Blogs

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 is the new normal” has become meaningless. The statement fails to capture the…

Richard Dear

22 June 2018

Blogs

Identity Management in a Digital World

‘Customers are willing to sacrifice security for engagement’, one speaker said to a full ballroom of payments professionals at the Global LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) Foundation (GLEIF) workshop in San Francisco. Customers…

Lauren Jones

7 June 2018

Blogs

The world isn’t moving toward Instant Payments –…

I was recently preparing a presentation for an Instant Payments client of ours, and one of the boilerplate slides that I’ve been using for years shows “Instant Payments Around the Globe”. It…

Tom Hay

5 June 2018

Blogs

Reactive Systems: Let’s write a TFTP server with:…

  Welcome back! The past two posts in our series on building reactive systems have dealt with the topics of performance and fault-tolerance. In this post I’m going to talk about resilience,…

Patrick Altaie

29 May 2018

Blogs

Comment tirer parti des paiements instantanés afin d’assurer…

  En France, de nombreuses banques étudient actuellement l’évolution des systèmes de paiement en vue d’adopter les Instant Payments. Ceci est principalement dû à des facteurs tels que la réduction des coûts,…

Aniruddha Maheshwari

3 May 2018

Blogs

The difference between fast and real-time

  A few years ago, the question “how fast is fast” was being debated across the globe, with many organizations feeling that faster was good enough and hoping to get away with…

Mady Dyson

19 April 2018

Blogs

Optimizing your Chances of Real-time Payments Success

  “Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it!” Experience is a great thing, but it’s sometimes painful to get it the hard way. It’s quicker, less expensive, and generally…

Tom Hay

29 March 2018

Blogs

Top 5 TIPS for the Introduction of SCT…

  The recent InstaPay webinar “Transitioning to Instant Payments in Germany” provided some more TIPS (pun intended) for the introduction of SCT Inst.  Icon’s very own Gene Neyer took part along with…

Richard Dear

28 March 2018

Blogs

Leveraging Instant Payments to future proof your payments…

In Germany, many of the smaller banks (for example Sparkasse banks) have opted to use payments as a service via a Technical Service Provider (TSP) in order to deliver Instant Payments.  This…

Aniruddha Maheshwari

27 March 2018