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. Their 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.