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ACI Worldwide acquires Cranium to add cloud-native card-switch microservices
Payments infrastructure firm ACI Worldwide has agreed to acquire Cranium Ventures, a privately held developer of cloud-native card payment switching technology, to modernize its own switching architecture and expand cloud capabilities.
WHY IT MATTERS
Signals shift from monolithic to modular microservices payment switching; enables faster innovation and lower-cost scaling for card processors, a pattern other legacy fintech vendors will feel pressure to replicate.
Source: PYMNTS · 2026-09-03