New York, NY: Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS), within Citi’s Services organization, has made an investment in Icon Solutions, a leading fintech provider of payments technology and consultancy services. In addition to the investment, Citi plans to expand its use of the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) to enhance its micro-services orchestration architecture. This investment and relationship with Icon Solutions demonstrates Citi’s strategy of working with fintechs to strengthen its technology and payments capabilities.

23 November 2023 – Icon Solutions today announces that its Icon Payment Framework (IPF) – a low-code, cloud-native, open source-based technology framework used by leading banks globally – has been awarded ‘Qualified Software’ status by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Icon has also become a member of the Amazon Partner Network.

Banks are increasingly turning to ‘low code’ for payments processing to take control of their transformation journey. Independent research conducted by Celent on behalf of Icon Solutions estimates that software developer capacity constraints have impacted banks’ payment revenues by 5% over the past two years.