“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights derived from Bloomberg’s 8,000+ enterprise datasets available on data.bloomberg.com via Data License. In this edition we take a look at ...

Banks are in the midst of a digital transformation, yet a fundamental issue remains: sometimes customers struggle to make sense of their own transactions. Cryptic transaction descriptions, missing ...

Visualizing the power of blockchain: a decentralized, transparent ledger redefining how digital transactions are recorded and verified. Let’s begin by considering a basic money transaction. When you ...

Acquirers are starting to leverage the power of massive—and diverse—pools of information. The challenge lies in unlocking big data’s full potential. Big data has been a hot topic for years as ...

Public ledger transactions, also known as on-chain transactions, entail recording data directly into a blockchain, such as Bitcoin’s on-chain data. The fact that these transactions are public and ...

To help understand international trade, suppose that there are only two international transaction that take place in a given period, but let’s assume that those two transactions are representative of ...

U.S. gateway providers have cut the average transaction time in half to 1.6 seconds from 3.2 seconds only a year ago, according to data compiled by Omaha, Neb.-based researcher The Strawhecker Group.