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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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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Designing a global payment solution with multi-entity support
Using IPF, we built a single codebase for a global tier-1 bank, enabling config-only, multi-entity deployments across regions and legal entities.
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Delivering future-proof payments modernisation successfully
Banks are taking payments modernisation in-house to control of costs and risk. How can banks successfully approach their in-house builds?
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Reflecting on Sibos: A fireside chat with Icon and NatWest
Icon co-founder Darren Capehorn, and Mark Brant, Chief Payments Officer at NatWest, caught up after Sibos in Beijing to compare notes.
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National Payments Vision: A constructive step forward
HM Treasury published its National Payments Vision (NPV) report on 14 November 2024, immediately after the Chancellor gave this year’s Mansion House S...
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Commercial Variable Recurring Payments and the implications for banks
This blog explores the opportunities that stand to be realised in the case of commercial Variable Recurring Payments.
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Sibos 2024: Darren Capehorn in conversation with Mark Brant
In 2024, Sibos is opening its doors in Beijing, marking the first time that China's capital is hosting the event.
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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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How SEPA OCT Inst is transforming cross-border payments
The G20 roadmap seeks to enhance cross-border payments by tackling challenges around cost, speed, access, and transparency.
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Developments in cross-border payments and the evolving landscape
The key points on the Bank of England's approach to innovation in payments across wholesale, retail and cross-border payments, and what this means...
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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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Stability first: Exploring the Bank of England’s approach to payments innovation
On 30th July, the Bank of England (BoE) published a new discussion paper outlining its approach to innovation in money and payments.
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Transforming ISO 20022 payments data for better reporting and analysis
Over recent years, starting with the SEPA scheme, and now with SWIFT and CHAPS, there has been a convergence onto the ISO 20022 standard messaging for...
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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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2023/24 recap: setting the stage for innovation and growth
Review key developments from 2023–24 and see how banks can position themselves for innovation, growth, and resilience in a changing payments landscape...
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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.