Business Wire
"Global Payments announced that its Worldpay® business released its 11th annual Global Payments Report, revealing that Americans remain attached to plastic – even as younger generations are swapping physical wallets for digital. Some notable trends from this year’s study include: Plastic Preferred — For Now The U.S. remains one of the world’s most card-led markets: In the U.S., direct use of cards accounted for 49% of all online spending and 71% of in‑store spending in 2025. In the U.S. in 2025, people spent twice as much online using credit cards than debit cards, and in stores, credit card spending outpaced debit by 43%."
IBS Intelligence
"Global Payments Inc. announced its Worldpay business has joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) as a Principal Member, enabling clients to begin offering Wero – the pan-European instant payment solution – over the coming months. As an EPI member, the company’s clients will be able to accept Wero payments across Europe, giving consumers more choice and flexibility at checkout. Enabling Wero builds on the company’s ongoing effort to expand its leading European payment acceptance capabilities and deliver innovative solutions for clients worldwide."
IBS Intelligence
UnionPay International has extended its decade-long partnership with Worldpay, introducing UnionPay 3D Secure (3DS) and ExpressPay capabilities to expand global online acceptance for UnionPay cards. The enhancement will allow UnionPay cardholders to make eCommerce transactions across major markets, including the US, UK, and Europe, as well as sectors such as airlines, retail, and hospitality.
Worldpay
"Worldpay has announced the launch of Worldpay MCP (Model Context Protocol), a publicly available set of server specifications and tools, designed to accelerate AI-powered payment integration and open the door for agentic commerce innovation. This launch marks the next milestone in Worldpay’s ongoing focus on innovation, shaping the future of commerce."
Worldpay
"Worldpay®announced its support for the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). With ACP, U.S.-based ChatGPT users will soon be able to shop directly from participating Worldpay merchants using Instant Checkout. Worldpay’s leading credential management and advanced fraud prevention tools enable merchants to accept transactions securely and reliably, ensuring consumers’ data is protected in the same way as traditional e-commerce transactions."
Business Wire
"Worldpay® announced the launch of its innovative Authentication Optimization Service, a patent-pending solution designed to maximize payment approval rates and minimize unnecessary friction for merchants using 3D Secure (3DS) to authenticate payments. This service is widely available to merchants that accept payments in non-3DS regulated markets."
Worldpay
"Worldpay® announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement to provide Kroger with comprehensive payment processing services for in-store, online and mobile transactions. Kroger is one of the world's largest food retailers and serves over 11 million customers daily through e-commerce and grocery stores under a variety of banner names."
Worldpay
"Worldpay® has launched the Embedded Finance Engine, a new suite of best-in-class financial service products that its software platform partners can quickly integrate to drive higher retention and revenue growth while streamlining their tech stacks and ecosystems. With a simple, single integration, Worldpay’s innovative Embedded Finance Engine — featuring modern programming architecture and configurable widgets — delivers embedded financial services that are ready to launch out of the box, without requiring major investment or additional resources."
Reuters
"Britain' Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry into Global Payments' $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay, assessing whether the deal could potentially lessen competition in UK markets. The CMA has set a deadline of November 11 to reach its Phase 1 decision."
Business Wire
"Worldpay® announced they are partnering with Trulioo to introduce new safeguards for AI-powered agent-led commerce. As AI agents play a growing role in shopping on behalf of consumers, verifying agent identities and capturing clear, auditable shopper consent are critical to maintaining trust, preventing fraud and meeting evolving regulatory requirements. Worldpay and Trulioo will innovate to deliver advanced tools to ensure that merchants, payment providers and consumers can trust agent-based transactions."
Business Wire
"The demand for embedded financial services is growing fast with 90% of small- and medium-sized businesses indicating access to financial products and services from within their software platforms is critical, according to Worldpay® research. To meet this demand, Worldpay is expanding its Worldpay for Platforms offering to Canada and the United Kingdom, while deepening its presence in Australia."
Business Wire
"Worldpay® has expanded its partnership with Visa to enhance the payments leader’s 3D Secure (3DS) solution, which can help merchants reduce fraud while reducing consumer friction and boosting authorizations. By passing through authentication data to the issuer, merchants in the U.S. using 3DS Flex™ from Worldpay can enhance payments security and shopper experience while improving approval rates."
Paze
"Worldpay® and Early Warning Services have announced a new partnership at Worldpay’s annual client and partner event, Rethink, to enable PazeSM as a checkout option available to its merchants. Paze is an online checkout solution developed by Early Warning Services that is offered by leading banks and credit unions in the U.S. The convenient Paze checkout experience enables consumers to pay online with their preferred credit and debit cards via added security through tokenization, and seamless digital authentication."
Worldpay
"Worldpay® and BVNK announced they are working together to enable nearly instant global payouts in stablecoins for Worldpay clients in the U.S. and Europe. This collaboration will enable Worldpay’s clients to pay out to customers, contractors, creators, sellers, and other 3rd party beneficiaries in stablecoins across more than 180 markets nearly instantly, all without having to hold or handle stablecoins themselves."
Worldpay
"Point of sale (POS) innovator Yabie announced a strategic partnership with Worldpay® to power the merchant business tools within Worldpay 360, a new all-in-one business management and payment solution tailored specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK."
Business Wire
Global Payments Inc. announced definitive agreements to divest its Issuer Solutions business to FIS and acquire Worldpay. On a combined basis, the company will have extensive global reach and scale, serving more than 6 million customers and enabling approximately 94 billion transactions and $3.7 trillion in volume across more than 175 countries.
Worldpay
"With the aim to deliver payments experiences consumers love, Worldpay ® has joined forces with Visa to bring their Click to Pay payment option to merchants in the U.K. Worldpay customers using the company’s hosted payments pages can simply turn on Click to Pay with Visa without the need for merchant integration or development."
Worldpay
"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) and real-time account-to-account (A2A) technology has revolutionized the way consumers pay."
Business Wire
"NCR Voyix Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement with Worldpay® to enable NCR Voyix to offer a combined cloud-based software and payments solution to retailers and restaurants."
Worldpay
"Worldpay® and Capital One have joined forces in a new collaboration to optimize payment fraud decisioning and enhance payment security and efficiency with a data sharing agreement. Merchants enrolled in Worldpay’s flagship fraud detection and prevention solution, FraudSight™, will automatically receive the benefits when accepting a payment made using a card issued by Capital One."
Aeropay
"Aeropay and Worldpay have announced a new, strategic partnership to enhance gaming payments for players and operators. Aeropay's proprietary account-to-account platform can now be integrated with Worldpay’s extensive merchant network — offering advanced A2A payments and payouts to U.S. gaming operators."
ACI Worldwide
"ACI Worldwide and Worldpay announced an extension of their longstanding partnership."
Crowdfund Insider
"July 20, 2024, will mark exactly one year since the Federal Reserve announced the launch of the notable FedNow Service, which has allowed customers at participating financial institutions to make payments that can be sent and received at any time, immediately available to use."
Business Wire
"Worldpay, announced that it has closed upon its previously announced sale and will now operate as an independent company."
PR Newswire
"GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Worldpay, a leading global provider of payment processing solutions, from FIS®, a global leader in financial services technology. GTCR will acquire 55% of Worldpay, and FIS will retain the remaining 45%, in a transaction that values the business at $18.5 billion."
Business Wire
"Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and global financial technology leader Worldpay from FIS®, today announced a multi-year partnership that will make Affirm’s Adaptive Checkout™ available to all eligible Worldpay merchants."
Seeking Alpha
GoDaddy and Worldpay from Fidelity National Information Services plan to launch Commerce 360, an all-in-one omni-commerce solution that makes selling anything, anywhere simple, online or in-store, for small retail businesses.
FIS® (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in merchant and financial services technology, today announced Open Banking Hub, an innovative new payment solution for its Worldpay merchant clients and their consumers. Merchants who enable this digital bank account payment method in their online stores can allow their consumers to pay for purchases directly from their bank account, while also allowing consumers to view their bank account balance in real time during the checkout process. Because the new solution routes users directly to their personal bank to authorize payment, they never have to enter card or account information into a third-party site.
“FIS ™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, today announced the addition of Google Pay to its Hosted Payment Page (HPP) product for online merchants. Because Worldpay from FIS has made the technical integration within their HPP offering, merchants can simply “turn on” Google Pay to enable express online checkouts.”
Worldpay Press Room
“Worldpay (UK) Limited has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Strategic Partnership Program and has become the largest global acquirer to connect into the IATA Financial Gateway (IFG). By joining the Fintech and Payments Services Strategic Partnership Program, Worldpay will contribute to the creation of IATA policies and regulations on behalf of its member airlines. The leading payments technology company brings 25 years of airline payments experience to consult on compliance with regulations (e.g., PSD2 and Strong Cardholder Authentication), diverse payment methods, the passenger payment experience and trends within the travel space.”
