FinanceKit - Any way to get merchant location info from transactions?

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Hi all — I’m building a Wallet-style transaction details view using FinanceKit and I’m running into a gap around merchant location.

What I’m seeing

FinanceKit gives me great core fields (amount, currency, status, dates, MCC, merchantName, transactionDescription), but I’m not seeing any address or place/location metadata on a Transaction.

For example, a small/local merchant where I can plausibly infer a single place:

Fetched transaction:
Transaction(
  id: 8D142B16-3E0E-40B8-945A-2E7C0CF65F1D,
  accountID: 14939CF4-DBC3-4A9D-8292-5FEA495B8461,
  transactionAmount: 47.24 USD,
  creditDebitIndicator: .debit,
  transactionDescription: "Local Dental Care",
  originalTransactionDescription: "Local Dental Care",
  merchantCategoryCode: 8021,
  merchantName: "Local Dental Care",
  transactionType: .pointOfSale,
  status: .booked,
  transactionDate: 2025-08-20 22:27:50 +0000,
  postedDate: 2025-08-21 11:22:06 +0000
)

Because this appears to be a single-location practice, I can usually resolve it to a place using MapKit search heuristics.

But for big-box chains, I don’t get enough signal to determine which store:

Fetched transaction:
Transaction(
  id: 3F8E9F74-7565-4D24-9038-8FD709184799,
  accountID: 14939CF4-DBC3-4A9D-8292-5FEA495B8461,
  transactionAmount: 441.77 USD,
  creditDebitIndicator: .debit,
  transactionDescription: "The Home Depot",
  originalTransactionDescription: "The Home Depot",
  merchantCategoryCode: 5200,
  merchantName: "The Home Depot",
  transactionType: .pointOfSale,
  status: .booked,
  transactionDate: 2023-12-27 23:07:02 +0000,
  postedDate: 2023-12-29 03:09:41 +0000
)

There’s no store number, address, phone, or any stable identifier. With hundreds of locations, I can’t deterministically choose a map pin or fetch the right brand assets.

What I’m trying to achieve

I’d like to replicate the Apple Wallet experience: show a small map snapshot and merchant visuals (logo/name that match Apple Maps / the Place Card) on the transaction detail screen. Without a location hint, I have to either:

Ask users to pick a store manually, or
Make a guess based on a coarse, app-defined region

…neither of which feels great.

Questions

Is there any way in FinanceKit today to access merchant location or a resolvable identifier (e.g., address, city/state, store number, Apple Maps place identifier, network merchant ID/MID, terminal ID, etc.)?
If not, can FinanceKit expose additional merchant metadata (even opt-in / privacy-preserving) to enable Wallet-like enrichment? A few examples that would unblock this:

merchantAddress (or components: street/city/region/postalCode/country)
merchantPhone (often unique per store)
merchantIdentifier (stable per physical location, e.g., network merchant ID / store number)
mapsPlaceURL or mapsPlaceIdentifier (linkage to the Apple Maps Place Card)
brandAssetURL (logo/brand reference similar to what Wallet shows)

With even one of the above, I could reliably:

Render an accurate map snapshot,
Fetch the correct brand assets, and
Avoid prompting the user or inferring via fuzzy search.

Context / constraints

I do not want to (and shouldn’t need to) request or monitor the user’s device location to resolve a merchant’s store location.
For small merchants, MapKit text search is often enough. For large chains, I need a store-level identifier.

If there’s an existing field or recommended approach I’m missing, I’d love pointers. If not, please consider this a feature request for richer merchant metadata in FinanceKit so developers can build Wallet-quality transaction details.

Thanks!

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