HELP University opens largest Bloomberg Finance Lab in Malaysia

Bloomberg Terminals and training will advance its ambition to be an analytics and data driven university

Kuala Lumpur – HELP University and Bloomberg today opened the largest Bloomberg Finance Lab in Malaysia at the university’s 33rd anniversary celebrations and launch of its new RM 25 million Business Analytics Technology and Innovation Centre (BATIC).

The Bloomberg Finance Lab will be housed in BATIC, which has a central role in HELP University’s transformation to become an analytics driven and entrepreneurial university. BATIC, which will be open to the public, acts as a technology research, incubation and ideation hub, comprising a training center for stock market researchers and investment analysts and a training center for professionals in big data and business analytics.

Datuk Professor Dr Paul Chan, Vice-Chancellor & President of HELP University said: “HELP University is recognized for its top quality graduates in the economics, business and financial disciplines. Besides our Business Analytics certificate course, our students can also get certified in Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) using the Bloomberg Terminals. Such training and access to rich data, case studies, information resources and financial tools, will accelerate our students to become global leaders in the financial and business world.” Professor Dr Paul Chan was the former chairman of the KLSE Composite Index, and is a member of the Australian National University College of Business & Economics Alumni Hall of Fame.

Maggie Ng, Head of ASEAN Sales, Bloomberg said: “We are excited to be advancing HELP University’s ambition to be an analytics and data-driven university and offer the same market-moving news and data used by the world’s leading business and financial professionals to HELP University’s students and faculty. With the training and coursework offered by the Bloomberg Finance Lab, we hope to advance the careers of students in Malaysia to build the next generation of financial professionals.”
HELP University joins more than 800 universities worldwide with Bloomberg Terminals or Finance Labs. There will be 16 Bloomberg Terminals for the university’s business and economics undergraduates in BATIC.

The Bloomberg Terminal is a software platform that provides real-time and historical data, market moving news and analytics to help leading business and financial professionals worldwide make better informed investment decisions. The service also features execution platforms for every asset class, research and a global network to communicate securely and reliably.

The Bloomberg Finance Lab will help undergraduate and graduate students build the skills needed for a career in finance. Students will also have access to Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), an e-learning certification course, and CFAPRO, a database that maps the CFA Institute Candidate Body of Knowledge to over 387 relevant Bloomberg Terminal functions.

Bloomberg has been working with local banks, corporations and government agencies to advance Malaysia’s financial market infrastructure and enhance transparency and efficiency, through its data, news and analytics. Since 2014, the Malaysia Money Brokers Association used Bloomberg as a primary platform to disseminate foreign exchange rates. Bloomberg also collaborated with Bank Negara Malaysia, the Association of Islamic Banking Institutions Malaysia and Bursa Malaysia to launch three sukuk indices for Malaysia, the world’s biggest sukuk market.

About HELP Education Group
HELP University was founded in 1986 to provide affordable quality educational opportunities for Malaysians. It has since developed into a leading institution of higher learning in Malaysia with an international reputation among universities, research organisations, scholars, business, corporate leaders, and governments. HELP University offers a wide and diverse range of programmes covering business, law, management, economics, IT, the social sciences, and the humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels. The HELP Group has won numerous awards. It was recognised by Forbes Asia in 2011 as one of the top 200 Top Performing companies in Asia Pacific with capitalization below USD 1 billion. It also won the KPMG Shareholder Value Award in 2010, and was ranked 43 among 1,000 public listed companies on the Malaysian Stock Exchange. HELP was also included in the Malaysian Corporate Governance Indext by MSWG, and won the Brand Laureate Award for Best Brand Award for Private Tertiary Education in 2012. In 2011, Group CEO, Datin Chan-Low Kam Yoke, was named Woman Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.

About Bloomberg
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength: leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. For more information, visit www.bloomberg.com or request a demo.

Media contacts
Juliet Chan
Director, Corporate Communications
HELP University
juliet.chan@help.edu.my
+6 03 27162000 ext 2182

Grace Ngoh
ASEAN Corporate Communications
Bloomberg
gngoh@bloomberg.net
+65 6231 3690