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Sibos 2025: Time to Consolidate Your Payments Infrastructure

But as we approach Sibos 2025, a quick glance at the agenda is telling. With major regulatory initia...

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The UK’s National Payments Vision takes a step closer to reality

Make no mistake, this has significant implications for banks and PSPs offering instant payments serv...

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A vision for architecture in the new AI-augmented world

As with every paradigm-shifting technology, AI brings with it both game-changing opportunities, but also well-founded concerns.

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Fedwire Migration: The Final ISO 20022 Milestone?

The US has reached the final milestone on its ISO 20022 migration journey.

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Why payments in Europe have entered a new era

One month on, Matt Piper, Head of Solution Consulting at Icon Solutions, reflects on EBAday and insights gained on the state of payments in Europe.

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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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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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Implementing Verification of Payee - Challenges and 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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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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National Payments Vision: A constructive step forward

HM Treasury published its National Payments Vision (NPV) report on 14 November 2024, immediately after the Chancellor gave this year’s Mansion House S...

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Why there has never been a better time to consider becoming a direct participant of CHAPS

This blog explores why Payment Service Providers (PSPs) may now wish to consider becoming CHAPS direct participants.

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Commercial Variable Recurring Payments and the implications for banks

This blog explores the opportunities that stand to be realised in the case of commercial Variable Recurring Payments.

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Regulation, opportunities and accelerating payments transformation – takeaways from our IPF Day

Last month, Icon brought together payments professionals from across Europe and the US for our 3rd IPF Day.

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Sibos 2024: Darren Capehorn in conversation with Mark Brant

In 2024, Sibos is opening its doors in Beijing, marking the first time that China's capital is hosting the event.

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AFP Nashville 2024 – what do corporate clients want from their bank?

At AFP 2024, Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen highlights how corporate banks can deepen client relationships and evolve from service providers to strategic part...

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The Journey of Canada RTR and UK NPA Real-Time Payments

Payments Canada's Real-Time-Rail (RTR) is the country's new real-time payment system, enabling account-to-account (A2A) money transfers.