From Build vs Buy to "My Payments, My Way"
The question we used to ask For years, the opening conversation with a bank considering payments mod...
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Why UK banks must close the data governance gap
UK banks are facing mounting enforcement action directly attributable to failures in data quality an...
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New Payments Architecture (NPA) – how can banks prepare?
In 2016-17, the UK’s industry-wide Payments Strategy Forum created the New Payments Architecture (NPA) initiative.
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The clash of the frameworks
In the third part of our series exploring the motivations, architecture and principles driving the development of IPF.
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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.