Pressure-Free Networking
Connect genuinely with peers across fintechs, banks, PSPs, and card networks without sales pitches or rushed schedules.


No pitching. No selling. No trying to make every conversation transactional. :)
Just good conversations, good food, good company and a fun weekend away. Bring the family: it’s a weekend, and they’re welcome.
And plenty of time to just hang out.
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Settle in, meet your fellow attendees and kick off the weekend over a relaxed brunch.
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Inspiring talks from leaders shaping the future of payments, followed by hands-on innovation activities.
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Tea, treats and easy conversations with fellow payments professionals.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
An evening of good food and good company to close out the first day.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Work through a real Harvard Business School case study together. Last year’s guest favourite.
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Different voices, healthy disagreement and sharper thinking on the industry’s big questions.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Lunch together, with time to catch up and make new connections.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Get hands-on with how AI is changing payments, and head home with ideas you can put to work.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Capture the weekend together and wrap up the retreat.
A fairytale castle resort in the Berjaya Hills rainforest, ~800 m up and 45 min from Kuala Lumpur.
For the kidsRight across the venueKids’ mini theme parkColmar Tropicale, a storybook French village
Le Chevalier castle
Colmar by night
French village lanes
The clock towerPhotos: The Chateau Spa & Wellness Resort and Colmar Tropicale Resort. Other Colmar Tropicale photos via Wikimedia Commons: Cerevisae, Leonardo0511 (CC BY-SA 4.0); faitouri, Peter coxhead (CC BY-SA 3.0); Hakeem Ibnfaisal (CC BY 3.0).
Connect genuinely with peers across fintechs, banks, PSPs, and card networks without sales pitches or rushed schedules.
Build lasting relationships and be recognized for your expertise and ideas beyond your company logo.
Join a team for a hands-on, 120–150 minute interactive activity.
Work through real business challenges alongside senior fintech leaders.
Hear from industry leaders and join lively discussions on the biggest topics shaping payments today.
Join the Payments Club network of 900+ senior professionals for ongoing support and collaboration.
Bring your loved ones along to enjoy a relaxing resort getaway.
A little throwback to our first Payments Retreat.
















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by T&P Payments Advisory






T&P Payments Advisory helps merchants and payment providers improve payment strategy, provider selection, costs and market expansion.
We combine senior industry expertise with flexible delivery, providing fractional or full-time support as needed.
Our differentiator is our payments community - a trusted network of merchants, providers and industry leaders offering market insight, introductions to target customers for PSPs, decision-maker access and partnership opportunities.
Our community creates connections and insights; our consulting turns them into commercial outcomes!
We bring deep payments expertise without the need to build it all in-house.
Reach out to us at
contact@travelandpayments.comWe'll be happy to help!