GlobalData
GlobalData

Banking & Payments

Getting you from data to decision. Trusted by leading banks, wealth managers, payment service providers, and merchants.

Connected intelligence platform

Covering the entire spectrum of the global banking and payments market, from the sizing opportunity of deposits, mortgages, loans, and credit cards, consumer payments behavior, and company assessments, to tracking Venture Capital and Private Equity investments, innovation and deals news, and wealth distribution across 13 asset bands for HNW, mass affluent, and mass market.

Unique data

Over 290 proprietary datasets built on primary research and in-house methodologies

Human Expertise

Validated and analyzed by over 2,000 experts and banking and payments specialists

Powerful AI

Enhanced by predictive analytics and machine learning tools within an advanced AI engine

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Stay ahead of the market

Access granular market intelligence, including market data with 5-year forecasts updated on a monthly basis, covering retail banking and lending, cards, and other payment methods, as well as retail investments.

Plus, company data and market sizing for key offshore investment destinations.

Improve competitor tracking & analysis

Track more than 8,000 companies globally across insurance industries.

Utilize expert-curated strategic assessments on over 1,500 companies covering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

View in-depth company performance metrics for insurers operating in 153 countries covering premiums, claims, and profitability.

Find innovative fintech opportunities

Access our extensive cover of the fintech sector, including innovative start-ups.

Track noteworthy vendors with high potential for successful collaboration, identify them at a very early stage, and access timely and valuable insights for assessing their capabilities.

Plus, gain insight into disruption caused by fintech to incumbents across the financial services industry.

celent

Accelerate banking innovation

As technology reshapes how banks operate and compete, Celent, part of GlobalData, helps banking leaders stay ahead, providing strategic insights on modernization, customer experience, payments innovation, and risk transformation.

Key focus areas Expertise & insights How we help

 

Celent helps banks prioritize what matters most: customer-centricity, digital agility, operational efficiency, and regulatory resilience, through targeted research and advisory.

  • Corporate Banking: Helping banks modernize cash management, trade finance, and client servicing with cloud-native platforms and front-office innovation.
  • Retail Banking & Payments: Supporting digital onboarding, experience design, core transformation, and the shift to real-time and embedded payments.
  • Banking Risk: Providing tech insights for GRC, credit, and financial crime, including AML, KYC, and fraud prevention. 

 

We provide decision-ready research on digital banking, core transformation, payments modernization, and risk and compliance strategy. Our work benchmarks bank priorities, evaluates vendor landscapes, and highlights how leading banks are adopting next-gen tech. 

Access our featured report: Shedding Light on Agentic AI in Banking → 
Agentic AI promises long-term transformation for the banking industry. Discover emerging trends, practical use cases, and what the technology means for your organization today.

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  • Industry trend reports, surveys, case studies, and vendor landscapes 
  • Analyst briefings and custom advise 
  • Benchmarking studies and research panels 

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Platform

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Endless value.

Access the data, tools, and insights to power every decision with one digital subscription. With flexibility built in, it feels like it was made just for you. 

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Intuitive interface

Surface the insights that matter to you, at speed, with precision search.
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Configurable tools

Tailored insight delivery in dashboards and tools that work for you.
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Vast content library

Access corporate, market, and financial data – in your preferred format.
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Predictive analytics

Forecast market performance and identify trends before they happen.
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Data visualizations

Turn insights into presentation-ready graphics, perfect for storytelling.

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Insights

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Reports

Get instant access to industry deep dives and company profiles, packaged to fit with your requirements.

Webinars

Get unique insights directly from our analysts and experts with past and upcoming briefings.

"All of the data I need is in one place, but it also comes with additional market reports that provide useful extra context and information. Having the ability to set-up alerts on relevant movements in the industry, be it competitors or customers, and have them emailed directly to me, ensures I get early sight of industry activity and don’t have to search for news."

TSYS

Ian Jefferies, Senior Account Manager
"I can quickly share key insights that answer and satisfy our country stakeholders by giving them many quality studies and primary research about the competitive landscape beyond the outlook of our bank. It helps me be seen as an advisory partner, making a big difference."

Standard Chartered

David Brown, Head of Customer Insight & Research
"The country and subject coverage is very rich. We use a lot of the country & company profiles to understand the payment landscape and the consumer surveys to adapt our offer and understand end-users expectations.”

IDEMIA

Clarisse Jolivet, Head of Payment & Transport Market Intelligence Team

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