August 19, 2020Digital payment software and solutions firm ACI Worldwide will be working with Sri Lanka’s National Savings Bank to implement a new solution for mitigating fraud, a press release states.
The bank ...
July 23, 2020This week’s look at payment rail innovation is all about value-added offerings on existing rails, as well as on emerging real-time payment schemes.
In the U.S., Nacha noted that as ACH ...
July 16, 2020ACI Worldwide, which provides electronic payment and banking solutions, has added new digital overlay services that it says will help to speed up real-time payments, according to a press release.
The ...
June 18, 2020With a focus on expanding functionality for business customers, financial institutions (FIs) this week turned to FinTechs that could facilitate real-time data connectivity and analysis.
Some FIs, including Western Union and ...
January 21, 2020ACI Worldwide is working with The Bancorp’s Direct Rapid Funds platform — powered by Visa Direct — for real-time corporate disbursements, The Bancorp announced on Tuesday (Jan. 21).
“The surge in ...
December 30, 2019Despite the demonstrated benefits, the adoption of real-time payments has not been, well, particularly speedy. Many businesses cite the lack of ubiquity and high upfront costs for their halting shift ...
December 24, 2019PYMNTS doesn’t just cover the news. We regularly feature podcast conversion with the leading experts, executives and entrepreneurs involved in transactions and commerce and all the related areas in between. ...
December 12, 2019Though the U.S. continues to take significant steps toward a faster payments ecosystem, the market undoubtedly lags behind others across the world in the path toward real-time payments ubiquity.
There are a ...
November 21, 2019Membership in the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) is growing with the addition of ACI Worldwide, as the electronic payments and banking solution provider announced this week.
The company is joining ...
November 18, 2019The infrastructure is in place for real-time payments. Peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions are setting the stage for wider acceptance of paying bills and conducting commerce 24/7. Craig Ramsey, head of real-time ...
October 1, 2019There are 54 faster payment schemes globally, with more on the way. Craig Ramsey, head of real-time payments at ACI Worldwide, tells PYMNTS that speed will become the “new normal” for ...
September 10, 2019Canada’s Everlink Payment Services, a payment solution and service provider for banks, credit unions and small businesses, is strengthening its fraud controls for clients through a collaboration with ACI Worldwide.
In ...
July 31, 2019Mobile technology by payments provider ACI Worldwide is a crucial part of the Co-operative Group’s (Co-op) new pay-in-aisle app, the firm said in a July 31 press release.
One of the U.K.’s ...
July 1, 2019The digital transformation of India’s payments landscape is underway, through government mandate, and a slew of banking and FinTech players. Jeremy Wilmot, group president at ACI Worldwide, tells Karen Webster ...
June 25, 2019To allow businesses to send money to consumers’ bank accounts in real time using their debit cards, real-time electronic payment and banking solutions provider ACI Worldwide announced the rollout of ACI ...
May 30, 2019As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.”
Take a time machine and travel back about 15 years, and one will hear merchants ...
May 21, 2019ACI Worldwide, the global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced on Tuesday (May 21) that Transbank, the acquirer in Chile and an existing ACI customer, is now ...
April 17, 2019Fraud evolves as the bad guys do, trying to stay one step ahead of technology and risk management efforts. Jack Bloch, SVP SW engineering at ACI Worldwide, tells PYMNTS that ...
April 16, 2019From fuel pumps to convenience stores (C-stores), many consumers worry about the security of their personal financial information. An ACI Worldwide and YouGov survey, for instance, found that more than ...
April 5, 2019Payments messaging firm SWIFT announced Thursday (April 4) the establishment of an ISO 20022 working group to promote adoption of the payments messaging standard. But as the financial services industry ...
March 19, 2019ACI Worldwide, a real-time payment and banking company, has partnered with Solutions By Text, a Dallas-based automated texting company, to allow companies to receive payments through text, according to a ...
March 14, 2019The movement to bring blockchain to cross-border payments proceeds apace.
Might SWIFT be giving a nod, at least partially, toward the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT)? As noted by OracleTimes, ...
March 1, 2019The year 2019 is already shaping up as a big year for deal-making in financial services and payments. Western Union, of course, just sold Speedpay, its U.S. bill payments unit, ...
February 28, 2019ACI Worldwide has announced a deal with The Western Union Company that will see ACI acquire Speedpay, Western Union’s United States bill pay business, for $750 million in an all-cash ...
October 18, 2018SWIFT controversy over the messaging system’s place on the world stage continues, and U.S. sanctions toward Iran loom. Elsewhere, digital payments are on the rise, and will keep rising, but infrastructure ...
August 24, 2018Electronic payments company ACI Worldwide is integrating its technologies with SPAN Enterprises, a tax filing technology provider, to power tax payments for the fleet industry.
A press release issued Thursday (Aug. ...
May 1, 2018A new survey by ACI Worldwide and Ovum found evidence that financial institutions (FIs) are more willing to open up their data via API and are embracing real-time payments initiatives.
The ...
April 10, 2018High-profile and damaging payment data hacks in the U.S. are leading employers to limit their workers’ access to sensitive data, according to a new report from ACI Worldwide.
The company released ...
March 23, 2018ACI Worldwide, the payments company, announced Thursday (March 22) it has inked a strategic partnership with Shanghai-based bank card company UnionPay International.
A press release said that by connecting to ACI’s ...
March 14, 2018Banks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region expect real-time payments to come with some major benefits to their businesses, according to new analysis from ACI Worldwide and ...
February 7, 2018A new survey by ACI Worldwide and Mastercard Advisors showed that late payments on mortgages are reduced when convenient payment methods are present, according to a survey of 400 mortgage-holding U.S. ...
January 11, 2018ACI Worldwide, the real-time electronic payment and banking services company, announced news on Wednesday (Jan. 10) that its partnership with Klarna has been expanded, with Klarna tapping ACI’s UP eCommerce ...
November 27, 2017Singapore is separated from Malaysia by a 1,056-meter (or 0.65-mile) Johor-Singapore Causeway, yet crossing the narrow strip of water separating the city-state of Singapore and its 5.6 million residents from the nation of Malaysia and ...
October 11, 2017ACI Worldwide has unleashed its real-time payment solution for financial institutions (FIs).
The company announced news on Tuesday (Oct. 10) that its UP Real-Time Payments Solution has officially launched in an effort ...
August 21, 2017Stocks were muted in terms of gains in the past week, showing more momentum to the downside.
International and multicurrency payment processing firm Planet Payment was up approximately 2 percent, a ...
August 7, 2017Stock performance was decidedly down this past week, as earnings continued to factor into investors’ sentiments over the payments space.
The winners included global mobile capture and identity verification technologies provider Mitek Systems ...
June 29, 2017Ten years ago today, enthusiasts were waking up on the streets outside of Apple Stores nationwide in the hopes of getting their hands on the first-ever version of the iPhone. ...
June 27, 2017In the tech world, launches are happening every day.
From product releases to new companies and merger announcements, improvements are constantly being offered to enhance some aspect of consumer and vendor ...
June 27, 2017ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced the launch of Alipay in South Africa, via leading regional payment service provider Peach Payments.
Alipay is ...
Digital payment software and solutions firm ACI Worldwide will be working with Sri Lanka’s National Savings Bank to implement a new solution for mitigating fraud, a press release states.
The bank ...
