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Leading Payments Forward: Launching Icon's New Website

Since Icon started back in 2009, we have built hard-won experience that only comes from designing an...

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A Step Closer to Reality? Update on the UK's National Payment Vision

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Futur...

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Reactive Systems: Let's write a TFTP server with: Akka

The past two posts in our series on building reactive systems have dealt with the topics of performance and fault-tolerance.

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The difference between fast and real-time

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

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Optimizing your Chances of Real-time Payments Success

“Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it!” Experience is a great thing, but it’s sometimes painful to get it the hard way.

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Leveraging Instant Payments to future proof your payments architecture

What options do Banks have for meeting the demand for Instant Payments and protecting their payments business from market disruptors?

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Reactive Systems: How to Fail Nicely

In the previous post in this series, we talked about the performance and scalability benefits that we get from actors and the actor system.

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Instant payments in Hungary – no compromise!

An important meeting took place this week in Budapest between the Hungarian National Bank (MNB), Giro, Nets and various financial institutions.

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The business case for RTP – moving past the hub

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...

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Some TIPS for the introduction of SCT Inst

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

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Instant Payments: What can we expect in 2018?

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.

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Reactive Systems: It’s Actors All the Way Down

Explore technical learnings from developing Icon’s Instant Payments Framework (IPF), a resilient, always-on instant payments solution.

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Real-Time Payments Adoption in the US: potential risks or benefits?

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

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Germany's role in the uptake of SEPA instant payments: Fast or slow?

The latest stats from the European Payments Council (EPC), show there are over 400 German Payment Service Providers (PSPs) gearing up to go-live.

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Insights from Money 20/20

This week, the Icon team was at Money 20/20, where we saw a lot of discussion around the new ways in which consumers are interacting with their money.

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Insights from Sibos 2017: It's time to think about the corporate

At the recent Sibos 2017 conference in Toronto, one theme rang out loud and clear – it’s time to think about the corporate.

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Are traditional hubs a good fit for instant payments?

Any mention of payments and multiple schemes, and the gurus are quick to respond with an “industry leader payments hub” as your go-to solution.

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Taking Care of Business – The US Approach to Real Time Payments

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.