TRUSTECH 2025 Facts & Figures

The 41st edition of TRUSTECH, the international event dedicated to payment and identification technologies took place from December 02 to 04, 2025 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

Actors from the tech, smart card and innovative payment industries, as well as financial and governmental institutions, had the opportunity to exchange views on the major challenges they will have to take up during conferences, pitches and business opportunities.

Major Events

TRUSTECH 2025 has been marked with many highlights including:

• A 3-day conference programme:
  • Identification – “Digital Identity, AI, Web3, Crypto and Blockchain: Trust Technologies in the Era of Major Evolutions”
  • Payments – “EESTEL Workshop - Are cryptopayments going to take off at last?”
  • Payments – “New Payment Methods: How Cryptocurrencies, Web3, and Biometrics Reinvent Transaction Security”
  • Identification – “Rethinking Digital Governance: Balancing Sovereignty and Global Collaboration”
  • Payments – “Payment Sovereignty: What Are the Challenges and Impacts for the Payments Ecosystem?”
  • Identification – “Outlook and Transformations of Identity Management: a Yearly Checkpoint on Where IAM Stands and Where it’s Heading”
  • Payments – “Instant Payments: What is the New Deal for Europe’s Payment Landscape?”
• The Innovation Stage hosting about 20 exhibitors pitches
• The TRUSTECH Innovation Awards ceremony, with as winners:
  • Infineon Technologies in the "Smart Cards" Category
  • Market Pay in the "Innovative Payments" Category
  • IAI Industrial Systems B.V. in the "Identification" Category
  • Cooperativa INCoop in the "Banks & Issuers" Category
• The WiseMedia / Nuecir Roundtable on the challenges and goals of the digital society in terms of circular economy>/li>
• The second edition of the SIDI HUB Workshop