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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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PSD2 Set to Topple Europe’s ‘House Of Cards’ by 2027

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

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PSD2 and Instant Payments - Membership has its privileges

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

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Insights from EBAday 2017

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...

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The ERPB Highlights the Holes in PSD2

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

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Why SEPA Inst is set to become standard

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

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PSD2 and SCTInst: A threat to card payments in Europe?

PSD2 paves the way for a new way to pay online across Europe. Instead of using a card, consumers will be able to pay directly from their bank accounts...

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Payments, the internet of things, and the end of civilisation as we know it

The internet of things (IoT) is at the peak of the hype cycle, so it’s not surprising to find payment companies trying to jump aboard the gravy train....

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The Treasury’s view of PSD2: A step in the right direction?

As a European directive, PSD2 has to be transposed into UK law.

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Instant Payments and the Reactive Manifesto

Over the last year, we’ve been talking with many banks and payment service providers about the challenges of instant payments.

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Post-PSD2: What Will Banking Look Like?

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been the cause of much hand-wringing in the banking space.

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PSD2, RTS and SDC: confusion reigns

Over the last couple of weeks the media agenda has been dominated by Payment Services Directive Two (PSD2), and unfortunately not for the right reason...

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PSD2 - Powered By Pixie Dust

I was recently on a panel at NextGen Banking Nordics, discussing PSD2 where I was pretty critical of the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS).

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Beyond Babel: A New Blueprint for Global Instant Payments – Part 1

Fragmentation has become a very real challenge for the industry as instant payment schemes are being implemented on a country by country basis.

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Fast forward - The landscape of faster payments

Gain insight into the evolving faster payments landscape and how banks can stay competitive in a rapidly changing environment.

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Icon Solutions’ Directors embark on their toughest challenge to date

A milestone year: as I turn 50, my son 21, and my daughter 18, we plan to mark it with a life-affirming climb up Mount Kilimanjaro.