FinTech Deep Learning in Financial Modeling
The last four decades saw the development of the financial derivatives valuation technology. Only a few practical models, however, can be solved in closed form, and as most utilize numerical methods such as finite-difference partial differential equation solvers, discrete-time trees, or Monte-Carlo simulators, these traditional methods are quite slow. Running book valuation and risk processes on hundreds of CPU cores requires an overnight process to comply with regulatory and accounting standards. This creates a huge cost(~$10 million/year) and a commensurate environmental and carbon impact. Similar issues are now facing the Insurance industry due to the accounting standard IFRS 17. The key goal of the partnership is to develop deep learning, and more generally machine and reinforcement learning, models to accelerate these processes, and to provide efficient simulation engines for asset prices, volatility surfaces, derivative valuation, and hedging.