What we do
Product offerings
Contextualize and forecast performance with localized sales benchmarks and near real-time spending insights.
SpendingPulse™ platform
Discover and visualize historical data insights, real-time spend insights and accurate sales forecasts
Test & Learn® with SpendingPulse™ modeling
Evaluate large-scale business initiatives
Who we serve
Market intelligence for your industry
SpendingPulse™ powers decisions across various industries with detailed historical and near real-time spend insights and accurate sales forecasts.
Consumer packaged goods
Visualize the change in consumer spending and take the appropriate next steps
Financial institutions
Benchmark portfolio performance against retail economic activity
Public sector
Asses the economic impact of various initiatives and events
Retail
Understanding industry-level shifts in sales and growth
Restaurants
Plan ahead with historical data insights, real-time spend insights and accurate sales forecasts
Travel & hospitality
Implement various initiatives and plan for unusual trends
Resources
UNMATCHED EXPERTISE
Mastercard offers various resources to equip organizations to offer more data-driven decisions using actual, near real-time spend insights.
Reports
Read insights from our experts
Fuel data insight-driven decisions across all public sector initiatives
Public sector officials must understand how policy changes, natural disasters and other macroeconomic events impact their constituencies. SpendingPulse™ insights offer market intelligence that answers key strategic questions and helps officials provide more informed responses based on unique scenarios.
During the West Coast wildfires in September 2020, SpendingPulse™ assessed the economic impact of the wildfires on the region. SpendingPulse™ insights showed that Oregon saw year-over-year total retail sales shift from +10% growth to -9% at the peak of the fires. Oregon retail sales returned to positive growth after nine days, whereas Washington saw less sales impact and returned to positive growth within three days.
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