Speaking to reporters in Iran's Third International Transaction Exhibition's press conference, Kourosh Parviziyan, Association of Private Banks' Head, pointed to the Association of Private Banks' support from the exhibition, saying " the event will be held by Association of Private Banks' support to help to localize payment services."
He noted that in this exhibition, some topics such as fintechs, startups, decrease of physical payment cost, increase in services access and some activities relevant to environment and avoidance of commuting will be discussed.
Parviziyan made the remarks that Iran's financial network has created the capacity of using new technologies into the network, while in some banks in the world customers do banking operations electronically, but in Iran there are some restrictions and it is expected that by the removal of them, Mobile Bank will be run in near future to delete physical presence in banks' branches.
"In 20-Year Vision Document, Iran is considered as a pioneer country and also financial industry and payment area are considerable debates in the document", Iran's Head of Private Banks Association said.
He went on, noting that "this issue depends on employing domestic capacity and qualified workforce in this field and they are taken into account as the biggest country's capital in this industry and lay the required groundwork."
Kourosh Parviziyan highlighted, despite sanctions, Iran's banking system could take step forwards in payment, hardware, software, security and exchange of data sectors.
"Current economic situation necessitates that financial services quality to be guaranteed for people and if there is an external disruption in payment systems and banking industry, holding Iran Transaction Exhibition can help to stabilize financial sector and prevent from disruptions", Association of Private Banks' Head stated.
Parviziyan said another significant topic will be discussed in the exhibition is "Financial System Document" in which the usage of new technologies based on banking system capacity is dealt with.
