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Commercial VRPs: The next phase of Open Banking

On 2nd June 2026, UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI) announced the launch of a new payment scheme des...

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Fragmentation: The Hidden Barrier to Digital Money at Scale

Digital asset adoption across Europe is gathering real pace. Regulatory frameworks are maturing, pil...

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

Discover how CQRS and Event Sourcing power innovation in instant payments with insights from Sirin Sevinc, Senior Solution Architect at IPF.

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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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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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Leveraging Instant Payments to future proof your payments architecture

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

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Reactive Systems: How to Fail Nicely

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

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Reactive Systems: It’s Actors All the Way Down

Explore technical learnings from developing Icon’s Instant Payments Framework (IPF), a resilient, always-on instant payments solution.