Innosuisse Innovation project on Reinforcement Learning in Finance successfully concluded
“The major winners will be financial services companies that embrace technology.” Alexander Peh, PayPal and Braintree Over the last few years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant attention as a framework for learning optimal decisions even in complex environments. Moreover, RL is currently considered one of the most promising research areas in machine learning and … Weiterlesen
Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance
The applicability of self-play algorithms to trading and forecasting financial markets
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.668465 Posth, Jan-Alexander; Kotlarz, Piotr Kamil; Hadji Misheva, Branka; Osterrieder, Jörg; Schwendner, Peter, 2021. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4(668465). The central research question to answer in this study is whether the AI methodology of Self-Play can be applied to financial markets. In typical use-cases of Self-Play, two AI agents play against each other in a … Weiterlesen
Employing explainable AI to optimize the return target function of a loan portfolio
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.693022 Gramespacher, Thomas; Posth, Jan-Alexander, 2021. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4(693022). In recent years, data science methods have been developed considerably and have consequently found their way into many business processes in banking and finance. One example is the review and approval process of credit applications, where they are employed with the aim to reduce … Weiterlesen
Employing explainable AI to optimize the return target function of a loan portfolio
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.693022 Gramespacher, Thomas; Posth, Jan-Alexander, 2021. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 4(693022). In recent years, data science methods have been developed considerably and have consequently found their way into many business processes in banking and finance. One example is the review and approval process of credit applications, where they are employed with the aim to reduce … Weiterlesen
Using Financial News Sentiment for Stock Price Direction Prediction
https://doi.org/10.3390/math10132156 Fazlija, Bledar, and Pedro Harder. 2022. Mathematics 10, no. 13: 2156. Using sentiment information in the analysis of financial markets has attracted much attention. Natural language processing methods can be used to extract market sentiment information from texts such as news articles. The objective of this paper is to extract financial market sentiment information … Weiterlesen
Innosuisse Innovation project on Deep Learning & Neuronal Networks: Selbstständige KI-Agenten zur Entwicklung von neuartigen Handelsstrategien im Asset Management auf Basis von Self-Play
Private Alpha Switzerland is a leading developer of investment strategies for asset management in Switzerland in the field of algorithm-based and AI-assisted investing. As an investment advisor, you are responsible for two fund products in this area. This opens up this highly sophisticated investment approach to a broad investor base. https://www.zhaw.ch/de/forschung/forschungsdatenbank/projektdetail/projektid/3345/
Innosuisse Innovation project on Advanced/AI-supported Rating Models for P2P systems
Our innovative idea is to provide a Proof of Concept concerning a superior and adaptive rating system applicable to both SME and personal lending, able to cope with low-quality, sparse data that is commonplace in the context of P2P lenders. If successful, we will have both a new methodology (how to deal with low-quality, sparse … Weiterlesen
Innosuisse Innovation project on Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Credit Risk Management
For Switzerland, the reputation of stable long-standing financial institutions has always represented a crucial advantage for the acquisition and retention of customers. However, as the financial service industry becomes more global, clients expect personalized offerings and inclusiveness of service which in turn requires lenders to rely extensively on alternative data and advanced modelling techniques. Swiss … Weiterlesen