A UK payment processing firm that used to be owned by Royal Bank of Scotland has been sold in a deal worth $43bn (£32bn).
WorldPay has been bought by Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) for $35bn in cash and shares, plus WorldPay’s debt.
FIS chief executive Gary Norcross said “scale matters in our rapidly changing industry”.
WorldPay was sold by RBS as a condition of the bank’s financial crisis bailout.
The value of the FIS purchase means Worldpay is worth about £8bn more than RBS.
Last October, BT poached WorldPay’s co-head Philip Jansen to replace Gavin Patterson as chief executive of the telecoms group.
