Les actualités CB

On 28 June, for the eighth consecutive year, LAB by CB — CB’s trend incubator — hosted the CB Innovation Awards, honouring the most promising French start-ups of 2024 under the theme “purchasing power and sustainable consumption".

At the Annual General Meeting held on 26 June, Philippe Laulanie was unanimously reelected to his position as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Cartes Bancaires CB consortium.

Stripe is strengthening its partnership with CB, France’s leading payment network, which processes 15 billion transactions per year. Stripe now natively supports payments via the CB network on Apple Pay, enabling retailers to optimise payment acceptance and conversion rates.

Check out the recap of our various CB workshops.

Payplug helps its e-commerce retailers enable the Safe’R by CB service, which optimises the “frictionless” checkout experience and thereby improves acceptance rate.

The conference announcing the merger of two long-standing subsidiaries of the CB Investissements holding company — ELITT and PayCert — into ELITT SAS marks a significant milestone in the implementation of a new strategic direction and in offering a broader range of complementary services.

For this 10th edition, CB invited its members and all partners in the payments ecosystem to a morning of discussions on new challenges and major market trends.

On 17 October, following the CB Board of Directors meeting, Gérald Grégoire was unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, succeeding Jean-Paul Mazoyer.

Open Payment has been available since 1 July 2025, on vehicles in the QUB network in Quimper, Western Brittany. Passengers can now validate their tickets using their CB card or smartphone.