451 Research’s coverage of the payments ecosystem focuses on emerging technologies impacting the way in which transactions are initiated and facilitated. Through a combination of syndicated research and custom Advisory engagements, we help clients on both the card issuing and acquiring sides of the payments business understand and adapt to market shifts triggered by digital transformation.
Our research provides a view into the way digital technologies are evolving the delivery, consumption and business models for payment services. To accomplish this, we cover the marketplace through a unique bottom-up view, investigating how individual payments providers—both established and emerging—are innovating, and the implications of those innovations for the competitive landscape. In our effort to assess the trajectory and momentum of the payment innovations within the market, we produce quarterly quantitative studies that take the pulse of both mass-market and early-adopter end users.