Generative Adversarial Networks Applied to Synthetic Financial Scenarios Generation

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Matteo Rizzato (), Julien Wallart, Christophe Geissler (), Nicolas Morizet () and Noureddine Boumlaik ()
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Matteo Rizzato: Advestis
Julien Wallart: Fujitsu Systems Europe
Christophe Geissler: Advestis
Nicolas Morizet: Advestis

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Abstract: The finance industry is producing an increasing amount of datasets that investment professionals can consider to be influential on the price of financial assets. These datasets were initially mainly limited to exchange data, namely price, capitalization and volume. Their coverage has now considerably expanded to include, for example, macroeconomic data, supply and demand of commodities, balance sheet data and more recently extra-financial data such as ESG scores. This broadening of the factors retained as influential constitutes a serious challenge for statistical modeling. Indeed, the instability of the correlations between these factors makes it practically impossible to identify the joint laws needed to construct scenarios. Fortunately, spectacular advances in Deep Learning field in recent years have given rise to GANs. GANs are a type of generative machine learning models that produce new data samples with the same characteristics as a training data distribution in an unsupervised way, avoiding data assumptions and human induced biases. In this work, we are exploring the use of GANs for synthetic financial scenarios generation. This pilot study is the result of a collaboration between Fujitsu and Advestis and it will be followed by a thorough exploration of the use cases that can benefit from the proposed solution. We propose a GANs-based algorithm that allows the replication of multivariate data representing several properties (including, but not limited to, price, market capitalization, ESG score, controversy score,. . .) of a set of stocks. This approach differs from examples in the financial literature, which are mainly focused on the reproduction of temporal asset price scenarios. We also propose several metrics to evaluate the quality of the data generated by the GANs. This approach is well fit for the generation of scenarios, the time direction simply arising as a subsequent (eventually conditioned) generation of data points drawn from the learned distribution. Our method will allow to simulate high dimensional scenarios (compared to ≲ 10 features currently employed in most recent use cases) where network complexity is reduced thanks to a wisely performed feature engineering and selection. Complete results will be presented in a forthcoming study.

Keywords: Data Augmentation; Financial Scenarios; Risk Management; Generative Adversarial Networks; Deep neural networks Generative Adversarial Networks Conditional data augmentation Financial scenarios Risk management Time series generation; Deep neural networks; Conditional data augmentation; Financial scenarios; Risk management; Time series generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08
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Published in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023, 623, pp.128899. ⟨10.1016/j.physa.2023.128899⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128899

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