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Saba Shariff on the TechTO stage

Saba Shariff

SVP, Chief Strategy, Product & Innovation Officer, Symcor

FintechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2018

Saba Shariff is senior vice-president and chief strategy, product and innovation officer at Symcor, the Canadian processing company owned by BMO, RBC and TD. She sets its corporate strategy and runs the teams building shared industry products, including fraud and identity services. She spoke at TechTO's FintechTO in 2018 on using AI against online fraud.

On the TechTO stage ×1

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Saba

In their words

kids under 18 are 51% more likely to be the victims of identity theft than adults

TechTO FintechTO, Oct 2018 · watch at 02:44

the criminals aren't working in silos and so there's benefit to using shared resources from multiple organizations to kind of work together

TechTO FintechTO, Oct 2018 · watch at 09:21

children's identities provide a blank slate for criminals to do what they do best which is assumed identities and take over accounts and acquire increasingly large amounts of credit and debt in their names

TechTO FintechTO, Oct 2018 · watch at 02:57
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Quick answers

What is Symcor?

A Canadian business-processing company jointly owned by BMO, RBC and TD. It handles statements, payments and cheque processing for banks, telecoms and insurers, and builds shared fraud and identity services for the industry.

What was her TechTO talk about?

Why fraud is easier to fight collectively than institution by institution, and how AI over pooled data spots patterns a single bank cannot see on its own.

What does she work on now?

Strategy, product and innovation at Symcor. She gave the opening keynote at Open Banking Expo Canada in March 2026 on Canada's open banking mandate.

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