Solaris SE upgrades payments infrastructure with ACI Worldwide

By Vriti Gothi

Solaris SE has selected ACI Connetic from ACI Worldwide to consolidate all SEPA instant payments. This represents a step in Solaris’s digital transformation journey, reinforcing its commitment to delivering resilient, scalable, and future-ready financial services across the European market.

ACI Connetic is the industry’s first unified, cloud-native payments solution designed to integrate account-to-account (A2A) payments, card processing, and AI-driven fraud prevention within a single modular framework. Built for agility and compliance, the platform empowers financial institutions to simplify operations, accelerate service innovation, and navigate evolving regulatory landscapes with confidence.

Headquartered in Berlin and operating with a full banking licence, Solaris SE enables European businesses to embed fully compliant digital banking services seamlessly into their products. By migrating its instant payments infrastructure to ACI Connetic, Solaris strengthens the agility and performance of its banking services, ensuring a robust foundation for continued growth.

“Migrating our instant payments capabilities to ACI Connetic marks a key milestone in Solaris’s digital transformation and growth journey,” said Carsten Höltkemeyer, CEO of Solaris SE. “It future proofs our payments infrastructure, accelerates service innovation, and enhances the value we deliver to partners and their customers across Europe.”

“ACI Connetic represents a significant step-change in our commitment to supporting financial institutions as they navigate the complexities of the global payments landscape,” said Tom Warsop, CEO and President of ACI Worldwide. “In an environment of increasing payments complexity and regulatory demands, ACI Connetic delivers the agility, resilience, and innovation required to drive digital transformations, sustainable growth and long-term success.”

The migration forms the first phase of a broader payments modernisation initiative that will enable Solaris to expand into new markets, deliver enhanced payment services, and rapidly onboard Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) clients. This strategic step also positions Solaris to unlock new revenue opportunities while upholding the highest standards of regulatory compliance, data protection, and operational resilience.