Sage Payment Solutions (SPS) North America was founded in 2006 by the
London Stock Exchange-listed
FTSE 100 company Sage Group who primarily operate in the accounting and payroll business software industry. The same year the Sage Group had entered the payments industry in its home country, the United Kingdom, through the acquisition of
Protx, though the companies were kept separate. Sage Group divested the US Sage Payment Solutions business to
GTCR in 2017 for $260 million. Sage Payments Solutions was later rebranded as Paya in January 2018. GTCR provided Paya with $350 million in new equity. In November 2018 the company appointed their current CEO, Jeff Hack, and that same month acquired Stewardship Technologies. The merged company will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol PAYA and have a value of $1.3 billion. The acquisition completed the next month. ==See also==