• Who is TRANSFIRST?
• How large is TRANSFIRST?
• How many people does TRANSFIRST employ?
• What does TRANSFIRST do for its customers?
• What types of businesses use TRANSFIRST's services?
• What about security and privacy?
• How does TRANSFIRST differ from its competitors?
• What are TRANSFIRST's plans for future growth?

Who is TRANSFIRST?
TRANSFIRST is among the nation’s premier providers of transaction processing services and payment enabling technologies. TRANSFIRST is an independent, privately-owned company.

How large is TRANSFIRST?
Serving more than 1,000 financial institutions, more than 175,000 merchant customers and hundreds of ISOs/ISAs throughout the United States, TRANSFIRST reports an annual transaction volume run rate of approximately $30 billion. According to The Nilson Report’s 2007 consolidated list of “Merchant Acquirers in the U.S. 2007,” TRANSFIRST ranks as one of the Top 10 U.S. processors.

How many people does TRANSFIRST employ?
Including executive management and all other staff, TRANSFIRST currently employs 778 people.

What does TRANSFIRST do for its customers?
TRANSFIRST offers a first-rate suite of products and services including proprietary products TRANSLINK and TRANSACTION CENTRAL™, and customized transaction processing programs uniquely tailored for the special business needs of financial institutions, independent sales organizations (ISO) and agents, and referral and reseller partners.

What types of businesses use TRANSFIRST's services?
Through its in-depth industry knowledge, partnership strategy and innovative solutions, TRANSFIRST provides a specialized approach to transaction processing for healthcare providers, public entities, online and other non-traditional merchants, as well as brick-and-mortar retailers. Financial institutions and community bank association members also rely on our payment gateway solutions and merchant bankcard services.

What about security and privacy?
TRANSFIRST understands the importance of security and privacy for our customers and provides secure processing solutions. Ensuring our customers are kept informed of the latest industry information relating to data security and compliance is of top priority to TRANSFIRST. Click here for an important data security notification from the card associations.

How does TRANSFIRST differ from its competitors?
Transaction processing and payment technologies are not business categories for TRANSFIRST. They are its core businesses. Our senior management team is comprised of veterans from the financial services and transaction processing industries, so we truly understand the needs of our customers. This insight, combined with the fact that we are an independent, non-public provider of commerce-enabling services, ensures we have the understanding and flexibility to provide truly customized, customer-oriented solutions. Our feature payment processing technologies, TRANSLINK and TRANSACTION CENTRAL, provide business insight to help our customers grow their businesses. Additionally, because of our strong capital position, we are able to add value to our sales channel partners should they wish to divest themselves of their businesses.

What are TRANSFIRST’s plans for future growth?
Since its inception, TRANSFIRST has been one of the fastest-growing companies in the transaction processing services and payment technologies industry. Significant capital funding positions the company as a leader in strategic mergers and acquisitions, allowing the company to gain market share and additional expertise in growing and profitable industry segments within the transaction processing industry.

Other opportunities for growth exist with TRANSFIRST’s sales channel partners. Partnering with TRANSFIRST offers valuation and equity opportunities should any of our partners decide to sell their businesses. Our financial strength and independence allow us the flexibility to expeditiously complete such strategic acquisitions.