This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2014, held in Sydney, Australia, on December 12, 2014.

The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, service, economic, sociological, and behavioral sciences. It reflects on technologically enabled opportunities, implications, and changes due to the introduction of new business models or regulations related to the financial services industry and the financial markets.

The nine papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.

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Detecting Changing Financial Relationships: A Self Organising Map Approach.- Evaluation of News-Based Trading Strategies.- A framework for evaluating the effectiveness of financial news sentiment scoring techniques.- Finding Evidence of Irrational Exuberance in the Oil Market.- Validating an Incremental Rule Management Approach for Financial Market Data Pre-Processing.- Strategic Competitive Advantages through Enterprise Systems: The Case of Exchange Systems.- Conciliating Exploration and Exploitation at Middle-Manager Level: The Case Study of a European Bank Introducing Big Data.- Seasonality and Interconnectivity within Crypto-currencies - An Analysis on the Basis of Bitcoin, Litecoin and Namecoin.- Survey of Financial Market Visualization Utilizing Interactive Media Technology.