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ACI Worldwide, Inc. develops and supports electronic payments software used by banks, billers, merchants, community banks and credit unions. Company updates center on payments modernization, real-time payments, card processing, fraud and financial crime controls, and digital bill payment through businesses such as Payment Software and Biller.
Recurring developments include earnings releases, guidance updates, share repurchases, product launches for the cloud-native ACI Connetic platform, and collaborations tied to payment verification and real-time payment infrastructure. ACI also publishes research on payment adoption, biller modernization and regional instant-payment systems, including activity in Latin America and other global markets.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) analyzed 24.5 million transactions from 61 live‑event merchants and found World Cup‑related fraud risk rising.
Card‑not‑present attempted fraud during Copa America 2024 reached 4% of transaction value, about 3.6x the 2023 baseline, with risks starting weeks before and continuing after tournaments.
Alternative payment methods showed 0.57% attempted fraud versus 3.97% for cards, while APM adoption rose from 7% in 2022 to 24.8% in 2026. Fraudsters favored high‑value orders (~$405 vs $270 legitimate) and domestic cards (3.2% vs 1.4% cross‑border), amid thousands of fake World Cup‑themed domains.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) will power Rabobank’s Wero instant payments as the Dutch bank migrates iDEAL, the Netherlands’ most widely used online payment method, to the EPI-backed Wero platform.
The ACI real-time payments platform will process SEPA Instant payments, with migration expected to complete by end of 2027.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) has joined the European Payments Initiative as a principal member and will integrate EPI’s Wero digital wallet into its Payments Orchestration Platform.
This collaboration lets European merchants and financial intermediaries offer Wero-based instant account-to-account payments, aligning with EU Instant Payments Regulation and supporting growth in real-time transactions.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) announced that South Africa-based Kwik Payments has gone live on the ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, supporting PSP expansion across South Africa and wider Africa.
The platform targets >20% conversion uplifts, faster go-lives in 1–2 weeks, AI fraud checks on 1,000+ data points, and up to 80% lower manual reconciliation effort.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) extended its nearly 20-year partnership with UBX Tanzania, the national payment service provider powering 18 banks, 250+ ATMs and 1.3 million monthly transactions.
The upgraded, PCI-compliant platform is projected to nearly double payment-processing capacity over five years and enable new services, including direct merchant acquiring and digital wallets.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and Security Bank Philippines won The Asian Banker’s 2026 Best Payment Technology Initiative in Asia Pacific for a bank-wide payments modernization project.
The unified, ISO 20022-native, cloud-ready platform increased domestic payment transaction volumes by 35% year-on-year, tripled processing capacity, and achieved 99.99% uptime. InstaPay went live within 10 months and scaled to over 10 million transactions per month, while consolidating low- and high-value real-time payments, automation, monitoring, and reporting into a single orchestration layer.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) announced that senior management will attend three upcoming investor conferences in May and June 2026.
Executives, including the President and CEO, CFO, and SVP, will meet investors at events hosted by J.P. Morgan, Baird, and D.A. Davidson across Boston, New York City, and Nashville.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) reported Q1 2026 revenue of $426 million (up 8% reported, 6% constant currency) and GAAP net income of $38 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $105 million (up 12%) and adjusted EPS was $0.61 (up 20%). The company repurchased 1.5 million shares for $65 million and raised full‑year 2026 guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA.
ACI Worldwide (NYSE:ACIW) commissioned a Cebr study forecasting that real-time payments will boost formal GDP and financial inclusion in Peru, Chile and Argentina by 2028. Key projections include $19.3B additional GDP for Argentina, $740M for Chile and $376M for Peru, plus millions gaining formal accounts.
The report cites Brazil and Colombia as regional benchmarks and notes forecasts are model-based using 2024 data and should be interpreted as indicative rather than exact.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) integrated Kinexys Liink’s Confirm application into its Fraud and Financial Crime solution to embed account and payee verification directly into payment workflows. The integration supports validation across 70+ countries and multiple payment rails, aiming to reduce misdirected payments and strengthen real-time payments fraud controls.
The collaboration positions banks to apply consistent controls across ACH, wire, and instant payments within ACI Connetic’s cloud-native platform while addressing rising authorized push payment losses.