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Verisk is a leading data, analytics, and technology provider for property-casualty insurers. Verisk traces its history to Insurance Services Office, a nonprofit advisory organization founded in 1971 by US P&C insurers. ISO was formed as an association of insurance companies to assist with a variety of insurance use cases, such as reporting to regulators, defining policies, and determining independent premium rates. As the firm expanded its use cases, it became a for-profit company, renamed Verisk, and went public in 2009. Verisk’s single segment (insurance) provides underwriting solutions, including forms, rules, loss costs, and catastrophe modeling. For claims, Verisk’s solutions include property repair estimates and antifraud tools. About 83% of Verisk’s revenue is US-based.

Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac Corporation is a leading applied analytics company. Fair Isaac is primarily known for its FICO credit scores, which is a widely used industry benchmark to determine the creditworthiness of an individual consumer. The firm’s US-centric credit scores business accounts for most of the firm’s revenue and profits and consists of business-to-business and business-to-consumer services. In addition to scores, Fair Isaac also sells software primarily to financial institutions for areas such as analytics, decision-making, customer workflows, and fraud.

Transmit Security is a Boston-headquartered customer identity and access management platform provider. The company delivers fraud prevention, passwordless authentication, and orchestration tools to banks like Barclays, insurers such as Allianz, and retailers including Walmart. Founded in 2018, Transmit Security processes trillions of identity transactions annually across web, mobile, and API channels.

Thought Machine is a London-headquartered fintech founded in 2017, delivering the Vault Core cloud-native banking platform to replace legacy systems. Adopted by JPMorgan Chase for its digital bank, Lloyds Banking Group, and Standard Chartered across retail, corporate, and investment banking, Vault supports real-time processing via microservices on AWS and Google Cloud. The platform handles mortgages, deposits, and payments compliant with PSD2 regulations. Thought Machine serves 20+ financial institutions globally with headquarters in the UK and offices in Singapore and New York.

Quantexa is a UK-based data and AI software company that pioneers Contextual Decision Intelligence (DI). Its platform unifies messy, siloed data into a single, trusted, and reusable resource. By applying Composite AI, it maps relationships between people, organizations, and places to help organizations mitigate risk, detect fraud, and drive growth.

Feedzai is a Coimbra-headquartered AI platform combating fraud across banking, payments, and e-commerce. It deploys risk scoring for transactions, AML screening, identity verification, and scam detection using behavioral biometrics and generative AI like ScamAlert. Clients include Santander, Citi, and Visa, with operations in US, UK, and APAC for real-time prevention.

infiBond is a behavioral analytics platform that integrates deep learning AI into digital services for fintech, e-commerce, and healthcare providers. Its algorithms analyze users' states of mind, personality traits, and motivators to predict behaviors beyond surface-level actions, enabling personalized engagement, risk assessment, and loyalty enhancement. Compliant with GDPR, ISO standards, and US privacy laws, the Israel-headquartered company embeds seamlessly into major platforms worldwide.

Juniper Square is a San Francisco-headquartered software platform for private market fund managers providing investor portals, CRM, automated accounting, and compliance tools. It streamlines fundraising through digital subscription documents, wire tracking, and performance reporting for real estate, private equity, and venture funds. The company serves over 1,000 firms managing $3 trillion in assets with AI-powered insights and mobile access for investor relations.

TrustDecision is a Hangzhou-based fintech company founded in 2013 that provides risk control and anti-fraud solutions. It develops AI-powered software for financial institutions, insurers, payment platforms, e-commerce sites, and social networks, processing billions of transactions daily to detect theft and fraud.

S&P Global provides data and benchmarks to capital and commodity market participants. Its ratings business is the largest credit rating agency in the world and S&P's largest segment by profitability. S&P's largest segment by revenue is market intelligence, which provides desktop, data and advisory solutions, enterprise solutions, and credit/risk solutions mostly in the financial-services industry. S&P's other segments include energy (formerly commodity insights, this segment includes Platts and other data), mobility (Carfax), and indexes. S&P plans to spin off mobility in 2026.

Moody’s, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed-income securities. The ratings segment, Moody’s Investors Service, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm’s profit and often (depending on bond issuance levels) a majority of the firm's revenue. The other segment, Moody’s Analytics, consists of decision solutions, research and insights, and data and information.

Ant Group is a fintech company building digital infrastructure for financial services via platforms like Alipay. Hangzhou-headquartered, it supports consumers and SMEs with payments, lending, insurance, and wealth management across Asia. The ecosystem includes Ant Fortune for investments and Ant Financial Cloud for enterprise solutions.

Constellation Software is an acquirer, manager, and developer of vertical market software, or VMS, businesses globally. VMS differentiates from horizontal software in that it provides mission critical solutions within a specific industry for customers in a particular market. Constellation operates through a decentralized model in which each business operates as its own independent entity. Managers of individual businesses are incentivized to optimize their business for returns on invested capital and revenue growth. Excess cash generated by the individual businesses is repatriated to portfolio managers who focus on allocating as much capital as possible on new acquisitions. As of 2025, Constellation consisted of over 1,000 individual businesses and 64,000 employees.

Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co Ltd is engaged in providing Internet financial information services and online financial software. The company's business includes an online market trading system, mobile financial information service, fund sales, financial big data processing, and cloud services. It serves individuals, brokers, funds, private placements, banks, insurance, government, and research Institutional clients.

SS&C Technologies provides software products and software-enabled services to a variety of customers primarily in financial services. Acquisitions are a large part of SS&C's history. SS&C GlobeOp provides fund administration services to alternative and traditional asset managers. In addition, SS&C provides portfolio accounting, portfolio management, trading, banking/lending, and other software to asset managers, banks, and financial advisors. SS&C’s purchase of Intralinks makes it a leading player in virtual deal room solutions. With its 2018 purchase of DST Systems, SS&C gained a foothold in the healthcare industry with pharmacy health management solutions and medical claim administration services. In 2022, SS&C acquired robotic process automation software firm Blue Prism.

Fidelity National Information Services provides core processing and ancillary services to banks, but its business has expanded over time. By acquiring SunGard in 2015, the company now provides record-keeping and other services to investment firms. With the acquisition of Worldpay in 2019, FIS was providing payment processing services for merchants and holding leading positions in the United States and United Kingdom. But the company sold off a majority interest in Worldpay and now has only a minority stake.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, which was spun off from Automatic Data Processing in 2007, is a leading provider of investor communication and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker/dealers, traditional and alternative-asset managers, wealth managers, and corporate issuers. Broadridge is composed of two operating segments: investor communication solutions and global technology and operations.

Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services in health; tax and accounting; environmental, social, and governance; finance; compliance; and legal. More than 60% of revenue is generated in North America and around 30% is from Europe.