Payments Orchestration Reshaping Merchant Payments
Merchants face ever-expanding complexity for managing payments across geographies, channels, and use cases. Merchants want the ability to quickly adapt their payment infrastructure to embrace growth while delivering robust customer experiences. In parallel, payments technology is shifting into the cloud and opening and embedding into broader API ecosystems. As a result of both merchant demands […]
P27 Illustrates the Potential for Modern A2A Rails to Spur Fintech Innovation
Even payments and fintech experts often think of the Nordics as a single market with common consumer behavior, business demographics, and culture. While there are similarities, each Nordic market has a distinct payments infrastructure. The bank systems and networks are fragmented, built on domestic rules which make intra-Nordic cross-border transactions cumbersome. Nonetheless, this is set […]
The Top 20 Neobanks: Growth via Product Expansion
Neobanks have been highly influential in prodding traditional banks to digitize and improve the customer experience, but many still face a long road towards scale and profitability. The strength of the product catalog is a key growth driver; therefore, we examined the offerings of the top 20 neobanks in Europe and North America as measured […]
Updating Your Payments and Fintech Roadmap for 2021
As we previously discussed in a three-part series, COVID-19 has impacted the payments and fintech landscape across the board, including M&A activity (as investors continue to love digital payments), sectors (for instance travel and restaurant verticals have suffered, while groceries and online retail have thrived), and has shifted customer preferences towards digital channels and form […]
Dissecting the European Open Banking / PSD2 TPP landscape
Since the introduction of PSD2 and open banking regulations in early 2018, 451 third party providers (TPPs) have procured licenses for payment services (PIS) and account services (AIS). Out of the 451, 422 are currently active.
Marqeta IPO: Investors’ Love of Digital Payments Also Extends to Issuing
Investors love SaaS and integrated payments, as we recently showed here. Marqeta, a next generation issuer processor, went public on June 9 with a market cap at close of $16 billion, 13% above the IPO price. Based on Marqeta’s historical revenue growth rate of cca. 100%, this valuation corresponds to approximately 68x forward twelve months’ […]
Investors Love SaaS Fintech
*This is the third of a three-part series in which we examine the evolution of software-integrated payments and fintech. In this third part, we look at how integrated payments are driving value creation for SaaS public equity investors.
Traditional Acquirers Missed the Digital Boat
The most lucrative, fastest growing merchant payments companies are not acquirers. Payment facilitators such as Stripe, PayPal, Sumup, d-local, Ebanx, Mercado Pago, PagSeguro, Stone, Shopify, Intuit, Mollie, and others reinvented the market, extracting huge profits by leveraging digital technology to address the long-tail of small merchant payments. Acquirers largely missed the boat and have often […]
The Paypers: Who’s Who in Payments Report 2021
Flagship recently supported the development of The Paypers’ Who’s Who in Payments report for 2021, and would encourage everyone to download the report for great market and participant insights.
The Processing Landscape for Card Issuing and A2A Payments in 2021
Issuer card processing and financial institution account to account processing have evolved dramatically in the past ten years. What used to be an (arguably) commoditized landscape of providers with a clear delineation between card issuing and account to account payments has undergone significant shifts in technology, business models, and new entrants. Below we examine the […]