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Global Payments adds support for Apple Pay in UK

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, is pleased to announce it will offer its merchants in the UK the ability to accept Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay, at launch next month.

15 June 2015

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Global Payments names Frank Young as SVP products and innovation

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced today that former Google executive Frank T. Young has joined Global Payments as Senior Vice President, Global Product and Innovation.

10 June 2015

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Global Payments and Virtual Next team on mobile payments and loyalty in Canada

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced an agreement with Virtual Next, a mobile-based digital rewards solutions company, to offer its Canadian merchants a new mobile payment, loyalty, promotion and gift card service.

04 June 2015

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Global Payments completes acqusition of FIS gaming business

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of gaming assets from Certegy Check Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services, FIS (FIS)™, related to its business for licensed gaming operators.

02 June 2015

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Global Payments launches EMV and contactless tech in Canada

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, today announced the launch of the new Ingenico Companion Mobile Payment (iCMP) MPOS – a turnkey mobile point-of-sale solution offering full debit and credit EMV and contactless payment acceptance to Canadian merchants.

27 April 2015

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Global Payments acquires Realex Payments

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced today the purchase of Realex Payments, one of Europe’s largest and fastest growing payment gateways providing a range of technology services for businesses selling online.

25 March 2015

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Global Payments and Bank of the Philippine Islands form joint venture

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions, and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), a leading commercial bank in the Philippines, announced today an agreement to form a joint venture to provide merchant acquiring and payment services in the Philippines.

18 December 2014

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Half of US POS terminals to accept chip cards by end of 2015

Nearly half of US merchant terminals will accept EMV chip card payments by the end of next year, according to a trade body set up to push the migration from magstripe plastic.

17 October 2014

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Global Payments signals support for Apple Pay

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), one of the largest worldwide providers of payment solutions, is pleased to announce that its Integrated Solutions division, OpenEdge, fully supports Apple Pay, and will deliver the service to more than 2,000 integrated software application developers.

02 October 2014

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CaixaBank and Global Payments to stage trans-Atlantic wearable hackathon

CaixaBank and Global Payments are to host a wearable financial app hackathon to be held simultaneously in Barcelona and Atlanta.

26 September 2014

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Hong Kong mobile operator 1010 moves into mPOS market

Hong Kong mobile operator 1010 has partnered with Global Payments to introduce a mobile point-of-sale reader that turns smart phones and tablets into card acceptance devices.

11 December 2013

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CaixaBank moves in to mPOS market

Spain's CaixaBank has jumped on the mPOS bandwagon, teaming up with Global Payments on an app and chip and PIN-based system for accepting card transactions.

29 August 2013