HONG KONG, Sept. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading provider of electronic transaction processing solutions, announced today that its Asia-Pacific joint venture with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ("HSBC"), Global Payments Asia-Pacific, has completed its agreement to expand into the Philippines to provide payment processing services to merchants.
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"We are excited to complete the expansion of our joint venture with HSBC in the Asia-Pacific region, and can now offer merchants in the Philippines our comprehensive processing solutions," said Global Payments' President of Worldwide Processing, Carl Williams. "Global Payments Asia-Pacific now provides payment processing services to merchants across eleven countries and territories of Brunei, the Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region), India, the Macau SAR, mainland China, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and the Philippines."
"We intend to continue to execute on our commitment to aggressively grow the payment processing market in the Asia-Pacific region," said Ian Courtnage, managing Director for Global Payments Asia-Pacific. "We would like to welcome the customers and employees of HSBC Philippines and look forward to leveraging our technological expertise to provide advanced products and services in the country," Courtnage continued.
Under the terms of the agreement announced at the end of July, Global Payments Asia-Pacific paid HSBC approximately $20 million in cash based on current exchange rates. Global Payments' cash obligation for the acquisition equating to its 56 percent ownership interest in the joint venture was approximately $11 million. The Philippines will also be added to the current ten-year marketing alliance agreement, in which HSBC refers new merchant customers exclusively to the joint venture for payment processing services.
The transaction is expected to be slightly accretive to Global Payments' diluted earnings per share in the first year.
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) is a leading provider of electronic transaction processing services for consumers, merchants, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), financial institutions, government agencies and multi-national corporations located throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Asia-Pacific region. Global Payments offers a comprehensive line of processing solutions for credit and debit cards, business-to-business purchasing cards, gift cards, electronic check conversion and check guarantee, verification and recovery including electronic check services, as well as terminal management. The company also provides consumer money transfer services from the United States and Europe to destinations in Latin America, Morocco, and the Philippines. For more information about the company and its services, visit http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com .
This announcement by Global Payments' may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical facts, including revenue and earnings estimates and management's expectations regarding future events and developments, are forward-looking statements and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated by such forward-looking statements include the following: continued certification by credit card associations, foreign currency risks, competition and pricing, product demand, market and customer acceptance, development difficulties, the effect of economic conditions and consumer spending, security breaches or systems failures, costs of capital, changes in state, federal or foreign laws and increases in credit card association fees, utility or system interruptions, the ability to consummate and integrate acquisitions, and other risks detailed in the Company's SEC filings, including the most recently filed Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, as applicable. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise any of these statements to reflect future circumstances or the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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