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Acquirer Intelligence Center (AIC)

Turn insights into competitive advantage

Empowering merchant acquirers with actionable portfolio insights for faster, data-driven decision making.

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State-of-the-art business intelligence

A web-based, self-service platform that gives acquirers and facilitators insights into merchant portfolio performance.

Self-serve analytics

Unlock the power of data with a centralized, fast and easy-to-use platform.

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Optimized data integration

Maximize performance and minimize risks through real-time data integration.

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Competitive benchmarks

Stay ahead of the competition by transforming data into a strategic advantage.

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Actionable insights

Identify key focus areas via newsletters, topic specific deep dives and detailed business reviews.

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I am really excited for the AIC tool and the data we can obtain from it. I think the platform is brilliant and quite powerful.

Senior Pricing Manager  Global Payments

Driving business outcomes across the enterprise

Enabling acquirers to optimize performance, reduce risks and uncover new growth opportunities.

Critical indicators

View key datasets including authentication, authorization, declines, fraud, chargebacks, interchange and digital.

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Centralized analytics

Democratize data access across the enterprise for a single source of truth.

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Data-driven alerts

Monitor specific business thresholds with system alerts and email notifications. 

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Flexible deep dives

Drill down on any KPI and analyze data by merchant category, time period, channel, geography and more.

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Rapid insights

Reduce time and resources required to generate performance insights via automatic data updates and an intuitive interface.

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Dedicated support

Receive best-in-class support and platform guidance via regular connects with our team of experts.

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Unleash your full data potential

Maximize merchant portfolio performance

Track overall business and individual merchant performance across key metrics, channels and competitive benchmarks.

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Proactively manage risk

Understand performance of high-risk categories and new payment flows to monitor chargeback and fraud risks.

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Determine cost optimization strategies

Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the current processing environment, monitor interchange and understand risk of attrition.

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Identify growth opportunities

Leverage merchant behavior and category insights to understand market needs and unlock expansion opportunities.

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Case study

An acquirer increased quarterly net approved spend by $6.8m


A leading U.S. acquirer needed to boost overall authorization spending and enhance approval rates. The acquirer used AIC to identify and understand the reasons for increased decline rates.

By working with merchants struggling with card-not-present authorization performance and identifying fraudulent activity causing declines, the acquirer saved $121k in fraud and transaction processing costs and increased quarterly net approved spend by $6.8m.

Optimize your portfolios

Covering all of your merchant portfolio needs

Mastercard’s merchant optimization solutions work in collaboration to target your specific portfolio management objectives.

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Acquiring Optimizer

Gain timely insights into threats and opportunities using data intelligence and segmentation.

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Smart Leads

Equip marketing and sales teams with merchant performance indicators for business expansion.

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