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TDS Gift Cards Forms Strategic Alliance Leveraging CIMI Card to Revolutionize Gift Card Issuance and Program Management

By: via Business Wire

Leading Gift Card Solutions Provider Joins Forces with Issuance and Compliance Expert to Deliver Seamless Issuance and Enhanced Client Gift Card Management Professional Services

TDS Gift Cards, a division of Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD) — a leading provider of gift card growth solutions, is excited to announce a strategic alliance with Card Compliant, a leader in compliance for prepaid cards and payment instruments, aimed at providing a total gift card issuance and program management solution for merchants including high-growth online and app-based brands served by TDS. The venture with Card Compliant leverages the newly released CIMI Card platform of Card Compliant’s affiliate Card Issuance and Management, Inc. (CIMI) to transform the way brands manage, market, and grow their gift card programs while providing first-rate issuance services and gift card compliance with the ever-evolving regulatory standards.

This collaboration will empower mutual clients under the CIMI Card umbrella to leverage the expertise of both companies, offering a seamless, efficient, and comprehensive gift card issuance and program management solution that meets the demands of today’s complex and ever-changing regulatory landscape. The arrangement is poised to provide significant value to all brands that want to take advantage of the power of gift cards as part of their overall customer acquisition and user engagement strategies. By combining TDS Gift Cards’ over 15 years of strategic gift card growth management expertise and Card Compliant’s decades of compliance expertise, these clients will be able to streamline their internal operations and maximize the benefits and profitability of their fully managed branded gift card program, without all the work and with lowered risk.

Benefits of the Alliance for Mutual Clients

The strategic venture between TDS Gift Cards and Card Compliant and its CIMI Card is built on the shared goal of helping businesses create, market and enhance their gift card programs while addressing compliance with legal, regulatory and accounting requirements. Clients will benefit from the expertise and strengths of both companies, gaining access to a comprehensive, one-stop solution that simplifies both the operational and regulatory issuance and compliance aspects of running a successful gift card program.

Key benefits of the TDS Gift Cards and CIMI Card alliance include:

  1. Integrated Issuance, Compliance and Gift Card Growth Solutions: By integrating TDS Gift Cards’ gift card growth strategies and global processing platform with the CIMI Card issuance services and compliance expertise, all aspects of their mutual clients’ gift card programs are properly managed from a single, streamlined solution. This eliminates the need for clients to work with multiple vendors, saving time and money and reducing complexity.
  2. Reduced Compliance Risk: Compliance with unclaimed property and escheatment regulations is a critical concern for any business that offers gift cards. With the CIMI Card as the gift card program’s issuer, clients have a seasoned veteran to help them understand and comply with their regulatory obligations.
  3. Enhanced Customer Experience: TDS Gift Cards’ growth management platform enables clients to offer a seamless and user-friendly gift card experience to their customers, whether they’re purchasing cards in-store, online, or via mobile on the client’s website. This enhanced customer experience leads to increased new user acquisition and customer satisfaction and loyalty.
  4. Operational Efficiency: The combined solution of TDS Gift Cards and CIMI Card simplifies all the operational aspects of managing a gift card program, from issuance, distribution, sales, and redemptions to compliance reporting, remittances, accounting and sales support.
  5. Scalability for Growing Businesses: Aligning with and leveraging the combined expertise of TDS Gift Cards and CIMI Card makes it seamless for clients to scale their gift card programs as they grow, whether they’re expanding into new markets outside the U.S. or enhancing their product offerings. TDS Gift Cards and CIMI Card are experienced in supporting businesses of all sizes, ensuring that each client’s unique needs are met.
  6. Comprehensive Reporting and Insights: With TDS Gift Cards’ near real-time reporting capabilities and CIMI Card’s detailed compliance tracking, CIMI clients will have access to a wealth of data and insights that help optimize their gift card programs for maximum profitability.

“We are thrilled to align with Card Compliant and incorporate the CIMI Card issuance platform and its industry leading compliance features into our core services,” said Jeff Mickeal, Divisional CEO of TDS Gift Cards. “By combining our end-to-end and state-of-the-art gift card growth solutions approach with CIMI Card’s robust issuance platform and expertise, we can offer a truly comprehensive solution that helps to quickly and efficiently launch new gift card programs and accelerate a client’s success and growth of their gift card program with confidence and peace of mind.”

“We are excited about the decision of TDS Gift Cards to align with the CIMI Card issuing platform. The venture is a natural fit enhancing CIMI Card’s goal to deliver an unparalleled collection of gift card features in one place to provide exceptional value and service to clients,” said Chuck Rouse, CEO of Card Compliant. “Their commitment to delivering exceptional gift card solutions and growth management and their focus upon high-growth online and app-based global brands aligns perfectly with CIMI Card’s mission to offer issuance and compliance services worldwide throughout all merchant sectors. By combining strengths with TDS, we’re confident that the CIMI Card’s global solution offers a truly unique value proposition specifically tailored to meet the needs of high-growth online and app-based brands.”

About TDS Gift Cards

TDS Gift Cards, a division of Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD), offers a unique approach to global gift card processing and program growth management specifically tailored to meet the needs of high-growth online and app-based brands. This comprehensive solution allows clients to have a world-class omni-channel gift card or code program to solve payment challenges globally, drive incremental revenue and increase customer acquisition, without the costs and burden on internal teams typically associated with a successful program. For more information, visit www.tdsgiftcards.com .

About Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) is a vertically focused digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, health and wellness, connectivity, cybersecurity, and martech. For more information, visit www.ziffdavis.com .

About the CIMI Card:

Formally launched by CIMI in March 2025, the CIMI Card provides a full-service gift card issuing platform configurable to client needs and managed by experts. Engineered by industry specialists to support the next generation of closed-loop gift and loyalty cards, the CIMI Card platform addresses the modern complexities and headaches of gift card program engineering, card and wallet design, transaction processing reach, specialized data access, multiple distribution channels, program management details, and what has become hundreds of complex laws and accounting standards overseen by scores of government entities.

For more information, visit www.cimicard.com .

Contacts

For more information about this venture or to inquire about services, please contact:

TDS Gift Cards

info@tdsgiftcards.com

CIMI Card and Card Compliant

Katherine Hollar Barnard

Corporate Communications

khb@firesignmarketing.com

(913) 225-7707

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