This special issue brings together papers that review some of the major topics in the area of machine learning and AI in finance, address unresolved questions, and propose new methods using innovative ML and AI perspectives. Additionally, all the papers include an empirical dimension that can...

Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machine algorithms, together with Linear and Non-Linear Deep Neural Networks, are applied to lending data in order to replicate lender acceptance of loans and predict the likelihood of default of issued loans. A two phase model is proposed; the first phase...