The era of collaborative payments platform
Date: 30th April 2019
Discover the era of collaborative payments platform at NACHA Payments 2019! For the last 10 years banks have focused on consolidating payment infrastructures, but have ended up with multiple ‘hubs’, inefficient processes, high costs and inflexibility. A new world is dawning, one where... There is little customer appetite to pay for the simple movement of money Execution of payments ...
Icon Solutions featured in International Banker
Date: 25th April 2019
Icon's Toine van Beusekom was recently featured in International Banker with his article titled 'Why do banking IT failures happen, and what can we do about them?'. In 2018, MPs announced a planned inquiry into several major IT failures that plagued banks with various subsequent issues within their services. A Treasury Select Committee will look at how financial services companies deal with ser...
Icon Solutions Celebrates 10 Years in business!
Date: 25th April 2019
This month, Icon Solutions is celebrating 10 years in business. With over 30% of new businesses failing during the first two months of being open, 50% in the first five years and 66% during the first 10, we can't help but feel proud of where we are and where we've come from and are excited by the challenges that remain ahead. Icon has grown from a team of 16 at inception to 135, working with fi...
Icon Solutions to sponsor and speak at The Payments Canada Summit
Date: 5th April 2019
London, 3rd April 2019 – Icon Solutions, the leading provider of technology solutions and real-time payments expertise, is delighted to announce it will be sponsoring The Payments Canada Summit in Toronto this year, which will take place from 14th to 16th May 2019. Gene Neyer, Icon’s Executive Advisor will be joining a panel on 'The real rush for real-time payments in the digital economy....
Simon Wilson interviewed by PaymentsCompliance
Date: 29th March 2019
London, 29th March - Icon's Simon Wilson, Director, Global Payment Solutions, was interviewed yesterday by PaymentsCompliance on the ECB's TIPS service. With only a handful of banks currently using TIPS which launched on 30th November 2018. Simon shares his views on the reasons for the slow uptake and what the benefits of joining TIPS could be. Simon said, "Once TIPS came into the market la...
Icon’s InstaPay Tracker highlights 43 active instant payments schemes globally
Date: 26th March 2019
The InstaPay Tracker, sponsored by Icon Solutions, now identifies 43 active instant payment schemes around the world, up from 30 in 2017. Further, our Tracker also identifies 15 instant payment programs under development, with two expected to be live in the next 12-18 months. Lauren Jones, Editor of InstaPay, a global intelligence hub for instant payments knowledge said: “There can no lon...