Desjardins Group sponsors trading room at Desautels

Students at the Desautels Faculty of Management will be able to learn more about financial markets in a state-of-the-art trading room to be installed in the Faculty's building, thanks to funding and expertise provided by Desjardins Group, Canada's leading cooperative financial group.

Desautels has begun construction of a novel Business Intelligence Centre on the second floor of the Bronfman Building, replacing the conventional business library that previously occupied the space. A centerpiece of this innovative centre will be the Alphonse-Desjardins Trading Room.

Desjardins will provide a total of $1 million in funding for the Trading Room over five years, and is sharing its expertise in design, securities trading and technology.

About 300 Bachelor of Commerce and MBA students study finance each year.  The Alphonse-Desjardins Trading Room, expected to be completed at the latest by April 1, 2012, will provide all these students with an opportunity to learn complex analytical tools needed to succeed in financial services today. The new second-floor facilities "will be much more tailored to a business education in the 21st Century," said Céline Junke, president of the Management Undergraduate Society.

Read full article: McGill Reporter, February 14, 2011