Bloomberg News Tells Why CME Group Put an Innovation Center at Research Park

Category : Features
Posted on: August 19, 2016

CHAMPAIGN — To increase coding and programming recruitment efforts, CME Group will be opening an Innovation Center in the University of Illinois Research Park on September 9. This will be CME Group’s first location on a college campus, and they hope to employ 10 student interns.

Research Park Director, Laura Frerichs, said “As long as the growth of tech becomes increasingly imperative in the financial industry, which it seems to be, recruiting is going to continue to hike.”

To read more about the operation, read the Bloomberg article here.