Explore the full record of transactions filed by Gilles GRAPINET, Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Worldline. Officer active across 1 companies, notably WORLDLINE. Aggregated, 12 reports have been recorded. Total volume traded: €149k. The latest transaction was filed on 27 May 2024 — Acquisition. Regulator: AMF. All data is accessible without signup.
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Gilles Grapinet is a leading French executive in the payments and transaction services industry. A graduate of the École nationale d’administration (ENA), he joined the French Inspection Générale des Finances in 1992, where he spent several years working on audit and assessment assignments in economic, banking and financial policy. This public-sector background gave him a strong foundation in strategy, regulation and the management of complex organizations. He later moved into banking and technology leadership, joining Crédit Agricole in 2007 as a member of the Group Executive Committee. There, he successively held strategic leadership responsibilities and then headed the Payment Systems & Services business, strengthening his expertise in card payments, merchant solutions and digital transaction services. In 2009, Grapinet joined Atos as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, before taking over Worldline in 2013, when the company was still a payments-focused subsidiary. As CEO, he led Worldline through its initial public offering in 2014 and guided its evolution into a major European payments leader. Under his leadership, the company expanded significantly and built a stronger international footprint, helped by a series of transformative acquisitions. The most notable of these was the acquisition of Ingenico, completed in 2020, which materially increased Worldline’s scale and positioned it as one of the most important paytech groups in Europe and beyond. For more than a decade, Gilles Grapinet promoted a strategic vision centered on European payments consolidation, technological innovation and platform integration. He aimed to build a company able to serve merchants, banks, public-sector clients and large enterprises across the full payment value chain. He also oversaw the unification of the Worldline brand and supported the company’s transformation into an independent, globally relevant paytech player. His tenure ended in September 2024, when Worldline announced that he would step down as Chief Executive Officer effective 30 September 2024. Even so, his legacy is closely tied to Worldline’s rise, its international expansion and its role in shaping the modern European payments landscape.