30.03.2021
The Testing Challenge: Future Proofing
Synopsis Payment systems providers are in stiff competition with each other to quickly provide innovative products for their customers....
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09.02.2021
The risk of outdated payment testing
Payments industry organisations have all been affected by unprecedented levels of change. New regulations, competitors and technologies, and the...
10.08.2020
Executive Interview – Payments Forecast
As the world adapts to the effects of the pandemic, we have been speaking to our network of contacts...
02.03.2020
The FCA’s View on Payments
The UK financial regulator recently released its ‘Sector Views’ report, which provides The Financial Conduct Authority’s opinion on how...
05.11.2019
Real-Time Payments – Winners, Losers and the Barriers to Innovation
Immediate Payments, Real-Time Payments, Faster Payments – wherever you are in the world you probably have a term for...
18.09.2019
Iliad Signs Global Deal with Immediate Payment Provider
Iliad’s t3: Switch will be used by the world’s leading supplier of Immediate Payment Systems Iliad has completed...
05.11.2018
Launching products is becoming more painful for banks…
All banks find launching new products and making changes to their operating systems to be a painful process. As...
03.10.2018
Iliad Hosts Industry Roundtable Event – London, UK
Last week Iliad hosted a breakfast for a number of senior people in the financial services test community. In...
16.07.2018
The wide-ranging costs of software failure
Tim Nash of Finextra continues his series of articles with us talking about the payments industry. In this...
12.06.2018
TSB – And How the Industry Needs to Rethink Testing and Migrations
Nobody should rejoice in the problems faced by TSB in its migration to the Sabadell system. TSB’s customer base...
30.05.2018
Testing: the regulatory imperative
This week we have a guest post from Tim Nash of Finextra who talks about the importance of...
20.04.2018
Iliad To Provide State of the Art Certification Platform
Iliad Solutions has signed a new and additional contract with one of the world’s largest card schemes. The agreement...
06.02.2018
Banking and Payments – The Latest Research
The research team at Iliad is always reviewing the analysis in the payments and banking industry, and we like...
22.01.2018
When technology fails – a two minute guide
When you live in the North of England as I do, Hawaii seems like the perfect place to be...
11.12.2017
Profitability and the future for US Banks
McKinsey has produced a paper about the next generation of banking in the United States, describing the challenges faced...
30.10.2017
Iliad Solutions & Verrency Sign Agreement
MEDIA RELEASE 30 October 2017 Iliad Solutions has signed a long-term agreement with global payments innovation provider Verrency for...
27.09.2017
Our Latest White Paper
In the modern banking industry, service is provided to consumers almost exclusively through electronic means. This development means that, with...
12.09.2017
World Economics Forum, analysis of the outlook for Fintech
The World Economic Forum has just completed one of the most thoroughgoing studies into the effect of fintech on...
03.08.2017
IT spend at EU banks set to increase
According to a recent news article on Finextra, 62% of European financial institutions expect to increase spending on payments...
26.07.2017
THE REAL COST OF OUTMODED TESTING
That the payments industry is being reshaped by unprecedented waves of change is not news. A constantly evolving regulatory...
13.07.2017
Iliad Signs Agreement with Global Payment Scheme
Press Release – Leeds, UK, 13th July 2017 Iliad Solutions today announces an agreement with a global payment scheme...
14.06.2017
New Exclusive Research with Finextra
We have partnered with Finextra to look at the challenges of testing for financial institutions engaged in payments transformation,...
29.05.2017
Improving your IT budget (and The Beautiful Game)
First meetings with our many clients around the world often reveal their misconceptions about testing technology. Let’s face it,...
09.05.2017
The biggest threat to the future of your payments business
I read a couple of articles this week which reinforced my belief that the biggest threat to most payments...
24.04.2017
How to reduce waste in your IT development budget
If you knew that you were wasting 15% of your IT development budget, how much effort would you put...
20.03.2017
APIs and How Their Potential for Innovation Could Be Stifled
Read the latest article from Anthony Walton who was talking to Payment Eye about the opportunity with APIs and...
21.02.2017
Why testing is more important than ever before…
Our CEO, Anthony Walton, was recently in the news as part of an exclusive interview with PYMNTS.com. The full...
21.12.2016
Review of the payments industry in 2016
From open APIs to omnichannel, from EMV chip cards to faster payments, it’s hard to put a finger on...
14.12.2016
Five questions you need to ask to avoid payment system failures and delayed launches
If you’re on the Board of Directors in an organisation which handles payments, I suspect you will have broken...
06.12.2016
How to migrate payment systems with total confidence
Anthony Walton, our CEO, explores how businesses and regulators can increase the safety and efficiency of migrating to new...
23.11.2016
Global Payments 2016 – McKinsey report on the future of the industry
Last month, McKinsey released a new report looking at the fundamental drivers of change in the payments industry across...
08.11.2016
Ten things a CEO should know about Testing Payments
In a previous role, I was fortunate enough to rise through the ranks to run the organisation, and I...
20.10.2016
Iliad Signs Agreement with US Bank
PRESS RELEASE Leeds, UK, 20th October 2016 Iliad Solutions have announced an agreement with a global bank based on...
19.10.2016
Mitigating the ever-present threat of failed payments
What happens when payments fail? Read about Iliad as featured in Payment Eye this week. The full article can...
10.10.2016
Our CEO talks with PYMNTS about testing and innovation
Anthony Walton, the Iliad CEO, talks with Karen Webster and David Evans about payment testing. An overview of the article...
04.10.2016
Old habits die hard – which is why payment innovation can fail
Sport, business. Is there a similarity? Before you flick on to the next article, this isn’t about positive mental...
27.09.2016
Iliad outlines the challenges facing the industry on US Launch
Press Release – As the demand for immediate payments implementation grows in the United States, Iliad Solutions have identified...
08.09.2016
Hope is not a test strategy…
I’ve seen it too many times. Development projects in testing can end up in a tangled mess when the...
25.08.2016
Avoiding The Reputational Risk Of Failure
Our CEO, Anthony Walton, was talking with PYMNTS about innovation and how integration is one of the biggest challenges facing...