FT Partners Proprietary FinTech Research
Financial Technology Partners regularly publishes detailed research highlighting key trends driving market activity across the FinTech Landscape. Our research and analysis has been featured on Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and the Financial Times and is regularly viewed by CEOs and industry leaders. FT Partners' unique insight into FinTech is a direct result of successfully executing hundreds of transactions combined with over 14 years of exclusive focus on the FinTech sector. Follow FT Partners on Twitter and LinkedIn for real time updates, and subscribe to FT Partners' Monthly FinTech Market Analysis for the industry's most comprehensive and detailed updates on the FinTech sector.
Each report published by FT Partners contains an in depth review of a unique area of the FinTech marketplace and is highly valuable and topical to CEOs, board members, investors and key stakeholders across the FinTech landscape. Each report is continually updated by the FT Partners Research Team with the latest information, facts and metrics to provide our readers with the most up-to-date and comprehensive subject matter. The latest version of each report is provided below along with a brief overview of the report contents.
Selected FT Partners FinTech Research
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Coming Soon – Brazil’s Emerging FinTech Ecosystem: A Market Receptive to Innovation Brazil is in the midst of a FinTech revolution as the confluence of a number of forces has created a very fertile environment for disruption and innovation in financial services. With the world’s fifth largest population, the ninth largest economy and a government encouraging greater competition for a highly concentrated banking ecosystem, Brazil presents a huge growth opportunity for technology-driven financial solutions across payments, banking, lending, insurance, wealth management and other areas. Sign up to be notified when the report becomes available. |
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Exclusive FinTech CEO Interviews FT Partners regularly conducts interviews with investors and executives of innovative and disruptive FinTech companies. Our interviews provide insights into different business models and future company developments, opportunities and challenges that FinTech executives face, as well as broader trends across the industry. |
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Auto FinTech – The Emerging FinTech Ecosystem Surrounding the Auto Industry As the automotive industry continues to innovate, consumers and businesses will expect the financial services and processes surrounding this massive industry to modernize and adapt as well. Similarly, as new advances change the way consumers and businesses use cars, both traditional financial services and FinTech companies can distinguish themselves by offering new, innovative solutions. |
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FT Partners’ FinTech Insights Reports are published on a quarterly basis, along with a comprehensive year-end FinTech Almanac. All information included in the reports is sourced from FT Partners’ Proprietary Transaction Database, which is compiled by the FT Partners Research Team through primary research and data analysis. The reports feature M&A, financing and IPO statistics and trends as well as breakdowns by FinTech vertical, geography, investor-type and much more. Be sure to check back for quarterly updates and additions. All recent reports can be viewed or downloaded for free. |
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Quarterly InsurTech Insights and Annual InsurTech Almanac FT Partners’ InsurTech Insights and Alamanc reports analyze financing and M&A data in the InsurTech sector. The reports include recent and historical financing volume and deal count totals, largest financing rounds, most active investors, M&A trends and more.
» View Q1 2018 InsurTech Insights |
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WealthTech: The Digitization of Wealth Management This report is an in-depth examination of the dramatic changes sweeping across the wealth management industry. The traditional investment management and registered investment advisor (“RIA”) industries are facing numerous threats, and while firms in the industry recognize the need to respond, technology-driven innovation is not a core expertise of most RIAs and investment managers. Consequently, there has been a groundswell of FinTech companies bringing digital capabilities to the traditional wealth management industries. Collectively, we label this segment of FinTech as WealthTech. |
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Klarna: An Online Payments and POS Lending Leader Founded in 2005, Stockholm-based Klarna is now one of the most valuable privately-held global payment companies with 1,500 employees, 2016 revenue of $460 million (+42% year-over-year) and a recent valuation of $2.5 billion. Klarna began as an alternative payment method in Northern Europe, which enabled users to pay for online purchases following delivery of goods; today, Klarna works with 70,000 merchants to offer multiple payment solutions to more than 60 million users in 18 countries across Europe and North America. The report includes a detailed company and financial overview on Klarna, as well as profiles on other players in the space, Affirm and PayPayl Credit. |
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Adyen’s Rise to One of the Most Valuable Private Payment Companies FT Partners’ report provides a detailed look into the financials of some of the most exciting companies in the Payments sector. This report profiles Adyen, a leading omni-channel global payment processor, which recently disclosed selected financial information for 2017, signaling that the Company is one of the largest and fastest growing payments companies globally. The report also includes comparisons to Square and Braintree, as well as other publicly traded payment processors. Additionally, the report includes profiles on other large and rapidly-growing privately held payment companies including Stripe and YapStone. |
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Monthly FinTech Sector Overview and Market Analysis FT Partners provides the broadest and most specialized coverage of FinTech with our comprehensive monthly sector-specific reports. Our depth of research and insight is unmatched in the industry and these reports are widely recognized and reviewed by top CEO's and investors in the market. Each monthly report includes sector-specific public company comparables, recent financing and M&A transactions and upcoming industry conferences and events. The latest month’s reports are available below; click here to subscribe. |
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Prepare for the InsurTech Wave: Overview of Key Insurance Technology Trends This in-depth report looks at the major waves of innovation and disruption that are beginning to radically alter the insurance industry. The insurance industry, unlike many other areas of financial services, has not yet been substantially disrupted by new technologies and transformative business models. However, the industry now appears to be at a key inflection point as many different constituents in the FinTech ecosystem have their sights squarely set on insurance as the next great opportunity. |
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Proprietary Real-Time Infographics FT Partners regularly publishes infographics highlighting global FinTech transaction activity covering both financings and M&A. This deal activity is derived from our proprietary transaction database. Available infographics include: » View Weekly FinTech Deal Stats » View Monthly FinTech Deal Stats |
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An in-depth analysis of U.S. FinTech IPOs over the past decade including yearly breakdowns by capital raised and FinTech sector, rankings of the largest IPOs by capital raised, best and worst performing and most recent FinTech IPO transactions, insight into pending IPOs, spin-offs and companies acquired while on file for an IPO and details on the most active investors in FinTech IPOs and list of the most well funded private FinTech companies. |
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Global Money Transfer - Emerging Trends and Challenges A focus on key trends in the Global Money Transfer industry including the emergence of "International Payment Specialists" as a distinct and fast growing industry segment attracting significant interest from strategic buyers and financial investors and the disruption of the traditional "Consumer Remittance Providers" by new, emerging / fast growing entrants leading with mobile and other technology-based solutions |
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Are the Robots Taking Over? The Emergence of Automated Digital Wealth Management Solutions Comprehensive overview of key industry trends driving innovation in the wealth management space and how the industry is reacting to the emergence of Robo Advisors and other Digital Wealth Management providers |
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Transaction Security - At the Nexus of E-Commerce, Payment Market Structure Complexity and Fraud In-depth discussion of the key trends driving card-not-present transactions and the subsequent increase in demand for smart transaction security solutions; includes a detailed review of the various transaction security technologies and solutions available for merchants and issuers |
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Innovation in capital markets is surging once again due to increasingly cheaper cloud computing / storage power, greater bandwidth, multiple new sources of valuable investment data (including social media) and competitive forces leading to the constant search for alpha – along with renewed private equity and venture capital interest |
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Apple Unveils ApplePay - Comprehensive Overview and Implications Comprehensive overview of ApplePay including its fit within the payments ecosystem and how it compares to other mobile payment schemes |
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PayPal Spin-off Overview - Detailed Transaction Overview and Analysis Analysis of the events leading up to PayPal's spin-off from eBay as well as an overview of PayPal's financial performance, acquisitions and competitors |
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LendingClub IPO: Post Quiet Period Review Detailed overview of LendingClub's IPO including its funding history, business operations, financial performance, public company comparables and relevant industry transactions |
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First Data IPO: Post Quiet Period Review Detailed overview of First Data's IPO including its funding history, business operations, financial performance, public company comparables and relevant industry transactions. |
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OnDeck IPO: Post Quiet Period Review Detailed overview of OnDeck's IPO including its funding history, business operations, financial performance, public company comparables and relevant industry transactions. |
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Square IPO Profile - Detailed Transaction Overview and Analysis Detailed overview of Square's IPO including its funding history, business operations, financial performance, public company comparables and relevant industry transactions |