Company Database - Worldline

Digital payments for a trusted world

Worldline is a global leader in the payments industry and the technology partner of choice for merchants, banks, and acquirers. Powered by 18,000 employees in 40 countries, Worldline provides its clients with sustainable, trusted, and innovative solutions fostering their growth. Services offered by Worldline include instore and online commercial acquiring, highly secure payment transaction processing, and numerous digital services.

Background information

Year founded

1973

Website

https://worldline.com/en/home.html

Target group

Banks/FS, Fintech, Brokers, Crypto exchange/Blockchain and Crypto Companies, Merchants/Marketplaces (regulated entities), PSP/Acquirers, Telecom

Supported regions

Europe

Contact

nicolas.kozakiewicz@worldline.com

Company's motto

Digital payments for a trusted world

Member of industry association and/or initiatives

EMVCO, W3C, FIDO Alliance, EDPIA, EPI, MAG (ECB)

Core solution 

Crypto infrastructure for financial institutions 

Crypto Rails B2B & B2C

Non-Crypto Native PSPs

Crypto Wallets

Core solution/problems the company solves

Worldline proposes several services around digital currencies and payments: CBDC services (infrastructure, integration, online payments, offline payments), Stablecoin services (infrastructure, integration, online payments, offline payments, FYC, Acquiring, Issuing), Crypto acceptance (online, physical, and in the metaverse), Identity services, Service/Utility Token services.

Service Provider Type

Crypto payment Service Provider - Gateway /Merchant Acquirer /Processor

Banking product infrastructure

Payments Infrastructure

Settlement networks

B2B payments

POS/mPOS

Liquidity and execution solutions

Exchange

Wallet functionalities

On-chain analytics

Custody (vendor hosted custody, on-premise custody with multiple key handling solutions, hybrid key sharded solutions held by both the financial intermediary and the third-party vendor)

Info regarding how does your blockchain solution work

Speed of transaction processing per second – TPS

Up to several thousands

Do you generate a token?

Yes

Related work – is your blockchain infrastructure designed/inspired from other infrastructures?

Yes

How is consensus reached (– relevant for sustainability/electricity, etc.)?

Round robin, no energy waste.

Business model

Funding rounds/Investors

Listed company

Pricing model

All business models are supported.

Investors

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

Future developments

For more details, please contact our sales team.

Customers

Customers reference

Worldline and Bitcoin Suisse launch WL Crypto Payments in Switzerland. 

Worldline operates several Private Stablecoins for different customers, like Da Vinci, PayFoot, and some non-disclosed big actors.

Worldline is part of the Digital Euro prototyping with the European Central Bank.