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As part of its mission, CCFC provides services to students, faculty, the community and to professionals. For a preview of CCFC's strategic plan, please 
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Students
One of the primary objectives of CCFC is to provide quality financial education and training to students. Some of the students-centered activities delivered in the center include Miniclasses, interactive trading sessions, guest lecture series, hosting the AUC index and many more. For a list of all student events please check our 
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Miniclasses
CCFC's facility is fitted with stock exchange monitors, live news, and price tickers. This will help the center in offering students mini-classes that will help students understand and use the financial databases and softwares available in the trading room. Some of the Miniclasses offered include:
- Reuters 3000 Xtra Training
- Financial Applications of Excel
- Mining for Financial Data
- Statistics for Business
- SPSS
Interactive Trading Sessions
During regular stock market hours, interactive trading sessions will also be used to give students hand-on experience in constructing investment portfolios, using financial data in pricing securities, identifying market inefficiencies and understanding the impact of market making and price taking on market dynamics.
AUC Index
CCFC is also the proud sponsor of AUC's finance club stock market index. The index, developed by finance students, will be benchmarked against existing market indices and will not only serve in providing valuable market insights, but also become a learning challenge.
Guest Lectures
Students will benefit from the array of events CCFC will host. A series of guest lectures will always insure that students are in touch with and aware of the prominent figures in the finance sector.
Other Services
Workshops covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of financial knowledge, will give students the right mix that would prepare them for a world of job opportunities in the finance sector.
The center also works closely with the Finance club. For more information on the finance club, please CLICK HERE.
Faculty and Research
In an effort to foster academic research, CCFC provides data and software facilities to help faculty and students with research. Permanent lab assistants are also available for assisting faculty and backing them up with market data needed for empirical research.
"Fidelity Retirement Funds: Making the Right choice"
AUC's Human Resources department in collaboration with CCFC launched this faculty training session to help faculty and staff choose their Fidelity retirement plans. For powerpoint presentation, please 
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Professionals
CCFC supports the corporate community through providing financial training sessions needed to improve performance and enhance finance professionals' know-how. Both standard and customized training programs, will help corporations to meet their growing demand for analysts, financial managers, broker/ dealers, and custodians.
CCFC currently offers the following professional certificates:
Certificate in Microfinance
The Citadel Capital Financial Services Center (CCFC) at the American University in Cairo is the first center in the Middle East to offer certification in Microfinance practice. Recognizing the importance of the role played by Microfinance in the economic and social development of countries, makes it vital to provide a forum where microfinance practitioners can exchange knowledge and experience, to enhance the practice. For more information, please CLICK HERE or contact us at ccfc@aucegypt.edu
Certificate Course in Financial Management and Risk Assessment International best practice in microfinance around the world suggests good financial analysis and risk management are the basis for successful and sustainable microfinance operations. In Egypt, microfinance practitioners who experienced the practical importance of sound financial management and risk assessment in microfinance institutions often lack formal training in this area. Recognizing the importance of the subject and its effect on the sound management of MFIs and on sustainability issues, The Citadel Capital Financial Services Center at AUC will offer a course to tackle the subject. For more information, please contact us at ccfc@aucegypt.edu.
Customized Corporate Training with International Universities
To continuously enrich its programs and services, CCFC has formed strategic alliances with top business schools worldwide, giving us an edge in attracting the finest local and international instructors and trainers and to design and deliver world class training programs to Egyptian financial instituions. For more information on how we can help your company's training needs, please contact us at ccfc@aucegypt.edu.
Technical Analysis
CCFC and The Egyptian Society for Technical Analysts (ESTA) are offering financial institutions’ professionals the “Fundamentals of Technical Analysis” course as an in-house training course for companies. For more information, please contact us at ccfc@aucegypt.edu.
For our latest Annual Report, please CLICK HERE.