Worldline - Registration Document 2016
Group Information History and Development
Registered Office, Legal Formand Applicable Legislation [GRI 102-5]
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Immeuble River Ouest, 95870 Bezons Worldline’s registered office is located at 80 quai Voltaire, (Tel: +33 (0)1 73 26 00 00).
Worldline was initially formed as a limited liability company limited liability corporation (société anonyme) in 1992, into a (société à responsabilité limitée) in 1990. It was converted into a simplified stock company (société par actions simplifiée) on corporation on April 30, 2014. Today Worldline is a limited September 29, 2000, and then again into a limited liability French law, including, in particular, Book II of the French liability corporation with a Board of Directors, governed by Commercial Code.
History and Development
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Worldline is one of the leading European providers of electronic providers worldwide. payment and transactional services and one of the largest such Sligos, a company formed in 1972 and majority-owned by Crédit The origins of Worldline’s business date back to 1973, when card-based banking transactions at the time the Carte Bleue Lyonnais, was awarded the first contract in history to process public offering in 1986, Sligos expanded internationally. In 1997, it credit card system was implemented in France. After its initial merged with Axime, also a listed company. player in the rapidly consolidating information technology The Axime group had been formed in 1991 and became a major informatique, or “SSII”). The Axime group resulted from the services industry (sociétés de services en ingénierie (banking and financial market transaction management); (iii) merger of (i) SEGIN (electronic banking, telematics); (ii) SITB personalization of payment support). Customer relations centers SODINFORG (later renamed SEGIN) (electronic banking and and payments services functions were then regrouped within took over the telematics activities. the Axime Services division, while the Axime Multimédia division The Worldline Group’s activities initially arose out of these two In 1997, Atos was created through Axime’s merger with Sligos. Axime Télématique Multimédia, which then took the name Atos entities. The Axime Multimédia division was contributed to and Sligos’ payment and electronic banking activities division Multimédia. Axime’s electronic banking and processing division name Atos Services. Atos Services was later renamed Atos were contributed to the company Flow, which then took the Origin Services following the merger with Origin in 2000. Worldline, when the various Atos Origin businesses relating to On December 31, 2003, Atos Origin Services became Atos Atos Origin Multimedia was merged into Atos Worldline. payment and electronic transactional services were merged. division in Germany (renamed Atos Worldline Processing GmbH Worldline also includes the Atos Origin Processing Services in France, which resulted in the 2005 contribution of the in April 2004) and Atos Worldline Produits Solutions Intégration payment solutions business, which had previously been held by
Atos Worldline operated primarily in France and in Germany, Atos Euronext SBF (with which it merged in 2008). At that time, In 2010, Atos Origin Processing GmbH became a wholly owned becoming a leader in high-tech transactional services, or “HTTS”. subsidiary of Atos Worldline. In the United Kingdom, the Group’s presence in transactional and petrol sectors, resulted from the 2000 merger with Origin. activities, in particular relating to private label cards for the hotel SchlumbergerSema’s information services business further Atos Origin’s 2004 acquisition of the bulk of strengthened its transportation (primarily railroad) business. by acquiring Banksys and Bank Card Company (BCC), In 2006, Atos Worldline extended its scope of activity in Belgium thereby becoming a major player in the Belgian payments companies specialized in payment solutions and systems, Bancontact/Mister Cash payment scheme. market, in particular through its role as operator of the in Europe – in particular in Germany, Belgium, Spain, the consisted in deploying its HTTS business internationally, initially Since 2009, the Atos group’s payment services strategy has Atos group has leveraged its established presence in traditional Netherlands, and the United Kingdom – and later in Asia. The business, while also growing through acquisitions, such as the information technology services to organically develop its HTTS Venture Infotek, an independent player in the Indian market and 2010 acquisitions of Shere Ltd., a UK solutions provider, and strengthened the Atos group’s core payment services business payment sector leader. The acquisition of Venture Infotek markets in the world. Atos also pursued expansion of its HTTS and enabled it to penetrate one of the fastest-growing payment In July 2011, the Atos group acquired Siemens IT Solutions and German group Siemens AG, which resulted in the contribution Services (SIS), a significant European SSII belonging to the technology entities. Through this transaction, Worldline Group of several of the German conglomerate’s information business (“MTS”) in the United Kingdom, Chile and Argentina. primarily acquired SIS’s Mobility & e-Transactional Services services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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