PROGRAM FINOPOLIS 2021/22

• Digital banking essentials
• The “small fish” vs the “whales”
• Evolution of the phygital
• Life after lifestyle banking

• Faster payments: opportunities for individuals and businesses
  
• Faster Payments System as a platform for overlay services
• Integration mechanisms for cross-border transactions

• How the microfinance market handles the new reality
• Technological partnerships with microfinance organizations: any new prospects in sight?
• What hinders the digitalization of small business microloans?

• Past the initial shock, time to get back to work
• Development ecosystem for the Russian technologies not dependent on foreign input (commercialization of internal solutions, private consortiums, and government participation)
• Customers and service providers: enhancing technologies together

• Infrastructure for cyber drills and incident management
• Limits to IT and information security outsourcing
• Cyber risk insurance
• Antifraud

• Why do businesses need DFAs? First issuers’ testimonials
• How will tokenization change the world?
• Improved financial literacy of investors as a driving force for the DFA market development
• The target model of the DFA market

• What do shamans and data scientists have in common?
• Foresight objectives then and now
• Managing expectations of those asking for predictions: 2000 years ago vs today
• Is the Book of Changes a cradle of the modern AI?

• Challenges and issues of using the Unified Biometric System and commercial biometric systems
• Security of biometric technologies: requirements for the Unified Biometric System, commercial biometric systems, and other biometric systems
• Video identification: an alternative to the Unified Biometric System or a backdoor?

• Who benefits from open APIs?
• Open APIs as the basis for an open economy
• Working with open APIs and partner APIs

• How far we have come
• Industrialization of AI
• Promising projects

• Using big data for climate risk assessment
• Digital solutions for the sustainable finance market
• Green Fintech

• Acceleration and regulation of quantum technologies
• Industry cases
• Investing in quantum technologies

• New trends in the Russian payments market
• Omnichannel communication for a continuous interaction with customers
• The planning horizon and business strategies in the new world

• Key preconditions for financial platform development 
• Standardization of a customer journey 
• Maximizing the end-to-end conversion rate

• Innovative environment for the financial market
• What opportunities and risks DeFi brings
• What regulators can do about DeFi and its features
• How to avoid regulatory arbitrage

• Industry transformation: what’s next? 
• New markets, new tools 
• 22 million private investors so far: maintaining trust and enticing newcomers 
• Hi-tech services: analytics, risk management, infrastructure and training

• Quality of training for Fintech 
• What skills are increasingly in demand?
• Does skills mismatch exist? 

• Financial services: centralized vs decentralized
• What’s new in DeFi?
• Who is the consumer?
• Can DeFi be regulated?

• Universal financial interface: convenience for all
• Fintech for inclusive access to financial services
• Financial intermediaries against discrimination

• The role of banks in a service economy
• XaaS as a driver of progress and a source of risks
• Regulation of outsourcing

• Real-time banking
• Digital financing
• Custom payment solutions
• Digitalized customer journey and personalized service

• Collaborations and joint efforts as the principal path to developing financial market technologies
• Fintech Association 2.0: strategy reboot
• Hot topics from the Fintech Association’s portfolio

• Customer experience in the market’s new IT landscape 
• Development of mobile financial management services and alternative payment solutions 
• Partnership between market players for a stable industry development

• Web 3.0: transformations, premises, opportunities •Metauniverses: scope of application
• The Web 3.0 economy

• Differences in how financial marketplaces and lead generation work
• Key tools for attracting new bank clients through marketplaces
• What can a marketplace offer banks? New regions and new markets

• Ecosystems: the definition, types and functions 
• The background of ecosystems’ emergence in the Russian market: what makes an ecosystem an ecosystem?  
• Ecosystems: the view of customers and the view of the business 
• What the future holds for ecosystems

• How the market adapts its strategies to the new conditions
• Plans for ecosystem regulation and how the market feels about them
• Maintaining competition on the market

• Regulating NPSPs: types, services provided and business requirements
• Consumer expectations for introducing NPSPs
• New opportunities for businesses provided by NPSPs

• Digitalization of audit: challenges and opportunities
• Process mining: making digital audit more effective
• Big data, big opportunities
• Responding to cyber risks of digitalization

Battle: Classic Insurers VS Fintech Startups and Ecosystems

• Future industry initiatives: what will drive the market?
• •What does the customer want?
• Ecosystems vs. traditional insurers
• Online or phygital?

• Digital mortgage: progress or inevitability?
• Should real estate objects be evaluated by neural networks or people?
• Are we comfortable with e-documents or are paper contracts here to stay?
• How do we stimulate demand for and interest in digital mortgage?

• How to bring a product to market and avoid information security risks?
• Unacceptable events or what hampers new technologies?
• How to ensure the success of a technological product?
• Building trust: do we need the government’s involvement? 

• Digital corporate lending in 3—5 years
• Banks cutting the costs of credit analysis procedures
• How efficient is automated risk assessment?

• Services that improve the app’s customer journey
• Higher speed, quality and conversion of onboarding with the help of modern technologies
• How do you follow the law, retain clients and offer the most competitive service?