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Global Payments added 13 new risks and reorganized its risk disclosure framework with the introduction of categorical headers (Business Model, Legal/Regulatory, Financial, Intellectual Property, Capital Structure, and Economic Conditions), while substantively enhancing cybersecurity risk disclosures through five detailed new subsections covering threat identification, third-party risks, incident management, and board oversight. The company removed one Consumer Solutions segment relationship risk and modified seven existing risks, with the cybersecurity risk receiving the most significant expansion to address evolving technological and regulatory expectations around threat management.
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Risks Factors Summary
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Risks Related to Our Business Model and Operations
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Legal, Regulatory Compliance and Tax Risks
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Financial Risks
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Intellectual Property Risks
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Risks Related to Our Capital Structure
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Risks Related to General Economic Conditions
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General Risk Factors
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Processes for the Identification, Assessment, and Management of Material Risks from Cybersecurity Threats
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Identification, Assessment, and Management of Third-Party Cybersecurity Risks
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Evaluation, Categorization, and Escalation of Cybersecurity Incidents
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Discussion of Material Cybersecurity Risks and Incidents
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Board and Management Oversight of Risks Associated with Cybersecurity Threats
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Our Consumer Solutions segment relies on certain relationships with issuing banks, distributors, marketers and brand partners. The loss of such relationships, or if we are unable to maintain such relationships on terms that are favorable to us, may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
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Our inability to protect our systems and data from continually evolving cybersecurity threats or other technological risks could adversely affect our ability to deliver our services; damage our reputation among our customers, card issuers, financial institutions, card networks, partners and cardholders; adversely affect our continued card network registration or membership and financial institution sponsorship; and expose us to penalties, fines, liabilities, legal claims and defense costs.
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Fraud by merchants or others and losses from overdrawn cardholder accounts could have an adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
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New or revised tax regulations, unfavorable resolution of tax contingencies or changes to enacted tax rates could adversely affect our tax expense.
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We are subject to economic and geopolitical risk, health and social events or conditions, the business cycles and credit risk of our customers and the overall level of consumer, business and government spending, which could negatively affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
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Increased merchant, referral partner, ISO or payment facilitator attrition could cause our financial results to decline.
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Our business is subject to government regulation and oversight. Any new implementation of or changes made to laws, regulations or other industry standards affecting our business in any of the geographic regions in which we operate may require significant development and compliance efforts or have an unfavorable effect on our ability to continue to offer certain services, or on our financial results and our cash flows.
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Software and hardware defects, failures, undetected errors, and development delays could affect our ability to deliver our services, damage customer relations, expose us to liability and have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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