Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a privately held, multinational company in the payments, financial and telecommunications industries. TNS is the supplier of networking, integrated data, and voice services to many organizations in the global payments and financial communities, as well as a provider of telecommunications network solutions to service providers.
History
1990 – TNS founded in the US to provide services to the point-of-sale/payments industry 1994 – Initial public offering – NASDAQ listed 1995 – TNS' Telecommunications Services division launched 1996 – International offices launched in the UK, Canada and Ireland and TNS' Financial Services division launched 1998 – Acquired AT&T's Transaction Access Service (USA) 1999 – Offices opened in Australia, France and Japan. Processing services launched in the UK. Listed on the NYSE. 1999 – Acquired by PSINet for $705 million (US$1.1 Billion (2019)) 2000 – Office opened in Spain 2001 – Management, in conjunction with private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner LLC, bought back TNS from PSINet 2002 – Office opened in Italy 2003 – Acquired Openet (Italy) and Transpoll Offline (UK) 2004 – Initial Public Offering – NYSE listing 2005 – Acquired Connect Ro (Romania) 2006 – Offices opened in India, Thailand and South Korea. Acquired Comms XL (UK), InfiniRoute Networks Inc. (USA), Sonic Inc. (USA) and JPG Telecom SAS (France) 2007 – Acquired Dialect Payment Technologies (Australia) 2008 – Offices opened in Hong Kong and Singapore 2009 – Acquired Verisign's Communication Services Group (USA) 2010 - Acquired Cequint - a mobile Caller ID company. 2013 – Office opened in Taiwan. TNS acquired by Siris Capital Group LLC in a take-private transaction 2015 – Sells Call Authentication assets to Neustar 2016 – Received investment led by Koch Equity Development LLC 2017 – Offices opened in New Zealand and the Philippines 2018 – Acquired Advam 2019 – Acquired Link Solutions (Brazil), OpSiSe (France), and R2G (Chicago) 2021 – Acquired by Koch Equity Development LLC 2022 – Acquired AGNITY Global, Inc.; First Orion and Hiya joined Neustar and TNS to develop enterprise call authentication standards. 2023 – Acquired BornTec's managed hosting and colocation business.; Acquired West Highland Support Services. 2024 – Opened AI Labs Poland.
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