CIFT- Center for Innovative Financial Technology
The mission of the Center is to conduct and facilitate innovative research and teaching on how new technologies impact global electronic markets, investment strategies, and the stability of the financial system.
We seek to benefit students by offering state-of-the-art facilities, tools,
and data, and use modern web approaches to accumulate and share expertise
among faculty, students, industry, and academic collaborators.
The information people use to make financial decisions is changing. Brokers are disintermediated by electronic market access. Reporter/editor/reader relationships are disintermediated by web access to primary sources. Technology has provided the means to deliver a great deal of financially relevant information. It has lagged in providing the means to make sense of it in a timely manner. This is an important focus of CIFT research.
Modern collaborative "Web 2.0" ideas facilitate accumulation of expertise. The center looks to use these idea to extend the academic setting, in one school, across departments, and into the greater Wall Street community.
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