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News & analysis from across the industry

01.09.2021

Iliad Solutions grows North America presence

    Mike Packer joins Iliad team to bring wider payments testing adoption in key market September 01 2021...

04.05.2021

Press Release – Iliad Solutions embarks on Americas push

Len Meyers to head up payments testing adoption in wider markets   Leeds, UK, May 4th 2021 – Iliad Solutions,...

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....

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The risk of outdated payment testing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...

15.07.2019

Latest fintech research

In June, Capgemini released the World Fintech Report in Paris. The report’s headline conclusion was that although Open Banking has...

01.05.2019

Iliad launches test platform for Real-Time Payments

    Iliad’s test platform fully simulates all elements of the RTP® network from The Clearing House Iliad Solutions...

03.04.2019

Effective Implementation of PSD2 and Open Banking Propositions

  The target for Open Banking access has fallen way short of legislators’ expectations, with over 40% of European...

14.03.2019

APIs – realising benefits beyond the hype

I recently attended the QAFF event in London, and it was clear to see the increasing relevance that APIs...

18.02.2019

Business change – assurance by automation and regression testing

Banks are currently busy working away to deliver a range of innovative use cases driven by regulatory change, new...

03.12.2018

Bank testing: automation alone isn’t the magic bullet

Tim Nash of Finextra continues his series of articles with us talking about the payments industry. In this article, he...

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...

20.09.2018

Reducing Risk through Effective Testing

The only certain feature of payments infrastructure today is change, and the amount of change is at historically unprecedented...

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...

15.06.2018

How AI can reduce risk in payment innovation and migration

This week we have another guest post from Tim Nash of Finextra, talking about Artificial Intelligence opportunity to deploy AI...

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...

19.03.2018

How to achieve a competitive advantage in Open Banking

  Anyone reading the industry press will undoubtedly have seen opinion pieces on Open Banking. The fact that Open...

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...

13.11.2017

Are you ready for the evolution of payment technology?

As new technology increases the pace of change in the payment and banking industries, how can you stay ahead?...

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...

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