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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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Detecting Fraud in An Imbalanced Payments World

Most payments are legitimate - with the lack of fraudulent ‘examples’, can we train Machine learning models to differentiate between genuine and fraud...

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Should banks outsource payments?

At a recent webinar hosted by InstaPay on payments transformation, a question was posed to the speakers (from HSBC, Nordea and Icon Solutions).

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What does it take to win the payments transformation race?

Winning the payments transformation race takes more than tech — discover the strategies, agility, and collaboration needed to lead.

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Can legacy solutions meet tomorrow's payments demands?

Examine the limits of legacy systems and explore how banks can modernise to meet tomorrow’s real-time payment demands.

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Payments - an unexpected catalyst for innovation

Germany is undergoing something of a fintech renaissance, with startups like challenger bank Number 26 taking advantage of the culture of innovation.

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Displacing card payments – beyond just technology

Understand why displacing card payments requires more than technology, including trust, adoption, and new business models.

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Monetising the UK’s new Request to Pay (RtP) service

Having just attended the Pay.UK (formerly known as New Payment System Operator (NPSO)) progress update event, there seems to be a good amount of excit...

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Open Banking - Learning from past successes

Open Banking is transforming the financial services market. There is no doubt about that.

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EBAday 2018 and avoiding the instant payments ‘cliché’

There was one overwhelming take away for me from EBAday in Munich. It was that the phrase “instant payments are the new normal” has become meaningless...

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Leveraging Instant Payments to future proof your payments architecture

What options do Banks have for meeting the demand for Instant Payments and protecting their payments business from market disruptors?

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The business case for RTP – moving past the hub

While payments business leaders are willing to participate in the Clearing House’s RTP scheme, many are struggling to justify the costly adoption of R...

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Payments, the internet of things, and the end of civilisation as we know it

The internet of things (IoT) is at the peak of the hype cycle, so it’s not surprising to find payment companies trying to jump aboard the gravy train....