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Joining the FinextraTV studio at a busy EBA Day 2025, Thomas Warsop, President and CEO, ACI Worldwide set out his 4 key topics that he sees regularly in circulation: digitisation, cloud, fraud and AI. Giving his opinion on each, along with some of the historical growth of each, he provides an insightful perspective.
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