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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001123360-25-000022"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPN"
cik: "0001123360"
company_name: "GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:43:16.993434+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Payments shareholders approve 2025 Incentive Plan and ESPP

## Summary
- All 10 director nominees elected; each received >169M votes for.
- 2025 Incentive Plan approved: 175.1M for, 15.7M against.
- Amended Employee Stock Purchase Plan approved: 182.9M for, 8.1M against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed: 159.2M for, 27.8M against.
- Ratification of Deloitte as auditor for 2025 approved: 194.7M for, 18.2M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001123360-25-000022
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPN
- cik: 0001123360
- company_name: GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336025000022/0001123360-25-000022-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123360/000112336025000022/gpn-20250424.htm

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