KPMG and H2 Ventures presented the fourth annual Fintech100 report, which compiles a list of the year’s best fntech innovators from around the world.

First, second and third place, on this year’s Fintech100, are occupied by Chinese fintech firms: Ant Financial, which owns Alipay payments platform; ZhongAn, which uses big data to automate online property insurance; Qudian, an online electronics retailer offering monthly instalment re-payments.

The fourth and fifth places are occupied by Oscar, which seeks to radically transform health insurance through technology and Avant, the fastest-growing marketplace lending platform for short-term consumer credit.

According to the authors of the report, Fintech100 includes a broad range of fintech companies from 29 different countries, which “means that no one nation or region “owns” fintech innovation – fintech is a global phenomenon.”

Generally speaking, the Fintech100 in 2017 includes 41 companies from the UK and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), 29 companies from the North and South Americas, and 30 companies from Asia (including Australia and New Zealand).

The sectorial breakup of the Fintech100 is as follows: 32 lending companies, 21 payments companies, 15 transaction and capital markets, 12 insurance companies, 7 wealth companies, 6 regtech (regulatory technology-Banks.am) & cyber security companies, 4 blockchain and digital currencies companies, and 3 data and analytics companies

The authors divided the list into 2 categories: “Top 50” and “Emerging 50”. The “Top 50” companies have raised USD 4,8bn in the last year alone and over USD 27bn in aggregate capital over their lifetimes. Within the “Emerging 50”, over USD 600m has being raised in the last year and just over USD 1bn has been raised in total (since founding).

The companies in the report are selected based on these core factors: total capital raised, rate of capital raising, geographic diversity and sectorial diversity.

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