rewrite this title Solaris Partners with ACI Worldwide to Unify Payments – Finovate

Paytech ACI Worldwide announced that Berlin-based embedded finance platform Solaris SE will consolidate all SEPA payments onto ACI Worldwide’s ACI Connetic payment hub.

Unveiled earlier this year, ACI Connetic is a unified solution that integrates account-to-account (A2A) payments, card processing, and fraud prevention within a single, cloud-native architecture.

Founded in 1975, ACI Worldwide has been a Finovate alum since 2011.

Just months after launching its centralized payment hub, ACI Connetic, ACI Worldwide has announced that European embedded finance platform, Solaris SE, will consolidate all SEPA payments onto ACI’s cloud-native payments solution.

“ACI Connetic represents a significant step-change in our commitment to supporting financial institutions as they navigate the complexities of the global payments landscape,” ACI Worldwide CEO and President Tom Warsop said. “In an environment of increasing payments complexity and regulatory demands, ACI Connetic delivers the agility, resilience, and innovation required to drive digital transformations, sustainable growth, and long-term success.”

ACI Connetic is a unified solution that integrates account-to-account (A2A) payments, card processing, and AI-powered fraud prevention within a single, modular, cloud-native architecture. ACI Connetic helps financial institutions simplify their operations, innovate faster, and meet emerging regulatory and compliance requirements with greater agility and less cost.

Solaris SE joins a number of financial services companies around the world—including leading clearing and settlement systems—that are integrating their payment capabilities into ACI Connetic. These early adopters include the Bank of England, Swift, the US Federal Reserve, and The Clearing House. The company’s partnership announcement with ACI Worldwide comes at a time when the benefits of centralized payment processing are becoming more apparent to both financial services analysts and financial institutions.

“Migrating our instant payments capabilities to ACI Connetic marks a key milestone in Solaris’ digital transformation and growth journey,” Solaris SE CEO Carsten Höltkemeyer said. “It future-proofs our payments infrastructure, accelerates service innovation, and enhances the value we deliver to partners and their customers across Europe.”

Based in Berlin, Germany, Solaris SE was originally established as a part of incubator and accelerator, Finleap. As Solarisbank, the company secured its German banking license in 2016. The company rebranded to Solaris in 2022, a move which coincided with the firm changing its legal status from a German AG (Aktiengesellschaft) to an SE (Societas Europea or European company). Today, Solaris SE offers a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that enables businesses—from SMEs to multinational corporations—to embed a wide range of financial solutions from digital banking and payments to cards and lending.

A Finovate alum since 2011 and an alum of our developers conference FinDEVr Silicon Valley, ACI Worldwide offers solutions that power intelligent, real-time, payments orchestration to enable banks, billers, and merchants to deploy modern payment technologies seamlessly and securely. The company serves the top 10 banks worldwide; enables more than 80,000 merchants directly and via PSPs; and provides thousands of businesses and organizations with billpay solutions. Founded in 1975, ACI Worldwide now processes 25 billion cloud transactions and more than 225 billion consumer transactions annually. The company is headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska.

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