Grigoriev Maxims

Grigoriev Maxims

Biography

2022: General Director of the FinTech Association

The general meeting of members of the FinTech Association (AFL) decided to appoint Maxim Grigoriev as Director General of the AFL. Under his leadership, it is planned to reformat the AFL taking into account the new tasks and directions of fintech and the further digitalization of financial products and services. The AFL announced this on July 13, 2022.

Before Maxim Grigoriev, Tatyana Zharkova was the general director of the AFL, who was appointed to this position in February 2020^[1].

The financial market countries for July 2022 is undergoing a transformation phase, facing serious challenges. In these conditions, market participants are in need of - the Russian IT products based, among other things, on innovative technologies. In this regard, we decided to reboot the AFL. A repository of Russian, as well as independent solutions for the financial sector and a technological sandbox will be created at the Association's site, where developers will be able to pilot new digital and IT products. In addition, the Association will work to develop technologies for open finance and, data distributed registries, digital financial assets, as well as other innovations to remove barriers to the creation of digital products and services, Maxim Bank of Russia Olga Skorobogatova Grigoriev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the AFL, First Deputy Chairman, is an experienced professional with a wide range of competencies in the field of digital and financial technologies, and we are confident that he will cope with the ambitious tasks set for the Association.

{{quote 'I am grateful to the members of the FinTech Association for their trust. The Russian financial sector has a high level of competitiveness and significant technological potential. Our work will be aimed at coordinating and consolidating the efforts of developers and companies in the financial sector to develop technologies. This will make it possible to develop technological solutions, focusing on real needs, to make technologies more accessible. Also, we plan to offer and pilot with financial market participants and other players, for example, marketplaces, new digital client paths and products in which financial and non-financial services are conveniently combined for people. By the end of the year, we will present to the General Meeting of AFL members an updated roadmap for the implementation of priority areas of the association's activities, which will be aimed at supporting and developing technologies of the financial market, digital products and services, - said Maxim Grigoriev. }}

AFL will also continue to work actively in current areas, including "Remote Identification and Management of Digital Identity," "Development of Distributed Registry Technology," "Development of Open APIs," "Cloud Services."