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        <journal-title>Journal of Intelligent &amp; Fuzzy Systems 40(4) (2021) 6421</journal-title>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/jifs</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Methods in Debt Financing of Business Entities</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Oleh Veres</string-name>
          <email>oleh.m.veres@lpnu.ua</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Pavlo Ilchuk</string-name>
          <email>pavlo.g.ilchuk@lpnu.ua</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Olha Kots</string-name>
          <email>olha.o.kots@lpnu.ua</email>
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          <label>0</label>
          <institution>Lviv Polytechnic National University</institution>
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          <addr-line>Stepana Bandery str. 12, Lviv, 79013</addr-line>
          ,
          <country country="UA">Ukraine</country>
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      <pub-date>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2870</volume>
      <fpage>12</fpage>
      <lpage>13</lpage>
      <abstract>
        <p>The COVID-19 crisis has speeded up the economy's digitalization, including artificial intelligence techniques. Artificial intelligence methods are increasingly being implemented into finance from year to year. The research reveals the essence and concept of using artificial intelligence methods in general and in debt financing in particular. It is proposed to distinguish four criteria (context, data, model and tasks) in the concept of using artificial intelligence methods and to consider such usage through the prism of the life cycle of the artificial intelligence system. The list of tasks of artificial intelligence systems in debt financing is formed, and the main problem situations on debt financing management in which it is expedient to use artificial intelligence methods are identified. Since bonds are the primary tool for attracting debt financing in the stock market, and their scope requires the active implementation of digital technologies, the research clarified the algorithm for pricing bonds using artificial intelligence methods, which improves the interaction between lenders and borrowers.</p>
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      <title>1. Introduction</title>
      <p>The development of cloud technologies, data analysis systems, artificial intelligence, digital virtual
assistants and voice identification, the development of fundamentally new tools and methods of
attracting funding for innovative projects without geographical and territorial location is not a complete
list of innovative changes in the financial sector.</p>
      <p>The COVID-19 crisis has speeded up economic digitalization, including artificial intelligence
techniques. Global spending on artificial intelligence in 2020 amounted to 50 billion US dollars, and
by 2024 such costs will double to more than 110 billion US dollars [25].</p>
      <p>Artificial intelligence technologies have changed the financial services market. From artificial
intelligence-driven chatbots to sophisticated robotics consultants, artificial intelligence applications
have the apparent potential to empower financial services clients.</p>
      <p>The artificial intelligence market is evolving exponentially. Artificial intelligence systems are
developed to perform routine tasks, processing Big Data arrays. With the help of artificial intelligence
tools, access to financial, production, and other basic operations of the business entity is formed and
the possibility of customer feedback.</p>
      <p>From year to year, artificial intelligence methods are increasingly being implemented into finance,
including asset management, trade, credit underwriting, or block-chain finance. According to Forbes,</p>
      <p>
        2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
70% of financial companies use machine learning to predict cash flows, adjust credit ratings and detect
fraud [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>The main areas of application of artificial intelligence methods in finance are interaction with clients
(robotisation for investment management, chatbots, artificial intelligence for collectors, the formation
of individual proposals to increase loyalty, personal virtual assistants), decision making (evaluation and
automatic adjustment of operational efficiency, Internet of things for financial products, automation and
optimisation of structural units), trading (machine learning to analyse foreign exchange markets, stock
market), financial analysis, staff training, risk assessment and security system (protection of personal
data, protection of information).</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>2. Literature Review</title>
      <p>
        Applying artificial intelligence methods in the financial sphere is a relatively new area of research.
The research is based on the works of foreign scientists, in particular, M. D. Fethi, F. Pasiuouras [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ],
A. Bahrammirzaee [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
        ]. Thus, M. D. Fethi, F. Pasiuouras [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ] presented in 2009 a comprehensive review
of 196 studies that use methods of operational research and artificial intelligence to assess the bank’s
effectiveness. Also, in 2010, A. Bahrammirzaee [4[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
        ]] carried out a comparative analysis of three
known artificial intelligence technologies: artificial neural networks, expert systems and hybrid
intelligent systems in the financial market. The research was carried out in the following areas: 1) loans
evaluation, 2) portfolio management, 3) financial predicting and planning. According to the results, the
scientist concluded that the accuracy of artificial intelligence methods is superior to traditional statistical
methods in solving financial problems, especially for nonlinear models.
      </p>
      <p>Yin Shi, Xiaoni Li [33], based on an analysis of the scientific literature over the past 50 years,
concluded that research on the use of artificial intelligence in finance is interdisciplinary. Artificial
intelligence methods are an essential alternative to statistical data analysis methods.</p>
      <p>
        In the study of fin-tech methods based on artificial intelligence Zhongjian Hu [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
        ] notes that the
financial sector has become one of the main for the artificial intelligence implementation. The
development of finance and artificial intelligence is integrated, so the financial sector needs to digitalize
as quickly as possible.
      </p>
      <p>
        F. Bertoni, S. Bonini, V. Capizzi, MG Colombo, S. Manigart [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
        ], O. Veres, I. Rishnyak, H. Rishniak
[40] formed a general view on business digitalization and prospects for the application of innovative
digital technologies, including artificial intelligence methods. S. A. Tsyganov and V. V. Apalkova study
the evolutionary processes of artificial intelligence development in the international financial market
[37]. In particular, they focus on stimulating factors in the implementation of artificial intelligence
methods in the financial sector highlight key areas for the use of such intelligence in finance, namely:
trading, financial analysis, staff training, customer interaction, security and protection, decision making,
risk assessment and ensuring compliance.
      </p>
      <p>Studies of the current state and prospects for the artificial intelligence development in the financial
sector of Ukraine are done by O. M. Parubets, D. O. Sugonyako and I. O. Seredyuk [27], focusing on
the financial aspects of artificial intelligence its impact on financial and economic processes, as well as
the risks of artificial intelligence implementation in the financial sector. The authors studied the
application of Big Data Analysis and Data Mining in finance [41, 42, 43], focusing on the specifics of
the financial sector and the features of information technology implementation in analysing financial
phenomena and processes.</p>
      <p>
        In the work of G. Kou, X. Chao, Y. Peng, F. E. Alsaadi and E. Herrera-Viedma [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref>
        ], much attention
is paid to the study of machine learning methods for managing systemic risks in the financial sphere,
which allows analysing Big Data, process various financial information, including news, financial
reports, information from social networks. N. R. Moșteanu [24] demonstrates how artificial intelligence
combines financial information with technological capabilities and accelerates finance's digital
transformation. J. Shao, Z. Lou, C. Wang, J. Mao and A. Ye [32] study the impact of artificial
intelligence financing on companies' financial capabilities and use a cash flow sensitivity model. M.
Ya. Kushnir, K. A. Tokareva analyse the use of specific artificial intelligence methods in predicting and
analysing time series of financial data [17]. M. S. Kurkov proposes an enterprise financial management
system model based on artificial intelligence means [16], but his research is purely theoretical. A more
practical study of this author is the work on artificial intelligence in investment activities in financial
markets [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref15">15</xref>
        ], which formed a tree of intelligent system goals, an algorithm for dynamic modelling and
predicting of financial data and recommended the use of artificial intelligence as an element of
investment decision making for the front office.
      </p>
      <p>T. R. Urumov reveals new opportunities for business entities to access financial resources based on
modern information technologies and innovative business models [38]. The author notes that digital
loans are of particular interest, facilitating the rapid submission of applications for financial resources.
At the same time, S. Savina [30] explores the possibility of applying artificial intelligence methods in
analysing the impact of capital structure on the entity’s financial stability. The issue of using artificial
intelligence methods to formalise decision-making systems in financial analysis is revealed by O. V.
Ruzakova and N. P. Yurchuk [29]. They argue that using fuzzy sets, neural networks and genetic
algorithms in the decision support systems formation is a promising area of development of support and
decision-making systems for the business entities’ activities funding.</p>
      <p>
        The EU experience in artificial intelligence application in financial services is analysed by K. V.
Efremov [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
        ]; in particular, legal regulation and prudential regulation is investigated.
      </p>
      <p>
        Also, in scientific research, we find works directly related to the use of artificial intelligence methods
in the debt financing of business entities. In their research, R. Verner, M. Tkáč and M. Tkáč [44] propose
a long-term bond price predicting system based on a nonlinear autoregressive neural network and
demonstrate that artificial intelligence methods are effective for predicting time series with their ability
to be nonlinear and hidden patterns in the data. The authors considered the prospects of using artificial
intelligence methods in debt financing of business entities in the context of exclusively predicting bond
prices. The possibilities for using artificial intelligence methods to model the government bonds price
reveal D. Martin, B. Póczos, B. Hollifield [23]. A similar topic has the study of S. Ganguli J. Dunnmon
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
        ], revealing the prospects and possibilities of using machine learning methods to predict bond prices.
      </p>
      <p>However, a general conceptual approach to using artificial intelligence methods in debt financing of
business entities has not yet been formed.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-3">
      <title>3. The Essence and Concept of Using Artificial Intelligence Systems</title>
      <p>The artificial intelligence essence is interpreted differently in the scientific literature. The most
common are the following approaches to understanding the meaning of artificial intelligence:
 one of the trends in digital technology;
 systems that can think and learn;
 man-made systems that exist in the digital world;
 direction of scientific and technological progress of the third millennium, etc. [27].</p>
      <p>The basis of understanding the essence of artificial intelligence is the ability of machines and
programs to analyse the information obtained to draw conclusions and make decisions. In many cases,
artificial intelligence is considered an innovative approach to solving various economic, political,
financial, and social problems [19, 20, 39].</p>
      <p>As artificial intelligence is actively developed, the number of systems used increases. Different types
of artificial intelligence systems create other opportunities and risks, so they need detailed analysis and
classification according to their potential impact (level and direction).</p>
      <p>Artificial intelligence systems are machine systems with different levels of autonomy, which can
make predictions, recommendations or model solutions for a particular set of human-defined goals [25].
First of all, artificial intelligence systems can be used 1) in different contexts (in different areas; for
different business functions; at different levels of interaction between participants, etc.), 2) using
different types of data (private or publicly available data; structured, poorly structured or unstructured
data) and 3) different models (symbolic; probabilistic and others) for 4) performing different tasks
(prediction; recognition; optimisation, decision making). These four criteria (context, data, model and
tasks) are the basis of the concept of artificial intelligence usage. The concept of using artificial
intelligence systems is shown in Figure 1.</p>
      <p>The four criteria for the concept of using artificial intelligence systems can be linked to its life cycle.
The life cycle of an artificial intelligence system usually includes six phases:
 planning and design;
 data collection and processing;
 model formation and interpretation;
 verification and validation;
 deployment;
 using and monitoring.</p>
      <p>Figure 2 shows the dimensions of the artificial intelligence systems classification.</p>
      <p>The life cycle of an artificial intelligence system is unique because artificial intelligence systems can
interact with a real or virtual environment and "learn" by improving their dynamics, being nonlinear,
and working with varying degrees of autonomy.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>4. The Concept of Applying Artificial Intelligence Methods for Debt Financing of Business Entities</title>
      <p>Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a solution. Businesses that make the best use of artificial
intelligence methods and achieve the most significant improvements in debt financing operations will
remain focused on customers rather than their own systems [34]. Artificial intelligence in finance is
changing how we interact with money, helping to streamline and optimise processes from credit
decision-making to financial risk management [31].</p>
      <p>
        The financial sphere is the widest and most profound application of artificial intelligence. After all,
it is used not only by technology companies that provide services to financial institutions but also by
traditional financial intermediaries that use technology, new financial formats, and by financial
regulators. According to the features and scope of artificial intelligence in finance, we can distinguish
intellectual investment advice, intelligent customer service, intelligent risk management, smart
marketing, etc. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>The application of artificial intelligence methods to debt financing operations has significantly
speeded up due to the rapid development of the corporate bond market, which has its characteristics
compared to the government bond market. After all, today, bonds are the primary fund tool for attracting
debt financing by business entities [42]. Artificial intelligence methods are necessary to improve risk
management and decision-making on debt financing and promote the further active development of the
financial market.</p>
      <p>
        In 2020, business entities began to borrow heavily, and many companies issued bonds to overcome
income cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine restrictions. According to a SIFMA study,
daily corporate bond trade in the United States grew by 16.2% year on year to $ 41 billion in 2020. In
the first quarter of 2021, this growth was 15%. Note that the debt financing market has real prospects
for further rapid growth [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        According to a JPMorgan survey, asset management managers predict that in 2022 40% of all their
corporate bonds will be electronic (by the end of 2020, the share of electronic bonds was about 25%),
about 50% of government bond transactions are already electronic, and, according to predictions, in
2022 this amount will increase to 65% [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        The survey results of 624 representatives of financial organisations in the areas of financial activities
digitalization initiatives are presented in Figure 3 [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>New technology platforms based on artificial intelligence systems monitor and report the level of
corporate bonds liquidity in real-time. Using artificial intelligence methods to process input from both
the buyer and the seller, they can inform the portfolio manager about the feasibility of bond transactions
(purchase, sale, resale). This allows market participants to quickly and efficiently assess the liquidity
of debt financing and decide on its further service. Analysing the historical models of dealers in similar
debt financing agreements and evaluating the activities of market participants, the artificial intelligence
systems predict the level of interest in a particular trade operation and identify customer interest in
potential trade [28].</p>
      <p>The main tasks of artificial intelligence systems in the field of debt financing are:
 formation of corporate bond offers for the client to place financial resources;
 formation of a debt financing portfolio for a business entity to diversify risks;
 search and link the buyer with the seller;
 assessing the possibility of selling bonds and alternative debt management scenarios.</p>
      <p>With the information generated by artificial intelligence systems, market participants can more
efficiently conduct transactions with debt instruments. These platforms are already beginning to help
market participants find liquidity and complete operations in a complex market environment. In the
long run, artificial intelligence trading systems can turn corporate bond trading into a market with
almost unbelievable levels of transparency and liquidity [28]. Therefore, Ukraine, which has declared
an innovative strategy for the financial services market development, needs to pay maximum attention
to the potential of using artificial intelligence systems to form high-quality, innovative tools for
organising the financial services market’s work.</p>
      <p>In addition, artificial intelligence techniques can be used to solve debt problems: you can evaluate
customers based on the stage of the debt collection process they are in, and then, based on generated
scenarios, decide whether to send a letter to the customer, call, visit in person, etc. Artificial intelligence
optimises and automates this process, allowing more informed decisions. Artificial intelligence methods
are already used in the front offices of financial institutions, identifying early risks at the credit scoring
stage of loan applications. Credit scoring - a task involving collecting data and comparing them with
specific criteria - is ideal for implementing artificial intelligence systems [34].</p>
      <p>Computer vision can scan a face to assess mood, looking for minor changes in facial expressions
and comparing them to a list of their effects. It is a powerful customer service tool used in the financial
sector when providing financial services. Chinese insurance company Ping An uses this technology to
test customers for reliability by evaluating messages that reveal that their disclosure is incomplete. In
the UK, Metro Bank has already used computer vision to improve the performance of its chat-bots,
making them more sensitive to the facial expressions and moods of human customers, changing
scenarios when customers become impatient, nervous or frustrated.</p>
      <p>Other aspects of customer service can also be automated or improved through data processing using
artificial intelligence methods. Artificial intelligence can simplify decision-making by highlighting
successful trends in such cases and recommending acting ways. Artificial intelligence techniques can
also help to improve existing practices by analysing data and highlighting issues. Analysis of recorded
calls and the data they provide - the specific use of language by successful fundraisers, common debtor
objections, and how best to overcome them - creates best practices for using artificial intelligence
techniques in the financial sphere. Compliance breaches can also be highlighted and predicted using
machine learning methods [34].</p>
      <p>There are five ways to use artificial intelligence methods to collect debts:
 improve communication and form contact with the client – chat-bots and virtual assistants
work on different platforms (including e-mail, text messages, Facebook Messenger,
WhatsApp, Telegram and other programs), and by investing in artificial intelligence, you
can expand coverage without losing human connection and optimising costs;
 streamline processes to improve cooperation with the client - using artificial intelligence
methods, there is a reconciliation of own interests with expectations of clients, in particular,
you can transfer the process online, rather than forcing customers to contact a financial
intermediary, automate e-mailing directly to the borrower;
 form a credit profile of a client who uses debt financing of different entities simultaneously
- the use of artificial intelligence methods will help to analyse data from different sources,
forming the credit history of the client;
 optimise debt collection strategy - artificial intelligence tools can improve debt collection
decisions, as they are based on the use of historical data and big data, which are poorly
structured and unstructured;
 modernise analytics - you can significantly improve the quality of business intelligence by
integrating artificial intelligence solutions and machine learning in the debt collection
process because algorithms process data sets in a way that people can’t [21].</p>
      <p>Table 1 shows examples of the use of artificial intelligence methods in debt financing.</p>
      <p>
        In most cases, debt repayment strategies remain complex, ineffective, and outdated. Customers
demand flexibility, affordability, and choice in today's fast-paced digital world. Debt repayment should
be easy and painless, not a process that consists of nasty letters and a few phone calls at an
uncomfortable time of day. Nowadays, artificial intelligence systems are already able to improve debt
collection within companies. Their ability to use data, machine learning and behavioural science is a
powerful tool for understanding customers deeper and more personal. The use of artificial intelligence
methods eliminates assumptions and human prejudices. Each step can be used to logically automate the
process and develop a customer-centric approach [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>Today, the use of artificial intelligence methods in debt collection - the repayment of debt financing
- is actively developing. This is because the leading cause of credit losses is the use of outdated
approaches to debt collection, which do not reflect the variability of the economic environment and are
based on the use of limited data. However, artificial intelligence and machine learning are beginning to
modernise debt collection. These technologies make it possible to analyse a huge amount of data from
various sources, opening up new insights into the risks of offences and how to manage risk accounts.
In addition, machine learning can be regularly retrained, increasing its accuracy in dynamic situations
when new information appears [35].</p>
      <p>The first users of artificial intelligence technologies already see significant payments in their loan
portfolios, i.e. confirm the feasibility and effectiveness of using artificial intelligence in debt collection.
They also identified the possibility of early offences warning and optimised debt financing strategies to
reduce defaults. Historically, debt collection has been primarily reactive, trying to recoup losses after
the borrower became a debtor. The use of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods changes
this paradigm, creating opportunities for proactive detection of risky accounts even before defaults [35].</p>
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    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>5. The Use of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Transactions with Debt</title>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-6">
      <title>Securities</title>
      <p>
        The financial services market uses digital technologies and artificial intelligence techniques to
simplify doing business and ensure higher business efficiency. The emergence of bonds and trade-in
bonds are among the few areas that are in great need to embrace this trend. Today's way of organising
operations with bonds is inefficient, and in addition, in Ukraine, it is poorly developed. The main
problem is the low accuracy of determining credit risk in the long run. The bond market remains
dependent on manual transactions with poorly structured and unstructured data sets. This leads to
information asymmetry and significant inaccuracies in calculations and predictions [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        There is a great need to centralise Big Data and use Big Data Analysis to improve pricing, risk
management (including liquidity risk and credit risk), and information gathering. Artificial intelligence
methods that use profound historical records of essential data elements (verified reports, initial
quotations of prices for bonds provided by the dealer, etc.) and points of bonds sale on the secondary
market can solve this problem [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>To predict the best price of new bonds, as well as bond prices on the secondary market, it can be
used machine learning algorithms because such algorithms analyse millions of data points: recent
quotations of new issues, the dynamics of key financial indicators of business entities, investor
sentiment, etc. It is assumed that the data for analysis will be used from different sources:
 reports of business entities, which will disclose relevant information;
 open bank data;
 confidential data obtained as a result of feedback from counterparties;
 data on bond trading, structured according to different criteria.</p>
      <p>
        The key difference between statistical methods and artificial intelligence models is the purpose of
these methods. Statistical methods involve forming a set of assumptions that prescribe the model and
characterise the studied indicator’s behaviour. Artificial intelligence methods aim to find the method
that best predicts the outcome of the research [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>The algorithm of pricing on bonds using artificial intelligence methods is shown in Figure 4.</p>
      <p>
        This algorithm involves input data from a variety of sources, including Thompson Reuters (bond
issue and trade levels), S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence (company-level master data), rating agency
data (company ratings and macro-market data), other sources. The algorithm also involves obtaining
data (aggregated and anonymised) from Investment groups and investors [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>The next stage of the algorithm is to learn and apply several models to calculate the bond’s price.
Each of these models is studied using a subset of historical data. The accuracy of the algorithm result
critically depends on the accuracy, timeliness and relevance of input data processing.</p>
      <p>Training in the pricing model involves the use of artificial intelligence methods, the main task of
which is to measure the best correlations in different liquidity scenarios based on input data that have
been previously structured. Accordingly, the output data of the algorithm will be bond prices.</p>
      <p>
        Artificial intelligence algorithms require a large amount of data to analyse the activities of business
entities and obtain accurate results. However, some data may be incomplete. It is advisable to fill the
gaps in the data because an incomplete data set distorts the simulation results. Businesses with minimal
historical information should be supplemented with indicative bond price curves and key indicators to
create yield curves successfully. It is necessary to use the method of analogues to fill in the gaps in the
data [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to change the way lenders understand their
borrowers. An accurate understanding of borrowers is becoming increasingly important in economic
uncertainty. Accordingly, with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, lenders can
create a detailed customer profile to determine which borrowers are likely to solve debt arrears on their
own and which need active intervention, such as loan restructuring or changes in repayment.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-7">
      <title>6. Advantages and Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence</title>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-8">
      <title>Financing of Business Entities</title>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-9">
      <title>Methods in Debt</title>
      <p>
        Big data analytics based on the use of artificial intelligence methods provides financial
intermediaries with the ability to respond to consumer and economic trends in real-time. Compliance
automation systems based on artificial intelligence reduce the cost of legal and risk departments and
reduce the percentage of human error. The use of artificial intelligence techniques in the banking and
FinTech sectors is expanding, from customer-centric services (such as chat-bots personalised
marketing) to internal risk management processes (e.g., automation of operations, contract analysis,
risk management) [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>The main advantages of implementing artificial intelligence methods in the financial sector are the
reduction of corruption and the prevention of money laundering; prediction, personalisation and
automation of financial services; development of online marketing with a precise definition of customer
needs and opportunities to meet them; the processing of payment documents.</p>
      <p>Another strength of using artificial intelligence methods is the continuity of data collection: the more
comprehensive the database, the more influential the artificial intelligence system. The artificial
intelligence system integrates the collected disparate information, allowing us to offer the customer a
personalised product that best meets his needs.</p>
      <p>The impact of the use of artificial intelligence methods on the business entities’ activity in the
financial sector is generalised in Figure 5.</p>
      <p>The use of artificial intelligence methods in debt financing of business entities will reduce the cost
of credit underwriting, promote continued cooperation with customers, increase the efficiency of data
processing to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers, improve loan portfolio management. However,
we should not forget about the risks of incorrect decision-making regarding the inexpediency of
financing to the client, which is difficult to explain, arguing solely by machine decision-making on
financing.</p>
      <p>
        In recent years, bond market counterparties have increasingly used quantitative investment and
liquidity risk monitoring methods, including artificial intelligence analytics [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ]. The benefits of using
artificial intelligence in attracting debt financing through bonds are systematised in Table 2.
Table 2
The benefits of using artificial intelligence in attracting debt financing through bonds
Application Business Objectives Key Benefits
      </p>
      <sec id="sec-9-1">
        <title>Intelligent Automate liquidity risk Intake fundamental and alternative data</title>
        <p>automation monitoring and Scale coverage and increase analysis speed using
reporting machine learning to test correlations on large issuer
Enhance independent coverage universe, reducing the required resources and
pricing verification time (cost) and improving precision (revenue)</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-9-2">
        <title>Enhanced Use auto-pricing Using machine learning to monitor pricing and liquidity</title>
        <p>decision- models to improve changes can improve portfolio reporting and pricing
making reporting and risk shifts monitoring. Proprietary data from in-house trade
systems flow can be infused into AI models to understand client</p>
        <p>Realise better preferences and buying patterns.
investment disclosure Algorithmic supply-demand matching can validate at
with pricing accuracy scale pricing levels that would not otherwise be
and coverage considered with high confidence and would enter</p>
        <p>expensive external validation cross-check process
Advanced Advance real-time Pre-trade risk analysis can monitor the impact of
risk pre-and post-trade different trade strategies and systematically incorporate
management risk management the cost of risk capital in profitability calculations
solutions Continuous risk monitoring enables institutions to</p>
        <p>automate risk models on-demand, understand
underlying market exposure in near real-time and</p>
        <p>recalibrate capital levels</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-9-3">
        <title>Intaking alternative datasets with machine-learning</title>
        <p>
          algorithms can improve the coverage and robustness of
risk models, as well as improve the quality of data intake
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        </p>
        <p>The main directions of using the artificial intelligence methods in debt financing of a business entity
at different management levels are shown in Figure 6.</p>
        <p>Financial intermediaries increasingly use artificial intelligence methods and models to assess the
creditworthiness of potential borrowers, make underwriting decisions, predict defaults, detect fraud,
and analyze the degree of interconnectedness between borrowers, which has a positive impact on their
quality of loan portfolio management.</p>
        <p>The use of artificial intelligence methods, in addition to the benefits, provokes problems and risks
(Figure 7).</p>
        <p>There are such main threats to the impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector: an
erroneous algorithm for selecting financial indicators; threat to national and financial security in the
event of cyber-attacks; loss of control over the activities of financial market entities, reduction of the
number of employees of financial institutions [27]. Excessive dependence on financial services guided
by artificial intelligence will undoubtedly lead to problems when algorithms choose which consumers
to serve because it is very difficult to overcome the bias of choice based on algorithmic models [22].</p>
        <p>In addition, the increasing use of artificial intelligence methods in the financial sphere creates
problems with informed consent. Effective informed consent in a hyper-digital financial system requires
that consumers understand and consent to use their transactional and personally identifiable information
in a financially intrusive manner [22].</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-10">
      <title>7. Conclusions</title>
      <p>As artificial intelligence and machine learning methods increasingly modernise debt repayment,
both lenders and borrowers can reap significant benefits from using these innovative technologies. First
of all, understanding, identifying borrowers, and interacting with them helps reduce the risk of loss and
more effective management of overdue payments. Second, more active and productive customer reach
helps to improve the efficiency of debt management [35].</p>
      <p>The use of artificial intelligence analytics should meet the goals of the business entity because before
using this innovative tool, it is necessary to assess the current state of artificial intelligence capabilities
and determine a roadmap for the use of artificial intelligence methods by a particular business entity for
specific purposes (including debt financing). The implementation of artificial intelligence methods
allows us to innovatively organise change management and maintain the expected effectiveness of
operations.</p>
      <p>It should be noted that the use of artificial intelligence methods is individual and quite personalised,
because it involves making their own decisions based on generated by artificial intelligence proposals
(scenarios), so to get tangible results from the use of artificial intelligence, businesses need to be paid
to forming decision-making models, implementing best practices in engineering and Data Science,
which, while increasing cost, reduce the risk of failure to implement such an innovation as artificial
intelligence.</p>
      <p>Artificial intelligence methods help businesses develop and control debt financing mechanisms,
including through the use of bonds, and monitor their ability to attract debt financing and place funds
in debt securities using artificial intelligence.</p>
      <p>Artificial intelligence methods in the financial sphere have both advantages and disadvantages.
However, in the conditions of total digitalization, the necessity of using modern information
technologies is absolutely due. After all, the use of artificial intelligence methods can significantly
reduce standardised and repetitive work, which is growing, because the amount of information is
multiplied every year, and its processing requires the use of modern information technologies such as
Big Data Analysis and Data Mining.
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