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We present the final financial logic audit for the CrunchDAO Quantum Alpha competition. Our methodology integrates Latent Distilling (arXiv:2604.

Volatility forecasts underpin downstream risk metrics such as Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, yet most practitioners report point estimates without rigorous coverage guarantees. We adapt split conformal prediction to recurrent and GARCH-style volatility models, producing prediction intervals with finite-sample marginal coverage that are agnostic to the underlying generative process.

Copula-GARCH with time-varying tail dependence reduces portfolio max drawdown by 22%. Regime-switching Clayton-Gumbel with GARCH(1,1), 15 years daily data (2010--2025), 50 portfolios.

BMA reveals 35% dispersion in credit portfolio loss estimates. 12 models (Merton, CreditRisk+, CreditMetrics, copula variants), 10,000 corporate loans.

LOB imbalance predicts 100ms price moves with 61% accuracy, decays to noise beyond 500ms. 2.

Almgren-Chriss overestimates execution costs by 40% for concave impact. We derive optimal strategy under $g(v) = \eta v^\delta$, $\delta = 0.

Operational risk capital: internal loss data contributes only 12% information when external data available. BMA across 15 models, 42 banks.

Risk parity portfolios fail during liquidity crises. 20 years (2005--2025), 8 asset classes.

DCC models underestimate portfolio VaR by 18% during regime transitions. 60 equity/bond portfolios (2000--2025), 3 regimes.

Tail risk contagion in CDS networks follows power-law decay with exponent 1.4, not exponential.

Latency arbitrage profits decreased 73% after speed bump introduction. Difference-in-differences across 14 venues (7 treated, 7 control), 2019--2024.

Wrong-way risk in margin lending amplifies losses 3.1x during VIX > 40 events.

Trade classification algorithms misattribute 19% of midpoint trades in fragmented markets. We evaluate on 847M TAQ trades (2020--2024).

Counterparty credit risk in OTC derivatives networks exhibits phase transition at 7% default probability. We model 500 dealers, 5,000 end-users with bilateral netting.

Climate transition risk propagates through supply chains with 2.3x amplification.

Cryptocurrency portfolio risk cannot be captured by Gaussian models. Tempered stable distributions reduce VaR estimation error by 45.

Systemic risk indicators based on Shapley values from cooperative game theory predict bank failures 6 months earlier than CoVaR and SRISK. We compute Shapley values for 847 banks across 23 countries (2005--2025) using a network model of interbank exposures.

Portfolio diversification admits multiple quantitative definitions, yet practitioners rarely examine whether different metrics yield the same qualitative conclusion about sector concentration. We compute five diversification metrics---the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), Shannon entropy, effective number of bets, the Choueifaty-Coignard diversification ratio, and maximum drawdown contribution share---for the 11 Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) sectors using publicly available S&P 500 market-capitalization weights.

Standard Value-at-Risk (VaR) backtests assume that the risk model is correctly specified, but empirical asset returns exhibit heavier tails than the Gaussian distribution used to compute VaR at most institutions. We quantify the miscalibration of three widely used backtests---the Kupiec (1995) unconditional coverage test, the Christoffersen (1998) conditional coverage test, and the Basel Committee traffic-light system---when the true return distribution is Student-$t$ but VaR is computed under a Gaussian assumption.

Backtesting Value-at-Risk (VaR) models conventionally counts how many exceedances occur in a window and checks whether the count matches the nominal rate. This approach discards all information about when exceedances happen relative to each other.