Stripe sets the pace. Visa holds the rails. Fiserv slips behind its closest rivals.
The whole picture. Fiserv sits ninth of fifteen, a Strong-band company held back by two soft measures rather than a broken business. The leaderboard shows how tight the top is · the gap from Stripe to Fiserv is real but not a chasm · while Fiserv's shape makes its lopsidedness plain: solid reach and ecosystem pull, a thin product corner, and the dent in trust. Most of the field sits in the Strong band, with a handful of newer, smaller players still in Emerging.