OREANDA-NEWS. April 26, 2010. The Fifth International Interbank Conference “Man as Capital. New Horizons of Development” organized by Gazprombank and the International Moscow Finance and Banking School was held in Moscow.

In attendance of the Jubilee Conference were more than 120 heads of human resources management  services from Russian and foreign banks, including representatives of Vnesheconombank’s subsidiary banks – the Russian Development Bank, Svyaz-Bank, Belvnesheconombank (Belarus) and Prominvestbank (Ukraine), heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Interbank Consortium human resources departments.

Opening the Conference, Director of Vnesheconombank’s Banking Operations Directorate Sergei Noskov,emphasized the importance of this already traditional conference. “Starting from 2006, the year when the conference came into being, we have been openly discussing trends in the human resources management field in Russia and abroad comparing them with our capabilities and the general situation in the financial sector. This enable us to rapidly respond to global changes, find timely solutions, make our institutions more competitive and secure their sustainable development.

A topic on our today’s agenda is to discuss issues of personnel’s intercultural adaption under the conditions of organizational changes upon mergers and takeovers of banks. The Conference participants also discussed specific features of Russian personnel’s adaptation to the European and Asian management style and culture.

A roundtable discussion as part of the Conference was devoted to specifics of human resources management in the post-crisis period. The Conferences’ participants stressed that the main trend in this sector today was to improve forms and methods of human resources management prompted by the crisis. Rector of the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Eskindarov was present at the Conference as a guest of honor. He spoke of educational programs and the training of personnel for the banking sector.

Summing up the results of the Conferences, its participants said that the project “Man as Capital” was progressing successfully and achieving its main objective to integrate the HR-Community into a working instrument capable of adding a new dimension to the banking business in the upgrading and application of advanced technologies in human resources management.