PLUS №10 (330), 2025
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Autumn 2025. What did the PLUS Forums reveal? The Second Payment System – how and with whom? VAT or common sense? “Volna” and “Vzhuh!” – a matter of taste?
As regards the key events of the first two months of autumn 2025, it's worth starting with the two PLUS-Fo... Read
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The Moscow PLUS-Forum outlined trends in fintech, banking, and the payment industry for 2025.
On September 9-10, 2025, the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel & Business Center in Moscow Read
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Cash circulation – today and tomorrow. Key takeaways of the Moscow PLUS-Forum
“In 2025, we still face a greater number of urgent challenges than in the event's more than fifteen-year h... Read
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Cancellation of VAT exemption for payment industry participants. Will we burn a hundred-ruble note again to find a nickel?
The recent bill on the abolition of VAT exemption for bank card servicing transactions and acquiring and proce... Read
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Fintech in Russia 2025: key trends, challenges, and growth areas
Financial technologies in Russia are entering a new development phase. After a period of rapid growth and adap... Read
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Deepfakes in the criminals' arsenal. How will Russia respond?
Deepfakes are no longer exotic. They have become a common tool for criminals targeting Russian companies, gove... Read
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How to protect clients and businesses from deepfakes
Using a deepfake, a fraudster can withdraw money by impersonating an account holder, connect to a company vide... Read
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The Armenian market through the eyes of the Central Bank: “In an active phase of digital transformation”
On the eve of FinnoWay Armenia, the first International PLUS-Forum in the South Caucasus region, we had a talk... Read
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Family Office 2.0: not just investing, but living within the framework of the cultural code
These are challenging times for banks. High key rates, margin pressures, and everlasting regulatory changes ma... Read
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Fintech and banking in Tajikistan: Current state and prospects
Like other Central Asian countries, Tajikistan has demonstrated new opportunities for business and improved fi... Read
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E-commerce in the next three years: from brisk growth to sustainable management
After a decade of rapid growth, the Russian e-commerce market is entering a new stage of development, more sus... Read
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New e-commerce formats: what awaits us after marketplaces
E-commerce has evolved from the first online stores to marketplaces, which today dictate the rules of the game... Read
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Intelligence is striding over the planet. And artificial one is faster.
Lower costs and expenenditure control remain key challenges for businesses in an unstable economy. Svetlana Se... Read
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The Web3 Universe in Russia: transformation of views on the crypto industry in 2025
In 2025, the world has experienced significant shifts in views on the crypto industry. Bitcoin is becoming a s... Read
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Stablecoins: an implementation strategy for banks
Tony McLaughlin, CEO of Ubyx and an expert with 30 years of experience in traditional financial systems, discu... Read
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Uzbekistan will begin using stablecoins for payments. And what about Russia?
Recently, First Deputy Director of the National agency of perspective projects Vyacheslav Pak informed that th... Read
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Biometrics in Russia: New ID technologies, architecture of trust, and bioacquiring
The unified biometric system in Russia is currently developing quite rapidly with new services added regularly... Read
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Baikal as a center of attraction: Compass Plus brought together experts at TTUG 2025
From August 18 to 22, the TTUG (TranzWare/TranzAxis User Group) 2025 forum, organized by Compass Plus,... Read