Technical paper/Machine learning
Alternatives to deep neural networks in finance
Two methods to approximate complex functions in an explainable way are presented
An effective credit rating method for corporate entities using machine learning
The authors propose a new method to design credit risk rating models for corporate entities using a meta-algorithm which exploits information embedded in expert-assigned credit ratings to rank customers.
Exploring the equity–bond relationship in a low-rate environment with unsupervised learning
The authors apply k-means clustering to low interest rate periods in order to analyze the equity hedging property of government bonds.
An end-to-end deep learning approach to credit scoring using CNN + XGBoost on transaction data
The authors find that machine learning methods can generate satisfactorily performing credit score models based on data from the 90-days prior to the score date, where traditional models can perform poorly.
Semi-analytic conditional expectations
A data-driven approach to computing expectations for the pricing and hedging of exotics
Dynamically controlled kernel estimation
An accurate data-driven and model-agnostic method to compute conditional expectations is presented
Customer churn prediction for commercial banks using customer-value-weighted machine learning models
In this paper the authors propose a framework to address the issue of customer churn prediction, and they quantify customer values with the use of an improved customer value model.
Probabilistic machine learning for local volatility
In this paper, the authors propose to approach the calibration problem of local volatility with Bayesian statistics to infer a conditional distribution over functions given observed data.
Multi-horizon forecasting for limit order books
A multi-step path is forecast using deep learning and parallel computing
Forecasting natural gas price trends using random forest and support vector machine classifiers
In this paper, different machine learning approaches are applied to forecasting future yearly price trends in the natural gas Title Transfer Facility market in the Netherlands.
Forecasting consumer credit recovery failure: classification approaches
This study proposes an advanced credit evaluation method for nonperforming consumer loans, which may serve as a new investment opportunity in the post-pandemic era.
A survey of machine learning in credit risk
This paper surveys the impressively broad range of machine learning methods and application areas for credit risk.
Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review consistent yield curve stress testing: from Nelson–Siegel to machine learning
This paper develops different techniques for interpreting yield curve scenarios generated from the FRB’s annual CCAR review.
Axes that matter: PCA with a difference
Differential PCA is introduced to reduce the dimensionality in derivative pricing problems
NLP and transformer models for credit risk
News feeds are factored into models to predict credit events
An interpretable Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) neural network model for portfolio loss forecasting and stress testing
This paper proposes an interpretable nonlinear neural network model that translates business regulatory requirements into model constraints.
Fast pricing of American options under variance gamma
This research develops a new fast and accurate approximation method, inspired by the quadratic approximation, to get rid of the time steps required in finite-difference and simulation methods, while reducing error by making use of a machine learning…
What can we learn from what a machine has learned? Interpreting credit risk machine learning models
This paper studies a few popular machine learning models using LendingClub loan data, and judges these on performance and interpretability
Goal-based wealth management with reinforcement learning
A combination of machine learning techniques provides multi-period portfolio optimisation
Generating financial markets with signatures
Signatures can provide the synthetic data to train deep hedging strategies
A general framework for the identification and categorization of risks: an application to the context of financial markets
This paper is, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the first to develop an algorithm-based and generally applicable framework that generates an extensive and integrated identification and categorization scheme of certain risks by using text mining and…
Using payments data to nowcast macroeconomic variables during the onset of Covid-19
Economic prediction during a crisis is challenging because of the unprecedented economic impact of such an event, which increases the unreliability of traditionally used linear models that employ lagged data. The authors help to address this challenge by…
Gradient boosting for quantitative finance
In this paper, the authors discuss how tree-based machine learning techniques can be used in the context of derivatives pricing.
From use cases to a big data benchmarking framework in clearing houses and exchanges
In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework that links the technical and business benchmarks in the domain of clearing houses and securities exchanges.