Show Me the Money (Reasoning): Benchmarking Financial Intelligence in LLMs
Money has a useful habit: it exposes nonsense quickly. In ordinary chatbot use, a slightly wrong answer may be annoying. In financial analysis, a slightly wrong number can change a valuation, distort a risk view, or make a portfolio note look more confident than it deserves. That is why financial AI is not just another “domain application” of large language models. It is a stress test for whether a model can combine facts, time, arithmetic, business context, and restraint without pretending that a polished paragraph is the same as a verified conclusion. ...