System and method for identifying mergers and acquisitions

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with logic, the logic operable when executed by a processor to:

• access business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the business transaction data including expenditures for each of the plurality of customers of the enterprise;
• determine, based on the business transaction data, a first customer of the plurality of customers having an increase in expenditures;
• determine, based on the business transaction data, a second customer of the plurality of customers having an decrease in expenditures corresponding to the increase in expenditures of the first customer;
• store data associating the first with the second customer.

A method, comprising:

• accessing business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the business transaction data including expenditures for each of the plurality of customers of the enterprise;
• determining, based on the business transaction data and using one or more processing modules, a first customer of the plurality of customers having an increase in expenditures;
• determining, based on the business transaction data and using the one or more processing modules, a second customer of the plurality of customers having an decrease in expenditures corresponding to the increase in expenditures of the first customer;
• storing data associating the first with the second customer.