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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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Fedwire Migration: The Final ISO 20022 Milestone?

The US has reached the final milestone on its ISO 20022 migration journey.

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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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Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies

Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen examines how digital currencies drive new clearing models and why interoperability is now a top priority for banks.

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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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Time for a Mindset Shift in High-Value Payments Processing

High-value payments are vital to banks and economies. Explore challenges, risks, and the capabilities needed for secure, seamless processing.

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Smart Routing in Payments: What It Is and Why Banks Need It

Customers want payments to be quick and reliable, knowing their money will reach its destination without issues.

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Building a payments solution: Understanding the rise of payment development frameworks

In an effort to better control their costs and risks, Tier 1 banks have increasingly shifted over the past decade.

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Building a payments solution: Key considerations for success

Building a payments solution: an exploration into the challenges of an in-house build, based on the experience of a payments engineer.

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Takeaways from Icon’s US payments conference

This month Icon hosted its annual payments conference in New York. These are the key takeaways.

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Can banks improve experiences with GenAI?

Applications based on transformers, a type of neural network architecture optimised for natural language processing, have captured interest since 2023...

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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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An architect’s view on payments transformation with IPF

Icon’s IPF empowers banks to embrace change in payments transformation with flexibility, adaptability, and a resilient framework.