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Stevens Institute of Technology Opens Financial Systems Center

Posted by on April 18, 2012 1 comment

Stevens Institute of Technology Opens Financial Systems Center













Hoboken, N.J. (PRWEB) April 17, 2012

Hanlon Financial Systems Lab Recreates Trading Floor Environment to Support Integrated Research and Education in Financial Systems, Quantitative Finance, Software Engineering and Cyber Security

Leaders in the Financial Engineering field, as well as Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno (R-NJ), joined officials at Stevens Institute of Technology to open the Hanlon Financial Systems Lab, a state-of-the-art financial teaching and research facility that will serve as a classroom and laboratory to graduate and undergraduate students in the Financial Systems Center at Stevens. The lab comes courtesy of a gift from Stevens alumnus and Board of Trustees member John “Sean” J. Hanlon IV, CFP® ’80 (B.E. Mechanical Engineering).

“Today Stevens continues its leadership role in formulating a systems perspective for the study of the global financial system, a sector undergoing constant changes with the innate ability to disrupt the global economy,” said Dr. Nariman Farvardin, President of Stevens. “The lab’s cross-disciplinary focus across financial systems, software engineering and cyber security, and its location in the heart of the world’s financial center has positioned Stevens to impact this growing and vital field.”

“The speed of change in financial systems due to technological innovation compels institutions of higher learning to remain ahead of the curve in order to produce impactful research and properly educate students within the current tools that employers demand,” said Hanlon. “Stevens has built a strong reputation in the financial services community through the research we have done and the graduates that have entered the workforce. This facility gives Stevens the resources to remain at the forefront of the industry.”

The Hanlon Financial Systems Lab, as the teaching and research facility will be known, will mirror what students will find at any investment bank, hedge fund, financial institution or asset management firm. The lab will integrate the latest hardware and software technologies to support innovative research into the most common and urgent problems in contemporary finance including systemic risk, enterprise-level risk management, software development and cyber security.

The Hanlon Financial Systems Lab is designed to support academic programs within the Financial Systems Center at Stevens, which include a graduate program in Financial Engineering, offering Masters and PhD degrees, and an undergraduate program in Quantitative Finance, the only one of its kind in the Northeast. The lab features equipment typically found in a trading room including Bloomberg terminals, trading desks, Smartboards and several high definition screens.

Hanlon, who founded Hanlon Investment Management in 1999, will serve as the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Financial Systems Center. Dinesh Verma, Dean of the School of Systems & Enterprises, and Professors Khaldoun Khashanah and George Calhoun join Hanlon in leading the undergraduate and graduate programs associated with the Financial Systems Center.

ICAP and RealTick are strategic partners of the Stevens Financial Systems Center. Additional support, data and software for the FSC will be provided by the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Jefferies, Gain Capital, Tripwire, Decide-FS, Redseal and Fortify.

Preceding the opening of the lab, Dr. Robert Engle, Professor of Finance at NYU and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics; Dr. Andrei Kirilenko, Chief Economist of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Dr. Lou Crandall, Chief Economist of Wrightson ICAP participated in an academic colloquium titled: “The New Complexity – A Systems Perspective on Finance.” Following that, was a luncheon with keynote speaker, Richard Brueckner, Chief of Staff, BNY Mellon.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University™, lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University’s students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,400 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at http://www.stevens.edu and http://www.stevens.edu/news.





















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ANHAM Announces the Use of APPF Security in the Country of Afghanistan

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ANHAM Announces the Use of APPF Security in the Country of Afghanistan











Dubai, UAE (PRWEB) March 09, 2012

ANHAM FZCO, a leading contracting firm that provides services around the world, announced that they will be using the Afghan Public Protection Force (APPF) for security services in Afghanistan. This is being facilitated by Afghan Fleet and Group Services (AFGS) for the benefit of ANHAM. This constitutes the first time that an organization is cooperating with the APPF for security services in Afghanistan and marks an important milestone in the ongoing transition from private security companies to the Afghan-led APPF.

“We are excited to be working with the APPF for our security needs in Afghanistan,” said Mr. Abul Huda Farouki, CEO and Chairman of ANHAM FZCO.

ANHAM has been instrumental in mentoring AFGS to provide services to ANHAM’s operations. AFGS will play a key role in facilitating this new standard for the safety and security for projects in Afghanistan.

The APPF was created to take over security responsibility after President Hamid Karzai ordered private security companies to be disbanded in August of 2010. The APPF is focusing now on taking over security responsibility for development projects, convoys and commercial businesses. By March 2013, all security for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) bases and construction sites is scheduled to transition to the APPF.

“ANHAM prides itself on working with only the most reliable companies,” said Mr. A. H. Farouki, “We are very pleased with the work we have done with AFGS over the past several years and look forward to continuing that success in using them along with APPF for our security requirements in ANHAM’s Afghanistan operations.”

About ANHAM FZCO

ANHAM FZCO (http://www.anham.com) is a leading contracting firm working throughout the Middle East and North Africa (“MENA”), Central Asia, and Europe. With a century’s worth of experience between its principal founding companies, ANHAM is able to efficiently, effectively, and affordably deliver products and services throughout the world. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, ANHAM has international offices that specialize in providing local support and services to its initiatives, projects, and investments across diverse regions of the globe.





















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Greenberg Traurig?s Labor and Employment Practice Recognized Among Law360?s Employment Groups of the Year

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Greenberg Traurig’s Labor and Employment Practice Recognized Among Law360’s Employment Groups of the Year












New York, NY (PRWEB) December 23, 2011

The Labor and Employment practice of international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP was recently named one of five Employment Practice Groups of the Year for 2011 by Law360. According to Law360’s guidelines, firms were selected based on the significance, size and complexity of their litigation victories.

“We are honored to be recognized among such an accomplished group of Labor and Employment practitioners,” said Peter Zinober, Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice. “We are proud of our clients’ victories, and also proud that our national trial experience has contributed to decisions that shaped employment law over the last year.”

Law360, a digital publisher of news and data for attorneys, will profile Greenberg Traurig along with the other four firms in a series of articles in January.

Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice is a world-wide practice that provides labor and employment services in more than 30 different offices. It offers companies and employers a wide range of consulting and litigation services, including labor relations, training and policy development, business immigration and federal and state agency practices, and is well known for having some of the most experienced trial lawyers in the labor and employment field.

About Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1800 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. In the U.S., the firm has more offices than any other among the Top 10 on The National Law Journal’s 2011 NLJ 250. In the U.K., the firm operates as Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Greenberg Traurig has a strategic alliance with the independent law firm Studio Santa Maria in Milan and Rome. The firm was Chambers and Partners’ USA Law Firm of the Year in 2007 and among the Top 3 in the International Law Firm of the Year at the 2009 The Lawyer Awards. For additional information, please visit http://www.gtlaw.com.

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AirAsia – Winner of the CAPA Airline of the Year Award 2009; Connects You to 14 Destinations from Singapore

Posted by on July 23, 2011 1 comment

AirAsia – Winner of the CAPA Airline of the Year Award 2009; Connects You to 14 Destinations from Singapore











AirAsia and AirAsia X Joint Winners of CAPA Airline of the Year AWARD 2009


Singapore (PRWEB) October 29, 2009

Exceptional achievement, brilliant innovations, and constant positive growth – these exceptional qualities made AirAsia and AirAsia X joint winners of the prestigious Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Airline of the Year Award for 2009 this year at the CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence presentation ceremony, held at the Great Wall Sheraton in Beijing, China.

The Awards Ceremony was held as part of this year’s sixth annual Asia Aviation Outlook summit, showcasing airline and airport CEOs from around the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.

AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said, “We are greatly honoured to be bestowed the most prestigious award of the evening. Undoubtedly, our ceaseless dedication in providing premium services with low fares, incessant innovations and most significantly, the unbeatable synergy of our short-haul and long-haul networks have greatly contributed to this success.

“From 2 planes to 80 and from 200,000 to over 75 million passengers in just a short 7 years marks unprecedented growth by any airline globally, let alone a low fare airline like AirAsia. We are deeply flattered to accept this award and this shall further bolster our pledge – to provide superior services coupled with our low fares plus diverse service options to our guests. This is our promise,” he added.

The CAPA Airline of the Year 2009 award is deemed the uppermost level of recognition given to airlines for excellent achievements in the aviation industry and outstanding strategic contribution over the course of the past year. AirAsia had successfully proven to be the leader in the development of the airline industry with its constant innovations and rapid expansion of its operations across the region and internationally, regularly setting new standards of excellence for others to follow.

AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani was equally elated by the win. He said, “It was just in 2008 that AirAsia X won the CAPA New Airline of the Year award. Being acknowledged as the CAPA Airline of the Year for 2009 within just a year of our previous win is indeed a great honour. This recognition will greatly boosts our fortitude in offering greater quality services to all our guests and inspire us to further expand our network and enhance our reach tremendously. This is really a proud moment for both AirAsia and AirAsia X. We would like to thank CAPA for their utmost recognition to us”.    

AirAsia has previously won several awards from CAPA – AirAsia was a joint winner of the Airline of the Year award in 2003, won the Asia Pacific Low Cost Airline of the Year 2004, followed by the Asia Pacific Aviation Executive of the Year 2005 which was awarded to Tony Fernandes, Group CEO and Founder of AirAsia.

In 2007, the airline again scored the prestigious Airline of the Year award and in 2008, AirAsia X was conferred the New Airline of the Year Award.

Peter Harbison, Executive Chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) said, “AirAsia has had another superlative year amid some of the toughest conditions to hit the airline industry on record. An innovator in revenue generation, with a strongly developing network and consistent focus on maintaining its world leading low cost base, AirAsia was the outstanding performer in 2009. AirAsia and AirAsia X are leading the way in developing short-haul to long-haul connectivity in ways which promise to revolutionize the international marketplace”.

About AirAsia and AirAsia X

AirAsia, the leading and largest low-cost carrier in Asia, services the most extensive network with over 130 routes covering 65 destinations. Within the grasp of 7 years of operations, AirAsia has carried over 75 million guests and grown its fleet from just two aircraft to 85. The airline today is proud to be a truly Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) airline with established operations based in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, servicing a network stretching across all Asean countries, China, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This is further complemented by AirAsia X, its low-cost long-haul affiliate carrier that currently flies to destinations in China, Australia, Taiwan, the UK, and, very soon, Abu Dhabi. AirAsia is the only regional carrier with the largest destination network and highest flight frequencies. AirAsia has been named the 2009 World’s Best Low Cost Airline in the annual World Airline Survey by Skytrax and was for the third time named the Best Asian Low Cost Carrier by TTG, Asia Pacific’s leading travel news publisher.

Please visit “http://www.airasia.com”.

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