Michael J. Brown
Analyst · Avondale Partners
Thank you, Rick. We're going to have our business overview right now, but I just got few kind of global comments I'd like to make. First of all, I've got to thank all the people in this company for all the hard work they've done. You can see that we have had tremendous results here in the second quarter, and we're expecting Q3 to just be wonderful. So that wouldn't happen without the work that we've done over the last several quarters preparing for this. But I'd like to thank them first. It was a great effort across all our segments, all our divisions. We had consolidated double-digit operating income growth. EFT and Money Transfer produced double-digit revenue and operating income growth. epay showed growth in the quarter. We had 2 significant transactions that take a lot of time and effort from everybody, and that was bringing live our Walmart-2-Walmart product and also acquiring HiFX. Both of these will continue to contribute to earnings in future quarters. As Rick mentioned, our $0.58 is really not even a full reflection of the strong performance in the business because of those -- some of those onetime fees. Our strong third quarter guidance shows that our momentum will continue, and it shows that we're on the right path with our strategy. Overall, the second quarter was a great quarter, and we've got a lot of momentum. So let's move ahead now to Slide #12. As you can see in Slide #12, EFT had another outstanding quarter. The team continues to add more ATMs and develop new innovative products that add value for both Euronet and our bank partner. The focus and the dedication to providing the best value and broadest product portfolio to our banks is what distinguishes Euronet from our competition. Let's go on to Slide #13, and we can get down to the nitty-gritty. Across Europe, we continue to focus on ways to expand our independent ATM networks. During the quarter, we signed asset purchase agreements with both Citibank in Hungary and ProCredit in Romania. In Hungary, we purchased ATMs and automated deposit terminals from Citibank. Additionally, in Romania, we signed an agreement to purchase ProCredit's ATM estate. As of July 1, ProCredit became the sixth member of our shared ATM network in Romania. Both banks can now offer customers a slightly larger ATM network and expanded product portfolio, while at the same time, enjoying reduced operating expenses and a stronger balance sheet. In Greece, we added bill payment and China UnionPay card acceptance to Piraeus Bank POS terminals. The most recent global cards annual report ranked UnionPay as the world's leading debit card issuer based on volume. This agreement with Euronet now allows Piraeus Bank's retail partners the ability to accept UnionPay cards, giving these retailers access to the world's largest user-based card. Finally, we signed a terminal installation and switching services agreement with a large local supermarket chain in Greece. We won this agreement because of the add-on services we were able to provide, which I will explain more in my comments on epay. Next slide, please. Slide #14 provides some details on select value-added services and agreements in our ATM deployments in the quarter. Our EFT team continues to add new and innovative ways to help our bank partners achieve greater profitability on our ATMs or their ATMs. In April, we added a new customer relationship management feature to our IAD network for Allior Bank customers in Poland. This feature allows Allior to use the Euronet IAB as an extension of their direct sales team. Allior can now offer select qualified customers with the option to increase their limit on an existing card or take out a micro loan against their current bank account. This product allows the bank to increase their interaction with the customer without increasing their cost, and it's now available on all Euronet ATMs across Poland. In Pakistan, we expanded our relationship with Muslim Commercial Bank by launching an interbank fund transfer service for their customers. Through 1LINK, a domestic ATM transaction gateway in Pakistan, MCB Visa Debit cardholders and MCB Lite mobile wallet account holders can transfer money directly into an account holder of other participating banks in Pakistan. Pure Commerce continues to expand its presence. This quarter, they launched their point-of-sale dynamic currency conversion service with several leading hotel chains, including Sofitel and Fraser, which complement the launches with the Grand Hyatt, Marriott, Holiday Inn and Novotel we announced last quarter. We have also introduced the Pure Commerce technology with our EFT Europe bank partners in several countries, including Raiffeisen in Croatia, Piraeus Bank in Greece and several locations through our cross-border acquiring business. This technology promotes more effective customer adoption rates, which, in turn, create more efficient and profitable solutions for banks and retail partners. During the quarter, we added 755 ATMs, bringing our total count now to 19,313 at the end of the second quarter. The largest increases were in India and Europe, kind of as usual, and on our -- and if you remember on our Q4 2011 earnings call, you may recall that one of our analysts, you remember who you are, Mike, asked if we could get to 20,000 ATMs over the next 5 years. I replied that it would be -- it would absolutely stun me if we didn't get to 20,000 ATMs. With less than 700 ATMs left to deploy to meet what, at the time, seemed like a fairly challenging and lofty goal, and despite walking away from 1,600 IDBI ATMs in India, with good execution, we have a pretty fair chance of hitting that 3-year goal. Our EFT team continues to work hard to deliver more ATMs and POS terminals and more products on those ATMs and terminals, which you can see are reflected in our excellent financial results. Overall, this was an outstanding quarter for the EFT team. And with the great momentum going into the second half of the year, we're very excited. Let's move on to Slide #16, and we'll talk about epay. Overall, we're pleased with the direction and the results of epay in the quarter. The segment contributed to the consolidated revenue and operating income growth, while continuing to roll out content in new and existing geographies, which I'll talk about in the next few slides. Slide #17. Here, on this slide, we show the second quarter development at our epay business. We successfully executed an agreement to provide RadioShack franchise locations with gift cards, wireless replenishment and other prepaid services in the U.S. In addition to major metro areas, RadioShack has a significant presence in smaller towns and have a high-volume of wireless transactions. Conversion to epay will provide RadioShack franchisees with the access to epay's entire suite of products to help them gain additional foot traffic and sales. This was a great win for the epay team. We expanded our mobile presence in the U.S. through an exclusive agreement to sell mobile top-up and activation of TracFone SIM cards in 2,600 Rent-A-Center locations in the U.S. Finally, in the EFT highlights, I told you about a POS terminal switching and services agreement that we signed with that large grocer in Greece. As an addition to their agreement, we are distributing mobile top-up and iTunes gift cards in each of their 50 stores. As we look across our individual segments, there are many areas where we have the ability to cross-sell agreements, as an excellent example of the partnership between the segments. Now let's move on to Slide #18. Here on Slide #18, you can see the development in our non-mobile business during the quarter, which accounted for 38% of epay's total gross profit. We expanded our distribution of Google Play, with launches in Italy and France, which represent the fifth and sixth countries we have brought live with Google Play. This is an important product in our non-mobile content portfolio. According to a recent App Annie report, the number of apps in the Google Play store grew by around 60% between July 2013 and June 2014, basically, the last year, which in turn, more than doubled Google's app revenue for the first quarter of 2014. We will continue to expand this product through our strong retail base and expect nice contributions in the coming quarters. The epay team continues to lead the market in digital gift code delivery. During the quarter, we signed several new agreements that expanded our digital gift code distribution with existing customers, as well as in new markets. Last year, we told you about our digital gift code distribution through the PostFinance mobile banking application in Switzerland. PostFinance has been pleased with the performance of iTunes on their mobile banking platform and has now added Xbox and Sony as additional options to their mobile platform. Additionally, they have expanded the iTunes content to their online banking platform and to the 970 PostFinance ATMs. This is an excellent example of our leading delivery of digital gift codes technology. During the second quarter, our team in Asia brought our digital gift code technology to the region. In India, we launched voucher distribution for ICICI Bank. ICICI customers can now purchase 17 digital and more than 100 physical gift cards through the ICICI online banking platform. Content includes top brands across fashion, dining, entertainment, with additional content to follow. This is the first digital gift code distribution project that has ever been implemented in India. Additionally, we have signed an agreement with Flipkart in India. Flipkart is India's Amazon equivalent and is the largest player in India's e-commerce industry, with approximately 20% market share of all e-commerce in that country. Through this agreement, we will distribute Flipkart digital codes through our banking channel content. These are great achievements for our team in Asia, and we are pleased that we can provide our bank and brand partners with this leading-edge technology. We continue to make important strides in introducing our content to more retailers, in more geographies and through new technology. This was a solid quarter for epay segment, and it gives us momentum to build upon as we move into the second half of the year. Now let's move on to Slide #20 -- actually, it's Slide #19, and talk about Money Transfer. We created our Money Transfer segment, as you might remember, with the purchase of Ria in April 2007. At that time, Ria consisted of 42,000 locations, and earned an annual revenue and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $175 million and approximately $26 million, respectively. As I told you last quarter, our Money Transfer segment has entered a new chapter and now includes Ria, as well as HiFX, a provider of online-initiated international payment and foreign exchange services. The combined Money Transfer segment now consist of 235,000 locations, and for just the first half of 2014, has produced $218 million in revenue and $24.8 million in adjusted EBITDA, in addition to receiving a vote of confidence from the world's largest retailer, which I will touch on in a few more minutes. Slide #20. As you know, this was a very exciting quarter for our Money Transfer segment. In April, we announced the launch of Walmart-2-Walmart powered by Ria. This new innovative money transfer service offers competitive pricing and convenience for the 95% of Americans who live within 15 miles of a Walmart store. Towards the end of May, we also completed the acquisition of HiFX. HiFX offers account-to-account money transfer services, which is an adjacent market to Ria's traditional cash-type [ph] transfer. Despite the late May close to the transaction, HiFX performed nicely and within our expectations for the short period in the second quarter that it was part of our Money Transfer segment. These 2 developments, combined with Ria's investment in the digital channel, give our Money Transfer business access to 4 new large and exciting markets: High-net-worth individuals, small business customers, online centers and domestic payout. These new markets provide us great opportunities to continue the growth trends of Money Transfer. Now let's move on to Slide #21, which provides some details of our network expansion in the quarter. The Ria team continues to strengthen our network and footprint in key remittance markets and regions. Total network locations increased 15% to 235,000 over the second quarter of 2013. This increase includes the launch of Walmart-2-Walmart in more than 4,000 Walmart stores around the U.S. Walmart has fully supported this product, and we have been pleased with the performance of this service. We are also excited to announce our expansion in India. You may have seen in the press release we issued yesterday, we added 17,000 cash pickup locations through our partnership with Instant Cash, a member of the Emirates Post Group. This agreement increases our presence throughout India by allowing customers to receive funds from any Instant Cash location, which includes the India Post location, while offering the same reliability and quality of service our customers have grown to expect from Ria. India is the world's largest remittance market, receiving more than $70 billion annually according to the World Bank. And this agreement further strengthens our value proposition to this important market. I would like to update you on the performance of RiaMoneyTransfer.com, our digital solution. As Rick mentioned during his comments, we continue to make investments in this channel in order to meet the growing demand for the ease and convenience of online mobile transfer -- online mobile money transfer. Customers can now send money from the convenience of their phone, tablet or PC, view transaction history, save receipt information or quick send during their next visit. We have seen a nice pickup in our digital transactions since launching the new site in April. And while the transaction counts are still small, we believe that we are well-positioned to meet the growing digital demands with a high-quality, easy-to-use product. We have also introduced a new open-payment service on transfers to Nigeria, Ghana and Mauritania. This service provides recipients the option to collect funds from any Ria agent in the country, making transfers more convenient to the recipients of the funds. Next slide, please. On Slide #22, I'd like to make a little announcement here. We're pleased to announce that Walmart has selected Ria as their Walmart Services Supplier of the Year. This award is a true testament to the strength of our partnership with Walmart and to Ria's compliance, technical and customer service capabilities. This award further highlights the value Ria can bring to both large and small retailers, as well as individual customers around the world. Next slide, please, Slide #23. Here, you can see the transaction trends for our Money Transfer segment. In the quarter, Money Transfer transactions grew 35% from organic growth in Ria's business, the launch of Walmart-2-Walmart and the acquisition of HiFX. Non-money transfers increased 7%, primarily from significant growth in check-cashing in the U.S. and Canada. The second quarter was exciting for our Money Transfer segment, and we expect to see the momentum continue through the second half of the year. Now let's move on to Slide #24, and we'll wrap up the quarter. On Slide #24, you can see that we achieved adjusted cash earnings per share of 58% (sic) [$0.58], a 21% increase over Q2 2013, a $0.01 ahead of our guidance and the sixth consecutive quarter we have achieved double-digit cash EPS growth. EFT had an outstanding quarter, driven by increased demand for value-added products and a 12% ATM network expansion. epay contributed to both revenue and operating income growth. Money Transfer delivered excellent results, driven by solid organic growth from Ria, the successful launch of Walmart-2-Walmart and the acquisition of HiFX. Our balance sheet, as usual, remains strong, with good cash flow generation. Finally, we expect to have a strong third quarter, with cash EPS of $0.73, which will likely be our strongest quarter of the year. With that, I will conclude my comments and open the call to questions. Operator, will you please assist?