Privately held, Lynk is equally owned by its employees and a group of four venture capital investors. Lynk, based in Atlanta, employs 550 at its headquarters and has a national network of 400 sales employees. It is an integrated full service provider of credit and debit card processing services. It utilizes proprietary in-house technology providing control of costs, scalability and a superior quality of service to its customers. Servicing approximately 100,000 merchants, it processes 18 billion in charge volume and 400 million transactions annually; Lynk is considered the 6th-largest non-bank acquirer and the 9th-largest merchant acquirer in the US market. In addition, Lynk provides processing services for 25,000 ATM's located throughout the US representing 6 billion dollars dispensed and 120 million transactions annually, making Lynk the 3rd largest processor of ATM's in the US. Founded in 1991, Lynk has received numerous industry quality service awards, and continually earns recognition as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America.