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Growth in UK economic activity drops to 10-month low, survey finds

Airline spending was 39 per cent lower in the week to December 12 than in the equivalent week of 2019, compared with a shortfall of 20 per cent the previous month, according to Fable Data, a company that tracks bank transactions.

16 December 2021

Press

Covid curbs will have limited impact on UK recovery, say economists

Separate debit card figures, compiled by Fable Data, showed that household spending recovered strongly in the week ending December 5 to be 10.7 per cent higher than the equivalent week in 2019.

09 December 2021

Press

Earnest Research and Fable Data ‘Spending in a Pandemic across the US, UK, and Germany’

Fable Data has partnered with Earnest Research to report on changes in consumer spending during the pandemic across the US, UK and Germany.

06 December 2021

Partner research

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Bank of International Settlements ‘Data Science in Central Banking’ Workshop

Per Nymand-Andersen, adviser to the European Central Bank and Fable Data, recently spoke about the potential for real-time spending data to inform monetary policy at a BIS event on ‘Data Science in Central Banking’. View his presentation – Part 1, Session 3.1 – here

06 December 2021

Partner research

John Gathergood, Fabian Gunzinger, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Edika Quispe-Torreblanca, Neil Stewart ‘Levelling Down and the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Uneven Regional Recovery in UK Consumer Spending’

This research from John Gathergood et al. looks at the varying rates of recovery in consumer spending across UK regions in the second half of 2020

06 December 2021

Partner research

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University of Nottingham ‘Track the Economy’ Dashboard

Fable Data have partnered with the University of Nottingham on their Track the Economy dashboard, a real-time economic tracking tool designed to support managerial decision making and policy formulation

06 December 2021

Partner research

John Gathergood and Benedict Guttman-Kenney ‘The English Patient: Evaluating Local Lockdowns Using Real-Time COVID-19 & Consumption Data’

How can we contain COVID-19 without a fresh round of national lockdown? John Gathergood and Benedict Guttman-Kenney have researched the economic impact of local lockdowns, combining COVID-19 case reports with spending figures provided by Fable Data.

06 December 2021

Partner research

Economic Centre for Excellence ‘Data After COVID-19’ Conference

Hear Benjamin Lucas from the University of Nottingham speak about ‘The Covid-19 Recovery and Beyond: tracktheeconomy.ac.uk’, a project using Fable’s data.

06 December 2021

Partner research

Fable Data on the UK fuel shortage: spend surged across Great Britain, but not Northern Ireland

London – Sep 30, 2021 – Fable Data, the European transaction data platform based in London, has today released figures that show spending at UK petrol stations almost doubled during the peak of the crisis last Friday. Fable Data has analysed daily spending last week, using anonymised spend data from its panel of millions of...

21 October 2021

Market Insights

10 Fable Data learnings from the payments and Fintech industry

At Fable Data we have engaged with 250 EU Fintechs and banks over the past 2 years, here are a few things we have learnt… Crowdfunding is an increasingly common source of fundraising alongside traditional institutional investment, as Fintechs capialise on their customer databases and brand strength. The cash economies of Europe, principally Italy and...

27 September 2021

Market Insights

Amazon ‘roll-up’ businesses raise billions in fight for ascendancy

According to Fable Data, which tracks credit card transactions, UK online retail spend is down about 40 percentage points since non-essential shops were allowed to reopen on April 12. This compares with an increase in spend of 45 percentage points for physical stores over the same period.

03 September 2021

Press

Britons are persisting with splashing the cash, say economists

In the week to August 15, bank transactions tracked by Fable Data recorded spending 7 per cent above the same period last year, when it was boosted by the government’s “eat out to help out” meal subsidy scheme.

23 August 2021

Press

Economists pinpoint UK local authorities in greatest need of support post-Covid-19 – new research

Academics at the University of Nottingham partnered with Experian, Fable Data and Huq to source data from consumer and company credit files, transaction-level data on consumer spending and geolocation. These granular data sources allow the researchers to track, at the local authority level, consumer and business financial distress; measures of how much people travel; and consumer spending.

23 July 2021

Press

Words to Vectors

Manually tagging millions of rows of transactions with their correct merchant group is extremely time consuming and costly, which is why we train models to do this job for us but how does a computer understand text? Enter the world of word embedding, which revolves around representing words as vectors. Table shows ‘petrol’ in two...

19 July 2021

Data Science

Nervousness over new Covid wave stalls UK economic recovery

Consumers visited and spent less in UK shops, bars and restaurants in June, according to new data, suggesting the economic recovery lost momentum following a rise in Covid-19 infections. Avinash Srinivasan, analyst at Fable Data, said that high street spending in particular “has continued to track lower in recent weeks”.

07 July 2021

Press

UK Food Delivery: what can customer cohorts tell us about behaviour trends?

We recently shared how our data is providing early and predictive signs that growth in Food Delivery spend remains elevated. While spend remains relatively high versus pre-pandemic levels, we can look at a number of underlying customer metrics to help unpack the reasons for the improvement. This week we look at how customer cohort analysis...

24 June 2021

Market Insights

UK Food Delivery: Our latest insights on whether consumer growth will slow post-lockdown

While much of the UK hospitality industry has suffered since lockdowns began in March last year, Food Delivery has seen spend accelerate, along with the Grocery sector. Since April 2021, Food Delivery spend remains elevated even post-lockdown and with the opening of pubs and restaurants. Food Delivery spend is now up over 150% vs the...

24 June 2021

Market Insights

Eurozone economy edges back towards pre-pandemic norms

Consumers in the eurozone are flocking back to bars and restaurants, booking holidays and travelling to work again, according to unofficial data that suggest pre-pandemic patterns of economic activity are re-emerging. In Germany, restaurant bookings and consumer spending are both higher than their levels in June 2019, according to OpenTable and Fable Data, which tracks bank transactions.

22 June 2021

Press

Leading universities team with Fable Data

Fable Data team with leading academic partners to develop insights. Our academic partners at Chicago Booth and Nottingham Universities issued some interesting research on UK local lockdowns, using Fable Data. Their findings support the effectiveness of local lockdowns in controlling virus infection rates, while protecting the economy. They found a correlation of >90% between data...

13 June 2021

Market Insights

First week of indoor service sees spending up on 2019 levels

Spending in UK pubs spiked 28% on 2019 trading levels for the first week of indoor trading. Consumers were keen to get back indoors, transaction data from Fable has revealed, with a 28% growth in spend in the week 17 May to 23 May, compared to the same week in 2019.

01 June 2021

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Growth in UK economic activity drops to 10-month low, survey finds

Covid curbs will have limited impact on UK recovery, say economists

Earnest Research and Fable Data ‘Spending in a Pandemic across the US, UK, and Germany’

Bank of International Settlements ‘Data Science in Central Banking’ Workshop

John Gathergood, Fabian Gunzinger, Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Edika Quispe-Torreblanca, Neil Stewart ‘Levelling Down and the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Uneven Regional Recovery in UK Consumer Spending’

University of Nottingham ‘Track the Economy’ Dashboard

John Gathergood and Benedict Guttman-Kenney ‘The English Patient: Evaluating Local Lockdowns Using Real-Time COVID-19 & Consumption Data’

Economic Centre for Excellence ‘Data After COVID-19’ Conference

Fable Data on the UK fuel shortage: spend surged across Great Britain, but not Northern Ireland

10 Fable Data learnings from the payments and Fintech industry

Amazon ‘roll-up’ businesses raise billions in fight for ascendancy

Britons are persisting with splashing the cash, say economists

Economists pinpoint UK local authorities in greatest need of support post-Covid-19 – new research

Words to Vectors

Nervousness over new Covid wave stalls UK economic recovery

UK Food Delivery: what can customer cohorts tell us about behaviour trends?

UK Food Delivery: Our latest insights on whether consumer growth will slow post-lockdown

Eurozone economy edges back towards pre-pandemic norms

Leading universities team with Fable Data

First week of indoor service sees spending up on 2019 levels

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