Since 2014, participation of foreign investors in the Colombian local public bond market has increased substantially. One of the factors that has driven this result is the increased weight of Colombia in JP Morgan´s Government Bond Index. Some evidence suggests that the resulting inflows have...

Anomaly-detection methods are aimed at identifying observations that deviate manifestly from what is expected. Such methods are usually run on low-dimensional data, such as time series data. However, the increasing importance of high-dimensional payments and exposure data for financial oversight...

Mobile wallets replicate physical wallets on a mobile device, in which users can store different payment instruments to make mobile payments. As the mobile wallet is adopted, a mobile payment system emerges. I study the mobile payment system of Movii-the first fintech firm in Colombia operating...

We present a general supervised machine-learning methodology to represent the payment behavior of financial institutions starting from a database of transactions in the Colombian large-value payment system. The methodology learns a feedforward artificial neural network parameterization to...