Icon Solutions has appointed Toine van Beusekom as head of payments architecture.
Beusekom will be responsible for how clients can use architectural, technical and delivery change to support the business challenges and opportunities of the Second Payment Services Directive, open banking and financial technology.
Beusekom has more than 20 years’ experience in the payments industry, including senior roles at J.P. Morgan, IBM and CapGemini. He has also worked at Clear2Pay as senior business consultant.
Carl Bones, head of architecture, said: “Toine van Beusekom joins us at an exciting time for both Icon and the payments industry. We see his deep insight and experience being pivotal in consolidating Icon’s position as the leading global payments consultancy.”
He added: “[Beusekom] will help us to further expand our ability to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions to our customers in innovative and pragmatic ways.”
Commenting on his new appointment, Beusekom said: “I am thrilled to join Icon’s world class payments team and to assist in developing the innovative payments architecture, which underpins the instant payments framework.”
He added: “Icon’s Payments Architecture is truly a new step in the evolution of how we can support the ever-changing payments industry from strategy to runtime.”
