Derivative pricing under complex market conditions requires valuation frameworks capable of capturing multiple and interacting sources of uncertainty that are not adequately represented by conventional constant-volatility models.
Counterfactual reasoning is a key approach for enhancing the transparency, accountability and usability of algorithmic decision systems in finance. Machine learning models for credit assessment, fraud detection and investment analysis are used by financial institutions more than ever in addition to portfolio allocation, risk management/optimization automated trading.
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the ability of computational systems to interpret, synthesize, and generate information from large volumes of heterogeneous financial and economic text.
Financial decision-making relies more and more on heterogeneous information, dispersed in financial reports, news articles, numerical indicators or time series such as price movements of stocks (stock prices), trading volumes and even planetary signals.
Financial forecasting increasingly requires the integration of heterogeneous information sources, including textual disclosures, financial news, macroeconomic narratives, numerical market indicators, and time-series data.