Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships
Global Payments Inc. is a Georgia-incorporated public company that provides payment processing, merchant acceptance, business-management software, and related value-added services across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America 1.
Global Payments completed the acquisition of Worldpay on 9 January 2026, and the company describes the combined business as serving more than six million merchant locations and processing approximately 94 billion annual transactions 2.
Before the acquisition, Worldpay publicly described implementing Fireblocks tools for orchestration, transfer, and settlement of stablecoin payments, including fiat/stablecoin on- and off-ramps, treasury visibility, reporting and reconciliation, and policy-based permissions 3.
The reviewed evidence establishes the Worldpay–Fireblocks relationship as payment-settlement infrastructure as of April 2024, rather than as a disclosed deployment of Global Payments’ core network-security infrastructure 3.
Fireblocks states that its founders previously worked at Check Point, which establishes an Israeli-technology-sector connection at the founder-background level but does not establish Israeli hosting, engineering, support, or data access for the Worldpay deployment 4.
No public evidence identified of a direct Global Payments licensing, subscription, or integration relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax, or a named Israeli systems integrator in the reviewed filing and targeted searches 1.
Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology
No public evidence identified of Global Payments or Worldpay using Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, predictive policing, sentiment analysis, social-media monitoring, or workforce-surveillance products in the reviewed sources 1.
Como markets a customer-engagement platform connecting point-of-sale, online-ordering, mobile-app, website, and Wi-Fi touchpoints 5.
Como states that its platform makes customer data available in real time and uses customer preferences and purchase history to support targeted messages 5.
Como’s public marketing of “AI & Actionable Data” documents behavioural and customer-analytics functionality, but does not document biometric identification or law-enforcement surveillance functionality 5.
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation
Global Payments reports reliance on computer systems, software, data centres, telecommunications networks, and third-party infrastructure in delivering its services 1.
The 2025 Form 10-K does not identify a Global Payments data centre, cloud region, data-processing site, or Israeli-jurisdiction access pathway in Israel 1.
Como’s website lists Israel among its offices and links its privacy notice to Global Payments 5.
Global Payments’ subsidiary exhibit lists Como America - UK Ltd. as a subsidiary, supporting a Global Payments-group connection to Como 6.
The available sources do not establish that customer, payment, behavioural, or AI-model data are stored in, routed through, processed in, or accessible from Israel 5, 6.
No public evidence identified of Global Payments or Worldpay participation in Project Nimbus, Israeli sovereign-cloud services, or data-residency or resilience services for Israeli state or military bodies 1, 2.
Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships
No public evidence identified of Global Payments, Worldpay, or the documented Como group connection contracting with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces, intelligence agencies, police, or another Israeli security body for technology, payment, cloud, analytics, or communications services 1, 2.
No public evidence identified of offensive-cyber capability, exploit tooling, digital weapons systems, or Israeli state deployment of such products attributable to Global Payments or Worldpay 1.
Global Payments’ 2026 proxy identifies executive officers and reports ownership information for directors, named executive officers, and disclosed 10% shareholders 7.
The reviewed proxy materials do not establish a founder, executive, director, or disclosed 10% shareholder with a verified Israeli technology, military, intelligence, or settlement-related affiliation 7.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed entity materials of controlling-principal investments, family-office vehicles, board roles, or material holdings connected to Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, signals-intelligence, defence, or settlement-linked technology firms 1, 7.
AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems
Como markets AI-generated customer insights intended to support repeat purchases and customer spending 5.
Como’s public materials do not identify an Israeli state, military, intelligence, police, or occupied-territory customer, and they do not describe training on intercepted communications or surveillance-derived civilian datasets 5.
No public evidence identified of Global Payments or Worldpay providing AI or machine-learning systems, computer vision, autonomous tracking, target generation, or purpose-built kinetic-targeting systems to Israeli state or security bodies 1, 2.
The reviewed sources do not establish that Como’s AI-related functions are developed in Israel, operated by Israel-based personnel, or supported by production-data access from Israel 5, 6.
Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint
Global Payments identifies Atlanta as its corporate headquarters and lists offices in Leicester, Great Britain, and Dublin, Ireland in its corporate contact materials 8.
The reviewed corporate contact material does not list an Israeli Global Payments office 8.
Como lists an Israel office and describes its offering as a data-driven loyalty, digital-payment, marketing-automation, and AI-enabled customer-engagement platform 5.
Como’s public site does not state the Israel office’s location, headcount, research-and-development remit, or whether Israeli personnel access production data 5.
The subsidiary exhibit omits subsidiaries that are not significant in the aggregate, so it cannot establish the complete legal-entity chain associated with Como’s Israel office 6.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of Global Payments’ acquisition date or consideration for Como, an acquisition or investment in another Israeli technology company, or an Israeli university or research-institution patent or co-development arrangement 5, 6.
Global Payments announced in January 2026 that it had completed both the Worldpay acquisition and the divestiture of its Issuer Solutions business to FIS 9.
The April 2025 transaction filing records the agreements governing the Worldpay acquisition and the Issuer Solutions divestiture, while the January 2026 announcement confirms their completion 9, 10.
Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History
No public evidence identified in the reviewed SEC filing and targeted searches of a boycott or divestment campaign, export-control action, sanctions investigation, or technology-sales legal action concerning Global Payments’ provision of technology to Israeli state entities or occupied-territory operations 1.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed entity materials of a Global Payments office, franchisee, reseller, or subsidiary in an internationally recognized occupied territory 1, 8.
Footnotes
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336026000008/gpn-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12
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https://www.comosense.com/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336026000008/ex211listofsubsidiaries123.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465926029453/tm261348-1_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.globalpayments.com/en-gb/our-company/contact-us ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://investors.globalpayments.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/498/global-payments-completes-acquisition-of-worldpay-and ↩ ↩2
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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465925036553/tm2512754d1_8k.htm ↩