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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Payment processing |
| Founded | 2000; 24 years ago (2000), as a National Data Corporation subsidiary 2001; 23 years ago (2001), spun off from parent company |
| Headquarters | Three Alliance Center Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Key people | Cameron M. Bready (president and CEO) Andréa Carter (CHRO) David Rumph (CFO) |
| Revenue |  US$7.4 billion (2020)[1] |
| US$893 million (2020)[2] | |
| US$605 million (2020)[3] | |
| Total assets | US$44.2 billion (2020)[4] |
| Total equity | US$27.4 billion (2020)[5] |
Number of employees | 24,000[6] (2020) |
| Subsidiaries | TSYS Heartland Payment Systems |
| Website | www.GlobalPayments.com |
| Footnotes / references [7] | |
Global Payments Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company that provides payment technology and services to merchants, issuers and consumers.[8] In June 2021, the company was named to the Fortune 500.[9] The company processes payments made through credit cards, debit cards,[10] and digital and contactless payments.[11]
Global Payments was founded in 1996 and spun off from National Data Corporation, its former parent company, in 2001.[12] Global Payments has been an independent, publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange having the ticker symbol “GPN” since its spin off.
In 2009, it paid $75 million for United Card Service, Russia's leading credit card processing company.[13] In 2011, Global Payments's United Card Service bought Alfa-Bank's credit card processing unit.[13] In October 2012, it acquired the smaller Accelerated Payment Technologies for $413 million.[14] In October 2014, it purchased Australian payment processing company Ezidebit for $305 million.[15] In January 2015, it bought Payment Processing (also known as PayPros), a California company, for $420 million.[16]
In March 2015 Global Payments bought Realex Payments, an Irish-based payments gateway services company, for €115 million.[17] On April 25, 2016, Global Payments completed the acquisition of Heartland Payment Systems[13] for $4.3 billion.[18] Both Global Payments and its subsidiary Heartland Payment Systems were among the leading credit card processing companies in 2016, according to Business Insider.[19] Its headquarters moved from Sandy Springs, Georgia to Atlanta, Georgia in 2016.[20]
In 2017, Global Payments initiated acquiring divisions of Active Networks.[21] In 2018, Global Payments completed the acquisition of AdvancedMD.[22] In 2018, Global Payments completed the acquisition of Sentral Education.[23]
On May 28, 2019, Global Payments announced a $21.5 billion merger with TSYS. The merger was expected to trigger a Federal Trade Commission investigation.[24] However, no such investigation occurred.
In August 2022, Global Payments entered a definitive agreement to acquire EVO Payments Inc. for nearly $4 billion. [25] [26]
On May 1, 2023, the company announced that CEO Jeffrey M. Sloan would resign effective June 1, 2023. COO Cameron M. Bready succeeded him and now serves as CEO and President.[27] As of July 2023, no singular COO of the company has been named. Instead, two individuals have been appointed to oversee domestic and international operations as Senior Executive Vice Presidents: Vince Lombardo and Bob Cortopassi, respectively.[28]
Global Payments provides payment services directly to merchants and indirectly through other financial organizations. Its technology-enabled services also support integrated payments, e-commerce, and omni-channel services.[10][11]
Through Total System Services (TSYS), its issuer processor business, Global Payments helps banks manage credit and debit card portfolios.[29]
Global Payments operates in more than 100 countries and serves 3.5 million merchants as well as 1,300 financial institutions.[30] The company processes more than 50 billion transactions per year.[31] After merging with TSYS in 2019, Global Payments has nearly 24,000 employees.[32]
In 2020, 63 percent of the company's revenue was derived from "Merchant Solutions" [33] 26 percent from Issuer Solutions,[34] and 11 percent from the Business and Consumer Solutions segment,[35] which operates as NetSpend.[36] Eighty percent of Global Payments Merchant Solutions revenue was from North America, 15 percent was from Europe, and five percent was from Asia.[37] Additionally in 2020, the company was recognized as the first payment processor to win the J.D. Power Award for excellence in customer service; an effort spearheaded by Senior Vice President Jim Hightower and now-Senior Executive Vice President Bob Cortopassi.[38]
As of 2023, Global Payments does not have a singular Chief Operating Officer (COO). Instead the company divides operations into two distinct branches: domestic "US Merchant Solutions" headed by Senior Executive Vice President Vince Lombardo and international and vertical markets headed by Senior Executive Vice President Bob Cortopassi.[39] Current CEO Cameron M. Bready was formerly the COO of the company, but no COO was announced as part of the succession plan.[40]
In 2012, a data breach at Global Payments affected 1.5 million credit and debit card numbers.[41][42] This breach eventually cost the company around $100 million.[43] In 2015, a technical fault with Global Payments's systems led to thousands of British businesses being unable to accept credit card payments on Valentine's Day weekend.[44]
Total System Services, Inc. (commonly referred to as TSYS), was an American financial technology company headquartered in Columbus, Georgia. In 2019, TSYS was merged into Global Payments Inc.[45][46] TSYS is the largest third-party payment processor for issuing banks in North America, with a 40% market share, and one of the largest in Europe. It provides payment processing services, merchant services and related payment services. It also provides reloadable prepaid debit cards and payroll cards, and demand deposit accounts to the underbanked.[citation needed]
In 1959, TSYS was founded as a division of Columbus Bank and Trust (now Synovus). In 1974, it began processing credit cards for other banks. In August 1983, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.[47]
In 1995, the company merged its merchant processing services with those of Visa Inc.[48] In August 2004, the company acquired Clarity Payment Solutions for $53 million.[49] In 2007, Synovus completed the corporate spin-off of TSYS.[50] In July 2004, the company began processing the credit cards issued by J.P. Morgan Chase.[51] In 2008, the company launched n>genuity, a quarterly publication on the world of payments.[52]
In 2010, the company acquired a 51% stake in the merchant acquisition business of First National Bank of Omaha for $150.5 million, which was renamed TSYS Merchant Solutions. The remaining 49% stake was acquired in January 2011.[53] In May 2011, the company acquired TermNet.[54] In August 2012, the company announced a joint venture with Central Payment Co. LLC, a direct merchant acquirer.[55] In December 2012, the company acquired ProPay, a Utah-based company with over 250,000 merchants.[56]
In July 2013, the company acquired Netspend, a prepaid debit card provider, for $1.4 billion.[57] In November 2013, the company announced TSYS Merchant Insights, a partnership with Womply, a San Francisco-based startup, to provide revenue, social media, and reputation analysis tools to all TSYS merchants.
In June 2014, CEO Philip W. Tomlinson retired and was replaced with M. Troy Woods, then the president and COO.[58] In April 2016, the company acquired TransFirst for $2.35 billion, making it the 6th largest acquirer in the United States.[59][60] In June 2016, the company acquired the remaining 45% stake in TSYS Managed Services EMEA from The Merchants Group Limited.[61]
In February 2017, the company's lobbying of the Republican Party was credited for a bill that would remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's limits on overdraft fees. 10-12% of NetSpend's revenue comes from these fees.[62][63]
In late 2017, the company acquired a former Citigroup card production facility in Columbus, Ohio and invested $25 million to build out a second, 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) credit card production facility, with a capacity to produce 67 million credit cards per year.[64]
In January 2018, the company acquired Cayan for $1.05 billion.[65] In June 2018, the company acquired Jacksonville, Florida-based iMobile3 for $13.4 million.[66]
On September 18, 2019, TSYS and Global Payments completed their merger agreement for $21.5 billion.[67]
Revenues ($M) 7,423.6
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Operating Income: $893,953 (dollar amount in thousands)
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Net Income: $605,100 (dollar amount in thousands)
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Total assets: $44,201,545 (dollar amount in thousands)
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Total equity: $27,487,044 (dollar amount in thousands)
Employees 24,000 ... As of May 12, 2020
Combined, Global Payments and TSYS will provide payments and software services to approximately 3.5 million predominantly small to mid-sized (SMB) merchant locations and more than 1,300 financial institutions across more than 100 countries.
The company provides payment technology and software services; in all, it facilitates transactions for more than 3 million businesses. Global Payments makes its debut on the Fortune 500 this year, buoyed by a stellar 2020 in which its revenue rose 51%, to $7.4 billion, as the pandemic encouraged more consumers to adopt cashless payment.
Global Payments is the fifth largest merchant acquirer in the U.S., meaning it processes credit and debit card payments for merchants.
E-commerce processing is thriving as consumers stuck at home shift shopping patterns away from in-store purchases. The company's ominichannel and e-commerce processing business was up about 10% last month, Sloan reported. The company has also seen a 30% jump in contactless payments year-over-year, Sloan said, though he did not give specifics. Companies are reporting higher contactless card usage as consumers avoid touching keypads at the point of sale.
Global Payments Inc. agreed to buy Total System Services Inc. in a deal valued at $21.5 billion, the payment industry's third mega-merger of the year...Total System Services is what's known as an issuer processor, meaning it helps banks manage their credit and debit card portfolios for everything from card authorizations to detecting fraud and calculating rewards.
The merged company serves 3.5 million merchant locations and 1,300 financial institutions in more than 100 countries.
After the deal Global Payments will process more than 50 billion transactions annually across the world, making it one of the biggest players in integrated payment technology.
The new company has more than 24,000 employees.
Revenues of Global Payments' biggest operating segment, which is Merchant solutions, (accounting for 63 percent of the company's top line), are likely to have grown as a result of higher spending.
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Issuer Solutions: $1,981,435 (dollar amounts in thousands); 26.7% of Revenue
Year Ended December 31, 2020, Business and Consumer Solutions: $829,505 (dollar amounts in thousands); 11.2% of Revenue
Our Business and Consumer Solutions segment provides general purpose reloadable ("GPR") prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial services to the underbanked and other consumers and businesses in the United States through our Netspend® and other brands.
Merchant Solutions – Americas: $3,240,233; Europe: $614,747; Asia Pacific: $243,600
