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Growing demand for Universal Payments-enabled solutions thrusts ACI into the top 20 in 2014 FinTech Forward Rankings

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced its ranking in the 2014 FinTech Forward 100, a listing of the world's top providers of technology to the financial industry. Compiled jointly by American Banker and BAI, ACI is ranked 20th among companies judged according to their global revenues.

This ranking comes on the heels of other recent global corporate recognition, including:

• Forbes' annual list of America's Best Performing Small Companies, in which ACI was ranked #45, up two places from last year
• IDC Financial Insights' 2014 FinTech Rankings, an annual global listing of the top financial technology vendors that derive more than one third of their revenue from this industry, in which ACI was ranked #20, up four places from last year
• IT market researcher Apps Run the Cloud's listing of Cloud Top 500 Applications Vendors, in which ACI was ranked #36

"This latest industry recognition further demonstrates our Universal Payments value proposition—orchestrating all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any currency and any network," said Dan Frate, Group President, Strategic Products & Global Markets, ACI Worldwide. "As the payments space continues its rapid evolution, more financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors from around the globe are turning to our UP-enabled offerings to effectively address this change."

A complete listing of FinTech Forward-ranked companies is available at
www.AmericanBanker.com/FinTech-Forward.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, a Universal Payments company, powers electronic payments and banking for more than 5,000 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors around the world. ACI software processes $13 trillion each day in payments and securities transactions for more than 250 of the leading global retailers, and 21 of the world's 25 largest banks. 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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Media Contact:
ACI Worldwide
Dan Ring, 781-370-3600
dan.ring@aciworldwide.com

Source: ACI Worldwide

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