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Global Payments acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Global Payments bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
EVO Payments, Inc.
Word for word“On March 24, 2023, we completed the acquisition of EVO Payments, Inc. (“EVO”) for total purchase consideration of approximately $4 billion.” 10-K for 2023
acquisitionOn March 24, 2023approximately $4 billion
consumer portion of our Netspend business
Word for word“On April 26, 2023, we completed the sale of the consumer portion of our Netspend business for approximately $1 billion.” 10-K for 2023
divestitureOn April 26, 2023approximately $1 billion
gaming business
Word for word“On April 1, 2023, we completed the sale of our gaming business for approximately $400 million.” 10-K for 2023
divestitureOn April 1, 2023approximately $400 million
AdvancedMD, Inc.
Word for word“In December 2024, we completed the sale of AdvancedMD, Inc.” 10-K for 2024
divestitureIn December 2024—
Worldpay Holdco, LLC
Word for word“On January 9, 2026, we acquired 100% of Worldpay Holdco, LLC (“Worldpay”) from Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“FIS”) and affiliates of GTCR LLC (“GTCR”) and divested our Issuer Solutions business to FIS.” 10-K for 2025
acquisitionJanuary 9, 2026—
Issuer Solutions business
Word for word“Consideration received for the divestiture of our Issuer Solutions business consisted of (1) approximately $7.7 billion in cash and (2) FIS’ ownership interest in Worldpay.” 10-K for 2025
divestiture—approximately $7.7 billion in cash
Total System Services, Inc.
Word for word“In addition, in connection with our merger with Total System Services, Inc. ("TSYS") in September 2019 (the "TSYS Merger"), we assumed $3.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes of TSYS, consisting of the following: (i) $750.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.800% senior notes due 2021, which were redeemed in February 2021; (ii) $550.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.750% senior notes due 2023, which were redeemed in June 2023; (iii) $550.0 million aggregate principal amount of 4.000% senior notes due 2023, which were redeemed in June 2023; (iv) $750 million aggregate principal amount of 4.800% senior notes due 2026; and (v) $450 million aggregate principal amount of 4.450% senior notes due 2028.” 10-K for 2025
mergerSeptember 2019—
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)Goodwill from acquisitions
2017-12-31$562.7 million$784.7 million
2018-12-31$1.26 billion$698.9 million
2019-12-31$644.6 million$17.4 billion
2020-12-31$160.8 million$80.2 million
2021-12-31$1.81 billion$988.8 million
2022-12-31$65.7 million$3.3 million
2023-12-31$4.23 billion$3.28 billion
2024-12-31$487.1 million$193.3 million
2025-12-31$352.1 million—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Global Payments’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-20. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.