Blogs

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The past two posts in our series on building reactive systems have dealt with the topics of performance and fault-tolerance.

Is faster good enough, or does real-time require building entirely new rails?

“Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it!” Experience is a great thing, but it’s sometimes painful to get it the hard way.

What options do Banks have for meeting the demand for Instant Payments and protecting their payments business from market disruptors?

In the previous post in this series, we talked about the performance and scalability benefits that we get from actors and the actor system.