Icon Solutions announces the appointment of Richard Dear
Date: 22nd November 2016
Icon Solutions announces the appointment of Richard Dear, Business Development Director, to lead the market development of Icon’s Instant Payments Framework (IPF). Having previously worked at ACI Worldwide and VocaLink Richard brings significant experience in payment systems, including Faster Payments, ACH, ATMs and acquiring solutions. Tom Kelleher, Commercial Director at Icon ...
Research reveals lower cost of Instant Payments implementation is opening the market for small and mid-sized bank
Date: 21st November 2016
Average five year cumulative costs for small and medium-sized banks as low as €500,000 By year five, maintenance fees can make up over 50% of total costs Modular, highly configurable systems remove barriers to entry and lowers costs London, UK, 21 November 2016 – A new study by Lipis Advisors, experts in real-time payments, has found that the cost of migrating to Instant Paymen...
Icon’s Head of Payments to speak at Fintech Innovation, Hungary
Date: 12th October 2016
Tom Hay, Icon’s Head of Payments has been invited to speak at this year’s Fintech Innovation on the 27th October in Budapest, Hungary. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) expects to establish an instant payment system within Hungary which will operate from the second half of 2019. The new system will strengthen the competitiveness of electronic payment compared to cash as it will clear payment ...
Icon joins Euro Banking Association (EBA)
Date: 6th October 2016
Icon Solutions has recently been announced as an Associate Member of the Euro Banking Association (EBA). The EBA is a practitioners’ body for banks and other service providers supporting a pan-European vision for payments. Their mission is to provide payment professionals with a country-neutral forum for driving and contributing to the delivery of pan-European co-operative payment initiatives...
Icon’s Head Of Payments is invited to speak at NextGen Banking in Helsinki
Date: 28th September 2016
Tom Hay, Icon’s Head of Payments has been invited to speak at this year’s NextGen Banking conference, 11th October in Helsinki. Tom will take to the stage alongside other payment industry experts to discuss How to respond to PSD2 at 2pm. Tom Hay. 'PSD2 has radically changed the rules of the game by allowing third party providers the right to access account information and initiate paym...
Icon Solutions expands payments team after year of record growth
Date: 2nd August 2016
London, 2nd August 2016, Icon Solutions, the independent IT payment consultancy and specialist technology provider, has today announced two strategic hires to bolster its unprecedented growth, and support the expansion and development of its Global Payments Practice. Rob Hewitt joins as Senior Payments Consultant and Christopher Kong joins as Payment Consultant. Tom Hay, Head of Payments at Ico...