What were the most
memorable PLUS-Forum moments for the market participants?
• Vladimir Komlev,
CEO, NSPK JSC, in his very focused and informative report, announced the launch
of the Mir card contactless pilot project in July 2016 and the introduction of
3D-Secure technology for online transactions within the Mir payment system;
• During the
PLUS-Forum the first contactless transaction on the Mir card was performed on a
wearable device. For this purpose a smart watch powered by Tedipay’s WILDCARD
hardware and software platform was used. The demonstration took place at NXP's
exhibition stand;
• Sberbank of Russia
announced the launch of the beta version of their own messenger scheduled for
August 2016;
• New opportunities for
banks opened by Federal Law ? 54-FZ were announced and analyzed;
• The role, position
and prospects for halal cards were discussed in the context of Islamic banking
in Russia and globally;
• Analysis of the
potential capacity of instant payments as a new driver of the Russian economy
and the GDP growth accelerator;
• Against the
background of complicated market conditions the roundtable «Customer experience
in the banking sector" became super-topical. The experts presented
examples of building successful consumer experience;
• During the second
round table titled “Mir National Payment System: the points of growth” the
panel discussion participants together with the Forum delegates answered
important questions and discussed topical moments.
• PAX company introduced
the world's first POS-terminal/tablet with two operating systems; and many
other important events, presentations and topics!
Unlike the past year’s
event, where development issues relevant to the Russian banking community in
2015 prevailed, the PLUS-Forum working program in 2016 was focused on the
topics of concern to the payment sector in the current complicated situation.
Besides, a lot of attention was paid to the state-run infrastructure projects
aimed to deepen financial inclusion of the population.
According to the
participants themselves, the event was long ago turned into a platform that
opens unique networking opportunities. “That's what made the PLUS-Forum most
popular within the banking and payments community since the early years of its
organization. Guaranteed real returns for the business - that's what sets the
PLUS-Forum apart from quite a few of industry-specific events held today.”
One of the most
significant moments of the Forum was a representative exhibition of specialized
business solutions, equipment and technologies of the leading Russian and
foreign companies. It became even bigger this year, with over 50 major Russian
and foreign companies presenting their products, solutions and services, as
well as sharing information about their successful projects and their plans for
the near future.
All the Forum working
sessions and exhibition activities were broadcast live on Twitter and Facebook
with the official event hashtag # ecom2016. Using the hashtag, the Forum
speakers, delegates and participants posted their photographs, shared their
opinions and invited to their stands.
The first results of
the event will be analyzed and published soon on the official web-portal of the
event, PLUSworld.ru. And July and August issues of the PLUS Journal will get
you familiar with the conference speakers’ presentations and give a review of
the exhibition part of the event.
The PLUS-Forum team
thanks all the Forum participants, delegates, exhibition booth attendants,
sponsors and partners for their active participation in the event!
We inform you that the
preparations have begun for the next, 8th, International PLUS-Forum “Cards,
Payments and Mobile 2017” scheduled for October 4-5, 2017! We are pleased to
continue our cooperation in the framework of this event.
We also inform you
about our next PLUS-Forums:
Ø The 8th International PLUS-Forum “Cash
Circulation + Self-service. Banking and Retail 2016 “, to be held on 5-6
October 2016
The 4th International PLUS-Forum
“Online & Offline Retail 2017”, to be held on 29-30 March 2017