AWS, Global Payments Collaborate to Provide an Industry Leading Cloud-Based Issuer Processing Platform to Institutions of All Sizes

Today, Global Payments Inc. and Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced a new, multi-year collaboration agreement to provide a cloud-based issuer processing platform to financial institutions around the world. As part of this agreement, Global Payments and AWS will strategically collaborate to transform Global Payments’ core issuing platform to deliver secure, innovative solutions for the payment industry at scale. Global Payments will work with AWS to build on AWS’s customer relationships, making innovative technologies available to institutions of all sizes worldwide and expand the customer base for Global Payments’ issuer processing services.

Global Payments’ cloud-based issuer processing platform built on AWS will allow financial institutions of all sizes to more seamlessly operate the entire lifecycle of card issuance and management. The company is also leveraging the proven scalability of AWS’s global infrastructure to support the rapid adoption of Global Payments’ issuer processing platform around the world, which today handles approximately 27 billion transactions annually.