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ACI Excellence Awards recognize customers worldwide for their successes in electronic payments and banking

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading provider of payment systems, announced today an open call for submissions to the 2014 ACI Excellence Awards. Now in its fifth year, the Excellence Awards recognize banks, processors and retailers for new, innovative and transformative implementations of ACI solutions. Winners are selected by a panel of leading industry influencers.

ACI has expanded the number of categories for the upcoming Excellence Awards to meet the many ways in which customers utilize its award-winning offerings. This year's categories include:

• Enterprise Payments
• Retail Payments
• Wholesale Payments
• Mobile Banking and Payments
• Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment
• Online Banking
• Merchant Retail
• Payments Fraud Management
• Product and Service Innovation
• Customer Experience
• Operational Excellence
• Other (innovative projects that may not fit into one category or may fit into multiple)
• Innovator of the Year

For additional information and to submit an entry to the ACI Excellence Awards, please click here or visit www.aciworldwide.com/awards. As ACI customers have accomplished myriad successes over the years, the company has added the new "ACI Excellence Awards Hall of Fame" highlighting previous winners. The deadline for all submissions is October 30, 2013. Semi-finalists will be announced in December 2013 and winners will be announced in January 2014.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide powers electronic payments and banking for more than 2,600 financial institutions, retailers and processors around the world. ACI software enables $13 trillion in payments each day, processing transactions for more than 250 of the leading retailers globally and 18 of the world's 20 largest banks. Through our integrated suite of software products and hosted services, we deliver a broad range of solutions for payments 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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ACI Worldwide
Dan Ring, 781-370-3694
Dan.Ring@aciworldwide.com

Source: ACI Worldwide

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