arXiv · arXiv · 2025
As decentralized finance (DeFi) evolves, distinguishing between user behaviors - liquidity provision versus active trading - has become vital for risk modeling and on-chain reputation. We propose a behavioral scoring framework for Uniswap that assigns two complementary scores: a Liquidity Provision Score that assesses strategic liquidity contributions, and a Swap Behavior Score that reflects trading intent, volatilit…
Dhanashekar Kandaswamy, Ashutosh Sahoo, Akshay SP, Gurukiran S, Parag Paul
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
Bankruptcy is a low-frequency but high-impact corporate event, making early risk identification important for creditors, investors, regulators, and risk managers. Traditional bankruptcy-prediction models rely primarily on accounting ratios, but these measures may reflect financial deterioration only after it appears in reported financial statements. Narrative disclosures in annual 10-K filings may therefore provide i…
Zhen Zhang, Moxuan Zheng, Tongchen Zhang, Luyun Lin, Yiqing Wang
arXiv · arXiv · 2020
We discuss and extend a powerful, geometric framework to represent the set of portfolios, which identifies the space of asset allocations with the points lying in a convex polytope. Based on this viewpoint, we survey certain state-of-the-art tools from geometric and statistical computing in order to handle important and difficult problems in digital finance. Although our tools are quite general, in this paper we focu…
Apostolos Chalkis, Emmanouil Christoforou, Ioannis Z. Emiris, Theodore Dalamagas
arXiv · arXiv · 2018
The analysis of the intraday dynamics of correlations among high-frequency returns is challenging due to the presence of asynchronous trading and market microstructure noise. Both effects may lead to significant data reduction and may severely underestimate correlations if traditional methods for low-frequency data are employed. We propose to model intraday log-prices through a multivariate local-level model with sco…
Giuseppe Buccheri, Giacomo Bormetti, Fulvio Corsi, Fabrizio Lillo
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
ESG-aware portfolio optimization is increasingly important for sustainable capital allocation, yet most learning-based methods still operationalize ESG by appending static scores to the policy observation or reward. This creates a mismatch for sequential control: ESG scores are noisy, provider-dependent, low-frequency, and temporally misaligned with sequential portfolio decisions, while financial evidence suggests th…
Xin Li, Yan Ke, Longbing Cao
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
ForesightFlow is an Information Leakage Score (ILS) framework for detecting informed trading on decentralized prediction markets. For an event-resolved binary market, the score quantifies the fraction of the terminal information move priced in before the public news event. Three operational scope conditions (edge effect, non-trivial total move, anchor sensitivity) are stated as preconditions for interpretation. The s…
Maksym Nechepurenko
arXiv · arXiv · 2026
This paper examines the computational complexity of the \emph{Core Identification Problem} (CIP) in one-sided matching markets governed by the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm. The central contribution is a formal complexity separation: this paper proves that identifying which agents receive a core allocation is strictly easier than computing the full TTC allocation. Specifically, we show that CIP can be solved in …
Irene Aldridge
arXiv · arXiv · 2025
We study dynamic data generation and its application to model-free dynamic portfolio selection. Existing score-based diffusion models are typically designed to learn a static data distribution, whereas dynamic decision problems require generated trajectories that preserve the sequential information structure of the underlying process and support conditional sampling. To address this gap, we develop an adaptive score-…
Ahmad Aghapour, Erhan Bayraktar, Fengyi Yuan
arXiv · arXiv · 2024
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a financial ecosystem without centralized controlling organization, has introduced a new paradigm for lending and borrowing. However, its capital efficiency remains constrained by the inability to effectively assess the risk associated with each user/wallet. This paper introduces the 'On-Chain Credit Risk Score (OCCR Score) in DeFi', a probabilistic measure designed to quantify the credi…
Rik Ghosh, Arka Datta, Vidhi Aggarwal, Sudipan Sinha, Rajdeep Sengupta
arXiv · arXiv · 2024
Credit scores are critical for allocating consumer debt in the United States, yet little evidence is available on their performance. We benchmark a widely used credit score against a machine learning model of consumer default and find significant misclassification of borrowers, especially those with low scores. Our model improves predictive accuracy for young, low-income, and minority groups due to its superior perfo…
Stefania Albanesi, Domonkos F. Vamossy
arXiv · arXiv · 2023
Neural SDEs are continuous-time generative models for sequential data. State-of-the-art performance for irregular time series generation has been previously obtained by training these models adversarially as GANs. However, as typical for GAN architectures, training is notoriously unstable, often suffers from mode collapse, and requires specialised techniques such as weight clipping and gradient penalty to mitigate th…
Zacharia Issa, Blanka Horvath, Maud Lemercier, Cristopher Salvi
arXiv · arXiv · 2021
Cryptocurrencies (CCs) become more interesting for institutional investors' strategic asset allocation and will be a fixed component of professional portfolios in future. This asset class differs from established assets especially in terms of the severe manifestation of statistical parameters. The question arises whether CCs with similar statistical key figures exist. On this basis, a core market incorporating CCs wi…
Christoph J. Börner, Ingo Hoffmann, Jonas Krettek, Lars M. Kürzinger, Tim Schmitz
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2026
We propose a microstructural model for the order flow in financial markets that distinguishes between {\it core orders} and {\it reaction flow}, both modeled as Hawkes processes. This model has a natural scaling limit that reconciles a number of salient empirical properties: persistent signed order flow, rough trading volume and volatility, and power-law market impact. In our framework, all these quantities are pinne…
Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Youssef Ouazzani Chahdi, Mathieu Rosenbaum, Grégoire Szymanski
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2023
We study how to unwind stochastic order flow with minimal transaction costs. Stochastic order flow arises, e.g., in the central risk book (CRB), a centralized trading desk that aggregates order flows within a financial institution. The desk can warehouse in-flow orders, ideally netting them against subsequent opposite orders (internalization), or route them to the market (externalization) and incur costs related to p…
Marcel Nutz, Kevin Webster, Long Zhao
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2011
Asset liquidity in modern financial markets is a key but elusive concept. A market is often said to be liquid when the prevailing structure of transactions provides a prompt and secure link between the demand and supply of assets, thus delivering low costs of transaction. Providing a rigorous and empirically relevant definition of market liquidity has, however, provided to be a difficult task. This paper provides a c…
Alexandros Gabrielsen, Massimiliano Marzo, Paolo Zagaglia
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2026
Institutional crossing platforms face a hidden-information problem: investors value trades as portfolios, but liquidity discovery is typically organized around individual securities. We model portfolio crossing as limited-communication preference elicitation over signed portfolio trades. The platform first uses price-directed demand queries to search the portfolio space and then verifies selected packages through val…
Yoontae Hwang
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2025
In financial trading, large language model (LLM)-based agents demonstrate significant potential, but their decisions can be sensitive to noisy and non-stationary market information. We propose ContestTrade, a multi-agent trading system with an internal competitive mechanism inspired by institutional investment workflows. The system consists of two specialized teams: (1) a Data Team that processes and condenses massiv…
Li Zhao, Rui Sun, Zuoyou Jiang, Bo Yang, Yuxiao Bai
arXiv · arXiv q-fin · 2019
This paper acts as a collection of various trading strategies and useful pieces of market information that might help to implement such strategies. This list is meant to be comprehensive (though by no means exhaustive) and hence we only provide pointers and give further sources to explore each strategy further. To set the stage for this exploration, we consider the factors that determine good and bad trades, the noti…
Ravi Kashyap