Events
3–5 February, 2025. High Security Printing EMEA – Basel, Switzerland
Topics: The production and issue of government-specified and issued documents, including currency, fiduciary documents, excise stamps, ID cards, e-passports, visas, vehicle documents and licences, with a particular emphasis on banknotes and the emerging technologies for ID and travel documents.
Organizer: Reconnaissance International
17–19 February, 2025. Central Bank Payments Conference – Paris , France
https://currencyresearch.com/payments-week/
Topics: The most significant issues and developments in central bank payment systems and market infrastructures. Distinguished leaders from central banks’ payment divisions, regulatory bodies, payment service providers, financial services institutions, and network operators worldwide convene to engage in critical discussions on policy and strategic initiatives.
Organizer: Currency Research
19–21 February, 2025. Global Payments Summit – Paris, France
https://currencyresearch.com/payments-week/
Topics: Cross-border payments, often overlooked yet vital to the financial sector’s infrastructure. This summit assembles the brightest minds to envision and steer the future of a network that propels over $150 trillion annually across the globe.
Organizer: Currency Research
27 February, 2025. International PLUS-Forum ‘Digital Kyrgyzstan’. – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Topics: Development of Kyrgyzstan as a modern digital society; Digital transformation: 2023 — and further on. From an analogue society and economy to a digital community and a country-wide ecosystem; The role and place of the creative economy in the country today and in the future; Electronic services in the public administration and G2C. Digitization of public services and systems of interaction with citizens; Fintech and government regulation; Improving the payments landscape; Fintech as a banking industry culture; Blockchain and smart contracts. Innovations that become everyday routine.
Organizer: Plus-alliance
26–29 May, 2025. Currency Conference – Bangkok, Thailand
https://currencyresearch.com/the-currency-conference/
Topics: Cash Visibility, Cash Cycle Infrastructure, Cash Cycle Resiliency, Securing Access and acceptance of Cash, Technical Innovation in Currency, The Changing Roles of Cash Cycle Participants, Cash Sustainability, Digital Currencies and Cash – How to Coexist.
Organizer: Currency Research
28-29 May, 2025. International The PLUS-Forum ‘Digital Uzbekistan’ – Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Topics: Development of Uzbekistan – head on to a modern digital society; Digital transformation. Digitalization of banking and retail. Digitalization of public services and systems of interaction with citizens; Improving the payment environment. Challenges. Main trends; Fintech as a culture of the banking industry; Issues related to IT technologies and artificial intelligence. Transformation of tasks and solutions required for a digital society. Big Data; Open Banking and Open API. Impact on the traditional banking market; Blockchain and smart contracts. Innovations that become everyday routine; Cryptocurrency industry 2024. Complex trajectory under the influence of various vectors; Digital currencies of central banks. Goals and objectives that will be solved using CBDC.
Organizer: Plus-alliance
28–29 May, 2025. Digital Currency Conference – Bangkok, Thailand
https://currencyresearch.com/the-digital-currency-conference/
Topics: All aspects of Digital Currencies – improving the user experience, boosting adoption, prioritizing interoperability, and ensuring trust and stability in the face of constant change and increasing decentralization.
Organizer: Currency Research
9–11 June, 2025. High Security Printing Latin America – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Topics: The production and issue of government-specified and issued documents, including currency, fiduciary documents, excise stamps, ID cards, e-passports, visas, vehicle documents and licences, with a particular emphasis on banknotes and the emerging technologies for ID and travel documents.
Organizer: Reconnaissance International
9-10 September, 2025. International PLUS-Forum ‘Payment Business and Money Circulation’ – Moscow, Russia
https://pay.plus-forum.com/en/
Topics: Discussion of the preliminary National Payment System Development Strategy; Problems in the integration and development of national electronic payment instruments in the markets of friendly countries; Banks of the digital society in the realities of the sanctions regime; Quantum computing and quantum cryptography. Migration of the payment industry to new cryptography; Digital Ruble; Solutions for Linux ATMs. Operating experience. Cost of ownership.
Organizer: Plus-alliance
30 October, 2025. International PLUS-Forum ‘Digital Tajikistan’ – Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Topics: Development of Tajikistan – a pivot to a modern digital society; Fintech as a banking industry culture; Banking business in the process of further transformation; Blockchain and smart contracts. Asset tokenization; Financial services for SMEs amid changes in the banking landscape; Electronic services in public administration and G2C. Public services outside eGOV; Open Banking and Open API. Potential and ways of development of traditional banking; Central bank digital currencies. Goals and objectives to be solved using CBDC
Organizer: Plus-alliance
26 November, 2025. International PLUS-Forum ‘Digital Kazakhstan’ – Almaty, Kazakhstan
https://dkz.plus-forum.com/en/
Topics: Fintech as the culture of the banking industry; Digitalization of governmental services; Artificial intelligence and machine learning; Financial marketplaces. Results of activity. The logic for future development; Remote Identification — a guarantee of freedom to choose products and services; Open Banking and Open APIs. How they are changing traditional banking market; Central banks' digital currencies — CBDC. Prospects for Central Asia countries; Trans-border money transfer market. Emphasis of global and regional scale; Development of national and international payment systems
Organizer: Plus-alliance
1–3 December, 2025. High Security Printing Asia – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Topics: The production and issue of government-specified and issued documents, including currency, fiduciary documents, excise stamps, ID cards, e-passports, visas, vehicle documents and licences, with a particular emphasis on banknotes and the emerging technologies for ID and travel documents.
Organizer: Reconnaissance International
