PLUS № 07-08(339-340), 2026 (Special Issue)
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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?
If we look at the major events of late summer 2026, one of them is this special issue of the PLUS Journal, t... Read
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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.”
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uniTodi. From concept to product: developed in-house
uniTodi is the brand of PBF Group, which has been active in the payment equipment market for more than 20 year... Read
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Stanislav Kuznetsov, Sber: “Cybersecurity is becoming a key competitive advantage”
An interview with Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank, for the special i... Read
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What color is the future: blue, green or red?
ADM for pickup points: how can a parcel pickup point become a growth engine for a bank’s client base? Read
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ART Fintech: “We’re building a platform where businesses paint the fence themselves — and we see that as a strategic partnership.”
Especially for PLUS readers! During a conversation between Mikhail Marin of PLUS Consulting and ART-Fintech ... Read
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Why Russia needs its own payment terminal
In December 2025, the LIFE PULSE terminal was added to the Federal Tax Service register of cash registers. F... Read
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Payment infrastructure is no longer the sole domain of banks: how to manage the entire payment chain
Arkady Prokudin, Chief Commercial Officer at Compliance Control, discusses the universe of secure payments. ... Read
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Anti-Fraud 2.0: What’s changing and where things are headed
Independent expert Nikolai Pyatiizbyantsev analyzes the changes and new legal rules introduced by the second... Read
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Social engineering and deepfakes: AI-powered attacks and defense
On the sidelines of the Cybersecurity in Finance Forum, we spoke with Alexey Luzhnov, Head of BI.ZONE AntiFr... Read
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Venture capital and talent: the key capital of the 21st century. Why Uzbekistan neds to act fast
We talk to Viktor Orlovsky, founder and managing partner of R136 Ventures and a Silicon Valley investor. Read
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Central Asia’s fintech paradoxes. Why explosive growth is hitting an infrastructure ceiling
Digital payments are developing rapidly in Uzbekistan. At the same time, the market has run into a serious p... Read
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Crypto under the law: an overview of digital asset regulation around the world
What principles do governments in different regions and jurisdictions follow when regulating digital assets?... Read
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The use of stablecoins for cross-border B2B payments has surged
Paybis has published a report on stablecoin infrastructure, first presented at Money20/20 Europe. Read
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When humans are no longer the ones who pay. The financial infrastructure of the AI-agent era: necessary transformations
Dmitry Markov, CEO of VisionLabs, explores what a payment infrastructure for AI agents might look like — one... Read
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RegTech: how a new bank–regulator interaction architecture is changing the approach to data
Alexey Karnaukhov, former CDO of Ipoteka Bank and an expert in Data Governance and RegTech transformation, e... Read
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The automotive market and e-commerce: synergy at a new stage
Anastasia Lomanchenko, Marketing Director at AVTORUS, and Alexey Golovin, Head of Auto Parts and Auto Servic... Read
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Banks without the internet: who will give customers access to their money — and how?
No public stress test of Russian banks has yet addressed the scenario of a complete shutdown of the global i... Read
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Banks without the internet — Part 2. Data centers below ground, chips and real priorities
Our regular contributor Timur Aitov takes a further look at banks’ preparedness for a complete regional or n... Read