![Students in the Alphonse-Desjardins Trading Room](https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/files/desautels/styles/wysiwyg_large/public/images/trading_room.jpg?itok=-arJHcAL)
Students in the Alphonse-Desjardins Trading Room
Desjardins is providing a total of $1 million in funding for the Trading Room and is sharing its expertise in design, securities trading and technology to support the facility.
Thomson Reuters also provides software licenses for Eikon, its flagship financial-markets platform, and supplies training and support for the desktop system. The Eikon desktops give Desautels finance students and professors access to essential news, data, analytics and trading tools.