Bold Moves Despite Uncertain Times

The financial world continues to be buffeted with uncertainty and turbulence, yet through it all the FinTech community perseveres — and even thrives. In this year's FinTech 100, leading technology providers increased their revenues from financial institutions to $58.1 billion, up nearly 10% in a very difficult economy.

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The 2011 FinTech 100

Top 100 Companies in FinTech

The Top 25 Enterprise Companies in FinTech

Biggest Movers in the FinTech Rankings

BBVA Brings a Real-Time Core to the U.S.

The Madrid banking giant has brought the modern, real-time core processing technology it uses in its Latin American subsidiaries to Alabama and is modifying it to handle U.S. regulations and products.

Slideshow: Spotlight on the Top 10

Global expansion thrust FIS to the top spot in the FinTech 100, bumping Fiserv down to No. 2 for only the second time in eight years of the rankings. Most of the names rounding out the top ten were here last year (with some shuffling), but there was one new entrant: Infosys, coming in at No. 10.

How the Rankings Are Calculated

IDC Financial Insights relied on a number of sources to gather the data used in the eighth edition of the FinTech 100 and Enterprise 25 rankings.

Cloud Watching: How Banks Can Strike Public-Private Balance

The authors write that they see a level of comfort with moving applications like email and CRM into the public cloud while maintaining critical data in the watchful eye of the private cloud.

Where the Risk-Tech Dollars Are Going

Bank risk-technology spending across credit, market, and operational risk domains, with just a few exceptions, is forecasted to be between $54 billion and $60 billion in calendar year 2011.

Why Mobile Payment Predictions Aren't Worth Much

Whatever you think about mobile payments, you are probably dead wrong.

Web Services Aid Quick Mobile Integration

FirstMerit's own research made it starkly clear: it needed to deploy mobile banking, and it needed to act soon. The $14 billion-asset Ohio bank found what it needed in Mobile Money FastTrack.