Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a privately held, multinational company in the payments, financial and

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industries. TNS is the supplier of networking, integrated data, and voice services to many organizations in the

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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

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/payments industry * 1994 –

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listed * 1995 – TNS' Telecommunications Services division launched * 1996 – International offices launched in the UK, Canada and Ireland and TNS'

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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

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. * 1999 – Acquired by PSINet for $705 million (US$1.1 Billion (2019)) * 2000 – Office opened in Spain * 2001 – Management, in conjunction with

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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

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's Communication Services Group (USA) * 2010 – Acquired Cequint, Inc. (USA) * 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

References

{{Reflist Companies based in Reston, Virginia American companies established in 1990