Blogs

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In 2014 Europe started ramping up the rhetoric for building a pan European Instant Payments solution (now known as SCT-Inst).

It’s fair to say that Dublin in the June sunshine was out to impress the financial world attending the European Banking Association’s 12th annual cong...

Insights into PSD2 challenges highlighted by ERPB, with analysis of regulatory gaps and their impact on the European payments landscape.

SCT Inst – or SEPA Instant Credit Transfers – is set to completely change the way that payments are made across Europe.