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ACI Connetic Accelerates Global Adoption as UK Banks Can Now Unite SWIFT, CHAPS and Faster Payments on One Cloud-Native Platform
OMAHA, Neb., February 17, 2026--ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced a major step forward in the UK’s payments modernization journey as a leading UK retail bank chooses ACI Connetic — the industry’s first unified, cloud-native platform — for deployment. Powered by Microsoft's cloud capabilities, this milestone demonstrates strong industry confidence in ACI’s next-generation platform and its ability to empower financial institutions to
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