Fiserv, Inc. () is an American multinational company headquartered in

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that provides

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services to clients across the financial services sector, including: banks, thrifts, credit unions, securities broker dealers, mortgage, insurance, leasing and finance companies, and retailers. In October 2015, ''

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'' and BAI ranked the company third by revenue among technology providers to U.S. banks. Fiserv reported total revenue of $10.187 billion in 2019. Fiserv is also the owner of

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, which connects 2 million ATMs through the STAR network. Fiserv currently has the naming rights for the

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stadium in

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History

Fiserv was founded in 1984. The company quickly grew and was listed on the NASDAQ less than two years after its founding, mainly through a large number of acquisitions, the largest in the early years of the company being Citicorp Information Resources. Fiserv's website was launched in 1995 and subsequently debuted fully electronic bills (branded as E-bills) in 1997. Fiserv reached $1 billion in revenue. Between 2000 and 2017, Fiserv continued to acquire other companies, including CheckFree Corporation, M-Com, CashEdge, and PCLender. In 2005, Jeffery Yabuki became the CEO. In 2020, Yabuki stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Frank Bisignano.

Company timeline including acquisitions

1991 * Citicorp Information Resources — a subsidiary of

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. This acquisition put Fiserv into the

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, internal and

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core account processing market space. 1995 * Information Technology, Inc., (ITI) — in Lincoln, Nebraska. This gained Premier, at that time the most widely implemented account processing platform in the US, and grew its number of account processing clients. 2003 * General American Corporation (GAC) * CNS (Consumer Network Services) 2005 * Del Mar Database * Assets of U.S. eLending business from Emergis * Interactive Technologies * Administrative Services Group Inc. * JW Hutton * BillMatrix * VerticalPoint * Xcipio, Inc. 2006 * CareGain, Inc. * Asset of CT Insurance Services & CCH Wall Street 2007 * NetEconomy. * CheckFree — which had itself just acquired Corillian, Carreker, PhoneCharge and Upstream Technologies LLC. Fiserv's largest acquisition to date, CheckFree was then the leading provider of

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, online bill payment,

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services, and software for check clearance and ACH (also known as

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) processing. 2008 * Interactive Technologies, Inc. — billing software and ancillary products for the banking and investment advisory industries, especially for their "''Advantage Fee System''" that calculates complex billing for fees and commissions. * i_Tech — a

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-based item processing company that had been owned by First Interstate Bank * The Data Center — a

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-based item processing company that had been owned by BBVA Compass Bank 2010 * AdviceAmerica — software for

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s. 2011 * M-Com — established in 2000 and based in Auckland,

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, M-Com developed mobile banking apps. * Maverick Network Solutions — established in 2006 and based in

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, Delaware. * CashEdge — to payment solutions, including Popmoney. 2013 * Open Solutions, Inc. — account processing DNA platform. Fiserv paid $55 million to acquire DNA, by taking on $960 million in debt. 2016 * Community Financial Services — from ACI Worldwide. * Convenience Pay — from Hewlett Packard. 2017 * Dovetail. * Monitise. 2018 * MoneyPass — surcharge-free debit card and ATM processing network, acquired from Elan Financial Services, a unit of U.S. Bancorp. 2019 *

— payment processor acquired for $22 billion, making it one of the largest acquisitions in the financial technology sector. 2020 * Bypass Mobile — enterprise point of sale platform. 2021 * Ondot Systems, Inc. — digital experience platform for financial institutions. * NetPay — payment facilitator, 2022 * Finxact — cloud-based core banking services. * Layoffs — Significant layoffs occurred. Anonymous sources reported that Fiserv's internal WorkDay took reported that headcount is down to 35,608 as of October 20th. * TIF District -- A tax incremental financing district was created to incentivize Fiserv to remain in downtown Milwaukee, the 7 million dollars will be available through annual payments, with the condition Fiserv must base at least 780 employees at the downtown location.

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