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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2016, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 2016.
The 2016 workshop especially focused on "The Analytics Revolution in Finance" and brought together leading academics from a broad range of disciplines, including computer science, business studies, media technology and behavioral science, to discuss recent advances in their respective fields.
The 9 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions.

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News Sentiment Impact Analysis (NSIA) Framework.- A Semantic-Based Analytics Architecture and its Application to Commodity Pricing.- Detecting Underwriters Stabilisation Trades: A Clinical Study. - Predicting Corporate Credit Ratings using Content Analysis of Annual Reports - A Na‹ve Bayesian Network Approach.- Say It at the Right Time: Publication Time of Financial News.- FinTech Transformation: How IT-enabled Innovations Shape the Financial Sector.- Reading Between the Lines: The Effect of Language Sentiment on Economic Indicators.- Cashless Society: When will Merchants Stop Accepting Cash in Sweden - A Research Model.- Credit Scoring and the Creation of a Generic Predictive Model Using Countries´ Similarities Based on European Values Study.

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