Battle for Coding Talent in Cornfields of Illinois Lures CME
- Exchange opens facility amid rush to hire the best coders
- ‘A very smart move,’ says a Korn Ferry vice chairman
Research Park
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The world’s largest exchange operator is going to college.
To ramp up its recruiting efforts, CME Group Inc. will on Sept. 9 open an office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Research Park, a technology epicenter that already hosts 101 finance, technology and agriculture companies. Students tapped to work on projects ranging from cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to cloud computing.