Press Release (French)
Worldline brings Wero to Luxembourg commerce
Bertrange — 02 / 09 / 2026 Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services and member of the European Payment Initiative (EPI), now enables Wero's market entry in Luxembourg to its merchants. They will gain immediate possibility to accept payments on their e-commerce websites, whilst financial institutions can access the infrastructure and support needed to scale Wero adoption across the market.
A new payment choice in Luxembourg
With over 58 million active users across Belgium, Germany, and France, Wero, the new European payment solution introduced by EPI, is establishing strong momentum across the continent. Luxembourg now joins this movement, offering consumers and merchants alike a simple, secure European payment choice built for modern commerce and convenient daily use. According to EPI’s 2026 Barometer on European habits in payments, Wero already benefits from a great recognition from more than a third of the Luxembourg population, offering a positive foundation to such launch.
"This is an important milestone for Luxembourg. Wero represents a genuine shift in how European payments work. Worldline enables Wero e-commerce acceptance for merchants today and helps banks and financial institutions prepare for adoption. Together, we are accelerating the rollout of Wero online payments across the Luxembourg market." says Hakan Sekulu, CEO of Worldline in Luxembourg.
For Martina Weimert, EPI CEO: “As we officially launch Wero in Luxembourg today, we are pleased to count once more on our founding shareholders as Worldline to support us from Day 1 and be able to ensure a smooth transition from Payconiq to Wero in such early days. No changes will occur for any parties, but more use cases and possibilities will come, as Luxembourg consumers will be able to pay with the same solution beyond their frontiers and merchants to receive Wero payments from consumers coming from France, Belgium or Germany. This is an additional and important step of our expansion journey!”.
E-commerce acceptance ready
Worldline delivers Wero e-commerce acceptance immediately. Automatic activation rolls out across our customer base, with seamless integration, so merchants can start accepting Wero online payments right away. The experience for consumers is frictionless: scan a QR code, authenticate, and pay. This results in faster checkouts, higher conversion rates, and fewer abandoned transactions.
“Our e-commerce sites on Batiself and Citabel now offer Wero, giving customers a trusted, fast European payment option. Worldline powers the end-to-end integration, ensuring smooth, reliable transactions for shoppers,” says Claude Wagner, CEO of CWA Group.
In-store payments will follow later on this year, thanks to Worldline's universal QR code, and available to consumers through the Wero digital wallet once launched, delivering the omnichannel solution merchants and consumers expect.
Supporting the ecosystem
Worldline also provides the infrastructure banks and financial institutions need to adopt in order to enable Wero with confidence and speed. Our modular toolkit covers everything from user authentication to fraud detection through dispute management and is designed for seamless integration with the EPI scheme. All partners - regardless of infrastructure choice - benefit from our transaction expertise, risk management capabilities, and dedicated support. The result: banks launch Wero knowing they have a trusted technology partner.
About Worldline
Worldline [Euronext: WLN] is Europe's leading operator of critical infrastructure and payment services. With a presence across the entire value chain, the Group offers its customers unique expertise in processing and securing their payments, thereby promoting their growth. Worldline is leveraging its 2030 strategic plan and its technological innovation capabilities to build the European reference payment partner for merchants and financial institutions. With over 1.2 million customers, Worldline achieved €4bn in revenue in 2025. worldline.com
Worldline’s corporate purpose (“raison d’être”) is to design and operate leading digital payment and transactional solutions that enable sustainable economic growth and reinforce trust and security in our societies. Worldline makes them environmentally friendly, widely accessible, and supports social transformation.
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About EPI
EPI (or European Payments Initiative) is supported by 18 European banks and payment service providers. Beyond the shareholders, over 50 institutions in Europe are now members of EPI. They have joined forces with a common goal: to offer a unified mobile payment service to all European companies and citizens, Wero.
EPI intends to enable European consumers and merchants to carry out all types of retail transactions simply, via a resolutely sovereign digital wallet. Find out more at epicompany.eu and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Wero
Based on instant account-to-account (A2A) payments, Wero further streamlines payments in Europe by eliminating intermediaries in the payment chain and the associated additional costs. Wero already supports payments between individuals and will shortly unveil payments to professionals (P2Pro).
Wero has been live for P2P payments in Belgium, France, and Germany since 2024, currently serving 55 million users. For retail payments, Wero is live in Germany since the end of 2025 with progressive roll-out in France and Belgium throughout 2026. Major migrations of at least 15 million consumers are also planned for Payconiq in Luxembourg (by 2026) and iDEAL in the Netherlands (by 2027). Point-of-sale payments will also be offered in 2026, as well as value-added services such as integration of merchant loyalty programs and recurring payments and subscription management.
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