ACI Worldwide Leads Global Conversation about Immediate Payments

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment solutions for banks and retailers will host a series of executive roundtable discussions in November about immediate payments and the issues, implications and opportunities for commerce and banks.

Governments as well as new and traditional industry players are looking to introduce new payments standards and capabilities to spur economic growth, better serve consumers and commercial customers, and fuel competition and innovation within the financial services marketplace.

The momentum behind immediate payments is growing globally. Economies including the UK, Singapore, South Africa and others that have already implemented this type of scheme are seeing exciting results and new opportunities attributable to their moves to faster payments. Over the past decade, ACI has played a central role in facilitating the growth of immediate payments worldwide, connecting banks to the UK Faster Payments scheme; over 60 percent of the current UK Faster Payments Service direct members rely on ACI solutions to connect to the scheme.

In the last year, ACI has hosted immediate payments roundtable events in key markets all over the world, including Paris, Milan, London, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. Given the momentum building in the U.S. and Canada around faster payments, ACI is now bringing the conversation to North America via three executive roundtables.

Featured immediate payments panel participants include Jan Estep, president and CEO of NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association; Robert Flynn, managing director, Accenture Payment Services; Michael Hoganson, director, Next Generation Clearing and Settlement, Canadian Payment Association and Paul Thomalla, senior vice president, Corporate Relations and Development, ACI Worldwide.

ACI experts, customers and industry leaders will convene around immediate payments at the following events:

Toronto, Ontario, Toronto Stock Exchange
Thursday, November 5
9-11am

San Francisco, California, The Fairmont Hotel
Monday, November 9
12-2pm

Charlotte, North Carolina, The Ritz Carlton
Tuesday, November 10
10am-12pm

About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company, powers electronic payments and banking for more than 5,600 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors around the world. ACI software processes $13 trillion each day in payments and securities transactions for more than 300 of the leading global retailers, and 18 of the top 20 banks worldwide. Through our comprehensive suite of software products and hosted services, we deliver a broad range of solutions for payment processing; card and merchant management; online banking; mobile, branch and voice banking; fraud detection; trade finance; and electronic bill presentment and payment. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com. You can also find us on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.

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