<p><i>¿Life on earth is filled with many mysteries, but perhaps the most challenging of these is the nature of Intelligence.¿</i></p><p>¿ Prof. Terrence J. Sejnowski, Computational Neurobiologist</p><p>The main objective of this book is to create awareness about both the promises and the formidable challenges that the era of Data-Driven Decision-Making and Machine Learning are confronted with, and especially about how these new developments may influence the future of the financial industry.</p><p>The subject of <i>Financial Machine Learning</i> has attracted a lot of interest recently, specifically because it represents one of the most challenging <i>problem spaces</i> for the applicability of Machine Learning. The author has used a novel approach to introduce the reader to this topic:</p><ul><li>The first half of the book is a readable and coherent introduction to two modern topics that are not generally considered together: the <i>data-driven </i>paradigm and <i>Computational Intell