The Thomson Reuters Laboratory is a structural unit of the Department of Banking and Financial Markets, established by the FinU’s Decree No. 2005 dated November 16, 2017.
In November 2017, the Thomson Reuters Laboratory was officially opened at the FinU. The laboratory provides 10 workstations with full access to the flagship solution of the Thomson Reuters system.
Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of analytical information for businesses and professionals in economics and finance.
The main mission of the Thomson Reuters Laboratory is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire real-world knowledge, skills and abilities that they can use in their future careers; to create conditions for scientists and teachers to work with relevant data for scientific research.
A professional development program for researchers and teachers “Potential and Tools for Using the Thomson Reuters System in Educational and Scientific Activities” was organized. Practical exercises include solving cases and problems using Thomson Reuters functionality. Mastering the training program also includes independent work of students on developing technologies for using the Thomson Reuters system in scientific and educational activities.
Preparations are underway for the integration of special disciplines using the capabilities of the Thomson Reuters system into the master’s degree program “Securities and Financial Engineering”, comcentration 38.04.01 “Economics”. Head of the master’s degree program Prof. B.B. Rubtsov.
Current Activities of the Thomson Reuters Laboratory
Laboratory provides students, faculty and researchers at the FinU with access to a wide range of data, industry and company reports, stock quotes, analytics and financial news.
The Laboratory was created to provide the educational and scientific departments of the FinU with technical and methodological support for the educational process using the Thomson Reuters Eikon system.
The laboratory closely cooperates with the Moscow branch of Thomson Reuters and expects to continue this cooperation (commercial, internationally certified seminars of various levels of complexity and on various types of activities).
The laboratory is also equipped with a professional mathematical package MATLAB*, which allows you to coordinate and conduct quantitative research using multidimensional arrays of financial and economic data. MATLAB allows you to import data from the Thomson Reuters Eikon system and then conduct scientific research and create educational materials according to the most advanced international standards.
*MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory) is a set of applications for solving technical computing problems and a programming language of the same name implemented in this set. It is used by more than one million scientists, engineers, and researchers.
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