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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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Fighting fraud: How to enhance financial crime prevention without breaking the bank

Financial crime is on the rise, and it is costing billions. New research shows UK financial services organisations are collectively spending £34.2 bil...

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EBADay or Groundhog Day? Transforming to end the regulatory hamster wheel

Celent survey: 73% of corporate banks see revenue gains from analytics, with AI and automation leading future investment.

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The Future of Payments - Time to Take Off the Blinkers

Instant payments, characterised by their speed and availability, are transforming the financial landscape across the globe.

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Upgrading to Java 17, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love NoSuchMethodError

Icon recently released IPF 2024.1, which included upgrading all of our components to Java 17 and required Java 17 as a minimum.

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How to future-proof payments: key questions to ask at EBAday

Matt Piper, Head of Pre-Sales at Icon Solutions, explains why flexibility is key when it comes to future-proofing payments.

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Is now the time for real-time payments in the U.S.?

Post-NACHA Faster Payments Conference, Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen highlights key trends driving U.S. real-time payments rollout and adoption.

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Understanding the Road to Real-Time in North America at Smarter Faster Payments 2024

Ahead of NACHA’s Faster Payments Conference, Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen explores why real-time payments are a top priority for North American banks.

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Adventures in AI: Addressing a Fundamental Challenge Facing Banks’ ISO 20022 Migrations

A Celent survey shows 73% of corporate banks see revenue gains from advanced analytics, with AI and automation leading future investments.

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Modernise Payment Reconciliations and Investigations to reduce operational cost and increase efficiencies

Financial institutions must have an efficient Reconciliation and Investigation (R&I) capability to minimise financial risk.

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Hype, hope or holy grail? Unlocking new opportunities in payments processing with AI

A recent independent survey conducted by Celent found that 73% of corporate banks have reported clear revenue benefits from investment in advanced dat...

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Core banking transformation: Key considerations for success

The banking industry is having a significant transformation across its various business domains, and core banking has been one of the key areas of foc...

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The Future of Payments – Will I Need to Wear Shades?

Back before Christmas, at the same time as the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, a new report by HM Treasury was released – the Future of Payments Review...

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How Can Banks Take Control of Their Payments Transformation in 2024?

In the first blog of our two-part predictions series, we explored the key technological and regulatory trends shaping the payments landscape in 2024.

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2024 Predictions: Payments Trends to Watch This Year

Amid margin pressures, banks face 2024 with challenges and opportunities. Explore key trends in cross-border payments, digital currencies & AI.

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Customer-centric innovation - why our IPF Client Days matter to us

Last month, Icon hosted its IPF Client Day, exploring the latest business trends and discussing new product innovations as part of the IPF roadmap.

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It’s time to revisit the order management concept

Where is your bank on the order management (or pre-processing, or initiation management – whichever you prefer) maturity scale?