Worldline, a global firm in the payments industry, completed the acquisition of an 80% stake in Axepta Italy, a payment solutions provider, from BNL, a banking group, for €180m ($213m). “Through this partnership, BNL aims to pursue its specialization’s journey in payment solutions initiated during the last years with Axepta, after having acquired in 2016 100% of the JV, BNL positivity created in the past with another player. The Worldline’s footprint as well as its expertise ensures a high standard of service level, quality and performance of its payment solutions. This will allow us to propose to our customers a broad range of products, services and payment solutions, permanently in evolution thanks to innovation and new technologies’ best use," Marco Tarantola, BNL Deputy General Manager.