Observability in Finance
Observability in Finance

Author: Brindha Priyadarshini Jeyaraman

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 935551977X

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Observe, optimize, and transform in finance KEY FEATURES ● Learn observability basics in finance. ● Monitor financial data with logs and alerts and improve data security. ● Identify the key metrics for financial oversight. ● Use new tech for financial observability. DESCRIPTION This book explains the role of observability in the finance sector, showing how new technologies can help monitor and manage financial systems more effectively. It outlines the use of real-time data monitoring, Machine Learning, and cloud computing to enhance the efficiency of financial operations and ensure they meet regulatory standards. The chapters guide you through the process of setting up systems to track financial activities accurately, analyze market trends, and predict future challenges to keep operations secure and competitive. It offers clear explanations of how these technologies can help finance professionals make better decisions and manage risks proactively. Designed for finance professionals looking to update their technical skills, this book provides practical guidance on adopting modern observability tools and practices. It will help you understand how to apply these technologies to increase transparency and strengthen the resilience of financial operations in a constantly evolving industry. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Implement effective data monitoring strategies in finance. ● Use Machine Learning to enhance financial risk assessment. ● Develop robust compliance frameworks using observability tools. ● Apply real-time analytics for quicker financial decision-making. ● Integrate predictive analytics for forward-looking financial insights. ● Understand and deploy distributed tracing for financial operations. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is ideal for financial professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of observability. It is also suitable for IT specialists in finance who wish to advance their skills in modern observability tools and practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Fundamentals of Observability 3. Monitoring and Logging for Financial Data 4. Tracing and Correlation in Finance 5. Metrics and Key Performance Indicators for Finance 6. Real-time Monitoring and Alerting in Finance 7. Observability for Algorithmic Trading and Market Data 8. Compliance and Regulatory Considerations 9. Advanced Techniques: Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics 10. Organizational Culture and Collaboration 11. Case Studies and Best Practices Observability 12. The Future of Observability in Finance 13. The Horizon of Financial Observability

Mathematical Control Theory and Finance
Mathematical Control Theory and Finance

Author: Andrey Sarychev

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 354069532X

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Control theory provides a large set of theoretical and computational tools with applications in a wide range of ?elds, running from ”pure” branches of mathematics, like geometry, to more applied areas where the objective is to ?nd solutions to ”real life” problems, as is the case in robotics, control of industrial processes or ?nance. The ”high tech” character of modern business has increased the need for advanced methods. These rely heavily on mathematical techniques and seem indispensable for competitiveness of modern enterprises. It became essential for the ?nancial analyst to possess a high level of mathematical skills. C- versely, the complex challenges posed by the problems and models relevant to ?nance have, for a long time, been an important source of new research topics for mathematicians. The use of techniques from stochastic optimal control constitutes a well established and important branch of mathematical ?nance. Up to now, other branches of control theory have found comparatively less application in ?n- cial problems. To some extent, deterministic and stochastic control theories developed as di?erent branches of mathematics. However, there are many points of contact between them and in recent years the exchange of ideas between these ?elds has intensi?ed. Some concepts from stochastic calculus (e.g., rough paths) havedrawntheattentionofthedeterministiccontroltheorycommunity.Also, some ideas and tools usual in deterministic control (e.g., geometric, algebraic or functional-analytic methods) can be successfully applied to stochastic c- trol.

Financial Data Engineering
Financial Data Engineering

Author: Tamer Khraisha

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2024-10-09

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 1098159950

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Today, investment in financial technology and digital transformation is reshaping the financial landscape and generating many opportunities. Too often, however, engineers and professionals in financial institutions lack a practical and comprehensive understanding of the concepts, problems, techniques, and technologies necessary to build a modern, reliable, and scalable financial data infrastructure. This is where financial data engineering is needed. A data engineer developing a data infrastructure for a financial product possesses not only technical data engineering skills but also a solid understanding of financial domain-specific challenges, methodologies, data ecosystems, providers, formats, technological constraints, identifiers, entities, standards, regulatory requirements, and governance. This book offers a comprehensive, practical, domain-driven approach to financial data engineering, featuring real-world use cases, industry practices, and hands-on projects. You'll learn: The data engineering landscape in the financial sector Specific problems encountered in financial data engineering The structure, players, and particularities of the financial data domain Approaches to designing financial data identification and entity systems Financial data governance frameworks, concepts, and best practices The financial data engineering lifecycle from ingestion to production The varieties and main characteristics of financial data workflows How to build financial data pipelines using open source tools and APIs Tamer Khraisha, PhD, is a senior data engineer and scientific author with more than a decade of experience in the financial sector.

Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance
Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance

Author: Ashwin Rao

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-12-16

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1000801055

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Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance aims to demystify Reinforcement Learning, and to make it a practically useful tool for those studying and working in applied areas — especially finance. Reinforcement Learning is emerging as a powerful technique for solving a variety of complex problems across industries that involve Sequential Optimal Decisioning under Uncertainty. Its penetration in high-profile problems like self-driving cars, robotics, and strategy games points to a future where Reinforcement Learning algorithms will have decisioning abilities far superior to humans. But when it comes getting educated in this area, there seems to be a reluctance to jump right in, because Reinforcement Learning appears to have acquired a reputation for being mysterious and technically challenging. This book strives to impart a lucid and insightful understanding of the topic by emphasizing the foundational mathematics and implementing models and algorithms in well-designed Python code, along with robust coverage of several financial trading problems that can be solved with Reinforcement Learning. This book has been created after years of iterative experimentation on the pedagogy of these topics while being taught to university students as well as industry practitioners. Features Focus on the foundational theory underpinning Reinforcement Learning and software design of the corresponding models and algorithms Suitable as a primary text for courses in Reinforcement Learning, but also as supplementary reading for applied/financial mathematics, programming, and other related courses Suitable for a professional audience of quantitative analysts or data scientists Blends theory/mathematics, programming/algorithms and real-world financial nuances while always striving to maintain simplicity and to build intuitive understanding To access the code base for this book, please go to: https://github.com/TikhonJelvis/RL-book.

Finance, Accounting and Law in the Digital Age
Finance, Accounting and Law in the Digital Age

Author: Nadia Mansour

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-11

Total Pages: 799

ISBN-13: 303127296X

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This book focuses on understanding Innovation in the Financial Services Sector. The collection of contributions gathered in the book highlights the importance of technology contexts that pertain to Finance, accounting, and the law arena. The respective chapters address topics such as Economic development, social entrepreneurship, Online Behaviour, Digital entrepreneurship, and Islamic banks. All contributions are based on the latest empirical and theoretical research and provide key findings and concrete recommendations for scholars, entrepreneurs, organizations, and policymakers.

Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data
Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data

Author: Abdol S. Soofi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1461509319

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Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data brings together a coherent and accessible set of chapters on recent research results on this topic. To make such methods readily useful in practice, the contributors to this volume have agreed to make available to readers upon request all computer programs used to implement the methods discussed in their respective chapters. Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students studying complex systems in finance, biology, and physics, as well as those applying such methods to nonlinear time series analysis and signal processing.

A Game Theory Analysis of Options
A Game Theory Analysis of Options

Author: Alexandre C. Ziegler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-02

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3540246908

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Modern option pricing theory was developed in the late sixties and early seventies by F. Black, R. e. Merton and M. Scholes as an analytical tool for pricing and hedging option contracts and over-the-counter warrants. How ever, already in the seminal paper by Black and Scholes, the applicability of the model was regarded as much broader. In the second part of their paper, the authors demonstrated that a levered firm's equity can be regarded as an option on the value of the firm, and thus can be priced by option valuation techniques. A year later, Merton showed how the default risk structure of cor porate bonds can be determined by option pricing techniques. Option pricing models are now used to price virtually the full range of financial instruments and financial guarantees such as deposit insurance and collateral, and to quantify the associated risks. Over the years, option pricing has evolved from a set of specific models to a general analytical framework for analyzing the production process of financial contracts and their function in the financial intermediation process in a continuous time framework. However, very few attempts have been made in the literature to integrate game theory aspects, i. e. strategic financial decisions of the agents, into the continuous time framework. This is the unique contribution of the thesis of Dr. Alexandre Ziegler. Benefiting from the analytical tractability of contin uous time models and the closed form valuation models for derivatives, Dr.

Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices
Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices

Author: Syed Ali Raza

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1804556807

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Entrepreneurship and Green Finance Practices focuses on critical issues such as the role of Green Financing in Green Entrepreneurship in Asian Countries and looks for the mechanisms that can help in idea-generation and the launching of successful Green Start-ups.

The Theory of Corporate Finance
The Theory of Corporate Finance

Author: Jean Tirole

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1400830222

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"Magnificent."—The Economist From the Nobel Prize–winning economist, a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of corporate finance Recent decades have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations—equity, debt, and valuation—today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this progress has left in its wake a jumbled array of concepts and models that students are often hard put to make sense of. Here, one of the world's leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Filling a major gap in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics. Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today's key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing; the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers; the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management; and the design of managerial incentive packages. He weaves empirical studies into the book's theoretical analysis. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions. Setting a new milestone in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance will be the authoritative text for years to come.

Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis
Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis

Author: Edwin J. Elton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 1118469941

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Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, 9th Editionexamines the characteristics and analysis of individual securities, as well as the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. It stresses the economic intuition behind the subject matter while presenting advanced concepts of investment analysis and portfolio management. The authors present material that captures the state of modern portfolio analysis, general equilibrium theory, and investment analysis in an accessible and intuitive manner.