RSI uses Bayesian inference to monitor compliance in rule-governed domains.
problem Structural obstacles in compliance monitoring, including unlabeled outcomes and selective withholding of evidence.
method Rule-State Inference (RSI) treats formalized rules as Bayesian priors and infers compliance states through mean-field variational inference.
result RSI delivers formal guarantees of adaptability, consistency, and convergence, validated on a synthetic enterprise benchmark.
RegTech improves compliance and risk management through tech solutions.
problem Increasing regulatory costs and reliance on tech for crisis management.
method Examining RegTech solutions and their benefits.
result RegTech will be a promising market due to rising compliance costs and tech reliance.
Regulatory compliance is an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business. Compliance officers responsible for maintaining adherence constantly struggle to keep up with the large amount of changes in regulatory requirements. Keeping up with the changes entail two …
VERAFI improves financial AI by verifying calculations and compliance.
problem Financial AI systems generate errors and violations during reasoning.
method VERAFI combines dense retrieval, reranking, and automated reasoning policies.
result VERAFI achieves 94.7% factual correctness, 81% relative improvement.
Monotonic neural additive models simplify machine learning for credit scoring.
problem Complex machine learning methods make models less transparent and fair.
method Introducing monotonic neural additive models that simplify neural networks while maintaining regulatory compliance.
result Monotonic neural additive models achieve similar accuracy to complex neural networks but are more transparent and fair.
Within the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment framework, the Solvency II directive introduces the need for insurance undertakings to have efficient tools enabling the companies to assess the continuous compliance with regulatory solvency requirements. Because of the great operational complexity resulting from each comple…
Research creates a taxonomy to bridge AI security and regulatory gaps.
problem Disciplinary disconnect between technical and legal teams in AI risk assessment.
method Developed an AI System Threat Vector Taxonomy with 9 domains and 53 sub-threats.
result Empirically validated and aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 controls and NIST AI RMF functions.
Survey examines agentic AI in finance, highlighting its autonomy and challenges.
problem Autonomous AI systems in finance and their implications.
method Systematic review of research, technical architectures, market applications, and governance frameworks.
result Agentic AI offers enhanced market efficiency but introduces new risks.
Examines AI regulation in finance, highlighting risks and gaps in current laws.
problem Rapid AI adoption in finance introduces risks and compliance challenges.
method Reviews current legislation, industry guidelines, and real-world use cases.
result Need for adaptive, technology-neutral policies to balance innovation and consumer protection.
New framework makes ML methods compliant with regulations.
problem Ensuring ML methods meet regulatory standards.
method InfoGram and Admissible Machine Learning framework.
result Redesigns ML methods for regulatory compliance.
Paper proposes a new GPR-HS framework for accurate VCV estimation in global equity indices.
problem Accurate forecasting of Volatility-Covariance Matrix (VCV) for regulatory processes.
method Hybrid Gaussian Process Regression-Historical Simulation (GPR-HS) framework.
result GPR-HS framework achieves regulatory compliance and outperforms static VaR benchmarks.
Framework audits synthetic datasets for trustworthiness across various use cases.
problem Assessing the trustworthiness of synthetic datasets and models.
method Holistic auditing framework focusing on bias, fidelity, utility, robustness, and privacy.
result Introduces a trustworthiness index and model selection process for controllable trade-offs.
DeFi TrustBoost uses blockchain and AI to assess small business loans.
problem Assessing small business loans from low-wealth households.
method Combines blockchain and Explainable AI to ensure confidentiality, compliance, and security.
result Tamper-proof auditing and on-chain/off-chain data storage for financial organizations.
Survey of financial foundation models for diverse applications.
problem Challenges in applying general-purpose FMs to financial tasks.
method Review of financial foundation models (FFMs) in three modalities.
result Emergence of FFMs designed specifically for finance.
Framework for AI customer support that protects privacy and reduces costs.
problem Privacy risks and compliance challenges in AI customer support.
method Zero-shot learning with large language models, real-time data anonymization, retrieval-augmented generation, robust post-processing.
result Reduces privacy risks and compliance costs while maintaining accuracy.
This paper tackles interpretability of LLMs in finance.
problem Complexity and lack of transparency of LLMs in finance.
method Mechanistic interpretability to understand LLM behavior.
result Demonstrates practical relevance of mechanistic interpretability in financial use cases.
New framework for adaptive clinical trials to address real-world challenges.
problem Real-world challenges in post-regulatory clinical trials.
method RFAN framework integrating regulatory constraints and treatment policy value.
result Empirical evaluation of RFAN's performance.
FinDiff generates synthetic financial data for regulatory tasks.
problem Sharing microdata for research due to privacy regulations.
method Diffusion model using embedding encodings for mixed modality financial data.
result FinDiff excels in generating high-fidelity, privacy-preserving synthetic financial data.
Paper proposes a method to identify and treat latent discriminating features in machine learning models.
problem Fairness issues in machine learning models trained on historical data containing sensitive attributes.
method A novel algorithm that identifies and treats latent discriminating features, agnostic of the learning algorithm.
result Experimental results show near-ideal fairness measurement compared to other methods.
Regulating crypto and DeFi for inclusive economic advancement.
problem Innovative financial systems pose challenges to traditional regulatory frameworks.
method Formulating regulatory structures that balance innovation and consumer protection.
result Regulatory frameworks are essential for leveraging crypto and DeFi for inclusive economic growth.
Formally verifies fairness and uniformity in financial market trades.
problem Ensuring fairness and uniformity in automated trading systems.
method Formal definition and verification in Coq proof assistant.
result Properties of double-sided auction mechanisms verified.
ML Compass helps organizations choose AI models that balance utility, cost, and compliance.
problem Selecting AI models that meet user utility, deployment costs, and compliance requirements.
method Develops ML Compass, a framework for constrained optimization over a capability-cost frontier, using internal measures and empirical data.
result ML Compass produces deployment-aware recommendations that differ from capability-only rankings, clarifying trade-offs between capability, cost, and safety.
Paper introduces RiskEmbed, a finetuned model for financial risk management.
problem Improving retrieval accuracy in financial question-answering systems.
method Curated dataset and finetuned BERT model for financial domain.
result RiskEmbed significantly outperforms general-purpose and financial embedding models.
This paper analyzes crypto white papers under MiCAR, highlighting NLP's role.
problem Regulatory changes in crypto white papers under MiCAR.
method Survey of existing NLP applications, analysis of MiCAR changes.
result NLP can assist in regulatory compliance and white paper analysis.
AI-driven framework improves enterprise financial audits and risk identification.
problem Manual auditing is inefficient and limited by data complexity and evolving fraud tactics.
method Machine learning algorithms (SVM, RF, KNN) applied to a dataset of audit project counts, violations, and fraud instances.
result Random Forest achieves best performance with F1-score of 0.9012, identifying fraud and compliance anomalies.
Hybrid approach protects privacy while analyzing smart meter data.
problem Privacy concerns in AMI data analysis under CPUC regulations.
method Anonymization, differential privacy, federated learning, synthetic data, cryptography.
result Comprehensive privacy-preserving analytics framework for AMI data.
This review analyzes RL in finance, highlighting its advantages and challenges.
problem Complex financial decision-making problems where traditional methods fail.
method Systematic review of 167 articles from 2017-2025, focusing on market making, portfolio optimization, and algorithmic trading.
result RL offers advantages over traditional methods, particularly in market making, but challenges remain.
This paper tackles post-trade allocation inefficiencies and presents a uniform return allocation method.
problem Return divergence among accounts after trade allocation.
method Systematic treatment of trade allocation risk, presenting a uniform return allocation method.
result Uniform allocation of returns irrespective of the number of accounts and trade sizes.
This research develops a new framework to measure AI investment returns considering both gains and risks.
problem Traditional ROI calculations fail to account for AI's dual impact on risk reduction and new exposures.
method Integrates ISO 42001 and regulatory exposure into a comprehensive financial framework using risk quantification methods.
result Accurate AI investment evaluation requires modeling both productivity gains and risk exposures.
In the recent years money laundering schemes have grown in complexity and speed of realization, affecting financial institutions and millions of customers globally. Strengthened privacy policies, along with in-country regulations, make it hard for banks to inner- and cross-share, and report suspicious activities for th…
New approach for estimating individual treatment effects in low compliance settings.
problem Estimating individual treatment effects in scenarios with low compliance.
method Proposes a new approach using Structural Causal Model and do-calculus to estimate Individual Prescription Effect (IPE) with asymptotic variance guarantees.
result Consistently improves state-of-the-art in low compliance settings.
New approach to algorithmic fairness for human-AI collaboration considers compliance with human decisions.
problem Current fairness approaches assume perfect human compliance, but real-world compliance is often poor.
method Defines compliance-robustly fair algorithms and proposes an optimization strategy to improve fairness.
result Algorithmic recommendations can improve fairness even if humans do not fully comply with fair algorithms.
Develops a continuous compliance index for Islamic equity screening.
problem Binary rulebooks lead to inconsistent compliance assessment of firms.
method Integrates six leading financial and business activity standards into a single continuous index.
result Firms with the same pass/fail label can differ significantly in compliance strength.
Model shows partial compliance can lead to less fair outcomes than expected.
problem How partial compliance affects fairness in competitive markets.
method Simple model of employment market, simulation to explore effects.
result Partial compliance can lead to less fair outcomes than expected.
This study improves early prediction of CPAP therapy compliance.
problem Predicting early compliance with CPAP therapy to improve patient outcomes.
method Built classifiers for compliance at three CPAP therapy follow-up points.
result Month 3 classifier achieved highest f1-score of 87% in cross-validation and test.
Tribuo integrates ML models with provenance in Java.
problem Tracking and ensuring ML models behave appropriately as they grow in number and complexity.
method Integrates model training, inference, type-safety, runtime checking, and automatic provenance recording into a single Java library.
result Automatic recording of full processing pipeline and training details inside the model object.
Explainable machine learning (ML) enables human learning from ML, human appeal of automated model decisions, regulatory compliance, and security audits of ML models. Explainable ML (i.e. explainable artificial intelligence or XAI) has been implemented in numerous open source and commercial packages and explainable ML i…
Motivated by clinical trials, we study bandits with observable non-compliance. At each step, the learner chooses an arm, after, instead of observing only the reward, it also observes the action that took place. We show that such noncompliance can be helpful or hurtful to the learner in general. Unfortunately, naively i…
RDLI integrates domain logic and context grounding to detect crypto anomalies under scarce labels.
problem Extreme label scarcity and evasion strategies in crypto networks.
method Relational Domain Logic Integration (RDLI) with Retrieval Grounded Context (RGC).
result RDLI outperforms GNN baselines by 28.9% in F1 score under 0.01% label scarcity.
Recently, along with the emergence of food scandals, food supply chains have to face with ever-increasing pressure from compliance with food quality and safety regulations and standards. This paper aims to explore critical factors of compliance risk in food supply chain with an illustrated case in Vietnamese seafood in…
Tokenized RWAs face liquidity issues despite promising markets.
problem Low trading volumes and limited investor participation in tokenized assets.
method Empirical analysis of tokenized real estate, private credit, and treasury funds.
result Most tokenized assets exhibit low transfer activity and limited secondary trading.
This study examines the execution phase of corporate share buy-backs, highlighting inefficiencies and costs.
problem Lack of research on share buy-back execution practices and associated costs.
method Comparative analysis of execution practices and fees charged to corporations and investors.
result Uncovered inefficiencies and frictional costs in share buy-back executions, advocating for transparency and fairness.
FSL-BDP models time-to-default without centralizing data, improving privacy mechanisms in federated settings.
problem Traditional credit risk models ignore default timing and violate data-protection rules.
method Federated Survival Learning with Bayesian Differential Privacy (FSL-BDP).
result FSL-BDP improves privacy mechanisms in federated settings, outperforming classical DP in most clients.
Combines IV and observational data to estimate CATEs with low compliance and unobserved confounding.
problem Estimating CATEs in personalized medicine and analytics with observational data and weak IVs.
method Two-stage framework: first learns biased CATEs from observational data, then corrects using IV data.
result Effective in estimating CATEs with low compliance and unobserved confounding.
Improved IV estimates by weighting on compliance reduces noise in treatment effect estimation.
problem Noisy IV estimates in settings with non-random treatment receipt.
method Weighting observations by estimated compliance, leveraging machine learning for compliance estimation.
result Compliance weighting reduces IV variance, improving precision of treatment effect estimates.
Bayesian framework improves financial risk management and compliance.
problem Uncertainty in financial risk forecasting and compliance.
method Integrated Bayesian analytics framework for precise uncertainty quantification.
result Proposed DLM model produces more accurate VaR estimates compared to baseline models.
Paper reviews the evolution of alpha from human insight to AI-powered systems.
problem Exceeding market benchmarks in finance.
method Five-stage taxonomy integrating representation learning, multimodal data fusion, and LLM agents.
result Unified framework for evaluating and developing next-gen alpha systems.
AI enhances ESG practices in finance, but requires careful consideration.
problem Regulatory pressures and stakeholder awareness drive ESG adoption.
method Industrial survey categorizing AI applications in ESG.
result AI improves analytical capabilities, risk assessment, and customer engagement.