The Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT; Stevens Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"CRAFT is the first fintech-focused Industry University Cooperative Research center funded by NSF. Working together, the center's academic and industry partners will collaboratively create innovative solutions such as decentralized finance, AI-enabled finance, quantum finance and solutions to climate-related impacts on investment, while also helping secure our financial data, create and test more equitable trading platforms, inform financial regulations, and support improved market simulation and stress-testing tools that ensure financial system stability for all."