Our global fintech platform draws on proprietary data tools, the latest market intelligence, and BCG’s fintech consulting services to help clients uncover opportunities and execute on their fintech agenda.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our Experts
As the experts behind FinTech Control Tower, our fintech consultants help clients understand financial technology trends, uncover growth areas, and unlock fintech investment opportunities.
Markus Ampenberger joined Boston Consulting Group in 2010. He is a member of BCG's Financial Institutions practice, and a member of the global management team for payments and transaction banking. Since joining BCG, Markus has worked mostly with payment service providers, banks, and fintechs. He has led many engagements in strategy, M&A, and post-merger integration, as well as target operating model (TOM) design and optimization. He has considerable experience in all payments and transaction banking topics, supply chain finance, and digitization in banking.
Jean-Werner de t’Serclaes joined Boston Consulting Group in September 1999. He worked in the Paris and Madrid offices of BCG before moving to Colombia in 2013 to open the firm’s local franchise. He returned to Paris in early 2019. He leads BCG’s Financial Institutions practice for Western Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the Fintech Control Tower.
Guglielmo de Stefano is a lead analyst at FinTech Control Tower—a joint venture between Expand Research and Boston Consulting Group that offers a data-driven view of the global fintech and insurtech ecosystems, exploring emerging trends, highlighting top players, and analyzing winning business models and the technologies that matter most in today’s finance and insurance industries.
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