Global Processing Services Funding, Investors & Competitors

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.

ACI Worldwide Inc develops, markets and installs a portfolio of software products focused on facilitating electronic payments. The firm also leverages its distribution network in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, or EMEA; and Asia-Pacific regions to sell software developed by third parties. ACI software products process payment transactions for retail banking clients, billers such as utilities and healthcare providers, and community banks and credit unions. ACI's customers are financial institutions all over the world, but majority of the revenue is generated in the United States and EMEA regions.

Computer Age Management Services Ltd is a technology-driven financial infrastructure and services provider to mutual funds and other financial institutions. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of technology-based services, such as transaction origination interface, transaction execution, payment, settlement and reconciliation, dividend processing, investor interface, record keeping, report generation, intermediary empanelment and brokerage computation and compliance-related services, through its pan-India network to its mutual fund clients, distributors and investors. It also provides certain services to alternative investment funds, insurance companies, banks and non-banking finance companies.

E-Finance For Digital And Financial Investments SAE is developing integrated platforms in Egypt's digital revolution. It is a fintech platform and developer of digital payments infrastructures. The company invests in platforms and solutions that serve everyone from government agencies to ordinary consumers. The business has seven operating segments; Services and operation of cards, Integrated solutions, installation, and technical support services, card center services, hosting services, maintenance and network contracts, and others. It derives a majority of its revenue from the Services and operation of the cards segment.

Optasia is a B2B2X AI-powered fintech platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. The company operates across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Its services include: Micro Lending, Airtime Advance, and Data Monetization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Checkout.com is a global payment processor supporting transactions in over 150 currencies through a unified API. It delivers in-country acquiring across more than 50 countries, advanced fraud detection powered by machine learning, and comprehensive reporting dashboards. The platform accepts all major credit and debit cards alongside local methods such as iDEAL, Alipay, and Klarna. Checkout.com maintains offices in London, New York, Singapore, and 16 other locations worldwide. Launched in 2012, it serves enterprises like Sony, Revolut, and McDonald's with scalable infrastructure for high-volume payments.

OneConnect Financial Technology is a Shanghai-headquartered provider of cloud-based solutions for small and medium-sized banks in China. Platforms leverage big data, blockchain, and AI for direct banking, SME financing, interbank transactions, and personal credit services, serving over 3,000 financial institutions.