Institute for Financial Technologies and Economic Security (IFTES) was established in January 2006 on the initiative of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov. The goal of the Institute has been to provide high-quality training in the interests of national and international systems for combating the legalization (laundering) of criminal proceeds and terrorism financing.

Training of specialists requires interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of information technology, economics and law. That determined the decision to place such research and educational unit within MEPhI infrastructure – to provide students with fundamental science education as a methodological basis for analytical thinking.

The curriculum of IFTES academic programs, along with natural science disciplines, includes:

• advanced training in information technology;
• economic education necessary for the analysis of financial reporting of banks and legal entities;
• business education in management and decision making, investment and the securities market, competitive intelligence technologies;
• legal framework for financial and economic security and combating money laundering and terrorist financing; special linguistic training.

The interdisciplinarity of education allows IFTES MEPhI graduates to adapt easily to rapid changing business environment.

Specialized departments:

Department of Accounting and Audit (# 56)

Head: Irina Komissarova, Doctor of Economics, professor, author of textbooks and teaching guides on accounting, winner of “Professional Textbook” competition (by Educational and Methodological Center)

Mission:

• training of highly qualified bachelors and masters in economics; specialists in economic security;
• research in financial accounting, cost budgeting, accounting (financial) reporting, audit, international financial reporting standards, accounting for foreign economic activity, etc.;
• publication of scientific and educational literature in various areas of accounting and auditing for educational purposes.

Research directions:

• research of international accounting principles and national accounting system transformation;
• development of analytical tools used in auditing activities;
• management accounting and production cost management issues;
• creation and operation of internal control systems in economic entities;
• forensic economic expert analysis;
• taxation and tax optimization issues.

Department of Financial Management (# 63)

Founded in 2006

Head: Vera Kogdenko, Doctor of Economics, author of textbooks and teaching guides on company value management, economic analysis, short-term and long-term financial policy; member of the editorial board of the journal "Economic Analysis: Theory and Practice" of the Publishing House "Finance and Credit"

Mission:

• training of highly qualified bachelors and masters in economics; specialists in economic security;
• research in economic and investment analysis, development of short-term and long-term corporate financial policies, risk management, business valuation;
• publication of scientific and educational literature on economic analysis, financial management, economic security.

Department of Financial Monitoring (# 75)

Head: Yuri Chikhanchin, Director of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring of the Russian Federation Honoured Economist of the Russian Federation (2005); multiple state and departmental award winner

Mission: Training of specialists in financial intelligence, information and economic security for national and international systems of combating money laundering (legalization) of criminal proceeds and financing of terrorism.

• Research
• Education
• Faculty
• Collaboration
• Publications

• Information security
• Economic security
• Counteraction to legalisation (laundering) of proceeds from crime
• Countering terrorism financing
• Business processes modelling
• BigData analysis
• Analysis and security of information systems
• Financial technologies
• Audit
• Accounting and financial statements
• Financial management and corporate finance
• Countering modern challenges and threats in the field of legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and terrorism financing

Training of specialists requires interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of information technology, economics and law. That determined the decision to place such research and educational unit within MEPhI infrastructure – to provide students with fundamental science education as a methodological basis for analytical thinking.

The curriculum of IFTES academic programs, along with natural science disciplines, includes:

• advanced training in information technology;
• economic education necessary for the analysis of financial reporting of banks and legal entities;
• business education in management and decision making, investment and the securities market, competitive intelligence technologies;
• legal framework for financial and economic security and combating money laundering and terrorist financing; special linguistic training.

The interdisciplinarity of education allows IFTES MEPhI graduates to adapt easily to rapid changing business environment.

Direction of training/level	Name of program
Bachelor's degree program 10.03.01 Information Security	Analysis and Information Systems for Financial Monitoring
Bachelor's degree program 38.03.01 Economics	Accounting, Analysis and Audit Financial Management
Bachelor's degree program 38.03.05 Business Informatics	Technopreneurship
Specialist's degree program 10.05.04 Analysis and Information Security Systems	Information Security for Financial and Economic Structures
Specialist's degree program 38.05.01 Economic Security	Financial and Economic Framework of National Security Agencies Forensic Economic Expert Analysis Legal and Economic Framework for Economic Security
Master's degree program 10.04.01 Information Security	Information Management & Analysis of Financial Monitoring
Master's degree program 38.04.01 Economics	Accounting, Analysis and Audit Corporate Finance Economic Security
Master's degree program 38.04.05 Business Informatics	Business Processes Modeling Project Management Digital Technologies for Financial Economy

 

Leadership

Director: Vladimir Glotov

Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring of the Russian Federation; Full State Counsellor 2nd Class of the Russian Federation

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

Deputy Director: Anna Norkina

Candidate of Economic Sciences (2010), associate professor

MEPhI graduate -1996 (Faculty of Theoretical Physics)

Deputy Director: Mikhail Eroshenkov

Director of the Expert and Analytical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council of the State Duma for the development of institutions of the innovation system in the Russian Federation

Doctor of Technical Sciences (1995)

 

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