Processing the Future: AI in Payments
AI in Payments is no longer a future consideration. It’s here and banks that have yet to develop a c...
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Architecture-as-Code: Testing theories out in the real world
Over the last couple of years at Icon, we’ve been assisting several of our clients with their explor...
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Sibos 2025: Time to Consolidate Your Payments Infrastructure
As Sibos 2025 approaches, banks must shift from compliance to consolidation. Discover how unified payments infrastructure drives resilience and growth...
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The UK’s National Payments Vision takes a step closer to reality
National Payments Vision: How the HM Treasury’s July 2025 update will shape retail payments infrastructure, FPS upgrades, and instant payments strateg...
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A vision for architecture in the new AI-augmented world
As with every paradigm-shifting technology, AI brings with it both game-changing opportunities, but also well-founded concerns.
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Fedwire Migration: The Final ISO 20022 Milestone?
The US has reached the final milestone on its ISO 20022 migration journey.
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Why payments in Europe have entered a new era
One month on, Matt Piper, Head of Solution Consulting at Icon Solutions, reflects on EBAday and insights gained on the state of payments in Europe.
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Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies
Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen examines how digital currencies drive new clearing models and why interoperability is now a top priority for banks.
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Why the U.S. has reached a real-time tipping point
Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference highlighted why consolidation is more important than ever before for the banking industry.
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Tooling up with AI to get a grip on your architecture
“Legacy” is a term often applied to IT, and it brings up connotations of complexity, fragility, rigidity.
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EBAday 2025: Why Banks Must Focus on Resiliency, Flexibility and Consolidation
Banks with a broader focus on consolidation can ensure their payment processing systems are able to support any payment, anytime, anywhere.
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Time for a Mindset Shift in High-Value Payments Processing
High-value payments are vital to banks and economies. Explore challenges, risks, and the capabilities needed for secure, seamless processing.
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Smart Routing in Payments: What It Is and Why Banks Need It
Customers want payments to be quick and reliable, knowing their money will reach its destination without issues.
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Building a payments solution: payment development frameworks
In an effort to better control their costs and risks, Tier 1 banks have increasingly shifted over the past decade.
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Building a payments solution: Key considerations for success
Building a payments solution: an exploration into the challenges of an in-house build, based on the experience of a payments engineer.
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Takeaways from Icon’s US payments conference
This month Icon hosted its annual payments conference in New York. These are the key takeaways.
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How orchestration frameworks can help banks strike the right chord in payments
In response to rapidly changing payment requirements, more banks are migrating from large monoliths to a microservices approach for payment processing...
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Can banks improve experiences with GenAI?
Applications based on transformers, a type of neural network architecture optimised for natural language processing have captured interest in Gen AI