP of product.
Backers
No venture rounds are reported; the company has operated privately since 2003 and does not publish investors.
Quick answers
What does Paramount Commerce do?
It processes payments that settle over bank rails rather than card networks — Interac e-Transfer and EFT — for merchants that need direct-from-account payments and payouts in Canada.
How old is Paramount Commerce?
It was founded in 2003 and launched its first product, INSTADEBIT, that same year.
How much volume has it processed?
The company says more than $100 billion over twenty-plus years. That is its own figure, not an audited one.
Who from Paramount Commerce is in this directory?
Sam Kawtharani, its VP of product, who spoke at TechTO's FintechTO in February 2018 while at Corl, the revenue-share startup financing company he co-founded.