Payment fragmentation is here to stay, and banks must adapt
For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisatio...
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Navigating change in an uncertain world
Reflecting on our annual European payments conference Banks have entered a “new era of uncertainty”,...
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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
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 ...
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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 seems to be a good amount of excit...
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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...
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Reactive Systems: Let's write a TFTP server with: Akka
The past two posts in our series on building reactive systems have dealt with the topics of performance and fault-tolerance.
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The difference between fast and real-time
Is faster good enough, or does real-time require building entirely new rails?