Worldline appoints Madalena Cascais Tomé as its new Head of Financial Services
Payment services provider Worldline SA (EPA:WLN) has named Madalena Cascais Tomé as Head of Financial Services division and Executive Committee member, effective on 1 October 2025.
Over the recent years, Madalena Cascais Tomé has been serving as CEO of SIBS, one of the leading European interbank payment players. Madalena replaces Alessandro Baroni, who has decided to leave Worldline to pursue other opportunities.
Madalena Cascais Tomé, Head of Financial Services at Worldline said:
“It is with great enthusiasm and a deep sense of commitment that I join Worldline to help consolidate its leadership as the European payments champion and the trusted partner for financial institutions, corporates, and institutional players. With its strong technology DNA, comprehensive and regionally rooted solutions, and global reach, Worldline is the trusted partner to help institutions navigate both the complexities and the opportunities of the payments industry.”
As former CEO and Board Member of SIBS Group – a Europe’s leading interbank payment and digital services organization, operating in over 20 markets – Madalena has led the company through substantial innovation, transformation and growth. Under her leadership over the past almost 11 years, SIBS successfully launched more than 65 innovative products and services – including MB WAY, the Eurozone’s first and most comprehensive immediate payment solution – expanded into 15 new business lines, and set European benchmarks in performance, resilience and security.
In addition to her executive role at SIBS, Madalena chairs several companies, where she provides strategic direction in pan-European payments, network management, cybersecurity, digital services, digital certification and financial management.
She also serves as chairperson of EMPSA (the European Mobile Payments Systems Association), representing 11 of the Europe’s leading instant payment solutions, and co-leads EuroPA (the European Payments Alliance), advancing groundbreaking interoperability and cross-border payment initiatives.
Prior to joining SIBS, Madalena held senior positions at MEO/Portugal Telecom Group, where she oversaw B2C commercial strategy and operations, and played a pivotal role in achieving market leadership. Earlier in her career, she worked in strategic consulting at McKinsey and specialized in AI and advanced data modeling as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen/Deloitte.
Madalena holds an Applied Mathematics degree from Universidade de Lisboa, an International Directors certification from INSEAD and an LCOR certification from Harvard.
October 1, 2025 @ 10:48 pm
“Strong technology dna”, it’s so sadly false, this is a museum of old legacy systems, the most advanced technology is MS365 (and it’s a blessing).
This company, would it not be some French mega failure, protected by the enarques and hec bros – this grandes écoles thing is ludicrous BTW, would not exist anymore today.
And the fraud is ongoing, they just moved it. And cleaned up the old mess by merging through absorptions boatload of subsidiaries.
The real scandal is everyone knows, the frauds are vast. But they only need to say “promise, and we will behave from now on” and voilà, not trial, no fine… They fired hundreds of people due to the frauds, the social atmosphere is terrible, and no one cares.
Also, I Barron & the Co were just sacked, for their brilliant screw up of the company.
October 2, 2025 @ 8:19 pm
Hello Jean,
As an American looking at the stock, the price seems absurdly cheap. My understanding of the regulatory violation is that Worldline banked those whom it was forbidden to bank. Though I’m not familiar with the European regulatory climate, this doesn’t seem like a catastrophic violation, assuming I have a correct understanding of the violation. Am I missing something?