ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of electronic payment and banking systems, today announced the nine-year extension of its relationship with VocaLink, operator of the U.K.'s national payment infrastructure, to provide a flexible, feature-rich managed service for 24,000 ATMs distributed across the U.K.
By leveraging the flexibility of ACI's industry-leading BASE24 and BASE24-eps ATM driving technologies, VocaLink's complete managed ATM service provides cutting-edge services to its cash machine network and ATM deployer customers in a reliable, cost-effective manner, regardless of ATM type or configuration. The ATM Managed service enables VocaLink's customers to offer enhanced capabilities to their ATM end-customers, including such features as ATM Helpdesk, ATM Location Database, ATM Switching, International Card Networks and Mobile Phone Top-Up.
"ACI's technologies enable us to support a full range of transaction types, ensuring our ATM managed service can deliver everything our users require to manage their ATM estates profitably," said Marc Terry, Managing Director, Commercial Services at VocaLink. "As an ACI customer for 16 years, VocaLink continues to rely on ACI's state-of-the-art technology to offer our customers the highest level of service, features and functions."
"VocaLink has an accomplished history in the management of ATM estates," said Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, EMEA, ACI Worldwide. "We are proud of our longstanding relationship with VocaLink, which has enabled them to deliver the most functionally-rich and complete deployment solution to the market."