The deployment will facilitate and secure payment transactions across the Partecis platform. Partecis (Partnership for European Card Information System) is the unified transaction and payment platform jointly developed and owned by BNP Paribas and Natixis Paiements.

Partecis has been established specifically to support international transactions as a uniform, multilingual, multi-format payment offering to support retail and corporate clients of both banks across Europe, and will be particularly suited for Sepa. Sepa is a European initiative to create an environment where all electronic payments are considered domestic, and where a difference between national and international payments does not exist, thus improving the efficiency of cross border payments.

BASE24-eps is an integrated software solution designed to acquire, authenticate, route, switch and authorize payments across multiple channels. It can also support new transaction methods such as mobile commerce and internet banking, in addition to traditional payment transactions such as debit and credit at the ATM and point of sale, branch banking and telephone banking.

Steve Wright, president of ACI Worldwide EMEA, said: This milestone demonstrates ACI’s commitment to the French market with an offering that helps banks and retailers to authorize and authenticate large transaction volumes across the entire range of payment methods.