Solving financial fragmentation for modern businesses

Created in collaboration with Juniper Research, this report explores how fragmented payments, business accounts, and financial systems are holding businesses back, and how unified infrastructure can unlock greater visibility, control and growth.

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What you'll learn

Why financial fragmentation is now a growth problem

Understand how disconnected payments, banking and finance systems create operational lags, limit visibility and make it harder for businesses to scale.

Explore insights
  • Why financial fragmentation is now a growth problem
  • Where fragmentation costs businesses most
  • How payment complexity is being solved in Europe
  • What a unified financial operating model looks like
  • How businesses can move from complexity to control

The headlines

Financial fragmentation is no longer just a back-office problem. As businesses expand across markets, currencies, entities and payment methods, disconnected systems are creating hidden costs, slowing operations and limiting growth.

This report reveals where fragmentation is hurting businesses most, and how a unified financial operating model can help teams move faster, improve visibility and take back control.

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€732,000

annual cost for large corporates

Fragmented month-end processes could cost large corporates up to €732,000 per year, based on a heavily manual reconciliation environment.

38%

global ecommerce expected to be cross-border in 2025

As growth moves across borders, disconnected financial systems make it harder to move quickly, locally and profitably.

10 days%

reduced to two for month-end reconciliation

A unified financial operating model can help finance teams close faster, reduce manual work and refocus on growth.

Financial fragmentation is no longer just an operational inconvenience. It is becoming a direct constraint on growth. The businesses that solve this will not just run more efficiently, they will compete more effectively.

payabl.

Breno Oliveira

Chief Product Officer,
payabl.

Ugnė Buracienė

What's inside?

A practical look at how financial fragmentation affects growing businesses, from daily operational pain points to the bigger strategic barriers that slow expansion.

The report breaks down what is driving complexity, where the hidden costs sit, and how unified financial infrastructure can help businesses build a faster, more connected operating model.

  • How Wero is uniting a fragmented Europe

    See why cards alone are no longer enough for businesses selling across Europe and beyond.

  • The true cost of disconnected finance

    Understand how fragmentation translates into time, cost, risk and missed opportunity.

  • The unified financial operating model

    Learn what it means to bring acquiring, accounts, cards, reporting and reconciliation into one connected ecosystem.

  • The strategic steps to simplification

    Get a practical checklist for assessing existing systems and identifying where fragmentation is holding the business back.

  • The fragmentation landscape

    Explore why modern businesses are managing more providers, systems, currencies and payment methods than ever before.

  • How Wero is uniting a fragmented Europe

    See why cards alone are no longer enough for businesses selling across Europe and beyond.

  • The true cost of disconnected finance

    Understand how fragmentation translates into time, cost, risk and missed opportunity.

  • The unified financial operating model

    Learn what it means to bring acquiring, accounts, cards, reporting and reconciliation into one connected ecosystem.

  • The strategic steps to simplification

    Get a practical checklist for assessing existing systems and identifying where fragmentation is holding the business back.

  • The fragmentation landscape

    Explore why modern businesses are managing more providers, systems, currencies and payment methods than ever before.

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