Dubai Financial Market (DFM) inaugurated on the 19th of January 2014 its Educational Trading Floor at the American University in Dubai (AUD). The educational trading floor was inaugurated in the presence of H.E. Essa Kazim, Chairman of DFM, and Dr. Lance E. de Masi, President of the AUD as well as other senior representatives from both organizations.

For the occasion, AUD and DFM signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which outlines key areas of cooperation and ways to strengthen the existing relations through the development of program and mechanisms that enhance the understanding and knowledge of financial markets in practice and theory to serve the educational efforts of AUD.

The walls of the trading floor have been designed to reflect the precise look and feel of DFM's trading floor.