More than 30 merger and acquisition transactions occurred in the U.S. merchant acquiring business in 2019. Those deals were identified on page 10 of Nilson Report issue 1167. The largest transactions were Worldpay, which was sold to FIS; First Data, bought by Fiserv; Tsys, which sold itself to Global Payments; and the merger of SunTrust and BB&T to create Truist. On pages 10 and 11, we identify the owners of the 65 largest portfolios of merchant card acceptance contracts in the U.S. for acquiring payments from American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, Mastercard, Visa, and UnionPay ...