Technobank

Technobank is the annual banking technology and innovation conference held in Belgrade, Serbia. Organised by ASIT since 2001, the conference has become the Western Balkans' largest gathering for banking-technology decision-makers, attracting 500+ senior delegates each year from banks, payments providers, fintechs, and technology vendors across Southeast Europe.

The 2026 edition took place 25–26 March 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Belgrade, focused on practical banking innovation, digital channels, and the operational realities of running modern banking technology in a Central- and Eastern-European context. The 2027 edition will take place 14–15 April 2027, also at the Crowne Plaza Belgrade. It sits alongside EBAday, Finticipate and Balkan Ecommerce Summit as calendar anchors for the same audiences.

What happens at Technobank

• Conference programme — keynote sessions and panels from senior banking executives, regulators, and technology providers serving the Western Balkans banking market. Sessions cover core-banking modernisation, instant payments, card and acquiring infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and the digitalisation of regional banks.
• Exhibition — focused vendor floor with core-banking platforms, payments and cards processors, identity and fraud vendors, and consultancies active in the Balkans, Adriatic, and CEE markets.
• Networking — official receptions, working dinners, and the informal Belgrade banking-community gatherings around the conference.

Who attends

Heads of payments, IT, digital banking, operations, and core-banking modernisation at banks across Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and Romania. Senior representatives from the National Bank of Serbia, central banks of neighbouring jurisdictions, and the Belgrade Stock Exchange. Core-banking and payments-technology vendor leadership from the broader CEE market. Card scheme representatives (Visa, Mastercard) covering the Balkans. Fintech founders and investors focused on Southeast European banking and payments.

Dominant themes

• Core-banking modernisation — replatforming, cloud-native banking cores, vendor selection.
• Instant payments adoption in the Balkans — SEPA Instant reachability, national real-time payment schemes, IPS Serbia.
• Card issuing and acquiring — scheme economics in Southeast Europe, three-party scheme dynamics, contactless adoption.
• Open Banking under PSD2/PSD3 — operational realities for regional banks, third-party provider integration.
• Financial crime, AML, and sanctions — Western Balkans-specific compliance challenges.
• Digital channels and customer experience — mobile banking, super-app trends, embedded finance for regional retailers.
• Cyber resilience — DORA equivalency for non-EU jurisdictions, operational resilience for regional banks.

Planning to attend

The Crowne Plaza Belgrade is in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd), 10 minutes by taxi from central Belgrade and 25 minutes from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. Recent and pre-conference dinners typically happen in central Belgrade (Dorćol, Vračar). Hotels near the conference book out 4–6 weeks in advance — the Crowne Plaza itself is the recommended option for short stays. Most delegates fly in via Belgrade direct routes from Frankfurt, Vienna, Istanbul, Munich, Zurich, and Athens. The Southeast European circuit pairs naturally with Money Motion in Zagreb each March and UNCHAIN Festival in Oradea each June.

Use the expense calculator below to estimate the total cost of attending — registration, flights, hotels, meals, and ground transport — based on your origin city.