American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Karlyn Heiner Crotty

Prashant Kalia

Iwao Fusillo

Danny M Yelle

Suby P Philip

Consumer spend by industry is modeled based on the industry sizes of wallet of consumers having a high share of wallet with a financial institution. A size of wallet is calculated for each consumer in a plurality of consumers. A share of wallet for each consumer is also calculated. A subset of the plurality of consumers whose share of wallet is above a given percentage of their size of wallet is then determined. For each consumer in the subset, an industry size of wallet is determined. A correlation between the industry size of wallet of a given consumer and one or more characteristics of the given consumer is then derived using the industry size of wallet for the consumers in the subset.

Industry size of wallet

Transaction-level data and size of wallet data may be used to identify luxury merchants. In an embodiment, luxury merchants are identified based on their average record of charge (ROC) size in combination with the percentage of high-wallet consumers who transact with the merchants. Customers having a high share of wallet spent at luxury merchants may be identified as luxury consumers.

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Pennington, NJ, United States of America

Karlyn Heiner Crotty