Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Synthetic Financial Data Generation: Enhancing Risk Modeling and Fraud Detection in Banking and Insurance
Keywords:
Generative Adversarial Networks, synthetic financial dataAbstract
Meeting the increasing need for large, high-quality datasets for financial risk modeling and banking and insurance fraud detection is challenging given data availability, privacy, and biases. These issues might be resolved using generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep learning methods producing realistic synthetic data. This work revealed that GANs can generate synthetic financial data for fraud detection and risk modeling. The report describes standard financial dataset challenges like insufficient data volume, skewed distributions, and sensitive data that can threaten privacy. Strengthening risk assessment and anomaly detection machine learning algorithms, GANs generate synthetic data closely matching financial data in structure and volatility.
The article then addresses the competitive architecture of GANs, including Generator and Discriminator neural networks. Through this adversarial process, the Generator produces increasingly realistic synthetic data while the Discriminator raises its capacity to distinguish genuine from synthetic data. High-quality, varied synthetic data including financial dataset statistical features for downstream machine learning uses like credit scoring, AML, and market risk analysis is produced via iterative GAN training.
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