First Data engages in commerce-enabling technology and solutions for merchants, financial institutions, and card issuers. The company's segments are: Global Business Solutions, which provides retail point-of-sale (POS) merchant acquiring and eCommerce services as well as offerings such as mobile payment services and cloud-based Clover POS operating system; Global Financial Solutions, which provides credit, retail private-label, commercial card as well as licensed financial software systems; and Network & Security Solutions, which provides electronic funds transfer network solutions, debit card processing solutions, stored value network solutions, and security and fraud solutions.

Global Payments is a pure play payment technology company providing payments and software solutions to merchants and financial institutions. The company has three segments: Merchant Solutions, which includes authorization services, chargeback resolution, and payment security services; Issuer Solutions, which provides solutions that enable financial institutions and other financial service providers to manage their card portfolios and reduces technical difficulty and overhead on a single platform; and Business and Consumer Solutions, which provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions through its Netspend? brand.

Worldpay is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides electronic payment processing services to merchants and financial institutions. The company operates two segments: Merchant Services, which provides merchant acquiring and payment processing services to national merchants, regional and small-to-mid sized businesses; and Financial Institution Services, which provides card issuer processing, payment network processing, fraud protection, card production, prepaid program management, automated teller machine driving and network gateway and switching services that utilize the company's proprietary Jeanie debit payment network to a set of financial institutions.