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 time is now for banks to reimagine payments processing
The rapid convergence of emerging technologies and evolving business models is presenting banks with systemic and operational challenges.
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Three focus areas for European banks when transforming payments processing
EBAday 2023 highlights how banks are redefining payments strategies, with key trends shaping the future of European and global payments.
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EBAday 2023: Asking banks … do you feel in control?
Innovation and growth in banking belong to those rethinking strategies and steering their own course.
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Key considerations for a successful cloud strategy for financial services
Can cloud computing offer organisations the opportunity to sharpen their competitive advantage?
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Catalysing Growth of Digital Payments in Cash-First Countries
What hurdles does a country have to overcome if they want to prioritise digital payments and tap into ‘paytech for good’ solutions. And do the pros ou...
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Is ‘Low Code’ the Secret to Payments Transformation?
Payments are shifting to customer experience and value. Tier 1 banks must meet MNCs’ complex needs with flexible, customisable processing solutions.
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New Payments Architecture (NPA) – what banks should be doing to prepare
In 2016-17, the UK’s industry-wide Payments Strategy Forum created the New Payments Architecture (NPA) initiative.
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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
We know that, as technology specialists, our industry needs to do so much more to encourage women into science and technology.
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Payments outsourcing: minimising risk and maximising value-added services
Research indicates that payments transformation isn’t optional—it’s imperative for survival. Yet modernising payments infrastructure can be a costly u...
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5 predictions to help shape banks’ resolutions for 2023
We’ve put our heads together to come up with our top predictions for how the industry will evolve in 2023.
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How payments transformation can help Tier 1 banks to scale
It’s no secret that the account-to-account payments processing model remains under strain.
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Competition in payments: the rise of A2A payments and the role of regulation
In order to create a market where new schemes like Account-to-Account payments can compete, regulation must play a central role.
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Four days, ten thousand participants, two hundred thousand conversations: one key lesson Collaborate, innovate, adapt for a payments infrastructure that serves all
The opening keynote by Swift’s Chairman and their CEO ultimately gave out one simple message: in times of change we must collaborate, innovate and ada...
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Costs and Control: Key Takeaway from SIBOS 2022
Banks struggle to make money processing payments and therefore need to cut costs by factors, not percentages.
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Getting ready for SIBOS 2022: Progressive Finance for a Changing World
At Icon Solutions, we spend a lot of time thinking about the ever-evolving payments landscape and the challenges it creates for its stakeholders.
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Future-proof payments infrastructure: The role of agent banks in the quest for modernisation
Fintech growth and new players disrupt payments. Banks can future-proof by rethinking infrastructure and exploring agency banking partnerships.