Unlike conventional financial trading rooms that have become common at many universities, the UConn School of Business has gone way beyond, as it did with edgelab - in this case, to create a robust environment that facilitates the study of today's dynamic financial markets. The SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator is outfitted with all of the latest in financial technologies hardware, software, and real-time databases, creating a robust environment that facilitates the study of today's dynamic insurance and financial services markets.

Using technology as an enabler, together, UConn faculty, students, and business partners investigate alternative markets and trader support tools, study insider trading identification and control, review alternative auction market mechanisms, design financial product bundling alternatives that enhance competitive advantage, evaluate emerging technologies, and create specialized algorithms and business processes that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and/or increase revenues.

The Financial Accelerator serves as a real-world lab for our faculty's ground-breaking research. Business partners take away innovative solutions to current market challenges that have been put to the test using real market data; and they have access to a pipeline of top talent that will evolve into their next generation of leadership. Our students work in an environment that leverages the traditional with experiential learning in their quest to capture one of the best business educations available anywhere.