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Olga Alekseeva, a lecturer and graduate student at the HSE Department of Finance in Saint Petersburg, spoke at the 2025 Massey Sustainable Finance Conference (MSFC2025), which took place on October 31 — November 1, 2025 in Nanjing (China). The conference was organized by Massey University (New Zealand) in collaboration with Nanjing University of Finance & Economics (China) and brought together leading researchers of sustainable finance, regulators and practitioners.

With warm thanks to our Brazilian partners at São Paulo State University (UNESP): Prof. Dr. Cleginaldo Pereira de Carvalho, his coordination team, and the UNESP students for their openness, discipline, and high standards throughout the project.

Two months moved in a steady rhythm: short weekly sprints, evening calls across three–four time zones, shared folders for working documents, and clear roadmaps with check-points. Teams aligned data into a common format, agreed on terminology, and recorded decisions — step by step building a single picture everyone could work from.

Guests from one of the largest audit and consulting companies of Russia Technologies of Trust (TeDo) held an audit game with the students of Master of finance as part of the audit course. 

“Top level of complexity” is what we know about the derivative financial instruments and what our students can now do!

On October 4, 2025, Daria Kotova, Executive Director of the “Yasnaya Polyana” Space, gave a guest lecture as a part of the course "Creative Place Branding”. Daria described the brand concept, the choice of the name for the space, the target audience of the brand, and the specifics of coworking space promotion in the St. Petersburg market. 

On October 2 and 3, Nizhny Novgorod hosted a traditional insurance conference at Mininsky University with the participation of the Bank of Russia, the Russian Union of Rectors, JSC SOGAZ, PJSC IC Rosgosstrakh, PJSC SAK ENERGOGARANT, SPAO Ingosstrakh. Its name is the XXVI International Scientific and Practical Conference "Insurance, Education and Science", which emphasizes that the insurance market is not just alive, but also adapts to the changing conditions of the Russian economy. 

The Moscow Financial Forum 2025 has become a large-scale platform for discussing key issues of the Russian economy and finance, bringing together representatives of government, business, the scientific community and universities.

Yury Burchanov, student of the master's programme 'Finance', studies credit risk modeling in modern financial markets. He presented his research at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference.

The main celebration of the new academic year will take place very soon: we invite all first-years and friends of the university to HSE SPB Day at Sevkabel Port on September 13. The event combines an educational programme and recreational activities.

The International Summer School at HSE University–St Petersburg included the intensive course 'New Economic Drivers for Company.' International students explored the realm of applied finance through case studies of Russian companies.