What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National financial supervisors and EU authorities (ESMA registers, EBA payment-institution register, national FSA/central bank registers of… | Per legal entity, per licence/authorisation, with status change dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and Eurostat (SBS, LFS by NACE), the firms themselves, remuneration disclosures to supervisors… | Per firm headcount annually; sector-level monthly/annual aggregates by region | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Review platforms (Trustpilot, Google), app stores for fintech credit and payment apps, comparison sites, social/news monitoring vendors | Per review with timestamp and rating; firm-level rolling scores | public |
| financial filings | Company registries and business registers, listed-entity disclosure portals, supervisors receiving prudential/COREP-style returns, credit… | Per entity per annual or quarterly reporting period; supervisory returns… | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Financial ombudsman schemes and consumer-complaint bodies, supervisors' enforcement and sanctions databases, FIUs receiving suspicious… | Per complaint, per enforcement action, per operational-loss or fraud event… | public |
| pricing | Market data vendors (Bloomberg, LSEG, ICE), swap and OTC derivative dealers, factoring providers' rate cards, comparison platforms for… | Per instrument per quote/tick; per-product APR or discount rate; monthly… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Factoring and invoice-finance companies, proprietary trading and own-account securities dealers, non-bank lenders and payment/e-money… | Per transaction / per invoice / per trade or loan, with daily position and… | partnership |
| customer demographics | Non-bank lenders, factoring firms and fintech platforms; credit bureaus (Experian, Schufa, CRIF) holding borrower/counterparty profiles… | Per customer/counterparty record; segmented cohort aggregates | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | The firms' own marketing teams, affiliate/lead-generation networks and comparison platforms, ad-intelligence vendors tracking… | Per campaign/channel per day; per lead and conversion | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Supervisors' inspection and AML review outputs, external auditors and AML/KYC assurance providers, RegTech screening vendors (sanctions/PEP… | Per inspection/audit engagement; per screening alert and disposition | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.