Press Release

(New York, N.Y. – August 2, 2011) – ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq: ACIW), a leading international provider of payment systems, today announced the launch of ACI Financial Crime Consultancy Services, a series of structured consultancy packages designed to improve the results achieved through the use of ACI Proactive Risk Manager™, and optimize financial institutions’ fraud management operations.

The new packaged offerings give financial institutions various programs of strategic, expert-services support from ACI’s technical, analytical and business consultants as part of their initiatives against fraud and financial crime.

The consultancy packages offer a broad spectrum of services including setting up, staffing and operating a new fraud management practice; reviewing fraud operations; identifying areas for improvement; and optimizing the performance of automated fraud monitoring systems. Services are designed to help users maintain high levels of protection against an ever-changing threat profile, and enable them to reduce costs associated with endemic fraud.

ACI Financial Crime Consultancy makes each service available as part of a structured package of pre-defined engagements, activities and deliverables. The packages are designed to enable clients to select the end-to-end solution that is most appropriate for their particular fraud management requirements and take advantage of ACI's global perspective and experience across many regions.

Krisiti Estay, AVP Check Card Supervisor from Hancock Bank said, “In our experience, we found that the consultancy services offered by ACI can be invaluable to end users of Proactive Risk Manager, especially when they are strategically timed at certain intervals. Our consultant personalized the package to our meet our specific business needs and helped us improve our rule-writing and false positive rate. We would definitely recommend a consultancy package to other Proactive Risk Manager users in order to improve their fraud monitoring ability.”  

Shesh Gorur, VP product line manager at ACI Worldwide says: “We have created these structured packages to facilitate access to our consultancy services and to make it easier for our clients to bring the expertise and experience of ACI’s consultants into their anti-fraud operations. Fighting financial crime requires a holistic approach, in which people, processes and technology all play a role. By structuring our consultancy services into clearly defined packages, we have ensured that all of the components necessary to create an effective and efficient solution for addressing financial crime are available to clients. It also enables them to plan an ongoing program of improvements to their anti-fraud measures and allocate budget accordingly.”

Proactive Risk Manager, ACI’s comprehensive fraud detection solution, combines strategic, user-defined rules, a powerful neural network technology and custom modeling techniques, to reduce an organization’s risk exposure. ACI Financial Crime Consultancy is provided by ACI’s financial crime consultants, analytics scientists and technical consultants.

For more information on Proactive Risk Manager please go to www.aciworldwide.com/proactiveriskmanager.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide powers electronic payments for more than 800 financial institutions, retailers and processors around the world, with its broad and integrated suite of electronic payment software. More than 90 billion times each year, ACI’s solutions process consumer payments. On an average day, ACI software manages more than US$12 trillion in wholesale payments. And for more than 160 organizations worldwide, ACI software helps to protect their customers from financial crime. To learn more about ACI and understand why we are trusted globally, please visit www.aciworldwide.com. You can also find us on www.paymentsinsights.com or on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.

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Catherine Eyres
ACI Worldwide
+44 (0) 1923 812741
press@aciworldwide.com