Can your bank actually handle Tokenised Money - or just talk about it?
Banks have spent years watching the digital asset space with cautious curiosity. That luxury is gone...
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Tokenised Deposits – Are they the future of Payments?
The payments landscape is evolving rapidly, with growing interest in how digital money can move fast...
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Catalysing Growth of Digital Payments in Cash-First Countries
What hurdles does a country have to overcome if they want to prioritise digital payments? and do the pros outweigh the cons?
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NPA and SCTInst – What’s the difference?
Compare NPA and SCT Inst, outline key differences, and understand implications for banks implementing real-time payment capabilities across Europe.
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Is ‘Low Code’ the Secret to Payments Transformation?
Payments are shifting to customer experience and value. Tier 1 banks must meet MNCs’ complex needs with flexible, customisable processing solutions.
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International Women’s Day: How the banking and payments industry can embrace ‘DigitALL’
The critical role of women in computer science has arguably been under reported throughout history.
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New Payments Architecture (NPA) – how can banks prepare?
In 2016-17, the UK’s industry-wide Payments Strategy Forum created the New Payments Architecture (NPA) initiative.
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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
We know that, as technology specialists, our industry needs to do so much more to encourage women into science and technology.
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Payments outsourcing: maximising value-added services
Research indicates that payments transformation isn’t optional—it’s imperative. Yet modernising payments infrastructure can be a costly undertaking.
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5 predictions to help shape banks’ resolutions for 2023
We’ve put our heads together to come up with our top predictions for how the industry will evolve in 2023.
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How payments transformation can help Tier 1 banks to scale
It’s no secret that the account-to-account payments processing model remains under strain.
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Competition in payments: the rise of A2A payments and the role of regulation
In order to create a market where new schemes like Account-to-Account payments can compete, regulation must play a central role.
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Four days, ten thousand participants, two hundred thousand conversations: one key lesson Collaborate, innovate, adapt for a payments infrastructure that serves all
The opening keynote by Swift’s Chairman and their CEO ultimately gave out one simple message: in times of change we must collaborate, innovate and ada...
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How can ISO 20022 help banks to better manage financial crime risks?
The deployment and usage of global payment message standards enabled by ISO 20022 provides many benefits for processing banks and regulators.
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Costs and Control: Key Takeaway from SIBOS 2022
Banks struggle to make money processing payments and therefore need to cut costs by factors, not percentages.
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Haverstock School and Icon
Our largest grassroots initiative to date has been the one that we just completed with Haverstock School, based in North London.
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Getting ready for SIBOS 2022: Progressive Finance for a Changing World
At Icon Solutions, we spend a lot of time thinking about the ever-evolving payments landscape and the challenges it creates for its stakeholders.
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Future-proof payments infrastructure: The role of agent banks in the quest for modernisation
Fintech growth and new players disrupt payments. Banks can future-proof by rethinking infrastructure and exploring agency banking partnerships.