Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, today announced it will roll out the OptBlue program for American Express Card® acceptance in Canada on June 24, 2015. OptBlue offers small business merchants a single source for payment processing, pricing, underwriting, risk management, settlement, reporting, support and a consolidated statement. With this launch, Global Payments can now provide a solution that allows merchants to accept American Express the same way as any other card brand.

“We are pleased to be the first acquirer in Canada to roll-out OptBlue, offering small business merchants an easy, convenient and affordable way to accept American Express,” said René Bélanger, President, Global Payments Canada. “OptBlue is an exciting addition to Global Payments’ extensive product and service offering. It allows us to provide our existing merchant clients with a full one-stop servicing solution for all major card brands and expand our network, as well as engage with small business merchants that don’t currently accept American Express products.”

About Global Payments

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services that delivers innovative solutions driven by customer needs globally. Our partnerships, technologies and employee expertise enable us to provide a broad range of products and services that allow our customers to accept all payment types across a variety of distribution channels in many markets around the world.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with more than 4,300 employees worldwide, Global Payments is a Fortune 1000 Company with merchants and partners in 29 countries throughout North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and Brazil. For more information about Global Payments, our Service. Driven. Commerce brand and our technologies, please visit www.globalpaymentsinc.com.