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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

The recent 7th July 2025 judgment of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Logo v Payone GmbH and Others offers a careful clarification of existing legal principles under the Equality Act 2010 and raises subtle but important questions around procedural justice in the employment litigation context. While the decision does not purport to alter doctrine

Worldline’s scramble to restore trust shifted gears this week as the company confirmed it has hired an external audit firm, Accuracy, to conduct a full review of its portfolio of high-risk clients. Simultaneously, consulting heavyweight Oliver Wyman has been brought in to review internal controls, a clear, public attempt to signal that the company is

Let’s look at the systemic compliance failures disclosed in the “Dirty Payments” investigation, involving the European payments giant Worldline SA and its key German subsidiary, Payone GmbH. While the unfolding scandal diverges significantly from the outright accounting fraud that led to the collapse of Wirecard AG, its sheer severity, unprecedented scale, optics and alarming persistence