Blogs

AFP Nashville 2024 – what do corporate clients…

In today’s turbulent economy, corporate treasurers are looking for banks that offer payment and treasury services that help them automate tedious AP and AR processes, optimise their liquidity management, reduce risks as…

Arjeh van Oijen

14 October 2024

Blogs

The Journey of Canada RTR and UK NPA…

From Delays to Innovation: Payments Canada’s Real-Time-Rail (RTR) is the country’s new real-time payment system, enabling account-to-account (A2A) money transfers 24/7 for low-value payments with immediate fund availability and irrevocability. This initiative…

Hussam Kamel

2 August 2024

Case Studies

Defining the payments strategy for a UK Tier 1 Bank

Our client, a Tier 1 UK bank, approached Icon for support with developing a payments and payment card strategy for its Commercial Banking division. Alongside upgrading its payments product strategies, the bank…

Kate Nelson

10 July 2024

Blogs

The Future of Payments – Time to Take…

Instant payments, characterised by their speed and availability, are transforming the financial landscape across the globe. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in particular, has emerged as a leader in adopting and innovating in…

Vatsal Bhatt

24 June 2024

Case Studies

Supporting a UK challenger bank to transition towards an NPA-compliant payments architecture

Icon’s consultants are recognised New Payments Architecture (NPA) experts and this case study details the work our team has done for a leading UK challenger bank. Specifically, we helped with the implementation…

Cindy Heidebluth

5 October 2023

Blogs

NPA and SCTInst – What’s the difference?

The UK is due to upgrade its instant payments platform by mid-2025. The New Payments Architecture (NPA) aims to deliver multiple benefits, including ease of access and enhanced data carrying capabilities. In…

Hussam Kamel

28 March 2023

Blogs

New Payments Architecture – what banks should be doing to prepare

A sea-change is coming to UK payments. In 2016-17, the UK’s industry-wide Payments Strategy Forum created the New Payments Architecture (NPA) initiative. The initiative seeks to create a state-of-the-art, real-time payments infrastructure…

Andrew Ducker

16 February 2023

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