In this blog, Arjeh van Oijen, Head of Product Management, Icon Solutions, explores how digital currencies have given rise to a new clearing and settlement mechanism, and why this is underscoring interoperability…

The need for speed, convenience and certainty is driving demand for faster payment services in the U.S. Same day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments rose 19.1% year-over-year in the first quarter of…

The systemic importance of high-value payments to banks’ operations and offering – and, by extension, the global economy – means they are almost always a key priority when exploring a new payments…

Customers want payments to be quick and reliable, knowing their money will reach its destination without issues. For banks and payments providers, this means ensuring payments are processed fast and offering backup…

In an effort to better stay in control of their costs and risks, Tier 1 banks have increasingly shifted over the past decade from buying software for payments processing to building their…

As a software engineer tasked with delivering a payments solution within a bank, you must balance strict non-functional requirements with the need to remain flexible for future changes. In this article, we’ll…

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…

For banks, payments modernisation is no longer a nice-to-have that can be kept on the backburner – it is imperative to staying in business. The ability to adapt to changes in how…