headquarters dublin ireland founder s colm lyon industry payment processing services payment service provider payment gateway employees 170 parent global payments inc. website www.realexpayments.com realex payments is a european payment service provider and a division of global payments inc. with offices in dublin and london . 1 the company provides a broad range of payment gateway services and processes transactions in excess of 35 billion 2 per annum on behalf of more than 14 000 clients including virgin atlantic airways vodafone ireland the aa axa insurance paddy power and aer lingus . 3 contents 1 history 2 acquisition 3 references 4 external links history edit realex payments was founded in 2000 by entrepreneur colm lyon . 4 the company has grown rapidly since its inception now employing over 170 staff . 5 in 2007 it expanded into the uk market following a surge in business being transacted online . in 2010 it signed a deal with french bank bnp paribas which will allow payments to be processed directly into accounts in france . 1 in 2012 the company opened a new dublin headquarters on sir john rogerson s quay dublin which was officially opened by an taoiseach enda kenny . 6 7 lyon was chairman of the irish internet association from 2004 until december 2007 . in 2005 he was a finalist of the ernst and young entrepreneur of the year award . 8 in 2009 he was named internet hero at the eircom golden spiders awards for his work in setting up realex payments . 9 in 2010 lyon was involved in initiating igap hosted by enterprise ireland . 10 in august 2013 a personal payment account for consumers called realex fire was launched as part of realex financial services limited . 11 following the acquisition of realex payments in march 2015 realex financial services limited was renamed fire financial services limited and its product rebranded as pay with fire . fire financial services limited now trades independently of realex payments . 12 acquisition edit realex payments was acquired in march 2015 by global payments inc an international provider of payment processing services based in atlanta georgia for 115 million . 13 following the acquisition realex payments appointed gary conroy as managing director . gary conroy joined realex payments in 2005 serving as chief operating officer and deputy ceo where he managed all customer facing aspects of the business across sales marketing and operations . 14 references edit a b global payments buys realex in deal worth 115m . irishtimes.com . retrieved 10 june 2015 . cite error invalid ref tag ; 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