AI for the Financial Business

The final practical session in the series on the application of AI in FinTech, focusing on the requirements of the EU AI Act and the GDPR: high-risk systems, biometrics and liveness checks in KYC, the roles of the provider and the deployer of AI systems, as well as real risks relating to fines and compliance.

Online | YouTube broadcast

Please pay attention: event will be held on May 14

15:00–16:00
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What topics will be covered during the webinar?

Welcome address

15:00 (GMT+3)

FinTech AI: 80% are high-risk systems (Annex III). WebID/Liveness — biometric data (Articles 5/6). Fines:
Poll: “Do you use liveness in KYC?”

Risk classification

15:03 (GMT+3)

High-risk systems: credit scoring, fraud detection, biometric data (WebID/Liveness for KYC). Prohibited AI systems. Roles of the provider/deployer of an AI system.

Biometrics compliance obligations

15:12 (GMT+3)

Articles 6/9 of the AI Act: risk reduction, data quality (bias in liveness), logging (input/output). GDPR Article 9 (special category data), DPIA as an obligation. Human oversight: do not rely 100% on AI.

Governance + steps

15:22 (GMT+3)

Inventory (all AI/WebID systems). Gap analysis. Compliance specialist. Post-market monitoring (AI after placing on the market), incident reporting (Article 62). Legacy grace period set until 2027.

FinTech case studies

15:30 (GMT+3)

WebID KYC: logging of facial biometric data, explainability of decisions. Liveness fraud: threshold for human verification. Built-in API: traceable outputs.

Q&A

15:36 (GMT+3)

“Is WebID in the app prohibited?”, “Cloud biometrics?”, “data duplication?”

Conclusion

15:38 (GMT+3)

Takeaways: inventory + DPIA

Webinar Speaker

Liudmila Yepikhava

Liudmila Yepikhava

Lawyer, IT & IP Practice, REVERA law group

Liudmila provides comprehensive legal support to international and Belarusian IT companies on compliance, personal data protection, and the legal regulation of AI.

She supports the processes of collecting, storing and transferring personal data in accordance with the GDPR and Belarusian legislation, advises on the lawfulness of processing grounds, and on interaction with data subjects.

Her experience includes developing internal data protection policies and procedures, supporting contracts with processors, conducting compliance and security audits, and providing legal support for projects involving new technologies, including AI risk assessment and automated processing.

In addition, Liudmila advises IT companies on intellectual property matters and operations within special legal regimes.

The webinar will be held in Russian and is aimed at an international audience — representatives of banks and FinTech companies, compliance and risk specialists, lawyers, product managers, AI/ML developers, heads of KYC/AML and anti-fraud functions, as well as anyone who is implementing or planning to use AI solutions in financial services.

Participants will explore the requirements of the EU AI Act and the GDPR, the specifics of working with biometrics and liveness checks, the roles of the provider and the deployer of AI systems, and will also receive practical recommendations on the safe and lawful implementation of AI in FinTech products.

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Event completed 14.05.2026