TNS
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TNS (Transaction Network Services) is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that provides secure network solutions for the communications, payments, and financial trading markets. Founded in 1990, TNS enables mission-critical transactions for organizations across more than 60 countries, offering services including call authentication, robocall protection, payment processing connectivity, and financial market data access. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch, with over 2,000 e...
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Ideal Customer
- TNS targets mid-market to Fortune 500 enterprises, as well as global telecom carriers and financial institutions — organizations with high transaction volumes, complex networking requirements, or mission-critical communications needs where downtime causes immediate revenue loss or regulatory penalties.
- In payments, ideal customers include enterprise retailers, ATM deployers, acquirers, and payment processors requiring managed PCI-certified infrastructure across dozens to thousands of locations.
Key Differentiators
- TNS positions itself as a carrier-agnostic, infrastructure-as-a-service provider that combines global scale, mission-critical reliability, and deep compliance expertise across three converged markets (payments, communications, financial markets) under a single managed service model — a breadth few competitors can match.
- In robocall and fraud protection, TNS Call Guardian analyzes over 1.5 billion daily call events from 500+ operators, providing reputation scores for approximately 1.9 billion telephone numbers, giving it unmatched data scale versus point-solution competitors.
Industries Served
- TNS serves a broad set of industries through three primary market segments: Communications (serving wireless and wireline carriers, mobile network operators, enterprises in healthcare, financial services, insurance, and government), Payments (serving retailers, fuel and convenience stores, ATM deployers, acquirers, financial institutions, and payment processors), and Financial Markets (serving investment banks, trading firms, stock exchanges, and institutional investors).
- Named clients and verticals include United Healthcare (fraud prevention), Verizon (branded calling), AT&T (routing and network operations), NTT Docomo (roaming/signaling), and large fuel retailers with thousands of US store locations.
Service Coverage
- TNS (Transaction Network Services) is a global company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, operating across more than 60 countries on six continents, spanning North America, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
- The company supports thousands of organizations — over 1,400 customers in payments alone — with Network Operations Centers maintained in the US, UK, Australia, and Malaysia providing 24x7x365 monitoring.
Partnerships
- TNS has established partnerships with major global stock exchanges and financial infrastructure providers, including B3 (Brazil's largest stock exchange), Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME/Spain), the Toronto Stock Exchange and Montreal Exchange (TMX Group), Nasdaq Canada, CBOE, and the Canadian Securities Exchange, as well as trading technology firm TRAFiX for Canadian market connectivity.
- The 2026 acquisition of BT Radianz — described as the world's largest financial extranet — dramatically expanded TNS's ecosystem to 180+ exchanges and 6,500+ endpoints.
Company Size & Ownership
- TNS was founded in 1990 and employs approximately 1,776–2,100 people globally, with multiple sources citing the 1,001–5,000 employee range.
- Revenue estimates vary by source, with figures ranging from approximately $327 million to $739 million annually, reflecting the company's scale across payments, communications, and financial markets.
Compliance & Certifications
- TNS is a Level 1 PCI DSS-certified service provider and has maintained that certification for 18+ years since PCI DSS was introduced, covering both its payment processing and network infrastructure.
- The company also holds PCI P2PE (Point-to-Point Encryption) and PCI PIN certifications, and industry analysts cite its adherence to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 standards.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
40 offeringsAuthentication Hub
A call authentication platform that supports STIR/SHAKEN and related call verification standards for carriers and enterprises. It provides the infrastructure to authenticate caller identity and reduce fraudulent or spoofed call traffic across carrier networks.
Carrier Routing Directory
A signaling routing solution that provides carriers with a database of routing information to direct calls and signaling traffic accurately across interconnected networks. It supports carrier interconnection and call completion for voice traffic.
Certify
A trusted communications solution providing call certification and verification services for carriers and enterprises. It supports call authentication workflows to certify the legitimacy of calling parties and telephone numbers.
Common Language
An operations efficiency solution that provides standardized network data and industry common language identifiers for communications service providers. It helps carriers manage and plan their network infrastructure using authoritative, standardized data.
Common Language Finder
A tool that helps communications service providers identify and look up standard industry common language codes and network element identifiers. It supports network planning, operations, and data management for telecom carriers.
Device Connectivity (Payments)
A connectivity solution for payment devices that links POS terminals and payment hardware to payment networks and processors. It provides reliable, managed network connections for payment devices deployed at merchant locations.
Enterprise and Cloud Connectivity (Payments)
A connectivity service for enterprise businesses and cloud-based payment platforms that provides secure, managed network connections between enterprise systems and payment infrastructure. It supports businesses in connecting their enterprise IT environments to payment networks.
Enterprise Branded Calling
A service that adds a company's name and logo to outbound Caller ID displays, helping enterprises increase call answer rates and restore consumer trust in voice calls. It is designed to distinguish legitimate business calls from robocalls and spoofed numbers, and has been shown to improve answer rates significantly for clients in healthcare, financial services, and mortgage lending.
Fraud Prevention (Payments)
A payments security solution that provides fraud detection and prevention capabilities for merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers. It is part of the Protect category within TNS's payments market offerings.
Gateway Intel
A solution providing intelligence and data about gateway network elements for communications service providers. It supports carriers in managing interconnection points and routing decisions across their networks.
GPRS Roamer Exchange
A mobility solution enabling data roaming exchange between mobile network operators using GPRS infrastructure. It allows subscribers to access data services while roaming on partner networks internationally.
Hosted Cloud Connect
A hosted cloud-based solution for communications service providers that modernizes legacy voice switching infrastructure, including post-softswitch environments. It was launched to help service providers transition from legacy platforms to cloud-hosted voice switching without replacing their entire network infrastructure.
In Person Payments
A payment acceptance solution enabling businesses to accept in-person card and alternative payment transactions at physical point-of-sale locations. It is part of TNS's Complete Commerce suite for the payments market.
In-Store Connectivity
A managed network connectivity solution for retail and other in-store environments that supports payment terminals and related in-store technology. It provides reliable, secure network access for brick-and-mortar merchant locations.
IPX Connectivity
An IP Exchange (IPX) connectivity service for carriers providing interconnectivity between carrier networks. It enables voice and data roaming, signaling, and other services to be exchanged between mobile network operators globally via a secure IP backbone.
ISUP
An ISDN User Part (ISUP) signaling routing solution for telecommunications carriers. It enables carriers to route signaling messages associated with circuit-switched voice calls across interconnected networks.
Managed Security (Payments)
A managed security service for the payments industry that provides ongoing security monitoring and protection for payment infrastructure. It helps businesses in the payments ecosystem maintain compliance and protect transaction data.
Managed Services (Payments)
Managed network and infrastructure services for the payments industry, providing ongoing operational support for payment connectivity and infrastructure. TNS manages the network environment on behalf of merchants, acquirers, and payment service providers.
Online Payments
A payment acceptance solution that enables businesses to accept card and alternative payment methods through online and digital channels. It supports merchants and payment service providers in processing e-commerce transactions globally.
Payment Orchestration
A payment routing and orchestration solution that optimizes the routing of payment transactions across multiple processors, acquirers, and payment networks. It enables businesses to achieve optimal routing for cost efficiency and payment success rates.
Portability Clearinghouse
A number portability clearinghouse service for telecommunications carriers that facilitates the exchange of porting requests and number portability data. It enables carriers to process and manage telephone number port-in and port-out transactions.
POS Terminal Connectivity
A connectivity service specifically for point-of-sale terminals that provides reliable network connections between POS devices and payment processors or acquirers. It supports a wide range of terminal types and environments including retail, fuel, vending, and self-service.
Radianz
A financial market connectivity solution that is part of Waypoint Trading Solutions, formed following TNS's acquisition of BT Radianz in 2026. It provides global financial institutions with secure, managed connectivity to trading venues, exchanges, and financial market infrastructure.
Roamer Control
A mobility management solution that gives carriers control over inbound and outbound roaming traffic. It enables steering of roaming and policy management for mobile network operators handling international roaming agreements.
Roamer Data Exchange
A data exchange platform for mobile network operators that facilitates the transfer of roaming-related data between carriers. It supports settlement, reporting, and operational data sharing for international roaming relationships.
Roamer View
A visibility and analytics solution for mobile network operators providing insight into roaming subscriber activity and network performance. It enables carriers to monitor and manage their roaming traffic and subscriber experience.
Sentinel
A solution offered by Waypoint Trading Solutions for global financial institutions. It supports trading operations with monitoring, visibility, or risk management capabilities for financial market participants.
Spoof Protection
A solution that helps enterprises protect their telephone numbers and brand reputation from caller ID spoofing attacks. It validates calls that originate from a company's identified numbers and blocks unauthorized calls using those numbers, preventing fraudulent impersonation of the enterprise's outbound calling operations.
TCAP
A Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) signaling routing solution for carriers. It supports the routing of SS7 TCAP-based signaling messages used for services such as number portability queries and roaming.
TDM Link Replacement
A service that helps communications service providers migrate from legacy TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) network circuits to IP-based connectivity. It allows carriers to decommission expensive TDM infrastructure while maintaining continuity of voice traffic and routing.
Telecom Routing Administration
A routing administration service for telecommunications carriers that provides authoritative routing data and administration for voice traffic across carrier networks. It supports number portability, interconnection management, and routing decisions for service providers transitioning from TDM to IP networks.
Telephone Number Reputation Monitoring
A service that monitors the reputation scores of an enterprise's outbound telephone numbers to help identify when numbers are being mislabeled as spam or flagged negatively. It enables organizations to proactively manage their calling reputation and reduce the risk of calls being blocked or marked as robocalls.
TNS Call Guardian
An advanced call analytics solution that provides carriers with accurate reputation scores for telephone numbers, enabling robocall detection and protection for wireless subscribers. TNS Call Guardian processes over 1.5 billion daily call events from over 500 operators and provides reputation scores for approximately 1.9 billion telephone numbers.
TNS CAS
An NGIN (Next Generation Intelligent Network) application offered by TNS for communications service providers. It supports carrier-grade application services within next-generation network architectures.
TNS FlexYcharge
An NGIN application from TNS designed for communications service providers. It supports flexible charging and billing capabilities within carrier network environments.
Toll-Free 8MS
A toll-free number management and routing service for telecommunications carriers and enterprises. It provides administration and routing capabilities for toll-free telephone numbers within carrier networks.
Toll-Free Database
A database service providing authoritative toll-free number information for telecommunications carriers and service providers. It supports accurate routing and administration of toll-free telephone numbers across the public switched telephone network.
Voice Transit+
A voice transit solution for communications service providers that enables carriers to route voice traffic across TNS's network infrastructure. It supports the transition from legacy TDM switching to IP-based voice services, helping carriers modernize their voice infrastructure without rip-and-replace projects.
Wayfinder
An exchange and market data management solution launched by Waypoint Trading Solutions that helps financial firms manage and navigate market data notifications. It provides transparency and management capabilities for trading operations dealing with complex market data environments.
Waypoint Xpress
A trading connectivity solution offered by Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, providing global financial institutions with fast access to trading venues and financial market destinations. It is designed for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange participants needing reliable financial market connectivity.
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