Blogs

In an effort to better control their costs and risks, Tier 1 banks have increasingly shifted over the past decade.

Building a payments solution: an exploration into the challenges of an in-house build, based on the experience of a payments engineer.

This month Icon hosted its annual payments conference in New York. These are the key takeaways.

In response to rapidly changing payment requirements, more banks are migrating from large monoliths to a microservices approach for payment processing...

Applications based on transformers, a type of neural network architecture optimised for natural language processing, have captured interest since 2023...

Verification of Payee (VoP) is a requirement for financial institutions in SEPA countries introduced by the EU's Instant Payment Regulation.

On the journey to real-time payments in the U.S and the growth opportunities that can be realised amid evolving customer demands for 24/7, instant pay...

Icon’s IPF empowers banks to embrace change in payments transformation with flexibility, adaptability, and a resilient framework.

Verification of Payee (VoP) is an additional mandatory layer of payments protection to avoid payments in error and to prevent fraud.

Using IPF, we built a single codebase for a global tier-1 bank, enabling config-only, multi-entity deployments across regions and legal entities.

A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit.

Banks are taking payments modernisation in-house to control of costs and risk. How can banks successfully approach their in-house builds?

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

What are digital currencies and tokenisation? What is their impact on the financial sector, and the implications for banks and other financial institu...

At the heart of EPI's efforts is Wero, a digital wallet, mobile app. Wero offers users convenient and secure Peer-to-Peer, e-commerce, and POS pay...

HM Treasury published its National Payments Vision (NPV) report on 14 November 2024, immediately after the Chancellor gave this year’s Mansion House S...