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Thursday, February 05, 2026
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Carlos Dafonte | Global Partnerships at ACI Worldwide

FF News had the opportunity to speak with Carlos Dafonte, who leads the Global Partnership Organization at ACI Worldwide, about the growing world of payment orchestration, and how ACI helps businesses thrive in today’s incredibly complex global payments landscape.

Carlos explains what payment orchestration actually means and, more importantly, how ACI is reducing risk, increasing transaction safety and providing frictionless, cross-border payments for merchants at scale. With its vast partner ecosystem and subject matter expertise in data analytics, fraud prevention, and transaction processing, ACI enables banks and merchants to meet customer’s needs for the new digital first norm.

With its world-renowned BASE24 software powering 18 of the top 20 global banks and its orchestration platform for merchants, ACI is leading the charge in global payments. Organizations both large and small, including banks that are looking to reduce costs of building merchant services, are using ACI’s platform to give them the appropriate infrastructure and insights to help them perform with confidence, in transforming the world of payments.

Watch the full interview to see why Carlos thinks the world of payments has a bright future, and why ACI is uniquely positioned to navigate it.

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