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ACI Worldwide collaborates with Swift ledger transactions
25 September 2026 US
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ACI Worldwide has announced that it is bringing intelligent routing for Swift ledger transactions to ACI Connetic, its cloud-native payments hub.
The capability will allow banks to process tokenised deposit payments alongside traditional payment types using the same operational controls, workflows, and infrastructure, eliminating the need for separate digital asset payment operations.
Swift announced its blockchain-based ledger last year and has since confirmed it is ready for initial use, with 17 banks across six continents piloting use cases.
The ledger creates a way for banks to move tokenised deposits across borders, outside of a single institution, and beyond traditional operating hours.
The infrastructure is arriving quickly, but many institutions have yet to fit these payments into day-to-day operations.
ACI Connetic will bring Swift ledger transactions into the same payments environment banks already use to route, monitor, control, and reconcile payments at scale.
ACI Connetic unifies payment types, payment rails, and operational controls on a single cloud-native platform, so banks can originate, route, and manage tokenised deposit payments alongside traditional payment flows through a single integration.
Using bank and customer defined rules, the platform automatically selects the most appropriate clearing and settlement path, giving banks the flexibility to balance speed, cost, availability, and customer expectations, while maintaining consistent controls and visibility across the payment lifecycle, says the firm.
Craig Ramsey, senior vice president and head of Account-to-Account Payments at ACI Worldwide, says: “Digital assets should extend a bank’s payment capabilities, not force it to build a second payment operation.
“Banks need a practical way to operationalise tokenised deposits at scale using the people, controls and processes they already trust.
“With ACI Connetic, payments orchestrated through Swift’s ledger can be managed alongside other payment flows within a common operational framework.”
The capability will allow banks to process tokenised deposit payments alongside traditional payment types using the same operational controls, workflows, and infrastructure, eliminating the need for separate digital asset payment operations.
Swift announced its blockchain-based ledger last year and has since confirmed it is ready for initial use, with 17 banks across six continents piloting use cases.
The ledger creates a way for banks to move tokenised deposits across borders, outside of a single institution, and beyond traditional operating hours.
The infrastructure is arriving quickly, but many institutions have yet to fit these payments into day-to-day operations.
ACI Connetic will bring Swift ledger transactions into the same payments environment banks already use to route, monitor, control, and reconcile payments at scale.
ACI Connetic unifies payment types, payment rails, and operational controls on a single cloud-native platform, so banks can originate, route, and manage tokenised deposit payments alongside traditional payment flows through a single integration.
Using bank and customer defined rules, the platform automatically selects the most appropriate clearing and settlement path, giving banks the flexibility to balance speed, cost, availability, and customer expectations, while maintaining consistent controls and visibility across the payment lifecycle, says the firm.
Craig Ramsey, senior vice president and head of Account-to-Account Payments at ACI Worldwide, says: “Digital assets should extend a bank’s payment capabilities, not force it to build a second payment operation.
“Banks need a practical way to operationalise tokenised deposits at scale using the people, controls and processes they already trust.
“With ACI Connetic, payments orchestrated through Swift’s ledger can be managed alongside other payment flows within a common operational framework.”
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