ACI and InterSwitch East Africa

ACI Worldwide and Interswitch are working together to bring cutting-edge payments technology to over 21 Sub-Saharan African countries.

ACI Worldwide and Interswitch have strengthened their long-standing partnership to drive payments modernization across Sub-Saharan Africa. This collaboration, which has evolved over 20 years, now positions Interswitch as a strategic partner rather than just a reseller.

The partnership focuses on integrating ACI’s Enterprise Payments Platform into Interswitch’s technology stack. This platform includes solutions for issuing, low-value real-time payments, acquiring, ATM and self-service banking, and fraud management. This integration aims to help banks and financial institutions in Africa modernize their payments infrastructure, respond to regulatory changes, and meet evolving customer demands.

This collaboration is expected to significantly enhance digital payment capabilities across the region, fostering financial inclusion and supporting the rapid growth of digital transactions.

Interswitch is a leading technology-driven company focused on the digitization of payments in Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Founded in 2002, Interswitch disrupted the traditional cash-based payments value chain in Nigeria by supporting the introduction of electronic payments processing and switching services.

Today, Interswitch is a leading player with critical mass in Nigeria’s developing financial ecosystem and is active across the payments value chain, providing a full suite of omni-channel payment solutions. Interswitch’s vision is to make payments a seamless part of everyday life in Africa, and its mission is to create transaction solutions that enable individuals and communities to prosper across Africa. Interswitch’s broad network and robust payments platform have been instrumental to the development of the Nigerian payments ecosystem and provide Interswitch with the infrastructure to expand across Africa.