Financial institutions use LSTM models to predict customer goals.
problem Predicting customer goals and actions in financial services.
method Used LSTM models with state-space graph embeddings on historical customer traces.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of LSTM models in predicting customer goals and actions.
Investor aims to meet financial goals with deadlines and target amounts, considering stock trading costs.
problem Goal-based portfolio selection with fixed transaction costs.
method Stochastic Perron's method to show value function is unique viscosity solution to quasi-variational inequalities. Existence of optimal strategy established.
result Optimal trading strategy differs significantly from frictionless case, revealing complex regions and strategies.
The paper optimizes insurance purchases for financial goals.
problem Maximizing probability of achieving financial goals with insurance.
method Analyzes deferred term insurance in deterministic and stochastic frameworks, considering income, consumption, and risky investment.
result Provides optimal insurance and investment strategies for achieving financial goals.
Deep RL optimizes goal-based investing strategies.
problem Optimizing investment strategies for achieving financial goals.
method Novel deep reinforcement learning approach for goal-based investing.
result Superior performance compared to benchmarks.
Vanguard uses AI to create personalized financial plans.
problem Challenges in choosing features for complex financial planning.
method Reinforcement learning for identifying optimal savings rates.
result Trains algorithms to model financial success trajectories.
Enhanced portfolio optimization for a financial goal with G-Learning and GIRL algorithms.
problem Maximize portfolio value while minimizing periodic contributions by a target date in volatile markets.
method Combines G-Learning and GIRL algorithms for dynamic portfolio optimization.
result Improved Sharpe Ratio from 0.42 to 0.483, demonstrating robust optimization in volatile markets.
Semi-analytical approach for optimal wealth management contributions.
problem Optimizing contributions to achieve a financial goal with uncertain returns.
method Controlled backward Kolmogorov equation and Schrodinger equation solution.
result Semi-analytical solutions for efficient frontiers in control space.
The goal of this article is to describe the concepts of system dynamics and its applications to the simulation modeling of financial institutions daily activity. The hybrid method of the re-engineering of banking business processes based upon combination of system dynamics, queuing theory and tools of ordinary differen…
Optimizes task allocation for financial analysts to balance work efficiency and well-being.
problem Balancing business goals with financial analysts' well-being in error resolution tasks.
method Used a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to optimize task allocation considering both business goals and analyst well-being.
result GA model outperforms existing methods and is applicable to various real-world scenarios.
Examines financial risks' impact on EU-15 economic growth.
problem The impact of financial risks on economic growth in EU-15.
method Panel estimated generalized least squares method with additional control variables.
result Financial risks significantly impact economic growth in EU-15.
In this dissertation, the main goal is visualisation of financial time series. We expect that visualisation of financial time series will be a useful auxiliary for technical analysis. Firstly, we review the technical analysis methods and test our trading rules, which are built by the essential concepts of technical ana…
Study examines how mergers and acquisitions affect Indian banks' financial performance and capital structure.
problem Impact of mergers and acquisitions on Indian banks' financial performance and capital structure.
method Statistical analysis using paired t-test on selected banks' annual reports.
result Mergers and acquisitions significantly impact financial performance and capital structure of Indian banks.
We consider the problem of how an individual can use term life insurance to maximize the probability of reaching a given bequest goal, an important problem in financial planning. We assume that the individual buys instantaneous term life insurance with a premium payable continuously. By contrast with Bayraktar et al. (…
Study develops a robust federated logistic regression for financial data analysis.
problem Analyzing financial data in a federated setting while protecting privacy and interpretability.
method Proposes a robust federated logistic regression framework balancing privacy, interpretability, and robustness.
result Demonstrates comparable performance to classical centralized algorithms on both IID and non-IID data, including outliers.
Paper uses agent-based simulation to identify investor types in financial markets.
problem Identifying investor types in real financial markets.
method Computational adaptation of PCA with agent-based simulation.
result A reduced set of investor models can approximate financial time series.
Unified LLM-agent with RL improves financial trading performance.
problem LLMs struggle with complex, multi-step financial tasks.
method Fusion of LLMs and gradient-based RL for policy optimization.
result Improves LLM performance in trading and other financial tasks.
We consider a diffusion approximation to an insurance risk model where an external driver models a stochastic environment. The insurer can buy reinsurance. Moreover, investment in a financial market is possible. The financial market is also driven by the environmental process. Our goal is to maximise terminal expected …
The main goal of this paper is presentation a modern axiomatic approach to financial arithmetic. At the first, the axiomatic financial arithmetic theory was proposed by Peccati who has introduced the axiomatic definition of the future value. This theory has been extensively developed in past years. Proposed approach to…
Investors use various asset allocation strategies to meet financial goals.
problem Finding the optimal asset allocation for individual investors is challenging.
method Conducted a benchmark study comparing traditional and machine learning approaches.
result Deep reinforcement learning models outperformed traditional methods in both bullish and bearish markets.
We determine the optimal strategies for purchasing term life insurance and for investing in a risky financial market in order to maximize the probability of reaching a bequest goal while consuming from an investment account. We extend Bayraktar and Young (2015) by allowing the individual to purchase term life insurance…
This paper proposes non-stationary factor models for financial stress in the UK.
problem Managing financial vulnerabilities in the UK's complex financial system.
method Creation of non-stationary factor models to capture financial stress.
result Non-stationary factor models can better capture financial stress, especially tail events.
Financial potential is an important part of enterprise activities. The technique of the enterprise's financial potential assessment is offered in the paper. It is presented by particular stages, where each stage is related to a certain task. The characteristics of the company's financial potential, based on the analysi…
We determine the optimal amount to invest in a Black-Scholes financial market for an individual who consumes at a rate equal to a constant proportion of her wealth and who wishes to minimize the expected time that her wealth spends in drawdown during her lifetime. Drawdown occurs when wealth is less than some fixed pro…
Recently, a novel adaptive wave model for financial option pricing has been proposed in the form of adaptive nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation [Ivancevic a], as a high-complexity alternative to the linear Black-Scholes-Merton model [Black-Scholes-Merton]. Its quantum-mechanical basis has been elaborated in [Ivancevi…
The paper examines how background risk affects portfolio selection and optimal reinsurance design.
problem Maximizing the probability of reaching a financial goal in the presence of background risk.
method Quantile formulation method to derive optimal solutions explicitly.
result The presence of background risk does not change the solution shape but alters the parameter values.
This tutorial introduces quantum computing for financial portfolio optimization.
problem Combinatorial portfolio optimization in financial markets.
method Application of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to portfolio optimization.
result Quality of combinatorial portfolio optimization solutions using QAOA on quantum simulator.
The paper introduces a new financial market for environmental indices to attract investors.
problem Inherent risks and sustainability concerns in environmental investments.
method Quantitative measures, econometric analysis, dynamic asset pricing tools, and financial options.
result Monetization and construction of country-specific environmental indices as dollar-denominated assets.
IITK wins FinSim 2020 task on financial hypernym detection.
problem Classifying financial terms into hypernym concepts in an external ontology.
method Used context-dependent and context-independent word embeddings (Word2vec and BERT) for classification.
result Ranked 1st based on mean rank and accuracy metrics.
The research presented in this work is motivated by some recent papers regarding hedging and valuation of financial securities subject to funding costs, collateralization and counterparty credit risk. Our goal is to provide a sound theoretical underpinning for some results presented in these papers by developing a unif…
AI bias arises from human-defined goals, not algorithmic flaws.
problem AI bias due to human-defined goals in LLMs.
method Purpose-conditioned cognition and revealing downstream use of LLM outputs.
result AI bias can be reduced by purpose-aware prompting but not fully by regularization.
The goal of this note is to illustrate the impact of a self-financing condition recently introduced by the authors. We present the analyses of two specific applications usually considered in more traditional models in financial mathematics. They include hedging European options with limit orders and the optimal behavio…
In this paper we consider a multivariate model-based approach to measure the dynamic evolution of tail risk interdependence among US banks, financial services and insurance sectors. To deeply investigate the risk contribution of insurers we consider separately life and non-life companies. To achieve this goal we apply …
Global catastrophe risk pools increase financial resilience by diversifying risk and including more countries.
problem Low- to middle-income countries rely heavily on foreign aid for recovery from extreme weather events, which is slow and uncertain.
method Developed a method to form global catastrophe risk pools that maximize risk diversification and select countries with low bilateral correlations or low shares in the pool risk.
result Global pooling increases risk diversification, lowers countries' shares in the pool risk, and increases the number of countries benefiting from risk pooling.
This paper optimizes decarbonized indices for financial tracking, balancing risk and environmental impact.
problem Balancing financial performance with environmental responsibilities in the context of climate risks.
method Develops decarbonized indices using mean-VaR and mean-ES optimization methods.
result Optimized indices reduce financial risk and carbon footprint, providing a balanced investment option.
Central banks play a key role in promoting sustainable finance.
problem Addressing global environmental and social challenges through sustainable finance.
method Analyzes central banks' influence on financial stability, economic growth, and sustainability.
result Central banks can promote sustainable finance through various strategies.
Financial advisors use KYC info but not client behaviours to guide investments.
problem Financial advisors use KYC info but not client behaviours to guide investments.
method Modified behavioural finance recency, frequency, monetary model for features; machine learning clustering algorithms.
result Trade and transaction frequency and volume are most informative for investor behaviours.
Managing patients with chronic diseases is a major and growing healthcare challenge in several countries. A chronic condition, such as diabetes, is an illness that lasts a long time and does not go away, and often leads to the patient's health gradually getting worse. While recent works involve raw electronic health re…
This study examines non-performing assets and cryptocurrencies in Japan.
problem Economic downturn led to non-performing loans, affecting financial institutions.
method Literature analysis to summarize development, issuance, supervision, etc.
result Cryptocurrencies are being regulated in Japan despite non-performing loans.
Hierarchical hidden Markov models predict market trends in financial time series.
problem Misinterpretation of short-term price fluctuations as long-term trend changes.
method Hierarchical hidden Markov models to capture both short- and long-term trends.
result Hierarchical models provide a comprehensive picture of financial markets.
Predict stock movement with news headlines using BERT embeddings.
problem Predicting stock price movement after financial news.
method Fine-Tuned Contextualized-Embedding Recurrent Neural Network (FT-CE-RNN) using BERT.
result Obtains state-of-the-art results on stock movement prediction task.
Simultaneous reproduction of all financial stylized facts is so difficult that most existing stochastic process-based and agent-based models are unable to achieve the goal. In this study, by extending the decision-making structure of Minority Game, we propose a novel agent-based model called "Speculation Game," for a b…
Modeling financial systemic risk with optimal control theory for stability.
problem Analyzing and stabilizing systemic risk in interconnected financial entities.
method Developed a theoretical model using optimal control theory, including steps for synthesizing stabilizing controllers.
result The model ensures that the H∞ norms of the mappings from disturbance to output are less than a predefined constant, stabilizing the system. In this paper we explore the specific role of randomness in financial markets, inspired by the beneficial role of noise in many physical systems and in previous applications to complex socio- economic systems. After a short introduction, we study the performance of some of the most used trading strategies in predicting…
ML system reduces overdraft fees for Mint users.
problem Overdraft fees burden Americans, leading to financial hardship.
method ML-driven overdraft early warning system (ODEWS).
result Saved $3 million in overdraft fees for Mint customers.
Study on decentralization in DAOs and its effect on financial efficiency in DeFi.
problem Understanding the impact of decentralization on financial efficiency in blockchain-based governance.
method Analysis using Gini coefficient as an inequality indicator, comparing ROI of token owners.
result Real decentralization affects financial efficiency positively in DeFi.
GC 2022 challenges real-time trend detection in financial tick data.
problem Efficiently detect trading trends in high-volume financial tick data.
method Real-time complex event processing of tick data, focusing on trend indicators and patterns.
result Participants must build reusable and practical solutions for real-life trading decisions.
In the past decade there has been a growing interest in agent-based econophysical financial market models. The goal of these models is to gain further insights into stylized facts of financial data. We derive the mean field limit of the econophysical model by Cross, Grinfeld, Lamba and Seaman (Physica A, 354) and show …
We educe a perspective on how best to regulate the bank of tomorrow in frames of debate launched by the International Centre for Financial Regulation and Financial Times. Our goal is to create a conceptual framework for policymakers and regulators to shape the international financial system in century of globalization …