Business programme
13.05.2023
12:15–13:45

Supporting Cross-Border Settlements by Russian Companies: Barriers and Solutions

Congress Centre, conference hall A
Business and Investment in the Face of Sanctions
Broadcast
The principle of freedom to conduct essential financial operations (payments and bank transfers) has been virtually destroyed. Across the globe, businesses are coming up against unjustified and unilateral restrictions (both by individual countries, and financial institutions) which are impacting their ability to make transnational settlements. In this regard, there have been renewed and louder calls to make greater use of national currencies belonging to countries which have not imposed sanctions on Russian companies. There have also been increased proposals to apply new mechanisms, tools, and technologies, including digital rights and currencies. What practical solutions are businesses employing in the current environment, and how effective are they? What organizational and legal measures need to be taken to systemically solve issues relating to transnational settlements? What tools, mechanisms, and technologies need to be implemented as a priority, and what needs to be done from an organizational and legal viewpoint to these ends?

Moderator

Andrey Lisitsyn
Managing Director, Financial Policy and Financial Markets Department, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Panellists

Maria Agranovskaya
Managing partner, Agranovskaya & Partners
Lydia Gorshkova
Head of banking and financial practice group, Pepeliaev Group
Alexey Guznov
Secretary of State – Deputy Chairman, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Anatoly Kozlachkov
Vice President, Association of Banks of Russia
Darya Nosova
Head of FinTech Practice, O2 Consulting Law Firm
Maryana Petrova
Head of Projects for Financing Export-import Operations, Information and Analytical Center for Foreign Trade Activities under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Poroshin
General Director, FIRST Investment Consulting Group
Sergey Ryabov
Director of Business Development, Distributed Ledger Technology
Elina Sidorenko
General Director, Platform

Broadcast

Andrey Lisitsyn
Managing Director, Financial Policy and Financial Markets Department, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Maria Agranovskaya
Managing partner, Agranovskaya & Partners
Lydia Gorshkova
Head of banking and financial practice group, Pepeliaev Group
Alexey Guznov
Secretary of State – Deputy Chairman, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Born on 18 June 1967 in Gorky.

Education
1990: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences (1994); Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2016).

Author of over 80 publications on the theory of law and financial regulation, including tutorials and monographs.

Career
1984–1985: Assembly Mechanic at the Gorky Institute Salyut, Gorky.

1985–1990: student at the the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.

1990–1991: Legal Advisor (contractor) at the Leisure Centre of the Oktyabrsky District, Moscow.

1991: Legal Team Leader at the International Association of Parliamentarians, Moscow.

1991–1992: Assistant to the Chairman of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Council, Moscow.

1992–1994: Planning Team Leader, Deputy Chief of the Parliamentarianism Section at the Parliamentary Centre of the Russian Federation, Moscow.

1995–1997: Deputy Head of Section, Head of Section in the Banking Legislation Division of the Legal Department at the Bank of Russia, Moscow.

1997–1998: Deputy Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

1998–2002: Deputy Director — Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

2002–2014: Deputy Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

2014–2022: Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

Since 2022: State Secretary — Deputy Governor of Bank of Russia.

Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (since 10 October 2018).

He holds the title of Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation; the medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 2nd class; awards of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; and awards of Russian ministries. Themis Award winner.
Anatoly Kozlachkov
Vice President, Association of Banks of Russia
Darya Nosova
Head of FinTech Practice, O2 Consulting Law Firm
Maryana Petrova
Head of Projects for Financing Export-import Operations, Information and Analytical Center for Foreign Trade Activities under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Poroshin
General Director, FIRST Investment Consulting Group
Born in Perm, Russia on 28 April, 1980.
Graduated from the State University “Perm National Research Polytechnic University”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.
Managing Partner and the CEO of the Investment Consulting Group "First". Has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking sector, as well as on the Russian financial market.
·Member of the General Council, co-chairman of the Сenter for financial and credit support of business of All Russia Public Organization “Delovaya Rossiya”.
·Member of the Committee on Monetary Policy and of the Committee on work with government institutions and the development of support measures of All Russia Public Organization “Delovaya Rossiya”.
·Member of the working group for coordination of development and filling of the SME Business Navigator of SME Corporation.
·Member of the expert group for the main direction of the strategic development of the Russian Federation «Small business and the support of the individual entrepreneurial initiative».
·Member of the Interdepartmental Comission for the implementation of new comprehensive investment projects in priority areas of the civilian industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
·Member of the working group «Business Projects» of the expert council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
·Member of Board of directots of NPO Iskra, PAO, Perm.
·Member of Board of directors of OJSC “Proton-Perm motors”, Perm.
·Member of the Board of NGO "Perm fraternity".
Sergey Ryabov
Director of Business Development, Distributed Ledger Technology
Elina Sidorenko
General Director, Platform
Sidorenko Elina - Doctor of Law, Professor of MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
A graduate of the Stavropol State University (now — The North-Caucasus Federal University) in 2001. In 2002 she successfully defended her thesis and in 2013 she successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law. Since 2013 she is Professor of MGIMO University, since 2017 she is the Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
Research interests: financial security, digital economy, anti-corruption policy, laundering of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism.
She is the author of 150 scientific works.
Sidorenko Elina is actively working as an expert. She is a member of the Expert Council of the RF President's Administration on anti-corruption, the Head of the Working Group of the State Duma of RF Federal Gathering on cryptocurrency circulation risk assessment, the Head of the new digital technologies Expert Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Participates in the development of legislation on cryptocurrency circulation regulation in Russia.
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