Global Payments

Global Payments offers electronic payment processing services to financial, trading organizations, government agencies and international companies in, USA,, and. To Canada To Europe The Asia Fortune 1000's largest companies.

In Russia, Global Payments is represented by UCS (United Card Service), the largest independent processing company in Russia, serving transactions with payment cards of four international payment systems (Visa, MasterCard, JCB International and UnionPay), as well as Russian payment systems "Golden Crown" and the United Settlement System. According to various estimates, UCS's share in the acquiring market in Russia is about 25%.

Among the UCS services for processing bank cards are issuing cards, connecting ATMs and POS terminals, accepting payments in favor of mobile operators, Internet and TV providers, personalizing cards, etc.

History

2025: $24.3 billion purchase of Worldpay from FIS and GTCR LLC

The American fintech company Global Payments entered into several transactions in April 2025, gaining full control over the payment service Worldpay Inc. and getting rid of the business of developing various solutions for issuers. According to Global Payments, it will buy back a 45% stake in Worldpay from Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and another 55% from private equity fund GTCR LLC. The value of the entire Worldpay in the framework of transactions is estimated at $24.3 billion, including tax assets in the amount of $1.55 billion. Read more here

2022: Sale of United Card Services to Vladimir Potanin's Interros

On May 2, 2022, it was announced that Interros of billionaire Vladimir Potanin bought the processing company Joint Credit Card Company JSC (UCS, United Card Services). The company was previously controlled by Global Payments.

2021: Purchase of software developer to automate settlements with creditors MineralTree

In early September 2021, the American payment solutions provider Global Payments announced the purchase of MineralTree. The deal is valued at $500 million. Read more here.

2019: $21.5 billion purchase of payment solutions provider Total System Services

On May 28, 2019, Global Payments announced the acquisition of payment solutions provider Total System Services for $21.5 billion. The buyer will pay for the transaction with their shares. Read more here.

2015: 12.5% revenue growth in the first quarter to $704.9 million

In the 1 quarter of the 2015 financial year, Global Payments' total revenue grew by 12.5% to $704.9 million. Business To Europe in grew by 14%, especially a good result in growth in this region showed, Spain which exceeded expectations, the company notes.

During a conference call to discuss quarterly results, representatives of Global Payments identified the Russian market as a significant factor restraining business growth in Europe. In this region, business did not achieve the expected indicators.

The company calls the reason for this the general macro-economic situation in Russia: the market itself contracted over the year, the ruble fell by and its exchange rate remains low against the euro and the dollar, and the GDP forecasts are not too good, according to Global Payments.

Despite the fact that the planned volume of business in the 1 quarter of 2015 was not achieved in Russia, representatives of the financial service of Global Payments say that they would not like to characterize local results as extremely negative.

The financiers of the company note that they are satisfied with the work that their colleagues in Russia are doing taking into account the current situation, however, given the progressive decline in positions ruble , their further expectations for business results in Russia are not too good.

2014: Revenue growth 7.5% to $2.55 billion

According to the results of the 2014 fiscal year, which ended for Global Payments on May 31, the company's revenue amounted to $2.554 billion, which is 7.5% more than in 2013. The main driver of the increase in revenue in the annual report of Global Payments is the growth of business through direct channels in the United States, strengthened by the acquisition of Payment Processing. Turnover growth was also observed in other regions.

2012: Visa deletes Global Payments from service provider register

On April 1, 2012, the Visa payment system removed Global Payments from the register of service providers certified in accordance with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). This happened two days after the dissemination in the media of information about the discovery of vulnerabilities in the networks of the service provider, which could cause the leakage of information about 1.5 million plastic payment cards of American banks.

Earlier last week, Visa and MasterCard announced leaks of credit card information, without naming the culprits. Company officials only emphasized that this was due to the fault of a third party, and their own servers were not attacked. According to the version of payment systems, leaks occurred from January 21 to February 25, Global Payments insists that the attackers gained access to information no earlier than early March.

In response to Visa's actions on the same day, Global Payments released a statement, it followed that 1.5 million was an inflated figure, and the leaks occurred exclusively in North America. Indeed, according to the Visa press service, the sanctions did not affect the Russian subsidiary of Global Payments - the Company of United Credit Cards UCS (United Card Service). However, it is not completely clear which data fell into the hands of the attackers - Visa, MasterCard and Global Payments disagree. At best, it's only about partial credit card information, at worst, full dialing, including the names, addresses of residence and Social Security (SSN) numbers of owners.

At a press conference convened on April 2, Paul Garcia, executive director of Global Payments, expressed the hope that Visa would subsequently return his company back to the register of certified service providers. However, he could not name the exact date. Headquartered in Atlanta, United States, Global Payments is one of the largest Fortune 1000 companies. In the last quarter of the financial year, its profit increased by 18% to over $92 million with a turnover of over $533 million.