Within the commemorative International Economic Forum of the CIS member states, which took place in Moscow on April 3, 2026, the Interstate Bank held a panel discussion entitled "Metamorphoses of the Payment Landscape – Payment Revolution or Evolution of Payments." The following speakers performed: Rybalko E.U., Head of the Development Department of the Department of Development and Regulation of the NPS of the Department of the National Payment System; A.A. Petrosyan, Head of the Financial System Development Center of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia; A.I. Akimenko, Managing Director for Advanced Financial Technologies at Russian Export Center; K.V. Shvandar, Head of the Center for Advanced Financial Planning, Macroeconomic Analysis and Financial Statistics at the Research Institute of Financial Research of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; D.B. Bykov, Head of Department, Managing Director, Department of Foreign Economic Activity and Treasury Operations, JSC TBank; A.N. Kukel, Director, WhiteBird Legal LLC.
The transformation of the modern payment landscape, challenges and opportunities for financial market participants in the CIS were discussed. Participants explored a number of pressing issues, including maintaining liquidity, finding new payment routes and counterparties, modernizing infrastructure, developing a new customer journey, and more.