ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, announced today that Exeter Finance Corp. has selected its UP Bill Payment Solution to simplify multiple bill payment services and dramatically reduce payment processing costs.

Exeter is a specialty auto finance company based in Irving, Texas that partners with thousands of franchised auto dealers throughout the country to make car ownership a reality for many thousands of consumers. After embarking on a broad technology search to streamline its processes, Exeter chose ACI’s comprehensive and integrated electronic bill payment solution, which delivers the organization loan servicing simplicity and lower cost debit card payments.

“Exeter selected ACI Worldwide to drive our electronic payment processing efficiency and is excited to enhance our payment processing to meet all of our customers’ needs,” said Brett Bradley, assistant vice president, Treasury, Exeter Finance Corp.

“More auto finance companies are turning to ACI as more of their consumers are electing to pay with a debit card. In fact, we’ve doubled the number of debit card payments we process for auto finance companies over the past year,” said Mike Braatz, senior vice president, ACI Worldwide. “We provide these companies a flexible and scalable bill payment solution and long track record of success.”

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company, powers electronic payments and banking for more than 5,600 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors around the world. ACI software processes $13 trillion each day in payments and securities transactions for more than 300 of the leading global retailers, and 18 of the world’s 20 largest banks. Through our comprehensive suite of software products and hosted services, we deliver a broad range of solutions for payment processing; card and merchant management; online banking; mobile, branch and voice banking; fraud detection; trade finance; and electronic bill presentment and payment. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com. You can also find us on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.

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