Qfinance.com, an online financial resource and knowledge bank was launched by the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority, in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing as a unique and definitive guide and reference to best practice in the world of finance.

It offers financial professionals, senior executives and students of finance both in Qatar and internationally, a one-stop best practice and thought leadership knowledge bank.

The free access website at www.qfinance.com offers users the opportunity to view contributions from 300 of the world's leading financial practitioners, visionaries, writers and educators on the crucial issues and challenges facing finance managers, entrepreneurs and business executives today.

Qfinance is also available as a reference book, which will be updated annually, and sold through leading bookstores world-wide.

Qfinance is intended not only for the finance industry but also business schools, universities, research institutions and business writers.

“The QFC Authority agreed to partner with Bloomsbury Publishing in creating Qfinance because of Bloomsbury’s exemplary record in publishing major reference titles, and because Qfinance demonstrates the core development principles that Qatar embraces as a nation,” stated Stuart Pearce, chief and director general at the QFC Authority.

Qfinance provides:
• A database of over 2 million words, covering a huge range of finance-related topics, with over 280 best-practice, thought-leadership and viewpoint essays that distil and summarise the most important aspects of finance.
• Over 300 supplementary 'how to' guides covering the everyday challenges facing the finance professional
• A directory of 60 topics containing essential resources globally, from behavioural finance to budgeting
• 103 countries and 26 sectors profiled, providing essential primary research resource for direct or indirect investment
• A dictionary of 9,000 terms with  quick, clear definitions
• Biographies of 60 of the leading theorists and practitioners who helped create modern finance
• A library of 130 digests of the most influential  reads in finance
• Over 2,000 business-relevant quotations.

“Qfinance is Bloomsbury’s first project with the Qatar Finance Centre Authority. In the Middle East the book will be published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, Bloomsbury’s new venture with the Education Institution, the Qatar Foundation,” added Nigel Newton, chief executive officer, Bloomsbury.-TradeArabia News Service