ANNUAL REPORT 2014 GIVES POWER to CUSTOMERS Processing Transactions for More Than 300 Leading Global Retailers 18 of the World’S 20 Largest Banks
ANNUAL REPORT 2014 GIVES POWER TO CUSTOMERS Processing transactions for more than 300 leading global retailers 18 of the world’s 20 largest banks Over $13 trillion per day in payments and securities transactions More than 125 billion consumer transactions every year 5,600 financial institution, retailer, biller and processor customers globally “ IF MONEY MAKES THREE OR FOUR STOPS ON ITS WAY TO GETTING COMPLETED, THAT MEANS IT HAS THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WHERE IT CAN BE STOLEN. IF IT GOES POINT TO POINT TO GET CLEARED, YOU ELIMINATE THE PLACES IT CAN BE STOLEN .” Phil Heasley, CEO and President, ACI Worldwide Interviewed on CNBC Nightly Business Report, March 12, 2014 — ACI’s Disruption Opportunity Summit FELLOW SHAREHOLDERS 2014 was a year of disruption across the global payments The sense of urgency in addressing eCommerce security issues industry. The internet and mobile device ubiquity brought with is high across the globe. In particular, it is exacerbated in the them new opportunities for real-time, any-to-any commerce, U.S. where the rollout of the EMV standard is expected to drive and non-traditional competitors challenged established more fraud into the online channel, as it has in other markets payment schemes. Consumers and businesses alike continued and regions. Card-not-present (CNP) transactions, which are to demand immediacy and flexibility when conducting seen often in eCommerce, are not protected by EMV, and will financial transactions, expecting seamless experiences from likely experience an increase in fraud. With the ReD acquisition, laptop to mobile to brick-and-mortar business. At the same ACI strengthened its leadership position in the fast-growing time, our customers — financial institutions, processors, payments risk management space, and now serves issuers, retailers and billers — struggled with balancing the ongoing merchant acquirers, retailers and commercial banks as they pressures and costs of fraud prevention, regulatory address disruption in the eCommerce market.
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