“…Financial market predictions using ANNs have been applied to stock markets (Atiya, Talaat, & Shaheen 1997;Sutheebanjard & Premchaiswadi, 2010;Guresen, Kayakutlu, & Daim, 2011), currency markets (Kondratenko & Kuperin, 2003), futures markets (Kim, 2004), business failure predictions (Tang & Chi, 2005), debt and credit risk assessments (Dissananayake, Hendahewa, & Karunananda, 2007), bank theft detection (Guazzoni & Ronsivalle, 2009), bank failure analysis (Al-Shayea & El-Refae, 2012) and credit card approvals (Ilgun, Mekiš, & Mekiš, 2014).…”