ACI Worldwide announced that the European Payments Council has selected ACI's Daniele Astarita, senior principal solution consultant, for a two-year membership to the Scheme Technical Player Multi-Stakeholder Group (STP MSG), beginning January 1, 2024. Since its inception, the European Payments Council (EPC) Scheme Technical player Multi-Stakeholder Group has offered full support to the EPC, contributing to the advancement of instant payment scheme developments, and offering insight on topics such as diversity and inclusion, barriers to adoption and rollout, and successful instant payment use cases. This will be Astarita's third time serving in the group.