The paper introduces a framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate natural‑language narratives explaining cross‑sectional stock return predictions. It combines temporal Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) from an XGBoost model with historical regime analogs to provide context. A controlled study shows that progressively externalizing numerical and relational reasoning improves evidence faithfulness and accuracy, while historical analogs boost human‑rated usefulness.
By Sujung Kim, Seung Hwan Cho, Sangjin Park, Young-Min Kim
arXiv:2607. 17586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Money mule accounts are critical facilitators of financial fraud, yet detecting them at scale remains challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of transactional and behavioural data.
By Yuge Zhang, Yuanxing Zhang, Yichao Jin, Khairul Amsyar Mohd Razis, Nicholas Qi An Choo, Kai Yin Anders Wong, Xinyan Tang, Kenneth Zhu Ke, Wee Keong Dennis Lee, Jingyuan Zhao
arXiv:2608. 09834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial sentiment analysis converts unstructured financial news into quantitative signals that can support market analysis and decision-making.
By Fan Zhang, Jiaming Li
arXiv:2608. 09433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as finance, a model that cannot be explained cannot be deployed, yet many interpretable classifiers defeat their own purpose by producing formulas with dozens of features that no regulator could read.
By Adia Lumadjeng, Ilker Birbil, Erman Acar
arXiv:2610.00969v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used for financial document analysis, including earnings call transcripts (ECTs). Beyond generati...
By Yingzhu Zhao, Vlad Pandelea, Han Yuan, Bo Hu, Wuqiong Luo, Li Zhang, Zheng Ma
The paper evaluates twelve financial sentiment models—including dictionary-based methods, finance-specific transformers, and open-source large language models—using linguistic and economic validity criteria. General-purpose LLMs match finance-specific transformers in classification performance but do not yield stronger economic relationships. While several models correlate with earnings surprises, none shows a significant link to next‑day stock returns, and performance is strongest for large earnings beats or misses.
By Arslan Bisharat, Oudom Hean