Icon Solutions Welcomes NatWest Executives to its Board of Directors, Accelerating the Expansion of IPF
2024年7月8日 - 7:15PM
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Icon Solutions today announces it has strengthened and expanded
its strategic partnership with NatWest with the appointment of Ian
Povey, CIO Payments Technology, and Lee McNabb, Head of Payments
Strategy and Partnerships, as Board Observers.
Ian is an experienced and internationally recognised payments
product and technology executive. He oversees the modernisation of
NatWest’s payments technology estate, with responsibility for the
run, change and continuous availability of payments as a
systemically critical participant in the industry.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of SWIFT.
Lee has extensive banking experience in product / profit and
loss (P&L) management, risk, policy setting and strategy. He
joined NatWest in 2018 after 13 years at the Co-operative Bank,
latterly owning the payment strategy together with responsibility
for regulatory change, including PSD2 and key payment scheme
relationships. He is now responsible for the definition and
articulation of NatWest’s payments strategy.
The appointments follow NatWest’s strategic investment in Icon
Solutions in March 2024. NatWest also announced in September 2023
that it had selected the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) to
accelerate the bank’s payments modernisation as it continues to
align with the new global ISO 20022 payment data message
standards.
Commenting on his appointment, Ian said: “NatWest and Icon have
been working collaboratively to modernise payments since 2019. IPF
is the payment framework that empowers us to enable change from
within and be in control of what we build, so we can deliver new
payment services to our customers quickly, safely and
cost-efficiently.”
Lee comments: “Our partnership with Icon is key to NatWest’s
payments strategy, reflecting our ongoing commitment to investing
in and embracing new technologies and capabilities.”
Tom Kelleher, Co-Founder and Commercial Director at Icon, adds:
“We are very pleased to welcome Ian and Lee to the Icon Board.
Their combined experience and expertise further strengthen our
capability to evolve IPF and our services offering to simplify
payments transformation.”
Watch this video to learn more about Icon and NatWest’s
partnership to modernise payments.
About Icon Solutions
Icon Solutions is a payments solutions company providing
financial institutions with technology, payments subject matter
expertise and multi-disciplined services. Financial institutions
engage these capabilities on their payments transformation journey
from defining their payments strategy through to accelerating
IPF-based solutions built by their in-house engineering teams, by
Icon and/or by a Systems Integrator.
The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) is Icon’s major contribution
to the payments industry. It is the framework that underpins
payments orchestration solutions and sits at the heart of the core
payments architecture of banks such as Citi, NatWest and BNP
Paribas. Leveraging the IPF software development kit, banks can
easily, quickly and safely deliver payments systems with a low
total cost of ownership. IPF also features a range of additional
optional modules and ready-made integration to clearing and
settlement schemes to accelerate the implementation of end-to-end
payments solutions.
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