National Payment System Development Strategy 2021–2023. Prospects for its implementation

Global trends in retail banking and payment business

Banks of the digital society. Shift in business concepts. Ensuring an import independent critical infrastructure

Digital ruble. An important element of technological sovereignty

Faster Payment System (FPS). Where are we now? What’s next?

Merchant acquiring and FPS. Economy and beneficiaries. Business cases

Retail banking and robotic process automation. AI as an active participant in robotization projects

Small and medium business and import substitution. SMEs amid the departure of foreign marketplaces and cutoff of Russian business

Contactless payment technologies. From NFC payments using smartphones to QR codes? Working towards return to the use of NFC technologies

Direct tokenization of the client’s bank account. Pros and cons. What we are and aren’t ready to submit our account for

Development of domestic software for a number of currently important areas. From ERP products, back office systems and security systems to currency templates, online banking and customers’ personal areas on websites

Fintech as a driver for the development of financial products and services. Key innovations

Digital trends in the banking and financial services. New models of work

FacePay, a solution for fare collection in the Moscow Metro. Results. Forecasts

Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. Analysis of the best business cases

HRTech. HR digitalization and HR analytics in modern conditions

Management of payment solutions on the client’s side

Crypto industry 2022. Scenario for the crypto market development

Government intervention in decentralized finance (DeFi). DFA and digital ruble

Challenges and opportunities for investment markets. DFA and DeFi vs. Securities markets

NFT — new opportunities for the non-fungible tokens. Near future and medium term

Metaverse. How to build, sell and promote brands in the Metaverses

Another increase in cyber attacks. DDoS, malware and CaaS as the main lines of modern criminal activity. Vulnerabilities. Countermeasures

Social engineering as a tool used by the criminality and unfriendly countries in their economic war against the banking sector and Russian citizens

Countering fraud using Electronic Payment Instruments. Is it enough? Account takeovers. The problem of droppers

Level of banknotes security as an anti- counterfeiting facility