Fidelity National Information Services
Close the acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 17 Apr 2025
- Due
- 30 Jun 2026
- Delivered
- 24 Feb 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“This transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals, the closing of the Worldpay transaction, and other customary closing conditions.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The 10-K filed 2026-02-24 states FIS had already acquired the Issuer Solutions Business, before the first-half 2026 deadline. The filing does not give an exact closing date.
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A Fidelity National Information Services 10-K filed 2026-02-24
“Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Transaction Agreement, FIS acquired the Issuer Solutions Business from Global Payments in exchange for FIS' $5.8 billion interest, net of taxes and other costs, in Worldpay and approximately $7.7 billion in cash.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Fidelity National Information Services 10-Q filed 2026-05-08
“FIS acquired the Issuer Solutions Business from Global Payments in exchange for FIS' $5.8 billion interest, net of taxes and other costs, in Worldpay and approximately $7.7 billion in cash.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +6.6% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (23 Feb 2026 to 26 Feb 2026). What this measures
Checked 11 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift -91 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 17 Apr 2025
Deadline 30 Jun 2026 (“in the first half of 2026”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 5 Nov 2025
Deadline 31 Mar 2026 (“in the first quarter of 2026”) · wording expected
“The transactions are now expected to close simultaneously in the first quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- Acquisition of Global Payments' Issuer Solutions business
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Low
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to regulatory approvals; subject to the closing of the Worldpay transaction; other customary closing conditions
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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