pricing; optimizing, validating and risk-managing credit
loans; creating, mining, securing, risk-managing and op-
timizing digital currencies including cryptocurrencies;
creating, securing, evaluating, risk-managing and opti-
mizing mobile banking businesses and services; person-
alizing, automating, validating, securing, risk-managing
and optimizing Internet/online banking; enabling, per-
sonalizing, automating, securing, risk-managing and
optimizing open banking; evaluating, securing and risk-
managing shadow banking; and developing smarter and
more automated, personalized, mobile and engaging
banking services; etc.
Smart insurance enables insurance products, sys-
tems and services to ensure safe/secure, cost-effective,
proactive, tailored, trustful, resilient, secure and risk-
averse health, car, home/content/building, travel and
other businesses. The DSAI research for enabling smart
insurance includes those for tailoring individual, busi-
ness and commercial insurance products and services;
enabling early, active and evolving insurance fraud de-
tection; making active, personalized and time-varying
recommendations of insurance products and services;
evaluating, analyzing, detecting, managing and opti-
mizing insurance risk and compliance; evaluating, au-
tomating, detecting and optimizing insurance security;
creating novel insurance models, products and services;
evaluating, automating and improving insurance busi-
ness operations; and integrating, recommending and
optimizing multi-policy, multi-product and cross-selling
insurance products and services; etc.
Smart lending supports lending, loan and mort-
gage businesses and services that are risk-averse, per-
sonalized, context-oriented, predictive, efficient, robust
and secure for individuals, enterprises or projects. DSAI
research directions for smart leading cover businesses
and tasks such as for addressing relevant aspects and
problems through blockchain; automating crowdfund-
ing, e.g., campaign design and strategy optimization;
creating and optimizing distributed ledger technologies;
enabling fundraising such as by creating personalized
recommendations, efficient fundraising models, and in-
telligent services; analyzing, detecting, managing and
mitigating lending risk and security; enabling smart, ef-
ficient and low-risk peer-to-peer lending; and creating,
validating and optimizing smart contracts; etc.
Smart markets and trading involves very broad
EcoFin businesses and widely-explored DSAI tech-
niques for intelligent capital, commodity, currency,
energy, commerce, property and other markets, and
supplies predictive, active, dynamic, risk-averse, anti-
fragile, and high-utility trading strategies, support and
services. The DSAI-driven smart markets and trading
can support many tasks, e.g., for designing, automating
and optimizing novel, secure, smart and personalized fi-
nancial mechanisms, models, products, and services for
equity and derivative markets; making and optimizing
algorithmic trading, arbitrage trading, high frequency
(cross-market) trading, and institutional trading across
equity, commodity and currency markets; modeling, au-
tomating and optimizing digital asset pricing and credit
scoring; enabling smart e-commerce for personalized re-
tail businesses; enabling smart, efficient, personalized
and secure Internet finance; conducting portfolio an-
alytics and enabling smart portfolio management; en-
abling predictive trading and strategic trading; design-
ing, automating and optimizing trading strategies, al-
gorithms and platforms; enabling and optimizing so-
cially responsible investment; modeling, evaluating and
optimizing trading complementarity and substitution-
ary; and characterizing and improving trading incen-
tives and campaign; etc.
Smart Internet finance has evolved from Internet
banking to third-party payment, peer to peer lending
(P2P lending), crowdfunding, and digital currencies,
which also involve their supporting designs, operations,
services, evaluation, compliance, and security (trust).
More broad Internet financial services include Inter-
net platforms, data and technology-driven financing,
fund, lending, insurance, payment and markets asso-
ciated with individuals, corporate organizations, spon-
sors, and regulators. Typical FinTech for smart Inter-
net finance includes inventing new Internet technologies
and services to enable the above products and services;
enabling efficient, trustful, secure and convenient In-
ternet banking services, authentication, active compli-
ance checks, outlier detection, and connections to other
banking businesses such as mobile banking; enabling
equity, product and reward-based crowdfunding mech-
anisms, projects and their developments and risk man-
agement, e.g., default prediction, evaluating the success
and risk of crowdfunding projects, automatic screening
of illegal fundraising, evaluating and managing herd-
ing effect, social networking and mutual influences, and
advising government regulation on investors and corpo-
rate; optimizing P2P lending bidding mechanisms and
loan evaluation, predicting and managing P2P lending
herding effect and information asymmetry, and evalu-
ating their influence and systemic risk on investment
and the economy; optimizing pricing, price volatility
and fluctuation, payment accuracy, risk on investment,
regulation, operation security and efficiency of digital
currencies. Other areas where DSAI may contribute in-
clude enabling, securing, and regulating so-called big
data finance, information-driven financial institutions,
and smart systems and services for Internet finance.