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Global Payments ECONOMIC

ECONOMIC AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Economic Score 1.61 /10 E Global Payments - BDS-1000 156
Economic 1.61

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Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

Global Payments is a payments-technology group rather than a disclosed producer or distributor of agricultural, consumer, or manufactured goods 1.

No public evidence identified of Israeli agricultural sourcing, import-of-record arrangements, consumer-product distribution, or settlement-origin product-labelling activity.

Worldpay’s Israel documentation describes a domestic-payment capability using Israeli shekels, Israeli country code IL, Israeli-bank beneficiary data, and a T+1 earliest beneficiary-credit timetable 2.

Worldpay’s country-coverage documentation lists Israel and ILS, while stating that gambling-related payouts to or from Israel are restricted 3.

The reviewed materials do not identify the local Israeli banking partner, correspondent bank, merchant-acquiring licence, distributor, merchant customer, transaction volume, or settlement-location customer associated with this capability 2, 3.

No public evidence identified of Global Payments or Worldpay services specifically supplied to businesses in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem settlements, or the Golan Heights.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

Global Payments’ 2025 filing describes the group as a payments-technology company operating across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America 1.

The available Israel-specific product evidence concerns bank-payout coverage and currency capability, not Israeli-origin products, physical goods, or product-origin labelling 2, 3.

No public evidence identified of Israeli product sourcing, settlement-origin labelling, Israeli factories, R&D centres, logistics hubs, or real-estate investments in the reviewed corporate and document-scoped NGO materials.

The supplied document-scoped review found no mention of Global Payments in the specified UN, OHCHR, DBIO, PAX, Who Profits, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Al-Haq, KLP, BDS, and related reports 4, 5.

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

Global Payments completed its acquisition of Worldpay Holdco, LLC on 9 January 2026 while divesting its Issuer Solutions business to FIS 6, 7.

The 2025 Form 10-K states that consideration paid to GTCR included approximately $6.2 billion in cash and 43.3 million Global Payments shares, while FIS’s 45% Worldpay interest formed part of the consideration for the Issuer Solutions divestiture 1.

The confirmed acquired entity is Worldpay Holdco, LLC, rather than an Israeli-incorporated operating company 1.

No public evidence identified of direct acquisition or current control of an Israeli-incorporated operating company in the reviewed annual report, subsidiary exhibit, acquisition disclosures, and focused company and SEC searches.

No public evidence identified of underwriting Israeli sovereign or Israel Bonds issuances, lending to Israeli defence companies or OHCHR-listed entities, or insurance underwriting of Israeli state, military, or settlement operations.

The 2026 proxy reported GTCR W Aggregator LP as a 15.5% beneficial holder, Vanguard as an 8.9% holder, and BlackRock as a 6.3% holder as of 26 February 2026 8.

The proxy states that GTCR is managed through GTCR entities and that no individual manager has voting or dispositive authority over the reported shares 8.

Operational Presence & Market Activity

Global Payments describes the post-transaction group as a pure-play commerce-solutions provider serving merchant locations in more than 175 countries 6.

The Worldpay documentation establishes Israel-specific payout coverage but does not establish an Israeli legal entity, office, workforce, local payment-services licence, merchant customer base, or Israel-derived revenue 2, 3.

Global Payments’ current subsidiary exhibit lists consolidated subsidiaries and specified noncontrolling interests in multiple jurisdictions, without listing an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary 9.

This filing-specific subsidiary finding does not rule out non-consolidated commercial relationships, distributors, customers, agents, or changes after the filing date 9.

No public evidence identified of an Israeli office, workforce, government contract, or locally licensed Global Payments operating entity in the reviewed materials.

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

Global Payments Inc. is a Georgia corporation with EIN 58-2567903, New York Stock Exchange ticker GPN, and principal executive offices at 3550 Lenox Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30326 1.

Global Payments’ corporate history states that National Data Corporation began in Atlanta in 1967 and that the company was renamed Global Payments Inc. in 2000 10.

Cameron M. Bready is identified as chief executive officer and director, and M. Troy Woods is identified as independent board chair 11, 8.

The March 2026 proxy identifies the then-current director group as Woods, Bready, F. Thaddeus Arroyo, John G. Bruno, Archana Deskus, Joia M. Johnson, Kirsten M. Kliphouse, Connie D. McDaniel, Joseph H. Osnoss, William B. Plummer, Vivek Sankaran, and Patricia A. Watson 8.

No public evidence identified that Global Payments was founded or incorporated in Israel, maintains an Israeli headquarters or principal place of management, claims Israeli tax residency or PTE status, or is controlled by an Israeli-domiciled parent 1, 9, 8.

No supportable principal-specific finding connected the enumerated directors, CEO, chair, or GTCR’s non-individual ownership vehicle to Israel/Palestine-related political contributions, lobbying, charitable activity, board affiliations, investments, or public statements in the bounded review 8.

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

The reviewed corporate announcement does not separately disclose Israeli revenue, Israel-specific profits, tax payments, merchant volumes, office costs, payroll, or workforce 6.

The available Israel-specific documentation supports only a country- and currency-level payment capability and does not quantify economic activity in Israel 2, 3.

No public evidence identified of Israeli tax residency, Israeli profit repatriation, Israeli dividend flows, Israeli real-estate ownership, or disclosed Israeli economic contribution.

The document-scoped NGO and UN review does not establish absence from all government, regulatory, civil-society, procurement, subsidiary, reseller, acquired-entity, or historical-name records 4, 5.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336026000008/gpn-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://docs.worldpay.com/access/products/marketplaces/coverage/bank/apac/israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://docs.worldpay.com/access/products/marketplaces/coverage/bank ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2

  6. https://investors.globalpayments.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/498/global-payments-completes-acquisition-of-worldpay-and ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://investors.globalpayments.com/financial-information/all-sec-filings/content/0001104659-26-002705/0001104659-26-002705.pdf ↩

  8. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465926029453/tm261348-1_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336026000008/ex211listofsubsidiaries123.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://gpn-sc-xm-p-arhw-app-cd.azurewebsites.net/en-us/about-us ↩

  11. https://investors.globalpayments.com/corporate-governance/executive-team ↩