FIS (company)

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Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
FIS
Company type Public
IndustryFinancial Sector
Predecessor Systematics, Inc
Founded1968(56 years ago) (1968)
Headquarters
Jacksonville, Florida
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Stephanie Ferris
(CEO & President)
ProductsBanking Technology, Payment Technology, Processing Services, Information Based services
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$13.88 billion (2021)
Increase2.svgUS$1.06 billion (2021)
Increase2.svgUS$417 million (2021)
Total assets Decrease2.svgUS$82.93 billion (2021)
Total equity Decrease2.svgUS$47.35 billion (2021)
Number of employees
65,000+ (December 2021)
Website www.fisglobal.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech, and as of Q2 2024 it offers its solutions in two primary segments: Banking Solutions & Capital Market Solutions. Annually, FIS facilitates the movement of roughly $9 trillion through the processing of approximately 75 billion transactions in service to more than 20,000 clients around the globe. [2]

Contents

FIS was ranked second in the FinTech Forward 2016 rankings. [3] After acquiring Worldpay for $35 billion in Q3 of 2019, FIS became the largest processing and payments company in the world. [4]

History

The company was founded in Little Rock in 1968 as Systematics, which was later acquired by ALLTEL Information Services as its Financial Services division. Alltell then sold this divison to title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial in 2003, who renamed it Fidelity Information Services (FIS). [5]

Operations

FIS has a portfolio of products for the financial services sector, including both retail and investment banking. [6]

They include "Profile" ― a banking application based on the open source GT.M, a transaction processing database engine maintained by FIS. [7]

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments

Throughout its history, FIS has made many acquisitions. [8] Its largest to date would have been estimated around US$70 billion, but which fell through in December 2020. [9]

Divestments

In February 2023, in the wake of pressure from activist investors, the company announced it would spin off its merchant business that consisted of Worldpay in the next 12 months. [34] In July 2023, FIS agreed to sell a 55 percent stake in WorldPay to private equity firm GTCR for $11.7 billion, valuing WorldPay at $18.5 billion. [35] On February 1, 2024, the company announced it had competed the sale of a majority stake in its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to GTCR in a transaction that valued the deal at $18.5 billion USD, including $1 billion USD contingent on returns realized by GTCR. FIS will maintain commercial agreements with Worldpay and will create a joint strategic go-to-market partnership between the two entities. [36]

Finances

A 50% year-over-year increase in quarterly revenue was reported in FIS' Q1 2020 earnings report, climbing from $2.07 billion to $3.01 billion, while adjusted net earnings more than doubled (+112%) from $378 million to $802 million. According to FIS Q1 2020 earnings report, a majority of these substantial increases can be attributed to the historically massive $35 billion merger/acquisition deal with Worldpay, Inc. which closed in Q3 2019. [37]

For the fiscal year 2017, FIS reported earnings of US$1.319 billion, with an annual revenue of US$9.123 billion, a decrease of 1.3% over the previous fiscal cycle. FIS shares traded at over $106 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$33 billion in November 2018. [38]

YearRevenue
in mil. US$		Net income
in mil. US$		Total Assets
in mil. US$		Price per Share
in US$		Employees
20052,6881974,18915.77
20062,4172597,63118.08
20072,8935619,79522.46
20083,3602157,50017.28
20093,71110613,99818.23
20105,14640514,17623.27
20115,62647013,87325.85
20125,79646113,55029.22
20136,06349313,96040.5438,000
20146,41367914,52152.4140,000
20156,59663226,20062.8055,000
20169,24156826,03169.4055,000
20179,1231,31924,51786.1153,000
20188,42384623,770102.5547,000
201910,33329883,806139.0955,000
202012,55215883,842141.4662,000
202113,87741782,931109.1565,000

Controversies

On July 3, 2007, Certegy Check Services, part of FIS, announced that a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account, and other personal information. [39] This estimate was later increased to 8.5 million consumer records. The next month, a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against CCS and parent company FIS based on the privacy breach; the firm claims that, since CCS provides check-verification services to many major U.S. stores, "consumers do not choose to use the services of these companies but rather are forced to do so". [40]

In August 2011, Florida based eFunds Prepaid Solutions, part of FIS, was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that saw hackers steal $13 million from ATMs using 22 stolen prepaid cards belonging to a single client of FIS. [41]

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References

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  3. ↑ "FinTech Forward 2016". American Banker. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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  12. ↑ "Fidelity National Financial acquires Sanchez". 29 January 2004.
  13. ↑ "Fidelity National Financial to acquire Aurum Technology". 9 February 2004.
  14. ↑ "Fidelity National Financial acquires Bankware and Pro-Soft". 7 April 2004.
  15. ↑ "Fidelity to buy InterCept; postpones IPO". 9 September 2004.
  16. ↑ "Certegy shareholders agree to Fidelity merger". 27 January 2006.
  17. ↑ "Media Room".
  18. ↑ "FIS to Acquire Compliance Coach, Inc" . Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  19. ↑ "Capco - Financial Services Business and Technology Consultants".
  20. ↑ "FIS To Sell 60% Equity Interest In Capco; To Receive $477 Mln In Cash Proceeds". 22 May 2017.
  21. ↑ "- FIS acquisition of Platform Securities completed".
  22. ↑ "FIS acquires mobile banking guru mFoundry for $120 million". 3 February 2013.
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  32. ↑ "Report: FIS Acquires Bond Financial Technologies to Grow Embedded Finance". 9 June 2023.
  33. ↑ "FIS acquires Torstone Technology".
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