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Fiserv · company page · as of Sept 8, 2026
FiservNYSE: FI · Milwaukee · public
OverviewMomentumCompetitiveRisksPeopleYour OpportunitiesSources
Q2 2026 adjusted revenue$4.96Bdown 4% year over year
Adjusted operating margin31.8%19.2% GAAP
FY2026 guideminus 1% to 0%organic revenue; adjusted EPS $7.20 to $7.40
Market cap$27.96Banalyst consensus Hold; next earnings Q3, early November

Fiserv is one of the 'Big Three' US core banking and payments technology providers, competing directly with FIS and Jack Henry across merchant acquiring, card issuing, and financial institution infrastructure.

VitalsCEO Takis Georgakopoulos. Founded 1984, Milwaukee. About 38,000 employees. Ticker FI.Brands: Clover, Finxact, DNA, MoneyPass, Carat, Commerce Hub.B2B fintech infrastructure, licensing plus transaction fees.
Strategic prioritiesExecute the 'One Fiserv' simplification plan.Scale embedded finance and digital assets.Modernize the merchant and core banking stack.

Fiserv is in a visible transition year: Q2 2026 adjusted revenue fell 4% YoY to $4.96B, full-year guidance was cut to -1% to flat organic growth and $7.20-$7.40 adjusted EPS, and Financial Solutions revenue dropped 8%.

Aug 18, 2026 · PartnershipThunes powers global payouts across 140 countriesFiserv and Thunes announced a strategic collaboration giving Fiserv merchant clients real-time international payouts to about 12B bank accounts and wallets across 140+ countries and 90 currencies via a single integration.
Aug 17, 2026 · PartnershipFlagstar Bank picks Fiserv for core bankingA multi-year strategic core banking partnership, a significant named bank win supporting Fiserv's Financial Solutions turnaround narrative.
Aug 5, 2026 · PartnershipUW Credit Union selects DNA core platformA competitive win in the credit union segment where Jack Henry historically dominates.
Jul 31, 2026 · ActivistJana Partners presses for full portfolio reviewActivist Jana Partners publicly pushed Fiserv to conduct a formal review of its entire portfolio rather than sell assets piecemeal, then trimmed its stake about 17% in Q2.
Direct competitor · core banking and card issuingFISIn January 2026, FIS closed acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business (rebranded FIS Total Issuing) and sold its remaining 45% Worldpay stake to Global Payments, reshaping FIS as a bank-tech and issuer-focused rival to Fiserv.
Direct competitor · core banking for community FIsJack Henry & AssociatesThe strongest Fiserv competitor in the community bank and credit union core segment.
Direct competitor · merchant acquiringGlobal PaymentsAcquired Worldpay from FIS/GTCR and divested Issuer Solutions to FIS in January 2026; now a pure-play merchant acquirer directly competing with Fiserv Merchant Solutions and Clover.

The full tab holds the battlecard: where they win, where they are exposed this quarter, pricing and packaging signals, and the gap they left open.

Overall risk posture is Medium.

HighExecution and guidance credibilityTwo CEO changes in 18 months, a guidance cut driving a roughly 12% one-day stock drop, Argentina headwinds, delayed client ramps, and activist pressure from Jana Partners make Fiserv's near-term direction less predictable.
MediumPortfolio review scope uncertaintyGeorgakopoulos's 'dispassionate' portfolio review has already produced the MoneyPass JV and student loan divestiture; further carve-outs are possible.
Chief Executive Officer · since mid-June 2026Takis GeorgakopoulosRunning a 'dispassionate' portfolio review and a shift from build-everything to partnerships. Called 2026 a transition year on the Q2 call.
Chief Financial OfficerPaul ToddFramed Financial Solutions as a structural low-single-digit growth business going forward. Guided H1 adjusted operating margin to 31 to 32% with Q1 below 30%.
Former Chief Executive Officer · departedMike LyonsLeft for Truist in June 2026. Had acknowledged 2025 core client attrition was 'higher than we would have liked'.

The one tab written for who you are. This is the Partnerships profile at Latchford; a CFO or a CEO sees their own.

AngleTheir build-to-partner pivot vs. Latchford's positioningGeorgakopoulos explicitly said Fiserv will stop building everything internally and lean into partnerships, a structural change in how the largest incumbent buys and integrates capability.
AngleFinancial Solutions weakness vs. Latchford's community FI focusFiserv's Financial Solutions segment fell 8% in Q2 2026, and the CFO has now framed it as a structurally low-single-digit growth business.

115 sources read on Fiserv in the last 90 days. Every claim above links to the filing, call, article or post it came from.

Read for this companySEC EDGAR filings and releases, the Q2 2026 earnings call transcript, the Fiserv newsroom, executive posts on X and LinkedIn, two podcasts, three newsletters, job posts, partner announcements.
How oftenEvery day, from over a dozen different angles. Quiet day? Nothing arrives.
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The same company, read for four different people Four profiles at the same fictional company, Latchford Financial, tracking Fiserv as a competitor. Same sources, same day. What each of them was told, and why. No next steps: what you do with it is yours. Product output, excerpted, unedited.
CEO
CEO admits 2025 core client attrition was higher than desired
Validates that community banks and credit unions are actively re-evaluating their core provider, opening a demand window Latchford's board should be sizing against its own modernization pipeline capacity.
CFO
H1 margin guided to 31-32% with Q1 below 30%
Materially weaker than the full-year headline implies, and pushes real margin recovery into 2027+, which resets what 'normal' unit economics look like across the payments infrastructure comp set Latchford is benchmarked against.
Corp Dev, Strategy
CFO tells Street Financial Solutions is permanently low-single-digit growth
Permanently re-rates the FI-directed payments segment most adjacent to Latchford's community-bank and CU buyer base, and sets a ceiling for how growth in comparable private assets can be underwritten.
Partnerships
Fiserv cuts FY2026 guidance; Financial Solutions down 8%
The segment most relevant to Latchford's community bank and credit union buyers shrank 8% year over year. This creates a credible incumbent-distraction narrative Latchford can weave into current deal cycles.
Never let an important announcement get lost in the noise
CEO reiterates focus on displacing legacy bank processor volume
Marqeta's CEO said it on the Tech Disruptors podcast on Jul 29, 2026. Forty minutes of audio, no press release, no filing. More is published about your market every day than anyone could read, and most of it is noise. Driftmark reads all of it, sees through the noise, and brings back only what matters to you: here, the exact modernization narrative a prospect's buyers are navigating.
Source: LinkedIn · Marqeta on the Tech Disruptors podcast · from the same brief

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Source checks989Filings, releases, calls, posts, news, every day
Documents pulled252Read in full, dated, deduplicated
Updates sent11The ones that changed something

One reader, 15 companies, the week of September 7, 2026. Across every account that week: 8,212 checks, 2,206 documents, 224 updates. These are the numbers Driftmark's own Monday email prints for every reader, so you will see yours. The brief is what finds you. The app is where you go deeper.

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CompetitorFiservFiserv cuts FY2026 guidance; Financial Solutions down 8%This creates a credible incumbent-distraction narrative to weave into current deal cycles.SEC EDGAR · Fiserv Q2 2026 earnings release · Aug 6, 2026
ProspectMarqetaCEO reiterates focus on displacing legacy bank processor volumeA strategic overlap worth testing in an initial partnership conversation.LinkedIn · Marqeta on the Tech Disruptors podcast · Jul 29, 2026
Market WatchVisaQ3 FY2026 revenue $11.6B, up 14%; FY26 guidance raisedPrecisely the layer where your embedded finance offering intersects Visa's roadmap.SEC EDGAR · Visa Q3 FY2026 earnings release · Jul 28, 2026
Your relationship decides why you care
Fiserv's guidance cut is a talk track if they're your competitor, a risk review if they're your vendor, and a timing window if they're your target. Same filing, three reads.
Who you are decides what matters in a source
Your role, your company, your market, set once. Every read is written for them. At the top of the page: the same Fiserv sources read for a CEO, a CFO, Corp Dev and Partnerships, each noticing something different in the same filing.
Six reasons to watch a company
ProspectWhat are they signaling that you can walk in on?
Current PartnerA renewal, an expansion, or a move toward someone else.
CompetitorA launch is a threat, not news.
M&A TargetRunway, gaps, and the timing window.
Strategic VendorTheir health, their pricing, their ownership.
Market WatchThe moment adjacent becomes competitive.

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Monday, the week read together The weekly that went out on September 14 to the demo workspace, tracking Fiserv as a competitor. Excerpted, not edited.
Week in review
Sep 7 to Sep 14, 2026  ·  Prepared for Jean
Driftmark read 468 sources across your 7 companies this week and surfaced 9 updates worth your time.
468 sources read  ·  7 companies watched  ·  9 updates worth your time
The one to read  ·  Fiserv  ·  Sep 10 CEO debuts 'one operating company' pitch at Goldman conference

Georgakopoulos formally consolidated Merchant and Financial Solutions into a single customer-segment operating model and rebranded Project Elevate around $500M savings and about 200bps of margin expansion, meaning Fiserv account teams will increasingly show up in Latchford deals with an integrated payments and banking pitch rather than as siloed product sales, changing the competitive frame in modernization RFPs.

Plaid · Current Partner
Notable · Sep 8
Stripe · Strategic Vendor
Notable · Sep 8

Five more updates followed, each with the company, the relationship and the source. Also watching Latchford Financial and Visa: quiet this week.

Also in the app · product views with illustrative dataKeep scrolling, the view changes
The one to readAlkami· Prospect · 6h ago
Case study quantifies the outcomes of their new platform
Why this matters for a prospect. They are publicly putting numbers on results, which gives you a proof point to mirror when you pitch.
NotableMarqeta· Strategic Vendor · 1d ago
Pricing review named on the call
Management flagged a repricing of the tier you sit on, effective next quarter.
FYIArray· Competitor · 2d ago
New head of partnerships announced
The person who owns your integration review just changed.
People at Chime
MO
M. Okafor
Chief Executive Officer
Spoke on a podcast Tuesday
LB
L. Brennan
Chief Financial Officer
Guidance raised on the call
SN
S. Nakamura
Chief Revenue Officer
Arrived this week
DW
D. Whitfield
Head of Partnerships
Departed, 3 weeks ago
Your Driftmark AI Analyst
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Three things. Their CEO named distribution as a growth constraint on the Q2 call, and two product areas where they plan to lean on partners. Their CRO arrived this week. And their pricing review lands next quarter, so timing favors you.
1. Chime Q2 2026 earnings call, transcript, prepared remarks2. Chime newsroom, Chief Revenue Officer appointment3. Chime Q2 2026 earnings call, Q&A, pricing question
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