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ACI Worldwide and Cognizant Test BASE24-eps on AWS

ACI Worldwide (ACIW) and Cognizant (CTSH) announced the results of joint performance testing of BASE24-eps, a foundational component of ACI's card acquiring and issuing solutions, on AWS. Under simulated point-of-sale load, BASE24-eps sustained more than double its target transaction load for 30 minutes with no failed transactions. Across the full test, it processed more than 4.6 million transactions without a single failure. For banks, the case for the cloud comes down to scaling with growth, absorbing volume spikes without buying hardware for the peak, managing cost and keeping tight security and control over systems their customers rely on every second. This testing adds to the evidence that BASE24-eps, which already processes card payments for institutions worldwide, delivers the performance banks count on, now on AWS. The common assumption is that moving card processing to the cloud means adopting a newly built platform, a multi-year program that brings its own cost and risk. This testing put BASE24-eps, software banks already rely on, onto managed AWS services. Card processing runs on peaks, from holiday shopping to payday. Running at more than double its target leaves room to spare when volume surges. The environment ran on Amazon EC2 with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, a managed database service, and observability was instrumented to the OpenTelemetry standard and monitored through Amazon CloudWatch. Operations teams could watch transaction flow, system health and throughput in real time. Cognizant, a long-time trusted partner for ACI, ran the program end-to-end in a non-production environment, designing the target architecture, provisioning the environment and deploying BASE24-eps using an AWS account operated by ACI. Installation and deployment were automated, which cut the manual work of standing up the software in a new environment.

ACI Worldwide Expands ACI Connetic with Cloud-Native Financial Messaging Capability

ACI Worldwide announced the expansion of ACI Connetic with a powerful cloud-native Financial Messaging capability, designed to help banks modernize payments infrastructure, simplify complexity, and scale real-time processing across domestic and cross-border networks. ACI's advanced financial messaging technology delivers cloud-native, intelligent messaging that transforms how banks manage payments and other systemic messages across account-to-account rails. By standardizing, enriching and contextualizing payment data in real time, the solution helps banks build the high-quality data foundation needed for intelligent payments operations, advanced analytics and emerging AI-powered use cases.

ACI Worldwide Acquires Cranium Ventures

ACI Worldwide announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cranium Ventures. The technology will be added to ACI Connetic for Cards, which ACI launched in March 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. ACI will support Cranium Ventures' existing SYNAP customers following close. "Card processing is one of the hardest modernization problems left in payments, and we have been working on it for years," said Thomas Warsop, President and Chief Executive Officer, ACI Worldwide. "Financial institutions need more than a switch. They need intelligence embedded throughout the payment lifecycle, and that is what we built ACI Connetic to deliver. ACI Connetic for Cards is already in market, and Cranium Ventures moves that work forward faster. It will further strengthen our competitive position in cloud-native switching and payment solutions, consistent with our focus on expanding our strategic growth platform."