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- The automotive market and e-commerce: synergy at a new stage
- Late summer: the digital ruble goes nationwide, crypto business enters the legal framework, government backs AI, and an anti-fraud doctrine. What will be discussed at the PLUS-Forum?
- Banks without the internet: who will give customers access to their money — and how?
- Pelé, the King of Football, in an interview with The PLUS Journal: “Above all, I was committed to making sport a part of life for the poorest Brazilians.”
- Banks without the internet — Part 2. Data centers below ground, chips and real priorities
- uniTodi. From concept to product: developed in-house
- Stanislav Kuznetsov, Sber: “Cybersecurity is becoming a key competitive advantage”
- What color is the future: blue, green or red?
- ART Fintech: “We’re building a platform where businesses paint the fence themselves — and we see that as a strategic partnership.”
- Why Russia needs its own payment terminal
- Payment infrastructure is no longer the sole domain of banks: how to manage the entire payment chain
- Anti-Fraud 2.0: What’s changing and where things are headed
- Social engineering and deepfakes: AI-powered attacks and defense
- Venture capital and talent: the key capital of the 21st century. Why Uzbekistan neds to act fast
- Central Asia’s fintech paradoxes. Why explosive growth is hitting an infrastructure ceiling
- Crypto under the law: an overview of digital asset regulation around the world
- The use of stablecoins for cross-border B2B payments has surged
- When humans are no longer the ones who pay. The financial infrastructure of the AI-agent era: necessary transformations
- RegTech: how a new bank–regulator interaction architecture is changing the approach to data
PLUS № 07-08(339-340), 2026 (Special Issue)
- A multi-vector June of 2026. Five years of stagnation? The Digital Ruble as a redistributor of cash against non-cash? What to expect from the Anti-Drop Platform?
- Import substitution in banks and other critical information infrastructures. A victory no one noticed
- How US President Donald Trump's executive order is changing the rules of the game for traditional financial institutions
- The first real data characterizing the AI maturity of the Uzbek banking sector has been obtained
- Cyber resilience instead of an “impenetrable wall”. A new philosophy of banking information security
- AI and IS: which is more valuable for business?
- ANA'26: Not “generation”, but embedding AI, or Artificial intelligence goes into production
- How sanctions are changing the global system of international settlements
- Money20/20 Europe 2026. Key trends in AI-enabled payments, stablecoins, and Open Banking
- Transformation of the microfinance market. Why payday loans are giving way to new products and Where to look for growth points. Digest of Microfinance Summit 2026
- How can business owners implement AI in their businesses: economics, data, and risk management
- How AI consultants increase retail sales
- Loan in digital rubles? – Why do I need them? Findings of the PLUS-Survey of June 9
- The sixty-fold increase in the cost of SMS transaction alerts for bank clients is a result of telecom operator monopolies. Findings of the PLUS-Survey of June 2
PLUS №6 (338), 2026
- What are we greeting summer with? Has Digital Uzbekistan 2026, a major event in Central Asia, gone beyond the regional scope?
- The PLUS-Forum Digital Uzbekistan 2026 brought together over 2,600 participants from 38 countries.
- Contingent tax on cash. The anatomy of cross-subsidizing in retail payments
- How multi-аgent systems will change the operations of financial institutions: 4 Scenarios
- 7 risks of using AI in 2026
- From experiment to billions: The future of DFAs – what is it like?
- What awaits non-qualified investors in the crypto market
- Western Union launches a stablecoin. Cryptocurrency is no obstacle to nearly two centuries of the company’s history
- CBDC: What awaits digital currency in the coming years?
- Three options for the Bank of Russia
- DFAs in the real sector. Digitalization of accounts receivable
- Zero Trust: Why this concept has never become a popular approach to cybersecurity
- 7 labor market trends in retail in 2026
- Market structure and competition: New operating model and growth points
- Money should be controlled by humans, not AI. PLUS-Survey findings of May 27
PLUS №5 (337), 2026
- Spring 2026: a meeting on economic issues held by the President of the Russian Federation, Digital Uzbekistan, takeaways from Antifrodum, and April Fools' Day from the Digital Development Ministry
- Antifrodum 2026. Key takeaways and new prospects for combating fraud
- “We're growing in terms of quality and quantity!’ stated Georgy Dorofeev, NSPK, commenting on the results of Antifraudum 2026.
- Digital Uzbekistan 2026. Crypto Industry in focus
- Pitfalls of digital bank transformation
- Why Russians don't trust the digital ruble: myths and real potential of the new instrument
- Happy April Fool's Day, or the Pandemic as the driving force behind the Russian citizen's digital profile pilot
- Shutting off access to a citizen's digital profile: not a one-time glitch, but a systemic problem
- How cryptocurrency is changing judicial practice in Russia
- Crypto banks in Belarus. A bridge between the crypto economy and the traditional financial system
- HUMO. The National Payment System as a mirror of Uzbekistan's partnership policy
- The PLUS-Forum is an operating mechanism for achieving national goals.
- Quantum perestroika: Why banks shouldn’t delay preparing for the future
- In-house or outsourcing? How can banks avoid overpaying for processing?
- IT outsourcing in a crisis environment: how to rebuild IT and maintain business resilience
- Patent or new product: what really protects a brand in a competitive market?
PLUS №4 (336), 2026
- By 2035, e-commerce will sell the quality of digital communication with consumers
- Stagflation, more expensive borrowing for troubled businesses, and the war against VPNs. What March 2026 will be remembered for by the Russian economy and society
- What does the legislation have in store for banks? 5 questions for top staffers
- Alla Bakina, Bank of Russia: “The Digital ruble and the universal NSPK QR code are inter-related”
- Installment and BNPL: when they increase sales de facto
- Why sellers need to rethink the BNPL concept in 2026
- The Digital Ruble: A wallet without myths, or the Specifics of “state-owned crypto"
- Fintech after import substitution. Application software, Open Banking, and AI are shaping the 2026 agenda.
- Crypto market 2026: Transformation of Cryptocurrencies, DeFi on the rise, and formation of a new financial infrastructure
- Cryptocurrencies in Russia and globally: new reality of the financial market in 2026
- The future of cryptobanks in Belarus: What has changed since January, 16 and what else still needs changes
- A Rub300,000 ceiling for non-qualified investors and BTC backed loans
- Tatiana Zharkova (Avito): How Artificial Intelligence is changing e-commerce, fintech, and cybersecurity
- Chinese cinema market 2025: Artificial intelligence becomes the main driver
- The banking system is not ready for an AI-agent economy. Russian experts comment on statements by Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance.
- ALLIANCE DAY from ATM ALLIANCE: long-term cooperation as the key to success
- The Future of payments: from biometrics to IoT payments