WORLDLINE_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

Group overview Business profile [GRI 102-1] [GRI 102-2] [GRI 102-7]

Business profile [GRI 102-1] [GRI 102-2] [GRI 102-7] A.2

Worldline has three Global Business Lines , each with its own portfolio of services, solutions and significant opportunities for growth, that together form the foundation for the Group’s business strategy: the Merchant Services global business line primarily ● targets merchants, helping them build consumer intimacy through its broad portfolio of electronic payment solutions and value added services, across sales channels; the Financial Services global business line targets banks ● and other financial institutions. Its mission is to provide a complete range of payment services for banks in a challenging and evolving regulatory environment, by leveraging the Group’s industrial scale processing operations and continuously providing innovations that support alternative pricing models, while taking into account new payment methods and value added services; the Mobility & e-Transactional Services global business ● line goes beyond traditional payment transactions, helping business and government entities develop new paperless digital services and evolve their business models by leveraging digital advances in mobility and data analysis and solutions originally developed in the Group’s payment business. The Group operates its business through a unified worldwide strategy for carrying out contracts aimed at maximizing economies of scale by leveraging a combination of standard processes and tools, shared best practices and efficient use of global resources to deliver high quality services at competitive prices.

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 systems expertise. It operates in 29 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 Asia-Pacific in payment Software Licensing). Trough its recent acquisitions, the Group extended its worldwide presence in new geographic areas: the United-States, Bresil and Sweden with first Digital River World Payments; Lettenonie, Littuania and Estonia with First Data Baltics. 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 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. As at December 31, 2017 Worldline employed more than 9.400 staff worldwide and generated total revenues of € 1594 million, OMDA of € 335 million and net income group share of € 105 million.

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Worldline 2017 Registration Document

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