Special Issue on AI and FinTech: The Challenge Ahead

Abstract

The articles in the special section focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and Fintech. Finance has been one of the most active domains with increasingly bigger data, faster innovations, and more prosperous applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, including algorithmic trading, cryptocurrency, blockchains, P2P lending, digital and mobile payments, digital assets, crowdfunding, roboadvising, regtech transformation, etc. AI and data science are driving new-generation financial technology (FinTech), which profoundly disrupts existing theories of money, investment, credit, market, and regulation, and furthermore empowers new-generation financial innovations, products, services, operations, processes, and ecosystems. We hope that this special issue on AI and FinTech will collect the latest advancements in FinTech driven by the advanced AI and data science that model complex interactions, relations, and their dynamics; their impact on big financial data analytics and complex financial behaviors across financial markets, products, systems, and networks; and their driving force behind smart financial innovations, services, markets, operations, processes, products, regulation, and risk management.