First Data Introduces SpendTrend Holiday Insights Dashboard

Shares of First Data Corporation (NYSE:FDC) have gained 4.5% year to date, against the 11.1% decline of the industry it belongs to.

The company recently launched SpendTrend Holiday Insights, a real-time spending dashboard.

It is useful in providing insights into spending trends across industry verticals and payment types. The analysis encompasses card-based payment forms and is based on actual, same-store-sales activity. Growth rates reflect a comparison of season-to-date trends on year-over-year basis.

Insights include seasonal growth rates for overall and industry-specific spending categories, geographic spending patterns and special day-range callouts. It delivers a daily ranking of the most active subsectors and a view of dining spend velocity. Results are based on data driven from transaction activity from a selected subset of First Data’s processing portfolio.

“Holiday Insights provides real-time information for the upcoming high-volume consumer spending holiday season,” stated Glenn Fodor, senior vice president and head of First Data Insights.

Holiday Insights is currently available at www.firstdata.com/SpendTrend through Jan 3, 2019.

The move is expected to boost the Global Business Solutions (GBS) segment, which offers a wide range of solutions that include E-commerce, mobile commerce, point of sale and merchant acquiring.

This segment performed decently in the last reported quarter, generating revenues of $1.38 billion, up 10% on a year-over-year basis.

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