and Bank of Ireland extended its  agreement with us for consumer and commercial processing, as well.  TSYS also signed an agreement with  Permanent TSB, a Dublin-based retail  banking company, marking our first  European debit client. Kenya on PRIME and upgraded Qatar Islamic Bank to PRIME as well. In the Commonwealth of Independent  States region, we signed Standard  Bank of Azerbaijan. These moves demonstrate our commitment to building our licensing business.  Europe, and announced the signing of Cedacri, a provider of outsourced  payment services.  We are extremely proud of the performance of CUP Data, our joint venture with China UnionPay, which now has more than 90 percent of the  medium-tier outsourced processing market. CUP Data continues to solidify  its reputation as a leading provider of outsourced credit payments while expanding into the segments of debit and prepaid, as well. We strengthened our presence in the Nordic region by signing a large  Nordic bank as a PRIME licensing client. Also in the region, we completed the integration of DnB NOR Kort, Norway’s largest financial  services group, for its MasterCard  brand on our PRIME licensing platform.  Our PRIME licensing business continues to grow at a positive rate.  In Africa, we signed Imperial Bank of  We gained considerable traction in Germany, and began the year by announcing an agreement with  Frankfurt-based Degussa Bank to provide payment services to its  corporate and business clients. We  also signed B+S Card Service, one  of Europe’s leading acquirers with a  presence and scale in 12 European  countries, to provide it with back-  office merchant acceptance services  across Europe. In response to our impressive growth in Germany, we expanded our relationship management team on the ground to make these clients’ transitions as seamless as possible. Each of these deals, in its own right, is noteworthy and reinforces our ongoing commitment to Europe. We continued a keen focus on Italy, the seventh-largest card market in In Japan, a leading Internet bank, SBI Sumishin Net Bank (SSNB), selected TSYS to process its start-  up payment card portfolio. We will provide processing and back-office operation services for SSNB to issue  cards to consumers, including retail  membership cards, a proprietary private-label credit card and network-branded credit cards. In Brazil, we successfully completed the second phase of a three-part conversion for Carrefour onto TS Prime,$^{SM}$ a new server-based, processing system that will enable 2010 stands out as a year spent building a foundation that will  support scale in new countries, on new systems  and in growing payment  channels such as health- care, prepaid and mobile. 4