What is the address of WORLDLINE?

The registered office of WORLDLINE is located at Haachtsesteenweg 1442, 1130 Brussel.

Is WORLDLINE still active?

Yes. According to the CBE (29 October 2026) WORLDLINE is active, legal situation “Normale toestand”, started on 26 June 1978.

Is WORLDLINE registered on Peppol?

Yes, WORLDLINE is registered on the Peppol network with ID 0208:0418547872.

What is the enterprise number of WORLDLINE?

The enterprise number of WORLDLINE is BE0418547872.

When was WORLDLINE founded?

WORLDLINE was founded on 26 June 1978.

Who are the directors of WORLDLINE?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, the directors of WORLDLINE are: Vincent ROLAND, Candice Dillon, Gregory Lambertie, Srikanth Seshadri, Marc-Henri Desportes, Jozef Huybreghts, Marouen Bellazrak, Christophe DUQUENNE.

Is WORLDLINE a reliable company?

Databakkes does not pass judgement; this is what the sources say: Active according to the CBE since 26 June 1978; 5 annual accounts filed, latest fiscal year 2025; 11 directors known from the annual account; 3 establishments in the CBE.

How much profit did WORLDLINE make in 2025?

WORLDLINE posted a profit after taxes of € 59,729,129 in financial year 2025.

What is the revenue of WORLDLINE?

In its most recent annual accounts (2025), WORLDLINE reported revenue of € 566,547,112.

How much does an employee at WORLDLINE earn?

The average wage cost per full-time employee at WORLDLINE was € 175,700 in 2025: staff costs of € 95.6 million for 544 FTE, according to the annual account at the National Bank. That is the employer's cost, not net pay.

How many employees does WORLDLINE have?

According to the 2025 annual accounts, WORLDLINE has 544 full-time equivalents (FTE).

WORLDLINE (Public Limited) - Brussel - BE0418547872

Q: What does WORLDLINE do?

WORLDLINE is filed with the CBE under the catch-all “Overige ondersteunende activiteiten in verband met financiële diensten, neg, exclusief verzekeringen en pensioenfondsen”. Also registered: IT company, wholesaler, software company. Public Limited, started on 26 June 1978, 3 establishments.

Dossier WORLDLINE, printed on 29 October 2026 from databakkes.be/en/0418547872/worldline. Sources: CBE, National Bank of Belgium, Belgian Official Gazette.

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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.

Shrinking team NBB

FTE fell two years in a row, from 681.1 to 544.

Financials

Financial year 2025

WORLDLINE from Brussel, company number BE0418547872, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 59.7 million after tax. For that financial year WORLDLINE recorded revenue of € 566.5 million and equity of € 2.2 billion. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 55.4 million to € 59.7 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 1, 2026.

What it is worth Growing

€ 2.2 billion

▲ 3% vs 2024

Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.

Profit Growing

€ 59.7 million

▲ 8% vs 2024

Profit after tax over the fiscal year.

Cash in the bank

€ 308.3 million

▼ 59% vs 2024

Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.

Where the profit goes Growing

Stays in the company

No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 1.1 billion.

People and assets in 2025

Full-time equivalents

544

▼ 78.2 vs 2024

Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.

Wage cost Staff costs are payroll only. Director pay sits with services and miscellaneous goods: € 515 million in 2025, together with rent, insurance, accountants and other services. The accounts do not split that further.

€ 95.6 million

▼ 5% vs 2024

€ 175,700 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.

Vehicles and equipment

€ 447,603

▼ 5% vs 2024

Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.

Debts at end 2025

Bank debt ≈ 7685 years to go The accounts give the long-term loan and the part due within the year. The remainder divided by that part is the number of years at an equal pace; a new loan or early repayment changes it.

€ 1.2 billion

▼ 1% vs 2024

€ 155,798 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 7685 years.

Owed to suppliers

€ 85.5 million

▼ 20% vs 2024

Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 60 days on average.

Taxes and wages

€ 22.2 million

▼ 17% vs 2024

Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.

Key figures per fiscal year Download key figures (CSV)
	2022	2023	2024	2025	Change 2024 → 2025
Revenue	€ 582,330,261 Revenue 2022: € 582,330,261 First fiscal year in the series	€ 630,300,022 Revenue 2023: € 630,300,022 ▲ 8% vs 2022 (€ 582,330,261) Favourable step	€ 602,332,048 Revenue 2024: € 602,332,048 ▼ 4% vs 2023 (€ 630,300,022) Unfavourable step	€ 566,547,112 Revenue 2025: € 566,547,112 ▼ 6% vs 2024 (€ 602,332,048) Unfavourable step	▼ 6%
Profit after taxes	€ 156,380,907 Profit after taxes 2022: € 156,380,907 First fiscal year in the series	€ 223,151,368 Profit after taxes 2023: € 223,151,368 ▲ 43% vs 2022 (€ 156,380,907) Favourable step	€ 55,385,380 Profit after taxes 2024: € 55,385,380 ▼ 75% vs 2023 (€ 223,151,368) Unfavourable step	€ 59,729,129 Profit after taxes 2025: € 59,729,129 ▲ 8% vs 2024 (€ 55,385,380) Favourable step	▲ 8%
Equity	€ 1,802,359,424 Equity 2022: € 1,802,359,424 First fiscal year in the series	€ 2,025,510,792 Equity 2023: € 2,025,510,792 ▲ 12% vs 2022 (€ 1,802,359,424) Favourable step	€ 2,094,233,972 Equity 2024: € 2,094,233,972 ▲ 3% vs 2023 (€ 2,025,510,792) Favourable step	€ 2,153,963,101 Equity 2025: € 2,153,963,101 ▲ 3% vs 2024 (€ 2,094,233,972) Favourable step	▲ 3%
Total debts	€ 1,651,933,785 Total debts 2022: € 1,651,933,785 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,731,863,727 Total debts 2023: € 1,731,863,727 ▲ 5% vs 2022 (€ 1,651,933,785) Unfavourable step	€ 1,610,515,176 Total debts 2024: € 1,610,515,176 ▼ 7% vs 2023 (€ 1,731,863,727) Favourable step	€ 1,581,393,877 Total debts 2025: € 1,581,393,877 ▼ 2% vs 2024 (€ 1,610,515,176) Favourable step	▼ 2%
Cash	€ 457,426,970 Cash 2022: € 457,426,970 First fiscal year in the series	€ 566,702,793 Cash 2023: € 566,702,793 ▲ 24% vs 2022 (€ 457,426,970) Favourable step	€ 759,303,741 Cash 2024: € 759,303,741 ▲ 34% vs 2023 (€ 566,702,793) Favourable step	€ 308,316,977 Cash 2025: € 308,316,977 ▼ 59% vs 2024 (€ 759,303,741) Unfavourable step	▼ 59%
Land & buildings	€ 12,277 Land & buildings 2022: € 12,277 First fiscal year in the series	€ 862 Land & buildings 2023: € 862 ▼ 93% vs 2022 (€ 12,277) Unchanged	€ 53 Land & buildings 2024: € 53 ▼ 94% vs 2023 (€ 862) Unchanged	€ 88,582 Land & buildings 2025: € 88,582 ▲ € 88,529 vs 2024 (€ 53) Unchanged	▲ € 88,529
Retained profit	€ 709,112,069 Retained profit 2022: € 709,112,069 First fiscal year in the series	€ 932,263,437 Retained profit 2023: € 932,263,437 ▲ 31% vs 2022 (€ 709,112,069) Favourable step	€ 995,240,998 Retained profit 2024: € 995,240,998 ▲ 7% vs 2023 (€ 932,263,437) Favourable step	€ 1,054,970,127 Retained profit 2025: € 1,054,970,127 ▲ 6% vs 2024 (€ 995,240,998) Favourable step	▲ 6%
Bank debt	€ 1,197,808,138 Bank debt 2022: € 1,197,808,138 First fiscal year in the series	€ 1,197,665,890 Bank debt 2023: € 1,197,665,890 Unchanged (€ 1,197,808,138) Favourable step	€ 1,214,664,457 Bank debt 2024: € 1,214,664,457 ▲ 1% vs 2023 (€ 1,197,665,890) Unfavourable step	€ 1,198,482,775 Bank debt 2025: € 1,198,482,775 ▼ 1% vs 2024 (€ 1,214,664,457) Favourable step	▼ 1%
Balance sheet total	€ 3,462,241,858 Balance sheet total 2022: € 3,462,241,858 First fiscal year in the series	€ 3,766,691,175 Balance sheet total 2023: € 3,766,691,175 ▲ 9% vs 2022 (€ 3,462,241,858) Unchanged	€ 3,728,491,945 Balance sheet total 2024: € 3,728,491,945 ▼ 1% vs 2023 (€ 3,766,691,175) Unchanged	€ 3,741,951,154 Balance sheet total 2025: € 3,741,951,154 Unchanged (€ 3,728,491,945) Unchanged
Employees (FTE)	671.9 Employees (FTE) 2022: 671.9 First fiscal year in the series	681.1 Employees (FTE) 2023: 681.1 ▲ 9.2 vs 2022 (671.9) Unchanged	622.2 Employees (FTE) 2024: 622.2 ▼ 58.9 vs 2023 (681.1) Unchanged	544 Employees (FTE) 2025: 544 ▼ 78.2 vs 2024 (622.2) Unchanged	▼ 78.2

Key figures of WORLDLINE, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.

What happened to WORLDLINE?

What happened at WORLDLINE in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:

2031 Candice Dillon stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Srikanth Seshadri stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Jozef Huybreghts stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Marouen Bellazrak stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Joachim Goyvaerts stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Pierre-Antoine Vacheron stepped down as director. NBB
2031 Birgitta Brys stepped down as director. NBB
Jun 1, 2026 New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 59.7 million (▲ 8% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗

In short

From € 156.4 million profit in 2022 to € 59.7 million profit in 2025.

Paid € 25.3 million in corporate taxes since 2022.

Best year ever: 2023, with € 223.2 million profit.

Pays suppliers within 60 days on average.

Original PDFs at the National Bank ↗

Management

Worldline SA 98.1%

Retail International Holding SAS 1.9%

Worldline Participation 1 SA 0%

WORLDLINE

Worldline Sweden AB 100%

Bambora AB 100%

Worldline Schweiz AG 100%

Worldline Merchant Services Uk Ltd. 100%

The shares are held by Worldline SA (98.1%), Retail International Holding SAS (1.9%) and Worldline Participation 1 SA (0%). It owns 100% of Worldline Sweden AB, 100% of Bambora AB, 100% of Worldline Schweiz AG, 100% of Worldline Merchant Services Uk Ltd., 100% of MTS Participation Belgium SRL and 100% of Worldline Japan Ltd itself.

Directors

According to the 2025 annual accounts

Vincent ROLAND

Managing director

Also active at: Worldline Financial Solutions

since 2017 · until 2025

Candice Dillon

Director

since 2026 · until 2031

Gregory Lambertie

Director

since 2022 · until 2025

Srikanth Seshadri

Director

since 2026 · until 2031

Marc-Henri Desportes

Director

since 2014 · until 2025

Jozef Huybreghts

Managing director

since 2025 · until 2031

Marouen Bellazrak

Director

since 2026 · until 2031

Christophe DUQUENNE

Managing director

since 2010 · until 2025

Joachim Goyvaerts

Managing director

since 2025 · until 2031

Pierre-Antoine Vacheron

Chairman of the board

since 2026 · until 2031

Birgitta Brys

Managing director

Also active at: Worldline e-Commerce Solutions

since 2025 · until 2031

Shareholders

Worldline SA

98.1%

Retail International Holding SAS

1.9%

Worldline Participation 1 SA

Participations

Worldline Sweden AB

100%

Bambora AB

100%

Worldline Schweiz AG

100%

Worldline Merchant Services Uk Ltd.

100%

MTS Participation Belgium SRL

100%

Worldline Japan Ltd

100%

PaySquare NV

100%

Cardlink SA

100%

Worldline Czech Republic s.r.o.

100%

Worldline Merchant Acquiring Greece AE

80%

Online Payments Platform B.V.

40%

equensWorldline SE

23%

Establishments

Establishment units

Physical locations of this company

Registered office

Haachtsesteenweg 1442

1130 Brussel

2.259.279.062

Bourgetlaan 3

1140 Evere

Active since 1 October 2016

2.143.669.415

Haachtsesteenweg 1221

1130 Brussel

Active since 1 January 2004

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Details

Company number

0418.547.872

VAT number

BE 0418.547.872

Registered office

Haachtsesteenweg 1442, 1130 Brussel

Names & denominations

WORLDLINE

Enterprise type

Rechtspersoon

Legal form

Public limited company

Legal situation

Normale toestand

Start date

26 June 1978

Peppol

Active · Active since 20 Mar 2026

Activities · NACE

Overige ondersteunende activiteiten in verband met financiële diensten, neg, exclusief verzekeringen en pensioenfondsen

Ondersteunende activiteiten i.v.m. financiële instellingen, n.e.g.

Computerinfrastructuur, gegevensverwerking, hosting en aanverwante activiteiten

Overige activiteiten in verband met computers

Gegevensverwerking, webhosting en aanverwante activiteiten

Overige diensten op het gebied van informatietechnologie en computer

Ontwerpen van computerprogramma’s

Groothandel in informatie- en communicatieapparatuur

View on CBE Public ↗ Annual accounts (NBB) ↗

WORLDLINE

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Directors

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