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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001123360-23-000030"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "GPN"
cik: "0001123360"
company_name: "GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T16:53:00.846936+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Payments board sets annual Say-on-Pay vote policy after advisory vote

## Summary
- Shareholders preferred an annual advisory vote on executive compensation at April 27, 2023 annual meeting.
- Board adopted policy to hold Say-on-Pay votes every year until at least 2029.
- Next required non-binding advisory vote on frequency of Say-on-Pay due by 2029 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001123360-23-000030
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: GPN
- cik: 0001123360
- company_name: GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2023-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000030/0001123360-23-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000030/gpn-20230801.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001123360-23-000030
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001123360-23-000030.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001123360-23-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation at the 2023-04-27 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-04-27
  source text: At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company held on April 27, 2023, the Company’s shareholders indicated their preference, on an advisory basis, that an advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers be held every year ("Say-on-Pay").
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336023000030/0001123360-23-000030-index.htm

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