The Citadel Capital Financial Services Center (CCFC)

CItadel CapItal
FInanCIal servICes Center
Shaping the Future of Investment in Egypt
Message FroM the dIreCtor
Since its inauguration in 2006, the Citadel Capital
Financial Services Center (CCFC) has strived to take a
leading role in enhancing the delivery of financial
education by offering students, researchers and market
professionals an exciting state-of-the-art instructional
facility that integrates hands-on financial services practice
into financial concepts. Our role has encompassed
designing and delivering innovative activities, workshops,
competitions and training programs that contribute to
developing individuals with strong financial and analytical
skills. We are proud to announce that more than 1,000
AUC students, faculty and staff members, alumni and
professionals have benefited from our resources and
services over the past five years.
In partnership with internationally recognized business
information and training providers, we have focused on
offering student-centered activities, which augment the
finance curriculum and pave the way for our students to
begin their careers in the financial services industry. It has
been a core part of our mission to promote CCFC as an
integral part of every student’s academic life.
Our priorities have also involved creating a supportive
research environment, bustling with eager students and keen
faculty members, by providing researchers in search of the
latest financial and economic data with access to worldstandard financial databases.
During the coming period, we will continue extending our
imperative educational goal of creating an innovative and
interactive learning environment to develop future market
leaders and enhance the know how of finanace professionals.
Director
Eskandar Tooma
MIssIon
• Enhance financial education and research through the
use of high-tech financial information technology
• Fulfill the need for real and timely financial data flow
• Contribute to the development of new financial
products and applications through an array of financial
software and tools
Through providing professional services that cater to students,
researchers, professionals and the community, the center’s
involvement expands beyond just data and technology.
sponsors and partners
CCFC was inaugurated in Fall 2006 through the generous
support of Citadel Capital. New sponsorships have been
established by Thomson Reuters, Noozz.com and Egypt for
Information Dissemination.
FInanCIal servICes
CCFC offers its services to three main categories of users:
students, faculty members and business executives. The
center focuses on providing trading education and simulation,
world-class research opportunities as well as training courses.
StudEntS
• Mini-classes to assist students in using and
understanding financial technology and databases
• Interactive trading sessions to help students construct
informed and well-researched investment portfolios
• Sponsorship of AUC’s Finance and Investment Club
stock market index
• CCFC Student Academy, which offers Reuters
certification, among other technical courses
• CCFC Corporate Finance Competition
• Special events including:
• Guest lectures
• Workshops covering practical and theoretical issues
• Advanced placement services
Faculty and RESEaRchERS
• Data and software facilities to assist faculty members
and students with their research
• Permanent lab assistants to help faculty members
Professionals
• Standard and customized financial training programs
that aim to improve performance and enhance the
know-how of finance professionals
InItIatIves and MIlestones
• Weekly and quarterly newsletters covering local,
regional and international market performance as well
as Egyptian capital markets, respectively
• The CCFC internship program, which allows students to
gain further knowledge on relevant software and
databases, to serve as faculty and laboratory assistants
• Reuters Certification Program, which provides
participants with the opportunity to become certified
Reuters users
• In partnership with the Chartered Institute for Securities
& Investment (CISI), CCFC offers certification-training
courses on the topics of risk in financial services and
corporate finance as preparation for the CISI exam,
which provides CISI certification in the same areas
• The Financial Analysis and Risk Management for
Microfinance Diploma, a training course offered to
microfinance professionals and practitioners
• CCFC Student Academy, which provides students with
financial training programs and activities
• CCFC Annual Corporate Finance Competition, which
provides participants with the opportunity to conduct a
full-fledged valuation of a listed Egyptian company
advIsory Board
CCFC is proud to have some of Egypt’s most prominent
finance professionals as members of its advisory board. The
advisory board members are:
Medhat Hassanein
Chairman of the board,
professor of finance, The
American University in
Cairo; Egypt’s minister of
finance, 1999 - 2004
Hani Sarie El Din
Chair, Sarie El Din and
Partners - Legal Advisors
Mohamed Abdel Salam
Chair, Misr for Clearing,
Settlement and Central
Depository
Hassan Abdallah
Chief executive officer,
Arab African International
Bank
Hisham Akram
Vice chairman of the
board and managing
director, Madinet Nasr
Housing and
Development
Ahmed El Hossainy
Managing director and
partner, Citadel Capital
Hesham El Khazindar
Managing director and
partner, Citadel Capital
Eskandar Tooma
British Petroleum
Associate Professor
of Finance and Director,
Citadel Capital Financial
Services Center, The
American University
in Cairo
AUC Avenue • P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
tel +20.2.2615.3680/3469/3443
fax +20.2.2797.4954
ccfc@aucegypt.edu
www.aucegypt.edu/business/ccfc