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The July 2, 2026, live agentic payment transaction in Germany—executed by Worldline, ING, and Visa—served as a definitive proof of concept for the future of commerce. By successfully navigating product identification, consumer authentication via Visa Payment Passkeys, and standard authorization protocols, the trial demonstrated that the existing payment rails are not the primary bottleneck. As […]

Around 270 ANZ Worldline employees will transfer to the ANZ Group as part of the acquisition.

Worldline SA (WRDLY) achieves leverage target six months early and sees Merchant Services growth, while navigating Financial Services headwinds and maintaining full-year EBITDA guidance.

French digital payments group Worldline lowered its 2026 revenue growth expectations on Thursday, saying a recovery in ‌new business had taken longer than expected as banks delayed awarding contracts ‌following the company's recent setbacks. Worldline now expects flat to marginally positive revenue growth in 2026, compared with ​its previous forecast for low single-digit growth. Chief Executive Pierre-Antoine Vacheron said the recovery in commercial activity and revenue recognition had been slower than anticipated because some banking clients took longer to commit ‌to new business with the ⁠company.

In recent weeks, Visa and partners including Thredd, Worldline, ING, Cleverbridge, ACE Money Transfer, eDreams ODIGEO and Kyivstar’s Uklon have rolled out AI-driven “agentic” payment pilots, cross-border remittance enhancements, and new acceptance infrastructure that use Visa tokenisation and Visa Payment Passkeys to support secure, AI-initiated and real-time transactions across Europe and beyond. Visa’s launch of its AI Financial Assistant, offered as a white‑label service inside banks’...

The ECB enlists 36 payment firms to pilot the digital euro, Europe's counter to USDT and USDC dollar stablecoins.