Everi Holdings Inc., formerly Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc., was a company based in Spring Valley, Nevada that produced slot machines and provided financial equipment and services to casinos.
History
Global Cash Access was founded in July 1998 as a joint venture of three payment processing companies: BA Merchant Services (majority-owned by Bank of America), First Data, and USA Processing Inc.[3][4] First Data contributed the assets of its gaming business, First Data Financial Services, which provided cash services at over 800 gaming properties; it had purchased the business earlier in the year from Ceridian Corporation.[5][6] BA Merchant Services contributed $35 million in cash, plus its existing gaming assets, for a 21 percent stake in the business.