Strategy

The broad strategic options of Atos Worldline Belgium by Dirk De Cock, CEO.

What makes us different? Our company - built upon decades of unparalleled expertise - offers a full range of payment services, with all the value added that this represents. We process transactions, provide services for the benefit of card issuers, are constantly integrating more and more merchants into our networks and develop and supply terminals and services.

In the end, it is our overall approach towards customers that is our strength. We are only satisfied with the best software and the most efficient hardware platforms. Why? Because in the field of electronic transactions, there is no other way of providing end-to-end services tailor made for the standard conventions of each country, and each region.

The tradition of security, innovation and commitment towards our clients has been the cornerstone of our success for many years now. Thus our integration in Atos Worldline has consolidated what we are most proud of: our achievements have reached the main stage in terms of ambition and internationalisation. Our expertise and our solutions are transferable within Atos Worldline, opening up new and exciting prospects.

If it is true that our international technology sales are not new, the export of our processing capabilities has its entire future before it. The openings into 46 countries that Atos Worldline and Atos Origin have provided us with have now removed any remaining barriers. Our efforts are first of all concentrated on Europe. The rest of the world will inevitably follow. If there is a sector in which there are a whole host of developments on the horizon, in which innovation is setting the pace, it is without doubt that of electronic payments!

2009 saw new growth in the number of transactions and progress in most of our products and services. We have the confirmation that our strategic options are the right ones.

The future holds a wide range of projects for us. And successfully executing them is no mean feat. But we shall succeed. Very few challenges are beyond our reach!

Dirk De Cock

CEO