Worldpay's World Cup outage puts payments resiliency in the spotlight
Summary
Worldpay suffered a payments outage during a World Cup match, briefly preventing some merchants from processing card and digital payments. The incident drew attention to payment resiliency because high-traffic events can quickly turn technical failures into lost sales and customers. Worldpay and Global Payments said the issue affected a subset of merchants on the Worldpay Total platform and delayed funding by one day. The timing matters because Global Payments has recently closed its acquisition of Worldpay and the combined company is also building new payment capabilities and partnerships.
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Payments Software
Financial Technology (Fintech)
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Worldpay
$1M to $5M
Global Payments
$1B+