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Product Update15 April 2026

Ironledge launches real-time payment status webhooks for instant reconciliation

Our new webhook infrastructure delivers sub-second payment status updates, eliminating polling and enabling true real-time reconciliation for finance teams and payment orchestrators.

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Regulation10 Apr 2026
What the FCA's 2026 Consumer Duty changes mean for open banking providers
A practical breakdown of the new requirements and how Ironledge's compliance infrastructure already meets them out of the box.
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Engineering3 Apr 2026
How we built our AI transaction categorisation engine — and what we learned
Behind the scenes of our data enrichment model: training data, accuracy benchmarks, edge cases, and the surprising ways context matters.
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Market28 Mar 2026
Open banking adoption hits 11 million users in the UK — what the data tells us
We analysed our own platform data alongside OBIE statistics to understand where usage is growing fastest and which use cases are winning.
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Security21 Mar 2026
Zero-trust architecture in fintech APIs: a practical implementation guide
How we re-architected our internal services to enforce zero-trust principles without sacrificing developer experience or API latency.
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Product14 Mar 2026
Variable Recurring Payments: the full guide for product teams in 2026
Everything you need to know about VRP consent flows, limits, dispute handling, and the upcoming Phase 2 commercial framework.
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ESG7 Mar 2026
How open banking is enabling a new wave of climate-focused fintech products
Carbon footprint tracking, green investment nudges, and sustainable lending — how open banking data is powering the ESG fintech space.
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Engineering28 Feb 2026
Building reliable webhooks at scale: lessons from 500 million events
Delivery guarantees, retry logic, ordering, and debugging — everything we've learned delivering half a billion webhook events per month.
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Partnerships20 Feb 2026
Why we partnered with Mambu to bring open banking to core banking
The story behind our Mambu integration, what it enables for mutual customers, and the technical work that made it possible.
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Developer12 Feb 2026
From sandbox to production: a checklist for your first Ironledge integration
The exact steps, gotchas, and best practices for moving from development to a live open banking integration — in plain English.
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