ACI Worldwide announced a major step forward in the UK's payments modernization journey as a leading UK retail bank chooses ACI Connetic for deployment. Powered by Microsoft's cloud capabilities, this milestone demonstrates strong industry confidence in ACI's next-generation platform and its ability to empower financial institutions to modernize, innovate and unlock new growth. The first ACI Connetic deployment in the UK is a pivotal milestone as the country prepares for the next wave of payments transformation.
For the first time, UK banks can bring SWIFT, CHAPS, and Faster Payments together on one cloud-native SaaS platform, eliminating the fragmentation that has long driven operational cost, risk, and complexity. Designed to meet the demands of modern banking, ACI Connetic, the industry's first unified, cloud-native platform enables banks and financial institutions of all sizes to: Consolidate siloed systems and embrace a centralized approach to processing all payment types; Reduce operational complexity, increase resiliency across all schemes and speed up the adoption of regulatory mandates; Accelerate innovation, increase agility and position themselves for future real-time and cross-border modernization. ACI Connetic is the industry's first platform to bring together account-to-account (A2A) payments, card payments, and AI-driven fraud prevention within one cloud-native Saa SaaS environment.
Its modular design, cloud-native architecture, and open APIs streamline integration, shorten implementation timelines, and deliver faster time to value. Designed for institutions of all sizes, ACI Connetic enables rapid modernization without compromising enterprise-grade resilience or regulatory readiness.
ACI Worldwide, Inc. is a global payments technology company. The Company delivers software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time to banks, billers, and merchants. Its segments include Payment Software and Biller. Payment Software drives payments orchestration for banks and merchants. It provides payment solutions to large and mid-sized banks globally for retail banking, digital, and other payment services. In addition, it enables banks to meet the requirements of different real-time payments schemes and to create differentiated products to meet consumer, business, and merchant demands. The Biller segment provides electronic bill presentment and payment services to companies operating in the consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utility, government, mortgage, subscription provider, and telecommunications categories. It also provides fraud abuse protection to its Biller customers leveraging its proven AI, human, and data capabilities.
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