---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-084283"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DLX"
cik: "0000027996"
company_name: "DELUXE CORP"
filed_at: "2022-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T07:04:49.088293+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Deluxe Corp subsidiaries settle FTC investigation; $4.9M payment expected to be indemnified

## Summary
- First American Payment Systems, Eliot Management Group, and Think Point Financial entered consent order with FTC, neither admitting nor denying allegations.
- Consent order requires $4.9 million payment to FTC within 7 days of entry, plus injunctive relief on marketing and billing practices.
- Deluxe Corporation expects full indemnification of the payment under the acquisition agreement from the 2021 merger with FAPS Holdings.
- Subsidiaries agreed to refrain from certain sale and debiting practices, maintain a compliance program, and make negative-option disclosures.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-084283
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DLX
- cik: 0000027996
- company_name: DELUXE CORP
- filed_at: 2022-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000110465922084283/0001104659-22-084283-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/27996/000110465922084283/tm2222110d1_8k.htm

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