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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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Detecting Fraud in An Imbalanced Payments World

Most payments are legitimate - with the lack of fraudulent examples, can we train Machine learning models to differentiate between genuine and fraudul...

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Striving for ubiquity and interoperability in the US

The first Faster Payments Barometer, conducted by the US Faster Payments Council in partnership with Glenbrook, received over 700 responses.

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Should banks outsource payments?

At a recent webinar hosted by InstaPay on payments transformation, a question was posed to the speakers (from HSBC, Nordea and Icon Solutions).

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5 Key Takeaways from AFP Conference 2019

Our latest blog looks at the five key takeaways we took from this year's AFP Conference in Boston, after we sponsored in October.

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What does it take to win the payments transformation race?

Winning the payments transformation race takes more than tech — discover the strategies, agility, and collaboration needed to lead.

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Do agile projects need Solution Architects?

Increasingly, software development in large organisations is moving to agile methods, primarily Scrum. Where does solution architecture fit in?

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5 takeaways from EBAday 2019

Our latest blog looks at the five key takeaways we took from this year's EBAday 2019.

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The journey to RTP in Canada

Canada has been a leader in mobile and app-based banking technology but the same cannot be said for the speed of their Real Time Payments implementati...

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Can legacy solutions meet tomorrow's payments demands?

Examine the limits of legacy systems and explore how banks can modernise to meet tomorrow’s real-time payment demands.

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Request to Pay – the potential is clear

This week Icon Solutions had the pleasure of hosting a discussion around the UK’s New Payments Architecture, focusing on the Request to Pay (RtP) serv...

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Payments - an unexpected catalyst for innovation

Germany is undergoing something of a fintech renaissance, with startups like challenger bank Number 26 taking advantage of the culture of innovation.

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Displacing card payments – beyond just technology

Understand why displacing card payments requires more than technology, including trust, adoption, and new business models.

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Monetising the UK’s new Request to Pay (RtP) service

Having just attended the Pay.UK (formerly known as New Payment System Operator (NPSO)) progress update event, there is a good amount of excitement.

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Open Banking - Learning from past successes

Open Banking is transforming the financial services market. There is no doubt about that.

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Drawing the Line on Payment Messages

Discover how structured payment messaging standards can improve efficiency, compliance, and innovation in the financial ecosystem.

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EBAday 2018 and avoiding the instant payments ‘cliché’

There was one overwhelming take away for me from EBAday in Munich. It was that the phrase “instant payments are the new normal” has become meaningless...