ACI will partner with Verifone to deliver a comprehensive pan-European payments platform for Auchan Group, one of Europe’s largest food retailers.
Auchan relies on ACI’s market-leading, omni-channel UP Retailer Payments solution as the foundation for its cross-border payments strategy. In addition, the ACI solution will integrate with Verifone’s VX 820 PIN pads and ‘payment as a service’ provision to manage all types of card and non-card transactions in-store.
ACI and Verifone to deliver Pan-European payments platform for Auchan
The new payments platform will also be compliant with the nexo standards, a set of unified card payments standards that aim to drive interoperability across countries, championed by a growing number of retailers across Europe that want to roll them out in the near future.
“ACI has worked closely with Auchan for a number of years and we are delighted to be delivering this innovative payment acceptance offering to position the company for future growth,” Andrew Quartermaine, Head of Merchant Retail Europe, ACI Worldwide.
ACI, Verifone, and Auchan share the same disruptive payments vision and we are pleased to open up our flexible multi-vendor, acquirer-agnostic solution to work collaboratively with Verifone in support of Auchan. We believe that many other major retailers will follow Auchan’s lead in helping to shape European payments.”
“This new platform, which complies with the nexo standards, is part of our strategy for a safer, more open and more accessible European centralized payments platform,” says Arnaud Crouzet, Head of Group Global Payments Development, Auchan Group.
The partnership with ACI Worldwide and Verifone means we will be able to work with open and flexible solutions. Both companies are open-minded and understand our needs for a new growing market.”
The new platform is expected to go live later in 2016 across all Auchan stores in France, providing the ultimate shopping experience for consumers.
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