---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-026460"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPN"
cik: "0001123360"
company_name: "GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2026-03-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T14:41:32.265673+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Payments prices $1B senior notes offering in two tranches

## Summary
- Issued $500M of 4.550% Senior Notes due 2028 and $500M of 5.400% Senior Notes due 2033.
- Underwriters include Barclays, BofA Securities, and J.P. Morgan; closing expected March 12, 2026.
- Proceeds for general corporate purposes; notes registered under existing S-3 shelf.
- Offering upsizes debt by $1B at fixed rates, extending maturity profile.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-026460
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPN
- cik: 0001123360
- company_name: GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2026-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465926026460/0001104659-26-026460-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465926026460/tm266812d2_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-026460
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-026460.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC entered into Underwriting Agreement with Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters (effective 2026-03-05).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters
  - Effective: 2026-03-05
  source text: On March 5, 2026, Global Payments Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell, and the Underwriters agreed to purchase, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.550% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.400% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes” and, together with the 2028 Notes, the “Notes”), in a public offering (the “Offering”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000110465926026460/0001104659-26-026460-index.htm

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