Why AI agents need a context layer in financial services
Many banks have taken agentic AI to proof of concept, but far fewer have taken it into production. T...
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Sibos 2026: Why scalability and resiliency is more important than ever
Another Sibos has been and gone. And now it’s time for the industry to digest and reflect on the int...
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Sibos 2026: Why scalability and resiliency is more important than ever
Explore how banks can enhance payment systems' scalability and resilience, ensuring efficiency and reliability in a rapidly evolving payments land...
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Any payment, anytime, anywhere: The case for a framework-led approach
Banks must support more payment rails than ever. Why a payment framework-led approach builds resilience for instant, cross-border and digital money.
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A Step Closer to Reality? Update on the UK's National Payment Vision
An update on the UK's National Payments Vision: what the new Retail Payments Infrastructure Board means for banks planning payments modernisation.
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Sibos 2025: Time to Consolidate Your Payments Infrastructure
As Sibos 2025 approaches, banks must shift from compliance to consolidation. Discover how unified payments infrastructure drives resilience and growth...
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The UK’s National Payments Vision takes a step closer to reality
National Payments Vision: How the HM Treasury’s July 2025 update will shape retail payments infrastructure, FPS upgrades, and instant payments strateg...
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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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Why the U.S. has reached a real-time tipping point
Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference highlighted why consolidation is more important than ever before for the banking industry.
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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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Implementing Verification of Payee: challenges & recommendations
Verification of Payee (VoP) is now required in SEPA under the EU Instant Payments Regulation. Key implementation challenges and our recommendations.
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Exploring the rise to real-time at Icon’s U.S payments conference
On the journey to real-time payments in the U.S and the growth opportunities that can be realised amid evolving customer demands for 24/7 instant paym...
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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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Wero: The EU's ambition to rattle credit cards behemoths
At the heart of EPI's efforts is Wero, a digital wallet, mobile app. Wero offers users convenient and secure Peer-to-Peer, e-commerce, and POS pay...
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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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Evolving the bank: Beyond the EU Instant Payments Regulation (IPR)
This blog explores the EU's Instant Payments Regulation and key challenges for banks along with what banks can do to resolve them.
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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.
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EBADay or Groundhog Day?
Celent survey: 73% of corporate banks see revenue gains from analytics, with AI and automation leading future investment.