What Is Finance 3.0?

Hello!

Finance 3.0 was formed by a team of finance professionals with decades of international experience from Wall Street, Fortune 500 companies, top-tier strategy consulting firms and Big 4 CPA firms. Our humble aim is to provide a common platform for finance professionals from all sectors of professional services and industry to connect, learn, and do business.

What is Finance 3.0’s Mission?

Our mission is to build the world’s largest and most vibrant online finance community to help you, our members, succeed. We want to create a platform that intersects at continuing professional education and business networking, where finance professionals can come together to share ideas, get opinions, make professional connections, learn and do business. Finance 3.0 is a powerful tool that gives you a voice in the global financial industry. We are passionate about creating a superior platform that engages you, educates you, and helps you in your business or jobs.

Who Joins Finance 3.0?

Finance 3.0 is for financial analysts, business managers, CFOs, investment managers, risk managers, bankers, consultants, investors, entrepeneurs, lenders, accountants, lawyers, technologists, recruiters, educators, students, and more. It's a big world out there!

It’s Time for Finance Professionals to Connect Globally

Every day, thousands of projects involving financial analysis, portfolio analysis, investment decisions and financial reporting are made in insolation. Too often, finance professionals leave it up to their local network to shape their work and decision making, without knowledge of best practices and thinking from around the world. It’s time to widen your access to a global "brain pool" of financial talent to help you in your business and job. Promote, blog, add value, learn, teach and grow.

How do I maximize my use of Finance 3.0?

First, we recommend that you complete your profile and customize your page to give others the opportunity to get to know you better. Visit My Settings to do this.

As this a business network, we recommend that you don’t hide behind an anonymous avatar and limited information about your professional background. This also means that we recommend you upload a professional portrait photo of yourself so people can identify you, and fill in as many details as possible of your professional background, interests and objectives. This helps all members to gain trust, credibility and usefulness out of the network.

Now you have a huge community to explore and discussions, debates and downloadable materials to catch up on. You can read from many hundreds of useful analysis and articles, participate in debates, meet new contacts, and ask questions of the community. You can also view photos and videos contributed by the community as well as posting your own. There are a ton of useful, educational written analysis and videos to help you advance in your financial skills and knowledge, as well as interesting interviews with other business and finance professionals from around the world.

Here are a number of quick links to get you started:

• Latest Business & Finance Discussions
• Finance Videos
• Spreadsheet Downloads
• Finance Blogs
• Professional Groups
• Conferences & Seminars
• Featured Members

We ask that you also familiarize yourself with our community guidelines when you have a moment. You can also read our list of frequently asked questions. We want to foster a helpful and positive community. And we're quite proud of the incredible one that has developed so far. We have a number of community advocates who may reach out to you.

In the midst of what is now a worldwide recession, there has never been a better time for a global network of finance professionals to get together and help each other through referrals, opportunities and education.

Welcome aboard!