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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paymentus Holdings Inc provides electronic bill presentment and payment services, enterprise customer communication and self-service revenue management to billers through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), secure, omni-channel technology platform. The platform integrates with a biller's financial and operational systems to provide secure and flexible processing of payments, including credit cards, debit cards, eChecks, and digital wallets, across multiple channels such as online, mobile, IVR, call centers, chatbots, and voice-based assistants. The company generates the majority of its revenue from payment transaction fees processed through its platform. Geographically, it derives the maximum revenue from the United States.

DLocal Ltd is focused on making the complex simple, redefining the online payment experience in emerging markets. Through its technology platform, One dLocal, the company enables world-wide enterprise merchants to get paid (pay-in) and to make payments (pay-out) online in a safe and efficient manner. The company earns revenue from fees charged to merchants in connection with payment processing services for cross-border and local payment transactions. The company's geographical segments include Latin America and Non-Latin America with a majority of its revenue being generated from Brazil in Latin America region.

Solaris is a Berlin-based Banking-as-a-Service platform holding a full German banking license. The company enables partners to embed modular services like digital accounts, payment cards, KYC, lending, and crypto custody via APIs. Backed by investors including BBVA, Visa, and Lakestar, Solaris powers financial products for fintechs and brands across Europe.

Headquartered in Oakland, California, and founded in 2010, Marqeta provides its clients with a card-issuing platform that offers the infrastructure and tools necessary to offer digital, physical, and tokenized payment options without the need for a traditional bank. The company’s open APIs are designed to allow third parties like DoorDash, Klarna, and Block to rapidly develop and deploy innovative card-based products and payment services without the need to develop the underlying technology. The company generates revenue primarily through processing and ATM fees for cards issued on its platform.

Chipper Cash is a fintech platform enabling instant cross-border mobile money transfers across Africa. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2017, the app supports fee-free remittances, bill payments, and savings accounts in countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. Chipper Cash integrates with local wallets like MTN MoMo and Airtel Money, processing billions in transaction volume annually for millions of users.

Fawry For Banking Technology And Electronic Payment is engaged in providing operations services specialized in systems and communications, management, operating and maintenance of equipment's and computers networks services and internal systems of banks, networks, and centralized systems, establish operating systems for banking services through the internet, phone and e-payment services and circulation of secured documents electronically, and renting properties.

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.

Worldline is a payment service provider offering merchant acquiring, payment processing, and payment infrastructure solutions to merchants and banks.

Paysafe Ltd is an integrated payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. The company provides payment solutions through three primary lines of business: Integrated Processing, Digital Wallet and eCash Solutions. It derives a majority of revenue from the USA followed by Germany, the UK, and all other countries.

CPI Card Group Inc is a payment technology company engaged in providing financial payment card solutions and services. It offers credit, debit, and prepaid cards. The business segments of the group are Debit and Credit, which produces Financial Payment Cards and provides integrated card services to card-issuing banks in the United States, and Prepaid Debit, which provides integrated card services to Prepaid Debit Card program managers in the United States and Others. It derives key revenue from the Debit and Credit segment.

Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2025, it processed almost $17 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.

Mastercard is the second-largest payment processor in the world, having processed close to $10 trillion in volume during 2024. Mastercard operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 150 currencies.