 Heartland Payment Systems provides payment processing for more than 275,000 business locations in the United States and processes more than 11 million transactions a day and more than $80 billion in transactions a year.In 2014, the Nilson Report ranked Heartland the 6th largest payment processor in the country by transaction count, and the 8th largest by processed dollar volume.In December 2015, Global Payments, another payment processor, announced that it would acquire Heartland for $3.5 billion; the transaction was completed on April 25, 2016.