# In a feature interview with Dean Peter Henry, Stern is recognized for its innovations in FinTech, infrastructure and scholarships

1 Faculty News December 1, 2016 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Peter%20Henry%20Fortune.pdf) -- "In 2010, when [Peter Blair Henry](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/peter-henry) came to New York University’s Stern School of Business, a top institution famous for its close Wall Street ties, the Street itself was in a shambles. Henry’s goal: expand Stern’s focus beyond New York banking and toward the larger world of business. 'The world needs finance more than ever, but it needs the 21st-century version of finance,' Henry says."

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