Worldline SA (EPA:WLN), a global payment services provider, and Fipto, a European fintech providing stablecoin payment infrastructure, today announced a partnership to explore how stablecoins can enhance settlement and payment services across Europe. Through collaboration and innovation, Worldline and Fipto are helping build the payment infrastructure Europe needs for the digital economy ahead.
Stablecoins are transforming the payments landscape, enabling faster, borderless, and programmable transactions. While momentum is accelerating globally, Europe must actively shape this infrastructure to maintain technological sovereignty and drive innovation. Worldline is taking an active role in building these new rails, leveraging its unique expertise to contribute enhancing European innovative and sovereign digital payments.
Through this partnership, Worldline and Fipto aim to demonstrate how digital assets and traditional payment rails can coexist – enabling merchants, banks, and financial institutions to choose the solution that best serves their needs. The collaboration will develop and deploy stablecoin-based payment and settlement use cases, leveraging the 24/7, transparent, and programmable nature of stablecoins while ensuring seamless interoperability with existing infrastructure.
With this ambition, Worldline and Fipto already started to deep-dive on stablecoin enabled solutions for our merchants in Europe and in APAC.
“Our ambition is to advance the next generation of payment solutions, where virtual and traditional digital money coexist seamlessly, and to co-create with our partners and clients to deliver new, impactful use cases,” underlines Thibault PELE, Head of Digital Currencies at Worldline. “Collaboration allows us to accelerate our capabilities and reach in promoting stablecoin-based solutions, and to turn this innovation into tangible opportunities for our clients from merchants to banks.”
“By partnering with Worldline, we’re advancing practical use cases that demonstrate how stablecoins can improve payment efficiency and resilience. As a regulated and agile European fintech, Fipto brings technology and execution speed to help turn innovation into real-world value. Combined with Worldline’s reach across the payment value chain, this partnership creates the right conditions to accelerate the adoption of new digital payment rails in Europe.” declares Patrick Mollard, Co-Founder & CEO at Fipto.
