Global Payments - Military Audit

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Global Payments Inc. is a Georgia-incorporated, NYSE-listed payments-technology company whose consolidated business includes merchant acceptance, payment processing, related software, and value-added services ¹.
Global Payments acquired 100% of Worldpay Holdco, LLC from FIS and GTCR affiliates in January 2026, while divesting its Issuer Solutions business to FIS ¹.
No public evidence identified.
The reviewed corporate filings do not identify an Israeli government, Israeli security-service, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, or other defence customer of Global Payments ^{1, 2}.
The 2025 significant-subsidiaries exhibit does not list an Israel-organised subsidiary, but the exhibit expressly excludes subsidiaries that are not significant in the aggregate and therefore cannot establish group-wide absence ².

Global Payments describes its business as payments technology, merchant acceptance, payment processing, related software, and value-added services rather than as production of hardware, weapons, or tactical equipment ¹.
Its listed significant subsidiaries include payment, merchant-acquiring, software, and related-services businesses such as Heartland Payment Systems, EVO Merchant Services, Total System Services, TSYS Acquiring Solutions, TSYS Merchant Solutions, Cayan, Central Payment, MineralTree, TouchNet, Active Network, and Xenial ².
No public evidence identified of Global Payments manufacturing, adapting, or marketing a tactical, military-specific, weapons-integrated, surveillance, or combat-support product line in the reviewed corporate materials ^{1, 2}.

Global Payments’ reported business model concerns payment processing, merchant acceptance, related software, and value-added services ¹.
No public evidence identified of Global Payments manufacturing or supplying heavy machinery, construction equipment, military engineering equipment, physical infrastructure, or construction services in the reviewed filings ^{1, 2}.
The significant-subsidiaries filing identifies entities operating in payments, merchant services, software, and related technology categories rather than an identified heavy-machinery or construction division ².

Global Payments’ January 2026 acquisition of Worldpay Holdco expanded its consolidated payments business, while its Issuer Solutions business was simultaneously divested to FIS ¹.
Global Payments previously announced its acquisition of EVO Payments in 2022, describing EVO as a provider of payment-technology integrations and acquiring solutions ³.
No public evidence identified of Global Payments, Worldpay Holdco, EVO Payments, or the listed significant subsidiaries serving as a disclosed supplier, subcontractor, payment intermediary, or technology integrator for a defence prime in the reviewed materials ^{1, 2, 3}.

The corporate filings characterize Global Payments’ activities as payment-technology, merchant-acceptance, payment-processing, software, and value-added services ¹.
No public evidence identified of contracts or operations involving military-base services, troop sustainment, warehousing, transport, fuel provision, facilities management, catering, or logistics support in the reviewed filings ^{1, 2}.
The reviewed subsidiary list includes international payments-related entities in Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, but does not itself identify defence-logistics activities ².

Global Payments’ disclosed business description does not identify munitions, weapons systems, strategic platforms, aerospace products, naval systems, armoured vehicles, or military communications equipment as company products ¹.
No public evidence identified of Global Payments producing, financing as a disclosed contractor, servicing, or integrating munitions, weapons systems, or strategic military platforms in the reviewed corporate records ^{1, 2}.
The 2025 filing’s listed subsidiaries are payments, acquiring, processing, software, and related-services entities rather than identified weapons or munitions manufacturers ².

Global Payments’ 2025 Form 10-K describes a payments-technology business and its consolidated subsidiaries, while the significant-subsidiaries exhibit identifies the legal entities included in that filing’s material-subsidiary perimeter ^{1, 2}.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of defence-export licensing, military end-use licensing, arms-export controls, sanctions enforcement concerning military goods, or disclosed military-procurement litigation involving Global Payments ^{1, 2}.
The absence of an Israel-organised entity from the significant-subsidiaries exhibit cannot establish that no non-significant Israeli subsidiary or operation exists because the exhibit excludes subsidiaries that are not significant in the aggregate ².

The supplied document pre-scan reported no full-text mention of Global Payments in the listed UN, OHCHR, PAX, Al-Haq, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, BankTrack, BDS, KLP, and Who Profits documents, although that result is limited to the specified documents and does not establish database-wide absence ¹.
No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate-record materials of a documented civil-society investigation alleging that Global Payments supports Israeli military activity, settlements, or defence procurement ^{1, 2, 4}.
The 2026 proxy identifies Cameron M. Bready as CEO and director, M. Troy Woods as Independent Chair, and other executive officers including Robert M. Cortopassi, Joshua J. Whipple, Dara Steele-Belkin, and Stella Nichole Viviani ⁴.
The reviewed proxy biographies identified commercial, technology, financial-services, and civic roles for the disclosed leadership and did not identify Israeli military, defence-industry, IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, settlement-organisation, or Friends of the IDF roles within that corporate-record review ⁴.
GTCR W Aggregator LP was disclosed as holding 15.5% of Global Payments shares, while The Vanguard Group and BlackRock, Inc. were disclosed as holding 8.9% and 6.3% respectively ⁴.
The proxy states that GTCR is managed through GTCR entities and that no single person has voting or dispositive authority over the reported GTCR securities ⁴.