METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING AND CONSTRUCTING MERCHANT COMMUNITIES BASED ON FINANCIAL TRANSACTION DATA

Systems and methods may be used to generate and use a merchant community graph generated based on merchant financial transaction data. Connections between merchants and other data within the merchant community graph can be used to detect fraud, target product offerings and or other advertisements, detect similar communities, generate dynamic attributes that may be used to develop machine learning models, and develop new user interfaces (UIs) and other features of an information service.