Financial planning based on contextual data
A financial planning system uses contextual data about a user to help create and modify a financial plan to achieve a financial goal. Financial goals can include money saving goals, investment goals, loan payment goals, and goals to purchase or rent goods, property and/or services. In some embodiments, the financial planning system can create a collaborative financial plan to create a financial plan for a group of people to achieve a shared financial goal. Contextual data, such as banking information, social network activity, past activity, preferences, etc., can be used to shape the financial plan to make it more effective and efficient. Banking accounts, social network accounts, loyalty program accounts, and others can be linked to the financial planning system to enable the financial planning system in gathering contextual background information.
1. A system, comprising:
a memory storing executable instructions; and
a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, which executes, or facilitates execution of, one or more of the executable instructions to at least:
search for contextual data related to a user identity;
organize the contextual data returned from search into profile data representing a user profile for the user identity;
classify the contextual data of the profile data using a set of metadata tags;
determine a relevancy of the contextual data to a financial goal associated with a plurality of user identities that associated with a plurality of users, including the user identity, wherein the financial goal is represented by financial data associated with the user identity based on a function of a relationship of the metadata tags to the financial goal; and
generate plan data representing a collaborative financial plan to achieve the financial goal for the plurality of user identities, wherein the collaborative financial plan is based at least in part on relevant contextual data determined from the profile data representing the user profile and at least in part on respective relative contributions for the plurality of user identities determined based at least in part on a financial interest in the financial goal.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the contextual data includes data representing a financial status of the user identity.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to:
monitor for a modification in the contextual data; and
update the plan data representing the collaborative financial plan based on the modification of the contextual data.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to send a notification to contact information associated with the user identity in response to the modification of the contextual data.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to receive an alert from a financial institution associated with the user identity.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the alert comprises a short message service message or an email message.
7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the alert includes information about a transaction history over a period of time.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to receive login information associated with the user identity.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to access financial institution user account data associated with the user identity based on the login information.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to collect at least some of the contextual data from social networking account data associated with the user identity.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes or facilitates the execution of the executable instructions to optimize an expense based at least in part on transaction data representing a transaction history of the user identity and the contextual data.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the financial interest in the financial goal is based on a financial benefit received in response to completion of the financial goal.
13. A tangible computer-readable storage device comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system including a processor to perform operations, comprising:
collecting contextual data related to a user identity;
generating profile data representing a user profile for a user identity based on the contextual data;
classifying the contextual data of the profile data using a set of metadata tags;
identifying a portion of the user profile that is relevant to a financial goal associated with a plurality of user identities that are associated with a plurality of users, including the user identity, wherein the financial goal is represented by financial data associated with the user identity, based on a function of a relationship of the metadata tags to the financial goal; and
generating plan data representing a collaborative financial plan to achieve the financial goal for the plurality of user identities, wherein the collaborative financial plan is based on the portion of the profile data of the user profile determined to be relevant to the financial goal and on respective relative contributions for the plurality of user identities determined based on a financial interest in the financial goal.
14. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 13 , the operations further comprising:
monitoring for a change in the contextual data; and
updating the plan data representing the collaborative financial plan based on the change in the contextual data in response to determining that the change in the contextual data has an effect on the plan data representing the collaborative financial plan.
15. The tangible computer-readable storage device of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise:
transmitting an alert to a mobile device or an email account associated with the user identity in response to the change being determined to be present in the contextual data.
16. A method, comprising:
searching, by a system comprising at least one processing device, for contextual data related to a user identity;
organizing, by the system, the contextual data returned from the searching into profile data representing a user profile for the user identity and classifying the contextual data of the profile data using a set of metadata tags;
determining, by the system, a relevancy of the contextual data to a financial goal associated with user identities that are associated with users, including the user identity, wherein the financial goal is represented by financial data associated with the user identity based on a function of a relationship of the metadata tags to the financial goal; and
generating, by the system, a plan data representing a collaborative financial plan to achieve the financial goal for the user identities, wherein the collaborative financial plan is based at least on relevant contextual data determined from the profile data representing the user profile, and on a relative contributions respectively for the user identities determined based at least on a financial interest in the financial goal.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
monitoring, by the system, for a change in the contextual data;
determining, by the system, that the change affects the plan data representing the collaborative financial plan; and
updating, by the system, the plan data representing the collaborative financial plan in response to the change in contextual data being determined to affect the plan data.
18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising transmitting, by the system, an alert to a mobile device or an email account associated with the user identity in response to the change being determined to be present in the contextual data.
19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising subscribing, by the system, to notifications from a data service of a financial institution using authentication information associated with the user identity, wherein the notifications include transaction information relating to transaction data representing a transaction history of an account associated with the user identity.
20. The method of claim 16 , wherein the searching for contextual data includes searching social networking account information of a social networking service associated with the user identity.