CEE Annual Payments Forum 2025 stakes its claim in Europe’s payments future

The CEE Annual Payments Forum 2025 may be behind us, but the discussions that started in Bucharest on 21 October are still unfolding.

More than 100 participants from 53 organisations across Central and Eastern Europe came together to share practical experience and regional insight. Conversations covered instant payments, artificial intelligence, digital identity, cybersecurity, and financial inclusion, with a clear emphasis on solutions already being developed and tested across the region.

The forum once again showed how CEE Perspective brings different parts of the payments ecosystem into the same room. Regulators, market players, and technology experts engaged in direct exchanges grounded in real operational challenges rather than abstract forecasts.

For readers who want the full picture, the complete written recap is now available