
The group toured the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Mercantile Exchange and Museum of American Finance. They visited with executives from Rabobank and the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation. The Funding Corporation is the entity within the Farm Credit System that sells System debt through a group of dealers on Wall Street. The group also visited Ground Zero and Times Square.
Several Fellows on the NYC trip spent a week in Yankee branch offices last year: Andrew Birch, Coral Kent-Dennis, Asa Manning, Andrew Wood and Daniel Lyons.
Leading the UVM students were Professors Charles Ferreira and Marian Fritz.