NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that it has officially joined the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization that seeks to enable Americans to safely and securely pay anyone, anywhere, at any time with near-immediate funds availability. As a member of the council, ACI supports its aim of facilitating faster payments ubiquity in the U.S.
A recognized expert in faster payments, ACI has been a global leader in payments technology for more than 40 years. The company currently supports 18 real-time domestic schemes around the world, including Zelle and TCH in the U.S., and will support FedNow as it moves toward production. ACI provides processing for approximately 50 percent of the UK’s Faster Payments (UKFP), the core processing infrastructure for Malaysia’s Real-Time Retail Payments Platform (RPP), and STET’s real-time payments platform for PSPs in Europe. Additionally, ACI has customers using UP Real-Time Payments to access Singapore FAST and the Australian NPP (New Payments Platform). ACI also serves on the ISO 20022 Real-Time Payments Group and the EPC Instant Payments Technology Group.