 CSG International was founded in 1982 by Neal Hansen under the name Cable Services Group ( CSG ) as a division of the payment processing company First Data Corporation . At the time First Data was operated by American Express , which acquired a controlling interest in the company in 1980 . CSG became a part of the American Express Information Services Company , which was formed in 1989 . The CSG group 's first large @-@ scale billing statement processing center , which prints and mails bills to consumers , was established in Omaha in 1990 . 
