Abstract

Market surveillance systems, used for monitoring and analysis of all transactions in the financial market, have gained importance since the latest financial crisis. Such systems are designed to detect market abuse behavior and prevent it. The latest approach to the development of such systems is to use machine learning methods that largely improve the accuracy of market abuse predictions. These intelligent market surveillance systems are based on data mining methods, which build their own dependencies between the variables. It makes the application of standard user-logic-based testing methodologies difficult. Therefore, in the context of intelligent surveillance systems, we built our own model for classifying the transactions. To test it, it is important to be able to create a set of test cases that will generate obvious and predictable output. We propose scenarios that allow to test the model more thoroughly, compared to the standard testing methods. These scenarios consist of several types of test cases which are based on the equivalence classes methodology. The division into equivalence classes is performed after the analysis of the real data used by real surveillance systems. We tested the created model and discovered how this approach allows to define its weaknesses. This paper describes our findings from using this method to test a market surveillance system that is based on machine learning techniques.

Highlights

  • 1.1 Market surveillance systemsElectronic trading platforms have become an increasingly important part of the financial market in recent years

  • The standard quality assurance (QA) methods and technologies seem to be powerless in regard to machine learning (ML) applications

  • The test cases are based on the equivalence classes; testing the prototype based on the created model and the analysis of the received results

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Summary

Market surveillance systems

Electronic trading platforms have become an increasingly important part of the financial market in recent years. They are obligated to take legal responsibilities [1], [2] and correspond to the law and the regulatory requirements. All market events in the contemporary electronic trading platforms are monitored and analysed by market surveillance systems. Such systems are designed to detect market abuse behavior and prevent it. Their main goals are detection and prevention of such market abuse cases as insider trading, intentional and aggressive price positioning, creation of fictitious liquidity, money laundering, marking the close, etc. Different data mining methods are used for improving the quality of the surveillance systems’ work [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]

Quality assurance for market surveillance
Contribution
Ongoing problems in the quality assurance of the modern surveillance systems
Existing approaches
Structure of the transaction log
Market abuse alert
Background
Classification model of market abuse
Prototype Testing
Results
Conclusions and future work
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