Skip to content
blog-listing-hero-imag-68caac49ba113
RESOURCES

Blogs

Featured content

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...

Read more

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...

Read more
Blog

AI can help your business, but only once the Data Foundations are in place

Banks increasingly find that their payments processing model for account-to-account (A2A) payments is under particular strain.

Blog

A transformative year for Icon Solutions

In the last financial year, Icon has reflected its own transformation, with new clients supported, continued revenue growth and an expanding global te...

Blog

The value of a “Payments Reference Architecture” in driving payments transformation

With the Payments IT landscape frequently changing due to regulations, customer needs, and innovations, Financial Institutions (FIs) face challenges.

Blog

Core banking transformation: key drivers for change

Traditional banking has evolved over centuries into what we have today: digitalised products and services that keep the worldwide economic cogs turnin...

Blog

Is low code the answer to higher payment revenues for banks?

Banks face margin pressures and developer limits, driving a shift in payments processing towards low-code tools and innovative platforms.

Blog

Vertical thinking: Why banks need to decouple their payments processing value chain

The traditional payments processing model for account-based payments is under unprecedented strain.

Blog

The time is now for banks to reimagine payments processing

The rapid convergence of emerging technologies and evolving business models is presenting banks with systemic and operational challenges.

Blog

‘PSD3’ – or should that be ‘PSR1’? Exploring the EU’s updated payments regulations

On 28th June 2023, the European Commission (EC) set out its proposals for ‘modernising payment services and opening financial services data’.

Blog

Three focus areas for European banks when transforming payments processing

EBAday 2023 highlights how banks are redefining payments strategies, with key trends shaping the future of European and global payments.

Blog

EBAday 2023: Asking banks … do you feel in control?

Innovation and growth in banking belong to those rethinking strategies and steering their own course.

Blog

NPA and SCTInst – What’s the difference?

Compare NPA and SCT Inst, outline key differences, and understand implications for banks implementing real-time payment capabilities across Europe.

Blog

New Payments Architecture (NPA) – what banks should be doing to prepare

In 2016-17, the UK’s industry-wide Payments Strategy Forum created the New Payments Architecture (NPA) initiative.

Blog

The clash of the frameworks

In the third part of our series exploring the motivations, architecture and principles driving the development of IPF.

Blog

Why are CQRS and Event Sourcing good options for instant payments?

Our latest webinar delved into the noise and misnomers in the payments transformation space and aimed get to the truth regarding the future of payment...

Blog

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?

Blog

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.