This book presents contemporary issues and challenges in finance and risk management in a time of rapid transformation due to technological advancements. It includes research articles based on financial and economic data and intends to cover the emerging role of analytics in financial management, asset management, and risk management.

Analytics in Finance and Risk Management covers statistical techniques for data analysis in finance, it explores applications in finance and risk management, covering empirical properties of financial systems. It addresses data science involving the study of statistical and computational models and includes basic and advanced concepts. The chapters incorporate the latest methodologies and challenges facing financial and risk management and illustrate related issues and their implications in the real world.

The primary users of this book will include researchers, academicians, postgraduate students, professionals in engineering and business analytics, managers, consultants, and advisors in IT firms, financial markets, and services domains.

Nguyen Thi Hong Nga is an Associate Professor, Vice Director of Centre for Post-Graduate Studies, Hanoi University of Industry, Vietnam (HaUI). She has more than 20 years of academic experience in Accounting Auditing, and Finance. She has authored and co-authored many research articles that are published in journals, books, and conference proceedings. She has published 12 books. She teaches graduate & post- graduate level courses at HaUI, Viet Nam. She received Ph.D. in Accounting from Academy of Finance, Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2011; a Master of Accounting from the Commerce University, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2006, and a Bachelor of Accounting from National Economic University, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2001. She is a proceeding editor for 2nd International Conference on Management and Technovation (ICRMAT 2021), and 3rd ICRMAT 2022. She was an active organization chair, and program chair for the 5th International Conference on Business Management and Accounting (IBSM), Hanoi University of Industry, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2018. She was an organization chair, and a program chair for the 2nd ICRMAT, Hanoi University of Industry, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2021; a program chair for the 3rd ICRMAT, Swinburne University, Danang, Vietnam. She has chaired many Vietnamese national conferences, and events at different universities in Viet Nam. She is an editor of The Journal of Accounting and Auditing, Vietnam, ISSN 1859-1914, and an editor of The Journal of Science and Technology, Vietnam, ISSN 1859-3585

Nguyen Thi Hong Nga can be contacted at nguyenthihongnga@haui.edu.vn

Shivani Agarwal is an Assistant Professor, KIET School of Management at KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India. She has earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Roorkee) in Management. She is engaged in teaching, research and consultancy assignments. She has more than 10 years of experience in teaching and in handling various administrative as well as academic positions. She also presented several research papers in national and international conferences. Dr. Agarwal has contributed chapters in different books published by Taylor and Francis, Springer and IGI Global. She has conducted and attended various workshops, FDPs and MDPs. She is the Book Series Editor of Information Technology, Management & Operations Research Practices, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA. She is guest editor with IGI-Global, USA. Her research interests include Quality of Work life, Trust, Subjective well-being, knowledge management, Employer Branding innovation and human resource management. Dr. Shivani Agarwal can be contacted at: jindal.shivani24@gmail.com

Ewa Ziemba is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. Her research focuses on information systems and technologies for business, public administration, society, and sustainable development. She is one of the leaders in developing a multi-dimensional approach to a sustainable information society.

Ewa Ziemba has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers, 3 books, and 24 edited volumes, including a few published with Springer and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She has played an instrumental role as a coordinator and principal investigator in over 40 prestigious domestic and international research projects. She has an extensive experience in training, guest lectures, and keynote speeches. She is an expert for the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland, the Academy of Finland, The Malta Council for Science and Technology, and the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. She serves on the editorial boards of international journals as an editor and reviewer. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economics and Management, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, and an associate editor of the Journal of Computer Information Systems. She is engaged in organizing prestige international and domestic scientific conferences, e.g., Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS.

The academic world values and recognizes Ewa Ziemba's work and valuable contribution to the academic community. She was elected an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in Salzburg (Class V, Social Sciences, Law, and Economics). She received numerous awards for excellent research achievements, young academic staff development and works for the scientific community, including the Prize of Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education for Excellent Research Achievement, The Excellence in Research & Scholarship Award, and Fellow & Distinguished Scholar Award from International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management, 6 Silver and Bronze Journal Editor Awards, 26 Awards of the Rector of the University of Economics in Katowice, and 10 Best Research Paper Awards.

Ewa Ziemba can be contacted at ewa.ziemba@ue.katowice.pl