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    <full_title>Financial Technology and Innovation</full_title>
    <abbrev_title>FinTechI</abbrev_title>
    <issn media_type="electronic">2836-5372</issn>
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     <year>2025</year>
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     <volume>5</volume>
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    <issue>1</issue>
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     <title>Credit-Card Engagement Segmentation for Embedded FinTech Product Strategy: Evidence from Expenditure Microdata</title>
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      <given_name>Samandarboy</given_name>
      <surname>Sulaymanov</surname>
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        <institution_name>Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan</institution_name>
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      <given_name>Olimjonov Abbosjon</given_name>
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        <institution_name>Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan</institution_name>
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     <jats:p>Digital card products create business value only when issued accounts translate into sustained, responsible use. This paper develops an expenditure-based segmentation model for embedded FinTech card strategy using a real credit-card micro-dataset. Average monthly card expenditure is treated as an observable engagement outcome and is examined alongside income, age, and home-ownership status. The empirical design combines descriptive portfolio profiling, robust regression, cross-validated prediction, and product-action mapping. The results show that income is the strongest observed driver of monthly spend, but the relationship is nonlinear and does not fully explain customer heterogeneity. A quartile-based segmentation separates low-use, developing-use, active-use, and premium-use customers, with mean monthly expenditure increasing from 39.92 to 666.35 across the four operating segments. The analysis argues that card engagement should be managed as a portfolio state rather than as a simple activation metric. The study contributes a transparent business-analytics framework that links observed card expenditure to embedded-finance decisions, including activation support, limit calibration, reward design, and repayment-aware engagement monitoring.</jats:p>
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     <year>2025</year>
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     <first_page>24</first_page>
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