ACI Worldwide acquired Speedpay (E Commerce Group Products / Western Union) for $750 million, a transaction completed in May 2019, structured as all cash. The deal was a Carve-out.
Speedpay (E Commerce Group Products / Western Union) operates in Bill payment / EBPP, is based in United States, had revenue of about More than $350 million in revenue and $90 million in adjusted EBITDA in 2018. ACI acquired Speedpay - Western Union's U.S. domestic bill-pay business (E Commerce Group Products, Inc. and its subsidiary Speedpay, Inc.) - in an all-cash transaction announced at $750 million (allocated at roughly $754 million in ACI's FY2019 10-K, subject to customary adjustments). The deal roughly doubled ACI's bill-pay reach, bringing the combined ACI/Speedpay solutions to more than 4,000 U.S. customers across consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utilities, government and mortgage, and adding meaningful scale to ACI's On Demand segment. Speedpay generated more than $350 million in revenue and $90 million in adjusted EBITDA in 2018.
The acquisition strengthened ACI's leadership in the U.S. bill-pay market and was expected to enhance ACI On Demand profitability while funding increased R&D and platform investment; ACI planned to unify the Speedpay and UP Bill Payment platforms.
More than 15 billion U.S. bill-pay transactions in 2018 in a market growing at mid-single-digit rates. Expected to add $215-$220 million in revenue and $50-$55 million in adjusted EBITDA over the remainder of 2019. ACI On Demand / unified UP Bill Payment platform
This acquisition reinforces ACI's 'any payment, every possibility' vision and accelerates our ability to capitalize on the growing global payment transaction opportunity over the next five years. It presents a great opportunity for ACI to strengthen and add scale to our On Demand business.Phil Heasley, President and CEO, ACI Worldwide
Divesting the Speedpay business allows us to concentrate our resources on our cross-border money movement strategies and monetize a non-core asset for our shareholders.Hikmet Ersek, President and CEO, The Western Union Company
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.