14 May 25 @ 10:04

In a sweeping strategic reshuffle, Global Payments has announced a landmark agreement to acquire Worldpay for a net purchase price of $22.7 billion while simultaneously divesting its Issuer Solutions business... read more

24 Mar 25 @ 09:24

Worldpay has announced its acquisition of Ravelin, an AI-native fraud prevention platform based in London. This strategic move will expand Worldpay’s portfolio of value-added services, equipping merchants with advanced fraud... read more

14 Aug 23 @ 14:18

FIS has agreed to sell a majority stake in its merchant payments arm Worldpay to private equity firm GTCR for up to $18.5 billion – one of the largest corporate... read more

26 May 22 @ 06:13

Worldpay has become the first global merchant acquirer to offer merchants the ability to receive settlement directly in USD Coin (USDC), a digital currency linked to the US dollar as... read more

13 Oct 19 @ 14:05

FIS announced the closing of its acquisition of Worldpay, creating a global leader in technology and solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets. The combined company will have over $12... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:21

Mastercard, WorldPay and AmEx were among the payment processors who took part in a ‘cyber war game’, in a bid to test their systems amid rising IT security threats. The... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

Worldpay has agreed a £9.1 billion deal to be acquired by US rival Vantiv, which sent shares in the company tumbling sharply. Worldpay shares fell close to ten percent to... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:34

Worldpay is breaking into the small business lending market in a move to provide thousands of customers with flexible loans. Working in partnership with Liberis, the Worldpay Business Finance unit... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

The e-commerce division of WorldPay has announced significant growth across all product groups with transaction volumes up 45% compared to H1 2012. In H1 2013, over 257 million gateway transactions... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 20:31

WorldPay has launched an mPOS chip and PIN payment solution aimed at small businesses. The service, WorldPay Zinc, enables businesses to download an app onto a smartphone or tablet and... read more

05 Aug 25 @ 17:15

European fintech M&A is surging in 2025, with disclosed deal value for $100 million-plus transactions reaching $3.9 billion in H1 2025, almost double the total recorded for all of 2024.... read more

14 May 25 @ 10:13

The 10th edition of the Worldpay Global Payments Report (GPR) reveals a global transformation in payments. In just a decade, innovation such as digital wallets, buy now pay later (BNPL)... read more

24 Mar 25 @ 09:39

In the fast-evolving world of digital payments, reliability, speed and uptime are essential factors for merchants and businesses. The Strawhecker Group (TSG), a recognised analytics and intelligence firm specialising in... read more

22 Oct 24 @ 13:44

The Global Payments Report 2024 from Worldpay shows that transaction value on prepaid cards is set to surpass $1 trillion in 2024. Worldpay’s 2024 study explains that prepaid cards have... read more

14 Aug 24 @ 08:13

This year’s Global Payments Report from Worldpay shows continued appetite for online shopping compared to Point of Sale (POS) payments – with implications for merchants, banks and payments intermediaries. Around... read more

02 May 24 @ 10:16

Current approaches have kept fraud at bay: but serious new threats in the digital channel plus digital growing as a proportion of the economy means we need a rethink. James... read more

14 Dec 23 @ 16:02

Jeffries recently made a deep-dive analysis of the Nilson Report’s annual Top Merchant Acquiring ranking to compare top players, annual changes and track evolution of payments companies vs. banks. Post... read more

24 Oct 23 @ 09:51

Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlement capabilities to the high-performing Solana blockchain and is working with merchant acquirers Worldpay and Nuvei, modernising cross-border money movement. Through live pilots with issuers... read more

14 Aug 23 @ 14:27

The 2023 version of The Global Payments Report by Worldpay, has revealed that Account to Account payments are now worth $525 billion globally – and are projected to grow at... read more

16 Feb 23 @ 16:18

New technologies such as Account-to-Account payments and Open Banking are taking intermediaries out of the value chain in payments, while fresh advances in blockchain threaten total disintermediation. James Wood looks... read more