11.04.2005 ET

(CSRwire) Cedarville, Ohio - From the flashy electronic data ticker to the live Bloomberg feed, students in Cedarville University's business program have a market-savvy new environment in which to explore finance. Named in honor of its sponsor, the KeyBank Trading Center officially opened today during a special ceremony in Cedarville's Milner Business Administration Building.

With support from KeyBank and the Key Foundation, the KeyBank Trading Center will give Cedarville's 80 finance students access to leading edge technologies and provide a more real-to-life learning experience. The center boasts 20 double-monitor workstations, an electronic data ticker, a data wall of constantly changing financial info, a 63-inch plasma screen for classroom presentations, and a 37-inch monitor for live financial news feed.

The KeyBank Trading Center is just one facet of a growing relationship between KeyBank and Cedarville University. Over the next three years, KeyBank intends to 1) offer professional counsel to the Cedarville finance program, 2) host students for educational visits to its Cleveland headquarters, 3) offer a summer internship to a Cedarville finance major, and 4) engage the finance faculty in aspects of KeyBank's business.

Key modeled its support for the trading floor after its 2002 collaboration with Kent State University in the funding and development of the Financial Markets Trading Floor within Kent State's College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management to further emphasize application of mathematical models to risk management problems. In 2003, Key hired four of the first 11 graduates from the school's Master of Science in Financial Engineering program, when the company's Interest Rate Risk Management Group needed employees with the education and experience to step into their jobs and get up to speed quickly.

Involvement in programs like these date back to Key's decision in 2001 to adopt a more clearly defined corporate giving focus - one that aligns philanthropic investments with business interests - by helping people and communities achieve economic self-sufficiency through financial education and workforce initiatives.

Cedarville University
Home to over 3,000 students, Cedarville is an accredited Baptist university of arts, sciences, professional, and graduate programs. Cedarville is located in southwestern Ohio on a 400-acre campus. For more information, visit www.cedarville.edu

KeyCorp
Cleveland-based KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $92 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. Contact Key Foundation Senior Program Officer Quentin McCorvey at 216-689-5505, or Quentin_mccorvey@keybank.com, for more information about corporate grants.

Visit the KeyCorp page on Corporate Social Responsibility Wire at http://www.csrwire.com/csr/company.mpl?company=993 for news about the company relative to philanthropic investment, diversity, community development, corporate governance, environment, business ethics, human rights, and workplace issues.

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