The path breaking initiative to set up a fintech lab that gives access to current and historical market data is one more feather in the cap of School of Management, SRM IST. Conceived and deliberated over a period of six months, the lab has become a cutting edge reality that would facilitate research, learning and even practice among faculty and students alike.
The fintech lab was inaugurated by our Beloved Chancellor, Dr. T.R. Paarivendhar, Member of Parliament & Founder Chancellor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology on 25th September 2019.
Resources
- Thomson Reuters Eikon 4.0: The lab is equipped with a Thomson Reuters Terminal that facilitates a platform for accessing real time data of the equity market, debt market, currency market and cash and F & O segment in each of them.
- CRISIL Research Database: It consist of research data on Economy and 20 industries
- Spider (ACER): It is a unique software for Stock Market Charting and Technical Analysis
- Traders Cockpit.com: It that provides market financial data analytics exclusively for F & O and other derivatives.
- 25 flat screen workstations (plus one for the instructor)
- Touch Screen Monitor with 75" Display Area
Scope
- Teaching Finance Elective Courses
- Mini Projects and Main Projects
- Research – students, faculty and PhD Scholars
- Executive Education - MDPs
- Faculty Development Programmes
- International / National conferences
- Workshops
It is the endeavour of the School of Management to add more sophisticated technology and tools to position ourselves as the best fintech lab among the top ranking business schools in the country. The fintech lab also plans to utilize its full capacity to actively promote research among the students led by the faculty which is a unique selling point of the School of Management.