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ACI Worldwide and Circle to demonstrate USDC settlement on existing bank payment infrastructure, starting in Colombia

ACI Worldwide and Circle announced on 27 October 2026 a collaboration combining ACI Connetic, ACI’s cloud-native payments orchestration platform, with Circle’s USDC infrastructure to demonstrate how financial institutions can incorporate stablecoin settlement into existing payment operations.

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Key takeawaysFact

  1. 1ACI Worldwide and Circle announced on 27 October 2026 a collaboration combining ACI Connetic, ACI’s cloud-native payments orchestration platform, with Circle’s USDC infrastructure to demonstrate how financial institutions can incorporate stablecoin settlement into existing payment operations.
  2. 2The implementation will initially focus on Colombia, where ACI built the central infrastructure powering Bre-B, the country’s instant payments ecosystem, and will explore how stablecoins such as USDC can complement it.
  • Stablecoins
  • payments

Executive summaryFact

ACI Worldwide and Circle announced on 27 October 2026 a collaboration combining ACI Connetic, ACI’s cloud-native payments orchestration platform, with Circle’s USDC infrastructure to demonstrate how financial institutions can incorporate stablecoin settlement into existing payment operations. The implementation will initially focus on Colombia, where ACI built the central infrastructure powering Bre-B, the country’s instant payments ecosystem, and will explore how stablecoins such as USDC can complement it.

Primary source: Circle (joint release with ACI Worldwide) ↗

The implementation will initially focus on Colombia, where ACI Worldwide built the central infrastructure powering Bre-B, the country's interoperable instant payments ecosystem.

— Circle (joint release with ACI Worldwide), verbatimString-matched against the live page 2026-10-31

Key factsFact

Event
Partnership announcement
Jurisdiction
LatAm
Source
Circle (joint release with ACI Worldwide)
Source tier
Tier 2 · Bank / FMI
Product
Stablecoin payments

Who is affectedFact

Financial institutions in Latin America evaluating stablecoin settlement, initially in Colombia.

Key datesFact

  • ACI Worldwide and Circle collaboration announced

More from the sourceFact

“The initiative is designed to help financial institutions evaluate how stablecoin settlement can operate alongside existing payment infrastructure.”

Verbatim from Circle (joint release with ACI Worldwide)✓ string-matched against the live page 2026-10-31

Why it matters for banksAnalysis

For Latin American banks already connected to ACI-run rails such as Bre-B, the initiative offers a way to evaluate stablecoin settlement alongside existing payment flows on one orchestration platform rather than building a separate stack.

Editorial analysis based on the facts above and the sources below; not legal or investment advice.

What remains uncertain

  • The release names no participating banks and gives no launch date or volumes for the Colombia implementation.

Sources and evidence

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Evidence

Confidence
Medium The institution’s own statement; quote string-matched. Proves what the institution says, not independent confirmation.
Quote verified
2026-10-31 16:50 UTC
Archived snapshot
SHA-256 dec4d9409c19a319… · fetched 2026-10-27 · Wayback Machine copy ↗
Source type
Official institutional Circle (joint release with ACI Worldwide) ↗
Change log (20)
  1. 2026-10-31 Verify run + data (2026-10-31 afternoon deploy): verifiedAt refresh on all items, verify snapshots, tracker source verifiedAt, history snapshot 2026-10-31, metr (59ae13f)
  2. 2026-10-31 Verify run + data (2026-10-31 morning deploy): verifiedAt refresh on all items (supersedes the uncommitted verifiedAt-only edits left by the failed 30 Oct night (41e27a5)
  3. 2026-10-30 Verify run + data (2026-10-30 evening deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, history snapshot 2026-10-30, metrics, stablecoins, W44 weekly refresh, gene (9a19611)
  4. 2026-10-30 Verify run + data (2026-10-30 afternoon deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, history snapshot 2026-10-30, metrics, stablecoins, W44 weekly refresh, ge (65f7ccc)
  5. 2026-10-30 Verify run + data (2026-10-30 audio deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, history snapshot 2026-10-30, metrics, stablecoins, monthly report PDF (3e7b364)
  6. 2026-10-30 Verify run + data (2026-10-30 morning deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for ECB Cipollone T+1/Pontes and Korea FSC items, history snapshot (fe010e8)
  7. 2026-10-30 Verify run + data (leftover from 2026-10-29 22:30 run): verifiedAt refresh on 85 items and tracker sources, verify snapshots, history snapshot 2026-10-29, metri (e3c2c01)
  8. 2026-10-29 Verify run + data (2026-10-29 covers deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, history snapshot 2026-10-29, metrics, stablecoins, monthly report PDF (8ecdc47)
  9. 2026-10-29 Verify run + data (2026-10-29 evening deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for Galaxy item, history snapshot 2026-10-29, metrics, stablecoins (71c9301)
  10. 2026-10-29 Newsroom 2026-10-29 evening: Galaxy applies to the OCC to establish Galaxy National Bank, a proposed national trust bank for digital asset custody, trading and (1dfb963)
  11. 2026-10-29 Verify run + data (2026-10-29 midday deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for BoE tokenised-collateral, Ripple/Coinbase RLUSD and Securitize (a48b8c2)
  12. 2026-10-29 Verify run + data (2026-10-29 morning deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for Securitize item, history snapshot, metrics, stablecoins, W44 w (9110eaa)
  13. 2026-10-28 Verify run + data (2026-10-28 evening deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for DTCC item, history snapshot 2026-10-28, metrics, stablecoins, (8ee5983)
  14. 2026-10-28 Verify run + data (2026-10-28 midday deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for DBS and Taiwan FSC items, history snapshot 2026-10-28, metrics, (9267b7d)
  15. 2026-10-28 Verify run + data (2026-10-28 morning deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots (incl. SFC API route and BaFin legacy-parser matches), history snapshot 2026 (37b4a8e)
  16. 2026-10-28 Newsroom 2026-10-28 morning: Hong Kong SFC approves 24/7 secondary trading of two tokenised MMFs (ChinaAMC HKD/USD) on a licensed VATP (sfc.hk, 26 Oct; ChinaAMC (7e91d25)
  17. 2026-10-27 Verify run + data (2026-10-27 late deploy, national-register re-sourcing): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots incl. first live matches for CSSF/BaFin/CNMV/FMA (25e5e0b)
  18. 2026-10-27 Verify run + data (2026-10-27 evening deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, evidence for 4 new items, history snapshot, metrics, W44 weekly refresh, ge (5a017ac)
  19. 2026-10-27 Verify run + data (2026-10-27 afternoon deploy): verifiedAt refresh, verify snapshots, history snapshot, metrics, stablecoins, monthly report PDF, favicons and (224916a)
  20. 2026-10-27 Newsroom 2026-10-27 afternoon: ACI Worldwide + Circle USDC settlement on existing rails starting in Colombia (circle.com, 27 Oct); BitGo Bank & Trust to offer W (a26329e)

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