Payments provider ACI International It is reportedly considering selling its billing business.
That’s according to A a report Friday (July 17), citing three sources familiar with the matter. The potential sale comes amid strong investor demand for payments software and recurring revenue companies, which has sparked dealmaking across the industry, the report noted.
ACI Worldwide has begun working with investment bankers on the sale and has begun discussions with potential buyers, including private equity firms, sources told Reuters. The sale could value the billing unit at about $1.5 billion, about 10 to 12 times the adjusted 2025 value. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), the sources said.
PYMNTS has reached out to ACI for comment but has not yet received a response.
As Reuters noted, ACI’s billing business provides software that helps businesses bill customers and collect payments digitally. Among these clients IRSsubsidiaries of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Akron utilitiesand Horizon Healthcare Services.
In 2025, ACI combined its banking and merchant businesses into a single payment platform The sector, saying that this step would simplify the operating structure and enhance implementation. However, the company’s billing unit remained a separate reporting segment, the report said.
Reuters added, citing the company’s annual filing, that this unit achieved revenues of about $818 million and $141 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in 2025.
ACI Worldwide last year acquired the open banking/messaging solutions provider Payment componentswith plans to integrate the company’s technology into ACI Connetic, its cloud-based unified payments platform.
Recently, the company cooperated with JPMorgan Chase to Anti-payment fraudcombine bank Confirm Kinexys Liink The app in ACI’s solution to fraud and financial crimes.
In other recent news from the sector, payment company Nuvei last month agreed to acquire payments company Payoneer For $2.75 billion.
As described here, the deal is designed to combine Nuvei’s payment acceptance capabilities with Payoneer’s cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts and banking network, as well as same-day and real-time settlement in 150 markets.
It also highlights A Greater transformation It’s happening across the financial services sector, PYMNTS wrote the day after the deal was announced.
“While innovation is in Cross-border payments “With the emphasis on speed and access over much of the past decade, these capabilities have become table stakes in a market where businesses have access to multiple payment paths, fintech providers and banking partners,” the report said.
