Payments development and activity across our region has remained enthusiatically energetic in and is set to remain so for some time to come. Technology and AI, regulators and governments, multilateral cooperation, standardisation and competition, fintechs and non-financial institutions, global circumstances and consumer demand all, individually and collectively keep pushing the rate at which payments are changing and improving.
Payments are becoming more than only agile, intuitive and convenient, but also, as these features become more embedded, they can now have real positive influences for economies and societies as efficiencies aid productivity and foster greater inclusion.
As more generations of clients and diverse consumer groups become increasingly familiar with new payment choices, the beneficial conveniences and more flexible options that now exist promise to bring a period of growth and inclusion that will drive regional economies.
Our region remains largely resilient to the numerous challenges currently facing the world, with many economies coping better with the stresses of quickly shifting circumstances that many of their international counterparts are slowed by. This has relaxed the brakes on the wheels speeding slong the payments rails and helped the region take a lead in the development of real-time payments.
Likewise, the region’s banking and finance sectors maintain consistently positive performance, helping to boost them purposefully toward their strategic goals.
Once again, the Leaders in Payments Conference and Awards 2025, will gather regional leaders in Banking and Finance, Technology and Fintechs, Regulators and Multilateral Organisations in a series of lively and highly topical panel debates. The Summit discussions will focus upon the current evolution of payments in the region, the changes technology can bring, their benefits to societies, the challenges to be faced, the trends that are leading them and the shape of the tasks ahead needed to maintain effective, efficient and progressive payments systems.
