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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\n10 September 2007\n\n\n\nBloomsbury Publishing and Qatar Financial Centre Authority announce major global\n financial knowledge publishing partnership\n\n\nBloomsbury Publishing Plc and The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority\nannounce today a multi-year agreement to produce Qatar Finance - The Ultimate\nResource, an ambitious new banking and finance information resource and its\nonline version www.QFinance.com.\n\n\nCreated by 300 of the world's leading experts in the field, Qatar Finance - The\nUltimate Resource will meet the information and business needs of the\nprofessional finance community worldwide and form a unique online forum for\nfinance professionals. Scheduled to launch in autumn 2009, the authoritative and\nwide-ranging 1.5 million word database will give both online and in print access\nto the latest information on current topics, best practice across all key areas\nin finance and financial services, key thinkers, business leaders, thus\naddressing the daily information and advice needs of an increasingly global\nindustry in a clear, accessible and regularly updated form.\n\n\nThe online service will offer finance professionals worldwide free access to the\nhuge breadth and depth of Qatar Finance: The Ultimate Resource, together with\ncompelling additional daily content updates and functionality targeted at the\nneeds of the global financial community, as well as academics and students of\nbusiness and finance. The website QFinance.com will be supported by a series of\nauthoritative books.\n\n\nStuart Pearce, CEO and Director General of the Qatar Financial Centre Authority,\nsaid:\n\n\n'This exciting and ground-breaking project with Bloomsbury Publishing underlines\nthe importance of financial services in Qatar's development, and its role as a\nkey financial and commercial hub in the Middle East. The sheer scale of this\nproject also reflects the vision and ambition that characterises the meticulous\nway Qatar's leaders are paving the way for its future. In a little over 2 years,\nthe QFC has established itself as one of the fastest-growing financial centres\nin the world as Qatar increasingly commits itself to become a knowledge-based\neconomy.'\n\n\nNigel Newton, Founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc said:\n\n\n'Qatar Finance - The Ultimate Resource is a uniqu...