TNB Card Services Converts Five Debit Clients To Star® Network Platform

DALLAS – TNB Card Services has finished converting the first five credit unions to migrate to its new STAR® Network platform, a one-source solution for ATM terminal driving, PIN-secured, and signature debit card processing.

TNB announced the STAR platform availability May 31, and has been working to convert its existing platform. The credit unions, located in the Northeast and Southwest, range in size from 4,000 to 32,000 members, with assets from $12 million to $367 million. They converted a total of 22,000 debit cards.

The five credit unions are Jersey Shore Federal Credit Union in Northfield, New Jersey; IBM Texas Employees Federal Credit Union in Austin, Texas; 1st University Credit Union in Waco, Texas; BP Federal Credit Union in Houston, Texas; and Texas Industries Employees Credit Union in Midlothian. Texas.

Through First Data Debit Services, TNB now offers a suite of debit services to its growing base of debit and credit card clients. With the debit service suite, credit unions can integrate PIN and signature into one platform and save time, improve efficiency, enjoy greater flexibility, and reduce the burden of back-office tasks involved with debit and ATM transactions.

The STAR Network offers PIN-secured debit acceptance at 1.6 million ATM and retail locations coast-to-coast, including nearly three-fourths of all the ATM terminals in the U.S.

TNB’s debit offering delivers a single authorization point for all POS/ATM card activity. This helps reduce risk and secures higher transaction approval rates. It also features market-leading reliability and uptime, along with PC-based point-and-click management tools. TNB provides gateways to all major debit, credit, and EBT providers. For the ATM terminal, the solution offers enhanced features such as statements at the ATM, graphics distribution for advertising, alternate media dispensing, and foreign language support.

“These five credit unions are only the first to take advantage of our STAR Network platform and the world-class EFT program behind it,” said Glen Lee, first senior vice president of TNB Card Services. “We’re seeing tremendous interest in the STAR Network platform through TNB from credit union clients throughout the country.”

With TNB’s signature debit processing solution, credit unions have access to MasterCard and Visa participation, online pre-authorizations and completions via direct connect to both, and online, real-time card management and account maintenance. The signature debit card features fraud prevention, single-point authorization and settlement, stand-in processing, hot-carding support, authorization matching and notification service, online access to transaction information, and MasterCard® SecureCode™ and Verified by Visa® support.