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Business Segment Information
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segment Information Business Segment Information
The Company’s operations are comprised of the Acceptance segment, the Fintech segment and the Payments segment.
The businesses in the Acceptance segment provide a wide range of commerce-enabling solutions and serve merchants of all sizes around the world. These services include point-of-sale merchant acquiring and digital commerce services; mobile payment services; security and fraud protection products; CaratSM, the Company’s omnichannel commerce solution; and the Company’s cloud-based Clover® point-of-sale platform. The Company distributes the products and services in the global Acceptance segment businesses through a variety of channels, including direct sales teams, strategic partnerships with agent sales forces, independent software vendors, financial institutions and other strategic partners in the form of joint venture alliances, revenue sharing alliances and referral agreements. Merchants, financial institutions and distribution partners in the Acceptance segment are frequently clients of the Company’s other segments.
The businesses in the Fintech segment provide financial institutions around the world with the technology solutions they need to run their operations, including products and services that enable financial institutions to process customer deposit and loan accounts and manage an institution’s general ledger and central information files. As a complement to the core account processing functionality, the global Fintech segment businesses also provide digital banking, financial and risk management, professional services and consulting, item processing and source capture, and other products and services that support numerous types of financial transactions. Certain of the businesses in the Fintech segment provide products or services to corporate clients to facilitate the management of financial processes and transactions. Many of the products and services offered in the Fintech segment are integrated with products and services provided by the Company’s other segments.
The businesses in the Payments segment provide financial institutions and corporate clients around the world with the products and services required to process digital payment transactions. This includes card transactions such as debit, credit and prepaid card processing and services; a range of network services, security and fraud protection products; card production and print services. In addition, the global Payments segment businesses offer non-card digital payment software and services, including bill payment, account-to-account transfers, person-to-person payments, electronic billing, and security and fraud protection products. Clients of the Payments segment businesses reflect a wide range of industries, including merchants, distribution partners and financial institution customers in the Company’s other segments.
Corporate and Other supports the reportable segments described above, and consists of amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, unallocated corporate expenses and other activities that are not considered when management evaluates segment performance, such as gains or losses on sales of businesses or investments, costs associated with acquisition and divestiture activity, and the Company’s Output Solutions postage reimbursements. Corporate and Other also includes the historical results of the Company’s Investment Services business prior to the Company’s disposal of its controlling financial interest in February 2020 (see Note 4), as well as certain transition services revenue associated with various dispositions.
Revenue and operating income (loss) for each reportable segment were as follows:
Reportable Segments
(In millions)AcceptanceFintechPaymentsCorporate
and Other		Total
Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
Processing and services revenue$1,458 $718 $1,227 $4 $3,407 
Product revenue258 43 244 211 756 
Total revenue$1,716 $761 $1,471 $215 $4,163 
Operating income (loss)$552 $275 $643 $(834)$636 
Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
Processing and services revenue$1,256 $684 $1,203 $10 $3,153 
Product revenue198 43 184 208 633 
Total revenue$1,454 $727 $1,387 $218 $3,786 
Operating income (loss)$423 $265 $599 $(745)$542 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
Processing and services revenue$4,079 $2,115 $3,602 $26 $9,822 
Product revenue700 136 695 616 2,147 
Total revenue$4,779 $2,251 $4,297 $642 $11,969 
Operating income (loss)$1,463 $794 $1,850 $(2,352)$1,755 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
Processing and services revenue$3,495 $2,032 $3,540 $51 $9,118 
Product revenue583 127 553 639 1,902 
Total revenue$4,078 $2,159 $4,093 $690 $11,020 
Operating income (loss)$985 $721 $1,712 $(2,082)$1,336