Aggregation

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In general: any bringing together of parts or units to form a collective whole; in the case of data, to consolidate and thus reduce it.


Personal finance: Internet-related service, usually called account aggregation, that provides all-in-one convenience by consolidating on one web page information and service from various sources, such as your bank account, your brokerage account, and your credit cards.
Confidential access is gained by entering a user name and password.
Some banks offer account aggregation as a convenience to customers, usually free of charge.


Corporate finance: collecting and treating as one the investment proposals of different operating units.


Futures: combining of all the positions owned or controlled by a trader for reporting and compliance purposes.

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Marketing strategy designed to appeal to a broad base of consumers. Aggregation focuses on the universal desires of a population, and when used by marketers, assumes that consumers in a particular market all want the same thing and are all alike. Mass product distribution and mass marketing campaigns are key elements of an aggregation strategy. When a shampoo product is mass marketed as the lowest price shampoo on the market in the belief that low price is universally sought by consumers of shampoo, the marketing decisions are based on an aggregation strategy.

noun

A quantity accumulated: accumulation, amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, cumulation, gathering, mass. See collect/distribute.

This term refers to the conversion of political demands into alternative courses of action, usually by political parties. It formed part of the structural functionalist approach to the study of politics.

— Wyn Grant

A total of all the parts; the whole, the complete amount; also, to combine, as to aggregate several causes of action in a single suit, similarly, to aggregate many persons whose causes of action are closely related into a class action. See Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23. See joinder.

1. Used in corporate financial planning, aggregation is a process whereby a number of a firm's smaller projects are combined and treated as an individual project.

2. Used in futures markets, aggregation is a principal involving the combination of all future positions owned or controlled by a single trader or group of traders.

Investopedia Says:
1. This is a time saving accounting method for larger corporations. It helps consolidate resources and identify project costs efficiently.

2.The main purpose of aggregation is to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with regulations regarding the permitted levels of speculative limits for a single commodity.

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