Global Payments
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading payments technology company delivering innovative software and services to customers globally, with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The company maintains its website at www.globalpayments.com. From the company’s description.
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What Global Payments does
In the company’s own words
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading payments technology company delivering innovative software and services to customers globally, with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The company maintains its website at www.globalpayments.com.
As a Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500, Global Payments operates with approximately 26,000 team members across 37 countries, with roughly 50 percent of its workforce in the Americas, 22 percent in Europe, and 28 percent in Asia-Pacific. The company provides payment processing services, merchant acceptance solutions, and related business management software and value-added services to financial institutions, businesses, and consumers worldwide.
The company's primary business is organized around its Merchant Solutions segment, which provides payments technology and software solutions globally. This segment enables customers to accept card, check, and digital-based payments through authorization, settlement, and funding services, alongside customer support, chargeback resolution, and payment security services. Global Payments also offers comprehensive business management software solutions, including specialty point-of-sale software, and commerce enablement solutions such as data analytics, human capital management, payroll, accounts receivable automation, and inventory management.
The company distributes its solutions through three primary business pillars: Point-of-Sale and Software Solutions, Integrated and Embedded Solutions, and Core Payments Solutions. These channels leverage a diverse distribution network including direct sales teams, financial institution partnerships, joint ventures, and wholesale relationships.
In January 2026, Global Payments completed a transformative transaction, acquiring Worldpay Holdco, LLC from Fidelity National Information Services and GTCR affiliates while simultaneously divesting its Issuer Solutions business to FIS. The company also completed the sale of its Payroll Solutions business to Acrisure in September 2025 and sold AdvancedMD in December 2024. These transactions reflect the company's strategic focus on streamlining operations and concentrating resources on high-growth opportunities within its core payments and software solutions businesses. The company processes transactions across major international card brands including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB, and UnionPay International.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry (SIC)
- Business Services
- Headquarters
- ATLANTA, GA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1123360
- SIC
- 7389
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2014–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Global Payments — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Global Payments · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Global Payments’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Global Payments’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 23 issues of Global Payments’s debt, $3.93B at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.23%, maturing 2026 to 2052.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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