Leading Payment Technology Company

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  - Accept a wide range of payments anywhere, anytime.
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- - Point of Sale
  - Get paid in-store with card readers and POS systems
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  - Payments technology integration for developers
- - Internet of Things
  - Shape the future with IoT payment integrations
  - Mobile
  - Get paid fast with our powerful mobile POS app
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  - Over 2 million businesses around the world count on us.
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Solutions
- - Solutions
  - Accept a wide range of payments anywhere, anytime.
    Learn More
- - Point of Sale
  - Get paid in-store with card readers and POS systems
  - Integrated
  - Payments technology integration for developers
- - Internet of Things
  - Shape the future with IoT payment integrations
  - Mobile
  - Get paid fast with our powerful mobile POS app
About Us
- - About Us
  - Over 2 million businesses around the world count on us.
    Learn More
- - Our Story
  - For over 50 years, we've helped businesses prosper
  - Investor Relations
  - News, earnings and executive management
- - Careers
  - Join our team of experts
  - Corporate Citizenship
  - Giving back is core to our values
Contact Us
- - Contact Us
  - We’re here to help 24/7.
    Learn More
- - Contact Sales
  - Tell us about your needs

Today’s Innovators of Tomorrow’s Payment and Technology Solutions

We deliver enterprise-wide applications, services and cloud solutions that enable businesses to simplify their operations and provide a customer friendly payment experience anytime, anywhere and in any form they choose.

Our Unique Strategy

We provide cutting-edge payments and software solutions all under one roof to help startups to enterprise businesses simplify commerce and cultivate their vision of success. Leveraging our unparalleled global presence and deep local-market expertise, we deliver highly competitive ecommerce and unified commerce solutions in a global economy.

Our strategy has created a differentiated model in the payments technology landscape, reinforcing our view that not all payments companies are created equal. Our customers value our capabilities and reach, enabling them to offer seamless payment experiences in-person, online, on device, and over the phone across a wide range of markets.

Facts and Figures

Solutions for > 3.5M businesses

Partner with > 1,300 leading financial institutions globally

Support more than 140 payment types

Easy to do business with > 3,500 global sales professionals

Approximately $8.6B adjusted net revenues + network fees

Approximately 24,000 employees

50B transactions processed annually

24/7 service in over 16 languages

Driving Innovation

We’ve been in the payments business for over 50 years, but the transition of Global Payments from a traditional merchant acquirer into a technology company began in 2012 when we entered the integrated payments space. Since that time, we have reinvented the business as a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions.

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Our History

It all started with an idea. In 1967, George W. Thorpe, a retired Deputy Director of Intelligence with the US Air Force, conceived a plan to offer specialized data processing services. Launched as National Data Corporation (NDC) in Atlanta, the company quickly opened offices in three other U.S. cities.

What follows is an incredible growth story. By 1977, 50 percent of all banks in the U.S. and Canada used NDC for MasterCharge authorization. By 1984, NDC had made multiple acquisitions, launched new services and processed more credit card transactions than any other company in the world.

Renamed Global Payments Inc. in 2000, we’ve continued our trajectory of growth and innovation. In 2019, we combined with TSYS to form the leading pure play payments technology company, bringing the value chain of payments under one roof to better serve our customers around the world. Today, Global Payments is a worldwide leader in delivering the total value of payments and integrated software solutions.

Explore our heritage through this interactive timeline.