QFINANCE
QFINANCE is a print and online resource created by Bloomsbury Publishing and the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority for finance professionals, business writers and students.
History
The partnership to create QFINANCE was launched by the QFC Authority and Bloomsbury Publishing in September 2007. The first EDition of the QFINANCE book was published in mid-2009.The website was launched on September 30 2009 in Doha.
Website
QFINANCE covers topics such as corporate balance sheets, business ethics, insurance, financial markets, macroeconomics, regulation and compliance.
Areas of the website include:
- Best practice essays by financial practitioners and academics on global financial issues
- A dictionary of 9,000 financial terms and 2,000 business-relevant quotes
- Biographies of 60 important financial theorists and practitioners
- Country and sector profiles
- Financial checklists
Authors
QFINANCE contributors include:
- Ian Bremmer, Founder, Eurasia Group
- Sir Adrian Cadbury, Honorary Professor, Aston Business School and former Chairman, Cadbury
- Mark Camp, Director of Institutional Funds, Henderson Global Investors
- Diana Choyleva, Head of World Service, Lombard Street Research
- Aswath Damodaran academic and author
- Sir Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and former Chairman, Financial Services Authority
- Frank Fabozzi, academic and world author
- Raj Gupta, Research Director of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
- Chris Holt, Founder, allaboutalpha.com
- Giles Keating, MD, Private Banking, Credit Suisse
- Klaus Kremers, Principal, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
- Bob Swarup, Head of Risk Management, Pension Corporation
- Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken, Chairman, Lloyd’s, UK
Advisory board
QFINANCE is overseen by a Strategic Advisory Board. The members are:
- Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabor Bin Jassim Al-Thani, Director General, General Secretariat for Development Planning, Qatar
- Professor Zvi Bodie, the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University
- Ian Cormack, Non-Executive Director, QFCA
- Dr Florence Eid, Managing Director - Middle East & North Africa, Passport Capital
- Dr Hatem El Karanshawy, Dean, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation
- Robert Gray, Chairman, Debt Finance & Advisory, HSBC
- Professor Hasung Jang, Professor of Finance at Korea University
- Robert Merton, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at the Harvard Business School, Nobel Prize laureate 1997
- Jim O'Neill, Chief Global Economist, Goldman Sachs
- Dr. Michael K. Ong, Professor of Finance, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Sir John Stuttard, Vice-Chairman Advisory, PricewaterhouseCoopers, formerly Lord Mayor of London
- Jackson Tai, formerly Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DBS Group Holdings & DBS Bank, Singapore
- Professor Laura Tyson, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley