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Founded in 2009, Block provides payment services to merchants, along with related services. The company also launched Cash App, a person-to-person payment network. In 2024, Square's payment volume was almost USD 250 million.

PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

Tabby is a Dubai-headquartered buy-now-pay-later provider operating in UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Founded in 2020 as a unicorn valued at $3.5 billion, it partners with 20,000 retailers like IKEA and Adidas for interest-free installments over four payments. The platform serves 5 million users with virtual cards and credit limits up to AED 20,000.

Rappi is a leading on-demand delivery platform operating across Latin America, including Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Customers use its mobile app to order groceries, meals, pharmaceuticals, pet supplies, and gifts, with options like Turbo for rapid service and integrated digital wallets for payments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bogota, Rappi also facilitates travel bookings and cash delivery, serving millions through hyperlocal logistics networks.

CRED is a members-only platform in India for managing credit card bills with rewards for timely payments. Users access an app that tracks spending across multiple cards, sends reminders, and offers exclusive deals from luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Mercedes-Benz. Bengaluru-headquartered and launched in 2018, CRED processes billions in bill payments monthly. It partners with over 200 banks including HDFC and ICICI, providing cashback and premium membership perks.

Sunbit is a buy-now-pay-later platform financing services like dental, auto repair, and eyewear purchases. Available via mobile apps on iOS and Android, it approves most applicants for installment payments at merchant locations across the United States.

Swile is a Paris-based super app consolidating employee benefits including meal vouchers, mobility passes, and gift cards on a single smartcard. Launched in 2018, it adds workplace tools like peer recognition, event planning, P2P transfers, and engagement surveys. Analytics dashboards track satisfaction metrics for HR teams across French enterprises.

FamPay is a Bengaluru-headquartered fintech launched in 2019, issuing cards for teenagers to handle online and offline payments via the FamCard. Parents transfer funds directly to children's accounts, promoting controlled spending in India.

Stripe is a San Francisco-headquartered financial technology company founded in 2010 that powers online payment processing for businesses worldwide. The platform enables millions of companies, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises like Amazon and Shopify, to accept card payments, manage subscriptions, and handle payouts. Stripe supports over 135 currencies and integrates with e-commerce tools for seamless revenue growth.

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.

Fiserv is a leading provider of core processing and complementary services, such as electronic funds transfer, payment processing, and loan processing, for US banks and credit unions, with a focus on small and midsize banks. Following its 2019 merger with First Data, Fiserv also provides payment processing services to merchants. About 10% of the company’s revenue is generated internationally.

LPL Financial is the largest US independent broker-dealer, with more than 32,000 financial advisors affiliated with its platform and roughly 11 million customer accounts at the end of 2025. The firm earns the bulk of its profit from interest income earned on client cash balances and from advisory fees and commissions tied to the $2.4 trillion in assets under management or advisory on its platform at year-end 2025. LPL specializes in the provision of turnkey wealth management services for affiliated independent advisors, but maintains a diverse array of affiliation modalities, running the gamut from more traditional employee models to a pure RIA custody approach. It earns tuck-in revenue from recordkeeping fees and the provision of software tools and services to its advisor base.

Founded in 2012, Affirm is a market leader in the buy-now, pay-later space with around $36 billion in transaction volume in fiscal 2025. Affirm offers both zero-interest financing, which is merchant subsidized, and interest-bearing loans, which function as personal loans that are approved on a per-transaction basis. Over 70% of Affirm's transaction volume comes from its interest-bearing loans, which also comprise the majority of its revenue. Affirm operates in the United States, which accounted for more than 95% of its revenue in 2025, but the firm has also expanded to Canada and the United Kingdom.

Kaspi.kz JSC is the payment, marketplace, and Fintech ecosystem in Kazakhstan. The firm provides interconnected technologically seamless products and services that help people to pay, shop and manage their finances. Its operating segment includes the Payments Platform that connects its customers, which consist of both consumers and merchants, to facilitate cashless, digital transactions, the Marketplace Platform, which derives maximum revenue, connects merchants and consumers enabling merchants to increase their sales and consumers to buy a broad selection of products and services offered by a variety of merchants, and Fintech Platform that enables customers to manage their personal finances online and access consumer finance and deposit products through the Kaspi.kz Super App.

San Francisco-headquartered Plaid is a financial technology provider offering APIs for secure connections to bank accounts, investments, and credit data across 12,000 U.S. institutions. Founded in 2013, its infrastructure powers personal finance apps, payment processors, lending platforms, and identity verification services like those from Venmo and Coinbase.

Upgrade is a San Francisco-headquartered fintech company delivering personal loans, home improvement financing, auto loans and refinancing, plus credit cards that convert to fixed-rate installment plans. Its offerings extend to high-yield savings and rewards checking accounts, credit monitoring services, and educational resources for credit management. Upgrade Shopping provides cashback rewards at participating retailers to complement card benefits. Founded in 2017, the platform targets mainstream consumers with accessible banking and credit products.

Wealthsimple is a Toronto-headquartered neobank offering automated investing, commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, plus chequing accounts with 2.75 percent interest. Users build managed portfolios from $1 with 0.4-0.5 percent fees, file taxes via SimpleTax, and access credit cards. Serving 2 million Canadians, it holds banking licenses from major regulators.