28th International Financial Congress 2019 | The Roscongress Foundation | 3 July 2019 | The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, Senate Square, 3, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 190000

The theme of this year’s Congress is Financial Markets: Increasing Complexity, Maintaining Stability.

The programme for IFC-2019 will be divided into several thematic tracks, which will cover monetary policy and macroeconomics, banks, insurance, collective investments, finance market professionals, and microfinancing.

A range of sessions will be dedicated to topics applicable to various sectors of the financial market. These include Digital Transformation and Cyber Risks in the Financial Sector; Creating institutes of Financial Ombudsman and Conduct supervision; Human resources development in the Financial Sector; and others.

The opening day’s plenary discussion will focus on the situation in global financial markets and its effect on the monetary policy. The plenary session on day two will feature a discussion between the regulator and market participants on achieving objectives for financial market growth across key areas over the period 2019–2021.

2019 Speakers

Andre Achtstaetter
Chief Executive Officer, Vexcash

Alexander Afanasiev

Tiago Aguiar
Deputy Head of the Banking Conduct Supervision Department, Bank of Portugal

Alexander Akhlomov
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, JuicyScore

Anatoly Aksakov
Chairman, Committee on Financial Markets of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Eddie Astanin
Chairman of the Executive Board, National Settlement Depository

Igor Baginsky
Deputy Director, Department of Economics and Public Support for Agribusiness, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

Vitaly Balanovich
Managing Partner, TRINFICO Investment Group

Patrizia Baudino
Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements

Sergey Belyakov
President, Association of Non-State Pension Funds; Chairman of the Presidium, The Retail Companies Association; Chairman of the Management Board, National Assoc...

Michael Boboshko
Head of the NAIMA Hedge Fund Committee

Claudio Borio
Head, Monetary and Economic Department, Bank of International Settlements

Royston Braganza
Chief Executive Officer, Grameen Capital

Alexander Braverman
General Director, Chairman of the Board, Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation

Alexey Bredikhin
Director, Financial Institutions Rating Group, Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA)

Giuseppe Bruno
Director, Head of Support for Economics and Statistics, Bank of Italy

Evgeny Bushmin
Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Laurent Camus
Representative of the FinTech Innovation Department, Bank of France

Stephen Cecchetti
Professor of International Economics, Brandeis International Business School

Elena Chaikovskaya
Advisor to the First Deputy Governor Sergey Shvetsov, Bank of Russia

Maksim Chernin
Chairman, Committee on Insurance against Accidents and Development of Life Insurance, All-Russian Insurance Association

Ekaterina Chernykh
Deputy CEO, Managing Director, Sberbank Asset Management

Sergey Chetverikov
Managing Director – Director of the Office, Lending Products and Processes Division, Sberbank

Vladimir Chistyukhin
Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

Elizaveta Danilova
Director, Financial Stability Department, Bank of Russia

Renat Davletgareyev
Chairman of the Board, Credit Union ‘Renda Savings and Loan Fund’

Gabriel de Bella
Resident Representative for Russia, IMF

Yuriy Denisov
Chairman of the Management Board, Moscow Exchange

Olga Dergunova
Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board, VTB Bank

Atanas Djumaliev
Managing Director and Head of the Global Commodities Division, VTB Capital

Dmitry Dubynin
Head of the Financial Technologies Analysis and Regulation, Financial Technologies Department, Bank of Russia

Elena Dybova
Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Michael Ehrmann
Head of the Monetary Policy Research Division, European Central Bank

Dmitry Eremeev
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Owner, Bank 131; President, FIX

Tatiana Esaulkova
General Director, SDK Garant

Stephanie Flanders
Senior Executive Editor for Economics, Bloomberg News

Philip Gabunia
Director, Insurance Market Department, Bank of Russia

Mikhail Gaponov
Chairman of the Management Board, Assotsiatsiya Bank

Maxim Getsman
Deputy Director General for Core Business, VTB Registrar

Arseniy Glazkov
Director, Head of Derivatives Market Department, Moscow Exchange

Edward Golosov
Head, BCS Capital, Board Member, Deputy President – Chairman of the Board for Investment and Insurance Business, FG BCS

Catherine Golub
Project Coordinator, Forum Analytical Centre

Jean-Pierre Gomez
Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, Societe Generale Securities Services in Luxembourg

Matvey Gorbachev
Director, Midland Hunt

Maria Gordon
Chairman, Supervisory Board Audit Committee, Moscow Exchange, Independent Director

Clemens Grafe
Co-Head of CEEMEA (Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) Economics, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research

Lyudmila Gribok
Chairman of the Board, Regional Association of Pawnshops

Maxim Grigoriev
Executive partner, Gartner

Max Hauser
Partner, Managing Director, BCG

Oliver Hughes
Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank

Alexander Ikonnikov
Chairman, Supervisory Board, Independent Directors Association

Yury Isaev
General Director, Deposit Insurance Agency

Tatiana Ivashkina
Chief Executive Officer, League of Credit Unions – National Union of Credit Cooperatives and Their Associations

Alexander Kalinin
President, All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses OPORA RUSSIA

Irina Khoroshko
Chief Executive Officer, MoneyMan

Vadim Khrapun
Partner, PwC Consulting

Vladimir Kirillov
Chief Executive Officer, TKB Investment Partners

Viktor Kitaev
President, Atomgarant Private Pension Fund

Andrey Kleymenov
Chief Executive Officer, EQVANTA

Victor Klimov
Financial Ombudsman in Insurance

Ilya Kochetkov
Director, Microfinance Market Department, Bank of Russia

Vladislav Kochetkov
President and Chairman of the Management Board, Finam Group

Vladimir Komlev
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, National Payment Card System

Iikka Korhonen
Head of Research Monetary Policy and Research Department, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Konstantin Korischenko
Chairman of the Commission for Professional Qualifications in Risk Management and Financial Services

Sergey Kotlyarenko
General Director, Microcredit Company ‘Kupi Ne Kopi’

Ivan Kozlov
Deputy Head, Service for Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion, Bank of Russia

Irina Krivosheeva
Chief Executive Officer, Alfa-Capital Management Company

Uğur Namık Küçük
Deputy Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Andrey Kuznetsov
Partner, KPMG

Stanislav Kuznetsov
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Anna Kuznetsova
Member of the Executive Board, Managing Director of Securities Market, Moscow Exchange

Vincenzo La Via
Managing Director, CEO Promontory Europe and Middle East

Evgeniya Lazareva
Project Manager, All-Russian People’s Front ‘For Borrowers’ Rights’

Alexey Lobanov
Director, Banking Regulation Department, Bank of Russia

Roman Lokhov
Member of the Management Board, Deputy CEO for Global Markets and Investment Banking Services, BCS (BrokerCreditService)

Georgy Luntovskiy
President, Assoсiation of Banks of Russia

Valery Lyakh
Director, Department for Countering Malpractice, Bank of Russia

Arsen Lyametov
General Director, Microfinance Company ‘T-Finance’

Anton Malkov
Managing Director, Corporate Finance, Sberbank CIB

Mikhail Mamuta
Head, Service for Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion, Bank of Russia

Igor Marich
Member of the Management Board, Managing Director of Foreign Exchange & Money Market (FX&MM), Moscow Exchange

Yury Marinichev
Member of the Board, Association of Credit Consumer Cooperatives "Gardarika"

Elman Mekhtiev
Chairman of the Council, Union of Microfinance Organizations ‘Microfinance and Development’; President, National Association of Professional Collector Agencies

Ivan Merinov
Chief Executive Officer, SMSFINANCE Group

Anatoly Milyukov
General Director, BLAGOSOSTOYANIE Pension Fund

Lubomir Mitov
Consultant, World Bank

Alexei Moiseev
Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation

Alexander Morozov
Director, Research and Forecasting Department, Bank of Russia

Galina Morozova
Deputy General Director, REGION Investment Company

Patricia Mosser
Director of the MPA Programme in Economic Policy Management, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs

Elvira Nabiullina
Governor, Bank of Russia

Armen Nurbekyan
Head of Economic Research Department, Central Bank of Armenia

Dmitry Olyunin
First Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board, VTB Bank

Guillermo Ortiz
Partner, Board Member, BTG Pactual

Sergey Ozerov
Chairman of the Management Board, Rusfinance Bank

Alexey Panferov
Vice Сhairman of the Management Board, Sovcombank

Andrey Petkov
Chief Executive Officer, IFC Chestnoe Slovo

Alexander Plutnik
Chief Executive Officer, DOM.RF

Ilya Polyakov
Chairman of the Management Board, Rosbank

Mikhail Polyakov
Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors, Nordea Bank

Olga Polyakova
Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

Anatoly Popov
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Head of the Corporate Business Block, Sberbank

Richard Portes
Professor of Economics, London Business School

Evgeny Postnikov
Head of Real Estate and Structured Funds Department, VTB Capital Investment Management

Vladimir Potapov
CEO, VTB Capital Investments; Senior Vice President, VTB Bank

Vasily Pozdyshev
Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

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Pavel Prass
Managing Director, INFINITUM Asset Services

Lyudmila Presnyakova
Head of Research Projects, InFOM

Kirill Pronin
Director, Collective Investments and Trust Management Department, Bank of Russia

Dmitry Rakovschik
Chief Executive Officer, RESO-Garantiya

Sergey Romanchuk
Head of FX&MM Metallinvestbank, ACI Russia

Stanislav Romanchuk
Head of the Operational Search Unit, Russian MIA General Administration for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

Alexey Rudenko
General Director, IC Rosgosstrakh Life

Ilya Sachkov
Chief Executive Officer and founder, Group-IB

Alexei Savatyugin
Assistant Chairman, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

Steffen Scheuble
Chief Executive Officer, Solactive German Index Engineering

Dmitry Scrivanov
Deputy, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Larisa Selyutina
Director, Securities Market and Commodity Market Department, Bank of Russia

Olga Sergeeva
Head, Financial Markets Control Department, Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia)

Galina Sharybkina
Advisor to the Director, Microfinance Market Department, Bank of Russia

Danil Sherstobitov
Chief Operations Officer, Scorista

Olga Shishlyannikova
Deputy Director, Securities Market and Commodity Market Department, Bank of Russia

Petr Shkumatov
Coordinator, Blue Buckets Society

Anton Shpilev
First Deputy General Director, NPF GAZFOND Pensionnyye Nakolpeniya

Sergey Shvetsov
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

Alexey Simanovskiy
Adviser to the Governor, Bank of Russia

Olga Skorobogatova
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

Vladimir Skvortsov
Chief Executive Officer, AlfaStrakhovanie Group

Sergey Slobodyan
Director, CERGE-EI

Ilya Smirnov
Deputy Director, Insurance Market Department, Bank of Russia

Natalia Smirnova
Independent financial advisor

Andrey Sokolov
Chairman of the Executive Board, ALFA-BANK

Alexander Solomkin
Director, Self-Regulatory Organization of Credit Consumer Cooperatives ‘Cooperative Finances’

Antonio Spilimbergo
Assistant Director, Western Hemisphere Department, International Monetary Fund

Elena Stratyeva
Director, Russian Microfinance Centre (RMC); Director, Microfinance and Development Union of Microfinance Organisations

Artem Sychev
First Deputy Director of the Information Security Department, Bank of Russia

Alexey Timofeev
President, Russian National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR)

Elena Titova
Independent Director, Otkritie FC Bank

Dmitry Tulin
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

Zdenek Tuma
Partner of the Management Consulting Department, KPMG Czech Republic

Johannes Turner
Director, Statistics Department, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Republic of Austria

Konstantin Ugryumov
President, National Association of Non-Governmental Pension Funds

Marc Uzan
Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

Alexander Vedyakhin
First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy
Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board, Alfa-Bank

Anastasia Vinogradova
Partner, Head of Insurance and Non-State Pension Funds Advisory Division, EY

Mikhail Volkov
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, Ingosstrakh

Yury Voronin
Chief Financial Commissioner for Consumer Rights, Financial Ombudsman Administration

Boris Vujčić
Governor, Croatian National Bank

Oleg Vyugin
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, SAFMAR Financial Investments

Oleg Yankelev
Chief Executive Officer, FinEx Plus Asset Management; Senior Partner, FinEx Capital Management

Ksenia Yudaeva
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Russia

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Muhammad Yunus
Professor, Founder of the Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 2006

Igor Yurgens
President, All-Russian Insurance Association

Vasily Zablotsky
President, Self-Regulatory Organization ‘National Finance Association’

Mikhail Zadornov
President – Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank

Igor Zelezetsky
Chief Executive Officer, Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA)

Nikolay Zhuravlev
Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Andrey Zhurikhin
Director, Risk Management Department, NPF BUDUSHCHEYE

Andrey Zorin
Government Relations Director, Otkritie Bank

Kirill Zverev
Vice President, National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR)

2019 Partners:

GENERAL PARTNERS:
• SBERBANK
• Russian Agricultural Bamk

NATIONAL PARTNER:
• MIR

PARTNERS:
• MOSCOW EXCHANGE
• Sovcom Bank

OFFICIAL WATER OF THE CONGRESS:
• Baikal Pearl

GENERAL MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Vedomosti Business
• Interfax Information Services Group

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Rossiyskaya gazeta
• Forbes
• PLUS Journal
• Banking Technologies
• Banking review
• PRIME
• BIS Journal
• RBC
• BellClub
• Banki.ru
• Magazine “Modern insurance technologies”
• Media-Information Group “Insurance Today” LLC (MIG)
• Kommersant