The CB 2025 Summit reaffirmed its central role in France’s payments ecosystem. With nearly 2,000 attendees, 70 exhibitor booths, and 10 strategic conferences, this year’s event brought together all industry stakeholders to discuss the major challenges facing the payments sector and outline the prospects for its sovereign, secure, and innovative future.
Throughout the day, banks, manufacturers, retailers, institutional investors, and start-ups discussed the sector’s major challenges through a series of thematic conferences, including:
Presentation by Luc Ferry, a philosopher and former minister, rounded out the discussion and left a lasting impression by highlighting the essential complementarity between artificial intelligence and human action.
In his opening speech, Jean-Paul Mazoyer, President of CB, highlighted the rapid growth of digital payments and CB’s increasingly important role in this transformation.
“For the first time, card payments have overtaken cash payments in France. 48% of transactions are now made by card, compared with 43% in cash. This trend reflects growing consumer confidence and the robustness of the card payment model, which combines security, simplicity, and innovation”.
With more than 14 billion transactions per year and 77 million CB cards in circulation, CB continues to innovate to offer solutions that are increasingly secure and tailored to new uses, particularly through the accelerated roll-out of Xpay solutions co-badged with CB.
The CB 2025 Summit also provided an opportunity to recognise the most innovative initiatives in the AI and CSR categories with the presentation of the CB Innovation Awards. This year, three start-ups stood out:
🏆 AI Award: Meelo, for its use of artificial intelligence to secure payments.
🏆 CSR Award: Kamaé, for its simple, gamified cybersecurity awareness platform.
❤️ People’s Choice Award: Solly, for its brand-new solidarity card for the homeless.
With 70 exhibitor booths, the CB 2025 Summit brought together a wide range of key players in the payments industry. Banks, manufacturers, start-ups, associations, and trade federations showcased their latest innovations, underscoring the richness and diversity of this constantly evolving ecosystem.
Among these exhibitors were industry leaders, recognised for their expertise and their ability to shape the technologies and usages of tomorrow. This diversity of players illustrates the appeal of the French payments market and its ability to reinvent itself to meet the new challenges of digitalisation, cybersecurity, and the customer experience.
The CB Summit is much more than just an event; it is the ecosystem’s meeting place for exchanging ideas and expanding one’s network: an accelerator for innovation and collaboration.
In a spirit of solidarity, the CB Summit once again held its iconic charity event, organised in partnership with the FDJ/Suez team and the French Cycling Federation. Thanks to the participants’ efforts, 500 km were covered, setting a new record.
At the end of the event, CB presented a cheque for €10,000 to Philippe Gaboriau, Chief Executive Officer of the Louvre Museum Endowment Fund, to support projects aimed at restoring and promoting the museum’s heritage. This was a symbolic tribute to the roots of CB, which was founded in 1984 at the Ministry of the Economy, then located in the Louvre.
A big thank you to all the participants!
CB extends its sincere thanks to the 2,000 visitors, speakers, and exhibitors who made this event a vital opportunity for discussion and reflection on the future of payments in France.
“The success of this year’s CB Summit is the result of an exceptional collective effort. I would like to extend my warmest thanks to all the participants, exhibitors, and speakers who brought this event to life with passion and dedication. This enthusiasm once again demonstrates the strength and vitality of our payments ecosystem. Thanks to you, CB continues to evolve, innovate, and play a key role in ensuring an efficient, secure, and sovereign payment system in France. I would also like to extend a special thank you to Eric Salobir (Human Technology Foundation),
Samir Amellal (France Travail), and Luc Ferry (former minister, philosopher, and author of “IA, un grand remplacement ou complémentarité ?”), who made time in their schedules to attend and enrich our discussions with their valuable expertise”.
Philippe Laulanie,
Chief Executive Officer of CB
📢 See you in 2026 for an even more ambitious edition!
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