Queen's University and First Derivatives Build Trading Floor

The facility, named the First Derivatives Trading Floor (FDTF), which was opened yesterday, is housed in the university's Riddel Hall campus. It will be able to accommodate 24 students at any one time, working from 12 Bloomberg terminals, and was built using money from the university as well as outside sponsors Invest NI and First Derivatives, also based in Northern Ireland.

"We've been working at it for the last year-and-a-half to get to the opening yesterday," says Professor Donal McKillop, in

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