TNS

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.tnsi.com
Employees: 783
Employee growth: 14.0%

Unlike your spouse or your accountant, TNS loves to hear you say, "charge it." The international data communications company provides secure data and voice transmission for the financial services industry. The company, which was founded in 1991, offers services to the processors of credit card, debit card, and ATM transactions, primarily point-of-sale financial transactions. Its multiple network system operates independently of other carriers and the company provides services in nearly 30 countries around the globe. Its operating subsidiary Transaction Network Services transmits credit- and debit-card transactions to processors such as First Data and American Express.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $344.0M
One year growth: 5.7%
Net income: $3.5M

Officers:
CEO and Director: Henry H. Graham Jr.
President: Raymond (Ray) Low
COO: Michael Q. Keegan

Competitors:
AT&T
VeriSign
Verizon

Transcutaneous neural stimulation.

TNS can stand for:

• Tao Nan School, a primary school in Singapore
• Taran Noah Smith, an American actor
• Taylor Nelson Sofres, the 3rd largest global marketing information network
• Temporal noise shaping, an audio encoding technique
• The Natural Step, a sustainability framework.
• The New Saints F.C., a Welsh football (soccer) club formerly sponsored by Total Network Solutions that bore the company's name from 1997 to 2006.
• TNS (gene), a protein tyrosine phosphatase
• TNSrecords, a Manchester, U.K. based Punk Rock/Ska Record Label
• Transparent Network Substrate, used by Oracle for network communications.
• Triple Nine Society, a high IQ organisation, similar to Mensa.
• Tungsten (Cantung) Airport, Tungsten, Northwest Territories, Canada
• Tail Number Side lights, term used to describe tail, number plate and side exterior automotive lights

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