This major fintech event brought together regulators, financial institutions and technology companies to discuss the forces shaping the region’s financial future.
OpenWay was honored to join a panel discussion moderated by Deputy Head of Chairman of NPCK Assel Marchenko. The theme was “The Real Economics of AI: From Pilot to P&L.” Valentin Alexeev, Head of Solution Engineering at OpenWay, examined where AI is already creating measurable value—and what it takes to use it responsibly at scale.
Valentin brought the discussion into the daily reality of a payment operations team responsible for a platform that has evolved over many years. Thousands of product configurations represent live customers, contracts, limits, fees and authorization rules. The business needs to launch its next product faster, while the team must protect everything already working.
OpenWay is applying AI tools to help these teams analyze and optimize the configuration of Way4 processing platforms. Across several platforms, the tools consolidate thousands of accumulated product variants into dozens of standard templates—a reduction of approximately two orders of magnitude. Business functionality is preserved and verified through automatically generated tests covering every affected product.
This gives teams a clearer path forward: launch new products from proven templates, manage long-running portfolios more efficiently and support growth without allowing operational complexity to grow at the same pace.
This was one of the valuable conversations we were pleased to bring to the Central Asia Fintech Summit: how to turn AI ambition into measurable business value while preserving trust in mission-critical payments.
Thank you to the organizers, fellow speakers and everyone we met in Almaty for the exchange of ideas—and for a memorable day at the center of Central Asia’s fintech community!
