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ACQUISITIONS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2026
Business Combination, Asset Acquisition, Transaction between Entities under Common Control, and Joint Venture Formation [Abstract] |
Schedule of Purchase Consideration | The fair value of total purchase consideration was determined as follows (in thousands, except share and per share data):
Consideration transferred to GTCR: |  |
Number of shares of Global Payments issued in the acquisition (1) |  | 42,779,788 |
Price per share of Global Payments common stock as of January 8, 2026 (2) |  | $ | 78.69 |
Fair value of common stock issued |  | 3,366,342 |
Cash paid to GTCR (3) |  | 6,041,671 |
|  | 9,408,013 |
Consideration transferred to FIS: |  |
Fair value of the Issuer Solutions business transferred to FIS (4) |  | 15,086,000 |
Cash received from FIS, including reimbursement of cash in business transferred (5) |  | (7,516,216) |
|  | 7,569,784 |
Total purchase consideration |  | $ | 16,977,797 |
(1) Number of shares issued is net of 488,253 shares, with postcombination employee service requirements and includes 729,600 shares related to Worldpay equity awards that vested automatically at closing and were converted into Global Payments common stock. (2) Represents the closing share price of Global Payments common stock as of January 8, 2026, the last trading day prior to the Transaction closing. (3) Amount includes $153.6 million for Worldpay equity awards held by employees that vested automatically at the acquisition date and settled in cash. (4) The fair value of our Issuer Solutions business transferred to FIS is based on a third-party valuation using the average of the income and market approaches. (5) Final closing cash amounts are preliminary and subject to working capital and other adjustments.
Schedule of Major Classes of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed | The provisional estimated acquisition-date fair values of major classes of assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of March 31, 2026, including a reconciliation to the total purchase consideration, were as follows (in thousands):
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 4,136,237 |
Accounts receivable |  | 657,835 |
Settlement processing assets |  | 2,113,017 |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets(1) |  | 1,064,511 |
Other intangible assets |  | 16,403,552 |
Property and equipment |  | 374,598 |
Deferred tax asset |  | 30,805 |
Other noncurrent assets |  | 243,118 |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |  | (1,894,231) |
Settlement processing obligations |  | (4,548,560) |
Debt(2) |  | (8,908,559) |
Deferred tax liability |  | (2,022,745) |
Other noncurrent liabilities |  | (598,988) |
Total identifiable net assets |  | 7,050,590 |
Goodwill |  | 9,927,207 |
Preliminary total purchase consideration |  | $ | 16,977,797 |
(1) Includes $860.4 million of restricted cash held in escrow by a third party used to fund a portion of the assumed debt paid off at the acquisition date. (2) Assumed debt was paid off at the acquisition date.
Schedule of Fair Value of Intangible Assets | The following table reflects the provisional estimated fair values of the identified intangible assets of Worldpay and the respective weighted-average estimated amortization periods:
| Estimated Fair Value |  | Weighted-Average Estimated Amortization Period
| (in thousands) |  | (years)
Customer-related intangible assets | $ | 14,666,742 |  |  | 11.3
Acquired technologies | 1,351,164 |  |  | 7.0
Contract-based intangible assets | 270,831 |  |  | 10.0
Trademarks and trade names | 114,815 |  |  | 2.0
Total identifiable intangible assets | $ | 16,403,552 |  |  | 10.9
Schedule of Pro Forma Information |
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2026 |  | March 31, 2025
| (in thousands)
Total revenues | $ | 3,076,852 |  |  | $ | 3,097,856 |
Net loss attributable to continuing operations of Global Payments | (88,228) |  |  | (54,926) |

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