Worldline is a corporation that offers payment and transactional services. It operates in four segments: Merchant Services, Financial Services, terminal, Solutions, and Services, and Mobility and e-Transactional Services. Terminals and point of sale, online payments, omnichannel commerce, issuing and acquiring solutions, account payments, digital banking, connected services, customer interaction, cloud services, and other services are available from the organization. Worldline serves the retail, financial, manufacturing, transportation, and public sectors, among others.
About The Company
Worldline SA, originally Atos Worldline SAS, the payment and transaction services provider is based in France. The organization has operations in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The headquarters of Worldline is in Paris, France. The company develops and operates digital platforms that handle all transactions between businesses, their partners, and their customers. It provides a variety of financial services, including acquiring processing and value-added services, issuing processing, online banking, and software licensing. It serves the banking, transportation, retail, healthcare, financial services, insurance, media, and telecommunications industries.
Worldline’s Story
The story of Worldline begins in 1996, when Axime offered to buy Sligos, culminating in the successful merger of the two firms under the new name Atos. Atos quickly acquired more companies and rose to prominence as a leader in payment software and integration activities. The corporation established the new subsidiary Atos Worldline in 2004 to focus only on payments and transactional services.
Two years later, the business purchased Banksys, which is in charge of safeguarding and insuring electronic payments in Belgium, as well as BCC, which operates payment systems linked to the two main credit card networks, Visa and Mastercard. In 2013, the Atos Worldline segment obtained autonomy, and a year later, Atos floated Worldline as a standalone company for 26.59 percent of its interests, for 575 million euros, valuing Worldline at 2.1 billion euros. With over 11,000 workers and services in over 30 countries, Worldline rose to become the European Payment Champion. Worldline merged its electronic financial transaction processing services with the Dutch payment processing company Equens in November 2015 to form equensWorldline. The debut in 2016 established Worldline as the European payment services market leader.
When Atos shareholders approved the plan to divide 23.4 percent of Worldline shares to their owners in May 2019, Worldline became an independent business. The company expanded its international reach and inked a long-term strategic commercial acquiring agreement with Australia’s third-largest acquirer, ANZ Bank, at the end of 2020. One aspect of Worldline’s objective was to establish and enable an ecosystem with simple financial technology integration for as many businesses as feasible. As a result, Worldline fortified its position in 2017 by acquiring Digital River World Payments (DRWP) and First Data Baltics. This gave Worldline control of ANZ’s merchant acquisition business, allowing them to provide value-added products and services to its merchant customers. The Australian market is significant because it is the world’s 14th largest economy and is witnessing rapid expansion in digitalization. Worldline’s tale continues in May 2021, when we bought 92.5 percent of Cardlink’s share capital in order to build Worldline’s Merchant Services business in one of the world’s most promising markets. Cardlink is Greece’s top network services provider, with exclusive access to the country’s leading payment acceptance network. This transaction will provide with a greater presence in southern Europe a country that is rapidly adopting electronic payments.
CEO – Gilles Grapinet
Since July 2013, Gilles Grapinet has served as Worldline’s Chief Executive Officer. Soon after taking over, he led the company through a successful IPO in 2014, which resulted in Worldline’s listing as a public company on the French stock exchange. The company has more than doubled in size, geographical reach, and revenue since 2013. Mr. Grapinet, a fervent supporter of corporate social responsibility, launched the TRUST2020 program in 2016 – an ambitious roadmap that ensures trust is at the heart of all Worldline interactions.
Worldline, which became entirely independent of Atos on May 3rd, 2019, is now the n°1 electronic payment services provider in Europe and n°4 internationally and has been a member of the CAC40 leading French index since March 2020, with a market valuation of over 21 billion euros (March 2021).
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