Desjardins launches $45M fintech fund as competition heightens
By CP STAFF
Industry Manufacturing Business Desjardins digital transformation financial Fintech manufacturingInvestments aim for improving client experience by accelerating digital transformation.
LEVIS, Que. — Desjardins Group has launched a new $45-million fintech investment fund in a bid to tap into cutting-edge technology as competition heightens.
The co-operative financial group says these investments are aimed at “significantly” improving the client experience by accelerating its “digital transformation.”
It added that the investment pool will support businesses that use “innovative operational, technological or economic models” to address existing or emerging issues.
The fund will be managed by Desjardins Capital, the private investment arm of Desjardins Group.
Desjardins says the fund’s first investment will be in X-Telia Group Inc., a Quebec-based wireless network operator in the internet-of-things and home automation sectors.
It says an example of X-Telia’s technology involves installing smart sensors on farm silos as part of a pilot project led by the agri-business division of La Coop federee, a major partner of Desjardins.
