Supporting various standard operating systems, the Acquirer supports IBM System p and z as well as Sun Oracle platforms, and opens the use of more than 600 SOA-based business services to UNIX systems.

Through the reuse of common services, including revenue sharing, Interchange-plus pricing and merchant applications, the support reduces application development costs and expedites time to market.

ACI retail payments senior vice president Jeff Hale said that the new capabilities of Acquirer 3.10 continue to put CIOs in control of development and IT costs, freeing them to concentrate on innovation.

"Designed to be flexible, scalable and efficient, ACI Acquirer empowers organizations to control costs, deliver better service and create new revenue streams through the faster delivery of innovative new products and services," Hale added.

A scalable and flexible merchant management system, Acquirer stores and manages merchant accounts and their histories and empowers acquiring banks to control the merchant accounting and settlement lifecycle. The system stores and manages merchant accounts and their histories.

The company offers payments processing, card and merchant management, online banking, mobile, branch and voice banking, fraud detection, trade finance, and electronic bill presentment and payment technologies.

It powers electronic payments and banking for more than 2,600 financial institutions, retailers and processors, while its software enables $13 trillion in payments each day.