Held in conjunction with ICAIF ’26 · Milano

Workshop on Applied Responsible AI Operations for Finance

Practical approaches of Responsible AI in Finance

A half-day workshop dedicated to advancing the practical operationalization of Responsible AI in financial systems - bridging research progress and real-world deployment.

Date
14 Nov2026
Time
8:30Local time
Workshop contact
raiops4fin@gmail.com
About

Why this workshop

Responsible AI in finance must move from principles to practice.

The challenge is no longer just to innovate but to innovate responsibly. RAIOps4Fin explores how Responsible AI can move beyond principles and become part of the everyday deployment of financial AI systems.

The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and regulators to turn fairness, transparency, robustness, privacy, and governance into actionable solutions.

As generative AI increasingly lowers the barrier to producing synthetic content, the financial sector also faces growing risks from AI-driven mis/disinformation, from fraudulent communications to content that can distort market behavior. The resulting impact of these frauds and distortions can be both monetary and societal, therefore making anti-mis/disinformation an important topic within the Responsible AI in Finance agenda.

By connecting cutting-edge research with deployment needs, RAIOps4Fin aims to foster practical knowledge exchange and shape trustworthy, auditable, and production-ready AI for the financial sector.

Topics of Interest

What we are looking for

RAIOps4Fin explores how Responsible AI can be effectively designed, governed, and deployed in financial systems. Case studies, frameworks, and experience reports addressing the practical deployment and operationalization of Responsible AI in financial systems are welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • RAI Operationalization - integrating fairness, explainability, privacy, and accountability in financial AI.
  • Lifecycle Monitoring - continuous AI monitoring, evaluation, documentation, governance, and trade-off management.
  • Model Risk & Compliance - validation, auditability, oversight, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
  • Emerging AI Paradigms - governance and deployment of generative AI, foundation models, and agentic systems.
  • Disinformation & Misinformation - detecting, mitigating, and governing AI-generated financial disinformation and its impact on market integrity, fraud prevention, and public trust.
  • Sustainable AI - energy-efficient, environmentally responsible, and resource-aware AI for finance.
Call for Papers

Submit your work

We welcome papers and encourage submissions that demonstrate practical relevance, empirical validation, or deployment experience.

Important dates — all deadlines 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Submission deadline
October 2 October 12, 2026
Author notification
October 14 October 20, 2026
Workshop day
November 14, 2026

01 Format & guidelines

Submissions are limited to 6 pages excluding references and appendices. Formatting guidelines of the host ICAIF conference should be used.

02 Review process

Reviewing is double-blind. There is no rebuttal period. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend to present the work.

03 Presentation

All accepted papers are invited to an oral slot.

03 Proceedings

Accepted papers of at least 5 pages may be considered for inclusion in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, subject to the authors’ consent. Further details regarding the publication process will be provided after the review process.

Invited Speakers

Voices from academia and industry

Keynote
Keynote talk

Riding the wind

How AI Ethics helps to govern when the going gets tough

by Enrico Panai

Panelists

Oreste Pollicino
Panel Chair

Oreste Pollicino

Full Professor of Constitutional Law and AI Regulation, Bocconi University, Italy.

Andrea Claudio Cosentini

Andrea Claudio Cosentini

Head of Data Science & Responsible AI, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy.

Nicasio Muscia

Nicasio Muscia

Managing Director, Responsible AI Lead for Italy & Greece, Accenture, Italy.

Masatomo Goto

Masatomo Goto

Principal Research Director, Fujitsu Research Security Science Lab., Japan.

Fabio Mercorio

Fabio Mercorio

Full Professor of Data Science and AI, University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy.

Schedule

Half-day program

08:3008:35

Opening Remarks5 min

08:3509:50

Paper Session I75 min

5 papers · 12 min + 2–3 min Q&A each
  1. 08:35–08:50
    Auditable FRTB Capital Explanations: A Tool Contract for Financial AI AgentsYuhe Sui
  2. 08:50–09:05
    Digitalizing AI Governance in Financial Institutions: From Document-Centric Policy to Centralized Lifecycle ManagementFederica Screti
  3. 09:05–09:20
    Measuring Sensitive Attribute Biases in LLMs: Credit Risk Assessment as an Empirical BenchmarkFederico Ricciuti, Diana Komis
  4. 09:20–09:35
    Is It Still the Same Model? Economic Identity Fingerprints for Production Financial AIChamyl Saadi, Eric Benhamou
  5. 09:35–09:50
    Enhancing Financial Crisis Prediction Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Explainable Artificial IntelligenceSalvatore Rinzivillo
09:5010:30

Keynote Speaker40 min

Riding the wind — How AI Ethics helps to govern when the going gets tough
Enrico Panai
10:3011:00

Coffee Break30 min

11:0012:15

Paper Session II75 min

5 papers · 12 min + 2–3 min Q&A each
  1. 11:00–11:15
    Governing LLM Agents in Financial Compliance: Controls That Survive a Change of ModelSahil Rangwala
  2. 11:15–11:30
    When Synthesis Silences Risk: Auditable Sign-Off in Financial Agent CommitteesJeffrey Zhou
  3. 11:30–11:45
    FiPARM: Financial Prompt Actionable Risk Management. A Governance Taxonomy for Prompt-Level Risk Classification in Financial ServicesOwen O'Neill
  4. 11:45–12:00
    AEGIS: An Auditable Evidence-Governed Interface for Cost-Aware AI Workflow Selection in FinanceXiaozhen Wang
  5. 12:00–12:15
    Unequal Denial, Similar Recourse Cost: Pricing the Closure of the Mortgage Denial GapJonathan Chang
12:1512:55

Panel Discussion40 min

Panelists
12:5513:00

Closing Remarks5 min

Organizers

The team behind the workshop

Francesca Del Bonifro
Francesca Del Bonifro Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy
Eliana Pastor
Eliana Pastor Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Vita Catapano
Vita Catapano Accenture, Italy
Francesca Naretto
Francesca Naretto University of Pisa, Italy
Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin
Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin Fujitsu, UK
Accepted Papers

List of accepted work

01

Introducing Binomial Stability: A Computational Efficient Approach to Measure Stability in Explainable AI

Annalisa Deiana, Luca Puggini, Andrea Ermellino, Alessandro Castelnovo, Davide Paris
02

Auditable FRTB Capital Explanations: A Tool Contract for Financial AI Agents

Yuhe Sui
03

Selective Threshold SVM for Cross-Asset Market Prediction: Evidence of Asset-Class Dependency in Commodity and Equity Markets

Nikhil Verma, Jianguo Liu
04

Digitalizing AI Governance in Financial Institutions: From Document-Centric Policy to Centralized Lifecycle Management

Federica Screti
05

Measuring Sensitive Attribute Biases in LLMs: Credit Risk Assessment as an Empirical Benchmark

Federico Ricciuti, Diana Komis
06

Is It Still the Same Model? Economic Identity Fingerprints for Production Financial AI

Eric Benhamou, Jean-Jacques Ohana, Beatrice Guez, Ethan Setrouk, Chamyl Saadi, Thomas Jacquot
07

Enhancing Financial Crisis Prediction Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Mathurin Aimé Mekam Pouatcha, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Francesca Naretto
08

Governing LLM Agents in Financial Compliance: Controls That Survive a Change of Model

Aditya Tippanaboena, Cameron Collins, Sahil Rangwala
09

From Survey Drift to Responsible Financial AI: Longitudinal Feature Harmonization and Model Risk Controls

Lorenzo Carta, Serenity Gladd, Oshani Seneviratne
10

Beyond Pricing Error: Multi-Axis Validation of Neural Option-Pricing Surrogates

Ishaan Kulkarni
11

When Synthesis Silences Risk: Auditable Sign-Off in Financial Agent Committees

Jeffrey Zhou
12

FiPARM: Financial Prompt Actionable Risk Management. A Governance Taxonomy for Prompt-Level Risk Classification in Financial Services

Owen O'Neill, Rajitha Ramanayake, Nicte Thorpe, Urja Pawar, Abhishek Mandal, Houssem Chatbri, Christopher Martin
13

AEGIS: An Auditable Evidence-Governed Interface for Cost-Aware AI Workflow Selection in Finance

Xiaozhen Wang, Francois Buet-Golfouse
14

The Price of Contrast: Anytime-Valid Detection of Fairness Drift in Deployed Credit-Scoring Models

Cathy Li
15

Unequal Denial, Similar Recourse Cost: Pricing the Closure of the Mortgage Denial Gap

Jonathan Chang
16

Auditing Before Labels Mature: Budgeted Certification of False-Positive Disparities

Nithin Vargese, Aditya Alaparti, Amann Katta, Swaraj Sainani
Program Committee

Reviewers

Daniele RegoliIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Alessandro CastelnovoIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Andrea ErmellinoIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Annalisa DeianaIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Pietro RennaIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Marco AspromonteIntesa Sanpaolo (Italy)
Alessio TartaroAccenture (Italy)
Flavio GiobergiaPolytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
Eleonora PoetaPolytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
Stefano CirilloUniversity of Salerno (Italy)
Francesca BugiottiCentraleSupélec - LISN (France)
Mathurin Aime Mekam PouatchaUniversity of Pisa (Italy)
Lorenzo MannocciUniversity of Pisa (Italy)
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