GPN

Global Payments Inc.

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Is GPN Halal?

Payment technology with a 36.69% debt/assets screen and mixed financial-institution exposure.

What You Should Know

Global Payments' March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets 36.69%, liquidity/assets 9.12%, receivables plus cash/assets 11.33%, and a conservative interest-and-other-income proxy of 1.09% of quarterly revenue. Payment processing can support permissible commerce, but issuer, lending-adjacent and conventional-financial-institution integrations require review.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt screen fails at 36.69% of assets
  • Mixed bank, issuer and lending-adjacent integrations
  • Seller-financing interest is included in the income proxy

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
36.69%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

23,577.104 / 64,254.841

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
9.12%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

5,861.312 / 64,254.841

Receivables + cash / assets
11.33%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

7,276.983 / 64,254.841

Non-compliant income / revenue (upper bound)
1.09%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

33.52 / 3,076.852

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt is 36.69% of total assets, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity is 9.12%, receivables plus cash are 11.33% and the conservative income proxy is 1.09%.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt is 36.69% of total assets, above the examined 33.33% limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash remain below their limits. This is not an index-membership claim.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt is 36.69% of total assets, above the examined 33% limit, while identifiable liquidity is below 33%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

A properly licensed and reproducible 24- or 36-month issuer market-cap history is not stored, so market-cap methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Global Payments provides merchant acquiring, payment processing and settlement technology. Payment services can support permissible commerce, but issuer, lending-adjacent and conventional-financial-institution integrations require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a reproducible prohibited-revenue numerator for conventional lending, issuer services or customer end uses.

Purification

The filing reports a conservative interest-and-other-income proxy of 1.09% of quarterly revenue, but ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage and mixed activity revenue remains incomplete.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Debt combines $1,010.304 million of settlement lines of credit, $1,582.335 million of current long-term debt and $20,984.465 million of long-term debt.
  • Cash uses $5,861.312 million of cash and cash equivalents. Settlement processing assets are operational pass-through balances and are excluded from unrestricted interest-bearing securities.
  • Accounts receivable are $1,415.671 million and reported quarterly total revenue is $3,076.852 million.
  • The filing reports $33.520 million of interest and other income, including $25.2 million of seller-financing note interest; it is entered as a conservative upper-bound income proxy, or 1.09% of quarterly revenue.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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