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    Did ACI’s BanKo Real-Time Payments Deal Just Shift ACI Worldwide’s (ACIW) Investment Narrative?

    Simply Wall St·12/25/2025 11:22:55
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    • In December 2025, BPI Direct BanKo, Inc. announced it had chosen ACI Worldwide’s issuing and acquiring platform to overhaul its payment infrastructure, enabling real-time, omnichannel transaction processing across ATMs, POS, and mobile while aligning with evolving regulatory standards.
    • This agreement highlights how ACI’s modular, open architecture and security-focused payments technology is becoming a core backbone for financial digitalization in the Philippines, supporting BanKo’s plan to replace its existing switch and roll out new services at scale by the end of the first quarter of 2026.
    • We’ll now examine how powering BanKo’s real-time, omnichannel payments modernization could influence ACI Worldwide’s broader investment narrative and growth profile.

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    ACI Worldwide Investment Narrative Recap

    To own ACI Worldwide, you need to believe that its real time, scalable payments software will keep winning long duration bank, merchant, and biller contracts despite rising competition and technology shifts. The BanKo deal modestly reinforces the near term catalyst of adoption for ACI’s modern platforms, but does not fundamentally change the key risk that heavier investment in next generation technology could pressure margins if growth or pricing were to soften.

    Among recent announcements, the October 2025 Prosa upgrade in Mexico stands out in relation to BanKo’s choice, as both showcase ACI software handling large transaction volumes with high availability across multiple channels. Together, they give investors more real world evidence of ACI’s ability to support complex, high throughput payment environments, which ties directly into the growth catalyst around Connetic and its broader real time and cloud native capabilities.

    Yet this focus on innovation also brings a risk that investors should be aware of, particularly if required R&D spend continues to climb faster than...

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    ACI Worldwide's narrative projects $2.0 billion revenue and $277.3 million earnings by 2028.

    Uncover how ACI Worldwide's forecasts yield a $64.60 fair value, a 32% upside to its current price.

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    Eight members of the Simply Wall St Community value ACI Worldwide between US$37.66 and US$77 per share, reflecting a wide spread of expectations. When you compare that dispersion with the growth catalyst tied to Connetic and real time payments adoption, it underlines how differently investors can frame the same opportunity and why exploring several alternative viewpoints can be useful.

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