The mission of the Merrill Lynch Center is to promote and facilitate faculty and student study in the field of international financial services and markets, and to communicate knowledge and information in this field. The Center will seek to accomplish this through (a) the interaction of academics and professionals; and (b) an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Center's areas of interest.

The work of the Center has been supported with contributions from various organizations whose generosity we appreciate and wish to recognize:

• Merrill Lynch Foundation
• Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
• Nasdaq
• Banyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan
• American Stock Exchange
• OpenLink Financial, Inc.
• European American Bank
• ABN-AMRO
• Deloitte & Touche
• The Bank of New York