B+S Card Service is one of Europe’s leading acquirers and providers of card payment solutions having developed a presence in 12 European countries, and has been helping its merchant clients transact payments for more than 20 years. TSYS’ TS PrimeSM platform will be utilised, offering B+S Card Service a fully flexible, scaleable and enhanced cross-border merchant acquiring capability.
"As we continue to expand our presence across Europe, TSYS was selected as the right partner to assist us with further developing our innovative merchant acquiring capabilities,” said Michael Pip, Managing Director of B+S Card Service. “Through TSYS, we will be able to develop our existing business, expand into new markets and deliver the high-quality service that our customers expect.”
"By working with B+S Card Service, TSYS intends to be a leader in the European acquiring market,” said Bob Evans, group executive of TSYS International. “TSYS has a strong presence in the issuing market across Europe, and this further enhances our offering and expands our presence at a time when the European payments market is seeing great changes.”
The conversion is planned for Q1 2011 and will be supported from TSYS’ state-of-the-art European datacenter, based in the UK. TSYS will also support B+S Card Service with Risk and Fraud Detection and Information Management Solutions.
About TSYS
TSYS (NYSE: TSS) is one of the world’s largest companies for payment services, offering a broad range of issuer- and acquirer-processing technologies that support consumer-finance, credit, debit, debt management, healthcare, loyalty and prepaid services for financial institutions and retail companies in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information contact news@tsys.com or log on to www.tsys.com. TSYS routinely posts all important information on its website.
B+S Card Service
B+S Card Service is one of the leading providers of card payment solutions in Germany and has a strong presence across Europe. Its range of services includes acceptance agreements for the MasterCard, Visa, JCB and CUP credit card organisations as well as all debit cards such as ec cards, Maestro and V PAY. B+S is a one-stop shop for retailers and any companies and organisations that want to offer their customers the option of cashless payments, as it can provide access to network operation as well as the necessary terminals. B+S is an associated company of the Deutscher Sparkassenverlag in Stuttgart and is a member of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. The company provides a wide range of services to facilitate card payments. B+S also offers a particularly innovative and advanced range of products in the field of e-commerce. B+S payment solutions are in use within Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary and Slovenia as well as Switzerland, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
