The largest intensive forum on finance and investments from T-Bank - TOLK-2026 has come to an end

Almost 200 thousand participants, more than 80 speakers from Russia and the world, including Elvira Nabiullina, Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy head of the presidential Administration, as well as former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of economics, and others — this is how TOLK-2026, Russia's largest intensive finance and investment forum from T-Bank, was held. In 2026, TOLK has become even more ambitious, combining three main blocks for different audiences.:

• TOLK-FORUM. "Man in the age of change: technology, trust and the economy of the future" — business program about the future of the economy, financial market and technology;
• Online Intensive TOLK is an educational program on financial literacy for everyone who wants to improve their standard of living through competent personal finance management.;
• IT'S A GOOD IDEA.The PRO is a professional conference where traders and active investors were able to gain a strategic vision of the market.

This year, TOLK allowed us to build a dialogue between representatives of government, business, the expert community and international speakers on key issues of the global and Russian financial markets.

The main results of TOLK-2026: almost 200 thousand participants, more than 80 speakers, including international experts, seven sessions of the TOLK Forum business program, as well as more than 45 speakers in the online intensive program on financial literacy and 35 lessons and live webinars, 33 additional materials — more than 17 hours of useful content about personal finance, 10 hours of live performances for stock market professionals.

The ecosystem of TOLK-2026 events has affected a wide variety of audiences: from professional traders, businesses and regulators to all Russians who want to improve their level of financial and digital literacy.

Among the key speakers of TOLK-2026 are Chairman of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Maxim Oreshkin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov, representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Federation Council, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as top managers of T-Bank, Avito, Sberbank, Yandex, etc. Among the international experts are former Greek Finance Minister, economics professor and author of the theory of "technofeudalism" Yanis Varoufakis, trader, futures and hedge fund expert, author of the book series "Magicians of the Market" Jack Schwager, futurist, expert on financial technologies, digital transformation and artificial intelligence, founder of neobank Moven Brett King and futurist Bronwyn Williams, an economist and business trends analyst, is one of the most respected international experts in the field of strategic foresight.

The TOLK FORUM has become a platform for an open dialogue between business, government and the expert community. The participants discussed how the country's economic environment is changing, what role technology and artificial intelligence play in it, and how to keep human interests at the center of these changes.

At the key plenary discussion of the forum "Man in the Age of Change: Technology, Trust, and the Economy of the Future," Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Maxim Oreshkin, President of T-Technologies Stanislav Bliznyuk, and co-founder of the Cybersecurity Development Foundation Cyberus and Positive Technologies Yuri Maksimov discussed how the platform economy reduces transaction costs and changes traditional financial models and how to protect consumers in an environment where algorithms, ecosystems, and AI are becoming part of everyday financial decisions.

Speaking about the platform economy, Elvira Nabiullina stated that the Bank of Russia evaluates its impact primarily through the prism of two key objectives — price and financial stability: "The platform economy facilitates and simplifies the first task — maintaining low inflation."

Maxim Oreshkin noted that platform technologies have already become one of the factors of economic growth and unemployment reduction. "Our financial system is one of the most efficient in the world, and it does not consume as much from the economy and society as American and European banks... The effective cost of these services for our society is one of the lowest in the world"

Stanislav Bliznyuk emphasized: "We are a product of competition, so it is better to be in open competition than in closed competition, because any closed competition ends sooner or later. And in this part, we need to make sure that the competition is even."

At other sessions of the forum that day, representatives of the government, the market, and the expert community discussed how the digital environment is changing consumer habits, what payments of the future will be like, what rules the crypto market will follow, why it is important for businesses to invest in science and human resources, and how technology helps protect people from fraud.

During the three-day online intensive, experts from T-Investments and T-Capital, private investors and bloggers, including Andrei Savochkin and Valentin Petukhov (Wylsacom), as well as stand-up comedian Evgeny Chebatkov, spoke about economics and investments in simple and understandable language. Each day was dedicated to a separate topic.

The first day. Basic concepts: how are the key rate, inflation, the ruble and the market related, how to find a balance between spending and savings, which investment style to choose and where to start the investment path?

The second day. Tools for saving capital and regular income.

The third day. The stock market and growth strategies: from choosing securities to forming a long-term portfolio.

The final of the forum was a ten-hour TOLK conference.PRO is an exclusive program for traders, professional investors and market experts. It was attended by about 25 speakers. For a professional audience, this was a unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience and knowledge from both Russian market practitioners and international experts who form the global agenda on finance and investment.