please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message equens se is a european full service card and payment processor headquartered in utrecht netherlands and with offices in frankfurt stuttgart milan rome helsinki and london . history edit equens was established as europe s first pan european payment processor in 2006 . this followed the merger of europe s two largest payment processors the dutch interpay nederland b.v. and the german transaktionsinstitut f r zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen ag . initially operating as a holding company equens se was formed in july 2008 as europe s first societas europaea payment processor . the company extended its geographical coverage with the formation of equens italia in september 2008 a 50 50 joint venture with italy s icbpi group . as of 1 january 2011 equens italia was transformed into equens s.p.a. and became a wholly owned subsidiary of equens se . by the end of the 2013 equens s.p.a. was fully absorbed by equens se and turned into a permanent establishment of equens se . further subsidiaries include interegi b.v. dz service gmbh and paysquare se . paysquare se was established through a merger between the german montrada gmbh and the dutch paysquare bv in 2014 . both companies operate in the debit card acceptance and transaction processing industries . shareholders edit this section may require cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . the specific problem is percentages add up to 100.1 % . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message shareholding is split between major german dutch and italian banks dz bank germany 31.1 % icbpi italy 20.0 % abn amro bank netherlands 18.4 % ing netherlands 15.4 % rabobank netherlands 15.2 % links edit http www.equens.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title equens & oldid 742564982 categories companies of the netherlandssocietates europaeaehidden categories articles lacking sources from june 2014all articles lacking sourcesarticles needing cleanup from april 2016all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles with a reason field from april 2016articles using small message boxeswikipedia pages needing cleanup from april 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 13 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view