Data & Financial Clearing: Market Forecasts, Emerging Trends & Key Opportunities 2021-2026

The new Data & Financial Clearing research provides a comprehensive assessment of this evolving market, including an analysis of factors influencing the current data and financial clearing market, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the roll-out of 5G services, the expansion of IoT connectivity and the GSMA’s BCE (Billing & Charging Evolution) protocol.

This report is aligned to 5-year forecasts for the market, including:

• IoT Roaming Connections
• Mobile Subscriber Roaming Connections

This research suite includes:

• Market Trends & Strategies (PDF)
• Competitor Leaderboard (PDF)
• Market Data & Forecasting (PDF)
• 12 months’ access to harvest online data platform

Key Market Statistics

Roaming Revenue Loss in 2021:

• $484m

Roaming Revenue Loss in 2026:

• $2.1bn

2021 to 2026 Revenue Loss Growth:

• 331%

Key Features

• Market Outlook: An evaluation of significant market drivers and strategic recommendations for key roaming stakeholders, including dedicated clearing vendors, network operators and roaming vendors.

The Competitor Leaderboard: Key player capability and capacity assessment of 15 leading financial and data clearing vendors, including:

• AMD Telecom
• Araxxe
• ARCH
• Comfone
• CSG
• Emirates Data Clearing House
• Ericsson
• Mobileum
• Nextgen Clearing
• Subex
• Syniverse
• Telefónica Global Solutions
• TI Sparkle
• TNS
• TOMIA

Emerging Technology Analysis: An evaluation of the critical technologies that are disrupting or will have a significant impact on the settlement industry, including:

• IoT Connectivity
• 5G Services
• Blockchain Technology
• BCE Analysis: An assessment of the GSMA’s BCE charging protocol, including an evaluation of the challenges associated with and the opportunities realised through its implementation within the clearing market.

Interviews with 10 leading data and financial clearing vendors, including:

• Araxxe
• BICS
• Comfone
• CSG
• Ericsson
• Subex
• Syniverse
• Telefónica Global Solutions
• TNS
• TOMIA
• Benchmark Forecasts: 5-year forecasts are provided for the total number of roaming connections, total operator-billed roaming revenue, total operator-billed roaming revenue lost to leakage, and total data and financial clearing revenue. Forecast splits are included for IoT roaming connections and subscriber roaming connections.

Key Questions Answered

• How much will the data and financial clearing market be worth by 2026?
• How will the GSMA’s BCE protocol impact the data and financial clearing market?
• How will 5G impact existing data and financial clearing procedures?
• How can network operators best monetise IoT roaming traffic?
• Which data and financial clearing vendors are leading the market in 2021?

The Data & Financial Clearing forecast suite includes:

Data and Financial Clearing Market Summary, including:

• Total Number of Roaming Connections
• Average Operator-billed Roaming Revenue per Roaming Connection
• Total Operator-billed Roaming Revenue
• Total Operator-billed Roaming Revenue Lost to Revenue Leakage
• Average Revenue Leakage per Roaming Connection
• Average Data and Financial Clearing Revenue per Roaming Connections
• Total Data and Financial Clearing Revenue

Data splits are provided for subscriber roaming connections and IoT roaming connections.

Geographical splits: 38 countries

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