From Build vs Buy to "My Payments, My Way"
The question we used to ask For years, the opening conversation with a bank considering payments mod...
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Why UK banks must close the data governance gap
UK banks are facing mounting enforcement action directly attributable to failures in data quality an...
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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
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Implementing Verification of Payee: challenges & 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.