Nepal Clearing House selects ACI Worldwide to power National Payment Switch service
Nepal Clearing House expects to launch its NPS service in Q4 2024.
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Central Bank of Colombia partners ACI Worldwide for real-time payments system
The central bank will leverage the partnership to launch a real-time payments ecosystem in 2025.
Abe Kuruvilla joins ACI Worldwide as chief technology officer
Kuruvilla joins the company from CoreLogic, where he served as chief information officer.
ACI Worldwide launches Instant Pay solution for European merchants
Merchants using Instant Pay will be able to accept instant online, mobile and in-store payments.
ACI invests in Mindgate to drive real-time payments growth
The paytech is India’s market leader in processing UPI transactions.
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ACI to acquire Speedpay for $750m from Western Union
Deal will bring Speedpay and UP Bill Payment platforms together.
ACI buys paytech assets from RevChip and TranSend
Acquisitions to enhance its in-store payment solutions.
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BioCatch brings behavioural biometrics to ACI Worldwide
Paytech ACI plans to stop fraud for banking customers.
BMO in paytech revamp with ACI Worldwide
The real-time payments project was completed in nine months.
Payments round-up: 22 November 2017
Hot on the heels from Monday’s (20 November) round-up, here are more lively adventures in the paytech space. Featuring Manigo powering up; Volante Technologies and eVision in North Africa; and ACI Worldwide and Payworks getting friendly. Digital money platform Manigo has launched. The firm, which is based in London’s tech hub Level39, says it will […]
Real-time payments: forging path to the “new normal”
Escalating customer expectations, regulatory requirements and technological developments are fuelling the need for instant payments. Market providers agree that real-time payments will be the “new normal” and, it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.
Banks look to immediate payments to drive revenue
Immediate payments is a key revenue driver for 66% of banks in markets with IP schemes, according to new benchmark data from processor ACI Worldwide and UK consultancy and Banking Technology’s sister company Ovum. Paybefore, Banking Technology’s sister publication, writes that the benchmark report, “2017 Global Payments Insight Survey: Retail Banking,” also found that although […]
Erste Bank Hungary updates retail payments hub with ACI Worldwide
Erste Bank Hungary is implementing ACI Worldwide’s UP Retail Payments solution, upgrading from the older versions of ACI’s solutions. The bank will also deploy ACI Proactive Risk Manager (a fraud management solution) and ACI Interchange (central monetary transaction manager) to calculate interchange fees. Erste and ACI have been working together since 2003. Tamás Foltányi, COO […]
Infographics: real-time payments – the odyssey
Banking Technology, ACI Worldwide and Nets have joined forces to survey the global market about the highs and lows of its current journey towards real-time payments. From individual institutions’ readiness to key market drivers, obstacles and fraud concerns, and everything in between – survey participants from across the globe share their views.
ACI Worldwide integrates Ethoca Alerts for payments gateway
ACI Worldwide will integrate Ethoca’s service, Ethoca Alerts, into its UP eCommerce Payments solution, making it available to payment service providers (PSPs) worldwide. The integration gives PSPs, acquirers, processors and their merchant customers a means to “bolster” their fraud defences with card issuer-confirmed fraud and customer dispute data. Keith Briscoe, chief marketing officer, Ethoca, says […]
ACI Worldwide teams with Raphaels Bank for Faster Payments Scheme access
ACI Worldwide is partnering with UK-based Raphaels Bank, opening up access to the Faster Payments Scheme in the UK for financial institutions (FIs), including challenger banks and payment service providers (PSPs). ACI says its relationship with the bank means FIs and PSPs can use ACI as a “technical aggregator” providing real-time access to Faster Payments […]
UK businesses are frustrated by delayed business payments so where is the broken cog?
Almost half (48%) of SMEs in the UK are frustrated by payments taking too long to reach their bank account, a survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of ACI has found this week. The businesses surveyed also state that these delays are negatively affecting their ability to run their business. A third of the SMEs […]
Banks face new wave of disruption warns report
Following years of mistrust and rivalries, the time has come to reimagine the payments relationships between banks, retailers and fintech firms, according to a joint report from analyst firm Celent and payments systems company ACI Worldwide.
Roundtable: a world of real-time payments
Call it immediate, instant, fast(er) or real-time, the drive to speed up payments is being discussed in almost every country. As part of that discussion Banking Technology and ACI Worldwide brought together international participants from Australia, Europe, the UK and the US review the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Harmonisation of ISO 20022 is crucial – but who should be in charge?
It seems not a day goes by without seeing those three little letters and five numbers – ISO 20022 – appearing in headlines or articles. But hang on a minute, what’s all the commotion about? It’s just another message format that I need to make sure my systems can handle, right?
The Irresistible Rise of Real-Time Payments
Whatever label you use, instant, immediate, faster or real-time payments have moved to the top of the agenda at every payments-related event so far this year and are sure to be high on the agenda when Swift’s annual Sibos event lands in Singapore in October. Nearing the halfway mark for 2015, here’s a roundup of the stories so far …
Efforts to harmonise real-time payments implementation are up against the clock
The window of opportunity to harmonise international real-time payments implementations is rapidly closing as plans for domestic systems move ahead according to panellists at the EBAday conference this week.
EY leads latest round of new members for BIAN
The Banking Industry Architecture Network has announced six new members including ACI Worldwide, Atos, EY and Zafin. Its global network now numbers 58 banks, service providers, software vendors and academic partners.
ACI Worldwide targets “fragmented” retail bank payment systems
Large retail banks sometimes find it hard to change because they have assimilated many smaller banks through acquisition, each of which is running on a payments engine that has different features and may be very old. That can make it difficult to offer new services, but there is a solution according to Paul Thomalla, head of EMEA at US-based payments and technology firm ACI Worldwide.
