SIMPLIFYING COMPLEXITY

Providing a path to solve existing challenges while driving future innovation

Whether it is working with leading financial services organisations to simplify and transform their technology estates, or helping to architect and deliver mission-critical solutions at an industry level, Icon’s key strengths have always been in understanding the challenges that our clients are facing, and providing solutions to highly complex problems.

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A TRUSTED PARTNER

Structured, sustainable and scalable transformation

With increased regulation, rising costs and heightened customer expectations, financial organisations are facing a multitude of challenges, making it hard to keep up, let alone innovate.

Icon is home to world-leading domain experts across payments, technology, architecture and data. We partner with customers across financial services to provide a pragmatic, navigable path to transform safely and quickly, turning existing technology estates into solutions fit for the future.

Payments

Enabling banks to meet the demands of an increasingly open, digitised and real-time payments landscape, through subject matter expertise, thought leadership and transformation accelerators

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Architecture

From strategy to technical design, we can drive true end-to-end digital transformation, including removal or modernisation of legacy technology and our deep knowledge and thought leadership can evolve and streamline the way architecture itself is implemented

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Data & AI

Improving data management capabilities and innovating using AI to unlock the value in the data, to support better customer journeys, efficient operational practices and meeting regulatory requirements

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Delivering payments and technology change

Our extensive knowledge and on-the-ground experience in large financial services organisations, means we can expertly advise on transformation strategies and best practice. Icon works with a variety of clients to guide and deliver technology transformation in response to evolving regulatory requirements and cost pressures.

Continents covered on client engagements

500

Years of combined payments experience in our CoE

Out of the top 30 global banks worked with

1000

Client projects worked on

CASE STUDY

Explore our success stories

Discover how leading organisations have partnered with us to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and achieve measurable results.

Defining the architecture for a scalable, resilient cloud-based payments hub

ASSETS AND ACCELERATORS

Leveraging our assets to deliver future-proof solutions

Our people have used their deep industry experience to build an extensive range of assets that we use to benefit our clients. We use these to deploy our knowledge on client projects and encompass what we think good looks like.

Icon’s Payments blueprint, created from the aggregated skills and collective experience of our Payments Centre of Excellence

Icon’s banking domain models, reference architectures, and set of guardrails

Ask Ada, our Generative AI solution that enables Icon consultants to search our vast knowledge store and deliver high quality insights

Icon’s Capability Review Framework leveraging our domain models in payments, architecture and data

Thanks to Icon's vast knowledge of, and expertise in, ISO 20022 payments transformation, the whole migration process ran smoothly. Managing three major stakeholders is not an easy task, yet Icon was able to find a common approach and resolve any implementation issues, quickly, efficiently and without any major impact

Team Manager

UK Tier 1 bank

Many a time we needed you on the fly for ad-hoc discussions, and on each occasion your supportive and clear approach was invaluable. Few architects will support the Business Analyst team to understand technical requirements and you are the best out of them.

Tier 1 bank

The outcome of the project exceeded our expectations. Our new architecture has improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and increased overall business agility. We were impressed with the quality of Icon’s work, attention to detail, and the level of support throughout.

Director

Tech-led provider of premium finance

Icon focus on providing solutions to highly complex problems through high quality skillsets in the people they provide. During my time working with Icon, I can be assured of whatever challenge I ask them to help solve, they do so in a transparent, trusted and professional way working alongside our colleagues to deliver great results.

Tier 1 bank

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Thought leadership

Explore our selection of resources - insights, case studies, whitepapers and more, designed to help financial services organisations navigate the payments landscape.

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