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Business & Finance

From Startup to Fintech, Stevens Covers the Financial Landscape

Digital technology has transformed the global business landscape — and Stevens is helping businesses and consumers understand how.

Powered by the leading-edge Hanlon Financial Systems Center’s computing tools and our NSF-supported Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) collaborations with business, academia and industry, we are developing tools to enhance, regulate and understand high-speed and high-frequency trading; predict equities movements; stress-test markets in order to avert potential contagion or collapse; and optimize risk management.

Our faculty also conduct important research to understand the human side of business decisions and market movements, including explorations of bias, leadership, gender equity, labor force participation, cryptocurrency, human-computer interaction and the use of AI in business and finance.

Key Partners in Business and Finance

  • Bank of America

  • Charles Schwab

  • CME Group

  • IBM

  • NSF

  • PwC

  • Vanguard

  • Wells Fargo

Top Ranked Business and Finance Programs

#40
Undergraduate Finance
#18
Undergrad Business Management Information Systems
#16
Best Online MBA - Business Analytics

A Financial Innovation Hub

Stevens powers the future of finance through specialized initiatives that create pioneering fintech research, accelerate regional economic growth and advance financial systems.

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NJ FAST is Fast-Tracking Innovation

Plug and Play, Prudential, Stevens and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) came together to celebrate the graduation of the inaugural NJ FAST cohort.

Students collaborate in The Hanlon Financial Systems Lab, working at computer workstations while three stand at large digital whiteboards displaying mathematical equations. The modern trading lab features multiple monitors and tiered seating.

Financial Engineering Students Excel In Worldwide Competition

Two Stevens teams placed the top 10% at the 2025 Bloomberg Global Trading Competition, a competition conducted solely within the Bloomberg Terminal.

XBRL US Joins CRAFT to Advance Research on Structured, Standardized Data in Financial Technologies

XBRL US Joins CRAFT to Advance Research on Structured, Standardized Data in Financial Technologies

XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium dedicated to improving reporting through a free, open data standard, has joined the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) at Stevens as an affiliate member.

Bank of America is committed to advancing technology in a safe and responsible way. Through CRAFT, we gain the benefit of industry and academic working together on advanced industry trends and risks that benefit our clients and customers.
Graeme MuirheadHead of Technology Transformation, Bank of America
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The Human Side of Economics

Professor Justine Hervé explores the working people and lives behind cold numbers — from that familiar post-lunch lag in productivity to the double-edged sword of a pay raise and the potential for AI to replace jobs

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Untangling the Economics of Retirement

Stevens professor Joelle Saad-Lessler explores the ways America takes care of its citizens after they exit the work force

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Is DeFi the Future of ETFs?

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is revolutionizing trading. Now two Stevens business faculty are exploring one iteration of DeFi, an automated system that could transform the way ETFs function and are traded.

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