Worldline - Registration Document 2016

Business Overview

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Overview [GRI 102-7]

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. systems expertise. It operates in 22 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 China in payment software licensing). 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 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

On September 30, 2016 Worldline successfully completed the merger and integration of the Equens group. Equens is a prominent payment services provider headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Through the transaction, the enlarged Worldline Group benefits from a highly comprehensive pan-European footprint and has increased its revenue size by c.+65% in Financial Processing and by c.+25% in Commercial Acquiring. It illustrates Worldline’s strategy of becoming active industrial consolidator within the European payment market. As at December 31, 2016 Worldline employed around 8,700 staff worldwide and generated total revenues of € 1,309.2 million, OMDA of € 258.7 million and net income group share of € 144.2 million. 2016 pro forma revenue, as if Equens, Paysquare and KB SmartPay had been consolidated from January 1, 2016, would have been € 1.5 billion (Refer to Note 2 to the 2016 Consolidated Financial Statements). Worldline activities are organized around three axes: Merchant Services & Terminals, Financial Services (formerly “Financial Processing & Software Licensing”) and Mobility & e-Transactional Services, as described in Section 6.5.

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