Icon Solutions donates £40k to WeSeeHope in response to Covid-19
Date: 8th July 2020
Icon Solutions, a leading global payments expert and provider of payments technology, today announced a donation of £40k to WeSeeHope - a charity committed to creating community-led change for vulnerable children in Southern and Eastern Africa. From improving access to pre-school education and setting up child protection structures, to training young people in vocational and business skills, WeS...
Icon supports reforestation programme in France
Date: 7th May 2020
Icon Solutions is proud to be supporting Sylvair, an organisation focused on offsetting carbon emissions through reforestation projects in France. Reforestation is an effective mitigation strategy to not only fight global warming but also the erosion of biodiversity. Sylvair, which was established recently, rehabilitates unused forest lands and provides long-term forest management to maximise CO2 ...
Icon explores RTP in developing markets on recent podcast
Date: 5th May 2020
Icon Solutions is delighted to have joined Elizabeth McQuerry, Partner at Glenbrook Partners and Miller Abel, Deputy Director, Principal Technologist at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on a podcast which explored the development and adoption of real-time payments in developing markets. The podcast, titled ‘Real-time Payments in Developing Markets’, covers the drivers, the technology app...
Icon participate in virtual NACHA conference
Date: 23rd April 2020
Icon Solutions is delighted to have been a part of this year's virtual NACHA Smarter, Faster Payments conference. Icon Solutions' panel session on 'The Future of Payments in an Open, Digital and Real-Time World' was well attended by payments enthusiasts around the world. The panel session looked at Open Banking, PSD2, and connected banking and how these new initiatives have presented a water...
Icon Solutions featured in the Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal
Date: 4th March 2020
Icon Solutions' article on 'Preventing and detecting fraud using machine learning', written by Tamsin Crossland, Senior Solution Architect, has been featured in issue four of The Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal. With a tsunami of payments volumes forecast, there is an even greater opportunity for fraud to take place. In this article, Tamsin investigates Machine Learning (ML), the advantages...
Upcoming webinar on leveraging ISO 20022
Date: 20th February 2020
Icon Solutions is delighted to be speaking alongside Wells Fargo and Santander in an upcoming webinar, 'Leveraging ISO 20022 in the US – What, why and how?'. The ISO 20022 financial messaging standard is now seeing widespread adoption for domestic and international payments solutions worldwide. It is now used in the US for The Clearing House RTP system, and Fedwire will also move to ISO 20022 ...