The fintech sector is undergoing a clear shift from hypergrowth at all costs to disciplined, sustainable expansion. Recent results from Q2 ’25 show that while global leaders like Visa and Global Payments are seeing expense growth outpace gross profit, firms such as Affirm and Toast prove that high growth can still be achieved with operating discipline. Net profit margins, capital efficiency, and leverage profiles vary widely across the peer set, underscoring the different strategies shaping...| Insight - 2023
For years, scale dictated strategy: big banks managed credit cards in-house, while smaller players leaned on agent banks and program managers. With cloud-native platforms, modular stacks, and AI automation, these barriers are fading quickly. Issuers of any size can now rethink how they balance control, speed, and capital efficiency to find their own version of success in the credit card space.| insights.flagshipadvisorypartners.com
B2B fintech and SaaS in Europe are still emerging relative to the more mature US market, with a fragmented ecosystem that continues to rely heavily on traditional bank transfers. At a co-hosted event with UBS, Flagship Advisory Partners delivered a presentation capturing he emerging innovation of B2B & Office of CFO SaaS in Europe, closely following the mature US fintech landscape.| insights.flagshipadvisorypartners.com
Software platforms are rapidly expanding into payments and embedded finance, capturing more and more of the fintech value chain. Our latest article explores how this trend, long underway in the U.S. is now accelerating across Europe.| insights.flagshipadvisorypartners.com
Flagship has analyzed the B2B mobility sector activity levels using press releases of 39 companies from 7 different provider types.| insights.flagshipadvisorypartners.com
The European office of CFO SaaS remains a fertile ground for investments and M&A. Rapid market consolidation across CFO SaaS domains, key regulatory mandates (e.g., B2B E-invoicing) and increased adoption of embedded fintech across SaaS domains makes the space an attractive investment hotbed.| insights.flagshipadvisorypartners.com
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