Innovative North American Financial Institution to Issue EMV Cards with ACI Worldwide and Bell ID Solution

First Joint Customer for ACI Worldwide/Bell ID Strategic Partnership

New York, N.Y. – 28 April 2010 – ACI Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACIW) and Bell ID, both leading international providers of electronic payments software and solutions, announced today that the two companies have contracted with the first customer as part of their strategic partnership launched late last year.  See: ACI Worldwide Announces Alliance with Bell ID to Provide Smart Card Solutions





A financial institution in North America has selected the ANDiS4EMV solution for EMV card management, as a long-term investment in card issuing and to ensure it can always respond to changing customer and market demands.

This first new account is a significant step in the partnership, which enables ACI Worldwide to license and market Bell ID’s suite of products for smart card management to financial markets and retailers around the world.

ANDiS4EMV enables the institution to issue chip-based smart payment cards, and manage the life-cycle of its card base - including PINs, payment applications and cryptographic keys. It can also help the organization to better manage risk through control of the EMV parameters, and provide better customer service through branch instant issuance of a fully-customized EMV card. The financial institution can also extend the service with deployment of the payment applications on Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile phones.

Louis Blatt, chief product officer at ACI Worldwide said, “EMV technology is being adopted on a global basis, and we’re seeing banks around the world considering the future of their card issuance schemes. ANDiS4EMV enables financial institutions to take control of their EMV card management by bringing it in house, rather than relying on outsourced providers. By having access to more data about customers, and by enabling the bank to manage their EMV cards themselves, they are able to respond quickly to changing customer needs and stay one step ahead of banks that outsource card management.”



Pat Curran, chairman of Bell ID commented, “Financial institutions are embracing technology to make life easier for their customers, and this new business highlights the fact that delivering flexibility and convenience is essential to customers’ business strategies. This builds on our growing customer base in markets where smart card technology has been adopted for retail payments. The addition of this customer gives ACI and Bell ID a stronger presence in a key growth market for EMV smart card technology.”



For more information please visit www.aciworldwide.com/tokenmanagement.



For more information contact:

Catherine Eyres

ACI Worldwide

+44 (0) 1923 812741

Catherine.Eyres@aciworldwide.com

About Bell ID



Bell ID is the worldwide technology leader in the field of smart card management. Based in Europe, Bell ID is a truly international company, with projects from as far afield as Macau, South Africa and Canada. Bell ID constitutes the largest team in the world dedicated exclusively to developing software that manages the life-cycles of cards and their associated applications and cryptographic keys. Bell ID is a powerhouse of expert knowledge and experience, operating in this specialised field since 1993. Our references speak for themselves, with significant strategic wins in national ID, EMV banking and corporate ID. Bell ID's target markets include Financial Institutions, Telcos, Governments, Blue Chip Companies and Universities. Please visit: www.BellID.com for more information





About ACI Worldwide

ACI combines a global perspective with local presence to tailor solutions for each customer. Our proven products, domain expertise and 35 years of experience have earned us a position as trusted provider of gold standard payments solutions.  For more information, please visit: ACI Worldwide

Innovative North American Financial Institution to Issue EMV Cards with ACI Worldwide and Bell ID Solution

First Joint Customer for ACI Worldwide/Bell ID Strategic Partnership

New York, N.Y. – 28 April 2010 – ACI Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACIW) and Bell ID, both leading international providers of electronic payments software and solutions, announced today that the two companies have contracted with the first customer as part of their strategic partnership launched late last year.  See: ACI Worldwide Announces Alliance with Bell ID to Provide Smart Card Solutions





A financial institution in North America has selected the ANDiS4EMV solution for EMV card management, as a long-term investment in card issuing and to ensure it can always respond to changing customer and market demands.

This first new account is a significant step in the partnership, which enables ACI Worldwide to license and market Bell ID’s suite of products for smart card management to financial markets and retailers around the world.

ANDiS4EMV enables the institution to issue chip-based smart payment cards, and manage the life-cycle of its card base - including PINs, payment applications and cryptographic keys. It can also help the organization to better manage risk through control of the EMV parameters, and provide better customer service through branch instant issuance of a fully-customized EMV card. The financial institution can also extend the service with deployment of the payment applications on Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile phones.

Louis Blatt, chief product officer at ACI Worldwide said, “EMV technology is being adopted on a global basis, and we’re seeing banks around the world considering the future of their card issuance schemes. ANDiS4EMV enables financial institutions to take control of their EMV card management by bringing it in house, rather than relying on outsourced providers. By having access to more data about customers, and by enabling the bank to manage their EMV cards themselves, they are able to respond quickly to changing customer needs and stay one step ahead of banks that outsource card management.”



Pat Curran, chairman of Bell ID commented, “Financial institutions are embracing technology to make life easier for their customers, and this new business highlights the fact that delivering flexibility and convenience is essential to customers’ business strategies. This builds on our growing customer base in markets where smart card technology has been adopted for retail payments. The addition of this customer gives ACI and Bell ID a stronger presence in a key growth market for EMV smart card technology.”



For more information please visit www.aciworldwide.com/tokenmanagement.



For more information contact:

Catherine Eyres

ACI Worldwide

+44 (0) 1923 812741

Catherine.Eyres@aciworldwide.com

About Bell ID



Bell ID is the worldwide technology leader in the field of smart card management. Based in Europe, Bell ID is a truly international company, with projects from as far afield as Macau, South Africa and Canada. Bell ID constitutes the largest team in the world dedicated exclusively to developing software that manages the life-cycles of cards and their associated applications and cryptographic keys. Bell ID is a powerhouse of expert knowledge and experience, operating in this specialised field since 1993. Our references speak for themselves, with significant strategic wins in national ID, EMV banking and corporate ID. Bell ID's target markets include Financial Institutions, Telcos, Governments, Blue Chip Companies and Universities. Please visit: www.BellID.com for more information





About ACI Worldwide

ACI combines a global perspective with local presence to tailor solutions for each customer. Our proven products, domain expertise and 35 years of experience have earned us a position as trusted provider of gold standard payments solutions.  For more information, please visit: ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide on the "Threat to Online Banking Security"

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Financial Crime

Cards & Retail Banking Payments

Wholesale & SEPA

Technology Innovation

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Threat to online banking security

According to this month’s figures released by the UK Cards Association, the number of "phishing" attacks on consumers rose by 16% in 2009 and the total amount of online banking losses saw a 14% rise on the previous year. These stats are worrying for consumers and banks alike – increasingly fraudsters are using Trojans that can infect a user’s PC, and then launch man-in-the-browser attacks that can get around the strongest user authentication measures. The consumer may not even be aware that the funds have been moved from their account as the Trojan can alter the page being displayed.



To tackle this problem, banks need to get a better understanding of their customers’ online banking activity so that they can check to see if it fits the established profile of the genuine customer. Alongside other fraud prevention methods such as authentication, a layered approach to online banking fraud monitoring – one that analyses the login, the transactions, and risky sequences of events – gives banks the best chance to minimise online banking fraud. In addition, consumers need to be educated around the dangers of clicking links in unsolicited emails and on social networks. Fraudsters will always look for weaknesses in the system, in this case the user’s PC, and banks must work with their customers to plug the security gaps.



For more information on fraud mitigation strategies to protect customers from man-in-the-browser attacks, please take a look at ACI's recent white paper Securing Online Banking





About ACI

Software from ACI Worldwide helps ensure electronic payments transactions are processed reliably and safely, 24 hours a day. ACI also provides some of the world’s largest financial institutions with international and domestic wholesale payments and financial message processing solutions.

Find out more at:www.aciworldwide.com

ACI Worldwide on the "Threat to Online Banking Security"

Browse by topics of interest

Financial Crime

Cards & Retail Banking Payments

Wholesale & SEPA

Technology Innovation

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Threat to online banking security

According to this month’s figures released by the UK Cards Association, the number of "phishing" attacks on consumers rose by 16% in 2009 and the total amount of online banking losses saw a 14% rise on the previous year. These stats are worrying for consumers and banks alike – increasingly fraudsters are using Trojans that can infect a user’s PC, and then launch man-in-the-browser attacks that can get around the strongest user authentication measures. The consumer may not even be aware that the funds have been moved from their account as the Trojan can alter the page being displayed.



To tackle this problem, banks need to get a better understanding of their customers’ online banking activity so that they can check to see if it fits the established profile of the genuine customer. Alongside other fraud prevention methods such as authentication, a layered approach to online banking fraud monitoring – one that analyses the login, the transactions, and risky sequences of events – gives banks the best chance to minimise online banking fraud. In addition, consumers need to be educated around the dangers of clicking links in unsolicited emails and on social networks. Fraudsters will always look for weaknesses in the system, in this case the user’s PC, and banks must work with their customers to plug the security gaps.



For more information on fraud mitigation strategies to protect customers from man-in-the-browser attacks, please take a look at ACI's recent white paper Securing Online Banking





About ACI

Software from ACI Worldwide helps ensure electronic payments transactions are processed reliably and safely, 24 hours a day. ACI also provides some of the world’s largest financial institutions with international and domestic wholesale payments and financial message processing solutions.

Find out more at:www.aciworldwide.com