M/25/042 – FIS/TSYS
Transaction details
The proposed acquisition by Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. of sole control of Total System Services LLC has been notified to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
| Notification date | Decision date |
|---|---|
| Monday July 21, 2025 | |
| Parties Involved | Business activities |
|---|---|
| Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. | Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. is a global provider of financial services technology, offering retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance and outsourcing solutions. Its provision of financial services technology has a focus on the supply of core IT solutions used to run banks and that underpin online banking. Core Banking includes licensing software to banks whose in-house IT departments run the bank’s current accounts system, including payments and other core banking functions, with vendor support. For issuers, it offers processing services for card transactions (predominantly prepaid and debit cards) as an adjacent function. |
| Total System Services LLC | Total System Services LLC is Global Payments’ payment solutions provider. It focuses primarily on the supply of credit card issuer processing services – in particular for large-scale credit portfolios – on behalf of credit card issuers. |
| Economic sector | Media merger |
|---|---|
| Financial and Insurance Services | No |
| Submissions from third parties due by: | |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 |
| Friday, August 1, 2025 | |
| Current status: Active |
|---|
| Preliminary investigation (Phase 1) |
| Authorised Officer Assigned | Contact Details |
|---|---|
| Sinead Griffin | SineadGriffin@ccpc.ie |
| John O'Gorman | JohnOGorman@ccpc.ie |
Media enquiries: communications@ccpc.ie
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