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CME Group Opens Innovation Center at UI Research Park

September 16, 2016 | Category: Business, Champaign, News Room, Research Park, Technology, University of Illinois, You're Welcome CU

We were thrilled to attend the grand opening celebration of CME Group‘s new Innovation Center at University of Illinois Research Park last week!

CME Group is the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace – handling 3 billion contracts worth approximately $1 quadrillion annually, on average. The company is a marketplace for buyers and sellers – bringing together individuals, companies and institutions that need to manage risk or that want to profit by accepting risk.

This is CME Group’s first location on a college campus.

View photos from the event here.

Press:

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