Financial Services

Drive growth at enormous scale

A wrong branch closure, a missed fraud ring, a lost bid: location blind spots are expensive. CARTO closes them, live and secure, inside your own cloud.

CARTO AI Agent answering where to focus first-time buyer mortgage marketing, with a map of branches and product-fit widgets across the US Northeast

Collaboration without silos

Siloed GIS operations slow down decision-making. Break the location data silo so analytics teams and decision-makers work from the same source of truth.

Insights in real-time

Without access to real-time analytics, organizations fall behind changing conditions. Stay agile with dynamic dashboards and interactive maps with real-time visibility into your analytics.

Short learning curve

Ensuring data governance and compliance is painful with a fragmented tech stack. A unified platform allows you to securely share data, analyses and visualizations, all within a SOC2 Type II certified environment.

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Where financial services teams use CARTO

Branch Networks & Customer Growth

Every branch, ATM and loan is a location bet, and most still get placed on averages. With CARTO, model each move on live customer, competitor and risk data in your warehouse, and see the impact before you commit.

Bank branch network and customer growth analysis in CARTO

Investment Analysis & Due Diligence

Deal teams bid against rivals who see the same data, and slow project-based diligence makes it hard to win. CARTO lets you easily turn hundreds of location variables into repeatable analysis, so you size up targets, whitespace and trade areas faster and with more confidence.

Investment analysis and due diligence map in CARTO

Transaction & Cardholder Analysis

Card data tells you what people spend, but not where or why. Add the spatial context to every transaction to segment cardholders, cross-sell with precision and turn insights into products for merchants.

Credit card transaction and cardholder analysis in CARTO

Underwriting & Catastrophe Risk

Postcode averages hide where risk is piling up, so accumulation surprises you after the event. Map every policy at address level, and price and reinsure based on what’s really exposed.

Underwriting and catastrophe risk map in CARTO

Fraud Detection

Fraud hides in the places no single system looks, such as addresses, branches and transaction patterns. Use CARTO to put transactions, addresses and risk signals on one live map, and spot location anomalies before the losses mount.

Fraud detection map of transactions and risk signals in CARTO

ESG & Regulatory Compliance

Fragmented tools make it hard to meet ESG, financial inclusion, and regulatory reporting requirements. Take your spatial analytics cloud-native for auditable, accessible reporting that simplifies compliance and builds transparency.

CARTO AI Agent analyzing forest loss by country for ESG and deforestation compliance
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How it works

Spatial analysis where your data already lives

Moving sensitive data creates risk and delay. CARTO runs inside your cloud data warehouse, so nothing is copied or exported.
Specialist tools slow every new request. Create maps, apps, and workflows in CARTO, or describe them to an agent with CARTO for Agents and refine them in natural language.
Routine questions can pile up on the GIS team. Publish self-service experiences that answer them on demand, so the team can focus on questions requiring greater expertise.
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Frequently asked questions

Can financial firms run spatial analysis without moving customer data?

Yes. CARTO runs inside your cloud data warehouse under your permissions, so customer data never leaves your controls and every action is logged. CARTO is SOC 2 Type II certified. Learn about security.

How do banks use location analytics?

Banks use it to plan and consolidate branch and ATM networks, find the right neighborhoods for new customers, and see which loans sit in the path of floods or wildfire. See the branch network demo.

How can financial institutions detect fraud with location data?

Location adds context to every transaction, such as unusual distances, addresses shared by several accounts, and clusters of claims or chargebacks around one place. CARTO maps these signals live in your warehouse so analysts can investigate. Learn more about Fraud Detection.

How do investors use spatial analysis in due diligence?

Investors compare a target's sites, trade areas and competitors with demographic and market data to size up the opportunity before they bid. CARTO turns that into repeatable workflows, so each new deal starts from a proven analysis. Read how EQT does it.

What is location intelligence for financial services?

Location intelligence applies location data to financial decisions, such as where to place branches, how to price risk, where fraud clusters and which markets to enter. CARTO runs it in your own cloud data warehouse, so customer data never moves.

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