The Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is an engineering training institution exclusively focused on banking technology. Established by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1996, the institution works at the intersection of banking and technology. It is located in Hyderabad, India. Research and development The main focus of the institute is conducting applied research and experimental development in the area of banking technology. The research at the institute is directed primarily towards a specific practical objective that will serve the banking and financial sector. Accordingly, the research and development activities of the institute aim at improving banking technology in India. While addressing the immediate concerns of the banking sector, the research at the institute also focuses on anticipating the future needs and requirements of the banking sector and developing technologies to address them. Focal areas of research Financial Networks and Applications Electronic Payments and Settlement Systems Security Technologies for the Financial Sector Financial Information Systems and Analytics. Research centres The institute has set up state-of-the-art research centres for aiding and enabling applied research. Presently, the Institute has the following six Research Centres for focused research and development directly relevant to the Indian Banking and Financial Sector Research conferences The institute organises a good international conference, in an area of relevance to the institute, every year to promote exchange of the latest knowledge, experiences, research findings and technical know-how so as to attain and sustain international standards of excellence in banking technology. The main idea is to bring to the country the latest research findings in various facets of Information Technology so that the relevant ideas can be explored further and considered for application in the Indian banking and financial sector. During the last seven years, the institute organized the following three conferences: 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Network and Telecommunications Systems - ANTS 2021 (December 13 - 16, 2021) 12th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation - FIRE 2020 (December 16 - 20, 2020) 15th International Conference on Information Systems Security - ICISS (December 16 - 20, 2019) Fifth IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis - ISBA 2019 (January 22 - 24, 2019) Fifth International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration - MIKE 2017 (December 13 - 15, 2017) Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking – ICDCN 2017 (January 4 – 07, 2017) Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy and