Circle and ACI plan USDC settlement pilot alongside Colombia’s payment rails

ACI Worldwide and USDC issuer Circle announced a stablecoin settlement collaboration on Oct. 27, 2026. The payments software provider and Circle describe a pilot pairing ACI’s Connetic platform with Circle’s USDC infrastructure. Implementation will initially focus on Colombia. There, institutions would evaluate USDC settlement alongside the systems they already use.USDC settlement within existing operationsTheir announcement describes Connetic as a cloud-native platform combining traditional payment types, digital assets and card payments. The companies will use it to demonstrate stablecoin settlement alongside traditional payment rails.The platform and the settlement instrument have different roles in the companies’ proposal. Connetic provides the orchestration environment; Circle’s USDC infrastructure provides the stablecoin component being evaluated. Describing the collaboration as an integration pilot captures that relationship without implying that all payments handled by the platform would settle in USDC.USDC alongside existing payment operationsCompany-described pilot: treasury, governance and settlement processes surround Connetic. Lines connect Connetic to existing payment...