Worldline SA
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| Euronext: WLN CAC 40 Component | |
| ISIN | FR0011981968  |
| Industry | data processing, hosting and related activities |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Headquarters | Bezons, France |
Key people | Gilles Grapinet |
| Products | Payment Terminals & Merchant Services, Transaction Processing, Mobility & Transactional Web Services |
| Revenue | €2.3 billion (2019) |
| €311 million (2019) | |
Number of employees | 11,000+ in 2018 |
| Website | worldline.com |
Worldline is a French payment and transactional services company founded in 1970.
History
1970-2004: beginnings and diversification
Worldline's first activities in processing payment card transactions date back to the 1970s, first under the name of Sligos - resulting from the merger in 1973 between Sliga, a subsidiary of the Crédit Lyonnais bank, and Cegos[1] - then, from the 1980s, with Segin, specializing in particular in transactions on Minitel. From the 1990s, the company diversified into online payments with Axime, which gave birth - after its merger with Sligos[2] - to the Atos Group[3].
2004-2014: integration into Atos
In 2004, Atos integrated its payment and online services activities into a division then called Atos Worldline.
- ^ "Henri Pascaud PDG de Sligos". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ "Axime prend le contrôle de Sligos et devient le « poids lourd » de l'informatique bancaire". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ "Atos a enregistré une hausse de 68,7 % de son résultat en 1997-1998". LesEchos (in French). Retrieved 3 June 2020.