ACI Worldwide
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: ACIW |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Founded | Omaha, Nebraska, United States (1975) |
| Headquarters | Naples, FL, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Philip G. Heasley (CEO) |
| Products |
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| Revenue |
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 US$123.0 million (2013)[1] | |
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US$63.9 million (2013)[1] | |
| Total assets |
US$1.68 billion (2013)[1] |
| Total equity |
US$544 million (2013)[1] |
Number of employees | 4,329 (2013) |
| Website |
ACIWorldwide |
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) is a payment systems company headquartered in Naples, Florida. ACI's products and services are designed to facilitate electronic payments and are used principally by financial institutions, retailers and electronic payment processors. ACI's portfolio of products generally addresses four primary market segments:
- retail banking, including debit and credit card issuers;
- wholesale banking, including corporate cash management and treasury management operations;
- retailers;
- bill pay solutions.
History
ACI was founded in Omaha, Nebraska as Applied Communications Inc in 1975 to develop software for communications applications making use of the new NonStop computers from the then Tandem Computers. Many early projects involved building systems to handle ATMs, front ending the bank core banking systems, which led to the launch of the first product, BASE24, in 1982.
Over time BASE24 was expanded to service transactions from other channels such as POS terminals and branch systems. And the product portfolio grew to cover more functions around card transactions such as clearing and settlement and fraud detection. The hardware utilised for these products was also expanded to include suppliers including IBM, HP, Stratus and Sun Microsystems.
In the 1990s ACI's product range was extended to cover wholesale banking payments with solutions for ACH transactions and wire transfers leading to the acquisition of IntraNet in 1998,[2] which expanded the product range with the Money Transfer System product.
Since 1995, ACI has been publicly traded on NASDAQ, initially under the name Transaction Systems Architects (TSA), and since July 2007 under the name ACI Worldwide, Inc. (ACIW).[3] Prior to that ACI had periods under US West and Tandem ownership and as a private company.
In November 2009 it was announced ACI would buy Euronet Essentis to expand card issuing and merchant management capabilities[4] and in March 2011 agreement was reached to acquire ISD Corporation to broaden payment product offerings for retailers.[5]
ACI purchased S1 Corporation in February 2012.[6][7]
Acquisitions
August 7, 1998 | IntraNet, Inc.[8] was acquired by ACI Worldwide, Inc. IntraNet, Inc. manufactures software systems to facilitate electronic payments.
January 11, 2001 | Transaction System Architects Inc. completed the acquisition of MessagingDirect,[9] for approximately 3.3 million shares of Transaction Systems' Class A Common Stock.
June 29, 2005 | Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of S2 Systems.[10]
October 5, 2005 | Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. announced a restructured, highly focused organization, merging ACI, Insession and IntraNet [11][12] into one operating unit under the ACI Worldwide name.
August 8, 2006 | ACI Worldwide acquired P&H Solutions Inc.,[13] provider of a Web-based corporate cash management solution.
February 7, 2007 | Visual WEB Solutions Inc.,[14] a financial banking application solutions company was acquired by ACI Worldwide.
November 17, 2009 | ACI bought Euronet Essentis[15] to expand card issuing and merchant management capabilities
March 21, 2011 | ACI Worldwide, Inc. announced that it had acquired ISD Corporation,[16] provider of secure payment management software and solutions for retailers in the U.S. and Canada, to broaden the functionality of its payments solutions for retailers.
February 13, 2012 | ACI Worldwide, Inc. acquired S1 Corporation[17] to broaden its suite of payment offerings for financial organizations, processors and retailers.
March 11, 2013 | Online Resources Corporation,[18] provider of online banking and full service bill pay solutions, was acquired by ACI Worldwide Inc., adding Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) solutions as a strategic part of ACI’s Universal Payments portfolio.
November 5, 2013 | ACI Worldwide completed its purchase of Official Payments Holdings,[19] a seller of electronic bill payment technology that processed about 20 million payments, worth more than $9 billion, annually.
July 21, 2014 | ACI Worldwide, Inc. announced a definitive transaction agreement to acquire ReD.[20][21]
August 12, 2014 | ACI Worldwide, Inc. completed the acquisition of Retail Decisions (ReD),[22]
November 4, 2015 | ACI Worldwide, Inc. completed the acquisition of PAY.ON who provide white-label hosted payment gateway services,[23]
Services
- Retail banking, including debit and credit card issuers
- Wholesale banking, including corporate cash management and treasury management operations
- Retailers
- Bill Pay Solutions
Management
- Philip G. Heasley, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Scott Behrens, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
- Dennis Byrnes, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer & Secretary
- Tony Scotto, Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer
- David N. Morem, Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
- Carl Gustin, Executive Vice President, Marketing
- Dan Frate, Executive Vice President, Global Maintenance
- Craig Saks, Group President, Strategic Products & Global Markets
- Carolyn Homberger, Group President, ACI Hosted Solutions
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "ACI Worldwide, Inc. Form 10-K Period Ending December 31, 2013" (PDF).
- ↑ "ACI corporate banking division reverts to IntraNet brand name". Finextra. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
- ↑ "TSA changes name to ACI Worldwide". ATM Marketplace. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
- ↑ "ACI to buy Euronet's Essentis unit". Finextra.
- ↑ "ACI Worldwide acquires ISD Corp.". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 2011-06-23.
- ↑ Bloomberg BusinessWeek article. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q4TDGO0.htm
- ↑ Reuters article. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/s1-aciworldwide-idUSL3E7L31MB20111003
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=982654
- ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Transaction+Systems+Architects+Completes+Acquisition+of...-a069029140
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050629005925/en/Transaction-Systems-Architects-Acquire-S2-Systems-Accretive#.UvUlSUJdWip
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20051005005862/en/Transaction-Systems-Architects-Combine-Business-Units#.UvUjVUJdWip
- ↑ http://www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid=6242
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=104607
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=6324527
- ↑ http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2009/11/17/409319/178591/en/ACI-Worldwide-to-Acquire-Euronet-Essentis.html
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
- ↑ http://www.thepaypers.com/payments-general/aci-worldwide-completes-acquisition-of-s1-corporation/746719-27
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/ACIW.O/key-developments/article/2710230
- ↑ http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_215/aci-worldwide-closes-official-payments-deal-1063455-1.html
- ↑ http://www.aciworldwide.com/news-and-events/press-releases/aci-worldwide-to-acquire-red.aspx
- ↑ http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=26284
- ↑ http://www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid=56374
- ↑ http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/aci-goes-x-border-with-pay-on-acquisition/