Data Science for Finance

(listed as FIN 377)

This class pairs nicely with my research.

FinTech Minor Capstone

(listed as FIN 388)

Find out more about the FinTech Minor here!

Media Coverage: Lehigh Business Students Invent Innovative AI Tool for Wealth Advisors As Part of FinTech Capstone Project | Lehigh University

Students developed an AI-assisted collaborative note-taking tool that seamlessly integrates tools from multiple vendors (Outloook, Salesforce). The product, “Orb”,  aim to streamline workflow by automatically collecting and summarizing relevant data for meeting preparation and then syncing back updated data post-meeting.

This product was developed with the goal of assisting wealth advisors (WA) at Neuberger Berman. The goal is to vastly reduce hours WAs spend on prep before client meetings. This use case is not limited to wealth advisors or finance firms, and thus has a much wider potential for applications.

Because the product has potential commercial promise, I am not posting files here.

Authors: MATTHEW CONNORS, JULIA DELITTA, ADRIAN ROSS, COLE SCHUBERT, COTTER SMART, LUKE STRAUSS

 

 

Summary: Students analyze the lending behaviors of Bank of the West (BOW) in Arizona and California using the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) loan-level data and Census tract demographic information for 2021. The analysis aims to help BMO Harris (which recently acquired Bank of the West) understand if BOW’s lending falls short of BMO Harris’s goal to serve underserved communities and steps BMO Harris can take to address any shortcomings.

Methods: Spatial analysis, regression models, and an experiment with OpenAI’s ChatGPT API to assess the impact of demographic information on loan decisions.

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Authors: Ellie Degeorges, Victoria Genco, Isaac Grodin, Anna Harvey, Juan Mozos Nieto, Matthew Romano, Sebastian Stoneham, Thomas Scaringella, Xiaozhe Zhang

Title: Predicting and Modeling Income Stability in Credit Decisions

Authors: AUSTIN LEOPOLD, CHRIS PENTO, RAFIQ SITABKHAN

Downloads: Report here and slides here.

Title: Banking the Cannabis Industry: Current Challenges and Potential Solutions

Authors: TUCKER AGLIO, HA DAO, JACOB KAPLAN, GRIFFIN MIDDLETON, JORDAN WEINTRAUB

Downloads: Report here and slides here.

Title: Friction reduction in municipal bond market through blockchain technology

Authors: ANDREW CARAGHER, COLE EVANS, RYAN MALLOY, CORY POE, AARON ROTEM, LINDSAY SHAGRIN, TECH TANASARNSOPAPORN, ZHIJIAN YANG, DEAN ZIMBERG

Downloads: Report here and slides here.

Previous courses

International Corporate Finance | Virginia Tech

Asset Valuation and Corporate Governance | Virginia Tech

International Corporate Finance | Maryland