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Business
Overview
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Worldline
2016 Registration Document
Overview
[GRI 102-7]
6.1
works closely with its clients to build and run outsourced
services, typically under long-term contracts where it receives
fees for the initial implementation of the solution as well as
recurring revenue over the life of the agreement based on
business transaction volumes or transaction values. The Group’s
strong culture of innovation allows it to help clients enhance
their existing services and harness advances in technology to
create new markets and services.
systems expertise. It operates in 22 countries, throughout
Europe and in several emerging markets in Latin America and
Asia (where Worldline also has a leading position in India as a
payment processor and in China in payment software licensing).
The Group operates across the full extended payment services
value chain, providing an extensive range of merchant
acquiring, payment processing and business solutions services
to financial institutions, merchants, corporations and
government agencies. It offers a unique and flexible business
model built around a global and growing portfolio. The Group
Worldline, an Atos company, is the European leader in the
payments and transactional services industry. Worldline delivers
new-generation services, enabling its customers to offer smooth
and innovative solutions to the end consumer. A key player in
the B2B2C market, the Group has over 40 years of payment
On September
30, 2016 Worldline successfully completed the
merger and integration of the Equens group. Equens is a
prominent payment services provider headquartered in Utrecht,
the Netherlands. Through the transaction, the enlarged
Worldline Group benefits from a highly comprehensive
pan-European footprint and has increased its revenue size by
c.+65% in Financial Processing and by c.+25% in Commercial
Acquiring.
It illustrates Worldline’s strategy of becoming active
industrial consolidator within the European payment market.
€
144.2 million. 2016 pro forma revenue, as if Equens, Paysquare
and KB SmartPay had been consolidated from January
1, 2016,
would have been €
1.5
billion (Refer to Note
2 to the 2016
Consolidated Financial Statements).
As at December
31, 2016 Worldline employed around 8,700 staff
worldwide and generated total revenues of €
1,309.2
million,
OMDA of €
258.7
million and net income group share of
Worldline activities are organized around three axes: Merchant
Services & Terminals, Financial Services (formerly “Financial
Processing & Software Licensing”) and Mobility &
e-Transactional Services, as described in Section 6.5.