Digital Transactions--April 21, 2022--The competition to bring digital-payments capability to sports arenas is getting hotter. FIS Inc. announced early Thursday its Worldpay unit is exclusively processing payments for tickets, concessions, and merchandise at Washington D.C.’s Nationals Park, home of the city’s Nationals Major League Baseball team.

 

As part of the deal, Jacksonville, Fla.-based FIS is also processing payments onsite, online, and through a mobile app for the BetMGM sportsbook, located at the park and said to be the first such operation linked to a Major League stadium. Processing for the BetMGM facility began before Major League Baseball’s opening day, April 7, an FIS spokesman tells Digital Transactions News.