While Georgia’s burgeoning film industry gets a lot of attention, few people know that the state is the nation’s hub for the less visible but far more lucrative electronic payments processing industry.

Seventy percent of the country’s credit, debit and gift card transactions are run through Georgia, said Robert Green, a lawyer at Hunton & Williams who does regulatory and lobbying work for payments companies. That added up to 52 billion card swipes last year, totaling $4.4 trillion.

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