Worldline - Registration Document 2016

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Corporate and social responsibility report Annex III - Building client’s trust with fully available and secured platforms and reinforcing value for clients

providing real business opportunities to test algorithm models, and innovation for Worldline, by orienting research to critical academic worlds promote both university research, by business needs that require advanced expertise on fraud, encryption, security and data analytics. The partnerships also future technological challenges on an international scale. These close, long-term relationships between the business and researchers and students to find increasingly innovative solutions, pooling their knowledge and expertise to identify Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium). Worldline’s international research and development teams are working with partnerships with leading European universities on data analytics and encryption (University of Passau in Germany, advantage for meeting Worldline’s international growth goals. provide a great opportunity for Worldline to implement a worldwide technology watch, which is a key competitive Worldline has close links and has established long-term initiatives. Worldline’s Research and Development department is a key enabler of Worldline’s capacity for innovation and designed to spur its employees to greater creativity and to encourage the design and the implementation of value creating improvement of its products and solutions, a critical strength in an industry that is constantly evolving. Worldline actively seeks to promote a culture of innovation Worldline’s research and development teams comprise over 350 engineers located in most of the countries in which the dedicated to disruptive innovation. Worldline’s dedicated research and development team supports a more extensive innovation, while other research and development engineers are focused on longer-term research and development projects operational teams and focus primarily on incremental operational team of more than 6,000 digital specialists who work with clients in the field to deliver the Company’s solutions. Company is present. Many of Worldline’s research and development engineers are closely integrated within Worldline’s Worldline’s staff is highly skilled and creative, as is demonstrated every year by the WIN Awards’ (Worldline Innovation Network) Worldline Innovation Network (WIN) had 44 members around the world in 2016. [WL2]. further development. Within Worldline, 45% of R&D department employees are PhDs and PhD students [WL2]. Moreover, the their innovative projects to their peers and to get the best projects awarded and sponsored by the management for projects. Bottom-up processes enable employees to present Worldline’s innovative approach [WL2]

be presented and the set, or selected, amount can be transferred to the recipient’s organization. To give donors a better idea of the real impact of their donation and the accept users’ individual donations simply and securely. As easily as a coin or a note can be placed in a box, a card can made. donations made by all the other donors, a digital screen shows the real-time total as it increases with each donation Donation Box. This time, the connected object takes the form of a box (instead of a piggy bank) which can promptly our customers led us to shift the PayGgy box concept towards another vertical market, for another use: as a As one solution leads to another, our ongoing dialog with ● algorithms, in order to enable “device-to-cloud” application processing and off-loading. The primary areas of focus include high-performance computing, liquid computing solutions, cloud and context services, artificial intelligence and machine learning This area focuses on innovative solutions for processing high volumes of data, proposing new generations of tools for equipment and infrastructure architecture, as well as in terms of development include: and support for emerging business activities. Key innovations that have come out of this process or that are currently in “intelligent” IT implementation that will analyze and adapt to the available hardware to execute a cloud-hosted Liquid IT. Worldline is currently developing Liquid IT, an ● components best suited to handling them; application. The application aims to efficiently allocate software processes in real time to the available hardware Analytics are now required by almost all of its services, Worldline decided to embed all of the resources to provide Industrial Data Analytics Platform: as Prescriptive Data ● Intelligence for Data Analytics), a three year research program with four different European universities; generation of software to benefit fully from such an infrastructure, in the form of the AïDA program (Artificial working on “Machine Intelligence” and “Deep Learning”. This work is very important because it enables our computers to To supplement its data analytics work, Worldline is also ● best-in-class data analytics services, whether structured, contextual or real-time. Worldline is now preparing the next expected of them. This work is vital for all real-time information processing services. Fraud detection in learn for themselves, to create reasoning or rules by which to analyze information in order to take the decisions HighProcessing andVolumes

payments is an excellent example.

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