FINANCE LAB OPENS

Earlier this week Stevens Institute of Technology unveiled the nation's first cross-disciplinary financial research and teaching lab with a focus across financial systems, software engineering and cyber security. Called the Hanlon Financial Systems Lab, it recreates the trading floor environment to support integrated research and education in financial systems, quantitative finance, software engineering and cyber security

 

The Hanlon lab sits at the heart of Stevens's Financial Systems Center (FSC). Noted as the first of its kind in the United States, the FSC will serve as a platform for financial systems research, and the development, testing and evaluation of software for financial networks and the investigation of cyber-security challenges in the financial domain. The Center was formed to apply systems thinking and related methods to analyze, understand, and characterize the behavior of the complex global financial system.

 

For CFOs, the FSC may provide prime recruitment ground for talent trained in leading edge financial approaches. Overall, 28% of Stevens grads last year went in Finance.