Stripe owns the software. Visa and Mastercard own the rails. Fiserv sits ninth.
All 15 companies competing to move the world's money, lined up by overall score. Click any company to see how it scored across the five measures.
How to read this. Each bar is one company's overall score on a 100-point scale, and the color shows which band it falls into · from Dominant at the top down to the smaller players. Stripe is the only company above the Dominant line: it wins on product and ecosystem rather than raw size. Visa and Mastercard sit just behind, the two sets of card rails almost every payment rides on. Fiserv lands ninth. Its reach and ecosystem pull are real, but an aging product and a trust score battered by a rough October 2025 hold it down · and its two closest rivals passed it while it stumbled. Click any bar to see the five measures behind its score.