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250,000 merchants. 16 million cards managed. 20 years in Italy.

This week in Milan, we celebrated this anniversary with around 150 clients and partners, alongside our teams.

Twenty years in a market that has changed completely. In 2025, digital payments in Italy reached €518 billion, up 7% year on year, and 45% of consumption is now paid electronically against 38% in cash. Ivano Asaro, Head of Innovative Payments Observatory presso Osservatori Digital Innovation, shared these figures with us during the event.

Behind these numbers, one shift matters most: close to 10% market share in acquiring today, compared with 4% in 2022. A position built from the inside, year after year, with the Italian banking system, with merchants who trusted us, and with teams who know this market in depth.

Thank you to our clients, our partners and our teams in Italy.

☀️ Worldline summer rewind | Supporting subscription businesses with smoother payments is an important part of our innovation roadmap.

For subscription businesses, reducing checkout friction and avoiding failed recurring payments are key to improving conversion and protecting revenue.

Earlier this year, we became the first payment provider in Europe to enable Click to Pay for recurring payments.

For merchants, this means a smoother checkout experience and lower involuntary churn. For consumers, it means faster and simpler subscription payments across the full payment journey.

🔗 More information here: https://bit.ly/4x5nAyE

☀️ Worldline summer rewind | Empowered teams, stronger Worldline.

Looking back on the first half of 2026, one thread stands out clearly: the strength of Worldline lies in its community. Beyond strategy and transformation, it is the initiatives led by our teams, local, spontaneous, and deeply engaged, that truly embody the Worldline way.

Across the first half of the year, events took place in our offices throughout Europe, bringing teams together to align, exchange, and translate our plan into concrete actions. From country to country, the same energy emerged: a shared ambition to empower our expertise centres and our teams to turn our North Star plan into daily action, enabling merchants and financial institutions to navigate the European payments landscape with confidence.

🖼️ Swipe through the gallery below to relive the highlights of our events across countries 👇

☀️ Worldline summer rewind | Expanding payment choice remains a key priority for merchants across Europe.

Consumer expectations continue to evolve, merchants need flexible payment options that support both convenience at checkout and business growth.

Earlier this year, we partnered with Klarna to make Klarna’s flexible payment options more accessible across online and in-store channels serviced by Worldline.

For merchants, this means simpler activation and broader payment choice. For consumers, it brings more flexibility and convenience at checkout.

🔗 More information here: https://bit.ly/4duaO43

☀️ Worldline Summer rewind | WorldlineTeX 2026 was successfully held across India.

Behind every great event, there are people: curious minds, bold ideas, and a shared passion for technology.

In late June, our community gathered for WorldlineTeX 2026 at our India offices in Pune, Chennai, and Bangalore to explore the future of payment technology, AI, security, and software development through inspiring talks, hands-on demos, and valuable networking opportunities.

These exchanges are where tomorrow's payment solutions take shape, faster time to market, stronger security, smarter AI, all built on the collective intelligence of our teams and partners.

🖼️ Swipe through the gallery below to relive the highlights 👇

To our participants, speakers, and sponsors, Devoteam and Google Cloud, Thales, MongoDB, Databricks, Sonar : thank you for making this edition truly unique. It is your contributions that transform an event into a genuine movement.

Until the next edition in the Benelux 🚀

☀️ Worldline summer rewind | Simplifying operations for enterprise merchants is at the heart of our strategy.

With commerce becomes more connected, merchants need to manage payments consistently across online, mobile, in-store and self-service channels.

Earlier this year, we launched One Commerce in the UK, bringing enterprise merchants a unified way to manage payments across channels.

By consolidating payment services and operational capabilities into a single back office, One Commerce helps reduce complexity, improve visibility and support more consistent customer journeys.

🔗 More information here: https://bit.ly/4xpBNX5

This summer, we are looking back at some of the milestones that shaped the first half of the year at .

One of them was the completion of our first Wero online payment in Belgium, marking an important step in the rollout of Wero eu for e-commerce in Europe.

By supporting the activation of Wero for merchants and organisations, we continue to contribute to a more seamless and connected European payments landscape alongside EPI company .

The carousel below takes a closer look at what this means for merchants, consumers and the broader European payments landscape. 👇

🔗 To find out more, click here: https://bit.ly/46B0rsM

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The artificial intelligence payment may be new. The need for clear payment controls is not.

Here is how our live agent-initiated transaction in Germany with ING and Visa worked:

The consumer defined what to buy and when. The merchant AI agent operated within those instructions and surfaced a suitable option. The consumer confirmed the purchase intent using biometric authentication with Visa Payment Passkey, in line with Strong Customer Authentication.

ING authorised the transaction. Worldline processed it end-to-end across its infrastructure.

➡️ Swipe through the journey to see how agent assistance, biometric confirmation and established payment controls work together.

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