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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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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

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Implementing Verification of Payee - Challenges and Recommendations

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

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Exploring the rise to real-time at Icon’s U.S payments conference

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 paym...

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An architect’s view on payments transformation with IPF

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

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Navigating Verification of Payee: UK, EU and globally

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

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Designing a global payment solution with multi-entity support

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

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I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

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

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Delivering future-proof payments modernisation successfully

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

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Reflecting on Sibos: A fireside chat with Icon and NatWest

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

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Demystifying digital currencies and tokenisation

What are digital currencies and tokenisation and what are the implications for banks and other financial institutions?