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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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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.

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Building Operational Resiliency in Payments

This blog outlines key considerations for building operational resiliency as banks accelerate their payments transformation programs.

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From ISO 2022 to EPI: the Industry Initiatives Driving Treasury Transformation

Data-driven services have transformed the retail banking experience, and are now firmly on the agenda for corporate treasurers.

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2022: The Year That Banks Finally Change for Good?

Explore how 2022 marked a turning point for banks, driving sustainable change through payments modernisation and digital transformation.

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Crossing the Rubicon: Why Cross-Border Payments Are Primed for Transformation

Explore the pressures driving change in cross-border payments and how innovation can deliver faster, more transparent international transactions.

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Payments data transformation: What it means for corporate treasurers

Market forces are driving banking innovations which promise significant downstream benefits for corporates.

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Understanding the realities of payment data monetisation

The number of banks identifying payments data monetisation as a key strategic priority has doubled in the past two years.

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Why making instant payments cheaper and easier is the key to pan-European adoption

Making instant payments cheaper and easier is vital for pan-European adoption — explore how cost, access and innovation drive uptake.

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Recognising the hidden female pioneers in technology

How many people have heard of Kathleen Booth or Margaret Hamilton? Chances are not many. But why not? These two women achieved two significant firsts....

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Accelerating software engineering through the adoption of Domain-Specific Languages

Part three of our technology series explores IPF’s architecture and principles, highlighting the benefits of interoperable programming frameworks.

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Is monetising data the key to competing in payments?

As competition in payments has increased, data has long been touted as the cure-all for incumbent banks.