December 2015: Origin Merchant Partners Acts for Royal Canadian Mint on its Sale of MintChip™

December 2015: Origin Merchant Partners Acts for Royal Canadian Mint on its Sale of MintChip™

By Tracey Lamping's

All Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions

December 30, 2015

Origin Merchant Partners (“Origin”) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to facilitate the sale of the Royal Canadian Mint’s MintChip™ digital currency product.

The Royal Canadian Mint (the “RCM”) is the Crown Corporation responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada’s circulation coins. The RCM is recognized as one of the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an international scale. For more information about the RCM, visit www.mint.ca.

nanoPay is an early stage Fintech company based in Toronto that provides loyalty and payments solutions for retail and ecommerce merchants. nanoPay combines customer identity, loyalty and payment information into single-use transaction tokens that make payments frictionless®. Merchants are able to leverage customer data into insight and engage customers with content and offers relevant to them. For more information about nanoPay, visit http://www.nanopay.net.

MintChip™ (“MintChip”) was created to be the first regulator-friendly digital cash platform. MintChip was designed to support compliance of regulatory standards including anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) rules. MintChip is a digital replacement for cash linked to a country’s fiat currency and uses secure asset stores to move funds between parties without an intermediary and can process transactions both online and offline. For more information about MintChip, visit http://gomintchip.com/

Origin Senior Lead: Jim Osler