Worldline shapes a new world of payments and trusted transactions. With our advanced payments technology, local payments expertise, and solutions customised for hundreds of markets and industries, we are helping millions of businesses of all sizes to realise their ambitions – faster, simpler, and more securely.
Website
www.worldline.com
Head office
Puteaux, France
Core solution
Our suite of solutions helps businesses accelerate their growth journey – from in-store and online commercial acquiring, to digital services and payment transaction processing. Wherever you are or want to go, our solutions help you get there.
Target market
Merchants (retail, digital goods and services, self-service, petrol and energy, hospitality and travel, transportation), marketplaces, PSP, fintech, banks, brokers, crypto, FX
Contact details
infoWL@worldline.com
Geographical presence
Worldline has a geographical presence in 40 countries and commercial activities in more than 170 countries – spanning Europe, North America, LATAM, and APAC.
Year founded
1973
Funding rounds and investors
Please refer to https://investors.worldline.com/en/home.html
Licence type
PI (Payment Institution) or API (Authorised Payment Institution)
Member of industry associations and/or initiatives
EMVCO, W3C, FIDO Alliance, EDPIA, EPI, MAG (ECB)
Standards and certifications
ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22301:2019, ISO 27001:2013, PCI, ISAE 3402 and ISAE 3000, SWIFT SIP 2021 certified
Brand tagline
Payments technology designed to help you grow.
Payment gateway
Yes
Payment service provider – acquirer
How do you define your company's primary category or technology market?
Worldline brings digital payments for a trusted world.
Online
POS/in-store
Hosted pages
White-label solution
Recurring payments
Payment methods supported
Yes, 150+
Settlement currencies
Instant settlement
Tokenization
Pay-out/disbursements
Payment orchestration
Cryptocurrency payments solution
Reconciliation and reporting
B2B payments
Consolidated data and reporting dashboard
Chargeback management
Fraud and risk management partners
Yes – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection
FX – number of currencies available
Current account/settlement account
Embedded finance/lending to SMEs or merchants
Embedded finance/BNPL for consumers
Client onboarding (KYC/KYB)
Yes, for acquiring and collecting
Main clients/references
Subway, Lufthansa, Sephora, Trip.com, BNPP, Commerzbank, ING, UniCredit, KBC, knab
Case studies
BNP Paribas uses Worldline's Account Validation to reduce SEPA Direct Debit fraud - ThePaypers, Worldline Global | Open Banking Solutions
Awards
As part of the Future Digital Awards for Fintech & Payments 2023, Juniper Research awarded the Worldline Credit Insight Solution gold in the Open Banking innovation category.
Worldline Greece has been awarded Fintech of the Year at the Digital Finance Awards 2023 and gained four more awards for the Smart POS app, its tap-on mobile service.
Worldline was awarded Top Employer 2023 in Europe and Asia.
Transaction volume
Circa 30.6 billion acceptance and acquiring transactions per year.
Circa 12.5 billion issuing processing transactions.
13.1 billion acquiring processing transactions.