MUMBAI: Worldline will sell its India payments arm to BillDesk for 60 million euros in equity. The deal includes a long-term software pact where BillDesk keeps using Worldline tech. Worldline will continue to keep India as a talent/innovation hub and evolve its Global Capability Centers into AI-first innovation hubs for automation/GenAI/agentic-AI at scale for Western Europe.The objective of the sale is to sharpen Europe core, shrink operations and redeploy capital. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2026.BillDesk is among the earliest digital payment platform in India founded in 2000. It specialises in bill payments, recurring mandates and acquiring online merchants. The company has 50-60% of online bill payments in India.Worldline India was created in 2014 when Atos carved out its payments division. TNN
