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October 27, 2026

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TNS Helps Businesses Increase Payment Acceptance with Smart Routing

Business Wire

"Transaction Network Services (TNS) has enhanced its Payment Orchestration platform with smart routing capabilities that help businesses improve payment performance, optimize transaction costs and maintain greater control over how payments are processed. Designed for unattended and high-volume payment environments, the solution helps operators across parking, EV charging, transportation, vending, retail and other industries route transactions based on business rules, performance signals and provider availability to help maximize approval rates and reduce payment complexity."

February 20, 2026

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TNS Launches TNSPay SmartRoute to Put Merchants and Acquirers in Control of Payment Routing

Business Wire

"Transaction Network Services (TNS) announced the launch of TNSPay SmartRoute, an intelligent transaction routing solution that lets merchants, acquirers, processors and FinTechs balance performance, cost and uptime on their terms – across data centers, hosts and even multiple processors. With a secure, multi-tenant portal, teams can set and update routing rules in real time, automate failover and gain deep operational visibility through visual network mapping and full audit trails."

April 16, 2024

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November 29, 2022

On the wires

TNS Marks Payments Industry Milestone With PCI Partnership

Businesswire

“Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global, leading payment infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider, today announced it is celebrating a 15-year milestone of continuous PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. As an early adopter taking guidance from the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and working collaboratively with Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) Viking Cloud, TNS has complied with, and contributed to, secure payment standards compliance since 2007…The scope of the standards has increased exponentially since the card brands first came together to form the Security Standards Council in 2006. PCI DSS 4.0 has taken years to develop and will significantly modernize payments security when it goes into effect in January 2024.”

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