This month Icon hosted its annual payments conference in New York. The event provided a forum for our customers and other payments professionals to exchange ideas, share learnings and explore the commercial…

In response to rapidly changing payment requirements, more and more banks are migrating from big monoliths to a microservices approach for payments processing. By leveraging reusable functions related to the critical parts…

With advancing computing power and the availability of vast datasets, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress over the past decade. Applications based on transformers, a type of neural network architecture optimised…

What is Verification of Payee? Verification of Payee (VoP) is a requirement for financial institutions in SEPA countries introduced by the EU’s Instant Payment Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/886) to tackle rising fraud….

On Wednesday 5th February, Icon is hosting its annual payments conference in New York to explore the growth of instant payment adoption in North America. We will hear from U.S banks on…

Matthias Lossek, one of Icon’s solutions architects reflects on the payments transformation journey with IPF, and the wisdom of embracing change. When I started my career in the financial services industry, on…

Verification of Payee (VoP) is an additional mandatory layer of payments protection to avoid payments in error and to prevent fraud such as an Authorised Push Payment (APP). With the increased adoption…

While using the IPF tool kit to implement a payments solution for a tier 1 international banking group with a presence across the globe we were faced with the challenge of designing…

A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit. When the first member of the team who’s client-facing asked me – the go-to guy…