---

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2018, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2018.
The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: financial innovation; market data analytics; and semantic modelling.

---

Financial Innovation.- The MiFIR Trading Obligation:Impact on Trading Volume and Liquidity in Electronic Trading.- Open Innovation Effectiveness in the Financial Services Sector.- Identification of financial statement fraud in Greece by using computational intelligence techniques.- What Sort of Asset? Bitcoin Analysed.- Blockchained Sukuk-financing.- Market data Analytics.- The Role of Customer Retention in Business Outcomes of Online Service Providers.- Using NSIA framework to evaluate impact of sentiment datasets on intraday financial market measures: a case study.- Financial Data Visualization in 3D on Immersive Virtual Reality Displays.- Document Representation for Text Mining: Opportunities for Analytics in Finance.- Semantic Modelling.- A Semantic Model Based Framework for Regulatory Reporting Process Management.- Applying Ontology-informed Lattice Reduction Using the Discrimination Power Index to Financial Domain.- A Statistical Learning Ontology for Managing Analytics Knowledge.

---