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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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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.

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Is now the time for real-time payments in the U.S.?

Post-NACHA Faster Payments Conference, Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen highlights key trends driving U.S. real-time payments rollout and adoption.

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Understanding the Road to Real-Time in North America at Smarter Faster Payments 2024

Ahead of NACHA’s Faster Payments Conference, Icon’s Arjeh van Oijen explores why real-time payments are a top priority for North American banks.

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Adventures in AI: Addressing a Fundamental Challenge Facing Banks’ ISO 20022 Migrations

A Celent survey shows 73% of corporate banks see revenue gains from advanced analytics, with AI and automation leading future investments.

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Modernise Payment Reconciliations and Investigations to reduce operational cost and increase efficiencies

Financial institutions must have an efficient Reconciliation and Investigation (R&I) capability to minimise financial risk.

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Hype, hope or holy grail? Unlocking new opportunities in payments processing with AI

A recent independent survey conducted by Celent found that 73% of corporate banks have reported clear revenue benefits from investment in advanced dat...

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Core banking transformation: Key considerations for success

The banking industry is having a significant transformation across its various business domains, and core banking has been one of the key areas of foc...

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It’s time to revisit the order management concept

Where is your bank on the order management (or pre-processing, or initiation management – whichever you prefer) maturity scale?

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A transformative year for Icon Solutions

In the last financial year, Icon has reflected its own transformation, with new clients supported, continued revenue growth and an expanding global te...

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The value of a “Payments Reference Architecture” in driving payments transformation

With the Payments IT landscape frequently changing due to regulations, customer needs, and innovations, Financial Institutions (FIs) face challenges.

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Collaboration is the Key: Takeaways from Sibos 2023

Sibos 2023 in Toronto united 9,000+ attendees to explore collaborative finance, AI, CBDCs, ISO 20022, real-time payments & low code.

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Core banking transformation: key drivers for change

Traditional banking has evolved over centuries into what we have today: digitalised products and services that keep the worldwide economic cogs turnin...

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Is low code the answer to higher payment revenues for banks?

Banks face margin pressures and developer limits, driving a shift in payments processing towards low-code tools and innovative platforms.

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Vertical thinking: Why banks need to decouple their payments processing value chain

The traditional payments processing model for account-based payments is under unprecedented strain.