Textual Analytics applied to Financial Narratives is a research fieldwith multiple perspectives, as this volume shows. Economists andfinancial experts can base their economic analyses not only onquantitative disclosures but also on the communication tools employedby managers to persuade their investors. From the NLP perspective,financial texts provide a suitable domain to apply techniquessuccessfully used in information extraction, summarising,classification, and sentiment analysis. Applied linguistics alsobenefits from the exponential availability of electronic texts tocarry out terminological studies and, in general, to better understand financial language in its lexical, grammatical, and discursiveaspects. This set of interdisciplinary studies are known as FinancialNarrative Processing (FNP). Until recently, FNP was restricted todocuments in English, the international language of finance. Financial Narrative Processing in Spanish is the first collection of essaysdevoted to Spanish Financial Language (SFL). It brings together sixpieces that provide an account of the current research in the fieldfrom a mult
