This analytical report, prepared by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property with expert support from the Blockchain Competence Center of Vnesheconombank, provides patent landscape analysis on blockchain technologies. It reviews global patenting trends, leading companies in industry sectors, as well as geography, markets, and areas of application of blockchain technologies.

Investments in the infrastructure of capital markets in the sphere of financial technologies are growing rapidly. For companies, the key aspect is the attitude to financial technologies not as a strategy, but as a means of achieving strategic priorities.

The first meeting of the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG), chaired by Russia, took place from 26–28 October in a hybrid format in Moscow. The event was hosted by the Roscongress Foundation.

This important report published in collaboration with Oliver Wyman explores the impact and implications of COVID-19 on the Travel & Tourism sector through a data-driven examination of four interlinked trends, putting forward recommendations that will support the sector now and build its resilience into the future.