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The Curious Case of Access Without Copies In its previous reporting, Loopline Media noted that Worldline UK had apologised for “unintended anxiety” arising from a request for personal data. Subsequent correspondence brings that underlying issue into sharper focus. The original request, dated 24 November 2025, was expressly framed as a request under Articles 12–15 UK […]

For years, contactless card payments in the UK have come with a hard cap: £100 per tap. Whether you were paying for a weekly shop, a train ticket, or a last-minute purchase, that limit applied to everyone, everywhere. From March 2026, banks and card providers will be allowed to offer higher contactless limits, or even

In January 2026, Worldline UK issued an apology in relation to its handling of an ongoing data subject access request, acknowledging that aspects of its correspondence had caused “unintended anxiety” to the requester. The apology followed a series of exchanges concerning how the Sunject to Access Request (SAR) was being processed and how information was

The rapid expansion of embedded finance has reshaped how small and medium-sized businesses access capital. Payment providers that once confined themselves to transaction processing now occupy a far more central position in merchants’ financial lives, with real-time insight into turnover, seasonality, and trading behaviour. That proximity has increasingly been leveraged to offer working-capital products directly

When your data is identified, must the copy be provided? In November 2025, a data subject exercised a right that is meant to be straightforward. An email was sent to Worldline IT Services UK Limited, addressed to its Data Protection Officer, invoking Articles 12–15 of the UK GDPR. The request asked how personal data had

Contactless debit and credit cards are now the norm in the UK. They allow you to pay quickly by tapping your card on a reader, without entering a PIN for most everyday purchases. Roughly three out of every four card payments are now made this way. Although paying without a PIN can feel risky, contactless

Worldline, has reported a net loss of €4.2 billion for the first half of 2025. The loss stems from a substantial €4.1 billion impairment on goodwill, a move that underscores the company’s reassessment of prior acquisitions and the underperformance of its Merchant Services division. At the centre of the impairment is Worldline’s Merchant Services unit.

Fiserv is extending its popular Clover point-of-sale (POS) platform into the healthcare sector through a strategic partnership with healthcare payments specialist Rectangle Health. The collaboration will introduce Clover PracticePay, a payment solution developed specifically for small to mid-sized healthcare providers. The new system is expected to become available in early 2026, marking the first time

An Employment Court judgment delivered in 2023 has gained fresh relevance asscrutiny of Worldline SA and its German subsidiary Payone GmbH intensifies.The judgment, issued in a UK case involving a former Payone employee, acceptedevidence that a Senior Sales Executive Florian Risch recounted a due diligence scenarioinvolving the viewing of animal pornography. The material, described in