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ACI Innovation Awards recognize leading organizations across the globe for their unrivaled successes in "universal" payments

NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced an open call for submissions to the 2015 ACI Innovation Awards. Now in its sixth year, the ACI Innovation Awards (formerly called ACI Excellence Awards) recognize leading financial institutions, processors, retailers and billers from around the world. These organizations are at the forefront of industry-wide innovation, delivering the best in payments and banking while serving their clients in unprecedented ways.

The Innovation Awards encompass categories to meet the many ways in which ACI customers utilize its award-winning Universal Payment (UP) offerings. This year's categories include:

• Retail banking solutions

• Wholesale banking solutions

• Retailer solutions

• Billers solutions

• Risk management solutions

"Innovation keeps us at the leading edge of payments," said Craig Saks, executive vice president and chief product officer, ACI Worldwide. "We closely collaborate with our customers to deliver transformative solutions that empower them to thrive; and the ACI Innovation Awards are a fantastic opportunity to showcase the best of the best."

Winners are selected by a panel of esteemed industry analysts and influencers. For additional information, to see distinguished past winners and to submit an entry to the ACI Innovation Awards, please visit www.aciworldwide.com/awards. The deadline for all submissions is November 4, 2014.

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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