In just two short decades, fintech has exploded onto the financial scene--with more dynamic growth to come.
The financial technology industry’s meteoric growth has led to record-breaking venture capital funding and valuations. Financial institutions have made fintech a priority, technology companies have made it a target, and adjacent industries have begun to tap into fintech’s power too. However, it can be hard to keep up with the overabundance of key players, trends, growth areas, and investment opportunities—which is why we created our own fintech platform: FinTech Control Tower by BCG.
How FinTech Control Tower by BCG Works
FinTech Control Tower by BCG aims to help organizations understand innovation across the financial services industry, uncover new opportunities, and execute on their fintech agenda by drawing on proprietary data and analytics tools, the latest market intelligence, and worldwide subject-matter experts.
Our fintech platform features two main components: fintech insights, and fintech research and advisory.
Fintech Insights
A variety of digital tools let users conduct their own research to identify and compare industry players, trace funding deals and connections among companies, and analyze market trends. These proprietary tools include the atlas search navigator for classifying fintech across technology, business, and product lines and drilling down into precise subcategories; smart visualize for creating dynamic maps, trend charts, and other data visualizations; and the global fintech profile pages for diving deep into partnerships, use cases, and financials.
- Atlas Search Navigator. If you can’t identify the right fintechs, little else matters. Our advanced Intuitive Google-like search bar and proprietary taxonomy allow users to scout for fintechs at the intersection of product verticals, sectors, business models, and technologies.
- Smart Visualize. Dynamic analytics and visualization tools enable users to create dynamic digital maps, infographics, and trends charts tailored to their research needs.
- Fintech Profile Pages. Identify the real innovation champions, uncovering use cases, partnerships, financials, and more via our detailed company profiles.
Fintech Research and Advisory
We provide clients with a variety of customized research and advisory services aimed at accelerating their innovation and growth strategies, identifying future opportunities, and gaining a competitive advantage. These include market intelligence for getting a grasp of key trends and growth drivers, technology scouting for identifying the right technology partner, and strategic advisory for developing growth strategies and supporting decision-making.
- Market Intelligence. Fintech, insurtech, and regtech are rapidly evolving ecosystems, and gaining a competitive advantage begins by staying at the forefront of innovation. Through our research expertise, we help you identify market trends, analyze underlying drivers, and turn future challenges into opportunities.
- Technology Scouting. Identifying the right fintech partner or investment target can be challenging in a fast-growing sector. We perform detailed comparable firm analysis, source targets that best match your needs, and leverage our strategic network to get you connected quickly to the right people at each organization, resulting in actionable outcomes.
- Strategic Advisory. Where data alone is unable to answer all your business questions, we provide bespoke consulting engagements to accelerate your path to innovation. Our strategic advisory services are tailored to help you address organizational pain points, develop growth strategies, and support decision-making.
Who Can Benefit from Our Global FinTech Platform
FinTech Control Tower by BCG and our fintech consulting experts help a wide variety of organizations find value in all things fintech-related:
Banks and Insurers
Our fintech consulting team advises innovation, strategy, and partnership units on the right fintech strategies and partners to allow them to stay ahead of the innovation curve in financial services.
Investors
We help early- and late-stage investors—including corporate venture capitalists, private equity and venture capital firms, and sovereign wealth funds—in deal discovery and
due diligence by evaluating
emerging tech segments, best-in-class start-ups, and more.
Private Sector
We advise tech firms, e-commerce players, and other corporates on entry into new markets, making the right play in financial services, and whether they should build, buy, or partner.
Public Institutions, Regulators, and Associations
We advise government organizations, development agencies, regulators and local fintech, and suptech departments on policies, ecosystem factors, and infrastructure to enable innovation, so that they can stay ahead of the innovation curve and anticipate trends in digital disruption.
Fintechs
Our fintech consulting team benchmarks competitor activities (e.g., investments, traction) and capabilities, and investigates threats and opportunities.
Explore Our Insights on Financial Technology
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August 23, 2021
Despite rapid growth, the route to profitability remains challenging for operators.
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May 13, 2021
These fintechs raised over half a billion dollars in equity funding following a record year in 2020 and the approval of four digital bank licenses.
Meet Our Fintech Consulting Team
As the experts behind FinTech Control Tower, our fintech consultants help clients understand financial technology trends, uncover growth areas, and unlock fintech investment opportunities.
