Company Database - Worldline

Digital Payments For A Trusted World

Worldline is the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and the #4 player worldwide. As an agile and fast-growing global Paytech leader, Worldline is at the  forefront of the digital revolution that is shaping new ways of paying, living, doing business, and building relationships.

Active since

1973

Head office

Tour Voltaire
1 place des degrés
CS 81162
92059 Paris la Défense Cedex

Country offices in

Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Croatia; Czech
Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hong Kong; Hungary;
India; Indonesia; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Netherlands; New Zealand;
Norway; Poland; Romania; Singapore; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; UK;
US

Funding rounds and investors 

Please refer to our corporate investor page: https://investors.worldline.com/en/home.html

Business revenue 2021

Please refer to our corporate investor page: https://investors.worldline.com/en/home.html

Year over year growth rate

34.2%

Number of employees

18,000

Member of industry association and/or initiatives

The European Digital Payments Industry Alliance (the EDPIA)

Awards

PayTech / Ovum Innovation Award 2019 for Open Banking
PayForum Award 2018 for API Management

Contact (phone number / email address)

henrik.hodam@worldline.com 

CORE SOLUTION

What are the company’s core solutions

Our solutions ensure secure payments and trusted transactional services along the entire payments value chain, enabling sustainable economic growth. We provide an extensive range of merchant acquiring, payment processing, and business solutions to financial institutions, merchants, corporations, and government agencies. Our continuously growing portfolio of solutions is environmentally friendly and supports trust and social transformation.

We operate in more than 40 countries and employ over 18,000 talented and dedicated experts. With a strong culture of innovation, Worldline helps clients anticipate the future, seize new opportunities, and navigate their challenges with confidence.

How it works

Our Open Banking platform comes with all the facilities to manage your APIs in order to make the glue between your own resources, services exposed by partners, and Worldline assets on payment, authentication, and digital services. Powerful monetisation and invoicing features are included to help you define and run new business models.

What problem does the company solve

We offer an open platform that enables access to the new PSD2 ban king APIs for new services like Account-to-Account Payments, Credit Insight and Business Financial Management based on our payment initiation, and account information services. This platform also allows partner companies to make use of our connectivity to empower them with a European bank reach.

Types of supported APIs\API standard supported

Types: API REST
Standards: Berlin Group, Open Banking, STET, and existing local schemes like in Poland and Czech Republic.

Industries/target markets

Geographical presence in more than 40 countries and commercial activities in more than
170 countries.
EUROPE
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the UK
AMERICAS
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Paraguay,
the US, Uruguay, Venezuela
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Morocco, South Africa
ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Number of connected bank

More than 3500 banks across 21 countries

TECHNOLOGY

Cloud enabled

Software language

Java

Software developement tools

Please refer to our developer portal

When was the core technology developed

The Open Banking service is live since 2019 and it is constantly improved and extended.

PARTNERS

Technology partners

Partnership with fintech Algoan to offer next-level credit assessment solution for lenders & service providers

Partnership with fintech Meniga to boost digital customer engagement with new personalised Digital Banking features

BUSINESS MODEL

Pricing model

Transaction-based pricing model

Future developments

Stablecoins: Next-generation regulated digital currencies https://worldline.com/en/home/knowledgehub/blog/2021/february/stablecoins-nextgeneration-
regulated-digital-currencies.html

Customers / Case studies

Key customers

c.1.1 million merchants like Accor Hotels, Spotify, Subway, TOTAL + more than 320 financial instituions such as BNPP, Commerzbank, ING, UniCredit.

Case studies

BNPP and Worldline launched the first banking app on macOS in France
https://worldline.com/en/home/knowledgehub/blog/2021/april/how-bnpp-and-worldlinelaunched-
the-first-banking-app-on-mac-os-in-france.html
Exclusive guest experiences for a best-in-class service
https://worldline.com/content/dam/worldline-new/assets/documents/case-studies/
michelreybier_success_story_case_study.pdf