A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Ilya Ivaninskiy

Ilya Ivaninskiy

Director of Center of Business Education and Analytics, Central University
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06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Global Trends in Payments: New Opportunities and New Solutions
Fortunately, a development emerging now is horizontal connections, analogues of our SPFS [Russian Financial Message Transfer System – Ed.], which exist worldwide and help mitigate the situation. There are also settlements in central bank digital currencies between countries. This will make a significant contribution to international payments. We estimated that the introduction of the digital rouble alone in Russia will have an impact of over RUB 300 billion
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Global Trends in Payments: New Opportunities and New Solutions
A persistent issue in almost all developing countries is international payments. This problem remains unsolved. We are used to thinking that a good payment is instant and free. However, if we look at payments in developing countries, transactions, especially from a developed country to a developing one, can take weeks and cost percentage points, if not tens of percentage points
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