PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: The Great Worldpay Outage

By  |  July 20, 2016
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Tensions are mounting as Worldpay’s outage stretches to being measured in weeks and merchants of all sorts are being blocked from receiving daily payments. The outage is reportedly affecting the very big, like British Airways, and the not-so-big, like the myriad online commerce and gaming operators that use the U.S.-based payment processing platform.

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    So how bad is it?

    $578 million | Worldpay’s earnings since its IPO five months ago

    14% | Worldpay’s underlying transaction growth pre IPO, clocking in at $13 billion

    3.5% | The amount Worldpay U.S. customer Twitter has seen its stock decline since the outage began

    2 | The number of weeks the Worldpay outage has been going on

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    1%| The proportion of its customer base Worldpay says is affected by the blackout


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