Blogs

Banks are leveraging collaboration and AI to navigate uncertainty and innovate in payments, as highlighted at our Annual European Payments Conference.

Icon co-founder Darren Capehorn, and Mark Brant, Chief Payments Officer at NatWest, caught up after Sibos in Beijing to compare notes.

In 2024, Sibos is opening its doors in Beijing, marking the first time that China's capital is hosting the event.

In the first blog of our two-part predictions series, we explored the key technological and regulatory trends shaping the payments landscape in 2024.

In the last financial year, Icon has reflected its own transformation, with new clients supported, continued revenue growth and an expanding global te...

Is faster good enough, or does real-time require building entirely new rails?

While payments business leaders are willing to participate in the Clearing House’s RTP scheme, many are struggling to justify the costly adoption of R...

At the European Central Bank’s #TIPSapp event on Tuesday there was lots of focus on opportunity, both short-term and longer-term.

Unless you’ve spent the last 365 days hiding under a rock, you’ll be fully aware that 2017 has been the year of Instant Payments.

The Clearing House’s (TCH) central processing scheme in the US has recently started Real Time Payments (RTP) testing.

The US has always been more business-friendly than the Old World, and New York is peppered with temples to industry built by 19th century tycoons.

PSD2 and Instant Payments will disrupt retail payments. This piece quantifies the impact—scale, timeline, and areas most affected, with data.