TPS Pakistan

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TPS Pakistan
Company typePrivate Limited Company
Industry Financial services
Founded1996 1
FoundersMohammad Sohail
Mubashir Rahim
Headquarters,
Pakistan
Area served
Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia
Key people
Mohammad Sohail
(Director)
Mubashir Rahim
(Director)
Ovais Habib Khan
(COO)
Shahzad Shahid
(CEO) in 2017 [2]
ProductsSwitching Middleware
ATM & POS Controller
Inter Bank Shared Switch
Payment gateway
Remittance gateway
Internet Banking System
EMV personalization
Number of employees
Over 500 (2021)
Website tpsworldwide.com

TPS Pakistan is a Pakistani technology company established in 1996 by two entrepreneurs Mohammed Sohail and Mubashir Rahim. [1]

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Company background

TPS Pakistan's two founders, Mohammad Sohail and Mubashir Rahim, completed their higher education in engineering in the United States. After gaining experience at NCR Corporation, a software and electronics company specialised in computer servers and ATMs, [1] they returned to Pakistan in the early 1990s. In Karachi, they established their own software company, focusing on networking connectivity, particularly within the banking and financial sectors. [1]

Accomplishments

Business agreements with other companies

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Parvaiz Ishfaq Rana (19 January 2015). "TPS software house's reach". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  2. CEO Shahzad Shahid interviewed, techjuice.pk website, Published 27 April 2017, Retrieved 21 September 2017
  3. National Bank of Pakistan launches 'Prepaid' cards with the company TPS Pakistan, The News International (newspaper), Published 4 February 2017, Retrieved 21 September 2017
  4. Ali Raza Mehdi (7 September 2015). "Financial inclusion through digitization". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 21 September 2017.