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June 11, 2025

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Worldpay and Visa Join Forces to Boost Authorizations, Enhance Shopper Experience

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."

June 6, 2025

On the web

Worldpay Enables Paze, Brings New Levels of Convenience and Speed to Online Checkout

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."

May 28, 2025

On the web

Worldpay to Enable Stablecoin Payouts for Global Businesses in Collaboration with BVNK

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."

May 20, 2025

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April 17, 2025

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March 20, 2025

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March 12, 2025

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February 27, 2025

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November 5, 2024

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Reducing Fraud and Amping up Authorizations: Worldpay and Capital One Share Transaction Data to Optimize Payments

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."

October 10, 2024

On the web

Aeropay and Worldpay Partner to Advance Gaming Payments

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."

July 24, 2024

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July 18, 2024

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February 2, 2024

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July 6, 2023

On the wires

GTCR to Acquire Majority Stake in Worldpay

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."

May 31, 2023

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March 1, 2023

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June 17, 2020

On the wires

Pay by Bank Account? Worldpay From FIS Enables Instant Payments From Your Bank Account Through Open Banking Hub

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.

May 5, 2020

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July 19, 2019

On the wires

Worldpay Joins IATA’s Strategic Partnership Program

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.”

March 18, 2019

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FIS Is Buying Worldpay for $43 Billion to Form Payments Giant

CNN

“The new entity, which will have annual revenue of more than $12 billion, will be better placed to serve the world’s growing e-commerce industry, the two US companies said in a statement Monday. FIS is offering Worldpay shareholders a mix of cash and stock to make the deal happen. It will assume Worldpay’s debt as part of the agreement that values the company at $43 billion. FIS shareholders will end up holding 53% of the merged company, while Worldpay shareholders will own the remaining 47%. The deal is expected to close later this year. “Scale matters in our rapidly changing industry,” FIS CEO Gary Norcross said in the statement. “Our two powerhouse organizations will combine forces to offer a customer-driven combination of scale, global presence and the industry’s broadest range of global financial solutions.””

March 8, 2018

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