The primary purpose of the Eighth IMS-FIPS workshop is to bring together a global cast of leading academic experts, practitioners and junior researchers to share research that underscores the contributiions of Probability and Statistics to the development of quantitative models, methods, techniques and technologies in the fields of Finance and Insurance. The fifth workshop has three specific supporting goals or themes. These are:

• To highlight the role of statistics and data analysis in modeling and understanding transaction and event driven issues in finance and insurance.
• To extend the discussion of application areas to include the insurance industry and the practice of risk management.
• To sharpen the focus on areas that align with the interests of practitioners and to incorporate the contributions of research done by practitioners.

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