rewrite this title Ramp Expands Internationally into Canada – Finovate

Ramp has officially launched in Canada, marking the spend management platform’s first expansion outside the US and bringing its corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, and accounting tools to Canadian businesses.

The Canadian platform includes localized features such as CAD and USD spending without FX markup, automatic GST/HST/PST/QST tax coding, Canadian-dollar accounting integrations, and cards issued through Peoples Trust.

Ramp’s expansion comes as competition in business banking intensifies, following Expensify’s UK and EU corporate card launch and Intuit’s introduction of a QuickBooks-connected corporate credit card.

Corporate card and expense management platform Ramp is moving across international borders this week. The New York-based company is now available to businesses in Canada.

Today’s launch comes after Ramp piloted its Canadian operations with a select few Canada-based small businesses. With the broad launch, businesses headquartered in Canada can now use Ramp’s capabilities for managing spend, paying bills, and closing their books. Notably, Ramp is still not available to businesses based in Quebec or Saskatchewan.

Ramp’s new Canadian operation is built for Canadian businesses, allowing businesses to spend in CAD and USD without additional FX markup. Additionally, the platform is designed to accommodate Canada’s tax system by automatically coding transactions with the appropriate GST, HST, PST, or QST, helping finance teams streamline expense management and tax compliance.

The Canadian offering brings the same capabilities as the US platform, including corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, bill pay, and accounting sync. However, Canadian businesses make payments in CAD and cards are issued through Peoples Trust. Card transactions sync natively with QuickBooks Online, Xero, Microsoft Business Central, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct in Canadian dollars.

To support its Canadian expansion, Ramp will open its first office in Toronto, where it will build a local team to provide sales, implementation, and customer support for Canadian businesses. The local presence underscores Ramp’s longer-term investment in the Canadian market as it expands beyond the US.

Ramp, which is used by over 70,000 businesses, was founded in 2019 and has experienced notable growth, most recently fueled by a $300 million financing round that valued it at $32 billion. The company powers over $100 billion in purchases annually. Interestingly, Ramp’s launch into Canada comes before the company’s expansion into the UK and EU, which Ramp announced would happen “this summer” after its March acquisition of Billhop, a Stockholm- and London-based payments platform.

Today’s announcement comes at a time when competition in business banking is heating up. Just last week, Expensify launched its corporate card across the UK and EU, while five days ago, Intuit launched its own corporate credit card that will be connected to QuickBooks. Together, the moves underscore how providers are racing to expand both geographically and across the business finance stack, giving small and midsize businesses more integrated options for managing spending, payments, and accounting.

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