Type | Joint venture |
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Industry | Banking |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Key people | Angela Brown - President & CEO [1] |
Services | Payment processor |
Parent | Royal Bank of Canada BMO Bank of Montreal |
Website | moneris |
Moneris is Canada largest financial technology company that specializes in payment processing.[2] Moneris was established in December 2000 as a joint venture between the Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal.[3] The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and has a contact centre in Sackville, New Brunswick.[4] Moneris’ U.S. operations (formerly known as Harris Bank Merchant Services/The Charge-It-System) were based in Schaumburg, Illinois, until being sold in November 2016 to Vantiv.[5]
Moneris processes more than 3 billion transactions a year for over 350,000 merchant locations, and employs more than 1,900 people across North America.[6]
In August 2019, Moneris Solutions released a new device with a nine-centimetre touch color screens to enhance their card payment processing.[7]
2000 – Moneris was established. It became first Canadian appropriator to offer both VISA and MasterCard merchant accounts in one single point of contact
2003 – Acquired Ernex Marketing Technologies, a gift and loyalty card processor primarily based in Burnaby, British Columbia[8]
2005 – Processed Canada's first Visa-certified EMV transaction[9]
2005 – Processed Canada's first Interac Online transaction[10]
2007 – Became one of the first appropriator in Canada to be certified by Interac Association, MasterCard and VISA to deliver EMV technology[11]
2008 – Acquired Keycorp Canada, one of the largest providers of POS support services