The financial services software landscape in numbers, 2026

Method

The registry is built from public sources: each vendor's own website and product pages, its published customer announcements, company registers and filings, read and re-read on a schedule, and corrected by the vendors themselves in the vendor portal. A vendor is counted once whatever its size; a product is counted under the category its own page states, else its vendor's main one. A customer is counted when the vendor names the institution publicly, never estimated. A capability is "mentioned" when the product's own text names it and "confirmed" only when the vendor confirms it in its portal; a phrase on a website is never shown as a confirmation. The figures are recomputed from the live registry each time the site is published.

Vendors and products by category

A vendor can sit in more than one category; a product in one.

The largest categories by vendors are AI (464), Data and analytics (345), CRM and customer experience (189). Each category's vendor list, with the largest by named customers and the newest entrants, is a page of its own; the eight with a market scan guide are linked under "Go further".

Where the vendors are headquartered

51 countries; the sixteen with a registry page of their own are linked in the table.

AI in financial services software

The share of each category's products whose own public text mentions an AI capability, and how many a vendor has confirmed.

Across the registry 286 of 6,059 products (5%) mention an AI capability: generative AI, agents and assistants, conversational AI, document intelligence, predictive models, AI search or machine learning. 0 have the capability confirmed by the vendor. The named list of AI vendors by use case is on the AI in financial services page.

New entrants by founding year

807 of 1,269 vendors have a founding year on record; the last fifteen years are shown.

The most-named financial institutions

Counted as the number of vendors naming each institution among their first few named customers; a measure of disclosure as much as of size.

Go further

• Quarterly data: Fintech Market Scan Q4 2026The quarter's release: vendors listed and the change since last quarter, new entrants, products changed, AI by category, each figure with its definition.
• AI vendors for banks, insurers and wealth managersThe named list by use case.
• Market briefsThis week in every category, from the news; the scan's running commentary.
• Market scan report templateFor running your own scan from these figures.
• Vendors by countrySixteen country pages, each with the vendors headquartered there.

How to run a market scan, by category

• AI: 464 vendorsHow to evaluate AI vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Payments: 168 vendorsHow to evaluate payments vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Financial crime and fraud: 166 vendorsHow to evaluate financial crime and fraud vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Regulatory reporting and risk: 152 vendorsHow to evaluate regulatory reporting and risk vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Wealth and investment platforms: 151 vendorsHow to evaluate wealth and investment platforms vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Lending and origination: 138 vendorsHow to evaluate lending and origination vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Insurance core: 93 vendorsHow to evaluate insurance core vendors, and the requirements that separate them.
• Core banking: 75 vendorsHow to evaluate core banking vendors, and the requirements that separate them.