In a data-driven world, pauses in government economic reporting do more than inconvenient economists, they create dangerous blind spots for investors, policymakers, and business leaders. When ...

As part of my series on how businesses—specifically, the financial services industry—can leverage insights on consumers' grocery shopping habits for risk management and precision marketing, I'll ...

The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being ...

In one of its final regulatory efforts under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a new rule on Tuesday that aims to protect consumer financial data from ...

The Kilts Center provides researchers from the University of Chicago with data from Consumer Edge. These data track individual transactions made with millions of US credit, debit, and prepaid cards ...

The FTC found that as many as 250 different businesses, including grocery stores, apparel, health and beauty retailers, convenience stores, building and hardware stores, and department and discount ...