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Leading Payments Forward: Launching Icon's New Website

Since Icon started back in 2009, we have built hard-won experience that only comes from designing an...

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A Step Closer to Reality? Update on the UK's National Payment Vision

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Futur...

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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 in Gen AI

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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.

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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...