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Icon’s RTP Team Attend Sibos, Oct 16-19th, Toronto

Date: 9th October 2017

  London, 10th October 2017 –Icon Solutions, the leading provider of technology solutions and real time payments expertise, are delighted to announce their participation at Sibos, SWIFT’s annual global event for the international financial sector. This year’s overall conference theme is ‘Building for the Future’, Icon’s senior payments experts will be on hand to demonstr...

What do PSD2 and Instant Payments mean for the future of cards?

Date: 6th October 2017

After commissioning a ground-breaking whitepaper from Ovum, the market-leading research and consulting firm, Icon Solutions has now produced an infographic visually illustrating the results of the research. The research "Instant payments and the post-PSD2 landscape" quantifies the detrimental effect PSD2 and Instant Payments will have on traditional credit and debit card payments in Europe, and pr...

Tom Hay, Head of Payments at Icon, appointed member of the European Payments Council’s Scheme Technical Forum (ESTF)

Date: 5th October 2017

  London, 5th October 2017 – Icon Solutions are delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Hay, Head of Payments, to the European Payments Council’s Scheme Technical Forum (ESTF). The Forum is responsible for establishing and driving industry standards for SEPA schemes, including SCT Inst – the new instant payments scheme in Europe.  Icon is well positioned to advise and shape ...

Icon Solutions completes functional testing with EBA Clearing’s RT1 SCT Inst platform

Date: 19th September 2017

London, 19th September 2017 – Icon Solutions, a leading provider of technology solutions and instant payments consultancy, has successfully completed EBA Clearing’s testing procedure for SCT Inst payments – proving full compliance with the requirements of the RT1 infrastructure solution of EBA Clearing and the EPC Scheme Rulebook. Icon’s Instant Payments Framework (IPF) is now rea...

Icon hosts exclusive instant payments roundtable in Hungary

Date: 19th September 2017

  Icon Solutions was delighted to host an Instant Payments breakfast roundtable in Hungary, in association with their local partner T-Systems on Wednesday 13th September 2017. Breakfast Roundtable The topic of this exclusive roundtable was ‘Instant payments – preparing for the transition’ and included guest speakers Gábor Füredi (Head of Competence Center, T-Systems), Otto ...

Icon Solutions Extends its Real Time Payments Expertise to Canada with the Appointment of a local Senior Vice President

Date: 5th September 2017

  London, 5 September 2017, Icon Solutions, the independent IT payment specialist technology provider and consultancy, has today announced the appointment of a strategic senior hire in Canada. Jason Hayes, has joined Icon as Senior Vice President, Canada. Jason has a stellar background of senior appointments at several Consultancy and Software houses, including, 4Sight Financial Software,...