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| Our EBITDA growth contributed to strong cash flow growth in Q4 2023 with cash flow from operating activities of $86 million, more than double Q4 2022 |
| We're very good at it, and we're continuing to see success there |
| I'll finish by reiterating my confidence in our ability to take advantage of strong market opportunities in 2024 and beyond |
| And following those visits, I'm even more convinced that ACI is a company with world-class solutions, talented employees and a customer base unmatched in the industry |
| And so they want that consistent experience and we can do that because we are able to work with any acquirer and make that experience at the till or online, very positive and consistent across the board |
| We had a solid performance |
| We exited the year strong, and that has set us up to accelerate our growth this year |
| So very good visibility in that business |
| We saw strength in our Biller segment with revenue growth of 9% and EBITDA growth of 32% in 2023 |
| And so we should see better growth this year |
| Our banking segment saw a notable strength in cross-sales of our anti-fraud and real-time payment solutions, and those saw a revenue growth of 35% and 24%, respectively, in 2023 |
| I wouldn't say there's a big change I think we did have a bit of a slow start, as we mentioned, in '23, finished the year pretty strong, and we're seeing very good signs that that's going to continue into '24 |
| So we continue to be excited about our opportunities in real-time payments |
| And it's generating great conversation, great pipeline expansion, and we have signed several of those customers, and that's what's driving that growth Scott was just mentioning |
| And lastly, in our Merchant segment, though we had a bit of a slow start to 2023, we exited the year with a strong Q4 rate of growth, and we expect growth to accelerate in 2024 |
| We remain excited about leveraging our best-in-class payments expertise to help our clients offer the optimal payment choices to their consumers while providing a safe, secure payment processing environment |
| So the recurring revenue growth in the bank segment over the last couple of quarters have been pretty encouraging |
| Perhaps most importantly, our sales pipeline is strong and growing |
| And we expect to see particularly strong demand in our banking segment |
| Nice results |
| And ultimately, we're going to make that same kind of knowledge base with the AI on top of it available directly to our customers, so that they can get answers to questions faster and it improves the productivity of our team |
| And we've then trained the model, and we are now able to get very good productivity from our customer service representatives, the people that handle inquiries about our software products, people that deal with outages or issues that our customers are having |
| And we have excellent products there and part of the reason is the use of AI and the continued use of AI |
| And that's really good for us |
| And what's really interesting, too is The Clearing House’s real-time payments transactions have benefited from all the marketing that the Fed has done around FedNow |
| The pipeline is very strong |
| And it presents an opportunity to bolster our already accelerating growth rate |
| Our Biller segment, which saw a significant turnaround in 2023, will see further growth in 2024 and as we get a full year benefit of customer go-lives we saw in 2023 as well as the go-lives of additional large customers sold during last year |
| This revenue growth, combined with continued success in our interchange improvement program, will continue to deliver margin improvement |
| We saw Q4 deliver the strongest rate of quarterly growth of the year, and we expect that momentum to carry into 2024 |
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| So 2022 is a little bit of an anomaly in that way |
| This year was only a couple, 2% or 3% |
| I think it's going to take -- continue to take a while before the volumes are extremely large |
| The ARR bookings, having a harder time, kind of extrapolating that into when do those start to have an impact? And how concerned should we be with the down bookings for the year? Scott Behrens Yeah |
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