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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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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

UK’s National Payments Vision: How will the HM Treasury’s July 2025 update shape retail payments infrastructure, FPS upgrades, and instant payments st...

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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

Why the U.S. has reached a real-time tipping point: Takeaways from Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference.

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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 and Recommendations

Verification of Payee (VoP) is a requirement for financial institutions in SEPA countries introduced by the EU's Instant Payment Regulation.

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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 pay...

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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 regulation, key challenges for banks along with what banks can do to resolve them and evolve their capabilities beyond the requ...

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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? 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.