ACI Worldwide partners with Circle to integrate USDC settlement into existing Latin American payment infrastructure.

According to an official press release from Circle, payment technology company ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) announced a partnership on October 27 aimed at demonstrating how stablecoin settlement can be integrated into existing banking and payment systems. Built on ACI’s cloud-native intelligent payment orchestration platform, ACI Connetic, and Circle’s USDC infrastructure, the initiative will initially launch in Colombia. Having previously built the core infrastructure for the country’s interoperable instant payment system, Bre-B, this collaboration will explore how USDC can complement this real-time account-to-account payment framework and foster interoperability across multiple payment channels. ACI Connetic integrates traditional payments, digital assets, and card transactions onto a single platform, enabling financial institutions to assess new settlement models within their familiar operational environments.