An extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Trees approach to Detect and Identify Unlawful Insider Trading (UIT) Transactions

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Hauptverfasser: Neupane, Krishna, Griva, Igor
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author Neupane, Krishna
Griva, Igor
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Griva, Igor
contents Corporate insiders have control of material non-public preferential information (MNPI). Occasionally, the insiders strategically bypass legal and regulatory safeguards to exploit MNPI in their execution of securities trading. Due to a large volume of transactions a detection of unlawful insider trading becomes an arduous task for humans to examine and identify underlying patterns from the insider's behavior. On the other hand, innovative machine learning architectures have shown promising results for analyzing large-scale and complex data with hidden patterns. One such popular technique is eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), the state-of-the-arts supervised classifier. We, hence, resort to and apply XGBoost to alleviate challenges of identification and detection of unlawful activities. The results demonstrate that XGBoost can identify unlawful transactions with a high accuracy of 97 percent and can provide ranking of the features that play the most important role in detecting fraudulent activities.
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spellingShingle An extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Trees approach to Detect and Identify Unlawful Insider Trading (UIT) Transactions
Neupane, Krishna
Griva, Igor
Computational Finance
Corporate insiders have control of material non-public preferential information (MNPI). Occasionally, the insiders strategically bypass legal and regulatory safeguards to exploit MNPI in their execution of securities trading. Due to a large volume of transactions a detection of unlawful insider trading becomes an arduous task for humans to examine and identify underlying patterns from the insider's behavior. On the other hand, innovative machine learning architectures have shown promising results for analyzing large-scale and complex data with hidden patterns. One such popular technique is eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), the state-of-the-arts supervised classifier. We, hence, resort to and apply XGBoost to alleviate challenges of identification and detection of unlawful activities. The results demonstrate that XGBoost can identify unlawful transactions with a high accuracy of 97 percent and can provide ranking of the features that play the most important role in detecting fraudulent activities.
title An extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Trees approach to Detect and Identify Unlawful Insider Trading (UIT) Transactions
topic Computational Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08306