Close the acquisition of Worldpay from GTCR and FIS
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 17 Apr 2025
- Due
- 30 Jun 2026
- Delivered
- 20 Feb 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transactions are subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and expected to close in the first half of 2026.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The 10-K filed 2026-02-20 reports that the Worldpay acquisition and Issuer Solutions divestiture had already occurred, before the 2026-06-30 deadline. The exact closing date is not stated.
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A Global Payments 10-K filed 2026-02-20
“The acquisition of Worldpay and divestiture of our Issuer Solutions business occurred simultaneously.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Global Payments 10-Q filed 2026-05-08
“The acquisition of Worldpay and divestiture of our Issuer Solutions business occurred simultaneously.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -2.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (19 Feb 2026 to 24 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 4 Nov 2025
Deadline 31 Mar 2026 (“in the first quarter of 2026”) · wording expected
“the transactions are expected to close 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 Worldpay
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Low
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals; subject to 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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