Method and system for providing financial performance data associated with a merchant

A computing device for providing financial performance data associated with a merchant, said computing device comprising one or more processors in communication with one or more memory devices, said computing device configured to:

• receive a request from a client computing device to provide financial performance data for at least a first merchant of a plurality of merchants;
• retrieve transaction data associated with the plurality of merchants from the one or more memory devices, wherein the transaction data is associated with payments processed through a payment network;
• determine a first value for one or more financial performance factors for the first merchant, based on the transaction data;
• determine a second value for at least one other merchant of the plurality of merchants for the one or more financial performance factors;
• compare the first value to the second value to determine at least one ranking of the first merchant relative to the plurality of merchants;
• and
• transmit the at least one ranking to the client computing device, in response to the request, without providing a name of the first merchant.

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, wherein when executed by a computing device having one or more processors in communication with one or more memory devices, the computer-executable instructions cause the computing device to:

• receive a request from a client computing device to provide financial performance data for at least a first merchant of a plurality of merchants;
• retrieve transaction data associated with the plurality of merchants from the one or more memory devices, wherein the transaction data is associated with payments processed through a payment network;
• determine a first value for one or more financial performance factors for the first merchant, based on the transaction data;
• determine a second value for at least one other merchant of the plurality of merchants for the one or more financial performance factors;
• compare the first value to the second value to determine at least one ranking of the first merchant relative to the plurality of merchants based on at least one financial performance factor;
• and
• transmit the at least one ranking to the client computing device, in response to the request, without providing a name of the first merchant.