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ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced the appointment of Philip Bruno as chief strategy and growth officer.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced that Bridget Hall, Leader of Real-Time Payments for the Americas, has been named one of American Banker’s Most Influential Women in Payments for 2025. This prestigious award celebrates female leaders shaping the future of payments and advancing the financial services industry writ large.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced its designation as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Integrated Bank Payment Systems 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US50426423, September 2024). The assessment evaluated 12 vendors using multiple strategic and capability criteria, grouping results across four categories: Leaders, Major Players, Contenders, and Participants.

Authorized push payment (APP) scam losses are on the rise, expected to climb to $7.6 billion by 2028 across six leading real-time payment markets (U.S., U.K., India, Brazil, Australia and UAE), according to the latest Scamscope report from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced that Zimswitch, Zimbabwe's national electronic payments switch and a leading payments technology company, has chosen ACI's Fraud Management and Payments Intelligence solution to enhance its fraud prevention and management capabilities. Through this implementation, Zimswitch aims to bolster the security of Zimbabwe's digital payment infrastructure and provide an elevated level of protection and security for financial institutions and consumers.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, announced financial results today for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

Real-time payments are forecast to generate $285.8 billion of additional global GDP growth and create more than 167 million new bank account holders by 2028, according to a new report published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, in collaboration with The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the third quarter 2024 on Thursday, November 7, 2024. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time to discuss these results.

Global holiday spending is expected to rise 16% in value from October through December 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to analysis by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology. ACI's annual Unwrapping Checkout Trends report provides merchants and acquirers with essential insights on payment trends, spending and fraud predictions, and actionable ways to maximize secure and authentic conversions.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an innovator in global payments technology, today announced a collaboration with Red Hat Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to make ACI’s cloud-native Enterprise Payments Platform available on any cloud infrastructure. With this collaboration, ACI will help customers ease their migration to the cloud to better adapt to the rapidly evolving digital economy and power the next generation of payment services. Using Red Hat OpenShift empowers banks, merchants, and billers with more flexibility and choice on how they wish to deploy their payment services, whether that is on-premises, in the cloud, or as a managed service.

Digital payment preferences are surging, according to the 2024 ACI Speedpay Pulse Report, published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology. More than three-quarters of Americans now prefer to pay their bills digitally, especially Gen Z and Millennials, who show a significant inclination toward mobile payments. However, this increase in digital payments also brings about heightened risks – almost one in five consumers surveyed has fallen prey to online identity theft.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, and Mexipay, a leading Mexican financial technology company, have announced the extension of their partnership to enhance Mexico’s real-time payments ecosystem, with the aim of driving instant payments adoption and boosting economic growth and financial inclusion for Mexico’s businesses and consumers.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, was ranked “Best in Class” for Merchant Payments Orchestration in a new Datos Insights report. The report used four categories to analyze payments vendors: provider stability, client strength, client service and product features. ACI Worldwide achieved the highest ranking and average score across categories and was the only vendor to earn the “Best in Class” accreditation.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments solutions, and Worldpay, a leading global provider of payment processing solutions, today announced an extension of their longstanding partnership. The agreement will see ACI continue to provide critical infrastructure to Worldpay to support merchants worldwide. Through ACI’s innovative, market-leading payments software solutions, Worldpay will continue to offer market-leading stability and payments acceptance for its global merchants.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the second quarter 2024 on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time to discuss these results.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced its inclusion on CNBC's prestigious World's Top Fintech Companies 2024 list. The annual ranking, a collaboration between CNBC and Statista, recognizes the fintech vanguard – the most groundbreaking and impactful companies shaping the future of finance.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced it has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in the 2024-25 edition of its annual rankings. This esteemed recognition includes additional honors in two categories: “Best Companies to Work For in Professional Services” and “Best Companies to Work For in the South.”

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, and RS2, a global payments processor and technology provider, have joined forces to offer a one-stop solution for acquirers and issuers in Brazil. The new offering combines the best of ACI’s and RS2’s acquiring and issuing capabilities, supporting financial institutions, integrated software vendors, payment facilitators, independent sales organizations and payment processors on their digital transformation and modernization journey. It brings the global expertise and technology of both companies to the Brazilian market jointly for the first time.

Instant cross-border payments processed by STET, one of the leading European clearing and settlement systems, (CSM), and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, have reached a new record high. STET, which processed more than 35 billion transactions in 2023, representing a daily average of more than €25 billion, processed more than 50 million cross-border real-time transactions over the last 12 months, a number that is expected to increase by more than 50% in 2024.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of $400 million in shares of the company’s common stock. The new approval includes $65 million remaining under the company’s existing share repurchase authorization. Year to date 2024, ACI has repurchased approximately 3 million shares for $106 million.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.

Global real-time payments growth has reached sustainable levels with 266.2 billion real-time payments transactions recorded in 2023—a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 42.2%—according to the 2024 Prime Time for Real-Time report, published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the first quarter 2024 on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time to discuss these results.

A new tax payment report from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payment solutions, developed in partnership with YouGov, shows that younger taxpayers – particularly Gen Z – continue to exhibit unique tax filing and payment behavior compared to older generations. These behaviors reflect growing mistrust of professional tax institutions and a generational shift toward personal networks and digital payment platforms. This has nationwide economic implications given the IRS reports 26-to-34-year-olds file more taxes than any other group.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, instant payments technology, today revealed striking new data proving instant paymentsii will boost the financial prospects of young adults in the EU.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, and comforte AG, a leading provider of data-centric security solutions, today announced a partnership to help customers meet the new Payment Cards Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) v4.0 standard. Under this partnership, ACI will use comforte’s data-centric security solutions, which ACI has rigorously tested to be compatible with ACI’s solutions.

Kiwibank has successfully gone live with ACI Worldwide’s Enterprise Payments Platform, a managed cloud solution that will process all of Kiwibank’s account-to-account real-time payments.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today the appointment of two new independent directors, Katrinka McCallum and Juan Benitez, to the company’s Board of Directors.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced an extension of its longstanding partnership with Kuvasz Solutions, a leading Latin American provider of professional services for the payments industry, to advance the adoption of Colombia’s new domestic real-time payments ecosystem, announced by ACI and the Colombian Central Bank in December 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, will host its first Analyst Day under President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Warsop on Tuesday, March 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern time at Apella in New York.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced a collaboration with RYVYL EU, a leading payments service provider (PSP) and acquirer in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), to help merchants across the region increase revenues through higher transaction conversion rates.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2023 on February 29, 2024. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time to discuss these results.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that Nepal Clearing House (NCHL), a public limited company under the leadership and guidance of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB, The Central Bank of Nepal), has chosen the award-winning ACI Enterprise Payments Platform for the establishment and operation of National Payment Switch (NPS) that includes interoperability of card-based transactions (NPS National Card Switch or NPS-NCS) and the rollout of a domestic card scheme for Nepal (NEPALPAY).

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that leading U.K. retailer Co-op has successfully moved its full stack of payments and fraud prevention technology software into ACI’s multi-tenant cloud platform hosted in Microsoft Azure.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that the European Payments Council has selected ACI’s Daniele Astarita, senior principal solution consultant, for a two-year membership to the Scheme Technical Player Multi-Stakeholder Group (STP MSG), beginning January 1, 2024.

The Central Bank of Colombia, Banco de la República, today announced it is partnering with ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, to build a new domestic real-time payments ecosystem as part of a nationwide banking transformation project.

Authorized Push Payment (APP) scam losses are on the rise and expected to climb to $6.8 billion — a combined compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11% — by 2027 across six leading real-time payment markets (U.S., U.K., India, Brazil, Australia and Saudi Arabia) according to Scamscope, a new report by global payments software company ACI Worldwide and GlobalData, a leading global analytics firm. During the same period, the overall value of real-time transactions is also forecasted to grow at a faster pace, reaching 25% CAGR.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced a partnership with financial technology company Mexipay to boost payment innovation in México. Mexipay, a new fintech player in the México ecosystem, will leverage ACI Enterprise Payments Platform to deploy ISO 20022 real-time payments and other innovative payment services in México.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, and Interswitch Group, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, today announced a new frontier in their 20-year-old relationship which consolidates Interswitch’s relationship with ACI from reseller to strategic partner status across multiple markets in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter ended September 30, 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments solutions, today announced the appointment of Abe Kuruvilla as chief technology officer. In this role, Kuruvilla will lead ACI’s innovation agenda, optimizing the way the company develops and delivers its industry-leading software solutions globally to banks, merchants and billers.

Global eCommerce transactions are expected to rise 14% from October through December 2023 compared to the same period last year, according to data analysis from millions of eCommerce transactions conducted by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payments software. Fraud attempts are predicted to grow to 3% of all transactions, with friendly fraud posing the most substantial threat, accounting for 20% of all fraud risks. Friendly fraud occurs when a customer places an order using their payment details and then raises a dispute to recoup the cost of the item while retaining the item or by returning a used item.

ACI Worldwide, a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payment solutions, today announced that Nymcard, a leading card issuer in the Middle East and Africa (MENA), has enhanced its fraud platform with ACI® Fraud Management™ to better protect its customers from the growing threat of financial fraud.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the third quarter of 2023 on November 2, 2023. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss these results.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to help financial institutions and technical services enable instant payments transactions faster through ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud (RTPC) platform. Hosted in the Microsoft Azure environment, ACI RTPC is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that provides a payments interface between financial institutions and instant payments infrastructure, including The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments (RTP) Network and The Federal Reserve's FedNow Service in the U.S.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the launch of digital central infrastructure, a single ISO 20022 native solution that bundles digital overlay services with ACI Central Infrastructure. ACI provides tailored consultancy and professional services to plan, design and implement the solution, reducing complexities for customers and simplifying SLA management via a single vendor.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), an industry-led organization committed to advancing safer, faster payments in the United States, has selected ACI’s leader of real-time payments in the Americas, Bridget Hall, to serve on the FPC’s 2023-2024 Board Advisory Group. The Board Advisory Group advises the FPC Board of Directors and staff, providing external perspectives on real-time payments to help the FPC respond to the latest industry trends.

According to the 2023 ACI Speedpay Pulse report, published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, 35% of consumers express readiness to switch their bill payment method to achieve faster processing. This shift in consumer behavior can be attributed to the fear of being penalized for late payments among the growing number of people making urgent or same-day bill payments.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter ended June 30, 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that the company management will participate in the following investor conferences:

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today it will be supporting transactions on the Federal Reserve’s newly live instant payment rail, the FedNow Service. ACI is among the first service providers that will be supporting transaction activity for financial institutions on the service.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the second quarter of 2023 on August 3, 2023. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss these results.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that the Company has consented to the issuance of a Consent Order with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) relating to the previously disclosed inadvertent transmission of ACH files associated with one of the Company’s mortgage servicing customers to the ACH network during a test of the Company’s Speedpay bill payment platform in April 2021.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced it has launched ACI Instant Pay — a real-time payments solution that enables merchants to accept instant online, mobile and in-store payments via a simple API integration with ACI Payments Orchestration Platform — in Europe and the U.K.

One in every five global consumers surveyed in 2022 said they fell victim to payments fraud in the last four years — 26.9% of whom are victims of Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams, which is the number one fraud threat globally — according to the 2023 Prime Time for Real-Time report published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has appointed Thomas Warsop as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 1, 2023. Warsop, a seasoned executive and financial services technology expert, has served as Interim President and CEO since November 2022. He will also continue to serve on the ACI Board, where he has been a director since 2015. Adalio Sanchez will continue as non-executive Chair of the Board.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced a collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, to enable financial institutions and payment providers to utilize ACI solutions on the platform.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the addition of Swift Go to its cross-border payments offering. In response to the growing demand for new cross-border, real-time payment services, ACI will enable banks to utilize Swift Go via the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payment solutions, today announced that it is among the first in the payments industry to complete testing and certification for the FedNow℠ Service, the Federal Reserve’s new instant payments offering launching this July. Working closely with the U.S. Federal Reserve and stakeholders across the payments industry, ACI identified Corporate One Federal Credit Union as its initial partner to integrate instant payment services on FedNow via ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud to reach credit unions across the country.

The development of technology and the creation of new success stories in the electronic payments industry are driving higher volumes of real-time payments (RTP) globally. In 2022, RTP reached 195 billion transactions worldwide — an annual growth of 63.2% year on year, according to the 2023 Prime Time for Real-Time report, published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Latin America is a region with significant growth potential globally in terms of RTP, as it is estimated that the region will have 56% adoption by 2027, exceeding the individual levels expected for Europe, Asia Pacific and the United States.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the first quarter of 2023 on May 4, 2023. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 am Eastern Time to discuss these results.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payment solutions, today announced that its award-winning fraud protection services are now available as part of ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud for U.S. customers preparing for the July launch of FedNow. Featuring integrated fraud protection in partnership with Microsoft Azure, ACI Real-Time Payments Cloud is a multi-tenant SaaS platform supporting connectivity to both The Clearing House Real-Time Payments network and FedNow.

A new tax payment report from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payment solutions, developed in partnership with YouGov, shows that awareness of common payment fraud schemes during tax season is down year over year (YoY), making people more susceptible to potential fraud. The greatest change is among younger taxpayers, particularly Gen Z, where fraud awareness decreased from 83% in 2022 to 72% in 2023.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a leading global provider of real-time payments and digital payment software solutions, and Security Bank Corporation (Security Bank), a leading universal bank in Philippines, today announced that the bank has chosen ACI Worldwide’s Enterprise Payments Platform solution to strengthen its real-time payment capabilities.

New sophisticated use cases for consumers and businesses are driving global RTP volumes to record highs, with 195.0B RTP transactions recorded globally in 2022 — a YoY growth of 63.2% — according to the 2023 Prime Time for Real-Time report, published by ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced financial results today for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced a partnership with financial technology company RedAbierta to power real-time payments in Honduras. RedAbierta, the central infrastructure provider in Honduras, will leverage two ACI solutions — ACI Enterprise Payments Platform and ACI Low-Value Real-Time Payments — to build the domestic real-time payments central infrastructure in the Central American country and help financial institutions connect to the new scheme.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced today that it will report its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022 on March 1, 2023. Management will host a conference call at 8:30 am EST to discuss these results and future guidance.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the expansion of the global reach of its industry-leading, real-time payments software solutions. ACI now powers 25 domestic and pan-regional real-time schemes across six continents — including nine central infrastructures — providing solutions to central banks, participant banks, fintechs and other payment service providers.

Despite a challenging economic environment, the 2022 holiday shopping season exceeded projections, according to eCommerce intelligence from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payments solutions, which analyzes millions of eCommerce transactions on an annual basis to assess year-over-year growth. From October through December 2022, eCommerce transactions saw a 21% increase, beating estimates by 6%.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the launch of ACI Wallet Hub, an integrated network that connects merchants in 70+ countries to a single hub for 200+ global and regional digital wallets.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the launch of ACI Instant Pay, a new real-time payments solution that enables merchants in the U.S. to accept online, mobile and in-store payments instantly. The expansion of ACI's real-time payments software solutions to merchants reinforces ACI’s global leadership in powering domestic and pan-regional real-time schemes reaching billions worldwide.