IIM Calcutta Launches State-of-the-Art Financial Research & Trading Lab

IIM Calcutta Launches State-of-the-Art Financial Research & Trading Lab

The global financial meltdown has highlighted the need to create a new breed of finance experts, who are adept at creating and managing the risks of innovative financial products such as derivatives.

Closely following the current financial crisis and its impact on the financial markets across the globe, IIM Calcutta has realized that this crisis is largely the result of managers not being able to completely understand and manage the operational risks of the new generation of derivatives. With a mission of supporting advanced applied research in financial markets and equip finance managers with the mathematical and conceptual theories and best practices in financial markets that go into the creation and management of innovative financial products, IIM Calcutta has come up with a state-of-the-art Finance Laboratory, called Financial Research & Trading Lab (The Lab). The setting up of the Lab as a research laboratory on financial markets in this period of crisis is, thus, very relevant. The lab builds on the traditional strengths of IIM Calcutta in the Finance and Quantitative Methods areas.

Financial Research & Trading Lab (The Lab) at IIM Calcutta

Currently, the Lab will have 51 terminals with trading simulator and data from five markets (NSE Cash and F&O, BSE Cash, NCDEX and MCX) and one Bloomberg terminal with plans to include real time data of other financial markets like Money Market, Currency, etc., and some more softwares like Revenpack NewsAnalytics, Optirisk Optimization Suite, etc.

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Contributed by -
Aloke Guin,
PRO,
IIM Calcutta.

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