Worldline

Worldline is the largest French and one of the largest European payment-services providers, operated by **Worldline SA** at Tour Voltaire, 1 Place des Degrés, 92059 Paris la Défense Cedex. Founded in 2014 as a carve-out from Atos and trading as **WLN on Euronext Paris**, the company became fully independent of Atos in 2022 when the latter completed the sale of its remaining stake; as of 2026 the free-float exceeds 90% with no single controlling shareholder and a mix of long-only / value / passive institutional investors. The product spans in-store, online, and omnichannel payment acceptance plus an issuing-and-acquiring stack for banks, cross-border services, open-banking infrastructure, and digital-currency rails — serving 1.4M+ merchant clients across 170+ countries with ~18,000 employees and a #4 global PSP ranking by volume. Compliance posture is exceptional and oriented to regulated industries and public-sector procurement. Worldline carries ISO 9001:2015 (quality management), ISO 14001:2015 (environmental), **ISO/IEC 27001:2022** (information security), ISO 22301:2019 (business continuity), **ISAE 3402** and **ISAE 3000** assurance reports (the audit framework used by financial-services suppliers globally), and **PCI-DSS** at the highest tier. National-grade certifications across many of its 170+ operating countries are also in place. The corporate compliance page makes the regulated-supplier story explicit; recent activity (May 2026) includes the finalisation of the Electronic Data Management divestment to SIX (Swiss financial-markets infrastructure) and a March 2026 rights issue — both signs of an active restructuring posture under the post-Atos independent governance. Pricing is enterprise-grade and negotiated; no consumer-grade pricing page applies. Worldline sells through its Merchant Services, Financial Services, and Mobility & e-Transactional Services divisions and is the recommended choice for EU public-sector procurement, banks, retailers operating across multiple EU markets, and any organisation needing a Euronext-listed, fully-independent French alternative to US PSPs. Together with Adyen (NL), Worldline rounds out the directory's two-pillar EU public-listed-PSP shortlist; Mollie (NL) sits below them as the SMB / DNB-licensed e-money option.