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The trailing-12-month window is dominated by the completion of the three-way Global Payments/Worldpay/FIS transaction, the largest recent restructuring of Georgia's payments industry, alongside continued DBF regulatory-driven market entries/exits (Fortress Trust, Crypto Dispensers) that reshape the state's licensed-entity landscape.

Open gap — wpm-int-1GA-specific payments/fintech M&A or funding events since 2025-10-11 were not located this cycle (W13).Emerging-market/remittance-corridor data is a known WPM under-indexed area per methodology §11; Georgia-specific granularity remains a research gap.
Standing sub-brief · as of 7 July 2026141 words · last cycle 2026-07-05

Commercial Intelligence

Global Payments completed its acquisition of Worldpay from FIS and GTCR on January 12, 2026, at a net purchase price of $22.7 billion and total transaction value of $24.25 billion including tax assets, and divested its Issuer Solutions business (the former TSYS franchise) to FIS as part of the same restructuring, transforming Global Payments into what the company describes as a "pure-play, commerce solutions provider." FIS completed its acquisition of that Issuer Solutions business for an enterprise value of $13.5 billion and sold its remaining 45% minority stake in Worldpay to Global Payments, also on January 12, 2026.

Outlook

This completed three-way restructuring is the dominant W13 event of the period and reshapes commercial dependency across Georgia's card-acquiring and processing landscape for merchants and issuers alike; no further M&A, funding-round or product-launch events were identified for Georgia this cycle.

no periodic updates on record for this sub-brief

Sources and findings (2 unique sources · R-3/R-4)
  1. [W13-E1] T1 Derived: Confirmed in_forcehttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001123360/000110465926002705/tm262856d1_ex99-1.htm re-verified

    Global Payments Inc. (Atlanta) completed its acquisition of Worldpay from FIS and GTCR (net purchase price $22.7 billion, total value $24.25 billion including tax assets) and divested its Issuer Solutions (former TSYS) business to FIS, on January 12, 2026, event_date 2026-01-12, amount_disclosed true.

  2. [W13-E2] T1 Derived: Confirmed in_forcehttps://www.fisglobal.com/about-us/media-room/press-release/2026/fis-completes-strategic-acquisition-of-global-payments-issuer-solutions-business re-verified

    FIS completed its acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business (formerly TSYS, Columbus, GA) for an enterprise value of $13.5 billion and sold its remaining 45% minority stake in Worldpay to Global Payments, on January 12, 2026, event_date 2026-01-12, amount_disclosed true.