ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time digital payment software and solutions, has announced that EFT Corporation, a major payment solution provider in Africa, is utilising the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform to expand its payments offerings and better serve its customers across Africa.

EFT Corporation, a longstanding ACI customer, offers end-to-end payment solutions for large retail and financial institutions across Africa.

The organization has more than 80 clients and a presence in 18 countries. With the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform, EFT Corporation will enable its customers to deliver secure and seamless payment services across all channels to its large African customer base.

ETF aims “to future-proof our business and support our growth plans across Africa”

Stephen Enderby, CEO, EFT Corporation, said:

“Today’s expanding payments ecosystem comprises more channels, devices and payment types, which requires seamless connectivity and faster time to market, as well as flexibility and scalability. Utilising the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform will help us to future-proof our business and support our growth plans across Africa.”

Dan van der Westhuizen, director, Africa, ACI Worldwide, said:

“Financial institutions and merchants need to move quickly to succeed in this challenging and dynamic environment, without compromising security and resilience of their core banking systems.

“Continuing its long-standing cooperation with ACI, EFT Corporation will be strongly placed to grow its market share, leveraging more of our device and channel-agnostic payments technologies as the needs of its customer base evolve.”

ACI platform is built on open service-oriented architecture for robust payments orchestration

The ACI Enterprise Payments Platform is a sophisticated enterprise payments solution for acquiring and authorising transactions across all digital payment channels.

It is built on open service-oriented architecture for robust payments orchestration. The solution delivers 24×7 secure payment capabilities and is currently used by 19 of the world’s top 20 banks.