Financial Instruments for Human Development

ACCOUNTING FOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FOR BANKS Joint Working Group of Banking Associations on Financial Instruments

Capability-Based Financial Instruments

Every novel cooperative arrangement of mutually suspicious parties interacting electronically — every smart contract — effectively requires a new cryptographic protocol. However, if every new contract requires new cryptographic protocol design, our dreams of cryptographically enabled electronic commerce would be unreachable. Cryptographic protocol design is too hard and expensive, given our unl...

Inverse Signal Classification for Financial Instruments

The paper presents new machine learning methods: signal composition, which classifies time-series regardless of length, type, and quantity; and self-labeling, a supervised-learning enhancement. The paper describes further the implementation of the methods on a financial search engine system using a collection of 7,881 financial instruments traded during 2011 to identify inverse behavior among t...

Financial Instruments in Recommendation Mechanisms

Rapid Development of Executable Ontology for Financial Instruments and Trading Strategies

In this paper we employ Rapid Ontology Development approach (ROD) with constant evaluation of steps in the process of ontology construction for development of Financial Instruments and Trading Strategies (FITS) ontology. We show that ontology development process does not conclude with successful definition of schematic part of ontology but we continue with post development activities where addi...