Risk-Sensitive Liquidity Management

AIFT
Overview

AIFT develops an Integrated Real World Assets (RWAs) Liquidity system using risk sensitive Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning to optimise liquidity management, balancing funding costs and risk, enabling sustainable liquidity and funding management across tokenized private credit and broader RWA markets.

  • Risk-Sensitive Liquidity Management
Commercialisation opportunities
This risk-sensitive liquidity management framework has strong commercialisation potential as enterprise risk management solution and regulatory compliance tool, designed to enhance liquidity resilience in both traditional financial institutions and blockchain ecosystems.
Problem addressed

Liquidity managers face inventory risks and financial shocks, requiring dynamic management and timely adjustments to funding rates to attract capital and maintain solvency buffers. Current methods struggle to adapt to market changes.

Innovation
  • An Integrated RWA Liquidity Engine: combines risk-sensitive optimization with multi-agent reinforcement learning to jointly manage AMM spreads and funding vault solvency.
  • Risk-sensitive Markov decision process (MDP): captures terminal-stage reward risk and long-run process risk using measures such as variance, CVaR, VaR, and the Sharpe ratio, optimizing decision-making concerning the Sharpe ratio and solvency constraints.
  • Validated through sandbox-style simulations: reflect realistic tokenized-deposit liquidity conditions, including inventory shocks, correlated credit events, and funding stress.
Key impact
  • The system will provide a governed, auditable, and production-ready solution for sustainable liquidity and funding management across tokenized private credit and broader RWA markets.
Application
  • The project offers auditable, production-ready solutions for sustainable liquidity and funding management in Tokenized private credit markets and broader RWA ecosystem.
  • It advances policy optimization, convergence analysis and regret bounds, while extending from single-agent to multi-agent settings to model strategic interactions between liquidity providers and funding agents in blockchain environments.

The Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies Limited (AIFT) is an innovative technology center committed to pioneering research, fostering talents, and commercializing technological applications. AIFT was cofounded by City University of Hong Kong and Columbia University, with Tsinghua University recently joining to inject new research strength into the lab. AIFT is the only FinTech research lab recognized by the InnoHK Research Cluster of the HKSAR government.

With the full support of the HKSAR government, AIFT is equipped with cutting-edge technologies, world-class talents and experienced industry practitioners, which enables AIFT to resolve the contemporary challenges in finance by integrating the modern financial theories with artificial intelligence.

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