A quiet credit card plant on Boltonfield Street is about to get a lot busier. Fidelity National Information Services plans to double the footprint of its credit card production facility in southwest Columbus and add roughly 100 jobs there by 2031. The expansion follows FIS’s acquisition earlier this year of Global Payments’ issuer business, and is set to boost local card production capacity while bringing more operations roles into the area.
According to Columbus Business First, FIS intends to expand the recently acquired Columbus facility to roughly twice its current size and grow its workforce in the city by about 100 employees through 2031. That local report situates the Columbus buildout as one piece of a larger strategy for the company’s issuing unit.
FIS completed its purchase of Global Payments’ Issuer Solutions business, the unit previously known as TSYS, in January 2026 in a deal the company said would broaden its issuing capabilities. In a FIS statement on the closing, CEO Stephanie Ferris noted that the acquisition wrapped up ahead of schedule as the company laid out plans to fold the issuer services into its Total Issuing portfolio.
Facility history and location
The Columbus production site sits at 1500 Boltonfield Street in the city’s southwest industrial corridor, in a building that went into card production use under TSYS. Columbus Business First first reported on the plant’s opening, and property manager Fiore Companies lists the Boltonfield building as a roughly 200,000 square foot mixed office and warehouse facility occupied by payment services tenants.
Jobs and the local picture
The jobs FIS expects to add appear to be production and operations roles rather than corporate office positions. Local postings tied to the Boltonfield address include listings for machine operators and production operations jobs. Indeed shows sample plant roles that track with that description, and the project lines up with a broader run of manufacturing investments announced across the Columbus region this year. Recent updates from Columbus Region highlight other production expansions aimed at increasing capacity in the area.
What to watch
For now, FIS has put a number on new hires through 2031 but has not revealed a headline capital spending figure for the Columbus expansion. The real tells will show up in local building permits, company job postings and economic development filings, which should offer the clearest signals on construction timing and whether any public incentives end up attached to the project.
