Conceptual framework for application of modern financial technologies in the Russian industry

This article presents the author’s position on the use of modern financial technologies (FinTech) in the practice of managing domestic industrial companies. In particular, the use of modern financial technologies is possible in the current (operational) financial and economic activities of companies, as well as in their investment and financial activities. The authors considered the key aspects of the development of financial technologies, while identifying five waves of active development of FinTech in Russia. The authors set out the results of a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of functioning of FinTech in the modern economic conditions of domestic industrial companies using the example of e-commerce. The features of existing e-commerce systems are considered: B2B, B2G, B2C and C2C. An overview of the possibilities of using various instruments of financial technologies in various types of activities of Russian industrial companies is given. Based on the analysis of actual data from 156 largest industrial companies in Russia (out of 17 industries) included in the Expert-400 rating of the country’s four hundred largest companies, the directions of the formation of modern financial relations, including the supply of goods and services based on the digitalization of management processes using modern tools: e-commerce, including blockchain platforms, as well as Big Data, mobile applications for employees or clients, machine learning. It is shown that practically all the largest industrial companies in Russia – the leaders of their industries – are actively introducing and using all modern financial technologies in their activities. The directions of transformation of business processes of industrial companies in Russia are investigated within the framework of the concept of sustainable development of their business in terms of using a variety of FinTech tools and digitalization. Prospects for the use of modern financial technology tools in industrial production in the first half of the XXI century are considered.