Episode 4. Digital Economy

How are the BRICS countries progressing along the path of digital transformation, and what lessons are they prepared to share with one another? What are the advantages of the new BRICS payment instruments? And why can the use of digital platforms simplify trade relations between partner countries?

On these and many other questions and topics: Aleksey Kazartsev, Chair of the International Banking Committee of the Euro-Asian Cooperation Finance and Business Association and co-author of the new international payment system BRICS Pay project; and Manish Kumar, President of Soltex Group and Deputy Chair of the Board of the Euro-Asian Cooperation Finance and Business Association.

Via the video conference with the Moscow studio: Walid Gad, former head of the Egyptian Chamber of Information Technology; Xie Hongjun, researcher at the BRICS Research Centre at the University of International Business and Economics in China; and Lucas Macedo, a member of the BRICS Research Group at the University of Sao Paulo.