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12:12, 12 April 2022

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The International PLUS-Forum “Banks and retail. Digital transformation and interaction”: soon in May!

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The strategic goal of the event is to give an additional impetus to the development of the economy of Uzbekistan, to the promotion of global cooperation in the field of banking and financial technologies, and also to the deployment of new promising projects, including international ones. The Forum will similarly facilitate the development of online and offline retail, including its further transformation.

learn more about the Forum watch a teaser here.

What is PLUS-Forum?

— Topical issues of interaction between banking and retail

— Industry experts willing to share their experience

— Leading companies that present their unique products at an innovative exhibition.

The full text of the two-day Forum agenda is available here.

Among the key topics of the Tashkent PLUS-Forum:

• Vector of development of national payment systems of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Trends in the countries of Central Asia

• Government regulation and main tendencies in the payment industry

• Digitalization of banking and retail against the backdrop of global digitalization

• Islamic finance as a trend

• Cashless vs cash payments

• Bank cards. Tokenization and virtualization

• Instant (faster) payments systems

• CBDCs. Pilot projects. Results

• Biometrics and identification. Role. Place. Prospects

• Effectiveness of Big Data. Security of the calculated data circulation

• Digital services and facilities. Digital mortgage and digital lending, including consumer loans. Business models in promising markets

• ATM and POS-terminal networks. From the perspective of banks, retailers and vendors

• Retail banking IT landscape 2022

• Financial literacy. Measures to counter social engineering

• Acquiring business strategies

• Banking technologies for retail sector

• Electronic commerce. Its role in the development of country markets

• Accounting and taxation

• Transformation of retail sector. Challenges and sustainable development of the market

Among the experts who will speak at the PLUS-Forum:

• Ilhomjon Abdugafarov, Deputy Chairman and Board Member of the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan

• Bakhtiyor Rizaev, Head of Artificial Intelligence Department, Unified Integrator UZINFOCOM

• Shukhratbek Kurbanov, Director, National Interbank Processing Center – HUMO payment system

• Viktor Dostov, Chairman, Association of eMoney and Remittance Market Participants (AED); Chief DLT Research Officer at Saint Petersburg University

• Talgat Ayupov, Board Chairman, Tenge Bank

• Sergey Gimadiev, Board Chairman, Apelsin Bank

• Natalia Storina, Chairman, Committee on Payment Systems, Digital Identity and Biometrics, ASSOCIATION “FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS”

• Murat Kastan, Executive Vice President, UPT Money Transfer & EMI

• Dilbar Abduganieva, Director of the Department for Bankers’ Financial Literacy Improvement and Retraining, Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan

• Olim Bolgaev, Director of the Department for Monitoring Commercial Banks’ Financial Support for Business Entities, Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan

• Behzod Khalikov, Deputy Head of Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan

• Alexey Golenishchev, Head of Cyber Fraud Prevention Directorate, Alfa-Bank

• Vitaly Kopysov, Head of Innovations, Sinara Bank

• Vsevolod Shabad, independent cybersecurity and IT expert, ex-CISO Halyk Bank, ex-CIO Sberbank.KZ

• Alexander Leshchev, Head of Self-service Systems Development, Alfa-Bank

• and many more

Also, we are pleased to introduce a special guest of the Forum: Michael Ruckman, an international expert in business development and transformation in the banking and retail sectors.

To date, the following sponsors and partners have joined Uzbekistan PLUS-Forum 2022:

Visa – Title Sponsor

Innotech – Strategic Sponsor

Aktiv – General Sponsor

QIWI – Diamond Sponsor

NBA Technologies – Official Sponsor

Realsoft – Exclusive Sponsor

FIDO – Platinum Sponsor

UPT, Thales, Vision Labs, Regula, SafeTech, BPC, OpenWay, FIS, Tarlan Payments, OneSpan, iw-group, CloudPayments – Gold Sponsors

Dataphone, TexSistemaServis – Silver Sponsors

Bukhta – Sponsor of coffee breaks

Entrust, Sargent & Grenleaf, Octo, Ostcard, АТМ Alliance – Bronze Sponsors

In 2021, the PLUS-Forum “Banks and Retail. Digital Transformation and Interaction” proved itself to be an effective open platform for productive business communication between the regulator, banking organizations, fintech firms and large retailers to discuss the most pressing business issues.

The event was attended by 30+ key speakers and over 700 top managers and experts in the field of banking, fintech and retail. Leading experts in the banking and payments industry, telecommunications, research and consulting companies, the banking community of the Eurasian continent (banks and microfinance organizations of Uzbekistan, the CIS and the EAEU), as well as technology and manufacturing companies discussed the national payment system development, the prospects for central bank digital currencies (CBDC), transformation of the retail sector, cyber resilience in banking and many more edgy topics.

The thought shower during business communication, huge interest of business in new points of growth driven by the digitalization of both products and channels of communication with customers, became an objective evidence of the high level of the First International PLUS-Forum: “Banks and retail. Digital transformation and interaction”, which is undoubtedly set to expand its international borders further.

PLUS-Forum 2021 video summary: https://youtu.be/uAGbPZTSCNE

PLUS-Forum 2021 summary: https://plusworld.ru/journal/2021/plus-5-2021/banki-i-ritejl-tsifrovaya-transformatsiya-i-vzaimodejstvie-klyuchevye-itogi-pervogo-plas-foruma-v-stolitse-uzbekistana/

Mass media news pieces: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn-PEol7in7ZcvDCu6CVolyjPh8Mtu_Ol

We are sure that the PLUS-Forum will become a platform for productive business communication between market participants and professional experts, being an impetus for the development of the economy of Uzbekistan and promising international projects.

Hurry up to take your place among the market leaders!

You can become a Delegate, Speaker or Sponsor, having learnt about all the benefits and options for participation here

Become a Speaker: https://plus-forum.com/en/register/

Become a Partnet: https://plus-forum.com/en/register/

Register now: https://uz.plus-forum.com/en/#forteen-screen

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