Electronic payment expert joins board

NAPLES — ACI Worldwide appointed electronics payment expert Janet Estep to its board of directors.

Estep is the CEO of the electronic payment association that oversees the automated clearinghouse network, better known by its initials as ACH. Prior to joining the association in 2008, Estep was an executive vice president of U.S. Bank's transaction services division.

Naples-based ACI Worldwide provides electronic payments and banking for more than 5,600 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors. ACI software processes $13 trillion each day in payments and securities transactions for more than 300 of the leading global retailers and 18 of the top 20 banks worldwide.