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Decoding Shein – the fast fashion steamroller threatening the European status quo.

Decoding Shein – the fast fashion steamroller threatening the European status quo. How does Shein’s growth compare to the likes of e-commerce stalwart, Amazon? And which Fast Fashion staples are losing wallet share as a result of this growth across acquisition, retention and ACV? Shein’s rise to success in the fast fashion world is no...

07 March 2024

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Netflix: With ads or without ads? That is the question.

The latest view from Netflix’s top 5 European markets. Netflix’s introduction of a new ad-based subscription tier in October 2022 was the most dramatic strategy shift in years and it’s having a profound impact on their subscriber mix, as they also rethink their pricing strategy and review their legacy plans. Why is Europe so...

28 February 2024

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Fable Data informs University of Oxford accounting paper: Voluntary Disclosure Under Idiosyncratic Uncertainty

21 April 2023

Partner research

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Fable Data Informs New IMF Inflation Paper

Using Fable’s transaction data for the UK and Germany, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a Working Paper on changing consumption patterns, and the resulting inflation bias during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper uses Fable’s data to update the official inflation weights and quantify the resulting inflation bias, as official weights become outdated when...

27 January 2023

Partner research

IMF – The Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Credit Card Spending

Researchers at the IMF have published another working paper using Fable’s data. The paper demonstrates the advantages of having high-frequency data to help improve the identification of the effects of monetary policy. The differences are particularly noticeable when compared to more traditional data sources on consumption, which are usually subject to less frequent aggregation. Additionally,...

19 January 2023

Partner research

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Levelling Up: Designing Policy to Fit Places

Using Fable’s transaction data to obtain consumption trends at a local level and in real-time, researchers from the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Inclusive Financial Technology have published a report that rethinks the design of levelling up policy. They use a machine learning model to split local authorities across Britain into 6 clusters based on...

08 December 2022

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Fable’s Consumer Transaction Data Referenced in BIS/IFC Report

The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) /The Irving Fisher Committee (IFC) in collaboration with the Bank of Italy has just released its Bulletin on Data Science and Machine Learning in Central Banking. This includes a report on card based payments, and the unique emerging data science opportunities that card data can provide. The study references...

22 November 2022

Partner research

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CDO Magazine ‘Data for Good Global Summit 2022’

Hear Fable Data speak at CDO Magazine’s ‘Data for Good Summit’ 10 March 2022, on the topic of ‘Anonymised Transaction Data as a Force for Good’. We discussed our pro-bono work with the world’s leading economic and financial institutions. Watch the recording here.

22 March 2022

Partner research

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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

Growth figures don’t tell us what we really need to know about economy

Of more potential use is research from the likes of University of Nottingham professor John Gathergood and his colleagues using real time credit card spending figures from data firm Fable, giving a more recent picture of where the spending is happening. The authors rightly point out that with such surgical data on spending available – the Fable data is available with a one-day lag – the opportunity is there for the Government to offer surgical support with policies such as business rates relief.

09 February 2021

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Leading academics team up with Fable Data to examine the rising inequality in UK economic recovery

Our academic partners at Chicago Booth School of Business and Nottingham University have published their latest research into UK economic recovery in the second half of 2020. The research examines the economic impact across regions, highlighting the variations in consumer spending patterns and the unequal distributions of financial impact as a result of lockdown measures...

02 October 2020

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Decoding Shein – the fast fashion steamroller threatening the European status quo.

Netflix: With ads or without ads? That is the question.

Fable Data informs University of Oxford accounting paper: Voluntary Disclosure Under Idiosyncratic Uncertainty

Fable Data Informs New IMF Inflation Paper

IMF – The Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Credit Card Spending

Levelling Up: Designing Policy to Fit Places

Fable’s Consumer Transaction Data Referenced in BIS/IFC Report

CDO Magazine ‘Data for Good Global Summit 2022’

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

Growth figures don’t tell us what we really need to know about economy

Leading academics team up with Fable Data to examine the rising inequality in UK economic recovery

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