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From Trading Floor to the Classroom: Area math teachers learning ways to teach high school students about stocks, bonds, market securities.
High finance is coming to local high schools, courtesy of the Wall Street West initiative and a weeklong workshop at King's College. Jason Brown, a vice-president at Prudential Insurance, gestures during a discussion about retirement plans Thursday with area high school math teachers. Brown was among presenters during a weeklong workshop covering a wide range of financial topics the teachers can then incorporate into their high school classrooms. The workshop was part of the Wall Street West Initiative. >MORE

Penn State - Berks Cybercamp Helping Students Prepare for the Future
Wall Street West was set up to provide cyber-security for the information hub of New York City in case disaster strikes. The project calls for transferring financial information between our region and New York via fiber optic lines. But now, the agencies behind the initiative are trying to secure a stronger work force, and they're looking locally. >MORE

Wall Street West Grants Pour In
Area work force development and educational groups will receive more than $6 million as part of a Wall Street West initiative expected to boost financial and information technology skills in the region. >MORE

Wall Street West Regional Meeting News Coverage - May 30, 2008

Technology, Training Key
A recent Brookings Institution report concluded that the technological limitations in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton metro area are partially responsible for a lag in productivity.  >More

WEDCO Report Lauds 'Success' of Business Park
With all obstacles in the way of the Sterling Business Park removed and a May 30 groundbreaking scheduled, the president of the Wayne Economic Development Corp. summed up his April 10 annual report to WEDCO members in one word: "success." >More

Wall Street West Funds Programs
Wall Street is meeting River Street with the latest round of Innovation Investments provided by the not-for-profit organization Wall Street West. >More

YES Program Receives Wall Street West Grant
The Northeast Pennsylvania Manufacturers and Employers Council Inc. received a $10,000 Wall Street West Innovation Investment grant for its Your Employability Skills certificate program. The program, which teaches students basic employability skills, was one of nine chosen from the region for funding. >More

King's Gets WSW Funding
Area schools will share in $671,618 in the second round of funds awarded through the Wall Street West initiative that aims to bring back-up operations office of New York City-based financial institutions to the region. >More

Wall Street West Announces Second Round of Funding
Continuing its commitment to building an integrated and sustainable economic and workforce development system, Wall Street West has allocated more than $500,000 in WIRED funding to develop programming that will boost the skill set of workers in northeastern Pennsylvania. >More

700,000 in Grant Money Going to 9 Different Programs
Wall Street West has announced that nearly $700,000 in grant money will be dispersed to nine different programs all with the shared goal of creating a backup to the financial services industry of Wall Street in northeastern Pennsylvania. >More

Wall Street West Grants Announced
This Saint Patrick's Day some people found a pot of gold - but not at the end of the rainbow - but at the end of a Wall Street plan. >More

Wall Street West Updates
Since September 11 New York's financial district has wanted a back up site where operations can continue even during a disaster. >More

Where Owners Live Can Make a Difference
Proponents of the Wall Street West initiative, designed to boost financial services industry jobs in Northeastern Pennsylvania, say education and training for careers that require high-level technical and cognitive skills will be keys to their success. >More

Goodbye, Annetta DeYoung...Hello, New York?
The glitterati of Wayne County's business community descended in force upon Ehrhardt's Waterfront Restaurant in Tafton for the annual Chamber of Commerce Dinner on Wednesday evening. >More

Workers Key for Wall Street West
As much as the Wall Street West initiative depends upon technology, it requires a skilled work force to direct and collect data transmitted at the blink of an eye over fiber optic lines, officials said during a project update. >More

Grants Provide Teachers Finance Training from Wall Street
Wall Street West is training high school teachers in northeast Pennsylvania in the finer points of finance in hopes of sparking students to enter the financial services field. >More

Service Sector Starred in 2007
Three venerable local businesses were among those that changed hands in 2007, and none of them found local buyers. >More

Teachers Offered Financial Training
High school teachers will have a chance to take part in a financial literacy training seminar for free next month that's part of the federal and state Wall Street West initiative. >More

Teachers Needed for Finance 101
The new Financial Literacy Institute, a cooperation between Misericordia University, the University of Scranton, Northampton Community College and Wall Street West, is contacting school administrators in nine counties, seeking volunteers for a program that will train teachers to impart "financial literacy" to high school students.  >More

Lessons in Financial Literacy
John Sumansky says the consequences of financial illiteracy should be obvious by now.  >More

East Stroudsburg group wins Wall Street West grant
Train future workers and the highly skilled financial industry jobs will come.  >More

Wall Street West Gets Grants
The state on Tuesday backed up its commitment to create backup operations for the New York financial industry by committing more than $2 million for regional work force training and education programs. >More

State Invests Millions in Wall Street West
The state on Tuesday backed up its commitment to create backup operations for the New York financial industry by committing more than $2 million for regional work force training and education programs. >More

A Lesson Learned: Backing Up Wall Street's IT
Wall Street West plans to be ready to back up financial IT systems by 2008. >More

Fiber Optic Network to Connect NYC and Pennsylvania
Wall Street firms are one step closer to getting a fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with northeastern Pennsylvania as part of a total back-up solution in the event of a disaster. >More

Pennsylvania Promotes Wall Street West
A fiber-optic network linking Wall Street to the Poconos will be built as part of Pennsylvania's effort to persuade financial services companies to establish back-up offices in the Keystone state. >More

Stock trading in the Poconos?
What do the Poconos and Wall Street have in common? One is a fast-paced center of finance, and the other is a relaxing vacation spot in northeastern Pennsylvania. >More

Ben Franklin Technology Grant
Bethlehem is playing back up to Wall Street. The Bethlehem-based Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania has received a one million dollar grant. >More

Poconos To "Backup" Wall Street
Governor Ed Rendell, along with Wall Street West, a federal and state funded program created to develop a total back-up solution for New York City financial institutions in the event of disaster, have announced plans to build a fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with Northeastern Pennsylvania. >More

Level 3 to Build Financial Network
Level 3 Communications will build a fiber-optic network from northeast Pennsylvania to New York City as part of a $40 million project to keep Wall Street financial institutions operating in case of a terrorism attack or major power outage. >More

Fiber-optic Contract Awarded for Wall Street West Network
A Colorado company won a state contract to build a fiber-optic network between eastern Pennsylvania and New York City that will allow financial services companies and others to send data instantaneously between the two areas. >More

With Fiber-Optic Network Coming, Local Developer Can Begin Building
The Penn Regional Business Center now truly can begin, according to its planner. >More

Fiber-optic Network from Manhattan to Poconos is Coming
Wall Street West project signs key contract. >More

NEPA to be 911 for Wall Street
A leading telecommunications company was identified Thursday as the contractor to build a high-speed fiber optic line connecting Eastern Pennsylvania to New York's financial district. >More

Pennsylvania Plans Fiber-Optic Link to Wall Street 
Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell said Level 3 Communications Inc. will build a fiber-optic network linking the northeastern part of the state to New York City to help lure backup data operations from Wall Street firms. >More

Wall Street Connector Chosen 
Firm will build $25 million line to Eastern Pennsylvania >More

Wall Street West Plan Advances
Level 3 Communications hired to extend fiber optic network from NYC into Pennsylvania as part of project to create emergency back-up. >More

Wall Street West Initiative Gets Major Boost
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, along with Wall Street West, today announced an agreement for Level 3 Communications to build a fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with northeastern Pennsylvania.  >More

Wall Street West to have Fiber Optics 
Wall Street West and Gov. Ed Rendell announced Thursday that Level 3 Communications will build a fiber optic network to provide back up disaster services for financial firms in New York City. >More

Breaking News: Wall Street West Details Plan for Fiber Optic Line
State officials today named a contractor to build a new fiber optic network connecting lower Manhattan with Northeastern Pennsylvania. >More

$24m fiber optic network to link Poconos-Manhattan in two years
Plans are underway to build a fiber network connecting lower Manhattan with the Poconos through a state-funded program created to develop a total back-up solution for New York City financial institutions in the event of disaster.  >More

Wall Street Closer to Fiber Optic Deal in Pa.
Wall Street West inched closer to reality this week.  >More

Grant Improves State's Chance of Becoming Wall Street West
The effort to make northeastern Pennsylvania a back-up Wall Street if a terrorist attack knocks out the New York financial district got a big boost today.  >More

Grant Boosts 'Wall Street West'
A local economic development group got a $1 million grant Tuesday to help make eastern Pennsylvania a back-up Wall Street in case a terrorist attack or natural disaster knocks out the New York financial district. >More

Wall Street West to seek qualified local workforce
Wall Street West, a federal- and state-funded program created to develop a total back-up solution for New York City financial institutions in the event of a disaster, has launched its Innovation Investments program and is accepting pre-proposals through May 31. >More

Wall Street West Appears in BusinessWeek
Wall Street in the Poconos: The Poconos region is changing its image under the Wall Street West banner - from the honeymoon capital of the world to a thriving area for financial companies looking to build emergency back-up facilities. >More

SECCAS Opens Backup Data Center
Hosted compliance solutions provider SECCAS (seccas.com) announced on Monday it has decided to open its secondary data center in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a decision made after reviewing multiple locations in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. >More

SECCAS Selects Northeastern Pennsylvania for New Data Center
SECCAS LLC is opening a secondary data operations center in Scranton, Pa., a decision that the provider of hosted compliance solutions for financial-services companies said was made after reviewing multiple locations in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. >More

First Wall Street West Firm Near
The first of what is anticipated to be many companies to locate in the region as part of the Wall Street West initiative should have its backup financial data operations center running by early summer. >More

Wall Street Heading West
SECCAS' arrival marks the metro area's first practical success in the "Wall Street West" initiative to lure New York-based financial firms' data-backup facilities. >More

Piece of 'Big Apple' Coming to Scranton
SECCAS' arrival marks the metro area's first practical success in the "Wall Street West" initiative to lure New York-based financial firms' data-backup facilities. >More

Computer Services Company to Join Wall Street West
A New York company that provides computer services to financial companies will open a data center in Scranton to tap into the Wall Street West initiative. >More

'Wall Street West' Finds First Success
New York City-based data-backup provider SECCAS LLC will establish an office in Scranton creating at least 10 jobs. >More

SECCAS Selects Northeastern Pennsylvania for New Data Center
Leading Provider of Compliance Solutions for Financial Firms Says Advantages of Doing Business in "Wall Street West" Region Crucial to its Decision. >More

New York Data Firm Embraces Wall Street West
Computer Network Solutions of Plainview, New York, has decided to take advantage of northeastern Pennsylvania's many geographical infrastructure benefits. >More

Northeast PA to Serve as Center of NYC Financial Data Back-up Efforts
Region on different power grid, yet close enough to the epicenter of the financial services world. >More

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