Pricing,management and decision‑making of financial markets with artificial intelligence:introduction to the issue

While the advancement of Internet Technology generates massive amounts of data that can facilitate decision makings of financial markets,it also arouses new challenges to financial activities,such as the acquisition,processing and analysis of multiple information resources.In addition,the external environment of the financial market is full of uncertainties,such as the occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic and government intervention,which makes the asset pricing and management much more challenging.In recent years,artificial intelligence technology has developed rapidly and has been widely used in various fields,including the financial markets.Due to its capability of mining patterns from big data,artificial intelligence is regarded as an efficient tool to address the abovementioned challenges.