Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. Chairman’s Letter for 2020 Annual Report
Dear Shareholders
It is my privilege to address all of you in my first year as Chairman of Net1. This is a going to be a year of renewal and change at
Net1, following another challenging year. Change is not a destination but a journey. Over the past six months, Net1 has
undergone more change than at any point in its history. We have divested a number of substantial businesses such as KSNET in
South Korea and DNI in South Africa, we have completely deleveraged the balance sheet, we have refreshed the composition of
the board, made certain executive changes and undertaken a comprehensive strategic review.
Net1 was born in South Africa in the 1990s to utilize technology to provide financial inclusion to the underserved people of the
country. In fiscal 2021, we return to our roots and focus our incremental capital and management resources in providing financial
inclusion services to the underbanked in South Africa, both consumers and small businesses. We have most of the technology,
experience and distribution we need, and believe we are uniquely positioned to become a formidable player in this market while
providing the best service at the most affordable cost.
Our renewal will drastically simplify the Net1 story and enable our shareholders to monitor our progress with greater conviction.
Having established a new capital allocation committee with accomplished non-executive directors of the board, we are confident
the directions and actions of the Company following the conclusion of a strategic review in early fiscal 2021 will quickly start to
bear fruit for our shareholders.
Looking ahead to 2021, imbibing the principles highlighted above, our focus in South Africa will be on:
• Accelerate rollout of services to underserved consumers: we aim to provide financial inclusion to underserved
individuals in South Africa through the provision of low-cost transactional bank accounts and expand the array and
penetration of various financial and value-added services;
• Consolidate and scale transaction and financial service offerings for underserved merchants: We intend to leverage
our existing solutions and capabilities into an off-the-shelf merchant offering. We will look to build out our distribution
channels to reach and service small merchants; and
• Address and resolve legacy corporate issues: We are pursuing all avenues to swiftly and successfully resolve the
Investment Company issue.
At June 30, 2020, we had approximately one million EPE customers, a base which has been relatively stable since December
2018. After two years of a declining lending book, we began deploying capital in the financial services business in June 2020 and
we expect to continue investing in order to support growth. From a distribution standpoint, we operate through 243 financial
services branches, 78 financial service express stores and 48 satellite branches; and approximately 1,500 ATMs. The products we
have designed for the lowest income earners provide maximum functionality at the most affordable price.
Business update related to COVID-19 pandemic
While our business was significantly impacted by the initial lockdown period from March 27 to May 31, we have since been able
to reopen all of our operations. While we continue to be affected by the broader macroeconomic conditions that have resulted
from the pandemic, we believe that there are opportunities for us in providing financial services and exploiting some of the
emerging trends in electronic payment methods and related areas.
In June, we saw some recovery with loan advances picking up strongly and the utilisation of our ATMs returning to pre-COVID-
19 levels, which is encouraging and we are now actively looking to expand this customer base.
Financial Overview and Key Metrics. In fiscal 2020, our US dollar-based results were adversely impacted by a 23% year-over-
year depreciation in the South African Rand, which remains volatile due to political and macroeconomic forces. Revenue declined
9% to $151 million, which, excluding the impact of the $19.7 million 2019 SASSA implementation fee reversal, was primarily
due to the expiration of our SASSA contract, the decline in EPE account numbers driven by SASSA’s auto-migration of accounts
to SAPO, a reduction in EPE-related financial and value-added services and transaction fees due to a smaller customer base, and
the impact of the pandemic which was partially offset by higher terminal and prepaid airtime sales.
Consolidated operating margin was negative 29% in fiscal 2020 compared to negative 81% a year ago, due to the reasons
highlighted above. Fundamental EPS1 was a loss of $0.44, and includes, among other items, adjustments for impairments related
to equity-accounted investments, an option termination fee paid, gains realized on disposal of our Korean business and FIHRST, a
loss incurred on deconsolidation of CPS, other impairments and operating losses incurred.
Management and Governance. We remain committed to expeditiously finding a new CEO and expanding our management
team and a large part of our focus in fiscal 2021 will be building out the management, product and sales resources required to
support our South Africa focused strategy, in turn driving higher and sustainable revenue and earnings.
Appreciation. I would like to thank Herman for leading Net1 over the past few years and his decades of service to the Company.
He has navigated the Company through some difficult situations and leaves Net1 well capitalized and on a firm financial footing.
To our stakeholders, we acknowledge the underperformance in our shares over the past three years, which coincided with the
deterioration of our operating businesses. We have refreshed the board, set a more focused though no less ambitious strategy to
take the Company forward, and are thankful to our non-executive directors with the industry expertise and the experience of
determining the best way forward to unlock shareholder value.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to my colleagues on the Board, the management team and all of Net1’s employees for
their dedication and tireless pursuit of excellence in serving our new and existing customers, our communities and for constantly
striving to return Net1 to a leadership position within our industry. In particular, Net1’s customer facing employees need a
special vote of thanks to acknowledge the role they played ensuring that our customers continued to be able to access our services
during the most challenging period of the pandemic.
Sincerely,
_____________________________
Jabu Mabuza
Chairman
1 Fundamental EPS is a non-GAAP measure. Refer to —“Forward looking statements and use of non-GAAP measures—Use of non-GAAP
measures in our Annual Report” for further information regarding these non-GAAP measures.
Financial results at a glance
Consolidated results (refer also Item 6 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K included in this Annual Report)
(in United States dollar thousands, except percentages, per share data and number of employees)
Revenue ........................................................................
Operating (loss) income................................................
Operating (loss) income margin ...................................
Net (loss) income Net1 .................................................
(Loss) Earnings per share:
Basic ($) ..................................................................
Diluted ($) ...............................................................
Fundamental net (loss) income2 ...................................
Fundamental (loss) earnings per share:
Basic ($)2 ................................................................
Number of employees ...................................................
Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities ..
Cash and cash equivalents ....................................................
Total assets ...............................................................................
Total equity ..............................................................................
Year Ended June 30(R)
2018
As
restated
459,575
53,809
12%
62,087
2019
As
restated
166,227
(134,932)
(81%)
(311,007)
2017
456,663
83,719
18%
73,070
2020
150,997
(44,248)
(29%)
(78,358)
(1.37)
(1.37)
(24,907)
(5.48)
(5.48)
(257,068)
(0.44)
2,875
(46,045)
217,671
453,678
290,213
(4.53)
2,889
(4,460)
20,014
670,247
317,342
1.10
1.09
111,561
1.96
5,481
132,605
57,607
405,704
319,429
1.34
1.33
94,721
1.74
5,146
97,161
210,396
1.92
5,495
116,552
206,702
1,448,829 1,261,649
494,112
598,840
2016
432,140
99,441
23%
82,137
1.72
1.71
92,113
(R) – Certain 2019 and 2018 amounts restated - refer to Item 6 and Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements
included in Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K in this Annual Report for additional information.
2 Fundamental net income and earnings per share are non-GAAP measures. Refer to —“Forward looking statements and use of
non-GAAP measures—Use of non-GAAP measures in this Annual Report” for further information regarding these non-GAAP
measures.
Operating segments information
(in United States dollar thousands)
Operating Segment
Consolidated revenue:
South African transaction processing ........................
International transaction-based activities ...................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Financial services ......................................................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Subtotal: Operating segments ....................................
Corporate/Eliminations ..............................................
Total consolidated revenue .....................................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Consolidated operating (loss) income:
South African transaction processing .......................
International transaction-based activities ...................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Financial services ......................................................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Subtotal: Operating segments ....................................
Corporate/eliminations ..............................................
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
Total consolidated operating (loss) income ............
Continuing ..............................................................
Discontinued ...........................................................
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Year Ended June 30,
73,796
90,416
5,041
85,375
82,342
82,342
-
246,554
(10,182)
236,372
150,997
85,375
(19,575)
2,051
(12,517)
14,568
(2,723)
(2,723)
-
(20,247)
(15,217)
(9,433)
(5,784)
(35,464)
(44,248)
8,784
96,038
148,268
9,842
138,426
146,184
89,847
56,337
390,490
(29,500)
360,990
166,227
194,763
(30,771)
2,837
(16,502)
19,339
(14,758)
(39,158)
24,400
(42,692)
(70,816)
(48,501)
(22,315)
(113,508)
(134,932)
21,424
268,047
180,027
26,713
153,314
221,906
221,906
-
669,980
(57,091)
612,889
459,575
153,314
42,796
(12,478)
(30,455)
17,977
55,372
55,372
-
85,690
(26,741)
(13,904)
(12,837)
58,949
53,809
5,140
249,144
176,729
23,326
153,403
235,901
235,901
-
661,774
(51,708)
610,066
456,663
153,403
59,309
13,705
(7,468)
21,173
57,785
130,799
-
130,799
(33,756)
(25,907)
(7,849)
97,043
83,719
13,324
212,574
169,807
11,198
158,609
249,403
249,403
-
631,784
(41,035)
590,749
432,140
158,609
51,386
23,389
(742)
24,131
54,999
129,774
-
129,774
(15,406)
(6,202)
(9,204)
114,368
99,441
14,927
Refer to Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K included in this Annual Report for a detailed discussion of our results per
operating segment.
Corporate social responsibility report
Net1 recognizes the importance of social-economic transformation in our society and is committed to contribute to meaningful
transformation through the Black Economic Empowerment process in South Africa. In fiscal 2020, despite the extremely
challenging trading conditions we experienced, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we proudly contributed ZAR
9.6 million to various initiatives. We have strict guidelines and diligence requirements that govern any contribution made under
our corporate social responsibility program and all contributions are approved by a Corporate Social Investment Committee and
reported to our Audit Committee.
We are committed to responsible corporate citizenry through our support of social transformation and job creation initiatives. We
believe that this will ensure sustainable stability for future generations. Our corporate social investment (“CSI”) program also
aims to deliver benefits for the communities in which we operate, while increasing our visibility and reputation, thereby
demonstrating our contribution to the local community.
One of our key objectives is to promote transformation, growth and prosperity in South Africa’s economy through active
involvement in programs that support the meaningful participation of black South Africans, including black women and youth, in
the national economy and particularly within the Information Communications Technology (“ICT”) sector.
We achieve this objective through the establishment of programs in South Africa to assist:
• Education and skills development;
• Socioeconomic development; and
• Enterprise development, especially small and medium enterprises, promoting the entry of black entrepreneurs into the
mainstream of economic activity, and the advancement of co-operatives.
Education and Skills Development
We support several educational initiatives across a number of discipline focus areas, specifically within the ICT sector, including
the provision of resources. We also support education initiatives in relation to educational funding, upgrading of ICT equipment
and training programs. We are very passionate about developing skills, particularly for unemployed youth, through learnership
programs. We provide learners with the opportunity to improve their skills and obtain nationally recognized qualifications
through partnership with accredited learning institutions.
We also believe that we can support the education of children by providing schools with necessary resources, infrastructure and
support. Providing children in disadvantaged areas a fair opportunity to reach their potential is vital to the progression of South
Africa. The following initiatives form part of our educational and skills development funding:
SAME Foundation
The S.A. Medical and Education Foundation (the “SAME Foundation”) is a non-profit organization that undertakes high impact
community development projects by providing schools with resources, infrastructure and support which are essential to the
education of children. The SAME Foundation also implements school monitoring and support after the completion of a project.
This allows them to measure the impact of the investment and assist further to ensure objectives are reached. We have partnered
with the SAME Foundation to assist with the establishment of an ICT laboratory at the Raymond Mhlaba Secondary School in
Tshepisong, Soweto. Once completed, the project will provide the school with two new science laboratories, nine e-learning
classrooms and a computer centre. Internet connectivity will be expanded to every class at the school, ensuring that teachers have
access to all information and teaching techniques that they require. This project will give the learners and teachers access to all
the resources they need to follow the Sciences and Maths curriculum effectively, as well as provide them with resources to
improve computer literacy. The project will benefit 1,375 disadvantaged black South African learners and 42 teachers.
ACTION for the Blind and Disabled Children
Action for the Blind and Disabled Children (“ACTION”) undertakes to provide computer literacy to less fortunate children at no
cost and to empower disabled, blind or deaf learners to achieve fulfilling employment in a competitive job market by providing
above average IT qualifications. Many of the blind and disabled youngsters enrolled with ACTION hail from rural areas. We
partnered with ACTION because we believe in the importance of education – especially for disabled, blind and/or deaf children
who do not have the privilege of technology in their classrooms and care facilities.
In partnership with ACTION, Net1 has funded 12 disabled students’ enrollment in Microsoft programs (National Certificate:
Information Technology: End User Computing) that will enable them to write the Microsoft Office Specialist exams, which are
internationally recognized. All computers are equipped with Job Access with Speech software which enables the computer to
audibly read what appears on the screen.
The Business School of South Africa
We have continued our strong association with The Business School of South Africa (Pty) Ltd (“BSSA”). BSSA is a Level 1
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“B-BBEE”) Supplier in terms of the Amended Codes of Good Practice and offers a
number of training programs. We have provided learnerships to over 40 abled and disabled unemployed individuals with BSSA as
the main training/skills development provider and we have also paid these learners a stipend for the duration of their studies.
Excalibur Skills and Learnerships
Excalibur is a Level 2 B-BBEE contributor with 51% black women ownership. Excalibur partnered with a few small learnership
companies to offer its clients the ultimate learnership experience: service, affordability and step-by-step feedback. It has a 3-step
process, recruits all types of learners, and performs a pre-assessment of each learner and then decides on the correct type of
learnership for him or her to achieve the best results. Excalibur, in partnership with Net1, has provided learnerships to more than
45 individuals and also pays these learners market stipends for the duration of the learnerships commencing from the first month
of the contract.
SSD Training Academy
SSD Training Academy (“SSD”) is a Level 2 B-BBEE contributor with 51% black women ownership. All qualifications offered
by SSD match the required standard set by all the Skills Education Training Authorities (“SETA’s”) regarding scarce and critical
skills to empower people living with disabilities. In partnership with SSD, we have provided learnerships to 20 disabled learners.
Social Economic Development
Our contributions are made with the intent to transform, uplift and empower communities. We support a number of beneficiaries
and work in partnership with various non-profit organizations and local community members with the goal of supporting projects
which are efficient, sustainable and valuable to the community. Our primary funding focus areas include:
• Education through improved teacher and learnership programs, providing necessary resources including bursaries;
• Community development through child and youth care centers – programs which support substance abuse awareness and
awareness against violence specifically aimed at children and women; and
• The promotion of entrepreneurship and job creation and increased employment through skills development programs
targeted at youth and community-based, informal entrepreneurs.
Reach for a Dream
Reach for a Dream provides continuous hope to children fighting life-threatening illness through the fulfilment of their dreams
and offers help to many children facing these illnesses. Fulfilling dreams enables these children to experience a fun aspect of life
they do not otherwise get to experience due to their illnesses. The positive effect of the “dream come true” lingers, and the
children often respond better to their medication and treatment. These children between the ages of three and 18 years have used
their dreams to fight illnesses such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, kidney failure, blood disorders and heart
conditions. We have contributed towards “laptop dreams” by enriching children’s lives with making dreams come true and as a
result, distracting them from medication and the hospital environment. This partnership has allowed us to offer children magical
moments and regain a childhood that is being lost to illness.
Jicama 89
In partnership with Jicama 89, Net1’s main aim is to prepare and assist sight- and hearing-impaired persons for meaningful
integration/inclusion in society. Jicama 89 is currently involved in supporting children in the care of the Sibonile School based in
Klipriver, South of Johannesburg. The Sibonile School provides schooling, accommodation, food and clothing for 189 children,
who are either partially sighted, totally blind or deaf and blind. Jicama 89 enhances the potential of the sight- and hearing-
impaired by:
• Providing a conducive learning environment;
• Providing humane treatment as stipulated in the constitution; and
• Presenting all with equal opportunities.
Other
We have also contributed to Thandanani, E-Classroom (Pty) Ltd, Door of Hope – Children’s Mission, Kungwini Welfare
Organisation and Grannies Who Care and ACTION for Blind.
Enterprise Development
Net1 believes in equal and fair opportunities for all, including the empowerment and improvement of previously disadvantaged
individuals and communities. We are currently working with various partners to explore and create corporate social development
initiatives which will bring about sustainable and scalable outcomes.
As part of our enterprise development initiative, we have partnered with Tshokoma Business Consultancy with the main focus on
creating a sustainable environment for growth in the small enterprise sector. This is critical for the sustainable economic growth
of South Africa. Through this partnership, we have helped implement value-added enterprise development, strategically allocated
to programs and projects that assisted a group of black youth-owned ICT companies with technology development, operations as
well as talent and investment. The enterprise development funds were invested by Tshokoma Business Consultancy through
various programs and projects, namely the Tshokoma owned Letolo Technology Incubator (“Letolo”). Letolo focuses on young
digital entrepreneurs. Its goal is to produce at least 100 digital technology entrepreneurs by the year 2022; which will contribute to
the vibrancy of South Africa’s technology ecosystem, in turn accelerating socioeconomic development through technological
inclusion. The following successes were achieved by Letolo during the financial year:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
39 entrepreneurs supported;
14 jobs created;
27 new enterprises established ;
35% township-based;
55% women based;
100% youth- owned;
20% rural-area based; and
60% in technology development phase (not yet trading).
Response to Covid-19 pandemic
In response to the South African President’s call for assistance in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, the our board members and
our South African executive committee donated 30% of their fees and salaries, or ZAR 4.1 million, for three months ended June
30, 2020, for Covid-19 initiatives.
Additional information
Further details of our corporate social investment initiatives are available on our website at www.net1.com.
Report Assurance
We have not obtained independent third-party assurance of this corporate social responsibility report for the 2020 reporting
period.
Forward looking statements and use of non-GAAP measures
Forward looking statements
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to
differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify
forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,”
“anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of such terms and other comparable
terminology. For more information about the factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from current
expectations, you should refer to the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q that we file from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Use of non-GAAP measures in this Annual Report
US securities laws require that when we publish any non-GAAP measures, we disclose the reason for using the non-GAAP measure
and provide a reconciliation to the directly comparable GAAP measure. The presentation of fundamental net (loss) income and
fundamental (loss) earnings per share and headline (loss) earnings per share (“HEPS”) are non-GAAP measures.
Why we use non-GAAP measures
Management believes that the fundamental net (loss) income and (loss) earnings per share metric enhances its own evaluation, as
well as an investor’s understanding, of our financial performance.
The inclusion of HEPS is a requirement of our listing on the JSE. HEPS basic and diluted is calculated using net (loss) income
which has been determined based on GAAP. Accordingly, this may differ to the headline (loss) earnings per share calculation of
other companies listed on the JSE as these companies may report their financial results under a different financial reporting
framework, including but not limited to, International Financial Reporting Standards.
How we calculate our non-GAAP measures
Fundamental net (loss) income and (loss) earnings per share is GAAP net (loss) income and (loss) earnings per share adjusted for (1)
the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets (net of deferred taxes), (2) stock-based compensation charges and (3)
unusual non-recurring items (refer to captions included in the table below).
Headline earnings is GAAP net loss excluding separately identifiable re-measurements (as defined in a circular published by The
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, titled Headline Earnings, and as amended from time to time (the “Circular”), net
of related tax (both current and deferred) and related non-controlling interest, other than re-measurements specifically included in
headline earnings (as defined in Circular).
Reconciliation of GAAP net income to headline earnings
Net loss (USD’000)
Adjustments:
Impairment of equity method investments
(Gain) Loss on disposal of discontinued operation
Gain on disposal of FIHRST
Impairment loss
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS
Loss (Gain) on sale of DNI
Profit on sale of property, plant and equipment
Tax effects on above
Net loss used to calculate headline loss (USD’000)
Weighted average number of shares used to calculate net loss per share basic loss and headline loss per
share basic loss (‘000)
Weighted average number of shares used to calculate net loss per share diluted loss and headline loss per
share diluted loss (‘000)
Headline loss per share:
Basic, in USD
Diluted, in USD
2020
2019
(78,358)
(311,007)
33,831
(12,454)
(9,743)
6,336
7,148
1,010
(127)
36
-
9,175
-
19,745
-
(177)
(486)
136
(52,321)
(282,614)
56,764
56,760
56,764
56,778
(0.92)
(0.92)
(4.98)
(4.98)
Calculation of the denominator for headline diluted loss per share
Basic weighted-average common shares outstanding and unvested restricted shares expected to vest
under GAAP
Effect of dilutive securities under GAAP
Denominator for headline diluted loss per share
F2020
F2019
56,764
-
56,764
56,760
18
56,778
Weighted average number of shares used to calculate headline diluted loss per share represents the denominator for basic weighted-
average common shares outstanding and unvested restricted shares expected to vest plus the effect of dilutive securities under
GAAP. We use this number of fully-diluted shares outstanding to calculate headline diluted loss per share because we do not use the
two-class method to calculate headline diluted loss per share.
Reconciliation of GAAP net income to fundamental net income
The table below presents the reconciliation between GAAP net (loss) income to fundamental net (loss) income for our last five fiscal
years:
GAAP .......................................................................................................
Impairment of equity method investments ..........................................
Termination fee paid to cancel Bank Frick option ..............................
(Gain) Loss on discontinued operation ...............................................
Gain on disposal of FIHRST ...............................................................
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS ..........................................................
Impairment loss ..................................................................................
Intangible asset amortization, net of tax .............................................
Transaction-related costs .....................................................................
Stock-based compensation charge ......................................................
Intangible asset amortization, net (equity-accounted investments) ....
Interest related to SASSA implementation costs refund .....................
Loss on disposal of DNI ......................................................................
Retrenchment costs, net ......................................................................
Intangible asset amortization, net related to non-controlling interest ..
Accreted interest on DNI contingent consideration ............................
Facility fees for debt............................................................................
Non-recurring Mastertrading allowance for doubtful accounts ...........
Loss resulting from acquisition of DNI ...............................................
Refund of South Korean indirect taxes ...............................................
Change in US tax rate .........................................................................
Profit on sale of XeoHealth .................................................................
Former CEO separation payment, net of tax ......................................
Refund for KSNET litigation ..............................................................
US government investigations-related and US lawsuit expenses ........
Gain resulting from acquisition of Transact24 ....................................
Accounting change for Finbond ..........................................................
Fundamental .............................................................................
2020
(78,358)
32,084
17,517
(12,454)
(9,743)
7,148
6,336
3,805
2,876
1,728
1,783
1,361
1,010
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(24,907)
Net income (USD’000)
2018
62,087
2019
(311,007)
2017
72,954
-
-
-
-
-
9,175
-
-
-
-
20,917
19,745
9,385
16,290
2,239
3,485
2,607
393
2,908
1,082
-
-
-
(177)
-
4,514
-
(2,737)
-
1,848
589
321
7,803
-
4,614
-
(1,985)
-
860
-
(463)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(257,068) 111,561
-
-
-
-
-
-
10,491
3,347
1,982
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,268
-
-
-
-
-
5,200
(643)
122
-
-
94,721
2016
82,454
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,413
1,018
3,598
-
-
-
-
-
-
138
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
133
(1,909)
(1,732)
92,113
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
[X] ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020
OR
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from
To
Commission file number: 000-31203
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
98-0171860
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
President Place, 4th Floor, Cnr. Jan Smuts Avenue and Bolton Road
Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 27-11-343-2000
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Common stock, par value $0.001 per share
Trading Symbol(s)
UEPS
Name of each exchange
on which registered
NASDAQ Global Select Market
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act.
Yes [ ] No [X]
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Act.
Yes [ ] No [X]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that
the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the
past 90 days. Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required
to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12
months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-
accelerated filer, smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large
accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in
Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (check one):
[ ] Large accelerated filer
[ ] Non-accelerated filer
[X] Accelerated filer
[X]
Smaller reporting company
[ ]
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended
transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to
Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
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assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its
audit report. [X]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act). Yes [ ] No [X]
The aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of
December 31, 2019 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter),
based upon the closing price of the common stock as reported by The NASDAQ Global Select Market on such
date, was $140,642,736. This calculation does not reflect a determination that persons are affiliates for any
other purposes.
As of September 7, 2020, 57,118,925 shares of the registrant’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, net
of treasury shares, were outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Certain portions of the definitive Proxy Statement for our 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders are
incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.
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PART I
PART II
Item 1.
Business
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Properties
Legal Proceedings
Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
Item 5.
Item 6.
Item 7.
Market for Registrant’s Common equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of
Equity Securities
Selected Financial Data
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 8.
Item 9.
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosures
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item 9B. Other Information
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
PART III
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder
Matters
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Item 14.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Item 15.
Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
Item 16.
Form 10-K Summary
PART IV
Signatures
Financial Statements
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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
PART I
In addition to historical information, this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied in the forward-
looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in Item
1A—“Risk Factors.” In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,”
“could,” “would,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the
negative of such terms and other comparable terminology. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
which reflect our opinions only as of the date of this Annual Report. We undertake no obligation to release publicly any revisions to
the forward-looking statements after the date of this Annual Report. You should carefully review the risk factors described in other
documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, including the Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q to be filed by us during our 2021 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview
We are a provider of financial technology, or fintech, products and services to unbanked and underbanked individuals and
small businesses in South Africa and other emerging economies. We have developed and own most of our payment technologies,
and where possible, we utilize this technology to provide financial and value-added services to our customers by including them into
the formal financial system.
Our core payment technology is called the Universal Electronic Payment System, or UEPS, and its EMV interoperable
derivative, UEPS/EMV, which utilizes a form of distributed ledger technology, providing decentralized and biometrically secure
smart cards that operate in real-time but both off-line and on-line, unlike traditional payment systems offered by major banking
institutions that require immediate access through a communications network to a centralized computer.
Our off-line UEPS system also offers the highest level of availability and affordability by removing any components that are
costly and prone to outages. Our UEPS/EMV solution enables our traditional proprietary UEPS system to interoperate with the
global EMV standard and allows card holders to transact at any EMV-enabled point of sale terminal or automated teller machine, or
ATM. The UEPS/EMV technology has been deployed on an extensive scale in South Africa through the issuance of MasterCard-
branded UEPS/EMV cards to our underbanked customers. In addition to effecting purchases, cash-backs and any form of payment,
our system can be used for banking, healthcare management, money transfers, voting and identification.
Our transaction processing services in South Africa include EasyPay, a leading merchant processor and bill payment platform
and a fixed and mobile ATM infrastructure. We deliver our financial inclusion products and services through our UEPS-based core
banking system, providing a low-cost, biometrically secure transactional bank account to our customers, and distributing a number
of financial, telecom and other value-added products through this platform in order to garner a greater share of wallet. In South
Africa, we deploy this system under the brand EasyPay Everywhere, or EPE, and at June 30, 2020, we had approximately 1 million
active customers on the platform.
Our technology businesses include the development and deployment of our UEPS and Mobile Virtual Card, or MVC, solutions,
cryptographic solutions including the STS-6 standard for utility vending solutions, hardware security modules or HSM, chip and
subscriber identity module, or SIM, cards, and the reselling of point of sale equipment.
All references to “the Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” are references to Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. and its consolidated
subsidiaries, collectively, and all references to “Net1” are to Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. only, except as otherwise indicated or
where the context indicates otherwise.
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Market Opportunity
Secular shift to electronic payments: Globally, there is a secular shift from cash and checks to various forms of electronic
payments and while most developed economies such as South Korea, Sweden, the U.S. and Australia perform the majority of their
consumer payments electronically, developing economies such as Egypt, Indonesia, India and The Philippines remain largely cash
driven countries. South Africa too, remains predominantly a cash-based economy, with an estimated 60% of consumer payments
made in cash. This is similar to other emerging economies such as Turkey and Brazil, where there continues to be a secular shift
from cash to electronic payments.
Consumer financial services for the unbanked: Our focus is on the Living Standards Measure, or LSM, 1-6 population in South
Africa, which represents approximately 26 million adults in the country. Our total addressable market for consumer financial
services is an estimated ZAR 57 billion including transactional banking, short-term and unsecured lending, and insurance.
Total Addressable Market for Consumer Financial Services in South Africa for LSM 1-6
Source: South African Reserve Bank Long-Term Insurance Industry (2017), Solidarity Bank Charges Report (2019), Finscope South Africa (2013), NCR Consumer
Credit Report (2019)
With our smart card and mobile technologies, we are able to offer affordable, secure and reliable financial services, such as
transacting accounts, loans and insurance products, to these consumers and alleviate some of the challenges they face in dealing with
the informal sector, while also allowing them to build a credit history and gain access to the broader formal financial services
industry.
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Merchant payment and financial services for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, or MSMEs: Bill payments are an
attractive customer acquisition channel and we are one of the leading bill payment platforms in South Africa. Our total addressable
market for merchant payment and financial services is an estimated ZAR 100 billion including bill payments, merchant payments,
and merchant lending.
Total Addressable Market for Merchant Payment and Financial Services in South Africa for MSMEs
Source: Genisis Analytics (2018), BIS Data, Electrum, IFC Report (The Unseen Sector – A report on the MSME Opportunity in South Africa)
MSMEs typically fall into the underbanked category due to cumbersome and costly efforts required to secure banking
relationships, payment processing and credit. According to “Digital banking for small and medium-sized enterprises—Improving
access to finance for the underserved, on Digital Banking for Small Businesses”, a report prepared by Deloitte, several factors drive
low financial inclusion of MSMEs, including 1) limited financial infrastructure, such as poor coverage by credit bureaus, that limit
availability and cost of securing credit; 2) inadequate distribution channels that limit banks from reaching and servicing MSMEs in
either the physical or digital space; 3) lack of cash-flow visibility that force banks to adopt stringent collateral-based credit risk
models which hinder lending to MSMEs without collateral; and 4) regulations and compliance costs that adversely impact banks
from serving small customers and invariably drive up costs.
These inefficiencies have created an opportunity for neo-, or challenger, banks and fintech companies to improve reach and
coverage for MSMEs and accelerate access to, and reduce cost of, banking and financial services. Estimates suggest that
approximately 33% of South Africa’s 700,000 formal MSMEs are unable to accept electronic payments. Tier 1 merchants are
actively serviced by the large local banks while Tier 2 to 4 merchants are underserved.
Our Strategy
Our vision is to build and operate a leading South African fintech platform offering payment processing and financial services
to underserved merchants and consumers.
Our core purpose is to improve people’s lives by bringing financial inclusion to South Africa’s underbanked customers and
helping small businesses access the financial services they need to prosper. We achieve this through our unique ability to efficiently
digitize or tokenize the expensive and difficult -to-achieve last mile of financial inclusion and to provide a full-service fintech
platform to address each of the market opportunities we have identified.
End-to-end fintech platforms layer multiple services into their merchant and consumer propositions, increasing revenue and
customer stickiness. In South Africa, our core competencies are centered around the provision of low-cost financial services to
underserved consumers and payment processing.
Low-cost financial services to consumers—We provide a suite of low-cost financial services to the underserved and unbanked
customers today, through a combination of digital and brick-and-mortar distribution platforms. We provide unsecured micro-credit,
transactional banking, funeral insurance and airtime and value-added services.
Payment processing—Our core technologies include UEPS, which leverages biometric authentication, last-mile distribution,
and cash handling/distribution to enable payments and EasyPay, which is a transaction switch and bill payments platform. We also
own and operate POS and ATM networks.
We aim to increase the adoption of our existing services by expanding our cardholder base and our transacting network, and to
increase our service offerings by developing new products and distribution networks and by forging partnerships with industry
participants who share our vision and can accelerate the implementation of our business plan. Where appropriate, we expect to
supplement our platform with strategic acquisitions and investments.
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A Comprehensive and Complementary Fintech Platform in South Africa
Competition
We intend to differentiate our value proposition for our end-users by offering a seamless financial and technology platform for
underserved consumers and small merchants while leveraging a multichannel distribution network. In South Africa, there are
competitors for individual products, services or technologies, though few, if any, with an end-to-end offering, particularly for our
target customer segments.
For consumers, there are a number of traditional and digital providers of low-cost transactional bank accounts and micro
financial services. These include the large South African banks such as FNB, Standard Bank, Absa, Nedbank and Capitec, the South
African Post Office, or SAPO, and digital banks such as African Bank and Tyme. Other financial services providers include Old
Mutual, Sanlam, Capfin, Letsatsi, Bayport and Finbond.
For EasyPay, our South African transaction processing business, competitors include BankservAfrica, UCS, eCentric and
Transaction Junction. BankservAfrica is the largest transaction processor in South Africa, which processes all transactions on behalf
of the South African banks and processes more than 2.5 billion transactions annually.
In the South African ATM network market, we compete against the South African banks, ATM Solutions and Spark ATM
Systems, who collectively have a market share in excess of 90%.
Intellectual Property
Our success depends in part on our ability to develop, maintain and protect our intellectual property. We rely on a combination
of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret laws, as well as non-disclosure agreements to protect our intellectual property.
We seek to protect new intellectual property developed by us by filing new patents worldwide. We hold a number of trademarks in
various countries.
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Financial Information about Geographical Areas and Operating Segments
Note 22 to our audited consolidated financial statements included in this annual report contains detailed financial information
about our operating segments for fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018. Revenues based on the geographic location from which the sale
originated and geographic location where long-lived assets are held for the years ended June 30, are presented in the table below:
2020
Revenue(1)
2019
2018
2020
South Africa
South Korea
Liechtenstein (Bank Frick)
India (MobiKwik)
Rest of the world
Total
$'000
145,956
-
-
-
5,041
150,997
$'000
156,385
-
-
-
9,842
166,227
$'000
432,862
-
-
-
26,713
459,575
$'000
68,521
-
29,739
26,993
9,119
134,372
Long lived assets(1)
2019
(as
restated)(R)
$'000
141,235
149,390
47,240
26,993
9,739
374,597
2018
(as
restated)(R)
$'000
493,902
177,388
48,129
26,917
41,597
787,933
(R) The South Africa and total amounts for 2019 and 2018 have been restated by $2,689 and $ 2,540, respectively, to correct
the misstatement discussed in Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
(1) Fiscal 2019 and 2018 impacted by the disposal of our Korean operations in fiscal 2020 and the disposal of DNI in fiscal
2019. Both of these businesses have been reported as discontinued operations, refer to Note 3 to our audited consolidated financial
statements.
Employees
Our number of employees allocated on a segmental basis as of the years ended June 30, are presented in the table below:
Management
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Financial inclusion and applied technologies(2)
Total
2020
Number of employees
2019(1)
179
869
80
1,761
2,889
167
769
94
1,845
2,875
2018(1)
214
1,902
90
3,275
5,481
(1) Fiscal 2019 and 2018 excludes employees related to our Korean operations that were sold in fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2018
excludes employees related to DNI which was sold in fiscal 2019. Both of these businesses have been reported as discontinued
operations, refer to Note 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
(2) Financial inclusion and applied technologies includes employees allocated to corporate/ eliminations activities.
On a functional basis, four of our employees were part of executive management, 26 were employed in sales and marketing,
148 were employed in finance and administration, 217 were employed in information technology and 2,480 were employed in
operations. Our staffing levels have reduced significantly from fiscal 2018 following the expiration of our SASSA contract in
September 2018.
Corporate history
Net1 was incorporated in Florida in May 1997. In 2004, Net1 acquired Net1 Applied Technology Holdings Limited, or Aplitec,
a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, or JSE. In 2005, Net1 completed an initial public offering and listed
on the NASDAQ Stock Market. In 2008, Net1 listed on the JSE in a secondary listing, which enabled the former Aplitec
shareholders (as well as South African residents generally) to hold Net1 common stock directly.
Available information
We maintain a website at www.net1.com. Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on
Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports are available free of charge through the “SEC filings” portion of our website, as soon as
reasonably practicable after they are filed with the SEC. The information contained on, or accessible through, our website is not
incorporated into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The SEC maintains a website at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information
regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
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Our Executive Officers
The table below presents our executive officers, their ages and their titles:
Name
Herman G. Kotzé
Alex M.R. Smith
Philip S. Meyer
Nanda Pillay
Age
50
51
63
49
Title
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, and Director
Managing Director: International Payments Group
Managing Director: Southern Africa
Herman Kotzé has been our Chief Executive Officer since May 2017 and was our Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer from June 2004 to February 2018. As we previously announced, Mr. Kotzé will leave the Company at the end of
September 2020. From January 2000 until June 2004, he served on the board of Aplitec as Group Financial Director. Mr. Kotzé
joined Aplitec in November 1998 as a strategic financial analyst. Prior to joining Aplitec, Mr. Kotzé was a business analyst at the
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa. Mr. Kotzé has a bachelor of commerce honors degree, a post graduate diploma
in treasury management, a higher diploma in taxation, completed his articles at KPMG, and is a member of the South African
Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Alex M.R. Smith has been our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since March 2018. As we previously
announced, Mr. Smith will serve as our interim Chief Executive Officer after Mr. Kotzé’s departure and until the appointment of a
new chief executive officer. Mr. Smith joined Allied Electronics Corporation Limited, or Altron, a JSE-listed company in 2006 and
from August 2008 until February 2018, served as a director and its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Altron, Mr. Smith
worked in various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Edinburgh, Scotland and Johannesburg from 1991 to 2005. Mr. Smith
holds a bachelor of law (honours) degree from the University of Edinburgh and is a member of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Scotland.
Philip Meyer has been the Managing Director of IPG since February 2018. Mr. Meyer has worked in the payments industry for
over 20 years. He founded Transact24, one of our subsidiaries, and prior thereto, was Chief Executive: Information Technology and
New Media for Naspers, a global media group. Mr. Meyer is a qualified engineer with a master’s degree in engineering (electronic)
and has a postgraduate diploma in strategic management. Mr. Meyer is registered with the Engineering Counsel of South Africa, is a
member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers and is also a member of the Digital, Information &
Telecommunications Committee and Asia & Africa Committee, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
Nanda Pillay joined us in May 2000 and is responsible for our Southern African operations, including Financial Services,
EasyPay, and SmartSwitch Botswana.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
OUR OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL RESULTS ARE SUBJECT TO VARIOUS RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES,
INCLUDING THOSE DESCRIBED BELOW, THAT COULD ADVERSELY AFFECT OUR BUSINESS, FINANCIAL
CONDITION, RESULTS OF OPERATIONS, CASH FLOWS, AND THE TRADING PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK
Risks Relating to Our Business
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our business. We are unable to ascertain the impact the
pandemic will have on our future financial position, operations, cash flows and stock price.
Our business has been, and continues to be, impacted by government restrictions and quarantines related to COVID-19. Like
many other companies, we have been subject to government-imposed restrictions on, among other things, pricing for certain
products and services and our ability to sell certain “non-essential” services. For example, until June 1, 2020, the restrictions
imposed by the South African government suspended our lending and other financial services activities, and imposed limitations on
the level of banking-related fees that we were permitted to charge our customers, which consequently impacted our business. Most
employees in South Africa, including many of our employees, were required to work from home following the publication of
government-imposed restrictions. Governments, including the South African government, have recommended that employees
continue to work from home even after mandatory quarantine requirements were relaxed. As a result of the work from home
environment, we face additional challenges providing employees with secure remote access to computer networks as well as
initiating and accepting instructions via e-mail or other electronic media. Responsible action to combat the spread of the COVID-19
pandemic may impact productivity and introduce new operating risks to us, our business partners, customers and suppliers.
Our business model depends on the expansion of our financial services activities in South Africa and relies on face-to-face
interactions with our customers. As a result of the restrictions described above, our business was significantly and adversely
impacted during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020. In particular, we were unable to charge fees for certain transactions and were not
permitted to originate loans or sell insurance policies through face-to-face interactions for a period of time. Going forward, we
believe that our business activities will be adversely impacted if stricter restrictions are reintroduced to combat the spread of the
pandemic. Furthermore, should there be an increase in mortality rates across our customer base, we may see an increase in microloan
defaults and funeral policy claim payouts.
In addition to the adverse consequences on our business as described above, the pandemic has impacted global markets,
including reduced economic activity and increased market volatility. Our stock price may be influenced by these events.
We are unable to accurately predict the impact of the pandemic and government-imposed restrictions on our future financial
position, results of operations, cash flows and stock price. Circumstances may change rapidly as matters related to the pandemic
evolve.
We have recently modified our business strategy to focus on South Africa, and to exit or reduce our
activities outside the African continent. Our future success, and our ability to return to profitability and
positive cash flow is substantially dependent on our ability to implement this strategy successfully.
During the last several months, our board has conducted an extensive review of our business strategy and operations. After
completion of the strategic review in July 2020, our board has determined to focus on our South African operations and other
business opportunities in South Africa and to a lesser extent, the rest of the African continent, and to exit or reduce our presence in
other geographies. Our future success will depend on our ability to deploy the significant levels of cash generated from our recent
asset dispositions effectively and efficiently. Any new businesses that we acquire or strategic investments that we make may not
generate the level of returns that we expect them to generate. Further, we may face difficulty in optimizing the disposal of our non-
African assets and operations. Therefore, we cannot assure you that we will be able to implement our new strategy successfully and
return to profitability and positive cash flow.
Even if we do return to profitability, achieving net income does not necessarily ensure positive cash flows. Future periods of
net losses from operations could result in negative cash flow and may hamper ongoing operations and prevent us from sustaining or
expanding our business. We cannot assure you that we will achieve, sustain or increase profitability in the future and if we do not,
our business will be materially and adversely affected. In addition, the price of our common stock, which has declined substantially
over the past several years, may not recover or decline even further if we do not successfully execute our new strategy.
Further, as we exit our other non-core operations and strategic investments, we may have charges associated with the write-
down of assets and closure of certain of the regulated entities we operate may adversely impact our relationship with regulators. It
may be difficult to dispose of some or all of these operations or investments on acceptable terms, if at all.
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We face challenges in transforming our South African operations to a business-to-consumer model
through our various bank account products and ATM infrastructure.
Following the conclusion of the SASSA contract on September 30, 2018, we refocused our resources and technology on the
provision of financial inclusion services to our target market. In particular, we enabled our mobile ATM payment infrastructure to
become part of the South African National Payment System and concentrated on taking our ATMs to the rural populations of South
Africa so that they have the same access to financial inclusion as they had during the tenure of our contract, without the many
inconveniences and inefficiencies of SASSA’s new payment model. While we believe that our financial services offerings are
convenient and cost-effective, the success of our strategy will depend on the extent to which South African customers continue to
use our financial products and services on a widespread basis.
Factors that may prevent us from successfully operating and growing our South African financial services business include, but
are not limited to:
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reduced adoption and utilization of our EPE accounts and related products and services;
insufficient utilization of our ATM infrastructure, especially our mobile ATM infrastructure;
inability to access sufficient funding for our ATM infrastructure;
competition in the marketplace;
restrictions imposed by SASSA or government on the manner in which recipients may transact;
additional and/or protracted legal proceedings with SASSA or other parties;
political interference;
changes in the regulatory environment;
dependence on existing suppliers to provide the hardware (such as ATMs, cards and POS devices) we require to execute
our rollout as anticipated;
logistical and communications challenges; and
loss of key technical and operations staff.
CPS has been involved in continuous litigation for a number of years in relation to its contract with
SASSA. Two of these cases may present a risk to us if a court were to hold us responsible for CPS’
liabilities.
The first case relates to the February 2020 order of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, or Constitutional Court, the
highest court in South Africa, rejecting CPS’ appeal of a lower court judgment ordering CPS to repay SASSA more than ZAR 316
million, plus interest, of contract implementation costs reimbursed to CPS in 2014, thus exhausting CPS legal remedies in this case.
Because CPS’ liability on this judgment substantially exceeds the value of its assets, CPS has, pursuant to a resolution of its board,
been placed into business rescue, which is a South African process similar to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. SASSA is
seeking to set aside the business rescue and has brought an application to liquidate CPS instead in order to hold inquiries into the
affairs of CPS. Refer also to “Item 3.—Legal Proceedings—CPS placed into business rescue and SASSA application to place CPS
into liquidation.”
The second case arises from the 2012 order of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa, or High Court,
declaring the invalidity of the SASSA contract and requiring CPS to file a financial statement, to be audited by independent auditors,
detailing CPS’ revenues earned, expenses incurred and profits derived from the SASSA contract. After CPS filed two independent
audit verification reports (and after SASSA filed one such report as well), Freedom Under Law, or FUL, a South African non-
governmental organization, made an application to the Constitutional Court alleging that CPS underreported its profits from the
SASSA contract and requested the Constitutional Court to order CPS to repay such profits. CPS has opposed FUL’s request on the
basis that FUL is asking for new relief that does not fall under the Court’s supervisory jurisdiction. Refer also to “Item 3.—Legal
Proceedings— Freedom Under Law application to the Constitutional Court.”
While no claim has been made against us that we should be held liable for the obligations of CPS resulting from the February
2020 Constitutional Court order or from any potential judgment ordering CPS to repay its contract profits, and while we do not
believe that there would be a legitimate legal basis for any such claims, we cannot assure you that any such claim will not be made
against us. If SASSA or another third party were to seek and ultimately succeed in obtaining a judgment against us in respect of
CPS’ liabilities, any such judgment would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash
flows.
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Our ability to operate effectively and efficiently in South Africa in the future will be adversely impacted
if we are unable to communicate persuasively that our business practices comply with South African law
and are fair to the customers who purchase our financial services products.
The South African public, media, non-governmental organizations and political parties have utilized a number of platforms,
including social media, to criticize SASSA over its failure to implement the orders of the Constitutional Court over the last two years
and express their dissatisfaction with the state of affairs. Among the criticisms, we have been accused of being responsible for
SASSA’s inability to bring the payment service in-house. In addition, we were publicly accused of illegally providing our services
and defrauding social welfare grant recipients. We have publicly denied these accusations and believe they have no merit.
Our reputation in South Africa has been tarnished as a result of these accusations. We have attempted to refute the allegations
made against us and have appointed a public relations firm to assist us in communicating effectively to the public and our
stakeholders that our business practices comply with South African law and are fair to the social welfare grant recipients who
purchase the financial services products that we offer. It is difficult to quantify to what extent we have been successful in effectively
repudiating these unsubstantiated allegations against us. If we are unable to communicate persuasively that our business practices
comply with South African law and are fair to the customers who purchase our financial services products, our ability to operate
effectively and efficiently in South Africa in the future will be adversely impacted, and our results of operations, financial position
and cash flows would be adversely affected.
A prolonged economic slowdown or lengthy or severe recession in South Africa or elsewhere could
harm our operations.
A prolonged economic downturn or recession in South Africa could materially impact our results from operations, particularly
in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and our strategic decision to focus on our South African operations. Economic confidence in
South Africa, our main operating environment, is currently low and, as a result, the risk of a prolonged economic downturn is
enhanced. A recessionary economic environment could have a negative impact on mobile phone operators, our cardholders and
retailers and could reduce the level of transactions we process, the take-up of the financial services we offer and the ability of our
customers to repay our microloans or to pay their insurance premiums, which would, in turn, negatively impact our financial results.
If financial institutions and retailers experience decreased demand for their products and services, our hardware, software and related
technology sales will decrease, resulting in lower revenue.
We may undertake acquisitions or make strategic investments that could increase our costs or liabilities
or be disruptive to our business.
Acquisitions and strategic investments are an integral part of our new growth strategy as we seek to grow our business and to
deploy our technologies in new markets in South Africa. However, we may not be able to locate suitable acquisition or investment
candidates at prices that we consider appropriate. If we do identify an appropriate acquisition or investment candidate, we may not
be able to successfully negotiate the terms of the transaction, finance it or, if the transaction occurs, integrate the new business into
our existing business. These transactions may require debt financing or additional equity financing, resulting in additional leverage
or dilution of ownership.
Acquisitions of businesses or other material operations and the integration of these acquisitions or their businesses will require
significant attention from our senior management which may divert their attention from our day to day business. The difficulties of
integration may be increased by the necessity of integrating personnel with disparate business backgrounds and combining different
corporate cultures. We also may not be able to retain key employees or customers of an acquired business or realize cost efficiencies
or synergies or other benefits that we anticipated when selecting our acquisition candidates. Acquisition candidates may have
liabilities or adverse operating issues that we fail to discover through due diligence prior to the acquisition.
We may need to record write-downs from future impairments of goodwill or other intangible assets, which could reduce our
future reported earnings. During fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018 we recognized impairment losses of $6.3 million, $14.4 million and
$20.9 million, respectively. In addition, as disclosed in Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements, one of our strategic
partners, Finbond, restated its consolidated financial statements, which impacted our reported results and caused us to restate our
2019 and 2018 financial statements to correct for the Finbond restatement. If, in the future, any similar events occur, additional
restatements may be required, which could impact our reported earnings.
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Our ability to fund our ATM network requires that we continue to have access to sufficient lending
facilities which require compliance with restrictive and financial covenants.
The expansion of our fixed and mobile ATM network, along with an increase in our consumer banking client base, necessitates
access to large amounts of cash to stock the ATMs and maintain uninterrupted service levels. We have credit facilities from Rand
Merchant Bank, a division of FirstRand Bank Limited, or RMB, and Nedbank Limited, South African banks. Our RMB debt facility
expires in September 2020. We may not be able to extend the terms of these debt facilities or refinance, in each case, on
commercially reasonable terms or at all. In addition, any adverse change to the terms of our credit facilities, a significant reduction
in the amounts available under our credit facilities, or our failure to increase our facilities if required, will have an adverse impact on
our ability to continue uninterrupted operation of our ATM network and our revenues from this business. We will also suffer
reputational damage if our service levels are negatively impacted due to the unavailability of cash.
Our facilities are secured by intercompany cross-guarantees, a guarantee from Net1 and a pledge by Net1 SA of its entire
equity interest in Cell C. The terms of the lending arrangement contain covenants that require Net1 SA to maintain certain asset
cover ratios and restrict the ability of Net1 SA, and certain of its subsidiaries to make certain distributions with respect to their
capital stock, prepay other debt, encumber their assets, incur additional indebtedness, make investment above specified levels,
engage in certain business combinations and engage in other corporate activities without the approval of the lenders. These security
arrangements and covenants may reduce our operating flexibility or our ability to engage in other transactions that may be beneficial
to us. If we are unable to comply with the covenants in South Africa, we could be in default and the indebtedness could be
accelerated. If this were to occur, we might not be able to obtain waivers of default or to refinance the debt with another lender and
as a result, our business and financial condition would suffer.
We may be unable to recover the carrying value of certain Cell C airtime that we own which is subject
to resale restrictions.
We own a substantial amount of Cell C airtime inventory ($14.3 million translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30,
2020). We have entered into an agreement with our co-shareholder in Cell C under which $4.2 million of the airtime inventory may
only be sold after October 1, 2020. These restrictions expose us to market risk for this inventory. The balance of the airtime acquired
was subject to resale restrictions through April 1, 2020 and is not readily saleable in the current market without realising a loss. In
light of this, we recorded a loss of $1.3 million during fiscal 2020, related to this airtime inventory. We may be required to record
further losses in the future or we may be unable to recover the carrying value of this airtime inventory as a result of the business
failure of Cell C. Failure to recover the carrying value of this inventory may have a material adverse effect on our results of
operations or financial condition.
Our microlending loan book exposes us to credit risk and our allowance for doubtful finance loans
receivable may not be sufficient to absorb future write-offs.
All of our microfinance loans made are for a period of six months or less. We have created an allowance for doubtful finance
loans receivable related to this book. Management has considered factors including the period of the finance loan outstanding,
creditworthiness of the customers and the past payment history of the borrower when creating the allowance. We consider this
policy to be appropriate taking into account factors such as historical bad debts, current economic trends and changes in our
customer payment patterns. However, additional allowances may be required should the ability of our customers to make payments
when due deteriorate in the future. In particular, we cannot predict the impact the current pandemic may have on collections, though
to date we have not experienced any material deterioration in collection rates. A significant amount of judgment is required to assess
the ultimate recoverability of these finance loan receivables, including on-going evaluation of the creditworthiness of each customer.
We face competition from the incumbent retail banks in South Africa and SAPO in the unbanked
market segment, which could limit our growth.
Certain South African banks have also developed their own low-cost banking products targeted at the unbanked and
underbanked market segment. According to the 2018 FinScope SA 2018 Fact Sheet, a survey conducted by the FinMark Trust, a
non-profit independent trust, 80% of South Africans are banked. As the competition to bank the unbanked in South Africa
intensifies, we may not be successful in marketing our low-cost products to our target population. Moreover, as our product
offerings increase, gain market acceptance and pose a competitive threat in South Africa, especially our UEPS/EMV product with
biometric verification and our financial services offerings, the banks and SAPO may seek governmental or other regulatory
intervention if they view us as disrupting their transactional or other businesses.
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We may face competition from other companies that offer innovative payment technologies and
payment processing, which could result in the loss of our existing business and adversely impact our ability
to successfully market additional products and services.
Our primary competitors in the payment processing market include other independent processors, as well as financial
institutions, independent sales organizations, new digital and fintech entrants and, potentially card networks. Many of our
competitors are companies who are larger than we are and have greater financial and operational resources than we have. These
factors may allow them to offer better pricing terms or incentives to customers, which could result in a loss of our potential or
current customers or could force us to lower our prices as well. Either of these actions could have a significant effect on our
revenues and earnings.
In addition to competition that our UEPS system faces from the use of cash, checks, credit and debit cards, existing payment
systems and the providers of financial services and low-cost bank accounts, there are a number of other products that use smart card
technology in connection with a funds transfer system. During the past several years, smart card technology has become increasingly
prevalent. We believe that the most competitive product in this marketplace is EMV, a system that is promoted by most of the major
card companies such as Visa, MasterCard, JCB and American Express. Also, governments and financial institutions are, to an
increasing extent, implementing general-purpose reloadable prepaid cards as a low-cost alternative to provide financial services to
the unbanked population. Moreover, as the acceptance of using a mobile phone to facilitate financial services has increased
exponentially, other companies have introduced such services to the marketplace successfully and customers may prefer those
services to ours, based on technology, price or other factors.
We are in the process of transitioning to a new chief executive officer. Our future success will depend
in part on our ability to manage this transition successfully, and to attract, integrate, retain and incentivize
other key personnel.
On August 5, 2020, we announced that Herman G. Kotzé will resign from his position as our chief executive officer and as a
member of our board of directors, effective as of September 30, 2020. Alex M.R. Smith, our chief financial officer, will serve as
interim chief executive officer upon Mr. Kotzé’s departure, until the board of directors finalizes the appointment of a permanent
chief executive officer. We have entered into a consultancy agreement with Mr. Kotzé, which is effective for the period from
December 1, 2020 through May 31, 2021. Replacing a departing chief executive officer can involve organizational disruption and
uncertainty. If we fail to manage this transition successfully, we could experience significant delays or difficulty in the achievement
of our development and strategic objectives and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and
adversely harmed.
We must also attract, retain and motivate additional highly-qualified employees. We may experience difficulty in managing
transitions and assimilating our newly-hired personnel, which may adversely affect our business. Competition for qualified
personnel can be intense. Competitors may attempt to recruit our top management and employees. In order to attract and retain
personnel in a competitive marketplace, we must provide competitive pay packages, including cash and equity-based compensation
and the volatility in our stock price may from time to time adversely affect our ability to recruit or retain employees. Many of our
key responsibilities in South Africa are currently performed by Messrs. Kotzé and Smith, as well as by Mr. Nanda Pillay, our
Managing Director: Southern Africa. We do not maintain any “key person” life insurance policies. If we fail to attract, integrate,
retain and incentivize key personnel, our ability to manage and grow our business could be harmed.
We face a highly competitive employment market and may not be successful in attracting and retaining
a sufficient number of skilled employees, particularly in the technical and sales areas and senior
management.
Our future success depends on our ability to continue to develop new products and to market these products to our targeted
users. In order to succeed in our product development and marketing efforts, we need to identify, attract, motivate and retain
sufficient numbers of qualified technical and sales personnel. An inability to hire and retain such technical personnel would
adversely affect our ability to enhance our existing intellectual property, to introduce new generations of technology and to keep
abreast of current developments in technology. Demand for personnel with the range of capabilities and experience we require is
high and there is no assurance that we will be successful in attracting and retaining these employees. The risk exists that our
technical skills and sales base may be depleted over time because of natural attrition. Furthermore, social and economic factors in
South Africa have led, and continue to lead, to numerous qualified individuals leaving the country, thus depleting the availability of
qualified personnel in South Africa. If we cannot recruit and retain people with the appropriate capabilities and experience and
effectively integrate these people into our business, it could negatively affect our product development and marketing activities.
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System failures, including breaches in the security of our system, could harm our business.
We may experience system failures from time to time, and any lengthy interruption in the availability of our back-end system
computer could harm our business, and could subject us to the scrutiny of our customers. Frequent or persistent interruptions in our
services could cause current or potential customers and users to believe that our systems are unreliable, leading them to avoid our
technology altogether, and could permanently harm our reputation and brands. These interruptions would increase the burden on our
staff, which, in turn, could delay our introduction of new applications and services. Finally, because our customers may use our
products for critical transactions, any system failures could result in damage to our customers’ businesses. These customers could
seek significant compensation from us for their losses. Even if unsuccessful, this type of claim could be time consuming and costly
for us to address.
Although our systems have been designed to reduce downtime in the event of outages or catastrophic occurrences, they remain
vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunication failures, terrorist attacks,
computer viruses, computer denial-of-service attacks and similar events. Some of our systems are not fully redundant, and our
disaster recovery planning may not be sufficient for all eventualities.
Protection against fraud is of key importance to the purchasers and end users of our solutions. We incorporate security features,
including encryption software, biometric identification and secure hardware, into our solutions to protect against fraud in electronic
transactions and to provide for the privacy and integrity of card holder data. Our solutions may be vulnerable to breaches in security
due to defects in the security mechanisms, the operating system and applications or the hardware platform. Security vulnerabilities
could jeopardize the security of information transmitted using our solutions. If the security of our solutions is compromised, our
reputation and marketplace acceptance of our solutions will be adversely affected, which would cause our business to suffer, and we
may become subject to damage claims. We have not yet experienced any significant security breaches affecting our business.
Despite any precautions we may take, the occurrence of a natural disaster or other unanticipated problems with our system
could result in lengthy interruptions in our services. Our current business interruption insurance may not be sufficient to compensate
us for losses that may result from interruptions in our service as a result of system failures.
Our proprietary rights may not adequately protect our technologies.
Our success depends in part on our obtaining and maintaining patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark protection of our
technologies in the United States and other jurisdictions as well as successfully enforcing this intellectual property and defending
this intellectual property against third-party challenges. We will only be able to protect our technologies from unauthorized use by
third parties to the extent that valid and enforceable intellectual property protections, such as patents or trade secrets, cover them. In
particular, we place considerable emphasis on obtaining patent and trade secret protection for significant new technologies, products
and processes. Furthermore, the degree of future protection of our proprietary rights is uncertain because legal means afford only
limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep our competitive advantage.
We cannot predict the breadth of claims that may be allowed or enforced in our patents. For example, we might not have been
the first to make the inventions covered by each of our patents and patent applications or to file patent applications and it is possible
that none of our pending patent applications will result in issued patents. It is possible that others may independently develop similar
or alternative technologies. Also, our issued patents may not provide a basis for commercially viable products, or may not provide us
with any competitive advantages or may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by third parties.
We also rely on trade secrets to protect our technology, especially where we believe patent protection is not appropriate or
obtainable. However, trade secrets are difficult to protect. We have confidentiality agreements with employees, and consultants to
protect our trade secrets and proprietary know-how. These agreements may be breached and/or may not have adequate remedies for
such breach. While we use reasonable efforts to protect our trade secrets, our employees, consultants or others may unintentionally
or willfully disclose our information to competitors. If we were to enforce a claim that a third party had illegally obtained and was
using our trade secrets, our enforcement efforts would be expensive and time-consuming, and the outcome would be unpredictable.
Moreover, if our competitors independently develop equivalent knowledge, methods and know-how, it will be more difficult for us
to enforce our rights and our business could be harmed. If we are not able to defend the patent or trade secret protection position of
our technologies, then we will not be able to exclude competitors from developing or marketing competing technologies.
We also rely on trademarks to establish a market identity for some of our products. To maintain the value of our trademarks,
we might have to file lawsuits against third parties to prevent them from using trademarks confusingly similar to or dilutive of our
registered or unregistered trademarks. Also, we might not obtain registrations for our pending trademark applications and might
have to defend our registered trademark and pending trademark applications from challenge by third parties.
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Defending our intellectual property rights or defending ourselves in infringement suits that may be
brought against us is expensive and time-consuming and may not be successful.
Litigation to enforce our patents, trademarks or other intellectual property rights or to protect our trade secrets could result in
substantial costs and may not be successful. Any loss of, or inability to protect, intellectual property in our technology could
diminish our competitive advantage and also seriously harm our business. In addition, the laws of certain foreign countries may not
protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws in countries where we currently have patent protection. Our
means of protecting our intellectual property rights in countries where we currently have patent or trademark protection, or any other
country in which we operate, may not be adequate to fully protect our intellectual property rights. Similarly, if third parties claim
that we infringe their intellectual property rights, we may be required to incur significant costs and devote substantial resources to
the defense of such claims. We may be required to discontinue using and selling any infringing technology and services, to expend
resources to develop non-infringing technology or to purchase licenses or pay royalties for other technology. In addition, if we are
unsuccessful in defending any such third-party claims, we could suffer costly judgments and injunctions that could materially
adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition.
Our strategy of partnering with third parties may not be successful.
We conduct certain business activities, including outside South Africa, through strategic partnering arrangements with third
parties. In such circumstances, we typically acquire a minority interest in an operating company in which a strategic partner also has
an interest. While the relevant strategic partner may have primary responsibility for, among other things, the day-to-day business
operations of the relevant strategic partnership, we typically retain certain elements of control, such as the ability to vote for or
appoint members to the board (or equivalent) of such strategic partnerships, having input into management of those partnerships,
and/or maintaining major decision rights with respect to operations. To the extent that we maintain such strategic partnership
arrangements, we may not realize the expected benefits from these investments. The success of these endeavors is subject to a
number of factors over which we have little or no control. For example, we may depend on our partners to provide knowledge of
local market conditions and to facilitate the acquisition of any necessary licenses and permits. Additionally, although we typically
retain certain elements of control, we are not able to completely direct the policies and strategies of these operating companies.
Such limits to our control could result in the loss of all or part of our investment in such entities. In addition, our foreign
partners may have different business methods and customs which may be unfamiliar to us and with which we disagree. Furthermore,
limitations imposed on our South African subsidiaries by South African exchange control regulations may limit our ability to
establish partnerships or entities outside South Africa in which we do not obtain a controlling interest.
Additionally, our minority interest ownership of entities with our strategic partners may be deemed to be “investment
securities” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(2) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or the Investment Company
Act, which could cause us to be deemed to be an investment company within the meaning of Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment
Company Act. For more information, please refer to the risk factor, “We may be deemed to be an investment company under the
Investment Company Act.”
We may incur material losses in connection with our distribution of cash through our payment
infrastructure in South Africa.
Many cardholders use our services to access cash using their debit cards. We use armored vehicles and our own fixed ATM
infrastructure to deliver large amounts of cash to rural areas across South Africa to enable these cardholders to receive this cash. In
some cases, we also store the cash that will be delivered by the armored vehicles in depots overnight or over the weekend to
facilitate delivery to these rural areas. We cannot insure against certain risks of loss or theft of cash from our delivery vehicles,
ATMs or depots and we will therefore bear the full cost of certain uninsured losses or theft in connection with the cash handling
process, and such losses could materially and adversely affect our financial condition, cash flows and results of operations. We have
not incurred any material losses resulting from cash distribution in recent years, but there is no assurance that we will not incur
material losses in the future.
We depend upon third-party suppliers, making us vulnerable to supply shortages and price
fluctuations, which could harm our business.
We obtain our smart cards, ATMs, POS devices and the other hardware we use in our business from a limited number of suppliers,
and do not manufacture this equipment ourselves. We generally do not have long-term agreements with our manufacturers or
component suppliers. If our suppliers become unwilling or unable to provide us with adequate supplies of parts or products when we
need them, or if they increase their prices, we may not be able to find alternative sources in a timely manner and could be faced with
a critical shortage. This could harm our ability to implement new systems and cause our revenues to decline. Even if we are able to
secure alternative sources in a timely manner, our costs could increase. A supply interruption or an increase in demand beyond
current suppliers’ capabilities could harm our ability to distribute our equipment and thus, to acquire a new source of customers who
use our technology. Any interruption in the supply of the hardware necessary to operate our technology, or our inability to obtain
substitute equipment at acceptable prices in a timely manner, could impair our ability to meet the demand of our customers, which
would have an adverse effect on our business.
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Our Smart Life business exposes us to risks typically experienced by life assurance companies.
Smart Life is a life insurance company and exposes us to risks typically experienced by life assurance companies. Some of
these risks include the extent to which we are able to continue to reinsure our risks at acceptable costs, reinsurer counterparty risk,
maintaining regulatory capital adequacy, solvency and liquidity requirements, our ability to price our insurance products
appropriately, the risk that actual claims experience may exceed our estimates, the ability to recover policy premiums from our
customers and the competitiveness of the South African insurance market. If we are unable to maintain our desired level of
reinsurance at prices that we consider acceptable, we would have to either accept an increase in our exposure risk or reduce our
insurance writings. If our reinsurers are unable to meet their commitments to us in a timely manner, or at all, we may be unable to
discharge our obligations under our insurance contracts. As such, we are exposed to counterparty, including credit, risk of these
reinsurers.
Our product pricing includes long-term assumptions regarding investment returns, mortality, morbidity, persistency and
operating costs and expenses of the business. Using the wrong assumptions to price our insurance products could materially and
adversely affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
If our actual claims experience is higher than our estimates, particularly in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our financial
position, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected. Finally, the South African insurance industry is highly
competitive. Many of our competitors are well-established, represented nationally and market similar products and we may not be
able to effectively penetrate the South African insurance market.
Risks Relating to Operating in South Africa and Other Foreign Markets
If we do not achieve applicable broad-based black economic empowerment objectives in our South
African businesses, we risk losing our government and/or private contracts and/or risk not being in
compliance with any government and/or private contracts which we have already entered into. In addition,
it is possible that we may be required to increase the black shareholding of our company in a manner that
could dilute your ownership and/or change the companies from which we purchase goods or procure
services (to companies with a better BEE Contributor Status Level).
The legislative framework for the promotion of broad-based black economic empowerment, or BEE, in South Africa has been
established through the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, No. 53 of 2003, as amended from time to time, and the
Amended BEE Codes of Good Practice, 2013, or BEE Codes, and any sector-specific codes of good practice, or Sector Codes,
published pursuant thereto. Sector Codes are fully binding between and among businesses operating in a sector for which a Sector
Code has been published. Achievement of BEE objectives is measured by a scorecard which establishes a weighting for the various
elements. Save for certain instances where entities are only required to obtain an affidavit (for example, exempted micro enterprises
and a qualifying small enterprise that is 51% Black Owned or 100% Black Owned (as defined in the BEE Codes and/or Sector
Codes)), scorecards are independently reviewed by accredited BEE verification agencies which issue a certificate that presents an
entity’s BEE Contributor Status Level.
Certain of our South African businesses are subject to either the Information, Communications and Technology Sector Code, or
ICT Sector Code, or the Financial Services Sector Code. The ICT Sector Code has been amended and aligned with the new BEE
Codes and was promulgated in November 2016. Likewise, the Financial Services Sector Code has been amended and aligned with
the new BEE Codes and was promulgated in December 2017.
The BEE scorecard includes a component relating to management control, which serves to determine the participation of black
people at various levels of management within a measured entity (including, inter alia, at Board level, Executive Management,
Senior Management, Middle Management and Junior Management). The BEE Codes and/or Sector Codes define the terms "Senior
Management", "Middle Management" and "Junior Management" as those occupational categories as determined in accordance with
the Employment Equity Regulations. Annexure EEA9 to the Employment Equity Regulations sets out the various occupational
levels which are determined in accordance with the relevant grading systems applied by the measured entity and referred to in the
said Annexure. Employment equity legislation seeks to drive the alignment of the workforce with the racial composition of South
Africa. The proposed legislation aims to accelerate the achievement of employment equity targets, introducing monetary fines for
non-achievement. Failing to meet these targets may expose us to fines.
We have taken a number of actions as a company to increase empowerment of black (as defined under applicable regulations)
South Africans. However, it is possible that these actions may not be sufficient to enable us to achieve applicable BEE objectives. In
that event, in order to avoid risking the loss of our government and private contracts, we may have to seek to comply through other
means, including by selling or placing additional shares of Net1 or of our South African subsidiaries to black South Africans (either
directly or indirectly). Such sales or placements of shares could have a dilutive impact on your ownership interest, which could
cause the market price of our stock to decline.
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We expect that our BEE Contributor Status Level will be important for us in order to remain competitive in the South African
marketplace and we continually seek ways to improve our BEE Contributor Status Level, especially the ownership (so-called
“equity element”) element thereof. We have entered into various BEE transactions in the past in an effort to improve our score,
including transactions in which we issued equity to BEE partners.
It is possible that we may find it necessary to issue additional shares to improve our BEE Contributor Status Level. If we enter
into further BEE transactions that involve the issuance of equity, we cannot predict what the dilutive effect of such a transaction
would be on your ownership or how it would affect the market price of our stock.
Fluctuations in the value of the South African rand have had, and will continue to have, a significant
impact on our reported results of operations, which may make it difficult to evaluate our business
performance between reporting periods and may also adversely affect our stock price.
The South African rand, or ZAR, is the primary operating currency for our business operations while our financial results are
reported in U.S. dollars. This means that as long as the ZAR remains our primary operating currency, depreciation in the ZAR
against the U.S. dollar, would negatively impact our reported revenue and net income, while a strengthening of the ZAR would have
the opposite effect. Depreciation in the ZAR may negatively impact the prices at which our stock trades. The U.S. dollar/ZAR
exchange rate has historically been volatile and we expect this volatility to continue. We provide detailed information about
historical exchange rates in Item 7—“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—
Currency Exchange Rate Information.”
Due to the significant fluctuation in the value of the ZAR and its impact on our reported results, you may find it difficult to
compare our results of operations between financial reporting periods even though we provide supplemental information about our
results of operations determined on a ZAR basis. It may also have a negative impact on our stock price.
We generally do not engage in any currency hedging transactions intended to reduce the effect of fluctuations in foreign
currency exchange rates on our results of operations, other than economic hedging relating to our inventory purchases which are
settled in U.S. dollars or euros. We have used forward contracts in order to hedge our economic exposure to the ZAR/U.S. dollar and
ZAR/euro exchange rate fluctuations from these foreign currency transactions. We cannot guarantee that we will enter into hedging
transactions in the future or, if we do, that these transactions will successfully protect us against currency fluctuations.
South Africa’s high levels of poverty, unemployment and crime may increase our costs and impair our
ability to maintain a qualified workforce
While South Africa has a highly developed financial and legal infrastructure, it also has high levels of crime and
unemployment, relative to peer countries in Africa and other emerging economies, and there are significant differences in the level
of economic and social development among its people, with large parts of the population, particularly in the rural areas, having
limited access to adequate education, healthcare, housing and other basic services, including water and electricity. In addition, South
Africa has a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Government policies aimed at alleviating and redressing the
disadvantages suffered by the majority of citizens under previous governments may increase our costs and reduce our profitability,
all of which could negatively affect our business. These problems may prompt emigration of skilled workers, hinder investment into
South Africa and impede economic growth. As a result, we may have difficulties attracting and retaining qualified employees.
We may not be able to effectively and efficiently manage the electricity supply disruptions in South
Africa, which could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position, cash flows and future
growth.
Our businesses in South Africa are dependent on electricity generated and supplied by the state-owned utility, Eskom, in order
to operate. In recent years, Eskom has been unable to generate and supply the amount of electricity required by South Africans, and
the entire country experienced significant and often unpredictable electricity supply disruptions. Eskom has implemented a number
of short- and long-term mitigation plans to correct these issues but supply disruptions continue to occur regularly and with no
predictability. Eskom requires significant funding from the South African government in order to continue to operate.
As part of our business continuity programs, we have installed back-up diesel generators in order for us to continue to operate
our core data processing facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg in the event of intermittent disruptions to our electricity supply.
We have to perform regular monitoring and maintenance of these generators as well as sourcing and managing diesel fuel levels. We
may also be required to replace these generators on a more frequent basis due to the additional burden placed on them.
Our results of operations, financial position, cash flows and future growth could be adversely affected if Eskom is unable raise
sufficient funding to operate and/ or to commission new electricity-generating power stations in accordance with its plans, or at all,
or if we are unable to effectively and efficiently test, maintain, source fuel for and replace our generators.
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The economy of South Africa is exposed to high inflation, interest rates and rates of corporate tax,
which could increase our operating costs and thereby reduce our profitability. Furthermore, the South
African government requires additional income to fund future government expenditures and may be
required, among other things, to increase existing income taxes rates, including the corporate income tax
rate, amend existing tax legislation or introduce additional taxes.
The economy of South Africa in the past has been, and in the future may continue to be, characterized by rates of inflation and
interest rates that are substantially higher than those prevailing in the United States and other highly developed economies. High
rates of inflation could increase our South African-based costs and decrease our operating margins. Higher interest rates increase the
cost of our debt financing, though conversely they also increase the amount of income we earn on any cash balances. The South
African corporate income tax rate, of 28%, is higher than the U.S. federal income tax rate, of 21%. The South African government
has announced a number of programs and initiatives that may require funding from a variety of sources, including from an increase
in existing tax rates, including the corporate income tax rate; amendments to existing South African tax legislation; or through the
introduction of additional taxes. An increase in the effective South African corporate income tax rate will adversely impact our
profitability and cash flow generation.
South African exchange control regulations could hinder our ability to make foreign investments and
obtain foreign-denominated financing.
South Africa’s exchange control regulations restrict the export of capital from South Africa, the Republic of Namibia and the
Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland, known collectively as the Common Monetary Area, without the prior approval of the South
African Reserve Bank, or SARB. While the South African government has relaxed exchange controls in recent years, it is difficult to
predict whether or how it will further relax or abolish exchange control measures in the foreseeable future.
Although Net1 is a U.S. corporation and is not itself subject to South African exchange control regulations, these regulations do
restrict the ability of our South African subsidiaries to raise and deploy capital outside the Common Monetary Area, to borrow
money in currencies other than the South African rand and to hold foreign currency. Exchange control restrictions may also affect
the ability of these subsidiaries to pay dividends to Net1 unless the affected subsidiary can show that any payment of such dividend
will not place it in an over-borrowed position. As of June 30, 2020, approximately 20% of our cash and cash equivalents (excluding
restricted cash) were held by our South African subsidiaries. Exchange control regulations could make it difficult for our South
African subsidiaries to: (i) export capital from South Africa; (ii) hold foreign currency or incur indebtedness denominated in foreign
currencies without the approval of SARB; or (iii) acquire an interest in a foreign venture without the approval of SARB and first
having complied with the investment criteria of SARB.
Under current exchange control regulations, SARB approval would be required for any acquisition of our company which
would involve payment to our South African shareholders of any consideration other than South African rand. This restriction could
limit our management in its ability to consider strategic options and thus, our shareholders may not be able to realize a premium over
the current trading price of our shares.
Operating in South Africa and other emerging markets subjects us to greater risks than those we would
face if we operated in more developed markets.
Emerging markets such as South Africa, as well as some of the other markets in which we have investments or operations,
including African countries outside South Africa and South and Southeast Asia, are subject to greater risks than more developed
markets. While we focus our business primarily on emerging markets because that is where we perceive to be the greatest
opportunities to market our products and services successfully, the political, economic and market conditions in many of these
markets present risks that could make it more difficult to operate our business successfully.
Some of these risks include:
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high levels of corruption, including bribery of public officials;
loss due to civil strife, acts of war or terrorism, guerrilla activities and insurrection;
a lack of well-developed legal systems which could make it difficult for us to enforce our intellectual property and
contractual rights;
logistical, utilities (including electricity and water supply) and communications challenges;
potential adverse changes in laws and regulatory practices, including import and export license requirements and
restrictions, tariffs, legal structures and tax laws;
difficulties in staffing and managing operations and ensuring the safety of our employees;
restrictions on the right to convert or repatriate currency or export assets;
greater risk of uncollectible accounts and longer collection cycles;
indigenization and empowerment programs;
exposure to liability under the UK Bribery Act; and
exposure to liability under U.S. securities and foreign trade laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA,
and regulations established by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC.
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Many of these countries and regions are in various stages of developing institutions and political, legal and regulatory systems
that are characteristic of democracies. However, institutions in these countries and regions may not yet be as firmly established as
they are in democracies in the developed world. Many of these countries and regions are also in the process of transitioning to a
market economy and, as a result, are experiencing changes in their economies and their government policies that can affect our
investments in these countries and regions.
Moreover, the procedural safeguards of the new legal and regulatory regimes in these countries and regions are still being
developed and, therefore, existing laws and regulations may be applied inconsistently. In some circumstances, it may not be possible
to obtain the legal remedies provided under those laws and regulations in a timely manner. As the political, economic and legal
environments remain subject to continuous development, investors in these countries and regions face uncertainty as to the security
of their investments. Any unexpected changes in the political or economic conditions in these or neighboring countries or others in
the region may have a material adverse effect on the investments that we have made or may make in the future, which may in turn
have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition.
Risks Relating to Government Regulation
The South African National Credit Regulator has applied to cancel the registration of our subsidiary,
Moneyline Financial Services (Pty) Ltd, as a credit provider. If the registration is cancelled, we will not be
able to provide loans to our customers, which would harm our business.
Moneyline provides microloans to our EPE cardholders. Moneyline is a registered credit provider under the South African
National Credit Act, or NCA, and is required to comply with the NCA in the operation of its lending business. In September 2014,
the South African National Credit Regulator, or NCR, applied to the National Consumer Tribunal to cancel Moneyline’s registration,
based on an investigation concluded by the NCR.
The NCR has alleged, among other things, that Moneyline contravened the NCA by including child support grants and foster
child grants in the affordability assessments performed by Moneyline prior to granting credit to these borrowers, and that the
procedures followed and documentation maintained by Moneyline are not in accordance with the NCA. We believe that Moneyline
has conducted its business in compliance with NCA and we are opposing the NCR’s application. However, if the NCR’s application
is successful, Moneyline would be prohibited from operating its microlending business, which could have a material adverse effect
on our results of operations and cash flows.
We are required to comply with certain laws and regulations, including economic and trade sanctions,
which could adversely impact our future growth.
We are subject to U.S. and other trade controls, economic sanctions and similar laws and regulations, including those in the
jurisdictions where we operate. Our failure to comply with these laws and regulations could subject us to civil, criminal and
administrative penalties and harm our reputation. Doing business on a worldwide basis requires us to comply with the laws and
regulations of various foreign jurisdictions. These laws and regulations place restrictions on our operations, trade practices, partners
and investment decisions. In particular, our operations are subject to U.S. and foreign trade control laws and regulations, including
various export controls and economic sanctions programs, such as those administered by OFAC, as well as European sanctions. We
monitor compliance in accordance with the 10 principles as set out in the United Nations Global Compact Principles, the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recommendations relating to corruption, and the International Labor
Organization Protocol in terms of certain of the items to be monitored. As a result of doing business in foreign countries and with
foreign partners, we are exposed to a heightened risk of violating trade control laws as well as sanctions regulations.
Economic sanctions programs restrict our business dealings with certain sanctioned countries, persons and entities. In addition,
because we act through dealers and distributors, we face the risk that our dealers, distributors and customers might further distribute
our products to a sanctioned person or entity, or an ultimate end-user in a sanctioned country, which might subject us to an
investigation concerning compliance with OFAC or other sanctions regulations.
Violations of trade control laws and sanctions regulations are punishable by civil penalties, including fines, denial of export
privileges, injunctions, asset seizures, debarment from government contracts and revocations or restrictions of licenses, as well as
criminal fines and imprisonment. We have developed policies and procedures as part of a company-wide compliance program that is
designed to assist our compliance with applicable U.S. and international trade control laws and regulations, including trade controls
and sanctions programs administered by OFAC, and provide regular training to our employees to comply with these laws and
regulations.
However, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, consultants, partners, agents or other associated persons will not
take actions in violation of our policies and these laws and regulations, or that our policies and procedures will effectively prevent us
from violating these regulations in every transaction in which we may engage, or provide a defense to any alleged violation. In
particular, we may be held liable for the actions that our local, strategic or joint venture partners take inside or outside of the United
States, even though our partners may not be subject to these laws. Such a violation, even if our policies prohibit it, could materially
and adversely affect our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition. Our expansion in developing countries,
and our development of new partnerships and joint venture relationships, could increase the risk of OFAC violations in the future.
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In addition, our payment processing activities are subject to extensive regulation. Compliance with the requirements under the
various regulatory regimes may cause us to incur significant additional costs and failure to comply with such requirements could
result in the shutdown of the non-complying facility, the imposition of liens, fines and/or civil or criminal liability.
We are required to comply with anti-corruption laws and regulations, including the FCPA and UK
Bribery Act, in the jurisdictions in which we operate our business, which could adversely impact our future
growth.
The FCPA prohibits us from providing anything of value to foreign officials for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business,
or securing any improper business advantage. It also requires us to keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect our
transactions. As part of our business, we may deal with state-owned business enterprises, the employees of which are considered
foreign officials for purposes of the FCPA.
In addition, we have to comply with the UK Bribery Act which includes provisions that extend beyond bribery of foreign
public officials and also apply to transactions with individuals not employed by a government. The provisions of the UK Bribery Act
are also more onerous than the FCPA in a number of other respects, including jurisdiction, non-exemption of facilitation payments
and penalties. Some of the international locations in which we operate, lack a developed legal system and have higher than normal
levels of corruption.
Any failure by us to adopt appropriate compliance procedures and ensure that our employees, agents and business partners
comply with the FCPA could subject us to substantial penalties. In addition, the requirement that we comply with the FCPA could
put us at a competitive disadvantage with companies that are not required to comply with the FCPA or could otherwise harm our
business. For example, in many emerging markets, there may be significant levels of official corruption, and thus, bribery of public
officials may be a commonly accepted cost of doing business. Our refusal to engage in illegal behavior, such as paying bribes, may
result in us not being able to obtain business that we might otherwise have been able to secure or possibly even result in unlawful,
selective or arbitrary action being taken against us by foreign officials.
Violations of anti-corruption laws and regulations are punishable by civil penalties, including fines, as well as criminal fines
and imprisonment. We have developed policies and procedures as part of a company-wide compliance program that is designed to
assist our compliance with applicable U.S. and international anti-corruption laws and regulations, and provide regular training to our
employees to comply with these laws and regulations. However, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, consultants,
partners, agents or other associated persons will not take actions in violation of our policies and these laws and regulations, or that
our policies and procedures will effectively prevent us from violating these regulations in every transaction in which we may
engage, or provide a defense to any alleged violation. In particular, we may be held liable for the actions that our local, strategic or
joint venture partners take inside or outside of the United States, even though our partners may not be subject to these laws. Such a
violation, even if our policies prohibit it, could materially and adversely affect our reputation, business, results of operations and
financial condition.
Since less developed countries present some of the best opportunities for us to expand our business internationally, restrictions
against entering into transactions with those foreign countries, as well as with certain entities and individuals in those countries, can
adversely affect our ability to grow our business.
We do not have a South African banking license and, therefore, we provide our EPE solution through
an arrangement with a third-party bank, which limits our control over this business and the economic
benefit we derive from it. If this arrangement were to terminate, we would not be able to operate our EPE
business without alternate means of access to a banking license.
The South African retail banking market is highly regulated. Under current law and regulations, our EPE business activities
require us to be registered as a bank in South Africa or to have access to an existing banking license. We are not currently so
registered, but we have an agreement with Grindrod Bank that enables us to implement our EPE program in compliance with the
relevant laws and regulations. If the agreement were to be terminated, we would not be able to operate these services unless we were
able to obtain access to a banking license through alternate means. We are also dependent on Grindrod Bank to defend us against
attacks from the other South African banks who may regard our products as disruptive to their funds transfer or other businesses and
may seek governmental or other regulatory intervention. Furthermore, we have to comply with the strict anti-money laundering and
customer identification regulations of the SARB when we open new bank accounts for our customers and when they transact.
Failure to effectively implement and monitor these regulations may result in significant fines or prosecution of Grindrod Bank and
ourselves.
We have commenced issuing consumer banking products through our relationship with Finbond, in the form of our Kanako
and Infinity products, with Finbond taking the place of Grindrod in respect of these products. However, it would not be readily
achievable to transfer our EPE solution from Grindrod to Finbond.
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In addition, the South African Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002, requires persons who act as
intermediaries between financial product suppliers and consumers in South Africa to register as financial service providers. Smart
Life was granted an Authorized Financial Service Provider, or FSP, license on June 9, 2015, and Moneyline Financial Services (Pty)
Ltd and Net1 Mobile Solutions (Pty) Ltd were each granted FSP licenses on July 11, 2017. If our FSP licenses are cancelled, we
may be stopped from continuing our financial services businesses in South Africa.
Furthermore, the proposed Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill will make significant changes to the current licensing regime.
While the proposals currently indicate that existing licenses will be converted, if we are not successful in our efforts to obtain a
conversion of the existing licenses, we may be stopped from continuing our financial services businesses in South Africa.
We may be subject to regulations regarding privacy, data use and/or security, which could adversely
affect our business.
We are subject to regulations in a number of the countries in which we operate relating to the processing (which includes, inter
alia, the collection, use, retention, security and transfer) of personal information about the people (whether natural or juristic) who
use our products and services, in particular, “Know Your Customer” and personal financial information. Laws in this area, such as
POPI and GDPR, have been passed by several jurisdictions, and other jurisdictions are considering imposing additional restrictions.
The interpretation and application of user data protection laws are in a state of flux. These laws may be interpreted and applied
inconsistently from country to country and our current data protection policies and practices may not be consistent with those
interpretations and applications. Complying with these varying requirements could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to
change our business practices in a manner adverse to our business.
The Protection of Personal Information Act, or POPI, took effect on July 1, 2020, in South Africa. POPI requires that all forms
of processing of personal information must, within one year after the commencement thereof, conform to the conditions of lawful
processing set out in POPI. We are required to comply with the conditions contained in POPI by June 30, 2021. Contravention of
POPI could result in (a) the imposition of fines by the Information Regulator; (b) imprisonment for a period of between 12 months to
ten years of any person who hinders, obstructs or unlawfully influences the Information Regulator; or who is a responsible party, as
defined under POPI, and commits unlawful acts; (c) and/or a damages claim instituted by the data subject(s). In addition, the
Information Officer (which is an automatic position held by the chief executive officer, managing director or head of the
organization) may be held criminally liable. An Information Officer is required to be registered with the Information Regulator.
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, took effect on May 25, 2018, in the European Union as well as the
European Economic Area and introduced direct compliance obligations for data controllers and data processors. National Data
Protection Agencies, or NDPAs, are now able to impose fines for violations ranging from 2% to 4% of annual worldwide turnover,
or 10 million to 20 million euro, whichever is greater. NDPAs have the power to carry out audits, request information, and obtain
access to premises. Businesses must be able to demonstrate that the personal data of any data subject can be lawfully processed on
one of the six specified grounds.
Complying with these varying requirements could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business
practices in a manner adverse to our business. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with any regulatory requirements or
international privacy or consumer protection-related laws and regulations could result in proceedings or actions against us by
governmental entities or others, subject us to significant penalties and negative publicity and adversely affect us. In addition, as
noted above, we are subject to the possibility of security breaches, which themselves may result in a violation of these laws.
Amendments to the NCA were signed into law in South Africa in August 2019. Compliance with these
amendments may adversely impact our micro-lending operations in South Africa.
In August 2019, the National Credit Amendment Bill, or debt-relief bill, was signed into law in South Africa. The effective
date of the debt-relief bill has not yet been announced. We believe that the debt-relief bill will restrict the ability of financial services
providers to provide lending products to certain low-income earners and will increase the cost of credit to these consumers. As a
result, compliance with the debt-relief bill may adversely impact our micro-lending operations in South Africa.
The debt-relief bill is a debt-relief intervention that forms part of an amendment to the NCA and is intended to assist over-
indebted individuals who earn less than a prescribed monthly minimum, currently ZAR 7,500, and have unsecured debt of no more
than ZAR 50,000. Individuals that have not commenced a debt counseling process, have not been sequestrated and are not subject to
an administration order may seek debt relief under the debt-relief bill. Applications for debt relief are expected to be processed by
the NCR and will then be submitted to the National Consumer Tribunal, or NCT.
The NCR will first assess whether an applicant can meet its debt obligations by paying a lower installment over an extended
period of no more than five years, a so-called debt re-arrangement. This process is similar to the debt counseling provisions in
existing legislation, except the applicant would not pay for the debt counselor and therefore does not enjoy the services of the
counselor. If the applicant has no income, the NCR will recommend that the applicant’s debts be suspended for 24 months in the
hopes that the applicant’s circumstances improve in order to service the debt over time.
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During this period, interest and fees under the debt arrangement will cease and the applicant is required to attend a financial
literacy program provided by the NCR. If the applicant’s circumstances improve during this period, and the applicant is able to meet
its debt obligations, the NCR will recommend a debt re-arrangement to the NCT. If the applicant’s circumstances do not improve
after 24 months, the NCR will apply to the NCT for the debt to be written off.
A credit provider may not enforce any rights under a credit agreement if the associated debt is written off. All or part of a credit
agreement will be deemed reckless under the NCA if a credit provider enters into a credit agreement (other than a consolidated loan)
with an applicant while under debt relief. An applicant furnishing false information when applying for debt relief may be fined or
imprisoned for not longer than two years, or both, and is permanently prohibited from applying for debt relief.
We expect that it will take us, and other financial services providers, some time to fully understand, interpret and implement
this new legislation in our lending processes and practices. Non-compliance with the provisions of this new legislation may result in
financial loss and penalties, reputational loss or other administrative punishment.
Risks Relating to our Common Stock
We may be deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
We are an operating company whose business is focused on developing and offering payment solutions, transaction processing
services and financial technologies across multiple industries and in a number of emerging and developed economies, directly and
through our wholly-owned subsidiaries, as well as through strategic partnering arrangements with companies. In such circumstances,
we typically acquire a minority interest in an operating company in which a strategic partner also has an interest. While the relevant
strategic partner may have primary responsibility for, among other things, the day-to-day business operations of the relevant
strategic partnership, we typically retain certain elements of control, such as the ability to vote for or appoint members to the board
(or equivalent) of such strategic partnerships, our input into management of those partnerships, and/or major decision rights with
respect to operations.
Our conduct, public filings and announcements hold us out as such an operating company and do not hold us out as being
engaged in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. Nevertheless, certain of our strategic partnering
arrangements may be deemed to be “investment securities” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(2) of the Investment Company Act.
These holdings have had and continue to have uncertain and fluctuating values which could cause us to be deemed to be an
investment company within the meaning of Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment Company Act if their values are determined to
exceed 40 percent of the value of our total assets (exclusive of government securities, cash and cash items) on an unconsolidated
basis unless another exception or exemption applies. In addition, during the last several months, our cash balances have
meaningfully increased as a proportion of our total assets as we completed the planned disposition of some our wholly-owned
subsidiaries and our interest in one of our strategic partners, Also, and in light of recent economic disruption caused by the COVID-
19 pandemic, we cancelled our option to acquire an additional interest in Bank Frick which would have resulted in us increasing our
equity holding in Bank Frick from 35% to 70%. We have not yet redeployed this cash into our operating businesses.
Regardless of the value of our strategic partnering arrangements at any particular time, we believe we should be viewed as
primarily engaged in a business other than investing, reinvesting, owning, holding, or trading in securities. In order to resolve our
status more formally, we are in the process of filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission an application pursuant to
Section 3(b)(2) of the Investment Company Act for an order declaring that we are not an investment company as defined in the
Investment Company Act.
If we are deemed an investment company and not entitled to an exception or exemption from registration under the Investment
Company Act, we would have to register as an investment company, modify our equity interests or otherwise change our business so
that it falls outside the definition of an investment company under the Investment Company Act. If the Securities and Exchange
Commission does not grant us the order, compliance with the Investment Company Act would limit our ability to continue our
strategic partnering arrangements and may require us to significantly restructure our business plan, which could materially adversely
affect our results of operations. Registering as an investment company pursuant to the Investment Company Act could, among other
things, materially limit our ability to borrow funds or engage in other transactions and otherwise would subject us to substantial and
costly regulation. Failure to register, if required, would significantly impair our ability to continue to engage in our business and
would have a material adverse impact on our business and operations.
Our stock price has been and may continue to be volatile.
Our stock price has experienced recent significant volatility. During the 2020 fiscal year, our stock price ranged from a low of
$2.70 to a high of $4.45. We expect that the trading price of our common stock may continue to be volatile as a result of a number of
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any adverse developments in litigation or regulatory actions in which we are involved;
fluctuations in currency exchange rates, particularly the U.S. dollar/ZAR exchange rate;
announcement of additional BEE transactions, especially one involving the issuance or potential issuance of equity
securities or dilution or sale of our existing business in South Africa;
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quarterly variations in our operating results, especially if our operating results fall below the expectations of securities
analysts and investors;
significant fair value adjustments in respect of investments;
significant impairment of investments;
announcements of acquisitions, disposals or impairments of intangible assets;
the timing of or delays in the commencement, implementation or completion of investments or major projects;
large purchases or sales of our common stock;
general conditions in the markets in which we operate; and
economic and financial conditions.
The put right we have agreed to grant to the IFC Investors on the occurrence of certain triggering
events may have adverse impacts on us.
In May 2016, we issued an aggregate of 9,984,311 shares of our common stock to the IFC Investors, of which, as of June 30,
2020, the IFC Investors held 7,881,142 shares. We granted the IFC Investors certain rights, including the right to require us to
repurchase any share held by the IFC Investors pursuant to the May 2016 transaction upon the occurrence of specified triggering
events, which we refer to as a “put right.” Events triggering the put right relate to (1) us being the subject of a governmental
complaint alleging, a court judgment finding or an indictment alleging that we (a) engaged in specified corrupt, fraudulent, coercive,
collusive or obstructive practices; (b) entered into transactions with targets of economic sanctions; or (c) failed to operate our
business in compliance with anti-money laundering or anti-terrorism laws; or (2) our rejection of a bona fide offer to acquire all of
our outstanding shares at a time when we have in place or implement a shareholder rights plan, or adopt a shareholder rights plan
triggered by a beneficial ownership threshold of less than twenty percent. The put price per share will be the higher of the price per
share paid to us by the IFC Investors and the volume-weighted average price per share prevailing for the 60 trading days preceding
the triggering event, except that with respect to a put right triggered by rejection of a bona fide offer, the put price per share will be
the highest price offered by the offeror. If a put triggering event occurs, it could adversely impact our liquidity and capital resources.
In addition, the existence of the put right could also affect whether or on what terms a third party might in the future offer to
purchase our company. Our response to any such offer could also be complicated, delayed or otherwise influenced by the existence
of the put right.
Approximately 30% of our outstanding common stock is owned by two shareholders. The interests of
these shareholders may conflict with those of our other shareholders.
There is a concentration of ownership of our outstanding common stock because approximately 30% of our outstanding
common stock is owned by two shareholders. Based on their most recent SEC filings disclosing ownership of our shares, Value
Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd, or VCP, and IFC Investors, beneficially own approximately 16% and 14% of our outstanding common
stock, respectively.
VCP has agreed, pursuant to a Cooperation Agreement dated May 13, 2020, to refrain from acquiring more than 19.9% of our
outstanding common stock or taking certain actions, including acting in concert with others, that could result in a change of control
of the Company. These restrictions remain in effect through the date of our 2021 annual meeting of shareholders.
The interests of VCP and the IFC Investors may be different from or conflict with the interests of our other shareholders. As a
result of the significant combined ownership by VCP and the IFC Investors, subject to the limitations applicable to VCP contained
in the Cooperation Agreement, they will be able, if they act together, to significantly influence the voting outcome of all matters
requiring shareholder approval. This concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control
of our company, thus depriving shareholders of a premium for their shares, or facilitating a change of control that other shareholders
may oppose.
We may seek to raise additional financing by issuing new securities with terms or rights superior to
those of our shares of common stock, which could adversely affect the market price of our shares of
common stock.
We may require additional financing to fund future operations, including expansion in current and new markets, programming
development and acquisition, capital costs and the costs of any necessary implementation of technological innovations or alternative
technologies, or to fund acquisitions. Because of the exposure to market risks associated with economies in emerging markets, we
may not be able to obtain financing on favorable terms or at all.
If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, the percentage ownership of our current shareholders will be reduced,
and the holders of the new equity securities may have rights superior to those of the holders of shares of common stock, which could
adversely affect the market price and voting power of shares of common stock. If we raise additional funds by issuing debt
securities, the holders of these debt securities would similarly have some rights senior to those of the holders of shares of common
stock, and the terms of these debt securities could impose restrictions on operations and create a significant interest expense for us.
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We may have difficulty raising necessary capital to fund operations or acquisitions as a result of
market price volatility for our shares of common stock.
In recent years, the securities markets in the United States have experienced a high level of price and volume volatility, and the
market price of securities of many companies have experienced wide fluctuations that have not necessarily been related to the
operations, performance, underlying asset values or prospects of such companies. For these reasons, our shares of common stock can
also be expected to be subject to volatility resulting from purely market forces over which we will have no control. If our business
development plans are successful, we may require additional financing to continue to develop and exploit existing and new
technologies, to expand into new markets and to make acquisitions, all of which may be dependent upon our ability to obtain
financing through debt and equity or other means.
Issuances of significant amounts of stock in the future could potentially dilute your equity ownership
and adversely affect the price of our common stock.
We believe that it is necessary to maintain a sufficient number of available authorized shares of our common stock in order to
provide us with the flexibility to issue shares for business purposes that may arise from time to time. For example, we could sell
additional shares to raise capital to fund our operations or to acquire other businesses, issue shares in a BEE transaction, issue
additional shares under our stock incentive plan or declare a stock dividend. Our board may authorize the issuance of additional
shares of common stock without notice to, or further action by, our shareholders, unless shareholder approval is required by law or
the rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market. The issuance of additional shares could dilute the equity ownership of our current
shareholders. In addition, additional shares that we issue would likely be freely tradable which could adversely affect the trading
price of our common stock.
We have identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting that, if not
remediated, could result in additional material misstatements in our financial statements.
Under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or Sarbanes, we are required to furnish a management certification and
auditor attestation regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. We are required to report, among other
things, control deficiencies that constitute a “material weakness” or changes in internal control that materially affect, or are
reasonably likely to materially affect, internal control over financial reporting. A “material weakness” is a deficiency, or a
combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material
misstatement of annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
The requirement to evaluate and report on our internal control also applies to companies that we acquire. Some of these
companies may not be required to comply with Sarbanes prior to the time we acquire them. The integration of these acquired
companies into our internal control over financial reporting could require significant time and resources from our management and
other personnel and may increase our compliance costs. If we fail to successfully integrate the operations of these acquired
companies into our internal control over financial reporting, our internal control over financial reporting may not be effective.
During fiscal 2019, we identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting where the control over the
review of the accounting for non-routine complex transactions did not operate effectively. As a result, the control did not operate
effectively in determining the correct classification in the statement of operations of the $34.0 million accrual for the implementation
costs to be refunded to SASSA following the September 30, 2019 Supreme Court ruling. During the current fiscal year, we have
implemented additional controls to address this matter, but have had insufficient instances of non-routine complex transactions to be
able to assess whether these additional controls are operating effectively. Accordingly, the material weakness remains unremediated
as of June 30, 2020.
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief
financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer
concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2020, due to the material weakness in
internal control over financial reporting as described above.
We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken to date, and actions we may take in the future, will be sufficient to
remediate the control deficiencies that led to our material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting or that they will
prevent potential future material weaknesses. While we continue to dedicate resources and management time to ensuring that we
have effective internal control over financial reporting, failure to achieve and maintain an effective internal control environment
could have a material adverse effect on the market’s perception of our business and our stock price.
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You may experience difficulties in effecting service of legal process, enforcing foreign judgments or
bringing original actions based upon U.S. laws, including federal securities laws or other foreign laws,
against us or certain of our directors and officers and experts.
While Net1 is incorporated in the state of Florida, United States, the company is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa
and substantially all of the company’s assets are located outside the United States. In addition, the majority of Net1’s directors and
all its officers reside outside of the United States and the majority of our experts, including our independent registered public
accountants, are based in South Africa.
As a result, even though you could effect service of legal process upon Net1, as a Florida corporation, in the United States, you
may not be able to collect any judgment obtained against Net1 in the United States, including any judgment based on the civil
liability provisions of U.S. federal securities laws, because substantially all of our assets are located outside the United States.
Moreover, it may not be possible for you to effect service of legal process upon the majority of our directors and officers or upon our
experts within the United States or elsewhere outside South Africa and any judgment obtained against any of our foreign directors,
officers and experts in the United States, including one based on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws, may
not be collectible in the United States and may not be enforced by a South African court.
South Africa is not a party to any treaties regarding the enforcement of foreign commercial judgments, as opposed to foreign
arbitral awards. Accordingly, a foreign judgment is not directly enforceable in South Africa, but constitutes a cause of action which
may be enforced by South African courts provided that:
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the court which pronounced the judgment had international jurisdiction and competence to entertain the case according to
the principles recognized by South African law with reference to the jurisdiction of foreign courts;
the judgment is final and conclusive (that is, it cannot be altered by the court which pronounced it);
the judgment has not lapsed;
the recognition and enforcement of the judgment by South African courts would not be contrary to public policy in South
Africa, including observance of the rules of natural justice which require that no award is enforceable unless the defendant
was duly served with documents initiating proceedings, that he was given a fair opportunity to be heard and that he enjoyed
the right to be legally represented in a free and fair trial before an impartial tribunal;
the judgment was not obtained by improper or fraudulent means;
the judgment does not involve the enforcement of a penal or foreign revenue law or any award of multiple or punitive
damages; and
the enforcement of the judgment is not otherwise precluded by the provisions of the Protection of Business Act 99 of 1978
(as amended), of the Republic of South Africa.
It has been the policy of South African courts to award compensation for the loss or damage actually sustained by the person to
whom the compensation is awarded. South African courts have awarded compensation to shareholders who have suffered damages
as a result of a diminution in the value of their shares based on various actions by the corporation and its management. Although the
award of punitive damages is generally unknown to the South African legal system, that does not mean that such awards are
necessarily contrary to public policy.
Whether a judgment was contrary to public policy depends on the facts of each case. Exorbitant, unconscionable, or excessive
awards will generally be contrary to public policy. South African courts cannot enter into the merits of a foreign judgment and
cannot act as a court of appeal or review over the foreign court. Further, if a foreign judgment is enforced by a South African court,
it will be payable in South African currency. Also, under South Africa’s exchange control laws, the approval of SARB is required
before a defendant resident in South Africa may pay money to a non-resident plaintiff in satisfaction of a foreign judgment enforced
by a court in South Africa.
It is doubtful whether an original action based on United States federal securities laws may be brought before South African courts.
A plaintiff who is not resident in South Africa may be required to provide security for costs in the event of proceedings being
initiated in South Africa. Furthermore, the Rules of the High Court of South Africa require that documents executed outside South
Africa must be authenticated for the purpose of use in South African courts. In reaching the foregoing conclusions in respect of
South Africa, we consulted with our South African legal counsel, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc.
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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
We lease our corporate headquarters facility which consists of approximately 93,000 square feet in Johannesburg, South
Africa. We also lease properties throughout South Africa, including a 12,088 square foot manufacturing facility in Lazer Park,
Johannesburg, 243 financial services branches, 78 financial service express stores and 48 satellite branches. We also lease additional
office space in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, South Africa; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Mumbai, India;
Zhuhai, China; Birkirkara, Malta and Black River, Mauritius. These leases expire at various dates through 2027, assuming the
exercise of options to extend. We believe that we have adequate facilities for our current business operations.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
CPS placed into business rescue and SASSA application to place CPS into liquidation
On February 5, 2020, the Constitutional Court denied CPS’ leave to appeal lower court judgments ordering CPS to repay
additional implementation costs that SASSA paid to CPS in 2014, thereby exhausting all legal recourse for CPS in the matter and
rendering CPS insolvent. CPS’ board of directors has adopted a resolution to put CPS into business rescue under South African law
and has filed the required resolution with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. On May 18, 2020, the resolution
was officially registered and business rescue practitioners were appointed. The business rescue process can lead to either a
compromise with creditors and a continuation of CPS’ business or the liquidation of CPS. We are unable to predict the outcome of
the business rescue process.
On June 18, 2020, SASSA launched an urgent application with the High Court to place CPS into liquidation and declare the
business rescue process invalid. On July 7, 2020, the business rescue practitioners, on behalf of CPS, responded to this application
correcting a number of inaccuracies contained therein. The matter is scheduled to be heard on October 16, 2020. The High Court
will need to rule on both the urgency of the matter as well as the merits of the application. The decision on whether to continue to
oppose the action or abide by the application rests with the business rescue practitioners. We are unable to predict the outcome of
this litigation or the implications for Net1 given that it no longer controls CPS.
Freedom Under Law application to the Constitutional Court
On April 9, 2020, Freedom Under Law, a South African NGO, filed an application with the Constitutional Court for various
orders related to the original AllPay rulings invalidating the 2012 award of the SASSA grants distribution contract to CPS. While the
majority of the orders requested apply to other parties, Freedom Under Law has also applied for an order requiring CPS to pay back
any profits earned under the SASSA contract. The business rescue practitioners, on behalf of CPS, have filed heads of argument in
this matter but we cannot predict when or how the Constitutional Court will rule on this matter or the implications for Net1 given it
no longer controls CPS.
Initiation of proceedings to receive payment of fees due to CPS for the last six months of the SASSA contract
Following the March 23, 2018, Constitutional Court order for a six-month extension of our contract with SASSA for payment
of grants in cash at pay points only, CPS was allowed to charge a monthly fee based on the previously contracted rate of ZAR 16.44
(including VAT) per cash pay point recipient. Given that CPS only serviced the highest-cost beneficiaries, the Constitutional Court
allowed CPS to approach the National Treasury in order for them to make a fair determination of the price CPS should be paid for
services rendered. National Treasury recommended a rate of ZAR 51.00 (including VAT) per cash pay point recipient per month to
the Constitutional Court. Contrary to SASSA’s stance, the Constitutional Court on December 5, 2018, ruled that it is not required to
ratify the Treasury-recommended rate, and that CPS and SASSA must agree on the pricing. On June 5, 2019, CPS filed summons in
the High Court seeking to receive an amount in accordance with the National Treasury’s recommendation. On February 20, 2020,
SASSA filed a response to CPS’ summons. We cannot predict how the court will rule on this matter, which is now being controlled
by the CPS business rescue practitioners.
NCR application for the cancelation of Moneyline’s registration as a credit provider
In September 2014, the NCR applied to the South African National Consumer Tribunal, or Tribunal, to cancel the registration
of our subsidiary, Moneyline, for breach of the NCA based on an investigation concluded by it. We raised a number of procedural
points in defense and argument on these points was heard on November 27, 2015, before three tribunal members. Two ruled against
us and one upheld our points. We are appealing the majority ruling to the High Court. This matter was heard on December 4, 2018,
by a full bench of the Pretoria High Court. We still await judgment. If we are successful, it will dispose of the application. If we do
not prevail, then the NCR’s application will be set down before the Consumer Tribunal for argument on the main issues raised by
the NCR, as dealt with above. We cannot predict the outcome of this litigation.
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Initiation of legal proceedings against a PG Purchasing customer regarding non-payment of working capital finance loans
receivable
In January 2019, we filed a Petition with the District Court of Dallas County, Texas (“Texas district court lawsuit”), naming
Permian Crude Transport, LP, f/k/a Permian Crude Transport, LLC, d/b/a Permian Transport & Trading (“PCT”), and Centurion
Marketing, LLC d/b/a Jupiter Marketing & Trading, LLC (“Centurion” and collectively with PCT, “PCT/Centurion”) as defendants
regarding the recovery of working capital finance loans receivable made to PCT/Centurion by our wholly owned subsidiary, PG
Purchasing. This lawsuit was in its initial stages and trial was set for December 2, 2019. However, the Texas district court lawsuit
was administratively closed following PCT’s filing for bankruptcy in June 2019 and Centurion’s filing for bankruptcy in July 2019
(“PCT/Centurion bankruptcy matters”). The Texas district court lawsuit may be re-opened if the PCT/Centurion bankruptcy matters
are lifted.
We cannot predict if the Texas district court lawsuit will be re-opened, and if it is re-opened, the outcome of the matter. Also,
we cannot predict the outcome of the PCT/Centurion bankruptcy matters.
Termination of December 5, 2019, securities class action complaint
On December 5, 2019, a putative securities class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York, or the Court, against us and Herman G. Kotzé, our chief executive officer and Alex M.R. Smith, our chief
financial officer. The complaint sought damages based on alleged material misrepresentations and omissions concerning our internal
control over financial reporting, classification of an investment in Cell C Proprietary Limited, and our consolidated financial
statements for fiscal 2018. The complaint asserted claims for violations of Sections 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5, and
Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act. The proposed class period was September 12, 2018, through November 8, 2018, inclusive. On
March 25, 2020, the Court appointed the lead plaintiff and approved his selection of lead counsel. Their motions had been
unopposed. Thereafter, we negotiated a schedule for the filing of an amended complaint and our response thereto with the plaintiff.
On June 3, 2020, we and the lead plaintiff filed a stipulation and proposed order of dismissal whereby the lawsuit would be
dismissed as against all defendants with prejudice on behalf of the lead plaintiff, and without prejudice with respect to any unnamed
plaintiffs or other class members. On June 4, 2020, the Court so ordered the stipulation and proposed order of dismissal. The action
is thus terminated.
There are no other material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to our business, to which
we are a party or of which any of our property is the subject.
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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER
MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market information
Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market, or Nasdaq, in the United States under the symbol “UEPS”
and on the JSE in South Africa under the symbol “NT1.” The Nasdaq is our principal market for the trading of our common stock.
Our transfer agent in the United States is Computershare Shareowner Services LLC, 480 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, New
Jersey, 07310. According to the records of our transfer agent, as of September 3, 2020, there were 11 shareholders of record of our
common stock. We believe that a substantially greater number of beneficial owners of our common stock hold their shares though
banks, brokers, and other financial institutions (i.e. “street name”). Our transfer agent in South Africa is Link Market Services South
Africa (Pty) Ltd, 13th Floor, Rennie House, 19 Ameshoff Street, Braamfontein, 2001, South Africa.
Dividends
We have not paid any dividends on our shares of common stock during our last two fiscal years and presently intend to retain
future earnings to finance the expansion of the business. We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
The future dividend policy will depend on our earnings, capital requirements, debt commitments, expansion plans, financial
condition and other relevant factors.
Issuer purchases of equity securities
On February 5, 2020, our board of directors approved the replenishment of our existing share repurchase authorization to
repurchase up to an aggregate of $100 million of common stock. The authorization has no expiration date. We did not repurchase
any shares of our common stock during fiscal 2020.
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Share performance graph
The chart below compares the five-year cumulative return, assuming the reinvestment of dividends, where applicable, on our
common stock with that of the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ Industrial Index. This graph assumes $100 was invested on June
30, 2015, in each of our common stock, the companies in the S&P 500 Index, and the companies in the NASDAQ Industrial Index.
COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
(AMONG NET 1, THE S&P 500 INDEX AND THE NASDAQ INDUSTRIAL INDEX)
NASDAQ Industrial
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2016
2018
2017
Fiscal year ended June 30,
2019
2020
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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected historical consolidated financial data should be read together with Item 7—“Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and Item 8—“Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” The
following selected historical financial data as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, and for the three years ended June 30, 2020, have been
derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The selected
historical consolidated financial data presented below as of June 30, 2018, 2017 and 2016 and for the years ended June 30, 2017 and
2016, have been derived from our consolidated financial statements, which are not included herein, and have been restated as noted
below, which restatement is unaudited. The selected historical consolidated financial data has been adjusted to reflect our
discontinued operations, refer to Note 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report
on Form 10-K. The selected historical financial data as of each date and for each period presented have been prepared in accordance
with U.S. GAAP. These historical results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected in any future period.
As discussed in Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included in Item 8—“Financial Statements and
Supplementary Data,” our historical consolidated financial statements have been corrected to give effect to the restatements.
Accordingly, certain of the selected consolidated financial data presented in the table below has been corrected to give effect to the
restatements as indicated.
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data
(in thousands, except per share data)
$
Revenue(3)
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and
support
Selling, general and administration(3) (4)
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss
Operating (loss) income
Change in fair value of equity securities
Termination fee paid to cancel Bank Frick option
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note
(Loss) Income before taxes
Income tax expense
(Loss) income from equity accounted
investments(5)
Net (loss) income from continuing operations
Gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operation,
net of tax
Net (loss) income attributable to Net1 - continuing
operations
(Loss) Income from continuing operations per
share:
2020(1)
2019(R) (2)
Year ended June 30,
2018(R)
2017
2016
(as restated) (as restated)
459,575 $
166,227 $
150,997 $
456,663 $
432,140
109,006
75,256
4,647
6,336
(44,248)
-
17,517
2,805
7,641
-
(65,016)
2,656
(29,542)
(97,214)
129,696
144,920
12,103
14,440
(134,932)
(167,459)
-
5,424
9,860
12,793
(319,443)
(5,072)
1,258
(313,113)
243,554
130,822
10,473
20,917
53,809
32,473
-
16,845
8,569
-
94,558
45,106
1,810
51,262
236,179
124,086
12,679
-
83,719
-
-
20,014
2,174
-
101,559
38,175
2,814
66,198
232,344
90,674
9,681
-
99,441
-
-
14,699
646
-
113,494
39,135
322
74,681
12,454
(9,175)
-
-
-
(97,214)
(311,761)
52,142
64,504
72,339
Basic
Diluted
$
$
(1.70) $
(1.70) $
(5.49) $
(5.49) $
0.92 $
0.92 $
1.18 $
1.17 $
1.51
1.50
(R) Income tax expense, net income attributable to Net1 and Income from continuing operations per share: Basic and Diluted for the
years ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1 to the audited consolidated
financial statements.
(1) Includes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions, which directly impacted elements of the business from
March 27, 2020 to June 1, 2020.
(2) Impacted by expiration of SASSA contract in September 2018.
(3) Revenue for the year ended June 30, 2019, includes revenue that has been reversed of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million) as a
result of the Supreme Court ruling discussed in Note 14 to our audited consolidated financial statements, and selling, general and
administration includes $14.3 million (ZAR 201.8 million) of expenses related to the Supreme Court ruling.
(4) Includes an allowance for doubtful financial loans receivable of $28.8 million in 2019 and a separation payment of $8.0 million
paid to our former chief executive officer in 2017.
(5) Includes impairments of $33.8 million in 2020 as discussed in Note 10 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
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Additional Operating Data:
(in thousands, except percentages)
2020(1)
2019(1)
Year ended June 30,
2018(1)
2017(1)
2016(1)
Cash flows (used in) provided by operating
activities
Cash flows provided by (used in) investing
activities
Cash flows (used in) provided by financing
activities
$
$
(46,045) $
(4,460) $
132,305 $
97,161 $
116,552
223,117
64,476
180,748
(114,071)
5,756
(48,838) $
(24,714) $
(473,479) $
40,469 $
13,645
Operating (loss) income margin(2)
(29.3%)
(81.2%)
11.7%
15.9%
19.4%
(1) Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities include movements in settlement assets and cash flows (used in) provided
by financing activities include movement in settlement liabilities.
(2) Fiscal 2020 operating loss margin was (16.0%) before impairment losses (refer to Note 11 of our audited consolidated financial
statements for a full description of fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018 impairment losses). Fiscal 2019 operating loss margin was (48.2%)
before retrenchment costs, the impact of the SASSA implementation costs accrual (refer to Note 14 of our audited consolidated
financial statements), and impairment losses. Fiscal 2018 operating income margin was 18.0% before the impairment loss and an
allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable. Fiscal 2017 operating income margin was 18.0% before the separation payment of
$8.0 million paid to our former chief executive officer.
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
(in thousands)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Total current assets before settlement assets
Equity-accounted investments(R)
Goodwill
Intangible assets
Total assets(R)
Total current liabilities before settlement
obligations
Total long-term debt
Total equity(R)
2020
2019
Year ended June 30,
2018
2017
2016
$
(as restated) (as restated)
57,607 $
95,460 $
232,485 $
311,292
65,836
24,169
612
453,678
153,285
148,427
37,316
2,228
670,247
169,619
83,234
52,799
9,405
1,214,532
210,396 $
369,241
25,935
75,598
13,666
1,448,829
206,702
316,149
23,794
67,058
15,859
1,261,649
63,288
-
$
290,213 $
155,808
-
317,342 $
94,090
5,469
638,827 $
54,957
-
596,074 $
37,486
-
491,611
(R) Equity-accounted investments, total assets and total equity as of June 30, 2019, have been restated to correct the misstatement
discussed in Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements. As of June 30, 2018, restated as follows: equity-accounted
investments and total assets decreased by $2.0 million; and total equity decreased by $1.4 million.
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with Item 6—“Selected Financial Data” and Item 8—
“Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” In addition to historical consolidated financial information, the following
discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. See Item 1A— “Risk
Factors” and “Forward Looking Statements.”
Overview
We are a provider of financial technology, or fintech, products and services to unbanked and underbanked individuals and
small businesses in South Africa and other emerging economies. We have developed and own most of our payment technologies,
and where possible, we utilize this technology to provide financial and value-added services to our customers by including them into
the formal financial system.
Sources of Revenue
We generate our revenues by charging transaction fees to merchants, financial service providers, utility providers, bill issuers
and cardholders; by providing loans and insurance products and by selling hardware, licensing software and providing related
technology services.
We have structured our business and our business development efforts around several related but separate approaches to
deploying our technology. In our most basic approach, we act as a supplier, selling our equipment, software, and related technology
to a customer. The revenue and costs associated with this approach are reflected in our Financial inclusion and applied technologies
segment.
We have found that we have greater revenue and profit opportunities, however, by acting as a service provider instead of a
supplier. In this approach we own and operate the technology and apply it in a system ourselves, charging one-time and ongoing fees
for the use of the system either on a fixed or ad valorem basis. This is the case in South Africa, where we provide bank accounts on a
monthly fee basis, and charge fees on an ad valorem basis for goods and services purchased. Usage of our bank accounts also
provides our customers with access to short-term loans and life insurance products. The revenue and costs associated with this
approach are reflected in our South African transaction processing and Financial inclusion and applied technologies segments.
In South Africa, we also generate fees from debit and credit card transaction processing, the provision of value-added services
such as bill payments, mobile top-up and prepaid utility sales, and from providing a payroll transaction management service (up
until the disposal of this business in December 2019). The revenue and costs associated with these services are reflected in our South
African transaction processing and Financial inclusion and applied technologies segments.
Through IPG we generate fee revenue through the provision of payment service provider and card issuing and acquiring
services in primarily Europe, China and the U.S. The revenue and costs of IPG are reflected in our International transaction
processing segment.
Finally, we have investments, business partnerships or joint ventures to provide us with an opportunity to introduce our
financial technology solutions to markets such as Bank Frick in Europe, Finbond in South Africa and North America, Carbon in
Nigeria, V2 in sub-Sahara Africa, and MobiKwik in India. In these situations, we took an equity position in the business while also
acting as a supplier of technology. In these relationships, we participate closely in the development of the business and remain
actively engaged in the management of the new business.
We believe that this flexible approach enables us to drive adoption of our solutions while capturing the value created by the
implementation of our technology.
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Developments during Fiscal 2020
Impact of COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Our operations were impacted by
government-imposed restrictions to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, on March 27, 2020, the South
African government imposed certain emergency measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, including implementation of travel
bans and closures of factories, schools, public buildings, and businesses. Our businesses outside South Africa have also been
affected and these operations and their employees are also complying with similar restrictions.
Business and operations
The restrictions limited movement of our customers and employees and governed the access that we and our customers and
business partners have to our corporate head office and operating branches and offices. A number of our South African businesses
were classified as essential services and therefore we were able to operate these businesses, including our EasyPay payment
processing and value-added services operations, the operation of bank accounts and our national ATM network.
However, we were required to suspend our South African lending and other financial services activities to the extent that they
operate through branches, and therefore we were prohibited from marketing and selling loans and other financial products on a face-
to-face basis from the end of March 2020 to the end of May 2020. During April 2020, we developed a system to grant loans to
repeat customers using mobile phone-based USSD strings, and this was launched through targeted SMS marketing in early May
2020. Collections of amounts due from existing loans have been largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic and government-
imposed restrictions. We continue to monitor the recoverability of our lending book and have considered the impact of COVID-19
on the collectability of the outstanding balance as of June 30, 2020, and determined that an increase in the allowance for doubtful
finance loans receivable specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic was not required. We have made this determination because
we currently do not expect the pandemic to significantly impact our customer base’s ability to repay amounts due over the next five
months, which is the remaining term on the loans.
During the three months ended March 31, 2020, (i.e. prior to lockdown), we experienced gross loan originations of
approximately ZAR 80 to ZAR 110 million per month. As expected, our lending book unwound during April and May 2020 as we
were unable to originate new business and our revenue from lending activities decreased in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020.
However, our lending book has recovered since restrictions were eased and loan originations exceeded R190 million in June 2020,
and the loan book has continued to grow through August 2020. As expected, we experienced significant demand for these products
once the operating restrictions were lifted, and continue to closely monitor credit criteria in-line with our business processes and
practices.
There was also a prohibition in place against charging certain banking-related fees to our South African customers during the
lockdown period from March 27, 2020, to May 31, 2020. We had to forgo cash withdrawal fees of approximately ZAR 35.2 million
during that period. We did continue to earn interchange fees in respect of cash withdrawals from our ATMs performed by the
customers of other issuers during that period. Normal fee charges have been applied to all customers since June 1, 2020.
Our South African insurance business has not yet experienced a significant increase in benefit claims, however, its ability to
write new policies was impacted by the temporary closure of our financial services branches and the mandatory requirement for our
employees to remain at home. As for our loan business, these restrictions were removed from June 1, 2020 and the business has been
actively writing new business since that date at similar levels to those experienced before the crisis.
IPG was adversely impacted by the pandemic as its business development activities have been negatively affected by travel
restrictions and it has been unable to commence direct marketing and the launching of new products and services. Furthermore, the
processing volumes on the merchants it does service were affected during April and May by the retail operation restrictions in many
countries. Since June, these volumes have steadily recovered.
We have incurred expenses of approximately ZAR 2.8 million directly related to responding to the pandemic’s impact on our
business during the last half of fiscal 2020. This expenditure related to the acquisition of thermometers to record and monitor our
employee’s and customer’s temperatures as mandated by certain South African regulations in order to identify and contain COVID-
19 infections, as well as sanitizers, masks and gloves for our employees and for the use of customers in our branches. Since June 30,
2020, we have incurred direct expenditure of approximately ZAR 0.2 million related to the purchase of sanitizers, masks and gloves
for our employees and for the use of customers in our branches.
We were able to claim some government support in respect of those operations that were closed during the period from March
27, 2020 to May 31, 2020 in the form of the South African government’s Unemployment Insurance Fund, or UIF, Temporary
Employer/ Employee Relief Scheme, or TERS, benefit. This subsidised around 20% of the salary cost of affected employees and we
received ZAR 20.0 million in support in this respect during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020.
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Since the easing of restrictions on June 1, 2020 our ability to operate our business has significantly increased, though it remains
affected by the continued restrictions on the wider economy and the ability and willingness of people to move around South Africa
freely.
Employees
We closed a number of our offices and operating locations in order to comply with government regulations and for the general
well-being of our employees following the outbreak of the pandemic. Where possible, we have provided the necessary facilities
(computer equipment, data cards, etc.) for our employees to operate remotely and continue to encourage them to do so where this is
practical and effective. We have provided the necessary protective equipment and sanitization facilities for those employees that
continued to operate within our offices and operating locations and who have returned since the loosening of some of the
restrictions.
Cash resources and liquidity
We believe we have sufficient cash reserves to support us through the next twelve months following the disposal of Net1
Korea and DNI (refer to Note 3 and Note 10 to our audited consolidated financial statements). Together with our existing cash
reserves, we also believe that our credit facilities are sufficient to fund our ATM network.
We do not believe there will be any further significant adverse effects on our liquidity from the pandemic, unless there is a
resumption of the higher level of restrictions in South Africa in the event of an increase in the level of infections.
We believe that our South African insurance business is adequately capitalized and do not expect to have to provide additional
funding to the business in the foreseeable future.
Financial position and impairments
Except for the impact on Finbond’s business, we do not believe that the pandemic has significantly impacted the carrying value
of long-lived assets and equity method investments to date. Finbond provided a public trading update in late June 2020, in which it
noted the hardships experienced following the outbreak of the pandemic and the expected negative impact on its business, though
this impact did not affect the carrying value at the balance sheet date. We recorded non-COVID-19-related impairments in respect of
certain of our equity-method investments – refer to Note 10 to our audited consolidated financial statements and “—Critical
Accounting Policies” below.
Control environment
We do not expect the pandemic to have a significant impact on our internal control environment.
While we have not incurred significant disruptions thus far from the COVID-19 outbreak, we are unable to accurately predict
the impact that COVID-19 will have due to numerous uncertainties, including the severity of the disease, the duration of the
outbreak, actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, the impact on our customers and other factors identified in Part I,
Item 1A. “Risk Factors— The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our business. We are unable to ascertain the impact the pandemic
will have on our future financial position, operations, cash flows and stock price”. We will continue to evaluate the nature and extent
of the impact to our business, consolidated results of operations, and financial condition.
Financial Inclusion Activities in South Africa
Having taken dramatic steps to reduce costs in our South African operations in fiscal 2019, our focus in fiscal 2020 was, and
continues to be, to transition our South African financial inclusion activities towards a business-to-consumer, or B2C, model. We
have developed new banking products in cooperation with Finbond and stabilized our financial services offerings, while continuing
to make our distribution and infrastructure more efficient. Our ability to expand our account base and financial services offerings
was constrained by the unavailability of sufficient liquidity through March 2020. Following the asset disposals during the fiscal year,
we intended to commence with the marketing of new account, payment and loan products in South Africa by injecting adequate
liquidity to support such growth over the following twelve months. However, with South Africa going into a lockdown period as a
result of COVID-19, our ability to commence with these activities was delayed further since our targeted customers typically require
face-to-face interactions.
As a result of the lockdown restrictions, we have only been able to start focusing on expanding our account base and financial
services offerings since June 1, 2020 and these activities have still been constrained by the circumstances surrounding the pandemic.
As restrictions have eased further and consumers have slowly increased their activity levels, we have started to look at ways to
increase our customer base in these unusual circumstances, and believe that there is strong demand for reasonably priced products
and services in the market.
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During the third quarter of fiscal 2020, we launched new loan products in collaboration with Finbond utilizing their balance
sheet. These loans are to the higher LSM customers and therefore the first of our efforts to move up to a higher-income customer
segment. This initiative was also affected by the lockdown regulations. We continue to work with Grindrod Bank on our ATM and
other acquiring initiatives.
International Activities
IPG – Following our strategic review process, our board has decided to focus on what it believes are compelling opportunities
in South Africa and while we believe there remains a business case for IPG, we plan to dedicate all our focus and capital to the
South African market. As a result, we will look to either dispose of the IPG operations or close them down in a structured and
responsible manner. During fiscal 2020, IPG had made progress towards the launch of a new brand and suite of products targeted at
European markets, but revenue generation did not improve, and it continued to incur losses as it ramped up its operations for launch.
Bank Frick – Following Net1’s cancellation of its option to acquire a controlling interest in Bank Frick, the bank remains
focused on serving financial intermediaries and further expanding its blockchain banking activities. It also remains the only bank in
Liechtenstein to hold acquiring licenses from both Visa and MasterCard. During its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, Bank
Frick for the first time reported commission and service revenue that exceeded interest income. Assets under management for the
year ended December 31, 2019 were CHF 2.7 billion, an increase of 3% year-over-year. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe,
Bank Frick had expected net income in the year ended December 31, 2020 to increase over 40% compared to 2019. However, its
ability to meet this target will depend on the extent of the continuing impact of COVID-19 on its operating environment. Its
performance for the six months to June 30, 2020 was behind budget, but broadly in line with the previous year.
Carbon – Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting impact in Nigeria, Carbon had continued to report
exponential sequential growth across all the key indicators of its business. It reacted quickly to the changing circumstances,
tightening lending criteria and communicating regularly with its customers, which has resulted in lower revenue but higher quality
advances. However, they have increased provisioning levels in the last quarter, which has depressed their results in the short term. It
has successfully raised local funding and was able to settle most of its U.S. dollar-denominated lending prior to the crisis. We
believe it is well positioned to recommence its growth once conditions stabilize and it is looking to transform from a digital lender to
a digital bank over the next few years.
India – Following MobiKwik’s approval to become an issuer, we have made further progress on the relaunch of our virtual
card project with them as the issuer, and anticipate that we will be in a position to start issuing cards in fiscal 2021. MobiKwik itself
continued to perform ahead of expectations up until the start of the pandemic but has seen a reduction in revenue in the three months
ended June 30, 2020. This has resulted in cash EBITDA losses of less than $1.0 million for MobiKwik during that period, but we
believe that there should be a quick recovery as conditions normalize. In particular, there have been a number of developments
during the pandemic that we believe should be very positive for MobiKwik’s longer-term growth prospects.
Progress on corporate activities
We have executed a number of corporate actions in accordance with our strategic review over the past year:
Sale of KSNET in Korea – On March 9, 2020, we sold 100% of KSNET for approximately $237 million. Refer to Note 3 to
our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding this transaction. Our Korean operation has been
reported as a discontinued operation.
Disposal of DNI – On April 1, 2020, we sold our remaining interest in DNI for approximately $48.0 million. Refer to Note 10
to our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding this transaction.
Cell C – We continued to carry the value of our Cell C investment at $0 (zero) as of June 30, 2020. Cell C is focused on its
recapitalization and its operational reorganization given its revised commercial model. While it remains in default on its various
lending arrangements, Cell C and its lenders are working constructively towards a recapitalization intended to ensure its long-term
sustainability and allow Cell C to focus on its core business. Good progress has been made over the last quarter assisted, by an
improved operating performance.
SASSA Contract Expiration
Although we have not been involved operationally with SASSA since September 30, 2018, we have been actively trying to
resolve all legal and legacy outstanding items to allow us to focus on our core business. On February 5, 2020, the Constitutional
Court of South Africa denied CPS’ leave to appeal lower court judgments ordering CPS to repay additional implementation costs
that SASSA paid to CPS in 2014, thereby exhausting all legal recourse for CPS in the matter. As a result, we have placed CPS into
business rescue. The business rescue process can lead to either a compromise with creditors and a continuation of CPS’ business or
the liquidation of CPS. We have deconsolidated CPS because we no longer exercise control over CPS or the business rescue process
as we have ceded control of CPS to the business rescue practitioners on the commencement of the business rescue process. Refer
also Part I, Item 3.—“ Legal Proceedings” for additional information.
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Critical Accounting Policies
Our audited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, which requires management
to make estimates and assumptions about future events that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities and disclosure of
contingent assets and liabilities. As future events and their effects cannot be determined with absolute certainty, the determination of
estimates requires management’s judgment based on a variety of assumptions and other determinants such as historical experience,
current and expected market conditions and certain scientific evaluation techniques. Management believes that the following
accounting policies are critical due to the degree of estimation required and the impact of these policies on the understanding of the
results of our operations and financial condition.
Valuation of investment in Cell C
We have elected to measure our investment in Cell C, an unlisted equity security, at fair value using the fair value option.
Changes in the fair value of this equity security are recognized in the caption “change in fair value of equity securities” in our
audited consolidated statements of operations. The tax impact related to the change in fair value of equity securities is included in
income tax expense in our audited consolidated statements of operation. The determination of the fair value of this equity security
requires us to make significant judgments and estimates. We base our estimates on assumptions we believe to be reasonable but that
are unpredictable and inherently uncertain. Refer to Note 7 of our audited consolidated financial statements regarding the valuation
inputs and sensitivity related to our investment in Cell C.
We used a discounted cash flow model to determine the fair value of our investment in Cell C as of June 30, 2020 and 2019,
and valued Cell C at $0.0 (zero) as of each of June 30, 2020 and 2019. We utilized the latest approved business plan provided by
Cell C management for the period ending December 31, 2024, and the following key valuation inputs were used:
Weighted Average Cost of Capital:
Long term growth rate:
Marketability discount:
Minority discount:
Net adjusted external debt - June 30, 2020:(1)
Net adjusted external debt - June 30, 2019:(2)
Deferred tax (incl. assessed tax losses) - June 30, 2020:(1)
Deferred tax (incl. assessed tax losses) - June 30, 2019:(2)
Between 15% and 21% over the period of the forecast
3% (4.5% as of June 30, 2019)
10%
15%
ZAR 15.8 billion ($0.9 billion), includes R4.4 billion of lease liabilities
ZAR 13.9 billion ($1 billion), includes R6.4 billion of lease liabilities
ZAR 2.9 billion ($167.3 million)
ZAR 2.9 billion ($205.9 million)
(1) translated from ZAR to U.S. dollars at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020.
(2) translated from ZAR to U.S. dollars at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019.
We believe the Cell C business plan is reasonable based on the current performance and the expected changes in the business
model.
Recoverability of equity-accounted investments and other equity securities
We review our equity-accounted investments and other equity securities for impairment whenever events or circumstances
indicate that the carrying amount of the investment may not be recoverable. In performing this review, we are required to estimate
the fair value of our equity-accounted investments and other equity securities. The determination of the fair value of these
investments requires us to make significant judgments and estimates.
For fiscal 2020, in determining the fair value of certain of our equity-accounted investments, we have considered (i) for DNI
specifically, the fair value of consideration received on April 1, 2020, adjusted for the accumulated foreign currency translation
reserve, (ii) dividend discount models based on projected cash flows, adjusted for identified risks, (iii) various multiples applicable
to peer and industry comparables of certain of our equity-accounted investments, and (iv) the net asset value of the equity-accounted
investment being assessed as a proxy of fair value because reasonable cash flow forecasts are not available. We base our estimates
on assumptions we believe to be reasonable but that are unpredictable and inherently uncertain.
For instance, we performed an impairment assessment as of March 31, 2020, for certain of our equity-accounted investments
following the identification of certain impairment indicators. The results of our impairment tests as of March 31, 2020, resulted in
impairments of $27.8 million related to our equity-accounted investments, as discussed in Note 10 to our audited consolidated
financial statements. Total impairments for fiscal 2020 was $33.8 million. We did not identify any impairment indicators during
each of fiscal 2019 and 2018 and therefore did not recognize any impairment losses related to our equity-accounted investments
during those years.
Other equity securities include our investments in MobiKwik and CPS. These equity securities do not have readily
determinable fair values and therefore we have elected to measure these investments at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus
changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer.
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If we identify an impairment indicator related to these equity securities, we are required to assess the carrying value of these
equity securities against their fair value. The determination of the fair value of the investment would require us to make significant
judgments and estimates. We would be required to base our estimates on assumptions we would believe to be reasonable but these
assumptions may be unpredictable and inherently uncertain. We did not identify any impairment indicators during each of fiscal
2020, 2019 and 2018 and therefore did not recognize any impairment losses related to these equity securities during those years.
Business Combinations and the Recoverability of Goodwill
A component of our growth strategy has been to acquire and integrate businesses that complement our existing operations. The
purchase price of an acquired business is allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon
their estimated fair value at the date of purchase. The difference between the purchase price and the fair value of the net assets
acquired is recorded as goodwill. In determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination,
we use various recognized valuation methods, including present value modeling. Further, we make assumptions using certain
valuation techniques, including discount rates and timing of future cash flows.
We review the carrying value of goodwill annually or more frequently if circumstances indicating impairment have occurred.
In performing this review, we are required to estimate the fair value of goodwill that is implied from a valuation of the reporting unit
to which the goodwill has been allocated after deducting the fair values of all the identifiable assets and liabilities that form part of
the reporting unit.
The determination of the fair value of a reporting unit requires us to make significant judgments and estimates. In determining
the fair value of reporting units for fiscal 2020, we considered country and entity-specific growth rates, future expected cash flows to
be used in our discounted cash flow model, and the weighted-average cost of capital applicable to peer and industry comparables of
the reporting units. We base our estimates on assumptions we believe to be reasonable but that are unpredictable and inherently
uncertain. In addition, we make judgments and assumptions in allocating assets and liabilities to each of our reporting units.
In determining the fair value of reporting units in our previous fiscal years, we considered the EBITDA and the EBITDA
multiples applicable to peer and industry comparables of the reporting units. We based our estimates on assumptions we believed to
be reasonable but that are unpredictable and inherently uncertain. In addition, we made judgments and assumptions in allocating
assets and liabilities to each of our reporting units.
The results of our impairment tests during fiscal 2020 indicated that the fair value of our reporting units exceeded their carrying
values, with the exception of the $5.6 million of goodwill impaired during fiscal 2020, as discussed in Note 11 to our audited
consolidated financial statements.
Intangible Assets Acquired Through Acquisitions
The fair values of the identifiable intangible assets acquired through acquisitions were determined by management using the
purchase method of accounting. We completed acquisitions during fiscal 2018 where we identified and recognized intangible assets.
We have used the relief from royalty method, the multi-period excess earnings method, the income approach and the cost approach
to value acquisition-related intangible assets. In so doing, we made assumptions regarding expected future revenues and expenses to
develop the underlying forecasts, applied contributory asset charges, discount rates, exchange rates, cash tax charges and useful
lives.
The valuations were based on information available at the time of the acquisition and the expectations and assumptions that
were deemed reasonable by us. No assurance can be given, however, that the underlying assumptions or events associated with such
assets will occur as projected. For these reasons, among others, the actual cash flows may vary from forecasts of future cash flows.
To the extent actual cash flows vary, revisions to the useful life or impairment of intangible assets may be necessary. For instance, in
fiscal 2019, we recorded an impairment loss of $5.3 million related to intangible assets acquired (customer relationships) in the DNI
acquisition as a result of Cell C entering into a roaming arrangement with another South African mobile telecommunications
network provider which extended Cell C’s network coverage. This arrangement impacted the identified customer relationship
recognized.
Deferred Taxation
We estimate our tax liability through the calculations done for the determination of our current tax liability, together with
assessing temporary differences resulting from the different treatment of items for tax and accounting purposes. These differences
result in deferred tax assets and liabilities which are disclosed on our balance sheet.
Management then has to assess the likelihood that deferred tax assets are more likely than not to be realized in the foreseeable
future. A valuation allowance is created if it is determined that a deferred tax asset will not be realized in the foreseeable future. Any
change to the valuation allowance would be charged or credited to income in the period such determination is made. In assessing the
need for a valuation allowance, historical levels of income, expectations and risks associated with estimates of future taxable income
and ongoing prudent and practicable tax planning strategies are considered.
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During fiscal 2020, fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively, we recorded a net increase of $13.4 million, $78.2 million and $9.6
million to our valuation allowance. As of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets was $106.4
million and $125.9 million, respectively.
Stock-based Compensation
Management is required to make estimates and assumptions related to our valuation and recording of stock-based
compensation charges under current accounting standards. These standards require all share-based compensation to employees to be
recognized in the statement of operations based on their respective grant date fair values over the requisite service periods and also
requires an estimation of forfeitures when calculating compensation expense.
We utilize the Cox Ross Rubinstein binomial model to measure the fair value of stock options granted to employees and
directors. We have also utilized a bespoke adjusted Monte Carlo simulation discounted cash flow model to measure the fair value of
restricted stock with market conditions granted to employees and directors. The stock-based compensation cost related to these
valuations has been recognized on a straight-line basis. These valuation models require estimates of a number of key valuation
inputs including expected volatility, expected dividend yield, expected term and risk-free interest rate. Our management has
estimated forfeitures based on historic employee behavior under similar compensation plans. The fair value of stock options is
affected by the assumptions selected. Net stock-based compensation expense from continuing operations was $1.7 million, $0.4
million and $2.6 million for fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Receivable
We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts receivable related to our Financial inclusion and applied technologies and
International transaction-based activities segments with respect to sales or rental of hardware, support and maintenance services
provided; or sale of licenses to customers; or the provision of transaction processing services to our customers; or our working
capital financing provided.
Our policy is to regularly review the aging of outstanding amounts due from customers and adjust the provision based on
management’s estimate of the recoverability of the amounts outstanding.
Management considers factors including period outstanding, creditworthiness of the customers, past payment history and the
results of discussions by our credit department with the customer. We consider this policy to be appropriate taking into account
factors such as historical bad debts, current economic trends and changes in our customer payment patterns. Additional provisions
may be required should the ability of our customers to make payments when due deteriorate in the future. Judgment is required to
assess the ultimate recoverability of these receivables, including ongoing evaluation of the creditworthiness of each customer.
Microlending
We maintain an allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable related to our Financial inclusion and applied technologies
segment with respect to microlending loans provided to our customers. Our policy is to regularly review the ageing of outstanding
amounts due from borrowers and adjust the provision based on management’s estimate of the recoverability of finance loans
receivable. We write off microlending loans and related service fees if a borrower is in arrears with repayments for more than three
months or dies.
Management considers factors including the period of the microlending loan outstanding, creditworthiness of the customers
and the past payment history and trends of its established microlending book. We consider this policy to be appropriate taking into
account factors such as historical bad debts, current economic trends and changes in our customer payment patterns. Additional
allowances may be required should the ability of our customers to make payments when due deteriorates in the future. A significant
amount of judgment is required to assess the ultimate recoverability of these finance loan receivables, including ongoing evaluation
of the creditworthiness of each customer.
Revenue – variation in transaction price following September 2019 Supreme Court ruling
In fiscal 2019, the Supreme Court denied our appeal and we have recorded a liability of $34.0 million as of June 30, 2019,
comprising a revenue refund of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million), and other expenses totaling $14.3 million (ZAR 201.8 million).
Management considers a component of the $34.0 million to be refunded to SASSA, specifically the ZAR 277.6 million ($19.7
million) of revenue recorded in fiscal 2014 related to a June 2012 agreement, to be a variation in the price charged to SASSA under
our February 2012 SASSA contract. Even though it is an involuntary refund to be paid to SASSA, the Supreme Court ruled that we
were not entitled to charge SASSA for the additional enrolments performed because, in the courts view, the February 2012 contract
contained all the performance obligations and pricing parameters related to the enrolment of all beneficiaries, and not just cardholder
recipients, and we should not have sought a recovery of implementation costs in fiscal 2014 from SASSA for the additional
enrolment services provided under the June 2012 agreement. As noted above, management does not agree with the findings of the
courts and has had to exercise its judgment in determining whether the reversal of revenue represents a price variation (accounted for
as a reduction in revenue in fiscal 2019) or a nonreciprocal transfer.
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent accounting pronouncements adopted
Refer to Note 2 of our audited consolidated financial statements for a full description of recent accounting pronouncements,
including the dates of adoption and effects on financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted as of June 30, 2020
Refer to Note 2 of our audited consolidated financial statements for a full description of recent accounting pronouncements not
yet adopted as of June 30, 2020, including the expected dates of adoption and effects on financial condition, results of operations and
cash flows.
Currency Exchange Rate Information
Actual exchange rates
The actual exchange rates for and at the end of the periods presented were as follows:
Table 1
ZAR : $ average exchange rate
Highest ZAR : $ rate during period
Lowest ZAR : $ rate during period
Rate at end of period
2020
15.6775
19.0569
13.8973
17.3326
June 30,
2019
14.1926
15.4335
13.1528
14.0840
2018
12.8557
14.4645
11.5526
13.7255
ZAR: US $ Exchange Rates
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
:
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Translation Exchange Rates
We are required to translate our results of operations from ZAR to U.S. dollars on a monthly basis. Thus, the average rates used
to translate this data for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, vary slightly from the averages shown in the table above.
The translation rates we use in presenting our results of operations are the rates shown in the following table:
Table 2
Income and expense items: $1 = ZAR
Balance sheet items: $1 = ZAR
Results of operations
2020
17.5686
17.3326
June 30,
2019
14.2688
14.0840
2018
12.6951
13.7255
The discussion of our consolidated overall results of operations is based on amounts as reflected in our audited consolidated
financial statements which are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We analyze our results of operations both in U.S. dollars, as
presented in the audited consolidated financial statements, and supplementally in ZAR, because ZAR is the functional currency of
the entities which contribute the majority of our results and is the currency in which the majority of our transactions are initially
incurred and measured. Due to the significant impact of currency fluctuations between the U.S. dollar and ZAR on our reported
results and because we use the U.S. dollar as our reporting currency, we believe that the supplemental presentation of our results of
operations in ZAR is useful to investors to understand the changes in the underlying trends of our business.
Our operating segment revenue presented in “—Results of operations by operating segment” represents total revenue per
operating segment before intercompany eliminations. A reconciliation between total operating segment revenue and revenue
presented in our audited consolidated financial statements is included in Note 22 to those statements.
We deconsolidated CPS from June 1, 2020 and its results are excluded from that date. We disposed of our Korean operation in
the third quarter of fiscal 2020 and it has been presented as a discontinued operation for fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018. We used the
equity method to account for DNI in fiscal 2020 and accounted for DNI as a discontinued operation in fiscal 2019 and 2018. We
disposed of FIHRST during the second quarter of fiscal 2020 and its contribution to our reported results is excluded from December
1, 2019. Refer also to Note 3 and Note 10 to the audited consolidated financial statements.
Fiscal 2020 Compared to Fiscal 2019
The following factors had a significant influence on our results of operations during fiscal 2020 as compared with the same
period in the prior year:
• Decline in revenue: Excluding the impact of the 2019 SASSA implementation fee reversal, our revenues declined 12% in
ZAR primarily due to the expiration of our SASSA contract, the decline in EPE account numbers driven by SASSA’s auto-
migration of accounts to SAPO, a reduction in EPE-related financial and value-added services and transaction fees due to a
smaller customer base, and the impact of the pandemic, which was partially offset by higher terminal and prepaid airtime
sales;
• Ongoing operating losses: We continue to experience operating losses primarily in South Africa as a result of lower
revenues, coupled with a high fixed-cost infrastructure, despite a significant reduction in this cost base over the last two
years. We also recorded impairment losses of $6.3 million and $14.4 million, during fiscal 2020 and 2019, respectively;
• Fiscal 2019 implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA of $34.0 million: During fiscal 2019, we recorded an accrual
of $34.0 million related to the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling comprising a revenue refund of $19.7 million (ZAR
277.6 million), accrued interest of $11.4 million (ZAR 161.0 million), unclaimed indirect taxes of $2.8 million (ZAR 39.4
million) and estimated costs of $0.1 million (ZAR 1.4 million);
• Corporate transactions: In fiscal 2020 we recorded a gain of $9.7 million related to the disposal of FIHRST in December
2019, which was partially offset by a $1.0 million loss on the disposal of our remaining interest in DNI and a $4.3 million
loss on the deconsolidation of CPS. We also paid a termination fee of $17.5 million in respect of our decision not to
exercise our option to acquire control of Bank Frick. In fiscal 2019, we recorded a fair value adjustment loss of $167.5
million related to our investment in Cell C equity and a $12.8 million impairment of our Cedar Cellular note; and
• Adverse foreign exchange movements: The U.S. dollar appreciated 23% against the ZAR compared to the same period in
fiscal 2019, which adversely impacted our reported results.
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Consolidated overall results of operations
This discussion is based on the amounts prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The following tables show the changes in the items comprising our statements of operations, both in U.S. dollars and in ZAR:
Table 3
Revenue
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support
Selling, general and administration
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss
Operating loss
Change in fair value of equity securities
Gain on disposal of FIHRST
Loss (Gain) on disposal of DNI
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS
Termination fee paid to cancel Bank Frick option
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note
Loss before income taxes
Income tax expense (benefit)
Net loss before (loss) income from equity-accounted investments
(Loss) income from equity-accounted investments
Net loss from continuing operations
Net income from discontinued operations
Gain (Loss) from disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax
Net loss
Less (Add) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income attributable to us
Continuing
Discontinued
In U.S. Dollars
Year ended June 30,
2020(A)
$ ’000
2019(A)(B)
(as restated)
$ ’000
$ %
change
150,997
109,006
75,256
4,647
6,336
(44,248)
-
9,743
(1,010)
7,148
17,517
2,805
7,641
-
(65,016)
2,656
(67,672)
(29,542)
(97,214)
6,402
12,454
(78,358)
-
-
-
(78,358)
(97,214)
18,856
166,227
129,696
144,920
12,103
14,440
(134,932)
(167,459)
-
177
-
-
5,424
9,860
12,793
(319,443)
(5,072)
(314,371)
1,258
(313,113)
13,630
(9,175)
(308,658)
2,349
(1,352)
3,701
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
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(16%)
(48%)
(62%)
(56%)
(67%)
nm
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nm
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(48%)
(23%)
nm
(80%)
nm
(78%)
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(69%)
(53%)
nm
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(75%)
(69%)
2,401%
(A) Refer to Note 3 to the audited consolidated financial statements for discontinued operations disclosures.
(B) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
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Table 4
Revenue
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support
Selling, general and administration
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss
Operating loss
Change in fair value of equity securities
Gain on disposal of FIHRST
Loss (Gain) on disposal of DNI
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS
Termination fee paid to cancel Bank Frick option
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note
Loss before income taxes
Income tax expense (benefit)
Net loss before (loss) income from equity-accounted investments
(Loss) income from equity-accounted investments
Net loss from continuing operations
Net income from discontinued operations
Gain (Loss) from disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax
Net loss
Less (Add) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income attributable to us
Continuing
Discontinued
In South African Rand
Year ended June 30,
2020(A)
ZAR ’000
2019(A)(B)
(as restated)
ZAR ’000
2,652,806
1,915,083
1,322,143
81,641
111,314
(777,375)
-
171,171
(17,744)
125,580
307,749
49,280
134,242
-
(1,142,239)
46,662
(1,188,901)
(519,012)
(1,707,913)
112,474
218,799
(1,376,640)
-
-
-
(1,376,640)
(1,707,913)
331,273
2,371,976
1,850,697
2,067,935
172,704
206,052
(1,925,412)
(2,389,556)
-
2,526
-
-
77,398
140,697
182,550
(4,558,291)
(72,375)
(4,485,916)
17,951
(4,467,965)
194,493
(130,923)
(4,404,395)
33,519
(19,292)
52,811
(4,437,914)
(4,448,673)
10,759
$ %
change
12%
3%
(36%)
(53%)
(46%)
(60%)
nm
nm
nm
nm
nm
(36%)
(5%)
nm
(75%)
nm
(73%)
nm
(62%)
(42%)
nm
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nm
(69%)
(62%)
2,979%
(A) Refer to Note 3 to the audited consolidated financial statements for discontinued operations disclosures.
(B) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
Excluding the impact of the 2019 SASSA implementation fee reversal, the decrease in revenue was primarily due to the
expiration of our SASSA contract, the decline in EPE account numbers driven by SASSA’s auto-migration of accounts to SAPO, a
reduction in EPE-related financial and value-added services and transaction fees due to a smaller customer base, and the impact of
the pandemic which was partially offset by higher terminal and prepaid airtime sales.
The decrease in cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support was primarily due to fewer SASSA Grindrod-account
grant recipients utilizing the South African National Payment System which resulted in lower transaction costs incurred by us, which
was partially offset by higher costs related to terminal and prepaid airtime sales.
The decrease in selling, general and administration expense was primarily due to lower fixed costs (including premises and
staff costs) incurred during fiscal 2020 largely as a result of the extensive cost cutting delivered over the last 18 months. Our fiscal
2019 expense includes an increase in our allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable of approximately $23.4 million (resulting
from SASSA’s auto-migration of EPE accounts) and the payment of $5.2 million (ZAR 73.7 million) of retrenchment packages.
Depreciation and amortization decreased primarily due to lower overall amortization of intangible assets that are fully
amortized and tangible assets that are fully depreciated during fiscal 2020.
During fiscal 2020, we recorded an impairment loss of $5.6 million related to the impairment of a portion of our EasyPay
business unit’s allocated goodwill and a $0.7 million impairment loss related to our Maltese e-money license. During fiscal 2019, we
recognized an impairment loss of approximately $14.4 million, which included $7.0 million related to the entire amount of IPG
goodwill and $6.2 million primarily related to the impairment of goodwill recognized pursuant to the 2004 Aplitec transaction. Refer
to Note 11 of our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding these impairment losses.
Our operating loss margin for fiscal 2020 and 2019 was (29.3%) and (81.2%), respectively. We discuss the components of
operating (loss) income margin under “—Results of operations by operating segment.”
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The change in fair value of equity securities represents a non-cash fair value adjustment loss related to Cell C during fiscal
2019. Refer to Note 7 of our audited consolidated financial statements for the methodology and inputs used in the fair value
calculation.
We recorded a gain of $9.7 million related to the disposal of FIHRST during fiscal 2020, which was partially offset by a $1.0
million loss on the disposal of our remaining interest in DNI and a $4.3 million loss on the deconsolidation of CPS. We also paid a
termination fee of $17.5 million in respect of our decision not to exercise our option to acquire control of Bank Frick
Interest on surplus cash decreased to $2.8 million (ZAR 49.3 million) from $5.4 million (ZAR 77.4 million), due primarily to
the lower average daily cash balances and cash used to fund the operating losses in the South African operations.
Interest expense decreased to $7.6 million (ZAR 134.2 million) from $9.9 million (ZAR 140.7 million), due to a reduction in
our long-term South African debt, which was partially offset by interest expense related to cash borrowed to stock our ATMs and
utilization of our overdraft facilities.
During fiscal 2019, we recorded an impairment loss of $12.8 million related to our Cedar Cellular note as discussed in Note 10
of our audited consolidated financial statements.
Fiscal 2020 tax expense was $2.7 million (ZAR 46.7 million) compared to $(5.1) million (ZAR (72.4) million) in fiscal 2019.
Our effective tax rate for fiscal 2020 was impacted by the tax neutral disposals of FIHRST and DNI, the tax neutral deconsolidation
of CPS, non-deductible impairment losses, the option termination fee paid, the ongoing losses incurred by IPG and certain of our
South African businesses and the associated valuation allowances created related to the deferred tax assets recognized regarding
those net operating losses, other non-deductible expenses, including certain corporate transactions-related expenditure, and the tax
expense recorded by our profitable businesses, primarily in South Africa.
Our effective tax rate for fiscal 2019 was adversely impacted by the valuation allowances created related to the deferred tax
assets recognized in respect of net operating losses incurred by our South African businesses, the non-deductible impairment losses,
the DNI disposal gain, and other non-deductible expenses, including transaction-related expenditure and non-deductible interest on
our South African long-term debt facility. The deferred tax impact of the change in the fair value of our investment in Cell C also
impacted the effective rate for fiscal 2019, as this amount is recorded at a lower rate (at a capital gains rate) than the South African
statutory rate. During fiscal 2019, we reversed the entire deferred tax liability of approximately $6.1 million recorded as of June 30,
2018, as a result of the decrease in the carrying value of Cell C to below the initial cost. In addition, the June 30, 2019, carrying
value of our investment in Cell C is less than its initial cost which results in a capital gains tax benefit for tax purposes. However, we
do not expect to realize any significant capital gains in the foreseeable future and have provided a valuation allowance of $31.7
million related to this capital gains tax benefit deferred tax asset.
DNI was accounted for using the equity method during the year to date fiscal 2020. The accounting for DNI as a discontinued
operation in fiscal 2019, as well as a number of impairments, has adversely impacted the comparability of our (loss) earnings from
equity-accounted investments during fiscal 2020. The largest impairment was in respect of our investment in Bank Frick and
followed from our decision not to exercise our option to take control of the bank. Finbond is listed on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange and reports its six-month results during our first half and its annual results during our fourth quarter. The table below
presents the relative earnings (loss) from our equity accounted investments:
Table 5
DNI
Share of net income
Amortization of intangible assets, net of deferred tax
Impairment
Bank Frick
Share of net income
Amortization of intangible assets, net of deferred tax
Impairment
Other
Finbond
Other
Share of net loss
Impairment
Total (loss) earnings from equity-accounted investment
Year ended June 30,
2020
$ ’000
2019
(as restated)(A)
$ ’000
$ %
change
(9,744)
4,676
(1,350)
(13,070)
(17,273)
1,421
(433)
(18,261)
-
1,840
(4,365)
(1,865)
(2,500)
(29,542)
865
1,380
(515)
-
(1,542)
1,109
(567)
-
(2,084)
2,619
(684)
(684)
-
1,258
nm
239%
162%
nm
1,020%
28%
(24%)
nm
nm
(30%)
538%
173%
nm
nm
(A) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
Refer to Note 10 of our audited consolidated financial statements for additional information related to the impairment of
certain of our equity-accounted investments.
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Results of operations by operating segment
The composition of revenue and the contributions of our business activities to operating income are illustrated below:
Table 6
Operating Segment
Revenue:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Consolidated revenue
Continuing
Discontinued
Operating (loss) income:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Consolidated operating (loss) income
Continuing
Discontinued
In U.S. Dollars
Year ended June 30,
2020
$ ’000
% of
total
2019
$ ’000
% of
total
% change
73,796
90,416
5,041
85,375
82,342
82,342
-
246,554
(10,182)
236,372
150,997
85,375
(19,575)
2,051
(12,517)
14,568
(2,723)
(2,723)
-
(20,247)
(15,217)
(9,433)
(5,784)
(35,464)
(44,248)
8,784
31%
38%
2%
36%
35%
35%
-
142%
(42%)
100%
64%
36%
55%
(6%)
35%
(41%)
8%
8%
-
51%
49%
33%
16%
100%
125%
(25%)
96,038
148,268
9,842
138,426
146,184
89,847
56,337
390,490
(29,500)
360,990
166,227
194,763
(30,771)
2,837
(16,502)
19,339
(14,758)
(39,158)
24,400
(42,692)
(70,816)
(48,501)
(22,315)
(113,508)
(134,932)
21,424
27%
41%
3%
38%
40%
24%
16%
149%
(49%)
100%
46%
54%
27%
(2%)
15%
(17%)
13%
34%
(21%)
36%
64%
44%
20%
100%
119%
(19%)
(23%)
(39%)
(49%)
(38%)
(44%)
(8%)
nm
(37%)
(65%)
(35%)
(9%)
(56%)
nm
(36%)
(28%)
(24%)
(25%)
(82%)
(93%)
nm
(53%)
(79%)
(81%)
(74%)
(69%)
(67%)
(59%)
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Table 7
Operating Segment
Revenue:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Consolidated revenue
Continuing
Discontinued
Operating (loss) income:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Consolidated operating (loss) income
Continuing
Discontinued
South African transaction processing
In South African Rand
Year ended June 30,
2020
ZAR ’000
% of
total
2019
ZAR ’000
% of
total
% change
1,296,492
1,588,483
88,564
1,499,919
1,446,634
1,446,634
-
4,331,609
(178,883)
4,152,726
2,652,807
1,499,919
(343,905)
36,033
(219,906)
255,939
(47,839)
(47,839)
-
(355,711)
(267,341)
(165,724)
(101,617)
(623,052)
(777,374)
154,322
31%
38%
2%
36%
35%
35%
-
142%
(42%)
100%
64%
36%
55%
(6%)
35%
(41%)
8%
8%
-
51%
49%
33%
16%
100%
125%
(25%)
1,370,414
2,115,710
140,440
1,975,270
2,085,973
1,282,072
803,901
5,572,097
(420,950)
5,151,147
2,371,976
2,779,171
(439,087)
40,483
(235,475)
275,958
(210,589)
(558,765)
348,176
(609,193)
(1,010,509)
(692,085)
(318,424)
(1,619,702)
(1,925,412)
305,710
27%
41%
3%
38%
40%
24%
16%
149%
(49%)
100%
46%
54%
27%
(2%)
15%
(17%)
13%
34%
(21%)
36%
64%
44%
20%
100%
119%
(19%)
(5%)
(25%)
(37%)
(24%)
(31%)
13%
nm
(22%)
(58%)
(19%)
12%
(46%)
nm
(22%)
(11%)
(7%)
(7%)
(77%)
(91%)
nm
(42%)
(74%)
(76%)
(68%)
(62%)
(60%)
(50%)
The decrease in segment revenue was primarily due to fewer transactions performed at our ATM base and lower fees as a result
of fewer EPE and SASSA accounts. Our South African transaction processing operating segment revenue and operating loss have
been adversely impacted by the loss of EPE customers as a result of SASSA’s auto-migration of accounts to SAPO during the first
half of fiscal 2019. Excluding the impact of the $5.6 million EasyPay goodwill impairment loss, the reduction in operating losses in
the segment reflects the cost reductions that have occurred over the last 12 months. Operating income for this operating segment for
fiscal 2019 included a $1.1 million impairment loss and retrenchment costs of $4.7 million (ZAR 65.9 million).
Our operating loss margin for fiscal 2020 and 2019 was (26.5%) and (32.0%), respectively. Our operating loss and operating
loss margin for fiscal 2020 excluding the goodwill impairment of $5.6 million was $(14.0) million and (19.0%), respectively.
Excluding the impairment loss of $1.1 million and restructuring costs of $4.7 million, the segment operating loss and operating loss
margin for fiscal 2019 were $(24.9) million and (26.0%), respectively.
International transaction-based activities
Segment revenue from continuing operations was lower during fiscal 2020, primarily due to an ongoing contraction in IPG
transactions processed, specifically meaningfully lower crypto-exchange and China and ACH processing activity. Excluding the
adverse impact of the $7.0 million impairment loss incurred in fiscal 2019, the operating loss from continuing operations during
fiscal 2020 increased compared with fiscal 2019 due to higher operating losses incurred by IPG.
Our operating loss margin for fiscal 2020 and 2019 was (248.3%) and (167.7%), respectively. Excluding the goodwill
impairment, segment operating loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2019 were $(9.5) million and (96.4%), respectively.
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
In ZAR, segment revenue from continuing operations increased due to higher terminal and prepaid airtime sales, which was
partially offset by lower lending revenue and insurance revenue as a result of fewer customers, and a decrease in inter-segment
revenues. Our lending and insurance books have improved through fiscal 2020, and the positive contribution from terminal sales as
well as our cost reduction efforts of the last 18 months have contributed to a significant reduction in the segment’s operating loss.
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Operating loss from continuing operations for fiscal 2020 includes a $1.3 million inventory write-down related to prepaid
airtime inventory. Operating loss from continuing operations for fiscal 2019 includes an allowance for doubtful finance loans
receivable of $23.4 million recognized in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, a $6.3 million impairment loss and retrenchment costs of
$1.6 million (ZAR 22.6 million).
Our operating loss margin from continuing operations for the Financial inclusion and applied technologies segment was (3.3%)
and (43.6%) during fiscal 2020 and 2019, respectively. Excluding the inventory write down of $1.3 million, the segment operating
loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2020 were $(12.5) million and (1.7%), respectively. Excluding the impairment loss of $6.3
million and restructuring costs of $1.6 million, the segment operating loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2019 were $(31.3)
million and (34.8%), respectively.
Corporate/ Eliminations
Our corporate expenses generally include acquisition-related intangible asset amortization; expenses incurred related to
corporate actions; expenditure related to compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; non-employee directors’ fees; employee
and executive bonuses; stock-based compensation; legal fees; audit fees; directors and officer’s insurance premiums;
telecommunications expenses; and elimination entries.
Our corporate expenses decreased primarily due to lower acquired intangible asset amortization expense related to intangible
assets that were fully amortized during fiscal 2019, which was partially offset by higher transaction-related expenditures and a $0.7
million impairment loss. Fiscal 2019 was impacted by the reversal of revenue related to the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling,
the accrual of $14.3 million related to the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling, a $5.3 million impairment loss as well as higher
acquired intangible asset amortization, and were partially offset by the reversal of stock-based compensation charges of $1.9 million
related to forfeiture of awards.
Fiscal 2019 Compared to Fiscal 2018
The following factors had a significant influence on our results of operations during fiscal 2019 as compared with the same
period in the prior year:
• Decline in revenue: Our revenues declined (59%) in ZAR primarily due to the expiration of our SASSA contract, a
significant decline in EPE account numbers driven by SASSA’s auto-migration of accounts to SAPO, and a reduction in
EPE-related financial and value-added services and transaction fees due to a smaller customer base;
• Significant operating losses: Lower revenue, coupled with a high-fixed cost infrastructure and write-downs due to limited
recoverability of dues from customers, resulted in a significant operating loss. During February 2019, we accelerated a
restructuring of our South African operations to bring our cost structure in-line with our current customer. We incurred $6.3
million in retrenchment costs during fiscal 2019;
Interest expense: Net interest expense increased due to lower average cash balances and higher short-term borrowing to
fund ATMs, which was partially offset by the early settlement of long-term debt in May 2019;
•
•
• Non-cash losses, impairments and fair-value adjustments: During fiscal 2019 we incurred impairment losses of $14.4
million, a fair value adjustment loss of $167.5 million related to our investment in Cell C equity and a $12.8 million
impairment of our Cedar Cellular note;
Implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA of $34.0 million: We recorded an accrual of $34.0 million related to the
September 2019 Supreme Court ruling comprising a revenue refund of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million), accrued interest
of $11.4 million (ZAR 161.0 million), unclaimed indirect taxes of $2.8 million (ZAR 39.4 million) and estimated costs of
$0.1 million (ZAR 1.4 million)); and
• Adverse foreign exchange movements: The U.S. dollar appreciated 12% against the ZAR during fiscal 2019, which
adversely impacted our reported results.
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Table 8
Revenue
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support
Selling, general and administration
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss
Operating (loss) income
Change in fair value of equity securities
Loss (Gain) on disposal of DNI
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note
(Loss) income before income taxes
Income tax (benefit) expense
Net (loss) income before income from equity-accounted investments
Income from equity-accounted investments
Net (loss) income from continuing operations
Net income from discontinued operations
Loss from disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax
Net (loss) income
Less (Add) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income attributable to us
Continuing
Discontinued
In U.S. Dollars
Year ended June 30,
2019(A)(B)
(as restated)
$ ’000
2018(A)(B)
(as restated)
$ ’000
$ %
change
166,227
129,696
144,920
12,103
14,440
(134,932)
(167,459)
177
5,424
9,860
12,793
(319,443)
(5,072)
(314,371)
1,258
(313,113)
13,630
(9,175)
(308,658)
2,349
(1,352)
3,701
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
459,575
243,554
130,822
10,473
20,917
53,809
32,473
-
16,845
8,569
-
94,558
45,106
49,452
1,810
51,262
9,945
-
61,207
(880)
(880)
-
62,087
52,142
9,945
(64%)
(47%)
11%
16%
(31%)
nm
nm
nm
(68%)
15%
nm
nm
nm
nm
(30%)
nm
37%
nm
nm
54%
nm
nm
nm
(92%)
(A) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
(B) Refer to Note 3 to the audited consolidated financial statements for discontinued operations disclosures.
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Table 9
Revenue
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support
Selling, general and administration
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss
Operating (loss) income
Change in fair value of equity securities
Loss (Gain) on disposal of DNI
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note
(Loss) income before income taxes
Income tax (benefit) expense
Net (loss) income before income from equity-accounted investments
Income from equity-accounted investments
Net (loss) income from continuing operations
Net income from discontinued operations
Loss from disposal of discontinued operations, net of tax
Net (loss) income
Less (Add) net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income attributable to us
Continuing
Discontinued
In South African Rand
Year ended June 30,
2019(A)(B)
(as restated)
ZAR ’000
2018(A)(B)
(as restated)
ZAR ’000
$ %
change
2,371,976
1,850,697
2,067,935
172,704
206,052
(1,925,412)
(2,389,556)
2,526
77,398
140,697
182,550
(4,558,291)
(72,375)
(4,485,916)
17,951
(4,467,965)
194,493
(130,923)
(4,404,395)
33,519
(19,292)
52,811
(4,437,914)
(4,448,673)
10,759
5,834,350
3,091,942
1,660,798
132,956
265,543
683,111
412,248
-
213,849
108,784
-
1,200,424
572,625
627,799
22,978
650,777
126,253
-
777,030
(11,172)
(11,172)
-
788,202
661,949
126,253
(59%)
(40%)
25%
30%
(22%)
nm
nm
nm
(64%)
29%
nm
nm
nm
nm
(22%)
nm
54%
nm
nm
73%
nm
nm
nm
(91%)
(A) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
(B) Refer to Note 3 to the audited consolidated financial statements for discontinued operations disclosures.
The decrease in revenue was primarily due to lower contributions received from our South African operations as a result of the
end of our CPS contract with SASSA, which also resulted in fewer SASSA Grindrod-account grant recipients using the South
African National Payment System to access their grants; the reversal of revenue of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million) following the
September 2019 Supreme Court ruling; the loss of our EPE account holders resulting in lower transaction fees; fewer prepaid airtime
and value-added services sales; decreases in our insurance and lending activities and IPG; which was partially offset by higher fee
and transaction income from our ATM offerings.
The decrease in cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support was primarily due to fewer SASSA Grindrod-account
grant recipients utilizing the South African National Payment System which resulted in lower transaction costs incurred by us and
fewer prepaid airtime sales, which was partially offset by expenses to support and expand our EPE and ATM offerings.
In ZAR, the increase in selling, general and administration expense was primarily due to an increase in our allowance for
doubtful finance loans receivable of approximately $28.8 million (ZAR 411.0 million), additional costs recorded related to the
September 2019 Supreme Court ruling of $14.3 million (ZAR 201.8 million), payment of $6.3 million (ZAR 88.5 million) of
retrenchment packages, as well as an increase in costs at IPG as part of its restructuring and re-establishment initiatives. Fiscal 2019
expenses also included committed fixed and variable costs (including premises and staff costs) that related to the maintenance and
expansion of our financial inclusion initiatives. Fiscal 2018 included the impact of an allowance for doubtful Mastertrading working
capital finance receivables of $7.8 million.
Depreciation and amortization increased primarily due to the amortization of acquired intangible assets, which was partially
offset by an increase in the number of tangible assets that became fully depreciated.
During fiscal 2019, we recognized an impairment loss of approximately $14.4 million, which included $7.0 million related to
the entire amount of IPG goodwill and $6.2 million primarily related to the impairment of goodwill recognized pursuant to the 2004
Aplitec transaction.
During fiscal 2018, we reviewed for impairment the goodwill identified and recognized pursuant to the Masterpayment and
Masterpayment Financial Services acquisitions in April 2016 and November 2017, respectively, due to uncertainty surrounding the
timing and amount of future net cash inflows following changes in the business strategy. As a consequence of this review, our 2018
impairment loss of $20.9 million included an impairment loss of approximately $19.9 million related to the entire carrying value of
this goodwill acquired.
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Our operating (loss) income margin for fiscal 2019 and 2018 was (81.2%) and 11.7% respectively. We discuss the components
of operating (loss) income margin under “—Results of operations by operating segment.” Our fiscal 2019 operating loss margin
resulted from lower revenue, the impact of the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling, an increase in our allowance for doubtful
finance loans receivable, impairment losses and losses incurred running our financial inclusion infrastructure. Our fiscal 2019
operating loss margin was (48.2%) excluding the impact of the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling, the $14.4 million impairment
losses and the $6.3 million in retrenchment costs incurred. Our fiscal 2018 operating margin was 18.0% excluding the $20.9 million
impairment loss, and the $7.8 million allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable.
The change in fair value of equity securities represents a non-cash fair value adjustment (loss) gain related to Cell C of $(167.5
million) and $32.5 million during fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. The fiscal 2019 adjustment was caused by the challenges faced
by Cell C’s business.
Interest on surplus cash decreased to $5.4 million (ZAR 77.4 million) from $16.8 million (ZAR 213.8 million) due primarily to
the lower average daily ZAR cash balances resulting from our significant investments over the last two years as well as cash utilized
to fund operating losses in the South African operations during fiscal 2019.
Interest expense increased to $9.9 million (ZAR 140.7 million) from $8.6 million (ZAR 108.8 million), due to increased
borrowings which we obtained to partially fund our strategic investments and fund our ATMs, which was partially offset by a
reduction in our long-term South African debt. Interest expense for fiscal 2018 included interest on our South Korean debt, which
was fully repaid in October 2017.
We recorded an impairment loss of $12.8 million related to our Cedar Cellular note as discussed in Note 10 of our audited
consolidated financial statements.
Fiscal 2019 tax expense was $(5.1) million (ZAR (72.4) million) compared to $45.1 million (ZAR 572.6 million) in fiscal
2018. Our effective tax rate was adversely impacted by the valuation allowances created related to the deferred tax assets recognized
in respect of net operating losses incurred by our South African businesses, the non-deductible impairment losses, the DNI disposal
gain, and other non-deductible expenses, including transaction-related expenditure and non-deductible interest on our South African
long-term debt facility. The deferred tax impact of the change in the fair value of our investment in Cell C also impacted the
effective rate for fiscal 2019, as this amount is recorded at a lower rate (at a capital gains rate) than the South African statutory rate.
During fiscal 2019, we reversed the entire deferred tax liability of approximately $6.1 million recorded as of June 30, 2018, as a
result of the decrease in the carrying value of Cell C to below the initial cost.
In addition, the June 30, 2019, carrying value of our investment in Cell C is less than its initial cost which results in a capital
gains tax benefit for tax purposes. However, we do not expect to realize any significant capital gains in the foreseeable future and
have provided a valuation allowance of $31.7 million related to this capital gains tax benefit deferred tax asset.
Our effective tax rate for fiscal 2018 was 47.7% and higher than the South African statutory rate as a result of an impairment
loss, a valuation allowance related to an allowance for doubtful working capital finance receivables created, the DNI re-
measurement loss on acquisition, non-deductible expenses (including transaction-related expenditure and non-deductible interest on
our South African long-term facility) and the impact of the changes in U.S. federal statutory tax law.
Finbond is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and reports its six-month results during our first quarter and its annual
results during our fourth quarter. The table below presents the relative earnings (loss) from our equity accounted investments:
Table 10
DNI
Share of net income
Amortization of intangible assets, net of deferred tax
Bank Frick
Share of net income
Amortization of intangible assets, net of deferred tax
Other
Finbond
Other
Total earnings from equity-accounted investments
Year ended June 30,
2019
(as restated)(A)
$ ’000
865
1,380
(515)
(1,542)
1,109
(567)
(2,084)
2,619
(684)
1,258
2018
(as restated)(A)
$ ’000
$ % change
nm
nm
nm
154%
452%
41%
416%
9%
nm
(30%)
-
-
-
(606)
201
(403)
(404)
2,412
4
1,810
(A) Refer to Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the restatement.
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Results of operations by operating segment
The composition of revenue and the contributions of our business activities to operating income are illustrated below:
Table 11
Operating Segment
Revenue:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Consolidated revenue
Continuing
Discontinued
Operating (loss) income:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Consolidated operating (loss) income
Continuing
Discontinued
In U.S. Dollars
Year ended June 30,
2019
$ ’000
% of
total
2018
$ ’000
% of
total
%
change
96,038
148,268
9,842
138,426
146,184
89,847
56,337
390,490
(29,500)
360,990
166,227
194,763
(30,771)
2,837
(16,502)
19,339
(14,758)
(39,158)
24,400
(42,692)
(70,816)
(48,501)
(22,315)
(113,508)
(134,932)
21,424
27%
41%
3%
38%
40%
24%
16%
149%
(49%)
100%
46%
54%
27%
(2%)
15%
(17%)
13%
34%
(21%)
36%
64%
44%
20%
100%
119%
(19%)
268,047
180,027
26,713
153,314
221,906
221,906
-
669,980
(57,091)
612,889
459,575
153,314
42,796
(12,478)
(30,455)
17,977
55,372
55,372
-
85,690
(26,741)
(13,904)
(12,837)
58,949
53,809
5,140
44%
29%
4%
25%
36%
36%
-
138%
(38%)
100%
75%
25%
73%
(21%)
(51%)
30%
94%
94%
-
125%
(25%)
(3%)
(22%)
100%
91%
9%
(64%)
(18%)
(63%)
(10%)
(34%)
(60%)
nm
(42%)
(48%)
(41%)
(64%)
27%
nm
nm
nm
(46%)
8%
nm
nm
nm
nm
165%
249%
74%
nm
nm
317%
50
Table 12
Operating Segment
Revenue:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Consolidated revenue
Continuing
Discontinued
Operating (loss) income:
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Consolidated operating (loss) income
Continuing
Discontinued
South African transaction processing
In South African Rand
Year ended June 30,
2019
ZAR ’000
% of
total
2018
ZAR ’000
% of
total
% change
1,370,414
2,115,710
140,440
1,975,270
2,085,973
1,282,072
803,901
5,572,097
(420,950)
5,151,147
2,371,976
2,779,171
(439,087)
40,483
(235,475)
275,958
(210,589)
(558,765)
348,176
(609,193)
(1,010,509)
(692,085)
(318,424)
(1,619,702)
(1,925,412)
305,710
27%
41%
3%
38%
40%
24%
16%
149%
(49%)
100%
46%
54%
27%
(2%)
15%
(17%)
13%
34%
(21%)
36%
64%
44%
20%
100%
119%
(19%)
3,402,883
2,285,461
339,124
1,946,337
2,817,119
2,817,119
-
8,505,463
(724,776)
7,780,687
5,834,350
1,946,337
543,299
(158,409)
(386,629)
228,220
702,953
702,953
-
1,087,843
(339,480)
(176,513)
(162,967)
748,363
683,110
65,253
44%
29%
4%
25%
36%
36%
-
138%
(38%)
100%
75%
25%
73%
(21%)
(51%)
30%
94%
94%
-
125%
(25%)
(3%)
(22%)
100%
91%
9%
(60%)
(7%)
(59%)
1%
(26%)
(54%)
nm
(34%)
(42%)
(34%)
(59%)
43%
nm
nm
nm
(39%)
21%
nm
nm
nm
nm
198%
292%
95%
nm
nm
368%
The decrease in segment revenue and operating income was primarily due to the substantial decrease in the number of SASSA
grant recipients paid under our SASSA contract as the contract expired at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Our revenue and
operating income was also adversely impacted by the significant reduction in the number of SASSA grant recipients with SASSA-
branded cards linked to Grindrod bank accounts as well as a lower number of EPE accounts. These decreases in revenue and
operating income were partially offset by higher transaction revenue as a result of increased usage of our ATMs and EasyPay.
Operating income for this operating segment for fiscal 2019 included a $1.1 million impairment loss and retrenchment costs of $4.7
million (ZAR 65.9 million).
Our operating (loss) income margin for fiscal 2019 and 2018 was (32.0%) and 16.0%, respectively. Excluding the impairment
loss of $1.1 million and restructuring costs of $4.7 million, the segment operating loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2019
were $(24.9) million and (26.0%), respectively.
International transaction-based activities
Segment revenue from continuing operations was lower during fiscal 2019, primarily due to a contraction in IPG transactions
processed, specifically meaningfully lower crypto-exchange and China processing activity. Operating loss from continuing
operations during fiscal 2019 was adversely impacted by a $7.0 million impairment loss in respect of IPG. Operating income during
fiscal 2018 was adversely impacted by a $19.9 million impairment loss, and a Mastertrading allowance for doubtful working capital
finance receivable of $7.8 million. Excluding the combined impact of the impairment losses, and the allowance for doubtful finance
loans receivable, operating income during fiscal 2019 was lower compared to fiscal 2018 due to a decrease in IPG revenues and
ongoing losses at Masterpayment during fiscal 2019.
Operating (loss) income margin for fiscal 2019 and 2018 was (167.7%) and (114.0%), respectively. Excluding the goodwill
impairment, segment operating loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2019 were $(2.8) million and (10.4%), respectively.
Excluding the impairment loss and the Mastertrading allowance for doubtful working capital finance receivables, segment operating
income and margin for fiscal 2018 were $(2.8) million and (10.4%), respectively.
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Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Segment revenue decreased primarily due to fewer prepaid airtime and value-added services sales, lower lending and insurance
revenues, and a decrease in inter-segment revenues. We reported an operating loss in fiscal 2019 compared with fiscal 2018,
primarily due to the allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable of $23.4 million recognized in the second quarter, a $6.3 million
impairment loss and expenses incurred to maintain and expand our financial service infrastructure. Operating loss for this operating
segment for fiscal 2019 included retrenchment costs of $1.6 million (ZAR 22.6 million).
Operating (loss) income margin for the Financial inclusion and applied technologies segment was (43.6%) and 25.0% during
fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. Excluding the impairment loss of $6.3 million and restructuring costs of $1.6 million, the
segment operating loss and operating loss margin for fiscal 2019 were $(31.3) million and (34.8%), respectively.
Corporate/Eliminations
Our corporate expenses increased primarily due to the accrual of $14.3 million related to the September 2019 Supreme Court
ruling, a $5.3 million impairment loss as well as higher acquired intangible asset amortization, non-employee director expenses,
transaction-related expenditures and external service provider fees, and were partially offset by the reversal of stock-based
compensation charges of $1.9 million related to forfeiture of awards. Corporate/ Eliminations for fiscal 2019, also includes the
impact of the reversal of revenue related to the September 2019 Supreme Court ruling. Our corporate expenses for fiscal 2018
includes a $0.5 million profit related to the sale of XeoHealth.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
At June 30, 2020, our cash and cash equivalents were $217.7 million, which comprised U.S. dollar-denominated balances of
$171.3 million, ZAR-denominated balances of ZAR 750.9 million ($43.3 million), and other currency deposits, primarily Botswana
pula, of $3.0 million, all amounts translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020. The increase in our unrestricted cash
balances from June 30, 2019, was primarily due to the sale of our Korean operations, FIHRST and the majority of our remaining
interest in DNI for cash; and the repayment of a loan outstanding by DNI as of June 30, 2019; which was partially offset by weak
trading activities, payment of a termination fee to cancel our Bank Frick option, repayment of our short-term borrowings, capital
expenditures, and an additional investment in V2.
We generally invest any surplus cash held by our South African operations in overnight call accounts that we maintain at South
African banking institutions, and any surplus cash held by our non-South African companies in U.S. dollar-denominated money
market accounts.
Historically, we have financed most of our operations, research and development, working capital, and capital expenditures, as
well as acquisitions and strategic investments, through internally-generated cash and our financing facilities. When considering
whether to borrow under our financing facilities, we consider the cost of capital, cost of financing, opportunity cost of utilizing
surplus cash and availability of tax efficient structures to moderate financing costs.
Available short-term borrowings
We have a short-term South African credit facility with Nedbank of up to ZAR 450.0 million ($26.0 million), which is
comprised of an overdraft facility of (i) up to ZAR 300.0 million ($17.3 million), which is further split into (a) a ZAR 250.0 million
($14.4 million) overdraft facility which may only be used to fund mobile ATMs and (b) a ZAR 50.0 million ($2.9 million) general
banking facility and (ii) indirect and derivative facilities of up to ZAR 150.0 million ($8.7 million), which include guarantees, letters
of credit and forward exchange contracts. The ZAR 250.0 million component of the primary amount may only be used to fund
ATMs and therefore this component of the primary amount utilized and converted to cash to fund our ATMs is considered restricted
cash. As of June 30, 2020, the interest rate on the overdraft facility was 6.10%, and reduced to 5.85% on July 24, 2020, following
reductions in the South African repo rate. As of June 30, 2020, we had utilized approximately ZAR 1.0 million ($0.1 million) of our
ZAR 250.0 million overdraft facility to fund ATMs, and none of our ZAR 50.0 million general banking facility. As of June 30,
2020, we had utilized approximately ZAR 93.6 million ($5.4 million) of the indirect and derivative facilities to support guarantees
issued by Nedbank to various third parties on our behalf.
We also have a short-term South African credit facility with RMB of ZAR 1.2 billion ($69.2 million) which may only be used
to fund our fixed ATMs in South Africa. As of June 30, 2020, the interest rate on the facility was 7.25% (South African prime) and
reduced to 7.00% on July 24, 2020, following reductions in the South African repo rate. As of June 30, 2020, we had utilized
approximately ZAR 0.3 billion ($14.8 million) of this facility.
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Restricted cash
We have credit facilities with RMB and Nedbank in order to access cash to fund our ATMs in South Africa. Our cash, cash
equivalents and restricted cash presented in our audited consolidated statement of cash flows as of June 30, 2020, includes restricted
cash of approximately $14.8 million related to cash withdrawn from our various debt facilities to fund ATMs. This cash may only be
used to fund ATMs and is considered restricted as to use and therefore is classified as restricted cash on our audited consolidated
balance sheet.
Settlement assets and settlement liabilities
As a transaction processor, we receive cash from credit card companies (as well as other types of payment services) which have
business relationships with merchants selling goods and services via the internet through IPG that are our customers and on whose
behalf we process the transactions between various parties and settle the funds from the credit card companies to our merchant
customers. These funds do not represent cash that is available to us and we present these funds, and the associated liability, outside
of our current assets and liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet. Movements in these cash balances are presented in investing
activities and movements in the obligations are presented in financing activities in our consolidated statement of cash flows.
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash used in operating activities during fiscal 2020 was $(46.0) million (ZAR (808.9) million) compared to $(4.5) million
(ZAR (63.6) million) during fiscal 2019. The change is primarily due to weaker trading activity during fiscal 2020 compared to
2019, the payment of $17.5 million termination fee to cancel our Bank Frick option, as well as the purchase of Cell C prepaid
airtime that is subject to sale restrictions, which was partially offset by the net unwind in our lending book following the temporary
COVID-19 restrictions imposed on our lending activities in the latter half of fiscal 2020.
Net cash used in operating activities during fiscal 2019 was $(4.5) million (ZAR (63.6) million) compared to $132.3 million
(ZAR 1,679.6 million) generated during fiscal 2018. The decrease in cash provided is primarily due to significantly weaker trading
activity during fiscal 2019 compared to 2018.
During fiscal 2020, we paid South African tax of $1.3 million (ZAR 20.0 million) related to our 2020 tax year and $0.8 million
(ZAR 11.6 million) related to our 2019 tax year. We also paid taxes totaling $4.3 million in other tax jurisdictions, primarily South
Korea.
During fiscal 2019, we paid South African tax of $7.2 million (ZAR 102.9 million) related to our 2019 tax year. During fiscal
2019, we made an additional tax payment of $1.4 million (ZAR 20.9 million) related to our 2018 tax year in South Africa. We also
paid taxes totaling $4.7 million in other tax jurisdictions, primarily South Korea.
During fiscal 2018, we paid South African tax of $34.7 million (ZAR 457.1 million) related to our 2018 tax year. During fiscal
2018, we made an additional tax payment of $1.9 million (ZAR 24.4 million) related to our 2017 tax year in South Africa. We also
paid taxes totaling $4.9 million in other tax jurisdictions, primarily South Korea.
Taxes paid during fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
Table 13
First provisional payments
Second provisional payments
Taxation paid related to prior years
Tax refund received
Total South African taxes paid
Foreign taxes paid: Korea
Total tax paid
2020
$
‘000
2019
$
‘000
825
470
782
(1,339)
738
4,263
5,001
6,450
752
1,426
(254)
8,374
4,736
13,110
Year ended June 30,
2020
2018
ZAR
$
‘000
‘000
17,739
17,008
1,859
(430)
36,176
4,889
41,065
11,934
8,038
11,620
(19,245)
12,347
62,302
74,649
2019
ZAR
‘000
91,994
10,952
20,880
(3,864)
119,962
66,519
186,481
2018
ZAR
‘000
231,200
225,887
24,432
(5,480)
476,039
63,261
539,300
We expect to pay additional provisional payments in South Africa of approximately $0.2 million (ZAR 3.4 million translated at
exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020) related to our 2020 tax year in the first quarter of fiscal 2021.
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Cash flows from investing activities
During fiscal 2020, we paid approximately $5.9 million (ZAR 104.3 million), related to capital expenditures, primarily related
to the acquisition of ATMs and computer equipment in South Africa, leasehold improvements in Malta and processing equipment in
South Korea to maintain operations. During fiscal 2020, we received a net $192.6 million from the sale of Net1 Korea, paid
transaction costs related to this disposal of $7.5 million, and received $10.9 million from the sale of FIHRST. We also received
$42.5 million related to the sale of the majority of our remaining interest in DNI. We also made a further equity contribution of $2.5
million to V2, extended loan funding of $1.5 million to our equity-accounted investments, and received $4.3 million from DNI
related to the settlement of a ZAR 60.0 million loan outstanding as of June 30, 2019.
During fiscal 2019, we paid approximately $9.4 million (ZAR 134.5 million), related to capital expenditures, primarily related
to the acquisition of ATMs in South Africa and the expansion of our branch network. We also paid $2.5 million for a 50% interest in
V2 Limited, acquired customer bases in DNI for $1.4 million, made a further equity contribution of $1.1 million to MobiKwik and
received $1.0 million from Finbond related to the settlement of a ZAR 15.0 million loan outstanding.
During fiscal 2018, we paid approximately $151.0 million (ZAR 2.0 billion) for a 15% interest in Cell C, $88.7 million (ZAR
1.2 billion) for a 55% interest in DNI, $51.9 million for a 35% interest in Bank Frick, and $9.0 million for a 7.625% interest in a
listed note. Fiscal 2018 includes capital expenditure of $9.6 million (ZAR 122.5 million), primarily for the acquisition of payment
processing terminals in Korea and ATMs in South Africa.
Cash flows from financing activities
During fiscal 2020, we utilized approximately $672.4 million from our South African overdraft facilities, primarily to fund our
ATMs, and repaid $721.0 million of these facilities. We utilized approximately $14.8 million of our borrowings to fund the purchase
of Cell C prepaid airtime that was subject to sale restrictions. We repaid the amount in full, paying $14.5 million, with the difference
of $0.3 million reflecting the impact of changes in ZAR against the U.S dollar. We also repaid $26.9 million of our Bank Frick
overdraft and utilized $17.4 million of this overdraft to fund our operations.
During fiscal 2019, we utilized approximately $822.8 million from our overdraft facilities, primarily to fund our ATMs, and
repaid $741.0 million of these facilities. We also utilized approximately $14.6 million of DNI’s revolving credit facility to lend
funds to Cell C to finance the acquisition and/or requisition of telecommunication towers and other specific uses pre-approved by
the lender. We also made scheduled South African debt facility payments of $31.8 million, repaid $4.9 million under DNI’s
revolving credit facility and paid non-refundable origination fees of approximately $0.4 million related to the credit facilities. We
also paid dividends of approximately $4.1 million to certain of our non-controlling interests, principally in DNI.
During fiscal 2018, we utilized approximately $113.2 million (ZAR 1.46 billion) of our South African facility to partially fund
our investments in Cell C and DNI and utilized approximately $0.3 million of our Korean facility to pay a portion of our quarterly
interest due. We made accumulated scheduled South African debt facility payments of $60.5 million (ZAR 776.3 million) and made
a $16.6 million payment to settle our outstanding South Korean debt facility in full. We also utilized $44.9 million of our overdraft
facilities and repaid $62.9 million of these facilities.
Contractual Obligations
The following table sets forth our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2020:
Table 14
Payments due by Period, as of June 30, 2020 (in $ ’000s)
Short-term credit facilities for ATM funding(A)
Operating lease liabilities, including imputed interest(B)
Purchase obligations
Capital commitments
Other long-term obligations reflected on our balance
sheet(C)(D)
Total
Total
14,814
6,388
1,656
59
2,012
24,929
Less than 1
year
14,814
2,622
1,656
59
-
19,151
2-3 years
-
2,486
-
-
3-5 years
-
959
-
-
Thereafter
-
321
-
-
-
2,486
-
959
2,012
2,333
(A) – Refer to Note 13 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
(B) – Refer to Note 9 to our audited consolidated financial statements.
(C) – Includes policyholder liabilities of $2.0 million related to our insurance business. All amounts are translated at
exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020.
(D) – We have excluded cross-guarantees in the aggregate amount of $5.4 million issued as of June 30, 2020, to Nedbank to
secure guarantees it has issued to third parties on our behalf as the amounts that will be settled in cash are not known and
the timing of any payments is uncertain. We have also excluded contractual commitments to lend approximately $4.5
million to V2 Limited, subject to the achievement of certain contractual conditions.
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
Table 15
2020
$
‘000
2019
$
‘000
Year ended June 30,
2020
2018
ZAR
$
‘000
‘000
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied
technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Total
3,443
2,206
703
1,503
289
289
-
5,938
3,590
3,607
664
2,943
2,219
1,488
731
9,416
3,988
4,397
139
4,258
1,264
1,264
-
9,649
60,489
38,757
12,351
26,406
5,077
5,077
-
104,323
2019
ZAR
‘000
51,225
51,468
9,475
41,993
31,662
21,232
10,430
134,355
2018
ZAR
‘000
50,628
55,821
1,765
54,056
16,047
16,047
-
122,496
Our capital expenditures for fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018, are discussed under “—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Cash flows
from investing activities.”
All of our capital expenditures for the past three fiscal years were funded through internally-generated funds. We had
outstanding capital commitments as of June 30, 2020, of $0.1 million. We expect to fund these expenditures through internally-
generated funds. In addition to these capital expenditures, we expect that capital spending for fiscal 2021 will also primarily relate to
expanding our operations in South Africa.
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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
We seek to manage our exposure to currency exchange, translation, interest rate, customer concentration, credit, and equity
price and liquidity risks as discussed below.
Currency Exchange Risk
We are subject to currency exchange risk because we purchase inventories that we are required to settle in other currencies,
primarily the euro and U.S. dollar. We have used forward contracts to limit our exposure in these transactions to fluctuations in
exchange rates between the ZAR, on the one hand, and the U.S. dollar and the euro, on the other hand. We had no outstanding
foreign exchange contracts as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Translation Risk
Translation risk relates to the risk that our results of operations will vary significantly as the U.S. dollar is our reporting
currency, but we earn most of our revenues and incur most of our expenses in ZAR. The U.S. dollar to ZAR exchange rate has
fluctuated significantly over the past three years. As exchange rates are outside our control, there can be no assurance that future
fluctuations will not adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
Interest Rate Risk
As a result of our normal borrowing and lending activities, our operating results are exposed to fluctuations in interest rates,
which we manage primarily through our regular financing activities. We generally maintain limited investments in cash equivalents
and have occasionally invested in marketable securities. The interest earned on our bank balances and short-term cash investments is
dependent on the prevailing interest rates in the jurisdictions where our cash reserves are invested. During the year ended June 30,
2020, we repaid our long-term borrowings in full.
We have short-term borrowings which attract interest at rates that fluctuate based on changes in the South African prime interest
rate. The following table illustrates the effect on our annual expected interest charge, translated at exchange rates applicable as of
June 30, 2020, as a result of changes in the South African prime interest rate, assuming hypothetical short-term borrowings of ZAR
1.0 billion as of June 30, 2020. The effect of a hypothetical 1% (i.e. 100 basis points) increase and a 1% decrease in the South
African prime interest rate as of June 30, 2020, are shown. The selected 1% hypothetical change does not reflect what could be
considered the best or worst case scenarios.
Table 16
As of June 30, 2020
Annual expected
interest charge
($ ’000)
Hypothetical
change in
interest rates
Estimated annual
expected interest
charge after
hypothetical change
in interest rates
($ ’000)
Interest on South Africa overdraft (South African prime interest
rate)
4,183
1%
(1%)
4,760
3,606
Credit Risk
Credit risk relates to the risk of loss that we would incur as a result of non-performance by counterparties. We maintain credit
risk policies with regard to our counterparties to minimize overall credit risk. These policies include an evaluation of a potential
counterparty’s financial condition, credit rating, and other credit criteria and risk mitigation tools as our management deems
appropriate. With respect to credit risk on financial instruments, we maintain a policy of entering into such transactions only with
South African, South Korean and European financial institutions that have a credit rating of “B” (or its equivalent) or better, as
determined by credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings.
Microlending Credit Risk
We are exposed to credit risk in our microlending activities, which provide unsecured short-term loans to qualifying customers.
We manage this risk by performing an affordability test for each prospective customer and assigning a “creditworthiness score”,
which takes into account a variety of factors such as other debts and total expenditures on normal household and lifestyle expenses.
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Equity Securities Price Risk
Equity price risk relates to the risk of loss that we would incur as a result of the volatility in the exchange-traded price of equity
securities that we hold and the risk that we may not be able to liquidate these securities. As of June 30, 2020, we did not have any
equity securities that were exchange-traded and held as available for sale. Historically, exchange-traded equity securities held as
available for sale were expected to be held for an extended period of time and we were not concerned with short-term equity price
volatility with respect to these securities provided that the underlying business, economic and management characteristics of the
company remain sound.
The market price of these exchange-traded equity securities may fluctuate for a variety of reasons and, consequently, the
amount we may obtain in a subsequent sale of these securities may significantly differ from the reported market value.
Equity Securities Liquidity Risk
Liquidity risk relates to the risk of loss that we would incur as a result of the lack of liquidity on the exchange on which these
securities are listed. We may not be able to sell some or all of these securities at one time, or over an extended period of time without
influencing the exchange traded price, or at all.
We monitor these investments for impairment and make appropriate reductions in carrying value when an impairment is
deemed to be other-than-temporary.
We have invested in approximately 30.6% of the issued share capital of Finbond which are exchange-traded equity securities,
however, from April 1, 2016, we have accounted for them using the equity method. The fair value of these securities of $35.7
million as of June 30, 2020, represented approximately 7.9% of our total assets, including these securities.
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Our audited consolidated financial statements, together with the report of our independent registered public accounting firm,
appear on pages F-1 through F-82 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING
AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Not applicable.
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief
financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer
and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of June 30, 2020, due to
the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting as described below.
Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Financial Officer, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by our board of directors, management, and other
personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements
for external purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records
that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets; (2) provide reasonable
assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP,
and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our officers and
directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or
disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our audited consolidated financial statements.
Inherent Limitations in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Internal control over financial reporting cannot provide absolute assurance of achieving financial reporting objectives because
of its inherent limitations. Internal control over financial reporting is a process that involves human diligence and compliance and is
subject to lapses in judgment and breakdowns resulting from human failures. Internal control over financial reporting also can be
circumvented by collusion or improper management override. Because of such limitations, there is a risk that material misstatements
may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by internal control over financial reporting. However, these inherent limitations
are known features of the financial reporting process. Therefore, it is possible to design into the process safeguards to reduce, though
not eliminate, this risk.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and
maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting. Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of
internal control over financial reporting based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by
the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this evaluation and as described
below, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of June 30, 2020.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that a
reasonable possibility exists that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or
detected on a timely basis
We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting in fiscal 2019 where the control over the
review of the accounting for non-routine complex transactions did not operate effectively. As a result of the material weakness, the
control did not operate effectively in determining the correct classification in the statement of operations of the $34.0 million accrual
for the implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA following the September 30, 2019 Supreme Court ruling and in determining
the appropriate presentation and accounting of DNI as a discontinued operation.
The material weakness remains unremediated as of June 30, 2020.
Deloitte & Touche (South Africa), our independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an audit report on our internal
control over financial reporting.
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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter ended
June 30, 2020, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
reporting.
Remediation Plan and Status
We have established an in-house accounting technical committee comprising senior members of the finance team in addition to
the chief financial officer to review the appropriateness of the accounting treatment of non-routine complex transactions. This
technical committee also engages an external expert on the accounting treatment of non-routine complex transactions where it
considers this necessary.
We did not have sufficient non-routine complex transactions to test in order to determine the operating effectiveness of the
control during fiscal 2020. The material weakness cannot be considered completely remediated until the applicable controls have
operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.
While we believe the steps taken have improved the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we have
limited opportunities to assess that effectiveness. Accordingly, as we continue to monitor the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting in the areas affected by the material weakness described above, we have and will continue to perform
additional procedures, including the use of manual mitigating control procedures and employing any additional tools and resources
deemed necessary, to ensure that our consolidated financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. and subsidiaries (the
“Company”) as of June 30, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, because of the effect of the material
weakness identified below on the achievement of the control criteria, the Company has not maintained effective internal control over
financial reporting as of June 30, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by
COSO.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended June 30, 2020, of the Company and our report dated
September 10, 2020, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its
assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on
Internal Controls over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be
independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations
of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the
audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material
respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material
weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and
performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1)
pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the
assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial
statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being
made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance
regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a
material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also,
projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because
of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Material Weakness
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that
there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be
prevented or detected on a timely basis. The following material weakness has been identified and included in management's
assessment:
A material weakness in internal control over financial reporting results from the control over the accounting for non-routine
complex transactions that did not operate effectively.
This material weakness was considered in determining the nature, timing, and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the
consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended June 30, 2020, of the Company, and this report does not affect our
report on such financial statements.
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/s/ Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte & Touche
Registered Auditors
Johannesburg, South Africa
September 10, 2020
National Executive: *LL Bam Chief Executive Officer *TMM Jordan Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Clients & Industries *MJ
Jarvis Chief Operating Officer *AF Mackie Audit & Assurance *N Sing Risk Advisory DP Ndlovu Tax & Legal *MR Verster
Consulting *JK Mazzocco People & Purpose MG Dicks Risk Independence & Legal *KL Hodson Financial Advisory *B Nyembe
Responsible Business & Public Policy *R Redfearn Chair of the Board
A full list of partners and directors is available on request *Partner and Registered Auditor
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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
None.
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PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Information about our executive officers is set out in Part I, Item 1 under the caption “Information about our Executive
Officers.” The other information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the sections of our definitive proxy statement
for our 2020 annual meeting of shareholders entitled “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance” and “Additional Information.”
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the sections of our definitive proxy statement for our
2020 annual meeting of shareholders entitled “Executive Compensation,” “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance—
Compensation of Directors” and “—Remuneration Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation.”
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the sections of our definitive proxy statement for our
2020 annual meeting of shareholders entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Equity
Compensation Plan Information.”
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE
The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the sections of our definitive proxy statement for our
2020 annual meeting of shareholders entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” and “Board of Directors and
Corporate Governance.”
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the sections of our definitive proxy statement for our
2020 annual meeting of shareholders entitled “Audit and Non-Audit Fees.”
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PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
a) The following documents are filed as part of this report
1. Financial Statements
The following financial statements are included on pages F-1 through F-82.
Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – Deloitte & Touche (South Africa)
Consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2020 and 2019 (as restated)
Consolidated statements of operations for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as restated)
Consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018
(as restated)
Consolidated statements of changes in equity for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as
restated)
Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as restated)
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
F-2
F-3
F-4
F-5
F-6
F-9
F-10
2. Financial Statement Schedules
Financial statement schedules have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or the information is
otherwise included.
(b) Exhibits
Exhibit
No.
3.1
3.2
4.1
4.7
10.1*
10.2*
10.3*
10.4*
10.5*
10.6*
10.7*
10.8*
10.9*
10.10*
Incorporated by Reference Herein
Included
Herewith Form Exhibit
Filing Date
Description of Exhibit
Amended and Restated Articles of
Incorporation
Amended and Restated By-Laws of Net 1 UEPS
Technologies, Inc.
Form of common stock certificate
Description of registrant’s securities
X
Form of Restricted Stock Agreement
Form of Stock Option Agreement
Form of Restricted Stock Agreement (non-
employee directors)
Form of Indemnification Agreement
Form of non-employee director agreement
Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Incentive
Plan of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
Contract of Employment, effective March 1,
2018, between Net1 Applied Technologies
South Africa Proprietary Limited and Alexander
Michael Ramsay Smith
Restrictive Covenants Agreement, effective
March 1, 2018, between Net1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited
and Alexander Michael Ramsay Smith
Employment Agreement, effective March 1,
2018, between Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
and Alexander Michael Ramsay Smith
Restrictive Covenants Agreement, effective
March 1, 2018, between Net 1 UEPS
Technologies, Inc. and Alexander Michael
Ramsay Smith
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8-K
3.1
December 1, 2008
8-K
S-1
3.2
4.1
May 14, 2020
June 20, 2005
10-K
10-K
10-K
10-K
10-K
10.13
10.14
10.15
10.32
10.5
August 23, 2012
August 23, 2012
August 23, 2012
August 25, 2016
August 24, 2017
14A
A
October 2, 2015
8-K
10.80
March 1, 2018
8-K
10.81
March 1, 2018
8-K
10.82
March 1, 2018
8-K
10.83
March 1, 2018
10.11
10.12
10.13
10.14
10.15
10.16
10.17
10.18
10.19
10.20
10.21
10.22
Agreement of Lease, Memorandum of an
agreement entered into by and between Buzz
Trading 199 (Pty) Ltd and Net 1 Applied
Technologies South Africa (Pty) Ltd dated May
7, 2013
Addendum to the Lease Agreement made and
entered into by and between Buzz Trading 199
(Pty) Ltd and Net 1 Applied Technologies
South Africa (Pty) Ltd dated November 18,
2016
Proposed Agreement of Lease between Buzz
Trading 199 (Pty) Ltd and Net 1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Limited dated
October 12, 2017
Relationship Agreement dated December 10,
2013 between Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.,
Net 1 Applied Technologies South Africa
(Proprietary) Limited, Business Venture
Investments No 1567 (Proprietary) Limited
(RF) and Mosomo Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited.
Facility Letter between Nedbank Limited and
Net1 Applied Technologies South Africa
Limited and certain of its subsidiaries dated as
of December 13, 2013 and First Addendum
thereto dated as of December 18, 2013
Letter from Nedbank Limited to Net1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited
and certain of its subsidiaries, dated December
7, 2016
Addendum dated January 31, 2014, to the
Relationship Agreement between Net 1 UEPS
Technologies, Inc., Net 1 Applied Technologies
South Africa (Proprietary) Limited, Business
Venture Investments No 1567 (Proprietary)
Limited (RF) and Mosomo Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited.
Second Addendum dated March 14, 2014, to the
Relationship Agreement between Net 1 UEPS
Technologies, Inc., Net 1 Applied Technologies
South Africa (Proprietary) Limited, Business
Venture Investments No 1567 (Proprietary)
Limited (RF) and Mosomo Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited.
Subscription and Sale of Shares Agreement
dated August 27, 2014, between Net 1 UEPS
Technologies, Inc., Net 1 Applied Technologies
South Africa (Proprietary) Limited, Business
Venture Investments No 1567 (Proprietary)
Limited (RF), Mosomo Investment Holdings
(Proprietary) Limited and Cash Paymaster
Services (Proprietary) Ltd
Subscription Agreement, dated April 11, 2016,
among the Company and the IFC Investors
Policy Agreement, dated April 11, 2016, among
the Company and the IFC Investors
Cooperation Agreement, dated May 13, 2020,
by and between Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
and VCP (Proprietary) Limited.
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10-Q
10.25
May 9, 2013
10-Q
10-60
May 4, 2017
10-Q
10.79
February 8, 2018
8-K
10.25
December 10, 2013
8-K
10.27
December 19, 2013
8-K
10.50
December 9, 2016
10-Q
10.28
February 6, 2014
8-K
10.30
March 18, 2014
10-Q
10.29
November 6, 2014
8-K
10.31
April 12, 2016
8-K
10.32
April 12, 2016
8-K
10.1
May 14, 2020
10.23
10.24
10.25
10.26
10.27
14
21
23
31.1
31.2
Cell C Shareholders Agreement, dated as of
June 19, 2017, by and between Albanta Trading
109 Proprietary Limited, the parties identified
on Schedule 1.1.55 thereto, The Prepaid
Company Proprietary Limited, Net1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited,
Cedar Cellular Investment 1 (RF) Proprietary
Limited, Magnolia Cellular Investment 2 (RF)
Proprietary Limited, Yellowwood Cellular
Investment 3 (RF) Proprietary Limited, and Cell
C Proprietary Limited
Senior Facility E Agreement, dated September
26, 2018, among Net1 Applied Technologies
South Africa Proprietary Limited, FirstRand
Bank Limited (acting through its Rand
Merchant Bank division), as lender, and
FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its
Rand Merchant Bank division), as agent.
Third Amendment and Restatement Agreement,
dated September 4, 2019, among Net1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited,
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc., the parties
listed in Part I of Schedule 1 thereto, as the
original guarantors, FirstRand Bank Limited
(acting through its Rand Merchant Bank
division), as an arranger, Nedbank Limited
(acting through its Corporate and Investment
Banking division), as an arranger, the parties
listed in Part II of Schedule 1 thereto, as the
original lenders, FirstRand Bank Limited
(acting through its Rand Merchant Bank
division), as agent and Main Street 1692 (RF)
Proprietary Limited, as debt guarantor.
Senior Facility F Agreement, dated September
4, 2019, among Net1 Applied Technologies
South Africa Proprietary Limited, FirstRand
Bank Limited (acting through its Rand
Merchant Bank division) as a lender, Nedbank
Limited (acting through its Corporate and
Investment Banking division), as a lender, and
FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its
Rand Merchant Bank division), as agent.
Pledge and Cession in Security, dated
September 4, 2019, given by Net1 Applied
Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited,
as cedent, in favor of Main Street 1692 (RF)
Proprietary Limited, as cessionary in respect of
certain Shares.
Amended and Restated Code of Ethics
Subsidiaries of Registrant
Consent of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
Certification of Principal Executive Officer
pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended
Certification of Principal Financial Officer
pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended
32
Certification pursuant to 18 USC Section 1350
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X
X
X
X
X
X
8-K
10.69
June 26, 2017
8-K
10.96
October 2, 2018
8-K
10.102
September 13, 2019
8-K
10.103
September 13, 2019
8-K
10.104
September 13, 2019
101.INS
101.SCH
101.CAL
101.DEF
101.LAB
101.PRE
XBRL Instance Document
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation
Linkbase
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition
Linkbase
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation
Linkbase
X
X
X
X
X
X
* Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY
None.
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Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SIGNATURES
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By: /s/ Herman G. Kotzé
Herman G. Kotzé
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Date: September 10, 2020
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this report has been signed below by the
following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
NAME
TITLE
DATE
/s/ Jabu A. Mabuza
Jabu Mabuza
/s/ Herman G. Kotzé
Herman G. Kotzé
/s/ Alex M.R. Smith
Alex M.R. Smith
/s/ Antony C. Ball
Antony C. Ball
/s/ Ian O. Greenstreet
Ian O. Greenstreet
/s/ Ali Mazanderani
Ali Mazanderani
/s/ Alasdair J. K. Pein
Alasdair J. K. Pein
/s/ Kuben Pillay
Kuben Pillay
/s/ Ekta Singh-Bushell
Ekta Singh-Bushell
Chairman of the Board and Director
September 10, 2020
Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
September 10, 2020
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary and
Director (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
LIST OF CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
F-2
Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – Deloitte & Touche (South Africa)
F-3
Consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2020 and 2019 (as restated)
Consolidated statements of operations for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as restated) F-4
F-5
Consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated)
and 2018 (as restated)
Consolidated statements of changes in equity for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as
restated)
Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 (as restated) and 2018 (as
restated)
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
F-6
F-9
F-10
F-1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company")
as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive (loss) income, changes in equity and
cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended June 30, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the
"financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the
Company as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period
ended June 30, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal
Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and
our report dated September 10, 2020, expressed an adverse opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting
because of a material weakness.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to
be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the
audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or
fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether
due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis,
evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial
statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte & Touche
Registered Auditors
Johannesburg, South Africa
September 10, 2020
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2004.
National Executive: *LL Bam Chief Executive Officer *TMM Jordan Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Clients & Industries *MJ
Jarvis Chief Operating Officer *AF Mackie Audit & Assurance *N Sing Risk Advisory DP Ndlovu Tax & Legal *MR Verster
Consulting *JK Mazzocco People & Purpose MG Dicks Risk Independence & Legal *KL Hodson Financial Advisory *B Nyembe
Responsible Business & Public Policy *R Redfearn Chair of the Board
A full list of partners and directors is available on request *Partner and Registered Auditor
F-2
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
as of June 30, 2020 and 2019
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
Restricted cash related to ATM funding (Note 13)
Accounts receivable, net and other receivables (Note 5)
Finance loans receivable, net (Note 5)
Inventory (Note 6)
Total current assets before settlement assets
Settlement assets
Current assets of discontinued operation (Note 3)
Total current assets
PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NET (Note 8)
OPERATING LEASE RIGHT-OF-USE (Note 9)
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS (Note 10)
GOODWILL (Note 11)
INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET (Note 11)
DEFERRED INCOME TAXES
OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS, including reinsurance assets (Note 10 and 12)
LONG-TERM ASSETS OF DISCONTINUED OPERATION (Note 3)
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Short-term credit facilities for ATM funding (Note 13)
Short-term credit facilities (Note 13)
Accounts payable
Other payables (Note 14)
Operating lease liability - current (Note 9)
Income taxes payable
Total current liabilities before settlement obligations
Settlement obligations
Current liabilities of discontinued operation (Note 3)
Total current liabilities
DEFERRED INCOME TAXES
OPERATING LEASE LIABILITY - LONG TERM (Note 9)
OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES, including insurance policy liabilities (Note 12)
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES OF DISCONTINUED OPERATION (Note 3)
TOTAL LIABILITIES
REDEEMABLE COMMON STOCK (Note 15)
COMMON STOCK (Note 15)
Authorized: 200,000,000 with $0.001 par value;
EQUITY
$
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
(as restated)(A)
(In thousands, except share data)
$
217,671
14,814
43,068
15,879
19,860
311,292
8,014
-
319,306
6,656
5,395
65,836
24,169
612
358
31,346
-
453,678
14,814
-
6,287
23,779
2,251
16,157
63,288
8,015
-
71,303
1,859
3,312
2,012
-
78,486
84,979
20,014
75,446
31,135
20,981
5,709
153,285
24,523
117,842
295,650
8,227
-
148,427
37,316
2,228
234
28,775
149,390
670,247
75,446
9,544
9,866
59,622
-
1,330
155,808
24,523
57,815
238,146
1,324
-
2,499
3,264
245,233
107,672
Issued and outstanding shares, net of treasury - 2020: 57,118,925; 2019: 56,568,425
80
80
PREFERRED STOCK
Authorized shares: 50,000,000 with $0.001 par value;
Issued and outstanding shares, net of treasury: 2020: - ; 2019: -
ADDITIONAL PAID-IN-CAPITAL
TREASURY SHARES, AT COST: 2020: 24,891,292; 2019: 24,891,292
ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (Note 16)
RETAINED EARNINGS
TOTAL NET1 EQUITY
NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST
TOTAL EQUITY
-
301,489
(286,951)
(169,075)
444,670
290,213
-
290,213
-
276,997
(286,951)
(195,812)
523,028
317,342
-
317,342
TOTAL LIABILITIES, REDEEMABLE COMMON STOCK AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
$
453,678
$
670,247
(A) – Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-3
2020
2019
(as
restated)(A)
(In thousands, except per share data)
2018
(as
restated)(A)
$
150,997
117,325
19,955
13,717
-
$
$
166,227
142,931
27,525
15,480
(19,709)
459,575
391,646
54,949
12,980
-
243,554
130,822
10,473
20,917
53,809
32,473
-
-
-
-
16,845
8,569
-
94,558
45,106
49,452
1,810
51,262
9,945
-
61,207
(880)
(880)
-
62,087
52,142
9,945
1.10
0.92
0.18
1.09
0.92
0.17
109,006
75,256
4,647
6,336
(44,248)
-
9,743
(1,010)
7,148
17,517
2,805
7,641
-
(65,016)
2,656
(67,672)
(29,542)
(97,214)
6,402
12,454
(78,358)
-
-
-
(78,358)
(97,214)
18,856
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
129,696
144,920
12,103
14,440
(134,932)
(167,459)
-
177
-
-
5,424
9,860
12,793
(319,443)
(5,072)
(314,371)
1,258
(313,113)
13,630
(9,175)
(308,658)
2,349
(1,352)
3,701
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018
REVENUE (Note 17)
Services rendered
Loan-based fees received
Sale of goods
Variation of price related to SASSA Revenue (Note 14)
EXPENSE
Cost of goods sold, IT processing, servicing and support
Selling, general and administration
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss (Note 11)
OPERATING (LOSS) INCOME
CHANGE IN FAIR VALUE OF EQUITY SECURITIES (Note 7 and 10)
GAIN ON DISPOSAL OF FIHRST (Note 3)
(LOSS) GAIN ON DISPOSAL OF DNI (Note 10)
LOSS ON DECONSOLIDATION OF CPS (Note 3)
TERMINATION FEE PAID TO CANCEL BANK FRICK OPTION (Note 10)
INTEREST INCOME
INTEREST EXPENSE
IMPAIRMENT OF CEDAR CELLULAR NOTE (Note 10)
(LOSS) INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAX EXPENSE (BENEFIT)
INCOME TAX EXPENSE (BENEFIT) (Note 19)
NET (LOSS) INCOME BEFORE (LOSS) INCOME FROM EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
INVESTMENTS
(LOSS) INCOME FROM EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS (Note 10)
NET (LOSS) INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS
NET INCOME FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (Note 3)
GAIN (LOSS) ON DISPOSAL OF DISCONTINUED OPERATION, net of tax (Note 3)
NET (LOSS) INCOME
LESS (ADD): NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO NON-
CONTROLLING INTEREST
Continuing
Discontinued
NET (LOSS) INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO NET1
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) earnings per share, in United States dollars (Note 20):
Basic (loss) earnings attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted (loss) earnings attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
(A) – Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
F-4
2020
2019
(As
restated)(A)
(In thousands)
2018
(As
restated)(A)
$
(78,358)
$ (308,658)
$
61,207
(35,070)
(26,148)
(19,286)
32,451
14,228
11,323
1,578
-
-
5,679
-
-
-
-
-
2,227
26,737
(51,621)
4,251
(16,218)
(324,876)
(2,426)
(21,712)
39,495
-
2,407
978
(51,621)
$ (322,469)
$
40,473
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME
for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018
Net (loss) income
Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of taxes
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to deconsolidation of CPS
(Note 3 and Note 16)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of Net1 Korea
(Note 3 and Note 16)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of DNI (Note 3,
Note 10 and Note 16)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of FIHRST (Note
3 and Note 16)
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve related to equity-accounted
investments
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes
Comprehensive (loss) income
Add comprehensive income attributable to non-
controlling interest
Comprehensive (loss) income attributable to Net1
$
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-5
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended June 30, 2018 (dollar amounts in thousands)
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. Shareholders
Number of
Shares
Amount
Number of
Treasury
Shares
Treasury
Shares
Number of
shares, net of
treasury
Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Retained
Earnings
(as
restated)(A)
Accumulated
other
comprehensive
loss (as
restated)(A)
Total Net1
Equity
Non-
controlling
Interest
Redeemable
common
stock
Total
81,261,029
$
80
(24,891,292) $
(286,951)
56,369,737
$
273,733
$
771,948
$
(162,736) $
596,074
$
2,766
$ 598,840
$
107,672
618,411
(302,223)
618,411
(302,223)
2,656
(49)
(139)
62,087
-
2,656
(49)
(139)
-
62,087
-
2,656
(49)
(139)
94,123
61,207
94,123
(880)
81,577,217 $
80
(24,891,292) $
(286,951)
56,685,925
$
276,201 $
834,035 $
(21,614)
(184,350) $
(21,614)
639,015 $
(98)
(21,712)
95,911 $ 734,926 $
107,672
Balance – July 1, 2017
Restricted stock granted
Stock-based compensation charge (Note
18)
Reversal of stock-based compensation
charge (Note 18)
Stock-based compensation charge related
to equity accounted investment
Acquisition of DNI (Note 3)
Net income (loss) (Note 1)
Other comprehensive loss (Note 1 and
Note 16)
Balance – June 30, 2018
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
F-6
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended June 30, 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands)
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. Shareholders
Number of
Shares
Amount
Number of
Treasury
Shares
Treasury
Shares
Number of
shares, net of
treasury
Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Retained
Earnings
(as
restated)(A)
Accumulated
other
comprehensive
loss (as
restated)(A)
Total Net1
Equity
Non-
controlling
Interest
Redeemable
common
stock
Total
Balance – July 1, 2018
81,577,217 $
80
(24,891,292) $
(286,951)
56,685,925 $
276,201 $
834,035 $
(184,350) $
639,015 $
95,911 $ 734,926 $
107,672
148,000
(265,500)
Restricted stock granted
Stock-based compensation charge (Note
18)
Reversal of stock-based compensation
charge (Note 18)
Stock-based compensation charge
related to equity accounted investment
Acquisition of non-controlling interest
Dividends paid to non-controlling
interest
Deconsolidation of DNI (Note 3)
Net (loss) income (Note 1)
Other comprehensive loss (Note 1 and
Note 16)
Balance – June 30, 2019
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
81,459,717 $
80
(24,891,292) $
148,000
2,319
(265,500)
(1,926)
117
286
(311,007)
-
2,319
(1,926)
117
286
-
-
(311,007)
-
2,319
(1,926)
117
752
(4,104)
(89,866)
(308,658)
466
(4,104)
(89,866)
2,349
(286,951)
56,568,425 $
276,997 $
523,028 $
(11,462)
(195,812) $
(11,462)
317,342 $
(4,756)
(16,218)
- $ 317,342 $
107,672
F-7
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended June 30, 2020 (dollar amounts in thousands)
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. Shareholders
Retained
Earnings
(as
restated)(A)
523,028 $
Accumulated
other
comprehensive
loss (as
restated)(A)
Total Net1
Equity
Non-
controlling
Interest
(195,812) $
317,342 $
- $
Redeemable
common
stock
107,672
Total
317,342 $
-
1,873
(145)
71
-
1,873
(145)
71
26,737
(169,075) $
22,693
(78,358)
26,737
290,213 $
22,693
(78,358)
26,737
290,213 $
-
-
- $
(22,693)
84,979
Balance – July 1, 2019 (Note 1)
Restricted stock granted
Stock-based compensation charge (Note
18)
Reversal of stock-based compensation
charge (Note 18)
Stock-based compensation charge
related to equity accounted investment
(Note 10)
Transfer from redeemable common
stock to additional paid-in-capital (Note
15)
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss (Note 16)
Number of
Shares
81,459,717 $
568,000
Amount
80
Number of
Treasury
Shares
(24,891,292) $
Treasury
Shares
(286,951)
Number of
shares, net of
treasury
56,568,425 $
568,000
Additional
Paid-In
Capital
276,997 $
-
(17,500)
1,873
(17,500)
(145)
71
22,693
(78,358)
Balance – June 30, 2020
82,010,217 $
80
(24,891,292) $
(286,951)
57,118,925 $
301,489 $
444,670 $
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-8
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASHFLOWS
for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018
Cash flows from operating activities
Net (loss) income
Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash (used in) provided by operating
activities:
Depreciation and amortization
Impairment loss (Note 3 and Note 11)
Movement in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
Loss (Earnings) from equity-accounted investments (Note 10)
Movement in allowance for doubtful loans to equity-accounted investments
Inventory net realizable value adjustment (Note 6)
Interest on Cedar Cellular note (Note 10)
Impairment of Cedar Cellular note (Note 10)
Change in fair value of equity securities (Note 7 and 10)
Implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA (Note 14)
Fair value adjustment related to financial liabilities
Interest payable
Facility fee amortized
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS (Note 3)
(Gain) Loss on disposal of discontinued operation (Note 3)
Gain on disposal of FIHRST (Note 3)
Loss (Gain) on disposal of DNI (Note 3)
Loss on fair value of DNI (Note 3)
Gain on disposal of business
(Profit) Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment
Stock-based compensation charge (Note 18)
Dividends received from equity-accounted investments
Decrease in accounts receivable, pre-funded social welfare grants receivable and finance
loans receivable
(Increase) Decrease in inventory
Increase (Decrease) in accounts payable and other payables
(Decrease) Increase in taxes payable
(Decrease) Increase in deferred taxes
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Capital expenditures
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment
Proceeds from disposal of Net1 Korea, net of cash disposed (Note 3)
Transaction costs paid related to disposal of Net1 Korea (Note 3)
Proceeds from disposal of DNI as equity-accounted investment (Note 10 and Note 21)
Transaction costs paid related to disposal of DNI as equity-accounted investment (Note 10)
Proceeds from disposal of subsidiaries, net of cash disposed (Note 3 and Note 21)
Deconsolidation of CPS - cash disposed (Note 3)
Investment in equity-accounted investments (Note 10)
Loan to equity-accounted investment (Note 10)
Repayment of loans by equity-accounted investments
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired (Note 3)
Acquisition of intangible assets
Investment in MobiKwik
Return on investment
Acquisition of 15% of Cell C
Acquisition of held to maturity investment
Other investing activities, net
Net change in settlement assets
Net cash provided by investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from bank overdraft (Note 13)
Repayment of bank overdraft (Note 13)
Long-term borrowings utilized (Note 13)
Repayment of long-term borrowings (Note 13)
Guarantee fee
Finance lease capital repayments
Acquisition of non-controlling interests
Dividends paid to non-controlling interest
Net change in settlement obligations
Net cash used in financing activities
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash – beginning of period
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash – end of period (Note 21)
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1.
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-9
$
2020
2019
(as restated)(A)
(In thousands)
2018
(as restated)(A)
$
(78,358)
$
(308,658)
$
61,207
13,299
6,336
743
29,542
1,035
1,298
-
-
-
-
(340)
1,758
-
7,148
(12,454)
(9,743)
1,010
-
-
(127)
1,728
3,549
8,818
(19,328)
(139)
(1,427)
(393)
(46,045)
(5,938)
578
192,619
(7,458)
42,477
(1,010)
10,895
(328)
(2,500)
(1,230)
4,268
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(9,256)
223,117
689,763
(747,935)
14,798
(14,503)
(148)
(69)
-
-
9,256
(48,838)
(17,260)
110,974
121,511
232,485
$
37,349
19,745
32,786
(1,273)
-
-
(2,397)
12,793
167,459
34,039
73
237
321
-
9,175
-
(177)
-
-
(486)
393
1,318
11,663
4,042
(14,538)
3,428
(11,752)
(4,460)
(9,416)
1,045
-
-
-
-
(2,114)
-
(2,989)
-
1,029
-
(1,384)
(1,056)
284
-
-
-
79,077
64,476
822,754
(740,969)
14,613
(37,357)
(394)
-
(180)
(4,104)
(79,077)
(24,714)
(3,845)
31,457
90,054
121,511
$
35,484
20,917
13,358
(8,815)
-
-
(1,395)
-
(32,473)
-
414
(146)
589
-
-
-
-
4,614
(463)
40
2,607
4,111
17,732
(2,521)
10,595
1,137
5,313
132,305
(9,649)
658
-
-
-
-
-
-
(133,335)
(10,635)
9,180
(6,202)
-
-
-
(151,003)
(9,000)
(61)
490,795
180,748
44,900
(62,925)
113,157
(77,062)
(754)
-
-
-
(490,795)
(473,479)
(7,977)
(168,403)
258,457
90,054
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Description of Business
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. (“Net1” and collectively with its consolidated subsidiaries, the “Company”) was incorporated
in the State of Florida on May 8, 1997. The Company is a provider of financial technology, or fintech, products and services to the
unbanked and underbanked in a number of emerging and developed economies. Its universal electronic payment system (“UEPS”)
uses biometrically secure smart cards that operate in real-time but offline, which allows users to enter into transactions at any time
with other card holders in even the most remote areas. The Company also develops and provides secure transaction technology
solutions and services, and offers transaction processing and financial solutions. The Company’s technology is widely used in South
Africa today, where it provides financial services (banking, lending and insurance products), processes debit and credit card payment
transactions on behalf of retailers through its EasyPay system, processes value-added services such as bill payments and prepaid
electricity for the major bill issuers and local councils in South Africa, and provides mobile telephone top-up transactions for the
major South African mobile carriers. The Company has card issuing and acquiring capabilities in Hong Kong and Malta and
provides value added payment services to online retailers across Europe through its International Payments Group (“IPG”). The
Company leverages its strategic equity investments in Finbond Group Limited (“Finbond”) and Bank Frick & Co. AG (“Bank
Frick”) (both regulated banks) to introduce products to new customers and geographies.
Basis of presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include subsidiaries over which Net1 exercises control and have been
prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).
Impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The Company’s operations were
impacted by government-imposed restrictions to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, on March 27, 2020,
the South African government imposed certain emergency measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, including implementation
of travel bans and closures of factories, schools, public buildings, and businesses. In addition to limiting movement of employees
and access to the Company’s corporate head office and operating branches, the following restrictions directly impacted the
Company’s South African operations: (i) suspension of new lending and other financial services activities, and (ii) limitations on the
amount of banking-related fees that may be charged to customers. These measures continued until May 31, 2020 when the
restrictions highlighted above as directly affecting the Company were eased. Nevertheless, as the date of this report, South Africa
remains under various lockdown restrictions that affect the broader economy and these affect the Company to the extent they affect
activity levels in the South African economy.
The broader implications of COVID-19 on the Company’s results of operations and overall financial performance remain
uncertain. The COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse effects have become more prevalent in the locations where the Company, its
customers, suppliers or third-party business partners conduct business. While the Company has not incurred significant disruptions
thus far from the COVID-19 outbreak, apart from the two months when loan origination was curtailed, the Company is unable to
accurately predict the impact that COVID-19 will have due to numerous uncertainties, including the severity and duration of the
outbreak, actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, the impact on the Company’s customers and other factors. The
Company will continue to evaluate the nature and extent of the impact on its business, consolidated results of operations, and
financial condition.
Resolution of going concern risk
As previously reported, the Company’s management implemented a number of plans to alleviate the substantial doubt about the
Company’s ability to continue as a going concern including the disposal of its March 2020 Korean business unit (refer to Note 3)
and its April 2020 sale of its remaining interest in DN Invest Proprietary Limited (“DNI”) (refer to Note 10). The cash received from
the disposal of its Korean business unit in March 2020 resulted in the resolution of the going concern risk. The Company’s
management has determined that there are no conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the
Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after these consolidated financial statements are issued as the
Company believes it has sufficient cash reserves.
F-10
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (continued)
Restatement of financial statements
Related to DNI discontinued operations presentation
Subsequent to the issuance of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2019 and its Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and the three and nine months ended March 31, 2019, it
determined that its presentation of the discontinued operations of DNI in the consolidated statements of operations included in those
filings was incorrect. In these previous filings, the gross amounts of DNI’s operations upon classification as a discontinued operation
remained in the consolidated statements of operations which totalled to net (loss) income. Two captioned lines below net (loss)
income were presented to show the composition of the net (loss) income between continuing and discontinued operations and the
details of amounts relating to DNI’s discontinued operations were separately disclosed in a note. The correct presentation removes
the gross amounts of a discontinued operation from the consolidated statements of operations, which totals to the net (loss) income
from continuing operations before presenting net income from discontinued operations and then totalling to net (loss) income.
The Company has revised the previous presentations on the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended June 30,
2019, and June 30, 2018, and corrected them in this filing where these amounts are presented as comparative prior period amounts.
The impact of these revisions has reduced each of the previously-presented line items in the consolidated statements of operations
preceding net income by the amounts shown in the note disclosure for DNI’s discontinued operations. The revisions had no effect on
previously presented net (loss) income, net (loss) income from continuing operations, net income from discontinued operations or
the note disclosures for DNI’s discontinued operations, excluding the effects of the disposal of Net1 Korea and the error relating to
the release of the foreign currency translation reserve on deconsolidation of DNI.
Related to error identified – release of entire foreign currency translation reserve on deconsolidation of DNI in March 2019
In May 2020, the Company identified an error during its assessment of the accounting related to the disposal of its remaining
interest in DNI in April 2020. The error relates to the misapplication of U.S. GAAP as the Company was required to release the full
amount of DNI’s foreign currency translation reserve from accumulated other comprehensive loss to net income when it
deconsolidated DNI in March 2019. The Company only released a portion of the foreign currency translation reserve related to the
sale of 17% of DNI in March 2019, refer to Note 3, and should have released an additional $4.0 million in March 2019. During the
three months ended June 30, 2019, the Company also sold an additional interest in DNI, refer to Note 3, and released a portion ($0.8
million) of the $4.0 million during this period. Therefore, the error as of June 30, 2019, was $3.2 million. The error impacts the
Company’s reported results and the Company has restated its financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2019 to correct for the
error.
Related to Finbond error reported in its fiscal 2020 annual report
On May 29, 2020, Finbond released its February 2020 summarized annual results and announced that it had identified a
number of errors in its previously issued audited financial statements and had restated those audited financial statements. The
Finbond restatement impacts the Company’s reported results and the Company has restated its 2019 and 2018 financial statements to
correct for the Finbond restatement. The errors identified by Finbond relate to (i) an ageing issue within one of its subsidiary’s loan
management system, which prompted a broader review of its management systems and which further resulted in the identification of
a lending book that was incorrectly recognized; (ii) the impairment of goodwill following the identification of errors in (i); and (iii)
the identification of certain liabilities that should have been recognized in prior periods.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (continued)
Restatement of financial statements (continued)
The tables below present the impact of the restatements on each of the Company’s financial statements for the years ended June
30, 2019 and 2018 (“As reported” represents amounts after the discontinued operations representation related to the disposal of our
Korean business and DNI as discussed in Note 3):
Consolidated balance sheet
June 30, 2019
As reported
Correction
- DNI
Correction
- Finbond As restated
Equity-accounted investments
Total assets
Deferred tax liabilities
Total liabilities
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Retained earnings
Total equity
$ 151,116 $
672,936
1,926
245,835
(199,273)
528,576
$ 319,429 $
(in thousands)
- $
-
-
-
3,227
(3,227)
- $
(2,689) $ 148,427
670,247
(2,689)
1,324
(602)
245,233
(602)
234
(195,812)
523,028
(2,321)
(2,087) $ 317,342
Consolidated statement of operations
Year ended June 30, 2019
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
As reported
Gain on disposal of DNI
Loss before income tax
Income tax benefit
Net loss before earnings from equity-accounted investments
Earnings from equity-accounted investments
Net loss from continuing operations
Loss on disposal of discontinued operation, net of tax
Net loss
Net loss attributable to Net1
Continuing
Discontinued
Basic (loss) income per share attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted (loss) income per share attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
(631) $
(in thousands, except per share data)
- $
-
(47)
47
(209)
(162)
-
(162)
(162)
(162)
(320,251)
(5,025)
(315,226)
1,467
(313,759)
(5,140)
(305,269)
(307,618)
(312,407)
808 $
808
-
808
-
808
(4,035)
(3,227)
(3,227)
808
(4,035) $
(0.06) $
0.01 $
(0.07) $
(0.06) $
0.01 $
(0.07) $
177
(319,443)
(5,072)
(314,371)
1,258
(313,113)
(9,175)
(308,658)
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
- $
(0.00) $
(0.00) $
- $
(0.00) $
(0.00) $
- $
4,789 $
(5.42) $
(5.50) $
0.08 $
(5.42) $
(5.50) $
0.08 $
Year ended June 30, 2018
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
As reported
Income tax expense
Net income before earnings from equity-accounted investments
Earnings from equity-accounted investments
Net income from continuing operations
Net income
Net income attributable to Net1
Continuing
Discontinued
Basic income per share attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted income per share attributable to Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
F-12
(in thousands, except per share data)
(623) $
- $
623
-
(2,782)
-
(2,159)
-
(2,159)
-
(2,159)
-
-
(2,159)
- $
- $
- $
- $
- $
- $
- $
45,729 $
48,829
4,592
53,421
63,366
64,246
54,301
9,945 $
1.13 $
0.95 $
0.18 $
1.13 $
0.96 $
0.17 $
- $
(0.04) $
(0.04) $
- $
(0.04) $
(0.04) $
- $
45,106
49,452
1,810
51,262
61,207
62,087
52,142
9,945
1.10
0.92
0.18
1.09
0.92
0.17
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (continued)
Restatement of financial statements (continued)
Consolidated statement of comprehensive (loss) income
As reported
Year ended June 30, 2019
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
(in thousands)
Net loss
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
$ (305,269) $
(3,227) $
(26,194)
-
(162) $ (308,658)
(26,148)
46
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of
DNI
Total other comprehensive loss
Comprehensive loss
Comprehensive loss attributed to Net1
2,452
(19,491)
(324,760)
$ (322,353) $
3,227
3,227
-
- $
5,679
-
(16,218)
46
(116)
(324,876)
(116) $ (322,469)
Net income
Comprehensive income
Comprehensive income attributed to Net1
Year ended June 30, 2018
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
As reported
$
$
63,366 $
41,466
42,444 $
(in thousands)
- $
-
- $
(2,159) $
(1,971)
(1,971) $
61,207
39,495
40,473
Consolidated statement of changes in equity
As reported – June 30, 2018
Correction of misstatement - Finbond
As restated – June 30, 2018
As reported – June 30, 2019
Correction of misstatement - DNI
Correction of misstatement - Finbond
As restated – June 30, 2019
Consolidated statement of cash flows
Accumulated
other
comprehensive
loss
Retained
earnings
(in thousands)
$
$
836,194 $
(2,159)
834,035
528,576
(3,227)
(2,321)
523,028 $
(184,538)
188
(184,350)
(199,273)
3,227
234
(195,812)
Net loss
Loss from equity-accounted investment
Loss on disposal of discontinued operation
Gain (Loss) on disposal of DNI
(Decrease) Increase in deferred taxes
Net income
Earnings from equity-accounted investment
Increase (Decrease) in deferred taxes
As reported
Year ended June 30, 2019
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
(in thousands)
$ (305,269) $
(3,227) $
(1,482)
5,140
631
(11,705) $
$
-
4,035
(808)
- $
(162) $ (308,658)
(1,273)
209
9,175
-
(177)
-
(11,752)
(47) $
Year ended June 30, 2018
Correction
Correction
- Finbond As restated
- DNI
As reported
$
$
63,366 $
(11,597)
5,936 $
(in thousands)
- $
-
- $
(2,159) $
2,782
(623) $
61,207
(8,815)
5,313
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Principles of consolidation
The financial statements of entities which are controlled by Net1, referred to as subsidiaries, are consolidated. Inter-company
accounts and transactions are eliminated upon consolidation.
The Company, if it is the primary beneficiary, consolidates entities which are considered to be variable interest entities
(“VIE”). The primary beneficiary is considered to be the entity that will absorb a majority of the entity's expected losses, receive a
majority of the entity's expected residual returns, or both. No entities were required to be consolidated as a result of these
requirements during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
Business combinations
The Company accounts for its business acquisitions under the acquisition method of accounting. The total value of the
consideration paid for acquisitions is allocated to the underlying net assets acquired, based on their respective estimated fair values.
The Company uses a number of valuation methods to determine the fair value of assets and liabilities acquired, including discounted
cash flows, external market values, valuations on recent transactions or a combination thereof, and believes that it uses the most
appropriate measure or a combination of measures to value each asset or liability. The Company recognizes measurement-period
adjustments in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined.
Use of estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions
that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.
Translation of foreign currencies
The primary functional currency of the consolidated entities is the South African Rand (“ZAR”) and its reporting currency is
the U.S. dollar. Assets and liabilities are translated at the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses
are translated at average rates for the period. Translation gains and losses are reported in accumulated other comprehensive income
in total equity.
Foreign exchange transactions are translated at the spot rate ruling at the date of the transaction. Monetary items are translated
at the closing spot rate at the balance sheet date. Transactional gains and losses are recognized in selling, general and administration
expense on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the period.
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and funds deposited in bank accounts with financial institutions that are liquid,
unrestricted and readily available. Cash that is restricted as to use is classified as restricted cash and includes cash drawn under the
Company’s borrowings and used to fund its ATMs, refer to Note 13.
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
Allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable
The Company regularly reviews the ageing of outstanding amounts due from borrowers and adjusts the allowance based on
management’s estimate of the recoverability of the finance loans receivable. The Company writes off microlending finance loans
receivable and related service fees and interest if a borrower is in arrears with repayments for more than three months or dies. The
Company writes off working capital finance receivables and related fees when it is evident that reasonable recovery procedures,
including where deemed necessary, formal legal action, have failed.
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
A specific provision is established where it is considered likely that all or a portion of the amount due from customers renting
point of sale (“POS”) equipment, receiving support and maintenance or transaction services or purchasing licenses or SIM cards
from the Company will not be recovered. Non-recoverability is assessed based on a review by management of the ageing of
outstanding amounts, the location and the payment history of the customer in relation to those specific amounts.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Inventory
Inventory is valued at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Cost is determined on a first-in, first-out basis and includes
transport and handling costs.
Property, plant and equipment
Property, plant and equipment are shown at cost less accumulated depreciation. Property, plant and equipment are depreciated
on the straight-line basis at rates which are estimated to amortize the assets to their anticipated residual values over their useful lives.
Within the following asset classifications, the expected economic lives are approximately:
Computer equipment
Office equipment
Vehicles
Furniture and fittings
Buildings and structures
3 to 8 years
2 to 10 years
3 to 8 years
3 to 10 years
8 to 30 years
The gain or loss arising on the disposal or retirement of an asset is determined as the difference between the sales proceeds and
the carrying amount of the asset and is recognized in income.
Leases
The Company determines whether an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-
of-use assets (“ROU”), operating lease liability - current, and operating lease liability – long term in its consolidated balance sheets.
The Company does not have any significant finance leases as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, but its policy is to include
finance leases in property and equipment, other payables, and other long-term liabilities in its consolidated balance sheets.
A ROU asset represents the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and the lease liabilities represent its
obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease arrangement. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at
commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. As most of the Company’s leases do not
provide an implicit rate, the Company generally uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the estimated rate of interest for
collateralized borrowing over a similar term of the lease payments at commencement date. The operating lease ROU asset also
includes any lease prepayments made and excludes lease incentives. The terms of the Company’s lease arrangements may include
options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option. Lease expense for
lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
The Company does not recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for lease arrangements with a term of twelve months
or less. The Company accounts for all components in a lease arrangement as a single combined lease component. Costs incurred in
the adaptation of leased properties to serve the requirements of the Company (leasehold improvements) are capitalized and
amortized over the shorter of the estimated useful life of the asset and the remaining term of the lease.
Equity-accounted investments
The Company uses the equity method to account for investments in companies when it has significant influence but not control
over the operations of the company. Under the equity method, the Company initially records the investment at cost and thereafter
adjusts the carrying value of the investment to recognize the proportional share of the equity-accounted company’s net income or
loss. In addition, when an investment qualifies for the equity method (as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or
degree of influence), the cost of acquiring the additional interest in the investee is added to the current basis of the Company’s
previously held interest and the equity method would be applied subsequently from the date on which the Company obtains the
ability to exercise significant influence over the investee.
Any unrealized holding gains or losses in accumulated other comprehensive income related to an available for sale security that
is subsequently required to be accounted for utilizing the equity method are recognized in earnings as of the date on which the
investment qualifies for the equity method. The Company does not recognize cumulative losses in excess of its investment or loans
in an equity-accounted investment except if it has an obligation to provide additional financial support. Dividends received from an
equity-accounted investment reduce the carrying value of the Company’s investment. The Company has elected to classify
distributions received from equity method investees using the nature of the distribution approach. This election requires the
Company to evaluate each distribution received on the basis of the source of the payment and classify the distribution as either
operating cash inflows or investing cash inflows. The Company reviews its equity-accounted investments for impairment whenever
events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the investment may not be recoverable.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price of an acquired enterprise over the fair values of the identifiable assets
acquired and liabilities assumed. The Company tests for impairment of goodwill on an annual basis and at any other time if events or
circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit goodwill below its carrying amount.
Circumstances that could trigger an impairment test include but are not limited to: a significant adverse change in the business
climate or legal factors; an adverse action or assessment by a regulator; unanticipated competition; loss of key personnel; the
likelihood that a reporting unit or significant portion of a reporting unit will be sold or otherwise disposed; and results of testing for
recoverability of a significant asset group within a reporting unit. If goodwill is allocated to a reporting unit and the carrying amount
of the reporting unit exceeds the fair value of that reporting unit, an impairment loss is recorded in the statement of operations.
Measurement of the fair value of a reporting unit is based on one or more of the following fair value measures: the amount at which
the unit as a whole could be bought or sold in a current transaction between willing parties; present value techniques of estimated
future cash flows; or valuation techniques based on multiples of earnings or revenue, or a similar performance measure.
Intangible assets
Intangible assets are shown at cost less accumulated amortization. Intangible assets are amortized over the following useful
lives:
Customer relationships
Software and unpatented technology
FTS patent
Exclusive licenses
Trademarks
1 to 15 years
3 to 5 years
10 years
7 years
3 to 20 years
Intangible assets are periodically evaluated for recoverability, and those evaluations take into account events or circumstances
that warrant revised estimates of useful lives or that indicate that impairment exists.
Debt and equity securities
Debt securities
The Company is required to classify all applicable debt securities as either trading securities, available-for-sale or held to
maturity upon investment in the security.
Trading
Debt securities acquired by the Company which it intends to sell in the short-term are classified as trading securities and are
initially measured at fair value. These debt securities are subsequently measured at fair value and realized and unrealized gains and
losses from these trading securities are included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations. Classification of a debt
security as a trading security is not precluded simply because the Company does not intend to sell the security in the short term. The
Company had no debt securities that were classified as trading securities as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Available for sale
Debt securities acquired by the Company that have readily determinable fair values are classified as available for sale if the
Company has not classified them as trading securities or if it does not have the ability or positive intent to hold the debt security until
maturity. The Company is required to make an election to account for these debt securities as available for sale. These available for
sale debt securities are initially measured at fair value. These debt securities are subsequently measured at fair value with unrealized
gains and losses from available for sale investments in debt securities reported as a separate component of accumulated other
comprehensive income, net of deferred income taxes, in shareholders’ equity. The Company had no debt securities that were
classified as available for sale securities as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Held to maturity
Debt securities acquired by the Company which it has the ability and the positive intent to hold to maturity are classified as
held to maturity debt securities. The Company is required to make an election to classify these debt securities as held to maturity and
these securities are carried at amortized cost. The amortized cost of held to maturity debt securities is adjusted for amortization of
premiums and accretion of discounts to maturity. Interest received from the held to maturity security together with this amortization
is included in interest income in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations. The Company had a held to maturity security
as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, refer to Note 10.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Debt and equity securities (continued)
Debt securities (continued)
Impairment of debt securities
The Company’s available for sale and held to maturity debt securities with unrealized losses are reviewed quarterly to identify
other-than-temporary impairments in value.
With regard to available for sale and held to maturity debt securities, the Company considers (i) the ability and intent to hold
the debt security for a period of time to allow for recovery of value (ii) whether it is more likely than not that the Company will be
required to sell the debt security; and (iii) whether it expects to recover the entire carrying amount of the debt security. The
Company records an impairment loss in its consolidated statement of operations representing the difference between the debt
securities carrying value and the current fair value as of the date of the impairment if the Company determines that it intends to sell
the debt security or if that it is more likely than not that it will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of the amortized
cost basis. However, the impairment loss is split between a credit loss and a non-credit loss for debt securities that the Company
determines that it does not intend to sell or that it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell the debt securities before
the recovery of the amortized cost basis. The credit loss portion, which is measured as the difference between the debt security’s cost
basis and the present value of expected future cash flows, is recognized in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations. The
non-credit loss portion, which is measured as the difference between the debt security’s cost basis and its current fair value, is
recognized in other comprehensive income, net of applicable taxes.
Equity securities
Equity securities are measured at fair value. Changes in the fair value of equity securities are recorded in the Company’s
consolidated statement of operations within the caption titled “change in fair value of equity securities”. The Company may elect to
measure equity securities without readily determinable fair values at its cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes
resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer (“cost
minus changes in observable prices equity securities”). There were no changes in the fair value of our cost minus changes in
observable prices equity securities during the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company performs a
qualitative assessment on a quarterly basis and recognizes an impairment loss if there are sufficient indicators that the fair value of
the equity security is less than its carrying value.
Policy reserves and liabilities
Reserves for policy benefits and claims payable
The Company determines its reserves for policy benefits under its life insurance products using a model which estimates claims
incurred that have not been reported and total present value of disability claims-in-payment at the balance sheet date. This model
allows for best estimate assumptions based on experience (where sufficient) plus prescribed margins, as required in the markets in
which these products are offered, namely South Africa.
The best estimate assumptions include (i) mortality and morbidity assumptions reflecting the company’s most recent
experience and (ii) claim reporting delays reflecting Company specific and industry experience. Most of the disability claims-in-
payment reserve is reinsured and the reported values were based on the reserve held by the relevant reinsurer. The values of matured
guaranteed endowments are increased by late payment interest (net of the asset management fee and allowance for tax on investment
income).
Deposits on investment contracts
For the Company’s interest-sensitive life contracts, liabilities approximate the policyholder’s account value.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Reinsurance contracts held
The Company enters into reinsurance contracts with reinsurers under which the Company is compensated for the entire amount
or a portion of losses arising on one or more of the insurance contracts it issues.
The expected benefits to which the Company is entitled under its reinsurance contracts held are recognized as reinsurance
assets. These assets consist of short-term balances due from reinsurers (classified within Accounts receivable, net and other
receivables) as well as long-term receivables (classified within other long-term assets) that are dependent on the expected claims and
benefits arising under the related reinsurance contracts. Amounts recoverable from or due to reinsurers are measured consistently
with the amounts associated with the reinsured contracts and in accordance with the terms of each reinsurance contract. Reinsurance
assets are assessed for impairment at each balance sheet date. If there is reliable objective evidence that amounts due may not be
recoverable, the Company reduces the carrying amount of the reinsurance asset to its recoverable amount and recognizes that
impairment loss in its consolidated statement of operations. Reinsurance premiums are recognized when due for payment under each
reinsurance contract.
Redeemable common stock
Common stock that is redeemable (1) at a fixed or determinable price on a fixed or determinable date, (2) at the option of the
holder, or (3) upon the occurrence of an event that is not solely within the control of Company is presented outside of total Net1
equity (i.e. permanent equity). Redeemable common stock is initially recognized at issuance date fair value and the Company does
not adjust the issuance date fair value if redemption is not probable. The Company re-measures the redeemable common stock to the
maximum redemption amount at the balance sheet date once redemption is probable. Reduction in the carrying amount of the
redeemable common stock is only appropriate to the extent that the Company has previously recorded increases in the carrying
amount of the redeemable equity instrument as the redeemable common stock may be not be carried at an amount that is less than
the initial amount reported outside of permanent equity.
Redeemable common stock is reclassified as permanent equity when presentation outside permanent equity is no longer
required (if, for example, a redemption feature lapses, or there is a modification of the terms of the instrument). The existing
carrying amount of the redeemable common stock is reclassified to permanent equity at the date of the event that caused the
reclassification and prior period consolidated financial statements are not adjusted.
Revenue recognition
The Company recognizes revenue upon transfer of control of promised products or services to customers in an amount that
reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for those products or services. The Company enters into
contracts that can include various combinations of products and services, which are generally capable of being distinct and
accounted for as separate performance obligations. Revenue is recognized net of allowances for returns and any taxes collected from
customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.
Nature of products and services
Customers that have a bank account managed by the Company are issued cards that can be utilized to withdraw funds at an
ATM or to transact at a merchant point of sale device (“POS”). The Company earns processing fees from transactions processed for
these customers. The Company’s contracts specify a transaction price for each service provided (for instance, ATM withdrawal,
balance enquiry, etc.). Processing revenue fluctuates based on the type and volume of transactions performed by the customer.
Revenue is recognized on the completion of the processed transaction.
Account holder fees
The Company provides bank accounts to customers and this service is underwritten by a regulated banking institution because
the Company is not a bank. The Company charges its customers a fixed monthly bank account administration fee for all active bank
accounts regardless of whether the account holder has transacted or not. The Company recognizes account holder fees on a monthly
basis on all active bank accounts. Revenue from account holder’s fees fluctuates based on the number of active bank accounts.
Lending revenue
The Company provides short-term loans to customers in South Africa and charges up-front initiation fees and monthly service
fees. Initiation fees are recognized using the effective interest rate method, which requires the utilization of the rate of return implicit
in the loan, that is, the contractual interest rate adjusted for any net deferred loan fees or costs, premium, or discount existing at the
origination or acquisition of the loan. Monthly service fee revenue is recognized under the contractual terms of the loan. The
monthly service fee amount is fixed upon initiation and does not change over the term of the loan.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Revenue recognition (continued)
Technology products
The Company supplies hardware and licenses for its customers to use the Company’s technology. Hardware includes the sale
of POS devices, SIM cards and other consumables which can occur on an ad hoc basis. The Company recognizes revenue from
hardware at the transaction price specified in the contract as the hardware is delivered to the customer. Licenses include the right to
use certain technology developed by the Company and the associated revenue is recognized ratably over the license period.
Insurance revenue
The Company writes life insurance contracts, and policy holders pay the Company a monthly insurance premium at the
beginning of each month. Premium revenue is recognized on a monthly basis net of policy lapses. Policy lapses are provided for on
the basis of expected non-payment of policy premiums.
Welfare benefit distribution fees
The Company provided a welfare benefits distribution service in South Africa to a customer under a contract which expired on
September 30, 2018. The Company was required to distribute social welfare grants to identified recipients using an internally
developed payment platform at designated distribution points (pay points) which enabled the recipients to access their grants. The
contract specified a fixed fee per account for one or more grants received by a recipient. The Company recognized revenue for each
grant recipient paid at the fixed fee.
Telecom products and services
Through DNI, the Company entered into contracts with mobile networks in South Africa to distribute subscriber identity
modules (“SIM”) cards on their behalf. The Company was entitled to receive consideration based on the activation of each SIM as
well as from a percentage of the value loaded onto each SIM. The Company recognizes revenue from these services once the criteria
specified for activation had been met as well as when it was entitled to its consideration related to the value loaded onto the SIM.
Revenue from contracts with mobile networks fluctuates based on the number of SIMs activated as well as on the value loaded onto
the SIMs. As described in Note 3, the Company disposed of its controlling interest in DNI on March 31, 2019.
The Company purchases airtime for resale to customers. The Company recognizes revenue as the airtime is delivered to the
customer. Revenue from the resale of airtime to customers fluctuates based on the volume of airtime sold.
Significant judgments and estimates
The Company was subject to a court process regarding the determination of the price to be charged for welfare benefit
distribution services provided from April 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018. In December 2018, the Constitutional Court of South
Africa clarified that it was not required to ratify the price and stated that the parties should reach an agreement on the price, failing
which they should approach the lower courts in South Africa. The Company has initiated discussions with SASSA, but the parties
have not reached agreement regarding the pricing for services provided through September 30, 2018. Management determined,
under previous revenue guidance, that there was no evidence of an arrangement at a fixed and determinable price other than that
noted in the court ordered extension provided in March 2018 and did not record any additional revenue related to the services
provided from April 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018, and recorded revenue at the rate specified in the contract. Upon adoption of the new
revenue guidance on July 1, 2018, the Company determined that it was unable to estimate the amount of revenue that it is entitled to
receive because no agreement with SASSA had been reached at that date. Accordingly, the Company did not record any additional
revenue during the year ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, related to the price to be charged for welfare benefit
distribution services provided through September 30, 2018. The Company recorded revenue at the rate specified in the contract. The
Company expected to record any additional revenue once there was agreement between the Company and SASSA on the fee.
However, agreement had not been reached by May 31, 2020, and following the deconsolidation of CPS, refer to Note 3, any
additional revenue earned by CPS after June 1, 2020, would not be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements and
therefore this matter is no longer considered an area of judgment.
Accounts Receivable, Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities
The Company recognizes accounts receivable when its right to consideration under its contracts with customers becomes
unconditional. The Company has no contract assets or contract liabilities.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Research and development expenditure
Research and development expenditure is charged to net income in the period in which it is incurred. During the years ended
June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, the Company incurred research and development expenditures of $1.6 million, $0.7 million and $0.8
million, respectively.
Computer software development
Product development costs in respect of software intended for sale to licensees are expensed as incurred until technological
feasibility is attained. Technological feasibility is attained when the Company’s software has completed system testing and has been
determined to be viable for its intended use. The time between the attainment of technological feasibility and completion of software
development is generally short with immaterial amounts of development costs incurred during this period.
Costs in respect of the development of software for the Company’s internal use are expensed as incurred, except to the extent
that these costs are incurred during the application development stage. All other costs including those incurred in the project
development and post-implementation stages are expensed as incurred.
Income taxes
The Company provides for income taxes using the asset and liability method. This approach recognizes the amount of taxes
payable or refundable for the current year, as well as deferred tax assets and liabilities for the future tax consequence of events
recognized in the financial statements and tax returns. Deferred income taxes are adjusted to reflect the effects of changes in tax laws
or enacted tax rates.
The Company measured its South African income taxes and deferred income taxes for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and
2018, using the enacted statutory tax rate in South Africa of 28%.
In establishing the appropriate deferred tax asset valuation allowances, the Company assesses the realizability of its deferred
tax assets, and based on all available evidence, both positive and negative, determines whether it is more likely than not that the
deferred tax assets or a portion thereof will be realized.
Reserves for uncertain tax positions are recognized in the financial statements for positions which are not considered more
likely than not of being sustained based on the technical merits of the position on audit by the tax authorities. For positions that meet
the more likely than not standard, the measurement of the tax benefit recognized in the financial statements is based upon the largest
amount of tax benefit that, in management’s judgement, is greater than 50% likely of being realized based on a cumulative
probability assessment of the possible outcomes. The Company’s policy is to include interest related to unrecognized tax benefits in
interest expense and penalties in selling, general and administration in the consolidated statements of operations.
The Company has elected the period cost method and records U.S. inclusions in taxable income related to global intangible low
taxed income (“GILTI”) as a current-period expense when incurred.
Stock-based compensation
Stock-based compensation represents the cost related to stock-based awards granted. The Company measures equity-based
stock-based compensation cost at the grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award, and recognizes the cost as an
expense on a straight-line basis (net of estimated forfeitures) over the requisite service period. In respect of awards with only service
conditions that have a graded vesting schedule, the Company recognizes compensation cost on a straight-line basis over the requisite
service period for the entire award. The forfeiture rate is estimated using historical trends of the number of awards forfeited prior to
vesting. The expense is recorded in the statement of operations and classified based on the recipients’ respective functions. The
Company records deferred tax assets for awards that result in deductions on the Company’s income tax returns, based on the amount
of compensation cost recognized and the Company’s statutory tax rate in the jurisdiction in which it will receive a deduction.
Differences between the deferred tax assets recognized for financial reporting purposes and the actual tax deduction reported on the
Company’s income tax return are recorded in taxation expense in the statement of operations.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Equity instruments issued to third parties
Equity instruments issued to third parties represents the cost related to equity instruments granted. The Company measures this
cost at the grant date, based on the estimated fair value of the award, and recognizes the cost as an expense on a straight-line basis
(net of estimated forfeitures) over the requisite service period. The forfeiture rate is estimated based on the Company’s expectation
of the number of awards that will be forfeited prior to vesting. The Company records deferred tax assets for equity instrument
awards that result in deductions on the Company’s income tax returns, based on the amount of equity instrument cost recognized and
the Company’s statutory tax rate in the jurisdiction in which it will receive a deduction. Differences between the deferred tax assets
recognized for financial reporting purposes and the actual tax deduction reported on the Company’s income tax return are recorded
in the statement of operations.
Settlement assets and settlement obligations
Settlement assets comprise (1) cash received from credit card companies (as well as other types of payment services) which
have business relationships with merchants selling goods and services via the internet that are the Company’s customers and on
whose behalf it processes the transactions between various parties, (2), up until the sale of FIHRST, refer to Note 3, cash received
from customers on whose behalf the Company processes payroll payments that the Company will disburse to customer employees,
payroll-related payees and other payees designated by the customer, and (3), up until the expiration of the SASSA contract on
September 30, 2018, cash received from the South African government that the Company holds pending disbursement to recipient
cardholders of social welfare grants.
Settlement obligations comprise (1) amounts that the Company is obligated to disburse to merchants selling goods and services
via the internet that are the Company’s customers and on whose behalf it processes the transactions between various parties and
settles the funds from the credit card companies to the Company’s merchant customers, (2), up until the sale of FIHRST, amounts
that the Company is obligated to pay to customer employees, payroll-related payees and other payees designated by the customer,
and (3), up until the expiration of the SASSA contract on September 30, 2018, amounts that the Company is obligated to disburse to
recipient cardholders of social welfare grants.
The balances at each reporting date may vary widely depending on the timing of the receipts and payments of these assets and
obligations.
Recent accounting pronouncements adopted
In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance regarding Leases. The guidance
increases transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities on the
balance sheet. The amendments to current lease guidance include the recognition of assets and liabilities by lessees for those leases
currently classified as operating leases. The guidance also requires disclosures to meet the objective of enabling users of financial
statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. This guidance was effective for the
Company beginning July 1, 2019. Refer to Note 9 for the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its consolidated financial
statements.
Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted as of June 30, 2020
In June 2016, the FASB issued guidance regarding Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. The guidance
replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and
requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. For trade and
other receivables, loans, and other financial instruments, an entity is required to use a forward-looking expected loss model rather
than the incurred loss model for recognizing credit losses, which reflects losses that are probable. Credit losses relating to available-
for-sale debt securities will also be recorded through an allowance for credit losses rather than as a reduction in the amortized cost
basis of the securities. This guidance is effective for the Company beginning July 1, 2023. The Company is currently assessing the
impact of this guidance on its financial statements and related disclosures, but does not expect the impact on its financial results to
be significant.
In August 2018, the FASB issued guidance regarding Disclosure Framework: Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for
Fair Value Measurement. The guidance modifies the disclosure requirements related to fair value measurement. This guidance is
effective for the Company beginning July 1, 2021. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of
this guidance on its financial statement’s disclosure.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)
Recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted as of June 30, 2020 (continued)
In November 2019, the FASB issued guidance regarding Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326), Derivatives and
Hedging(Topic 815), and Leases (Topic 842). The guidance provides a framework to stagger effective dates for future major
accounting standards and amends the effective dates for certain major new accounting standards to give implementation relief to
certain types of entities, including Smaller Reporting Companies. The Company is a Smaller Reporting Company. Specifically, the
guidance changes some effective dates for certain new standards on the following topics in the FASB Codification, namely
Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 8152); Leases (ASC 842); Financial Instruments — Credit Losses (ASC 326); and Intangibles —
Goodwill and Other (ASC 350). The guidance defers the adoption date of guidance regarding Measurement of Credit Losses on
Financial Instruments by the Company from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023, and defers the adoption guidance regarding Disclosure
Framework: Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement by the Company from July 1, 2020 to July 1,
2021.
In January 2020, the FASB issued guidance regarding Clarifying the Interactions Between Topic 321, Topic 323, and Topic
815. The guidance clarifies that an entity should consider observable transactions that require an entity to either apply or discontinue
the equity method of accounting for the purposes of applying the measurement alternative in accordance with U.S GAAP guidance
immediately before applying or upon discontinuing the equity method. The guidance also clarifies that, when determining the
accounting for certain forward contracts and purchased options an entity should not consider, whether upon settlement or exercise, if
the underlying securities would be accounted for under the equity method or fair value option. This guidance is effective for the
Company beginning July 1, 2021. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this guidance on its
financial statement’s disclosure.
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
Acquisitions
The Company did not make any acquisitions during the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019. The cash paid, net of cash
received related to the Company’s acquisition of DNI during the year ended June 30, 2018, is presented in the table below:
DNI(1)
Total cash paid, net of cash received
2018
6,202
6,202
$
$
(1) – represents the cash paid, net of cash acquired, to acquire a further 6% voting and economic interest, which resulted in the
Company obtaining a controlling stake in DNI. As described below, the acquisition of DNI occurred in stages and DNI was
accounted for using the equity method until June 30, 2018, being the point at which the Company obtained control over DNI. The
total cash paid, net of cash acquired, to obtain a 55% voting and economic interest in DNI was $85.7 million.
2020 acquisition
None.
2019 acquisition
None.
2018 acquisition
DNI acquisition
The Company accounted for its interest in DNI using the equity method from August 1, 2017, until June 30, 2018, the date
upon which it acquired further voting and economic interest in DNI, taking its ownership to 55%. The transaction actually closed on
June 28, 2018, however, for practical purposes the Company has used June 30, 2018, as the date from which it accounted for a
controlling stake in DNI. Therefore, the Company consolidated DNI from June 30, 2018.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Acquisitions (continued)
2018 acquisition (continued)
DNI acquisition (continued
On July 27, 2017, the Company subscribed for 44,999,999 ordinary A shares in DNI, representing a 45% voting and economic
interest in DNI, for a subscription price of ZAR 945.0 million ($72.0 million) in cash. On March 9, 2018, the Company subscribed
for an additional 4,000,000 ordinary A shares in DNI for a subscription price of ZAR 89.3 million ($7.5 million), in cash, which
increased its voting and economic interest in DNI to 49%, but did not give it control. On March 9, 2018, the Company also agreed to
subscribe for an additional 6,000,000 ordinary A shares in DNI for an aggregate subscription price of ZAR 126.0 million ($9.2
million). The subscription was subject to certain suspensive conditions, including obtaining South African Competition Commission
approval which was eventually obtained on June 21, 2018. Accordingly, on June 28, 2018, all conditions were met and the Company
subscribed for 6,000,000 ordinary A shares in DNI for a subscription price of ZAR 126.0 million ($9.2 million) in cash, increasing
its voting and economic interest in DNI to 55%. Under the terms of its subscription agreements with DNI, the Company agreed to
pay to DNI an additional amount of up to ZAR 400.0 million ($29.1 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30,
2018), in cash, subject to the achievement of certain performance targets by DNI. The Company expected to pay the additional
amount during the first quarter of the year ended June 30, 2020, and recorded an amount of ZAR 373.6 million ($27.2 million), in
other long-term liabilities in its consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2018, which amount represented the present value of the
ZAR 400 million ($29.1 million) to be paid (amounts translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2018). The present value
of ZAR 373.6 million ($27.2 million) was calculated using the following assumptions (a) the maximum additional amount of ZAR
400 million will be paid on August 1, 2019 and (b) an interest rate of 6.3% (the rate used to calculate interest earned by the
Company on its surplus South African funds) has been used to discount the ZAR 400.0 million to its present value as of June 30,
2018. Utilization of different inputs, or changes to these inputs, may have resulted in significantly higher or lower fair value
measurement. The ZAR 400 million was settled in full on March 31, 2019.
As described in Note 13, on March 9, 2018, the Company obtained financing to partially fund the acquisition of the additional
ordinary A DNI shares and Net1 SA pledged, among other things, its entire equity interest in DNI as security for the South African
facilities described in Note 13.
On March 9, 2018, the Company provided DNI with an interest-free loan of ZAR 126.0 million ($10.6 million) which was
repayable at the earlier of June 30, 2018, or within twenty days of the 6,000,000 ordinary A share subscription agreement (i)
becoming unconditional, (ii) lapsing because the Competition Commission prohibits the subscription, or (iii) the agreement being
cancelled for any reason. On June 28, 2018, DNI repaid the ZAR 126 million ($9.2 million) loan in full and the Company used the
proceeds from the repayment of the loan to fund the subscription for 6,000,000 ordinary A shares in DNI.
DNI purchase price allocation
During the third quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company determined that certain customer relationships of $7.0 million should not
have been separately identified and recorded as intangible assets because there were no separately identified cash flows related to
these customer relationships. These customer relationships, net of deferred taxes of $2 million, should have been recorded as a
component of goodwill. During the third quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company determined that DNI is a discontinued operation.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Acquisitions (continued)
2018 acquisition (continued)
DNI acquisition (continued
DNI purchase price allocation (continued)
The table below presents the DNI balances included on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2018, as well
as the amended purchase price allocation (“PPA”) of the DNI acquisition, translated at the foreign exchange rates applicable on the
date of acquisition:
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable
Finance loans receivable
Inventory
Long-term assets:
Property, plant and equipment
Equity-accounted investment
Goodwill
Intangible assets
Deferred tax assets
Other long-term assets
Current liabilities:
Accounts payables
Other payables
Current portion of long-term borrowings
Long-term liabilities:
Other long-term liabilities(1)
Deferred tax liabilities
Fair value of assets and liabilities on acquisition
Less: fair value attributable to controlling interests on acquisition date
Less: fair value of equity-accounted investment, comprising:
Add: loss on re-measurement of previously held interest
Less: Contingent payment recognized related to 49% interest acquired
Less: carrying value at the acquisition date
Less: Contingent payment recognized related to 6% interest acquired
Total purchase price
DNI - discontinued operations
as of June 30, 2018
Initial
DNI PPA
Amendment
$
$
22,482 $
2,979
16,235
742
2,526
242,704
1,317
339
114,161
104,003
1,536
21,348
(20,914)
(13,949)
(6,349)
(616)
(38,387)
(8,291)
(30,096)
205,885 $
- $
-
-
-
-
(1,951)
-
-
5,017
(6,968)
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,951
-
1,951
-
$
Amended
DNI PPA
22,482
2,979
16,235
742
2,526
240,753
1,317
339
119,178
97,035
1,536
21,348
(57,350)
(13,949)
(6,349)
(616)
(36,436)
(8,291)
(28,145)
205,885
(94,123)
(100,947)
4,614
(25,589)
(79,972)
(1,633)
9,182
(1) – DNI concluded an acquisition in November 2017 and other long-term liabilities includes a contingent purchase consideration
of ZAR 113.8 million ($8.3 million) due to the sellers and other long-term assets includes an amount due from the DNI shareholders,
excluding the Company. DNI is obligated under the terms of this obligation to pay 50% of the purchase consideration plus or (less) a
contingent amount (refund) calculated on a multiple of excess (deficit) earnings over (less) an agreed earnings amount. The other
DNI shareholders have agreed to reimburse DNI the 50% consideration plus (less) the contingent amount (refund) payable in full.
Therefore, other long-term asset includes the amounts due from the DNI shareholder, excluding the Company, and other long-term
liabilities includes the contingent consideration due under the November 2017 acquisition. The Company expected DNI to pay, and
to be reimbursed, the additional amount during the first quarter of the year ended June 30, 2020, which expected amount represented
the present value of the ZAR 129.0 million ($9.4 million) to be paid (amounts translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30,
2018). The present value of ZAR 113.8 million ($8.3 million) was calculated using the following assumptions (a) the maximum
additional amount of ZAR 129.0 million will be paid on August 1, 2019 and (b) an interest rate of 10.0 % (the rate used to calculate
interest earned by DNI on its surplus South African funds) has been used to discount the ZAR 129.0 million to its present value as of
June 30, 2018. Utilization of different inputs, or changes to these inputs, may have resulted in significantly higher or lower fair value
measurement.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Acquisitions (continued)
2018 acquisition (continued)
DNI acquisition (continued
DNI purchase price allocation (continued)
The Company recorded intangible asset amortization, deferred taxes and non-controlling interest entries related to these
customer relationships that should have been included in goodwill during the six months ended December 31, 2018. The Company
reversed these entries during the nine months ended March 31, 2019. The table below presents the impact of the reversal of these
entries on the Company’s audited consolidated statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2019 and the caption in which the
impact is included:
Year
ended
June 30,
2019
Reversal of intangible asset amortization - decrease depreciation and amortization
Deferred tax impact related to reversal of intangible asset amortization - decrease income tax benefit
Increase in non-controlling interest
$
$
506
142
164
Pro forma results related to acquisition
Pro forma results of operations were not presented because the effect of the DNI acquisition was not material to the Company.
During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company incurred acquisition-related expenditure of $0.5 million related to this
acquisition, which has been included in selling, general and administration expenses in the consolidated statement of operations. The
DNI acquisition closed on the last day of the Company’s fiscal year and therefore it has not contributed to revenue and net income as
a subsidiary for the year ended June 30, 2018.
2018 Fair value of intangible assets acquired
Summarized below is the fair value of the DNI intangible assets acquired and the weighted-average amortization period:
Finite-lived intangible asset:
Acquired during the year ended June 30, 2018:
DNI – customer relationships acquired
DNI – software and unpatented technology
DNI – trademarks
Fair value as
of acquisition
date
Weighted-average
amortization
period (in years)
$
$
97,255
2,609
4,139
5 – 15
5
5
On acquisition, the Company recognized deferred tax liabilities of approximately $29.1 million related to the acquisition of
intangible assets during the year ended June 30, 2018.
2019 intangible asset impairment loss
The Company identified and recognized certain customer relationships as part of its acquisition of DNI, which included
relationships related to an agreement with Cell C under which DNI shared in revenues earned by Cell C from other mobile
telecommunications networks renting (“tenant rentals”) certain Cell C infrastructure that was constructed utilizing funding provided
by DNI. Cell C expected to utilize the funding provided by DNI to construct 1,000 towers. Cell C subsequently entered into a
roaming arrangement with another South African mobile telecommunications network provider which will extend its network
coverage. Cell C utilized funding from DNI to construct approximately 22% of the towers that it had originally estimated to
complete, however, the conclusion of the roaming arrangement resulted in Cell C halting the construction of further network
infrastructure.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Acquisitions (continued)
2018 acquisition (continued)
DNI acquisition (continued
2019 intangible asset impairment loss (continued)
The Company expected DNI to earn fewer tenant rentals than initially planned due to the lower number of towers constructed.
During the third quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company updated the discounted cash flow model used to calculate the fair value of the
customer relationships acquired on acquisition of DNI to assess the impact of the lower number of towers on its projected cash flows
from the tenant rentals customer relationship. The lower number of towers significantly reduced the projected cash flows earned
from tenant rentals which resulted in a lower fair value attributed to the customer relationship. The Company compared the updated
fair value of the customer relationship to the carrying amount and determined that the customer relationship was impaired. The
Company recorded an impairment loss of $5.3 million which is included in net income from discontinued operations caption on its
consolidated statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2019. The customer relationship was not allocated to an operating
segment and the impairment loss is included in corporate/eliminations - discontinued. The economics of the tenant rentals
arrangement between DNI and Cell C was excluded from the performance targets agreed between DNI and the Company because
the arrangement was outside of DNI’s core business.
Dispositions
2020 Dispositions
March 2020 disposal of KSNET
On January 23, 2020, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Net1 Applied Technologies Netherlands B.V. (“Net1
BV”), a limited liability private company incorporated in The Netherlands, entered into an agreement with PayletterHoldings LLC, a
limited liability private company incorporated in the Republic of Korea, in terms of which Net1 BV agreed to sell its entire
shareholding in Net1 Applied Technologies Korea Limited (“Net1 Korea”), a limited liability private company incorporated in the
Republic of Korea and the sole shareholder of KSNET, Inc. for $237.2 million. The transaction was subject to customary closing
conditions and closed on March 9, 2020. The Company no longer controls Net1 Korea and its subsidiaries and deconsolidated its
investment effective March 1, 2020, and will have no continued involvement going forward.
KSNET was acquired in October 2010, and was a profitable and cash generative business, but operated autonomously and in a
more developed economy, with limited overlap with the Company’s other activities. The Company also believed that the intrinsic
value of KSNET was not appropriately reflected in the Company’s overall valuation. The Company’s board of directors commenced
a strategic review of its various businesses and investments last year, and ultimately evaluated and decided to sell KSNET in January
2020 in order to focus more on the Company’s core strategy, boost liquidity and to maximize shareholder returns.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Dispositions (continued)
2020 Dispositions (continued)
March 2020 disposal of KSNET (continued)
The table below presents the impact of the deconsolidation of Net1 Korea and its subsidiaries and the calculation of the net
gain recognized on deconsolidation:
Net1 Korea
Proceeds from disposal of Net1 Korea, net of cash disposed
Add: Cash and cash equivalents disposed
Add: Cash withheld by purchaser to settle South Korean taxes(1)
Fair value of consideration received
Less: carrying value of Net1 Korea, comprising
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable, net
Finance loans receivable, net
Inventory
Property, plant and equipment, net
Operating lease right of use asset
Goodwill (Note 11)
Intangible assets, net
Deferred income taxes assets
Other long-term assets
Accounts payable
Other payables
Operating lease liability - current
Income taxes payable
Deferred income taxes liabilities
Operating lease liability - long-term
Other long-term liabilities
Released from accumulated other comprehensive income – foreign currency translation reserve (Note 16)
Settlement assets
Settlement liabilities
Gain recognized on disposal, before transaction costs and tax
Transaction costs(2)
Gain recognized on disposal, before tax
Taxes related to gain recognized on disposal(1)
Gain recognized on disposal, after tax
March
2020
192,619
23,473
21,128
237,220
200,843
23,473
30,467
13,695
2,377
7,601
181
107,964
4,655
1,719
10,984
(5,484)
(5,523)
(69)
(3,481)
(1,497)
(112)
(335)
14,228
44,111
(44,111)
36,377
8,644
27,733
15,279
12,454
$
$
(1) Represents taxes to be paid related to the disposal of Net1 Korea. The Company also agreed that the purchaser withhold capital
gains taxes of $19.9 million (approximately KRW 23.8 billion) and non-refundable securities transaction taxes of $1.2 million
(approximately KRW 1.4 billion), for a total withholding of $21.1 million, from the purchase price and pay such amounts, on behalf
of Net1 BV, to the South Korean tax authorities. Net1 BV has commenced the process to approach the South Korean tax authorities
in order to claim a refund, in full, of the capital gains taxes withheld. The Company has included the expected amount to be refunded
in the caption Accounts receivable, net and other receivables in its consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2020, refer also to Note
5.
(2) Transaction costs include expenses incurred by the Company of $7.5 million directly related to the disposal of Net1 Korea and
paid in cash and a non-refundable securities transfer tax of approximately $1.2 million which was also withheld from the purchase
price and paid to the South Korean tax authorities directly by the purchaser.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Dispositions (continued)
2020 Dispositions (continued)
December 2019 disposal of FIHRST
In November 2019, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Net1 Applied Technologies South Africa Proprietary
Limited (“Net1 SA”), entered into an agreement with Transaction Capital Payment Solutions Proprietary Limited, or its nominee, a
limited liability private company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa, pursuant to which Net1 SA agreed to sell its entire
shareholding in Net1 FIHRST Holdings Proprietary Limited (“FIHRST”) for $10.9 million (ZAR 159.7 million). The transaction
closed in December 2019. FIHRST was deconsolidated following the closing of the transaction. Net1 SA was obliged to utilize the
full purchase price received from the sale of FIHRST to partially settle its obligations under its lending arrangements and applied the
proceeds received against its outstanding borrowings – refer to Note 13.
The table below presents the impact of the deconsolidation of FIHRST and the calculation of the net gain recognized on
deconsolidation:
FIHRST
Proceeds from disposal of FIHRST, net of cash disposed
Add: Cash and cash equivalents disposed
Fair value of consideration received
Less: carrying value of FIHRST, comprising
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable, net
Property, plant and equipment, net
Goodwill (Note 11)
Intangible assets, net
Deferred income taxes assets
Accounts payable
Other payables
Income taxes payable
Released from accumulated other comprehensive income – foreign currency translation reserve (Note 16)
Settlement assets
Settlement liabilities
Gain recognized on disposal, before tax
Taxes related to gain recognized on disposal, comprising:
Capital gains tax
Release of valuation allowance related to capital losses previously unutilized(1)
Transaction costs
Gain recognized on disposal, after tax
December 31,
2019
$
$
10,895
854
11,749
1,870
854
367
64
599
30
42
(7)
(1,437)
(220)
1,578
17,406
(17,406)
9,879
-
2,654
(2,654)
136
9,743
(1) Net1 SA recorded a valuation allowance related to capital losses previously generated but not utilized. A portion of these
unutilized capital losses was utilized as a result of the disposal of FIHRST and, therefore, the equivalent portion of the valuation
allowance created was released.
May 2020 deconsolidation of CPS
On February 5, 2020, the Constitutional Court of South Africa denied CPS’ leave to appeal lower court judgments ordering
CPS to repay additional implementation costs that SASSA paid to CPS in 2014, thereby exhausting all legal recourse for CPS in the
matter. As a result, CPS’ board of directors has adopted a resolution to put CPS into business rescue under South African law and
has filed the required resolution with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. On May 18, 2020, the resolution was
officially registered and business rescue practitioners were appointed. The business rescue process can lead to either a compromise
with creditors and a continuation of CPS’ business or the liquidation of CPS. The Company has no means of exercising any control
over CPS or the business rescue process because the Company has ceded control of CPS to the business rescue practitioners on the
commencement of the business rescue process. The business rescue practitioners are independent third parties and control CPS
through the business rescue process. The Company no longer controls CPS and therefore it determined to deconsolidate CPS. As a
practical matter, the Company deconsolidated CPS as of May 31, 2020. The Company does not believe that the utilization of this
date, compared to May 18, 2020, has had a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Dispositions (continued)
2020 Dispositions (continued)
May 2020 deconsolidation of CPS
On March 26, 2020, CPS’ holding company, Net1 SA, submitted a filing to Gauteng Division of the High Court of South
Africa (“High Court”) under which it commenced a process to place CPS into business rescue due to administrative delays
experienced in the CPS business rescue application process. Net1 SA proposed in its March 2020 High Court filing that it was
willing to contribute ZAR 50.0 million ($2.9 million translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020) into CPS if CPS
and SASSA reached a settlement on their claims and counterclaims. Given that SASSA is contesting the CPS business rescue
process, the Company does not believe that it, through Net1 SA, will be required to make the investment of ZAR 50.0 million and
therefore it has not recorded a liability as of June 30, 2020.
The Company will provide accounting, tax and general administrative services to CPS while it is in business rescue. In
addition, the Company has an arrangement with CPS to rent certain bespoke payment vehicles from CPS, and this arrangement will
continue while CPS is in business rescue. The value of these arrangements is not significant and has been determined on an arm’s
length basis. The table below presents the impact of the deconsolidation of CPS and the calculation of the net loss recognized on
deconsolidation:
CPS
Fair value of consideration received
Less: carrying value of CPS, comprising
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable, net
Inventory
Property, plant and equipment, net
Goodwill (Note 11)
Deferred income taxes assets (Note 19)
Accounts payable
Other payables
Released from accumulated other comprehensive income – foreign currency translation reserve (Note 16)
Loss recognized on deconsolidation, before tax
Intercompany accounts written off/ provided for(1)
Taxes related to loss recognized on deconsolidation, comprising:
Capital loss generated upon deconsolidation(2)
Valuation allowance related to capital losses generated upon deconsolidation(2)
Loss recognized on deconsolidation, after tax
May
2020
-
(68)
328
303
12
236
-
-
(238)
(33,160)
32,451
68
7,216
-
5,399
(5,399)
7,148
$
$
(1) Certain of the Company’s subsidiaries had funds due from CPS as of May 31, 2020. The Company has written these
amounts off as it does not believe that they are recoverable.
(2) The Company recorded a deferred tax asset related to the capital loss generated on deconsolidation of CPS. The Company
is only able to claim the capital loss for South African capital gains tax purposes once it deregisters or disposes of its interest in CPS.
The Company has recorded a valuation allowance related to the full CPS capital loss deferred tax asset recognized because it does
not believe that this capital loss will be utilized in the foreseeable future.
2019 Dispositions
March 2019 disposal of DNI
On February 28, 2019, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Net1 Applied Technologies South Africa
Proprietary Limited (“Net1 SA”), entered into a transaction with JAA Holdings Proprietary Limited, a limited liability private
company duly incorporated in the Republic of South Africa, and PK Gain Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited, a limited
liability private company duly incorporated in the Republic of South Africa, in terms of which Net1 SA reduced its shareholding in
DNI from 55% to 38%. The transaction closed on March 31, 2019. The parties used a cashless settlement process on closing, refer to
Note 21. Net1 SA used the proceeds from the sale of the DNI shares to settle its ZAR 400 million ($27.6 million, translated at
exchange rates applicable as of March 31, 2019, obligation to DNI to subscribe for an additional share as part of the contingent
consideration settlement process. The Company no longer controlled DNI and deconsolidated its investment in DNI effective March
31, 2019.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Dispositions (continued)
2020 Dispositions (continued)
March 2019 disposal of DNI (continued)
The table below presents the impact of the deconsolidation of DNI and the calculation of the net loss recognized on
deconsolidation:
DNI (as restated, refer to Note 1)
Equity method investment
as of June 30, 2019
8% retained
interest sold
in May 2019
30%
retained
interest
Attributed
to non-
controlling
interest
Total
17% sold
- $
- $
Fair value of consideration received
Fair value of retained interest in DNI(1)
Carrying value of non-controlling interest
Subtotal
Less: carrying value of DNI, comprising
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable, net
Finance loans receivable, net
Inventory
Property, plant and equipment, net
Equity-accounted investments
Goodwill
Intangible assets, net
Deferred income taxes
Other long-term assets
Accounts payable
Other payables(2)
Income taxes payable
Deferred income taxes
Long-term debt
$
27,626 $
74,195
88,934
190,755
199,930
2,114
24,577
1,030
893
1,265
242
113,003
80,769
28
26,553
(5,186)
(16,484)
(2,482)
(22,083)
(10,150)
27,626 $
-
-
27,626
38,346
354
4,116
173
149
212
41
18,924
13,526
5
4,447
(868)
(2,760)
(416)
(3,698)
(1,700)
14,849
-
14,849
14,540
158
1,841
77
66
95
19
8,466
6,051
2
1,989
(389)
(1,235)
(186)
(1,654)
(760)
Released from accumulated other comprehensive
income – foreign currency translation reserve (as
restated) (Note 1 and Note 16)
Loss recognized on disposal, before tax, comprising
Related to sale of 17% of DNI
Related to fair value adjustment of retained
interest in 38% of DNI
Taxes related to gain recognized on disposal(3)
Loss recognized on disposal of discontinued
operation, after tax (as restated)
5,841
(9,175)
(10,720)
5,841
(10,720)
(10,720)
-
309
-
1,545
-
-
505
309
(3,836)
$
(9,175) $
(11,225) $
4,145 $
(2,095)
-
-
88,934
88,934
88,934
969
11,262
472
410
579
110
51,779
37,009
13
12,167
(2,376)
(7,553)
(1,137)
(10,119)
(4,651)
-
-
59,346
-
59,346
58,110
633
7,358
308
268
379
72
33,834
24,183
8
7,950
(1,553)
(4,936)
(743)
(6,612)
(3,039)
-
1,236
-
1,236
3,331
(1) The fair value of the retained interest in 38% of DNI of $74.2 million ($14.9 million plus $59.3 million) has been
calculated using the implied fair value of DNI pursuant to the RMB Disposal and has been calculated as ZAR 215.0 million divided
by 7.605235% multiplied by 38%, translated to dollars at the March 31, 2019, rate of exchange.
(2) Other payables include a short-term loan of ZAR 60.5 million ($4.3 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of
June 30, 2019) due to the Company. The short-term loan is included in accounts receivable, net and other receivables on the
Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2019. The loan was repaid in full on July 31, 2019. Interest on the loan was
charged at the South African prime rate.
(3) Amounts presented are net of a valuation allowance provided. The disposal of DNI resulted in a capital loss for tax
purposes of approximately $1.5 million and the Company provided a valuation allowance of $1.5 million against this capital loss
because it did not have any capital gains to offset against this amount at the time. On an individual basis, the transaction to dispose
of 17% of DNI resulted in a capital gain of $0.5 million and the re-measurement of the retained 38% interest has resulted in a capital
loss of $2.0 million ($5.3 million (8% transaction) less $3.3 million (30% transaction)). The valuation allowance of $1.5 million was
provided against the $5.3 million, for a net amount presented in the table above of $3.8 million ($5.3 million less $1.5 million).
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Dispositions (continued)
2018 Dispositions
None.
Discontinued operations
Discontinued operations – Net1 Korea and DNI
The Company determined that, following the disposal of its controlling interest in Net1 Korea and DNI, these entities should be
classified as a discontinued operation because they individually represented a strategic shift in the Company business that would
have a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results. The facts and circumstances leading to the disposal of Net1
Korea and DNI are described above. The gain related to the disposal of Net1 Korea and the loss related to the disposal of DNI are
presented above. Net1 Korea, as a stand-alone holding company, and the amortization of intangible assets identified and recognized
related to the KSNET acquisition, were allocated to corporate/eliminations and Net1 Korea’s subsidiaries, including KSNET, were
allocated to the Company’s international transaction processing operating segment. Net1 Korea did not have any equity method
investments or any non-controlling interests. DNI was allocated to the Company’s financial inclusion and applied technologies
operating segment and the amortization of intangible assets identified and recognized related to the DNI acquisition were allocated
to corporate/eliminations. The impact of the disposal of a controlling interest in Net1 Korea and DNI on the Company’s operating
segments is presented in Note 22.
The Company retained a continuing involvement in DNI through its 38% interest in DNI (refer to Note 10) following the
March 31, 2019, transaction disclosed above. As disclosed in Note 10, the Company sold an 8% interest in DNI in May 2019, and
entered into an agreement under which it provided a call option to DNI to repurchase the then remaining 30% interest in DNI. The
Company recorded earnings under the equity method related to its retained investment in DNI during the three months ended June
30, 2019, refer to Note 10. The table below presents revenues and expenses between the Company and DNI, after the DNI disposal
transaction, during the year ended June 30, 2020 (i.e. for the nine months ended March 31, 2020), and 2019 (i.e. for the three months
ended June 30, 2019), respectively:
Revenue generated from transactions with DNI
Expenses incurred related to transactions with DNI
DNI
Years ended June 30,
2020
2019
$
$
- $
2,902 $
-
63
Refer to Note 10 for the dividends received from DNI and accounted for under the equity method during the year ended June
30, 2020 and 2019.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Discontinued operations (continued)
Discontinued operations – Net1 Korea and DNI (continued)
The table below presents the Net1 Korea balances included on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2019,
translated at the foreign exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019:
Net1 Korea
Current assets of discontinued operation
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable, net
Finance loans receivable, net
Inventory
Settlement assets
Long-term assets of discontinued operation
Property, plant and equipment, net
Goodwill (Note 11)
Intangible assets, net
Deferred income taxes assets
Other long-term assets
Current liabilities of discontinued operation
Accounts payable
Other payables
Income taxes payable
Settlement liabilities
Long-term liabilities of discontinued operation
Deferred income taxes liabilities
Other long-term liabilities
June 30,
2019
117,842
26,051
41,359
9,650
1,826
38,956
149,390
10,327
112,071
9,661
1,917
15,414
57,815
7,139
6,827
4,893
38,956
3,264
2,756
508
$
$
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
3. ACQUISITIONS, DISPOSITIONS AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS (continued)
Discontinued operations (continued)
Discontinued operations – Net1 Korea and DNI (continued)
The table below presents certain major captions to the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and consolidated
statement of cash flows for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, that have not been separately presented on those
statements related to the presentation of Net1 Korea and DNI as discontinued operations:
2020
Total
(Net1
Korea)
Total
2019
Net1
Korea
DNI
Total
2018
Net1
Korea
DNI
Consolidated statement of
operations
Discontinued:
Revenue
Cost of goods sold, IT
processing, servicing
and support
Selling, general and
administration
Depreciation and
amortization
Impairment loss
Operating income
Interest income
Interest expense
Net income before tax
Income tax expense
Net income before
earnings from equity-
accounted investments
Earnings from equity-
accounted
investments(1)
Net income from
discontinued
operations
Consolidated statement of
cash flows
Discontinued:
Total net cash provided
by operating
activities(2)(3)
Total net cash provided
by (used) in investing
activities
$ 85,375 $ 194,763
$ 138,426
$ 56,337
$ 153,314
$ 153,314 $
37,377
85,652
57,984
27,668
60,982
60,982
30,562
57,136
53,479
3,657
57,567
57,567
8,652
-
8,784
678
106
9,356
2,954
25,246
5,305
21,424
1,805
864
22,365
8,750
17,220
-
9,743
1,098
52
10,789
4,989
8,026
5,305
11,681
707
812
11,576
3,761
25,011
-
9,754
1,040
372
10,422
2,868
25,011
-
9,754
1,040
372
10,422
2,868
6,402
13,615
5,800
7,815
7,554
7,554
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
15
-
15
7,005
-
7,005
$
6,402 $ 13,630
$
5,800
$
7,830
$ 14,559
$
7,554 $
7,005
$
3,758 $ 11,976
$
5,341
$
6,635
$ 25,939
$ 24,174 $
1,765
$
1,524 $
(6,816)
$
(6,300)
$
(516)
$
(8,270)
$
(8,270) $
-
(1) Earnings from equity-accounted investments for the year ended June 30, 2018, represents DNI earnings (net of amortization
of acquired intangibles and related deferred tax) attributed to the Company as a result of the Company using the equity method to
account for its investment in DNI during the period (refer to Note 10).
(2) Total net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended June 30, 2019, includes dividends received of $0.9 million
(refer to Note 10) from DNI while it was accounted for using the equity method during the three months ended June 30, 2019.
(3) Total net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended June 30, 2018, represents dividends received from DNI
during the period.
The Company retained a continuing involvement in DNI following the March 2019 disposal, refer to Note 10. The Company
recorded earnings under the equity method related to its retained investment in DNI during the nine months ended March 31, 2020,
and the three months ended June 30, 2019, refer to Note 10.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
4. PRE-FUNDED SOCIAL WELFARE GRANTS RECEIVABLE
Pre-funded social welfare grants receivable represents primarily amounts pre-funded by the Company to certain merchants
participating in the merchant acquiring system. The Company’s contract with the South African Social Security Agency expired on
September 30, 2018, and therefore the Company no longer pre-funds social welfare grants. The July 2018 payment service
commenced on July 1, 2018 but the Company pre-funded certain merchants participating in the merchant acquiring systems on the
last day of June 2018.
5. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, net AND OTHER RECEIVABLES and FINANCE LOANS RECEIVABLE, net
Accounts receivable, net and other receivables
The Company’s accounts receivable, net, and other receivables as of June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2019, are presented in the
table below:
Accounts receivable, trade, net
Accounts receivable, trade, gross
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable, end of period
Beginning of period
Reversed to statement of operations
Charged to statement of operations
Utilized
Deconsolidation
Foreign currency adjustment
Taxes refundable related to sale of Net1 Korea (Note 3)
Loans provided to Carbon
Current portion of amount outstanding related to sale of remaining interest in DNI
(Note 10)
Loan provided to DNI
Other receivables
Total accounts receivable, net
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
$
$
8,458 $
8,711
253
661
(155)
181
(151)
(178)
(105)
19,796
3,000
2,756
-
9,058
43,068
$
12,637
13,298
661
678
(22)
3,118
(3,059)
(38)
(16)
-
3,000
-
4,260
11,238
31,135
Accounts receivable, trade, gross includes amounts due from customers from the provision of transaction processing services,
from the sale of hardware, software licenses and SIM cards and rentals from POS equipment. The Company did not record any bad
debt expense during the year ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively and bad debts incurred were written off against the
allowance for doubtful accounts receivable. During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company recorded bad debt expense of $0.1
million.
The loan provided to Carbon was scheduled to be repaid before June 30, 2020, however, Carbon requested a payment holiday
as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business. The parties had not agreed new repayment terms as of June 30,
2020, but the Company acknowledges these unexpected challenges currently facing Carbon and continues to engage with Carbon to
agree a revised repayment date. The Company does not believe that the loan provided to Carbon is impaired. The current portion of
amount outstanding related to sale of remaining interest in DNI as of June 30, 2020, relates to the transaction completed in April
2020 (refer to Note 10). The loan provided to DNI as of June 30, 2019, was repaid in full in July 2019. Other receivables include
prepayments, deposits and other receivables.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
5. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, net AND OTHER RECEIVABLES and FINANCE LOANS RECEIVABLE, net
(continued)
Finance loans receivable, net
The Company’s finance loans receivable, net, as of June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2019, is presented in the table below:
Microlending finance loans receivable, net
$
Microlending finance loans receivable, gross
Allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable, end of period
Beginning of period
Reversed to statement of operations
Charged to statement of operations
Utilized
Foreign currency adjustment
Working capital finance loans receivable, net
Working capital finance loans receivable, gross
Allowance for doubtful finance loans receivable, end of period
Beginning of period
Charged to statement of operations
Utilized
Total accounts receivable, net
June 30,
2020
15,879 $
17,737
1,858
3,199
(492)
1,211
(1,451)
(609)
-
5,800
5,800
5,800
-
-
June 30,
2019
20,981
24,180
3,199
4,239
-
28,802
(29,721)
(121)
-
5,800
5,800
12,037
748
(6,985)
$
15,879
$
20,981
Total finance loans receivable, net, comprises microlending finance loans receivable related to the Company’s microlending
operations in South Africa. During the year ended June 30, 2019, the Company recorded an increase in its allowance for doubtful
microlending finance loans receivable of approximately $28.8 million. This high level of allowance related to the non-funding of
accounts for a portion of the EPE customer base as a result of the auto-migration of the customer base to the South Africa Post
Office account offering during the three months ended December 31, 2018. During the year ended June 30, 2019, the Company
utilized $29.7 million of this allowance for doubtful microlending finance loans receivable.
Gross microlending finance loans receivable as of June 30, 2020, were lower than as of June 30, 2019, partially due to the
impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s microlending business. The Company was unable to originate loans in April and early May
2020, and therefore the lending book reduced significantly as customers made scheduled repayments. The lending book has
subsequently increased through August 2020 as the Company recommenced loan originations from mid-May 2020.
During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company exited its working capital finance businesses in Europe and the United
States. The Company created an allowance for doubtful working capital finance receivables related to receivables due from
customers based in the United States during the year ended June 30, 2018, and utilized approximately $6.8 million of this allowance
during the year ended June 30, 2019. The Company commenced legal proceedings against the customer in 2018. The customer is
engaged in bankruptcy proceedings and the Company has to wait for these proceedings to be finalized before it can determine the
amount, if any, of this receivable that is recoverable.
6. INVENTORY
The Company’s inventory comprised the following categories as of June 30, 2020, and 2019.
Finished goods
Finished goods subject to sale restrictions
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
$
$
15,618
4,242
19,860
$
$
5,709
-
5,709
Finished goods subject to sale restrictions represents airtime inventory purchased in March 2020, that may only be sold by the
Company from October 1, 2020.
In light of the current dynamics in the wholesale airtime inventory market, the Company believes the net realizable value of
certain airtime inventory held as of June 30, 2020, measured at amounts reflecting existing market conditions, was below its cost.
Accordingly, the Company recorded a loss of $1.3 million during the year ended June 30, 2020, related to this airtime inventory.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Fair value of financial instruments
Initial recognition and measurement
Financial instruments are recognized when the Company becomes a party to the transaction. Initial measurements are at cost,
which includes transaction costs.
Risk management
The Company manages its exposure to currency exchange, translation, interest rate, customer concentration, credit and equity
price and liquidity risks as discussed below.
Currency exchange risk
The Company is subject to currency exchange risk because it purchases inventories that it is required to settle in other
currencies, primarily the euro and U.S. dollar. The Company has used forward contracts in order to limit its exposure in these
transactions to fluctuations in exchange rates between the South African rand (“ZAR”), on the one hand, and the U.S. dollar and the
euro, on the other hand.
Translation risk
Translation risk relates to the risk that the Company’s results of operations will vary significantly as the U.S. dollar is its
reporting currency, but it earns a significant amount of its revenues and incurs a significant amount of its expenses in ZAR and, prior
to the sale of its Korean business, in Korean won (“KRW”). The U.S. dollar to both the ZAR and KRW exchange rates has
fluctuated significantly over the past three years. The Company’s translation risk exposure to KRW reduced significantly following
the disposal of Net1 Korea in March 2020, refer to Note 3. The Company does not expect any significant translation risk related to
KRW from March 2020. As exchange rates are outside the Company’s control, there can be no assurance that future fluctuations
will not adversely affect the Company’s results of operations and financial condition.
Interest rate risk
As a result of its normal borrowing and lending activities, the Company’s operating results are exposed to fluctuations in
interest rates, which it manages primarily through regular financing activities. The Company generally maintains investments in cash
equivalents and held to maturity investments.
Credit risk
Credit risk relates to the risk of loss that the Company would incur as a result of non-performance by counterparties. The
Company maintains credit risk policies with regard to its counterparties to minimize overall credit risk. These policies include an
evaluation of a potential counterparty’s financial condition, credit rating, and other credit criteria and risk mitigation tools as the
Company’s management deems appropriate. With respect to credit risk on financial instruments, the Company maintains a policy of
entering into such transactions only with South African, South Korean and European financial institutions that have a credit rating of
“B” (or its equivalent) or better, as determined by credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings.
Microlending credit risk
The Company is exposed to credit risk in its microlending activities, which provide unsecured short-term loans to qualifying
customers. The Company manages this risk by performing an affordability test for each prospective customer and assigning a
“creditworthiness score”, which takes into account a variety of factors such as other debts and total expenditures on normal
household and lifestyle expenses.
Equity price and liquidity risk
Equity price risk relates to the risk of loss that the Company would incur as a result of the volatility in the exchange-traded
price of equity securities that it holds and the risk that it may not be able to liquidate these securities. The market price of these
securities may fluctuate for a variety of reasons and, consequently, the amount that the Company may obtain in a subsequent sale of
these securities may significantly differ from the reported market value.
Liquidity risk relates to the risk of loss that the Company would incur as a result of the lack of liquidity on the exchange on
which these securities are listed. The Company may not be able to sell some or all of these securities at one time, or over an
extended period of time without influencing the exchange traded price, or at all.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (continued)
Financial instruments
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received upon sale of an asset or paid upon transfer of a liability in an orderly
transaction between market participants at the measurement date and in the principal or most advantageous market for that asset or
liability. The fair value should be calculated based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability,
not on assumptions specific to the entity. In addition, the fair value of liabilities should include consideration of non-performance
risk including the Company’s own credit risk.
Fair value measurements and inputs are categorized into a fair value hierarchy which prioritizes the inputs into three levels
based on the extent to which inputs used in measuring fair value are observable in the market. Each fair value measurement is
reported in one of the three levels which is determined by the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in
its entirety.
These levels are:
• Level 1 – inputs are based upon unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments traded in active markets.
• Level 2 – inputs are based upon quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or
similar instruments in markets that are not active, and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant
assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of
the assets or liabilities.
• Level 3 – inputs are generally unobservable and typically reflect management’s estimates of assumptions that market
participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. The fair values are therefore determined using model-based
techniques that include option pricing models, discounted cash flow models, and similar techniques.
The following section describes the valuation methodologies the Company uses to measure its significant financial assets and
liabilities at fair value.
Asset measured at fair value using significant unobservable inputs – investment in Cell C
The Company’s Level 3 asset represents an investment of 75,000,000 class “A” shares in Cell C, a significant mobile telecoms
provider in South Africa. The Company used a discounted cash flow model developed by the Company to determine the fair value
of its investment in Cell C and valued its investment at $0.0(zero) as of each of June 30, 2020 and 2019. The Company believes the
Cell C business plan utilized in the Company’s valuation is reasonable based on the current performance and the expected changes
in Cell C’s business model. The Company utilized the latest business plan provided by Cell C management for the period ending
December 31, 2024, and the following key valuation inputs were used as of June 30, 2020 and 2019:
Weighted Average Cost of Capital:
Long term growth rate:
Marketability discount:
Minority discount:
Net adjusted external debt - June 30, 2020:(1)
Net adjusted external debt - June 30, 2019:(2)
Deferred tax (incl. assessed tax losses) - June 30,
2020:(1)
Deferred tax (incl. assessed tax losses) - June 30,
2019:(2)
Between 15% and 21% over the period of the forecast
3% (4,5% as of June 30, 2019)
10%
15%
ZAR 15,8 billion ($0,9 billion), includes R4,4 billion of lease liabilities
ZAR 13,9 billion ($1 billion), includes R6,4 billion of lease liabilities
ZAR 2,9 billion ($167,3 million)
ZAR 2,9 billion ($205,9 million)
(1) translated from ZAR to U.S. dollars at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020.
(2) translated from ZAR to U.S. dollars at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019.
The fair value of Cell C as of June 30, 2020, utilizing the discounted cash flow valuation model developed by the Company is
sensitive to the following inputs: (i) the ability of Cell C to achieve the forecasts in their business case; (ii) the weighted average cost
of capital (“WACC”) rate used; and (iii) the minority and marketability discount used. Utilization of different inputs, or changes to
these inputs, may result in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (continued)
Financial instruments (continued)
Asset measured at fair value using significant unobservable inputs – investment in Cell C (continued)
The following table presents the impact on the carrying value of the Company’s Cell C investment of a 3.0% increase and 2.0%
decrease in the WACC rate and the EBITDA margins used in the Cell C valuation on June 30, 2020, all amounts translated at
exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020:
Sensitivity for fair value of Cell C investment
WACC rate
EBITDA margin
3.0% increase(A)
2.0% decrease(A)
$
$
- $
2,528 $
1,680
-
(A) the carrying value of the Cell C investment is not impacted by a 1.0% increase or a 1.0% decrease and therefore the impact
of a 3.0% increase and a 2.0% decrease is presented.
The fair value of the Cell C shares as of June 30, 2020, represented approximately 0% of the Company’s total assets, including
these shares. The Company expects to hold these shares for an extended period of time and that there will be short-term equity price
volatility with respect to these shares particularly given the current situation of Cell C’s business.
Liability measured at fair value using significant unobservable inputs – DNI contingent consideration
The salient terms of the Company’s investment in DNI is described in Note 3. Under the terms of its subscription agreements
with DNI, the Company agreed to pay to DNI an additional amount of up to ZAR 400.0 million ($27.6 million, translated at
exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019), in cash, subject to the achievement of certain performance targets by DNI. The
Company expected to pay the additional amount during the first quarter of the year ended June 30, 2020, and recorded an amount of
ZAR 373.6 million ($27.2 million), in long-term liabilities as of June 30, 2018, which amount represented the present value of the
ZAR 400.0 million to be paid (amounts translated at the exchange rate applicable as of June 30, 2018, respectively). As described in
Note 3 and Note 21, the Company settled the ZAR 400 million ($27.6 million) due to DNI as of March 31, 2019. The Company
recorded accreted interest during the year ended June 30, 2019, of $1.8 million (ZAR 26.4 million, translated at the applicable
average exchange rates during the periods specified).
Derivative transactions - Foreign exchange contracts
As part of the Company’s risk management strategy, the Company enters into derivative transactions to mitigate exposures to
foreign currencies using foreign exchange contracts. These foreign exchange contracts are over-the-counter derivative
transactions. Substantially all of the Company’s derivative exposures are with counterparties that have long-term credit ratings of
“B” (or equivalent) or better. The Company uses quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and liabilities to determine fair
value (Level 2). The Company has no derivatives that require fair value measurement under Level 1 or 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
The Company had no outstanding foreign exchange contracts as of June 30, 2020, or June 30, 2019.
The following table presents the Company’s assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2020, according to
the fair value hierarchy:
Quoted Price in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
Total
$
Assets
Investment in Cell C
Related to insurance business:
Cash, cash equivalents and
restricted cash (included in
other long-term assets)
Fixed maturity investments
(included in cash and cash
equivalents)
Total assets at fair value
$
-
$
-
$
-
$
-
490
4,198
4,688
$
-
-
-
$
-
-
-
$
490
4,198
4,688
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (continued)
Financial instruments (continued)
The following table presents the Company’s assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2019, according to
the fair value hierarchy:
Quoted Price in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
Total
$
Assets
Investment in Cell C
Related to insurance business
Cash and cash equivalents
(included in other long-term
assets)
Fixed maturity investments
(included in cash and cash
equivalents)
Total assets at fair value $
-
$
-
$
-
$
-
619
5,201
5,820
$
-
-
-
$
-
-
-
$
619
5,201
5,820
There have been no transfers in or out of Level 3 during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
There was no movement in the carrying value of assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis, and categorized within
Level 3, during the years ended June 30, 2020. Summarized below is the movement in the carrying value of assets measured at fair
value on a recurring basis, and categorized within Level 3, during the year ended June 30, 2020:
Assets
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
Carrying value
$
$
-
-
-
(1) The foreign currency adjustment represents the effects of the fluctuations of the South African rand and the U.S. dollar on
the carrying value.
Summarized below is the movement in the carrying value of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis,
and categorized within Level 3, during the year ended June 30, 2019:
Assets
Balance as at June 30, 2018
Loss on fair value re-measurements
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Liabilities
Balance as at June 30, 2018
Accretion of interest
Settlement of contingent consideration
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Carrying value
$
$
$
$
172,948
(167,459)
(5,489)
-
27,222
1,848
(27,626)
(1,444)
-
(1) The foreign currency adjustment represents the effects of the fluctuations of the South African rand and the U.S. dollar on
the carrying value.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (continued)
Financial instruments (continued)
Trade, finance loans and other receivables
Trade, finance loans and other receivables originated by the Company are stated at cost less allowance for doubtful accounts
receivable. The fair value of trade, finance loans and other receivables approximates their carrying value due to their short-term
nature.
Trade and other payables
The fair values of trade and other payables approximates their carrying amounts, due to their short-term nature.
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis
The Company measures equity investments without readily determinable fair values at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. The
fair values of these investments are determined based on valuation techniques using the best information available, and may include
quoted market prices, market comparables, and discounted cash flow projections. An impairment charge is recorded when the cost of
the asset exceeds its fair value and the excess is determined to be other-than-temporary. The Company has not recorded any
impairment charges during the reporting periods presented herein. The Company has no liabilities that are measured at fair value on
a nonrecurring basis.
8. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, net
Summarized below is the cost, accumulated depreciation and carrying amount of property, plant and equipment as of June 30,
2020 and 2019:
Cost
Computer equipment
Furniture and office equipment
Motor vehicles
Accumulated depreciation:
Computer equipment
Furniture and office equipment
Motor vehicles
Carrying amount:
Computer equipment
Furniture and office equipment
Motor vehicles
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
$
$
$
$
26,575
7,732
1,873
36,180
22,810
5,101
1,613
29,524
3,765
2,631
260
6,656
$
$
$
$
37,719
9,788
16,147
63,654
32,707
7,738
14,982
55,427
5,012
2,050
1,165
8,227
9. LEASES
Adoption of new lease guidance on July 1, 2019
The Company elected to adopt the new lease guidance utilizing the modified retrospective approach and therefore, prior
periods were not adjusted. The Company was not required to record a cumulative-effect adjustment to opening retained earnings as
of July 1, 2019. The Company applied the package of three practical expedients available, which included the following (i) an entity
need not reassess expired or existing contracts which are or contain leases (ii) an entity need not reassess the lease classification for
any expired or existing leases, and (iii) an entity need not reassess initial direct costs for any existing leases. The Company also
elected to not recognize right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for leases with a term of less than twelve months and to account for
all components in a lease arrangement as a single combined lease component.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
9. LEASES (continued)
Adoption of new lease guidance on July 1, 2019 (continued)
The Company has entered into leasing arrangements classified as operating leases under accounting guidance. These leasing
arrangements relate primarily to the lease of its corporate head office, administration offices and branch locations through which the
Company operates its financial services business in South Africa and its transaction processing activities in Malta. The Company’s
operating leases have a remaining lease term of between one to six years. The Company’s lease of property in Malta includes five
separate one-year options to extend the lease, which effectively extends the lease term from three years to eight years. At lease
inception, the Company expected to exercise these options and these options are included as part of its right-of-use assets and
liabilities. The Company also operates parts of its financial services business from locations which it leases for a period of less than
one year.
The Company’s operating lease expense during the year ended June 30, 2020, was $3.6 million. The Company does not have
any significant leases that have not commenced as of June 30, 2020.
The Company has entered into short-term leasing arrangements, primarily for the lease of branch locations and other locations
to operate its financial services business in South Africa. The Company’s short-term lease expense during the year ended June 30,
2020, was $4.2 million.
The following table presents supplemental balance sheet disclosure related to our right-of-use assets and our operating leases
liabilities as of June 30, 2020 and July 1, 2019, the date of adoption of the new lease guidance (refer to Note 1):
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations
Operating leases
Weighted average remaining lease term (years)
Weighted average discount rate
Maturities of operating lease liabilities
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Thereafter
Total undiscounted operating lease liabilities
Less imputed interest
Total operating lease liabilities, included in
Operating lease right-of-use lease liability - current
Right-of-use operating lease liability - long-term
June 30,
2020
July 1,
2019
$
$
$
2,974
3.94
9%
2,622
1,525
961
639
320
321
6,388
825
5,563
2,251
3,312
$
$
$
6,739
2.51
10%
3,608
2,395
1,269
454
-
-
7,726
842
6,884
5,098
1,786
Operating lease payments related to premises and equipment were $10.6 million and $9.6 million, respectively, for the years
ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
At June 30, 2019, the future minimum payments under operating leases consist of:
Due within 1 year
Due within 2 years
Due within 3 years
Due within 4 years
Due within 5 years
$
$
6,010
2,654
1,122
518
-
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS
Equity-accounted investments
The Company’s ownership percentage in its equity-accounted investments as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, was as follows:
Bank Frick & Co AG (“Bank Frick”)
DNI
Finbond Group Limited (“Finbond”)
Carbon Tech Limited (“Carbon”), formerly OneFi Limited
Revix (“Revix”)
SmartSwitch Namibia (Pty) Ltd (“SmartSwitch Namibia”)
V2 Limited (“V2”)
Walletdoc Proprietary Limited (“Walletdoc”)
DNI
June 30,
2020
35%
-
31%
25%
25%
50%
50%
20%
June 30,
2019
35%
30%
29%
25%
-
50%
50%
20%
As of June 30, 2019, the Company owned 30% of the voting and economic rights of DNI. In February 2020, the Company’s
ownership percentage in DNI reduced from approximately 30% to 27% following the issuance by DNI of additional ordinary no par
value shares. The Company did not acquire additional ordinary shares in DNI and therefore its ownership percentage was diluted.
The terms and conditions of the option referred to below were unaffected by the additional issuance by DNI. The Company sold its
remaining interest in DNI in April 2020.
Sale of remaining interest in April 2020
In May 2019, Net1 Applied Technologies South Africa Proprietary Limited (“Net1 SA”) granted an option to DNI, or its
nominee, to acquire the 30,394,765 DNI shares Net1 SA held. The option strike price was calculated as ZAR 2.827 billion ($158.0
million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of March 31, 2020) less any special distribution made by DNI multiplied by Net1
SA’s retained interest (i.e. assuming no special distribution, the strike price for the retained interest is ZAR 859.3 million, or $48.0
million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020). It was permissible for the call option to be split into smaller
denominations, but Net1 SA could not be left with less than 20% unless the whole remaining interest was disposed of. DNI was
entitled to nominate another party to exercise the call option in the place of DNI, provided that the nominated party acquires call
options representing at least 2.5% of DNI’s voting and participation interests.
The option was exercised on March 31, 2020. DNI nominated MIC Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited (“MIC”) to
exercise a portion of the option to acquire 26,886,310 of the 30,394,765 DNI shares for ZAR 760.0 million ($42.5 million, translated
at exchange rates applicable as of March 31, 2020) from Net1 SA. The transaction closed on April 1, 2020 and MIC settled the
option consideration in cash. On March 31, 2020, and together with the MIC transaction, DNI exercised a portion of the option to
acquire the remaining 3,508,455 DNI shares from Net1 SA for ZAR 99.2 million ($5.5 million, translated at exchange rates
applicable as of March 31, 2020) through the issue of a note to Net1 SA. The transaction also closed on April 1, 2020.
The note is unsecured. The note principal is repayable in 18 equal monthly installments of ZAR 5.5 million ($0.3 million,
translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020) commencing on October 31, 2020. Interest is charged at a fixed rate of
7.25% per annum and accrues monthly from October 1, 2020 and is repayable together with the principal payments. The Company
adjusted the 12-month JIBAR interest rate of 6.33% quoted by Rand Merchant Bank by 0.30% to derive a 24-month rate of 6.63%
which has been used to determine the present value of the ZAR 99.2 million note. The present value of the note as of March 31,
2020, using the derived interest rate and the expected cash repayments was ZAR 95.7 million ($5.4 million, translated at exchange
rates applicable as of March 31, 2020). The portion of the note that is expected to be repaid during the twelve months following June
30, 2020, has been included in accounts receivable, net and other receivables in the consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2020
(refer to Note 5). The remaining amount (the long-term portion) has been included in other long-term assets in the consolidated
balance sheet as of June 30, 2020 (refer also to the section “Other long-term assets” below).
The Company incurred transaction costs of approximately $1.0 million.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
DNI (continued)
Sale of remaining interest in April 2020 (continued)
The following table presents the calculation of the loss on disposal of DNI on April 1, 2020:
Loss on sale of DNI:
Consideration received in cash on April 1, 2020 - 26,886,310 shares
Consideration received with note on April 1, 2020 - present value of note - 3,508,455 shares
Less: transaction costs
Less: carrying value of DNI
Less: release of foreign currency translation reserve from accumulated other comprehensive loss
Loss on sale of DNI before tax
Taxes related to sale of DNI
Capital gains tax related to sale of DNI(1)
Utilization of capital loss carryforwards(1)
Loss on disposal of DNI after tax
April 1
2020
42,477
5,354
(1,010)
(36,508)
(11,323)
(1,010)
-
2,475
(2,475)
(1,010)
$
$
(1) Net1 SA recorded a valuation allowance related to capital losses previously generated but not utilized. The Company
utilized approximately $12.0 million of these unutilized capital losses as a result of the disposal of its remaining interest in DNI in
April 2020 and, therefore, the equivalent portion of the valuation allowance created was released.
Sale of 8% in May 2019
On May 3, 2019, Net1 SA entered into a transaction with FirstRand Bank Limited, acting through its Rand Merchant Bank
division (“RMB”), in terms of which Net1 SA reduced its shareholding in DNI from 38% to 30% through the sale of 7,605,235
ordinary “A” shares in DNI for a transaction consideration of ZAR 215.0 million ($15.0 million) (the “RMB Disposal”). The parties
used a cashless settlement process on closing. The transaction closed on May 3, 2019, and the Company used the proceeds from the
sale of these DNI shares and ZAR 15.0 million of its existing cash reserves to settle its outstanding long-term borrowings of ZAR
230.0 million in full.
The following table presents the calculation of the gain on disposal of DNI on May 3, 2019:
May 3, 2019 fair value of consideration received
Less: equity-method interest sold (Note 10)
Less: released from accumulated other comprehensive loss – foreign currency translation reserve (as restated)
(Note 1 and Note 16)
May 2019 gain recognized on disposal, before tax
Capital loss related to disposal(1)
Gain recognized on disposal, after tax, as of May 3, 2019
May 2019
Disposal of
8% retained
interest in
DNI
$
$
15,011
(14,996)
162
177
-
177
(1) The disposal of the 8% interest in DNI resulted in a capital loss for tax purposes of approximately $23.9 million and the
Company provided a valuation allowance of $23.9 million against this capital loss because it did not have any capital gains to offset
against this amount at the time.
DNI impairments recorded during the year ended June 30, 2020
During year ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded impairment losses of $13.1 million. These impairment losses
included (i) an amount of $11.5 million related to the difference between the fair value of consideration received on April 1, 2020
following the sale of its remaining interest, and the carrying value of DNI as of March 31, 2020, which included $11.3 million
included in accumulated other comprehensive loss as of March 31, 2020, and (ii) an amount of $1.6 million representing the excess
of recorded earnings from DNI over its carrying value, calculated as the amount that the Company could receive pursuant to the call
option granted to DNI in May 2019.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Bank Frick
On October 2, 2019, the Company exercised its option to acquire an additional 35% interest in Bank Frick from the Frick
Family Foundation. The Company had agreed to pay an amount, the “Option Price Consideration”, for an additional 35% interest in
Bank Frick, which represented the higher of CHF 46.4 million ($46.5 million at exchange rates on October 2, 2019) or 35% of 15
times the average annual normalized net income of the Bank over the two years ended December 31, 2018. The shares would have
only transferred on payment of the Option Price Consideration, which was expected to occur on the later of (i) 180 days after the
date of exercise of the option; (ii) in the event of any regulatory approvals being required, 10 days after receipt of approval (either
unconditionally or on terms acceptable to both parties); and (iii) 10 days after the date on which the Option Price Consideration was
agreed or finally determined. On April 9, 2020, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Net1 Holdings LI AG, entered
into a termination agreement pursuant to which the option to acquire a further 35% of Bank Frick was cancelled. On April 15, 2020,
the Company paid a termination fee of CHF 17.0 million ($17.5 million) to the Frick Family to cancel the option.
The Company considered the termination of the exercise of the option to acquire a further 35% of Bank Frick an impairment
indicator. The Company recorded an impairment loss of $18.3 million during the quarter ended March 31, 2020, related to the other-
than-temporary decrease in Bank Frick’s value, which represented the difference between the determined fair value of the
Company’s interest in Bank Frick and the Company carrying value (before the impairment). The Company, with the assistance of
external consultants, considered a multiple based valuation approach in respect of the March 31, 2020 balance sheet date. The
Company believes that a price to book methodology is the most appropriate for a valuing a bank, but also took into account a price
earnings approach to support the primary methodology. An appropriate peer group was selected based on the activities of Bank Frick
and after applying a regression analysis to compensate for differences in the return on equity in the peer group a price to book ratio
of 1.15 times was determined, but the multiple ranged from 0.7 times to 4.7 times. The Company determined to use a price to book
multiple of approximately 0.9 times to value its investment in Bank Frick as of March 31, 2020. The Company used a multiple at the
lower end of the peer group range as a result of Bank Frick’s size (based on net asset value) and product mix relative to the peer
group. The Company’s 35% portion of approximately 0.9 times Bank Frick’s March 31, 2020, net asset value was lower than the
Company’s carrying value in Bank Frick as of March 31, 2020. On April 13, 2020, the Company received a cash dividend of
approximately CHF 1.3 million ($1.3 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020).
Finbond
As of June 30, 2020, the Company owned 268,820,933 shares in Finbond representing approximately 30.6% of its issued and
outstanding ordinary shares. Finbond is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and its closing price on June 30, 2020, the last
trading day of the month, was ZAR 2.30 per share. The market value of the Company’s holding in Finbond on June 30, 2020, was
ZAR 0.6 billion ($35.7 million translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020). On or about March 9, 2020, Finbond
repurchased 47 million of its shares for ZAR 2.91123 per share, or a total consideration of ZAR 136.8 million, in cash, from other
Finbond shareholders which resulted in an increase in the Company’s shareholding in Finbond. On August 2, 2019, the Company,
pursuant to its election, received an additional 1,148,901 shares in Finbond as a capitalization share issue in lieu of a dividend.
Most of South Africa’s listed financial institutions have experienced significant share price volatility since June 30, 2020.
Finbond’s quoted market price has declined significantly since June 30, 2020. As of August 31, 2020, Finbond’s quoted market
price was ZAR 1.47, which indicates a fair value for Finbond as of August 31, 2020, below the Company’s June 30, 2020, carrying
value. The Company is unable to determine at this time whether the decline in Finbond’s quoted market price is other-than-
temporary and will perform an analysis, as deemed necessary, at its next reporting date
V2 Limited
In August 2019, the Company made a further equity contribution of $1.3 million to V2 Limited (“V2”) and in January 2020 it
made its final committed equity contribution of $1.3 million bringing the total equity contribution to $5.0 million. The Company has
also committed to provide V2 with a working capital facility of $5.0 million, which is subject to the achievement of certain pre-
defined objectives, and in June 2020 it provided $0.5 million to V2 under this facility. For its quarter ended March 2020, the
Company recorded an impairment loss of $2.5 million, related to the other-than-temporary decrease in V2’s value. The Company
believed that V2’s March 2020 net asset value represented its fair value because it did not have supportable forecasts available at
that time to perform other valuation models, including a discounted cash flow. The carrying value of the Company’s investment in
V2 (before the impairment) was higher than its portion of V2’s net asset value and therefore the Company recorded the impairment
loss.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Summarized below is the movement in equity-accounted investments during the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, which
includes the investment in equity and the investment in loans provided to equity-accounted investees:
Bank Frick
Finbond
DNI
Other(1)
Total
Investment in equity
Balance as of June 30, 2018 - as
reported
Correction of Finbond error (Note
1)
Balance as of June 30, 2018 - as
restated
Remeasurement of 8% of DNI
(Note 3)
Remeasurement of 30% of DNI
(Note 3)
Acquisition of shares
Stock-based compensation
Comprehensive (loss) income:
Other comprehensive income
Equity accounted (loss) earnings
Share of net income (loss)
(Note 1)
Amortization of acquired
intangible assets
Deferred taxes on acquired
intangible assets
Dilution resulting from
corporate transactions
Other
Dividends received
Return of investment
Sale of 8% of DNI
Foreign currency adjustment (Note
1)(2)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Acquisition of shares
Stock-based compensation
Comprehensive (loss) income:
Other comprehensive income
Equity accounted (loss) earnings
Share of net income (loss)
Amortization of acquired
intangible assets
Deferred taxes on acquired
intangible assets
Dilution resulting from
corporate transactions
Impairment
Dividends received
Sale of DNI
Foreign currency adjustment(2)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
$
$
48,129
$
28,982
$
-
(2,540)
48,129
26,442
-
-
-
-
-
14,849
-
-
-
(1,542)
-
(1,542)
1,109
(747)
180
-
(2,084)
-
-
-
653
47,240
-
-
(17,273)
-
(17,273)
1,421
(569)
136
-
(18,261)
(1,308)
-
1,080
29,739
-
1,920
117
6,870
4,251
2,619
2,315
-
-
304
-
(1,920)
-
-
(818)
32,611
274
71
4,067
2,227
1,840
1,857
-
-
(17)
-
(274)
-
(5,873)
30,876
$
$
59,346
-
-
865
-
865
1,380
(715)
200
-
-
(864)
-
(14,996)
1,830
61,030
-
-
(9,744)
-
(9,744)
4,676
(1,874)
524
-
(13,070)
(1,787)
(36,508)
(12,991)
-
F-45
$
5,865
$
82,976
-
(2,540)
5,865
-
-
2,989
-
(684)
-
(684)
80,436
14,849
59,346
4,909
117
5,509
4,251
1,258
(684)
4,120
-
-
-
-
(454)
(284)
-
(34)
7,398
2,500
-
(4,365)
-
(4,365)
(1,865)
-
-
-
(2,500)
(454)
-
(478)
4,601
$
$
(1,462)
380
304
(2,084)
(3,238)
(284)
(14,996)
1,631
148,279
2,774
71
(27,315)
2,227
(29,542)
6,089
(2,443)
660
(17)
(33,831)
(3,823)
(36,508)
(18,262)
65,216
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Investment in loans:
Balance as of June 30, 2018
Transfer to accounts receivables,
net
Foreign currency adjustment(2)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Loans granted
Allowance for doubtful loans
Foreign currency adjustment(2)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
$
Carrying amount as of :
June 30, 2019
June 30, 2020
Bank Frick
Finbond
DNI
Other(1)
Total
$
-
$
-
$
-
$
3,152
$
3,152
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
$
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
$
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Equity
$
148,279
$
65,216
(3,000)
(4)
148
1,230
(730)
(28)
620
$
(3,000)
(4)
148
1,230
(730)
(28)
620
Loans
Total
148
$
148,427
620
$
65,836
$
$
$
(1) Includes Carbon, SmartSwitch Namibia, V2 and Walletdoc;
(2) The foreign currency adjustment represents the effects of the fluctuations of the South African rand, Nigerian naira and
Namibian dollar, against the U.S. dollar on the carrying value.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Summary financial information of equity-accounted investments
Summarized below is the financial information of equity-accounted investments (during the Company’s reporting periods in
which investments were carried using the equity-method, unless otherwise noted) as of the stated reporting period of the investee
and translated at the applicable closing or average foreign exchange rates (as applicable):
Balance sheet, as of
Current assets(3)
2020
2019
Long-term assets
2020
2019
Current liabilities(3)
2020
2019
Long-term liabilities
2020
2019
Non-controlling interest
2020
2019
Statement of operations, for the period ended
Revenue
2020
2019
2018
Operating income (loss)
2020
2019
2018
Income (loss) from continuing operations
2020
2019
2018
Net income (loss)
2020
2019
2018
Bank Frick
June 30
Finbond(1)
February 28
DNI
June 30
Other(2)
Various
$
n/a $
n/a
n/a $
n/a
n/a $
35,608
19,910
17,781
1,042,366
1,013,677
294,734
232,047
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
940,948
915,050
112,331
127,352
n/a
39,851
n/a
25,757
n/a
7,324
6,145
2,304
7,824
8,492
18,076
4,654
-
-
June 30(4)
10,452
11,696
February 28
n/a
1,100
June 30(5)
(73)
25
Various
37,864
41,126
33,814
4,815
3,633
776
4,053
3,169
617
4,053
3,169
$
617 $
161,378
174,177
161,915
17,483
20,355
25,079
14,449
17,761
16,475
6,433
9,385
9,311 $
68,983
15,898
n/a
24,563
5,814
n/a
17,092
4,306
n/a
15,772
4,481
n/a $
7,862
33,807
10,955
(5,064)
(753)
826
(5,116)
(915)
152
(5,014)
(1,029)
152
(1) Finbond balances included were derived from its publicly available information and presented for its years ended February.
The amounts as of February 28, 2019 and for the years ended February 28, 2019 and 2018, respectively, have been restated for
the error described in Note 1;
(2) Includes Carbon, SmartSwitch Namibia, Revix, Walletdoc and V2, as appropriate. Balance sheet information for Carbon,
SmartSwitch Namibia, Revix and V2 is as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, and Walletdoc as of February 29, 2020 and February 28,
2020, respectively. Statement of operations information for Carbon, SmartSwitch Namibia, Revix, and V2 for the year ended
June 30, and Walletdoc for the year ended February 29/28 (as appropriate);
(3) Bank Frick and Finbond are banks and do not present current and long-term assets and liabilities. All assets and liabilities of
these two entities are included under the long-term caption;
(4) Statement of operations information for 2018 for Bank Frick is for the period from October 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018;
(5) Statement of operations information for DNI is for the period from July 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020, and April 1, 2019 to
June 30, 2019.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Other long-term assets
Summarized below is the breakdown of other long-term assets as of June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2019:
Total equity investments
Investment in 15% of Cell C, at fair value (Note 7)
Investment in 12% (2019: 13%) of MobiKwik
Investment in 87.50% of CPS (Note 3)
Total held to maturity investments
Investment in 7.625% of Cedar Cellular Investment 1 (RF) (Pty) Ltd 8.625% notes
Long-term portion of amount due from DNI related to sale of remaining interest in DNI
Policy holder assets under investment contracts (Note 12)
Reinsurance assets under insurance contracts (Note 12)
Total other long-term assets
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
$
$
26,993
-
26,993
-
-
-
2,857
490
1,006
31,346
$
$
26,993
-
26,993
-
-
-
-
619
1,163
28,775
(1) The Company determined that MobiKwik and CPS do not have readily determinable fair values and therefore elected to
record these investments at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly
transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer. The Company accounted for its investment in MobiKwik at
cost as of June 30, 2018.
Cell C
On August 2, 2017, the Company, through its subsidiary, Net1SA, purchased 75,000,000 class “A” shares of Cell C for an
aggregate purchase price of ZAR 2.0 billion ($151.0 million) in cash. The Company funded the transaction through a combination of
cash and the facilities described in Note 13. Net1 SA has pledged, among other things, its entire equity interest in Cell C as security
for the South African facilities described in Note 13 used to partially fund the acquisition of Cell C. The Company’s investment in
Cell is carried at fair value. Refer to Note 7 for additional information regarding changes in the fair value of Cell C.
MobiKwik
The Company signed a subscription agreement with MobiKwik, which is one of India’s largest independent mobile payments
networks, with over 100 million users and 2.3 million merchants. Pursuant to the subscription agreement, the Company agreed to
make an equity investment of up to $40.0 million in MobiKwik over a 24-month period. The Company made an initial $15.0 million
investment in August 2016 and a further $10.6 million investment in June 2017, under this subscription agreement. During the year
ended June 30, 2019, the Company paid $1.1 million to subscribe for additional shares in MobiKwik. As of June 30, 2020 and 2019,
respectively, the Company owned approximately 12% and 13% of MobiKwik’s issued share capital.
CPS
The Company deconsolidated its investment in CPS in May 2020, refer to Note 3. As of June 30, 2020, the Company owned
87.50% of CPS’ issued share capital.
Cedar Cellular
No interest income from the Cedar Cellular note was recorded during the year ended June 30, 2020. The Company recognized
interest income of $2.4 million and $1.4 million, related to the Cedar Cellular notes during the year ended June 30, 2019 and 2018,
respectively. Interest on this investment will only be paid, at Cedar Cellular’s election, on maturity in August 2022. The Company’s
effective interest rate on the Cedar Cellular note was 24.82% as of June 30, 2019.
The Company does not expect to recover the amortized cost basis of the Cedar Cellular notes due to a reduction in the amount
of future cash flows expected to be collected from the debt security compared to previous expectations. The Company does not
expect to generate any cash flows from the debt security at maturity in August 2022 or prior to the maturity date due to the current
challenges facing the business and the uncertainties over the future value of the current equity in Cell C. Accordingly, the Company
believes it is unlikely that Cedar Cellular will generate sufficient cash inflows to settle any outstanding accumulated interest and
principal due to the note holders on maturity in August 2022.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
10. EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Other long-term assets (continued)
Cedar Cellular (continued)
The Company’s cannot calculate an effective interest rate on the Cedar Cellular note because the carrying value is currently
zero ($0.0 million) as of June 30, 2020 and 2019. The Company therefore cannot calculate the present value of the expected cash
flows to be collected from the debt security by discounting these cash flows at the interest rate implicit in the security upon
acquisition (at a rate of 24.82%) because there are no future cash flows to discount. The present value of the expected cash flows of
zero ($0.0 million) is less than the amortized cost basis recorded of $12.8 million (before the cumulative 2019 impairments for the
year ended June 30, 2019). Accordingly, the Company recorded an other-than-temporary impairment related to a credit loss of $12.8
million during the year ended June 30, 2019. The impairment of $12.8 million is included in the caption “Impairment of Cedar
Cellular note” in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2019.
Summarized below are the components of the Company’s equity securities without readily determinable fair value and held to
maturity investments as of June 30, 2020:
Equity securities:
Investment in Mobikwik
Investment in CPS
Held to maturity:
Investment in Cedar Cellular notes
Total
Unrealized
Unrealized
Cost basis
holding
gains
holding
losses
Carrying
value
$
$
26,993
-
-
26,993
$
$
-
-
-
-
$
$
-
-
-
-
$
$
26,993
-
-
26,993
Summarized below are the components of the Company’s equity securities without readily determinable fair value and held to
maturity investments as of June 30, 2019:
Equity securities:
Investment in MobiKwik
Held to maturity:
Investment in Cedar Cellular notes
Total
Unrealized
Unrealized
Cost basis
holding
gains
holding
losses
Carrying
value
$
$
26,993
$
-
26,993
$
-
-
-
$
$
-
-
-
$
$
26,993
-
26,993
Contractual maturities of held to maturity investments
Summarized below is the contractual maturity of the Company’s held to maturity investment as of June 30, 2020:
Due in one year or less
Due in one year through five years (2)
Due in five years through ten years
Due after ten years
Total
Cost basis
-
$
-
-
-
-
$
$
$
Estimated
fair
value(1)
-
-
-
-
-
(1) The estimated fair value of the Cedar Cellular note has been calculated utilizing the Company’s portion of the security
provided to the Company by Cedar Cellular, namely, Cedar Cellular’s investment in Cell C.
(2) The cost basis is zero ($0.0 million).
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
11. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS, net
Goodwill
Summarized below is the movement in the carrying value of goodwill for the June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Balance as of July 1, 2018
Impairment loss
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2018
Impairment loss
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Impairment loss
Disposal of FIHRST (Note 3)
Deconsolidation of CPS (Note 3)
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
Gross value
$
75,598 $
-
(2,026)
73,572
-
(1,099)
72,473
-
(599)
(1,346)
(7,334)
63,194 $
$
Accumulated
impairment
Carrying
value
- $
(20,917)
144
(20,773)
(14,440)
56
(35,157)
(5,589)
-
1,346
375
(39,025) $
75,598
(20,917)
(1,882)
52,799
(14,440)
(1,043)
37,316
(5,589)
(599)
-
(6,959)
24,169
(1) – The foreign currency adjustment represents the effects of the fluctuations between the South African Rand and the Euro,
and the U.S. dollar on the carrying value.
Impairment loss
The Company assesses the carrying value of goodwill for impairment annually, or more frequently, whenever events occur and
circumstances change indicating potential impairment. The Company performs its annual impairment test as at June 30 of each year.
Year ended June 30, 2020
During the third quarter of fiscal 2020, the Company performed an impairment analysis and recognized an impairment loss of
$5.6 million, related to goodwill allocated to its EasyPay business within its South African transaction processing operating segment.
The impairment loss resulted from a reassessment of the business’s growth prospects given the challenging economic environment
in South Africa. The impairment is included within the caption impairment loss in the consolidated statement of operations for the
year ended June 30, 2020.
In order to determine the amount of the EasyPay goodwill impairment, the estimated fair value of EasyPay’s business assets
and liabilities were compared to the carrying value of its assets and liabilities. The Company used a discounted cash flow model in
order to determine the fair value of EasyPay. Based on this analysis, the Company determined that the carrying value of EasyPay’s
assets and liabilities exceeded their fair value at the reporting date. In the event that there is deterioration in the Company’s operating
segments, or in any other of the Company’s businesses, this may lead to additional impairments in future periods.
Year ended June 30, 2019
During the second quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company performed an impairment analysis and recognized an impairment loss
of approximately $8.2 million, of which approximately $7.0 million related to goodwill allocated to its IPG business within its
international transaction processing operating segment and $1.2 million related to goodwill within its South African transaction
processing operating segment. Given the consolidation and restructuring of IPG over the period to December 31, 2018, several
business lines were terminated or meaningfully reduced, resulting in lower than expected revenues, profits and cash flows. IPG’s
new business initiatives were still in their infancy, and it was expected to generate lower cash flows than initially forecast.
In order to determine the amount of the IPG goodwill impairment, the estimated fair value of the Company’s IPG business
assets and liabilities was compared to the carrying value of the IPG’s assets and liabilities. The Company used a discounted cash
flow model in order to determine the fair value of IPG. The allocation of the fair value of IPG required the Company to make a
number of assumptions and estimates about the fair value of assets and liabilities where the fair values were not readily available or
observable. Based on this analysis, the Company determined that the carrying value of IPG’s assets and liabilities exceeded their fair
value at the reporting date.
The Company also identified and recognized an impairment loss of $6.2 million related to goodwill allocated to its financial
inclusion and applied technologies operating segment as a result of its June 30, 2019, annual impairment test. The June 2019
impairment loss resulted from on-going losses incurred in the latter half of the fiscal year that were greater than, and were incurred
for a longer duration, than initially expected.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
11. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS, net (continued)
Goodwill (continued)
Impairment loss (continued)
Year ended June 30, 2019 (continued)
The estimated fair value of the business assets and liabilities were compared to the carrying value of the assets and liabilities of
the reporting unit within the financial inclusion and applied technologies operating segment in order to determine the $6.2 million
goodwill impairment. The Company used an EV/EBITDA multiple valuation model to determine the fair value of the reporting unit.
The allocation of the fair value of the reporting unit required the Company to make a number of assumptions and estimates
about the fair value of assets and liabilities where the fair values were not readily available or observable. Based on this analysis,
except for the impairments recognized, the Company determined that the carrying value of the reporting unit’s assets and liabilities
exceeded their fair value at the reporting date.
Year ended June 30, 2018
During the third quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company recognized an impairment loss of approximately $19.9 million related to
goodwill allocated to the Masterpayment business within its international transaction processing operating segment as a result of
changes to the operating model of Masterpayment. During the second quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company re-evaluated the operating
performance and ongoing viability of Masterpayment’s working capital financing and supply chain solutions offering and
determined to exit this portion of its business. While the Company believed that it could scale this offering in the medium to long-
term by focusing on customers and industries outside Masterpayment’s initial target market, this standalone offering did not fit the
Company’s strategy of providing payment solutions and working capital to small and medium-sized merchants. In order to focus on
the Company’s stated international strategy, the Company decided to wind-down the traditional working capital finance book issued
to non-payment solutions customers. During the third quarter of fiscal 2018, the Company evaluated Masterpayment’s business
strategy and following the wind-down referred to above, it determined that Masterpayment was unlikely to deliver the financial
results or cash flows previously anticipated. The Company and two of Masterpayment’s senior managers agreed, by mutual consent,
that with effect from the end of March 2018, the managers terminated their employment with Masterpayment in order to dedicate
themselves to new professional tasks. The Company also impaired goodwill of approximately $1.1 million during its June 2018
annual goodwill impairment assessment related to a business allocated to its South African transaction processing operating
segment, which ceased trading during the year.
In order to determine the amount of goodwill impairment, the estimated fair value of the Company’s Masterpayment business
was allocated to the individual fair value of the assets and liabilities of Masterpayment as if it had been acquired in a business
combination, which resulted in the implied fair value of the goodwill. The Company used a discounted cash flow model in order to
determine the fair value of Masterpayment. The allocation of the fair value of Masterpayment required the Company to make a
number of assumptions and estimates about the fair value of assets and liabilities where the fair values were not readily available or
observable.
Goodwill has been allocated to the Company’s reportable segments as follows:
South African
transaction
processing
International
transaction
processing
Financial
inclusion and
applied
technologies
Carrying value
$
Balance as of July 1, 2017
Impairment loss
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2018
Impairment loss
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Impairment loss
Disposal of FIHRST (Note 3)
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
$
23,131 $
(1,052)
(1,133)
20,946
(1,180)
(558)
19,208
(5,589)
(599)
(3,688)
9,332 $
27,335 $
(19,865)
198
7,668
(7,011)
-
657
-
-
-
657 $
25,132 $
-
(947)
24,185
(6,249)
(485)
17,451
-
-
(3,271)
14,180 $
75,598
(20,917)
(1,882)
52,799
(14,440)
(1,043)
37,316
(5,589)
(599)
(6,959)
24,169
(1) – The foreign currency adjustment represents the effects of the fluctuations between the South African rand and the Euro,
and the U.S. dollar on the carrying value.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
11. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS, net (continued)
Intangible assets
Impairment loss
The Company assesses the carrying value of intangible assets for impairment whenever events occur or circumstances change
indicating that the carrying amount of the intangible asset may not be recoverable. Except as discussed below, no intangible assets
have been impaired during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Year ended June 30, 2020
During the third quarter of fiscal 2020, the Company determined that its indefinite-lived intangible asset, a Maltese e-money
license, of $0.7 million was impaired. The facts and circumstances leading up to the impairment include the losses incurred by the
Company’s IPG business unit. In fiscal 2019, IPG formulated a plan to return to profitability, however, it has missed a number of
key deliverable deadlines and is currently reformulating its growth plans following the decision not to acquire a controlling stake in
Bank Frick. The impairment is included within the caption impairment loss to the consolidated statement of operations for the year
ended June 30, 2020. The intangible asset was not allocated to an operating segment and is included within corporate/ eliminations
(refer to Note 22).
Carrying value and amortization of intangible assets
Summarized below is the carrying value and accumulated amortization of the intangible assets as of June 30, 2020, and June
30, 2019:
As of June 30, 2020
As of June 30, 2019
Gross
carrying
value
Accumulated
amortization
Net
carrying
value
Gross
carrying
value
Accumulated
amortization
Net
carrying
value
Finite-lived intangible assets:
Customer relationships
Software and unpatented
technology
FTS patent
Trademarks
Total finite-lived intangible
assets
$
19,064 $
(18,806) $
258 $
24,234 $
(23,527) $
707
3,931
2,211
2,731
(3,931)
(2,211)
(2,377)
-
-
354
8,423
2,721
3,114
(8,181)
(2,721)
(2,607)
242
-
507
$
27,937 $
(27,325)
612 $
38,492 $
(37,036)
1,456
Infinite-lived intangible assets:
Financial institution licenses
Total infinite-lived
intangible assets
Total intangible assets
-
-
612
$
772
772
2,228
$
Aggregate amortization expense on the finite-lived intangible assets for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, was
approximately $0.3 million, $7.1 million and $3.7, respectively.
Future estimated annual amortization expense for the next five fiscal years and thereafter, assuming exchange rates that
prevailed on June 30, 2020, is presented in the table below. Actual amortization expense in future periods could differ from this
estimate as a result of acquisitions, changes in useful lives, exchange rate fluctuations and other relevant factors.
Fiscal 2021
Fiscal 2022
Fiscal 2023
Fiscal 2024
Fiscal 2025
Thereafter
Total future estimated annual amortization expense
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$
$
318
59
59
59
58
59
612
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
12. ASSETS AND POLICYHOLDER LIABILITIES UNDER INSURANCE AND INVESTMENT CONTRACTS
Reinsurance assets and policyholder liabilities under insurance contracts
Summarized below is the movement in reinsurance assets and policyholder liabilities under insurance contracts during the
years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019:
Balance as of July 1, 2018
Increase in policy holder benefits under insurance contracts
Claims and policyholders’ benefits under insurance contracts
Foreign currency adjustment(3)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Increase in policy holder benefits under insurance contracts
Claims and policyholders’ benefits under insurance contracts
Foreign currency adjustment(3)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
(1) Included in other long-term assets (refer to Note 10);
(2) Included in other long-term liabilities;
(3) Represents the effects of the fluctuations of the ZAR against the U.S. dollar.
Reinsurance
Assets(1)
Insurance
contracts(2)
$
$
633
775
(228)
(17)
1,163
509
(449)
(217)
1,006
$
$
(2,032)
(8,137)
8,237
52
(1,880)
(3,024)
3,182
352
(1,370)
The Company has agreements with reinsurance companies in order to limit its losses from large insurance contracts, however,
if the reinsurer is unable to meet its obligations, the Company retains the liability. The value of insurance contract liabilities is based
on the best estimate assumptions of future experience plus prescribed margins, as required in the markets in which these products are
offered, namely South Africa. The process of deriving the best estimates assumptions plus prescribed margins includes assumptions
related to claim reporting delays (based on average industry experience).
Assets and policyholder liabilities under investment contracts
Summarized below is the movement in assets and policyholder liabilities under investment contracts during the years ended
June 30, 2020 and 2019:
Balance as of July 1, 2018
Increase in policy holder benefits under investment contracts
Foreign currency adjustment(3)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Increase in policy holder benefits under investment contracts
Claims and policyholders’ benefits under investment contracts
Foreign currency adjustment(3)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
Assets(1)
Investment
contracts(2)
$
$
610
24
(15)
619
17
(29)
(117)
490
$
$
(610)
(24)
15
(619)
(17)
29
117
(490)
(1) Included in other long-term assets (refer to Note 10);
(2) Included in other long-term liabilities;
(3) Represents the effects of the fluctuations of the ZAR against the U.S. dollar.
The Company does not offer any investment products with guarantees related to capital or returns.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
13. BORROWINGS
South Africa
The amounts below have been translated at exchange rates applicable as of the dates specified.
July 2017 Facilities, as amended, comprising a short-term facility and long-term borrowings
Long-term borrowings – Facilities A, B, C and D (these facilities have been repaid and cancelled)
On July 21, 2017, Net1 SA entered into a Common Terms Agreement, Senior Facility A Agreement, Senior Facility B
Agreement, Senior Facility C Agreement, Subordination Agreement, Security Cession & Pledge and certain ancillary loan
documents (collectively, the “Original Loan Documents”) with RMB, a South African corporate and investment bank, and Nedbank
Limited (acting through its Corporate and Investment Banking division), an African corporate and investment bank (collectively, the
“Lenders”), pursuant to which, among other things, Net1 SA may borrow up to an aggregate of ZAR 1.25 billion to finance a portion
of its investment in Cell C and to fund its on-going working capital requirements. On March 8, 2018, the Company amended its
South African long-term facility to include an additional term loan, Facility D, of up to ZAR 210.0 million. All amounts under these
facilities were repaid in full during the year ended June 30, 2019.
On September 4, 2019, Net1 SA further amended the July 2017 Facilities agreement, which included adding Main Street 1692
(RF) Proprietary Limited (“Debt Guarantor”), a South African company incorporated for the sole purpose of holding collateral for
the benefit of the Lenders and acting as debt guarantor. The covenants were also amended and now include customary covenants that
require Net1 SA to maintain a specified total asset cover ratio and restrict the ability of Net1 SA, and certain of its subsidiaries to
make certain distributions with respect to their capital stock, prepay other debt, encumber their assets, incur additional indebtedness,
make investment above specified levels, engage in certain business combinations and engage in other corporate activities. Net1 also
agreed that in the event of any sale of KSNET, Inc., it would deposit a portion of the proceeds in an amount of the USD equivalent
of the Facility F loan and the Nedbank general banking facility commitment into a bank account secured in favor of the Debt
Guarantor. Net1 SA also entered into a pledge and cession agreement with the Debt Guarantor pursuant to which, among other
things, Net1 SA agreed to cede its shareholdings in Cell C, DNI and Net1 FIHRST Holdings (Pty) Ltd to the Debt Guarantor. The
shareholdings in DNI and Net 1 FIHRST Holdings (Pty) Ltd were released pursuant to the transactions to dispose of these
investments.
Short-term facility - Facility E
On September 26, 2018, Net1 SA further revised its amended July 2017 Facilities agreement with RMB to include an overdraft
facility (“Facility E”) of up to ZAR 1.5 billion ($83.8 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020) to fund
the Company’s ATMs. The Facility E overdraft facility was subsequently reduced to ZAR 1.2 billion ($69.2 million, translated at
exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020) in September 2019. Interest on the overdraft facility is payable on the last day of each
month and on the final maturity date based on the South African prime rate. The overdraft facility will be reviewed in September
2020. The overdraft facility amount utilized must be repaid in full within one month of utilization and at least 90% of the amount
utilized must be repaid with 25 days. The overdraft facility is secured by a pledge by Net1 SA of, among other things, cash and
certain bank accounts utilized in the Company’s ATM funding process, the cession of an insurance policy with Senate Transit
Underwriters Managers Proprietary Limited, and any rights and claims Net1 SA has against Grindrod Bank Limited. As at June 30,
2020, the Company had utilized approximately ZAR 0.3 billion ($14.8 million) of this overdraft facility. This ZAR 1.2 billion
overdraft facility may only be used to fund ATMs and therefore the overdraft utilized and converted to cash to fund the Company’s
ATMs is considered restricted cash. The prime rate on June 30, 2020, was 7.25% and reduced to 7.00% on July 24, 2020, following
reductions in the South African repo rate.
Short-term borrowings facility - Facility F (this facility has been repaid and cancelled)
On September 4, 2019, Net1 SA further amended its amended July 2017 Facilities agreement with RMB and Nedbank to
include a facility (“Facility F”) of up to ZAR 300.0 million ($17.3 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30,
2020) for the sole purpose of funding the acquisition of airtime from Cell C. Net1 SA could not dispose of the airtime acquired from
Cell C before April 1, 2020, without the prior consent of RMB, Absa Bank Limited and Investec Asset Management Proprietary
Limited. Facility F comprised (i) a first Senior Facility F loan of ZAR 220.0 million (ii) a second Senior Facility F loan of ZAR 80.0
million, or such lesser amount as may be agreed by the facility agent. The first loan was utilized on September 5, 2019, while the
second loan was never utilized. Facility F was required to be repaid in full within nine months following the first utilization of the
facility. Net1 SA was required to prepay Facility F subject to customary prepayment terms. Interest on Facility F was based on
JIBAR plus a margin of 5.50% per annum and was due in full on repayment of the loan. The margin on the Facility F increased by
1% on November 1, 2019, because the Company had not disposed of its remaining shareholding in DNI and FIHRST by that date.
Net1 SA paid a non-refundable structuring fee of ZAR 2.2 million ($0.1 million) to the Lenders in September 2019, and the
Company expensed this amount in full during the first quarter of fiscal 2020. The Company settled the facility in full on April 1,
2020, utilizing a portion of the proceeds received from the sale of its remaining stake in DNI, and the facility was cancelled.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
13. BORROWINGS (continued)
South Africa (continued)
Nedbank facility, comprising short-term facilities
As of June 30, 2020, the aggregate amount of the Company’s short-term South African credit facility with Nedbank Limited
was ZAR 450.0 million ($26.0 million). The credit facility comprises an overdraft facility of (i) up to ZAR 300.0 million ($17.3
million), which is further split into (a) a ZAR 250.0 million ($14.4 million) overdraft facility which may only be used to fund mobile
ATMs and (b) a ZAR 50.0 million ($2.9 million) general banking facility and (ii) indirect and derivative facilities of up to
ZAR 150.0 million ($8.7 million), which include guarantees, letters of credit and forward exchange contracts. The ZAR 250.0
million component of the primary amount may only be used to fund ATMs and therefore this component of the primary amount
utilized and converted to cash to fund the Company’s ATMs is considered restricted cash.
The Company has ceded all of its title and interest in an insurance policy issued by Fidelity Risk Proprietary Limited as
security for its repayment obligations under the facility. A commitment fee of 0.35% per annum is payable on the monthly unutilized
amount of the overdraft portion of the short-term facility. The Company is required to comply with customary non-financial
covenants, including, without limitation, covenants that restrict its ability to dispose of or encumber its assets, incur additional
indebtedness or engage in certain business combinations. The short-term facility provides Nedbank with the right to set off funds
held in certain identified Company bank accounts with Nedbank against any amounts owed to Nedbank under the facility. As of
June 30, 2020, the Company had total funds of $12.4 million in bank accounts with Nedbank which have been set off against $12.4
million drawn under the Nedbank facility, for a net amount drawn under the facility of $0.1 million. As of June 30, 2019, the
Company had total funds of $2.7 million in bank accounts with Nedbank which have been set off against $8.6 million drawn under
the Nedbank facility, for a net amount drawn under the facility of $5.9 million. As of June 30, 2020, the interest rate on the overdraft
facility was 6.10%, and reduced to 5.85% on July 24, 2020, following reductions in the South African repo rate.
As of June 30, 2020, the Company had utilized approximately ZAR 1.0 million ($0.1 million) of its ZAR 300.0 million
overdraft facility to fund ATMs, and none of its ZAR 50.0 million general banking facility. As of June 30, 2019, the Company has
utilized approximately ZAR 82.8 million ($5.9 million) of its ZAR 250 million overdraft facility to fund ATMs and utilized none of
its ZAR 50 million general banking facility. As of June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, the Company had utilized approximately ZAR
93.6 million ($5.4 million) and ZAR 93.6 million ($6.6 million), respectively, of its indirect and derivative facilities of ZAR 150
million to enable the bank to issue guarantees, letters of credit and forward exchange contracts, in order for the Company to honor its
obligations to third parties requiring such guarantees (refer to Note 23).
United States, a short-term facility (this facility has been repaid and cancelled)
On September 14, 2018, the Company renewed its $10.0 million overdraft facility from Bank Frick and on February 4, 2019,
the Company increased the overdraft facility to $20.0 million. As of June 30, 2019, the Company had utilized approximately $9.5
million of this facility. The Company’s $20 million facility from Bank Frick was settled in full and cancelled in March 2020. The
facility was secured by a pledge of the Company’s investment in Bank Frick and the shares under the pledge were released upon
cancellation.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
13. BORROWINGS (continued)
Movement in short-term credit facilities
Summarized below are the Company’s short-term facilities as of June 30, 2020, and the movement in the Company’s short-
term facilities from as of June 30, 2019 to as of June 30, 2020:
South Africa
United
States
Amended
July 2017
Nedbank
Bank Frick
Total
Short-term facilities available as of
June 30, 2020
Overdraft
Overdraft restricted as to use for ATM
funding only
Indirect and derivative facilities
$
69,234
-
$
25,963
2,885
$
69,234
-
14,424
8,654
$
-
-
-
-
95,197
2,885
83,658
8,654
Movement in utilized overdraft facilities:
Utilized
Repaid
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019(2)
Restricted as to use for ATM
funding only
No restrictions as to use
Utilized
Repaid
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020(3)
Restricted as to use for ATM
funding only
No restrictions as to use
Movement in utilized indirect and
derivative facilities:
Balance as of June 30, 2018
Guarantees cancelled
Utilized
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
$
722,375
(655,612)
2,803
69,566
69,566
-
603,134
(647,990)
(9,954)
14,756
14,756
-
85,843
(80,365)
402
5,880
5,880
-
69,245
(73,017)
(2,050)
58
58
-
14,536
(4,992)
-
9,544
-
9,544
17,384
(26,928)
-
-
822,754
(740,969)
3,205
84,990
75,446
9,544
689,763
(747,935)
(12,004)
14,814
-
-
14,814
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
$
7,871
(1,075)
46
(199)
6,643
(1,245)
5,398
$
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
$
7,871
(1,075)
46
(199)
6,643
(1,245)
5,398
(1) Represents the effects of the fluctuations between the ZAR and the U.S. dollar.
(2) Nedbank as of June 30, 2019, of $5.9 million comprises the net of total overdraft facilities withdrawn of $8.6 million offset
against funds in bank accounts with Nedbank of $2.7 million.
(3) As of June 30, 2020, there were no amounts offset against the Nedbank overdraft facilities.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
13. BORROWINGS (continued)
Movement in long-term borrowings
Summarized below is the movement in the Company’s long term borrowing from as of June 30, 2018, to as of June 30, 2020:
Balance as of July 1, 2018
Current portion of long-term borrowings
Long-term borrowings
Repaid
Repaid from sale of DNI shares (Note 10)
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2019
Utilized
Repaid
Foreign currency adjustment(1)
Balance as of June 30, 2020
South Africa
Amended July
2017
$
$
49,548
44,079
5,469
(31,844)
(15,011)
(2,693)
-
14,798
(14,503)
(295)
-
$
$
Total
49,548
44,079
5,469
(31,844)
(15,011)
(2,693)
-
14,798
(14,503)
(295)
-
(1) Represents the effects of the fluctuations between the ZAR and the U.S. dollar.
Interest expense incurred under the Company’s South African long-term borrowing during the years ended June 30, 2020,
2019, and 2018, was $0.6 million, $2.9 million, and $7.2 million, respectively. There was no prepaid facility fee amortization during
the year ended June 30, 2020. Prepaid facility fees amortized during the years ended June 30, 2019, and 2018, was $0.3 million and
$0.5 million, respectively. Net1 SA paid non-refundable deal origination fees of approximately $0.6 million and $0.2 million in
August 2017 and March 2018, respectively.
14. OTHER PAYABLES
Summarized below is the breakdown of other payables as of June 30, 2020 and 2019:
Accruals
Provisions
Payroll-related payables
Participating merchants' settlement obligation
Value-added tax payable
Other
Accrual of implementation costs to be refunded to SASSA
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
$
$
6,045
4,926
887
463
129
11,329
-
23,779
$
$
8,039
6,074
1,113
555
162
9,640
34,039
59,622
As the Company previously disclosed, in June 2014, the Company received approximately ZAR 317.0 million, including VAT,
from SASSA, related to the recovery of additional implementation costs its subsidiary, CPS, incurred during the beneficiary re-
registration process in fiscal 2012 and 2013.
After the award of the tender, SASSA requested that CPS biometrically register all social grant beneficiaries (including child
grant beneficiaries) and collect additional information for each child grant recipient. CPS agreed to SASSA’s request and, as a result,
it performed approximately 11 million additional registrations beyond those that CPS tendered for in the quoted service fee.
Accordingly, CPS sought reimbursement from SASSA of the cost of this exercise, supported by a factual findings certificate from an
independent auditing firm. SASSA paid CPS ZAR 317.0 million, including VAT, as full settlement of the additional costs CPS
incurred.
In March 2015, Corruption Watch, a South African non-profit civil society organization, commenced legal proceedings in the
Gauteng Division, Pretoria of the High Court of South Africa (“High Court”) seeking an order by the High Court to review and set
aside the decision of SASSA’s Chief Executive Officer to approve a payment to CPS of ZAR 317.0 million and directing CPS to
repay the aforesaid amount, plus interest. Corruption Watch claimed that there was no lawful basis to make the payment to CPS, and
that the decision was unreasonable and irrational and did not comply with South African legislation. CPS was named as a respondent
in this legal proceeding.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
14. OTHER PAYABLES (continued)
On February 22, 2018, the matter was heard by the High Court. On March 23, 2018, the High Court ordered that the June 15,
2012 variation agreement between SASSA and CPS be reviewed and set aside. CPS was ordered to refund ZAR 317.0 million to
SASSA, plus interest from June 2014 to date of payment.
On September 30, 2019, the Supreme Court declined CPS’ appeal and awarded costs against CPS. CPS is liable to repay
SASSA ZAR 317.0 million, plus interest from June 2014 to date of payment. As a result, CPS recorded the liability at June 30,
2019, of $34.0 million (ZAR 479.4 million, translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2019, comprising a revenue refund
of $19.7 million (ZAR 277.6 million), accrued interest of $11.4 million (ZAR 161.0 million), unclaimed indirect taxes of $2.8
million (ZAR 39.4 million) and estimated costs of $0.1 million (ZAR 1.4 million)). The Company reduced revenue by $19.7 million
during the year ended June 30, 2019, because it interpreted the Supreme Court ruling as a price variation and not a nonreciprocal
transaction. The Company deconsolidated the accrual for the refund of implementation costs in May 2020, following the
deconsolidation of CPS (refer to Note 3).
Other includes transactions-switching funds payable, deferred income, client deposits and other payables.
15. COMMON STOCK
Common stock
Holders of shares of Net1’s common stock are entitled to receive dividends and other distributions when declared by Net1’s
board of directors out of legally available funds. Payment of dividends and distributions is subject to certain restrictions under the
Florida Business Corporation Act, including the requirement that after making any distribution Net1 must be able to meet its debts
as they become due in the usual course of its business.
Upon voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of Net1, holders of common stock share ratably in the
assets remaining after payments to creditors and provision for the preference of any preferred stock according to its terms. There are
no pre-emptive or other subscription rights, conversion rights or redemption or scheduled installment payment provisions relating to
shares of common stock. All of the outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and non-assessable.
Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote per share for the election of directors and for all other matters to be voted
on by shareholders. Holders of common stock may not cumulate their votes in the election of directors, and are entitled to share
equally and ratably in the dividends that may be declared by the board of directors, but only after payment of dividends required to
be paid on outstanding shares of preferred stock according to its terms. The shares of Net1 common stock are not subject to
redemption.
The Company’s number of shares, net of treasury, presented in the consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statement of
changes in equity includes participating non-vested equity shares (specifically contingently returnable shares) as described below in
Note 18 “— Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan—Restricted Stock—General Terms of Awards”.
The following table presents a reconciliation between the number of shares, net of treasury, presented in the consolidated
statement of changes in equity and the number of shares, net of treasury, excluding non-vested equity shares that have not vested
during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
2020
2019
2018
Number of shares, net of treasury:
Statement of changes in equity – common stock
Less: Non-vested equity shares that have not vested as of end of year (Note 18)
Number of shares, net of treasury excluding non-vested equity shares that have not
vested
57,118,925
1,115,500
56,568,425
583,908
56,685,925
765,411
56,003,425
55,984,517
55,920,514
Redeemable common stock issued pursuant to transaction with the IFC Investors
Holders of redeemable common stock have all the rights enjoyed by holders of common stock, however, holders of redeemable
common stock have additional contractual rights. On April 11, 2016, the Company entered into a Subscription Agreement (the
“Subscription Agreement”) with International Finance Corporation, IFC African, Latin American and Caribbean Fund, LP, IFC
Financial Institutions Growth Fund, LP, and Africa Capitalization Fund, Ltd. (collectively, the “IFC Investors”). Under the
Subscription Agreement, the IFC Investors purchased, and the Company sold in the aggregate, approximately 9.98 million shares of
the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at a price of $10.79 per share, for gross proceeds to the Company of
approximately $107.7 million. The Company has accounted for these 9.98 million shares as redeemable common stock as a result of
the put option discussed below.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
15. COMMON STOCK (continued)
Redeemable common stock issued pursuant to transaction with the IFC Investors
On May 19, 2020, the Africa Capitalization Fund, Ltd sold its entire holding of 2,103,169 shares of the Company’s common
stock and therefore the additional contractual rights, including the put option rights related to these 2,103,169 shares, expired. The
Company reclassified $22.7 million related to these 2,103,169 shares sold from redeemable common stock to additional paid-in-
capital during the year ended June 30, 2020.
The Company has entered into a Policy Agreement with the IFC Investors (the “Policy Agreement”). The material terms of the
Policy Agreement are described below.
Board Rights
For so long as the IFC Investors in aggregate beneficially own shares representing at least 5% of the Company’s common
stock, the IFC Investors will have the right to nominate one director to the Company’s board of directors. For so long as the IFC
Investors in aggregate beneficially own shares representing at least 2.5% of the Company’s common stock, the IFC Investors will
have the right to appoint an observer to the Company’s board of directors at any time when they have not designated, or do not have
the right to designate, a director.
Put Option
Each IFC Investor will have the right, upon the occurrence of specified triggering events, to require the Company to repurchase
all of the shares of its common stock purchased by the IFC Investors pursuant to the Subscription Agreement (or upon exercise of
their preemptive rights discussed below). Events triggering this put right relate to (1) the Company being the subject of a
governmental complaint alleging, a court judgment finding or an indictment alleging that the Company (a) engaged in specified
corrupt, fraudulent, coercive, collusive or obstructive practices; (b) entered into transactions with targets of economic sanctions; or
(c) failed to operate its business in compliance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws; or (2) the Company rejecting a
bona fide offer to acquire all of its outstanding Common Stock at a time when it has in place or implements a shareholder rights
plan, or adopting a shareholder rights plan triggered by a beneficial ownership threshold of less than twenty percent. The put price
per share will be the higher of the price per share paid by the IFC Investors pursuant to the Subscription Agreement (or paid when
exercising their preemptive rights) and the volume weighted average price per share prevailing for the 60 trading days preceding the
triggering event, except that with respect to a put right triggered by rejection of a bona fide offer, the put price per share will be the
highest price offered by the offeror. The Company believes that the put option has no value and, accordingly, has not recognized the
put option in its consolidated financial statements.
Registration Rights
The Company has agreed to grant certain registration rights to the IFC Investors for the resale of their shares of the Company’s
common stock, including filing a resale shelf registration statement and taking certain actions to facilitate resales thereunder.
Preemptive Rights
For so long as the IFC Investors hold in aggregate 5% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, each
Investor will have the right to purchase its pro-rata share of new issuances of securities by the Company, subject to certain
exceptions.
Common stock repurchases
Executed under share repurchase authorizations
On February 5, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the replenishment of its share repurchase authorization to
repurchase up to an aggregate of $100 million of common stock. The authorization has no expiration date. The share repurchase
authorization will be used at management’s discretion, subject to limitations imposed by SEC Rule 10b-18 and other legal
requirements and subject to price and other internal limitations established by the Board. Repurchases will be funded from the
Company’s available cash. Share repurchases may be made through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, or
both. There can be no assurance that the Company will purchase any shares or any particular number of shares. The authorization
may be suspended, terminated or modified at any time for any reason, including market conditions, the cost of repurchasing shares,
liquidity and other factors that management deems appropriate. The Company did not repurchase any of its shares during the years
ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, either under or outside of the authorization.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
16. ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME
The table below presents the change in accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income per component during the years ended
June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Accumulated
foreign currency
translation
reserve (as
restated)(A)
Total (as
restated)(A)
Balance as of July 1, 2017
$
(162,736)
$
(162,736)
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve related to equity-accounted
investment
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
Balance as of July 1, 2018
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to DNI disposal (Note 3)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of DNI interest
as an equity method investment (Note 10)
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve related to equity-accounted
investment
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
Balance as of July 1, 2019
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to deconsolidation of CPS
(Note 3)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of Net1 Korea
(Note 3)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of DNI interest
as an equity method investment (Note 10)
Release of foreign currency translation reserve related to disposal of FIHRST (Note
3)
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve related to equity-accounted
investment
Movement in foreign currency translation reserve
Balance as of June 30, 2020
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatement discussed in Note 1
(2,426)
(19,188)
(184,350)
5,841
(2,426)
(19,188)
(184,350)
5,841
(162)
(162)
4,251
(21,392)
(195,812)
4,251
(21,392)
(195,812)
32,451
14,228
11,323
1,578
32,451
14,228
11,323
1,578
2,227
(35,070)
(169,075)
$
2,227
(35,070)
(169,075)
$
During the year ended June 30, 2020, the Company reclassified $32.5 million from accumulated other comprehensive loss
(accumulated foreign currency translation reserve) to net (loss) income related to the deconsolidation of CPS (refer to Note 3).
During the year ended June 30, 2020, the Company reclassified $14.2 million and $1.6 million from accumulated other
comprehensive loss (accumulated foreign currency translation reserve) to net (loss) income related to the disposal of Net1 Korea and
FIHRST, respectively (refer to Note 3). During the year ended June 30, 2020, the Company reclassified $11.3 million from
accumulated other comprehensive loss (accumulated foreign currency translation reserve) to net (loss) income related to the disposal
of DNI interest (refer to Note 10).
During the year ended June 30, 2019, the Company reclassified $5.8 million from accumulated other comprehensive loss
(accumulated foreign currency translation reserve) to net (loss) income related to the DNI disposal (refer to Note 1 and Note 3) and
reclassified $0.2 million from accumulated other comprehensive loss (accumulated foreign currency translation reserve) to net (loss)
income related to the disposal of the DNI interest as an equity method investment (refer to Note 1 and Note 10).
There were no reclassifications from accumulated other comprehensive loss to comprehensive (loss) income during the year
ended June 30, 2018.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
17. REVENUE
The Company is a leading provider of transaction processing services, financial inclusion products and services and secure
payment technology. The Company operates market-leading payment processors in South Africa and internationally. The Company
offers debit, credit and prepaid processing and issuing services for all major payment networks. In South Africa, the Company
provides innovative low-cost financial inclusion products, including banking, lending and insurance.
Disaggregation of revenue
The following table represents our revenue disaggregated by major revenue streams, including reconciliation to operating
segments for the year ended June 30, 2020:
South African transaction processing
Processing fees
Other
Subtotal
International transaction processing
Processing fees
Subtotal
Financial services
Telecom products and services
Account holder fees
Lending revenue
Technology products
Insurance revenue
Other
Subtotal
South Africa
Rest of the
world
Total
$
$
62,552
3,288
65,840
$
-
-
-
-
-
22,631
12,628
19,955
18,261
5,212
1,429
80,116
145,956
$
$
5,041
5,041
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,041
$
62,552
3,288
65,840
5,041
5,041
22,631
12,628
19,955
18,261
5,212
1,429
80,116
150,997
The following table represents our revenue disaggregated by major revenue streams, including reconciliation to operating
segments for the year ended June 30, 2019
South African transaction processing
Processing fees
Welfare benefit distributions
Other
Subtotal
International transaction processing
Processing fees
Other
Subtotal
Financial services
Telecom products and services
Account holder fees
Lending revenue
Technology products
Insurance revenue
Other
Subtotal
Corporate/Eliminations – revenue refund (Note 14)
South Africa
Rest of the
world
Total
$
$
79,379
3,086
6,583
89,048
$
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
15,025
17,428
27,512
20,594
5,858
629
87,046
(19,709)
156,385
$
$
9,303
539
9,842
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
9,842
$
79,379
3,086
6,583
89,048
9,303
539
9,842
15,025
17,428
27,512
20,594
5,858
629
87,046
(19,709)
166,227
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan
The Company’s Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) was most recently amended and restated on
November 11, 2015, after approval by shareholders. No evergreen provisions are included in the Plan. This means that the maximum
number of shares issuable under the Plan is fixed and cannot be increased without shareholder approval, the plan expires by its terms
upon a specified date, and no new stock options are awarded automatically upon exercise of an outstanding stock option.
Shareholder approval is required for the repricing of awards or the implementation of any award exchange program.
The Plan permits Net1 to grant to its employees, directors and consultants incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options,
stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, performance-based awards and other awards based on its common stock. The
Remuneration Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (“Remuneration Committee”) administers the Plan.
The total number of shares of common stock issuable under the Plan is 11,052,580. The maximum number of shares for which
awards, other than performance-based awards, may be granted in any combination during a calendar year to any participant is
569,120. The maximum limits on performance-based awards that any participant may be granted during a calendar year are 569,120
shares subject to stock option awards and $20 million with respect to awards other than stock options. Shares that are subject to
awards which terminate or lapse without the payment of consideration may be granted again under the Plan. Shares delivered to the
Company as part or full payment for the exercise of an option or to satisfy withholding obligations upon the exercise of an option
may be granted again under the Plan in the Remuneration Committee’s discretion. No awards may be granted under the Plan after
August 19, 2025, but awards granted on or before such date may extend to later dates.
Options
General Terms of Awards
Option awards are generally granted with an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company's stock at the date of
grant, with vesting conditioned upon the recipient’s continuous service through the applicable vesting date and expire 10 years after
the date of grant. The options generally become exercisable in accordance with a vesting schedule ratably over a period of three
years from the date of grant. The Company issues new shares to satisfy stock option award exercises but may also use treasury
shares.
Valuation Assumptions
The table below presents the range of assumptions used to value options granted during the year ended June 30, 2020:
Expected volatility
Expected life (in years)
Risk-free rate
No stock options were awarded during the year ended June 30, 2018.
Restricted Stock
General Terms of Awards
2020
57%
3
1.57%
2019
44%
3
2.75%
Shares of restricted stock are considered to be participating non-vested equity shares (specifically contingently returnable
shares) for the purposes of calculating earnings per share (refer to Note 19) because, as discussed in more detail below, the recipient
is obligated to transfer any unvested restricted stock back to the Company for no consideration and these shares of restricted stock
are eligible to receive non-forfeitable dividend equivalents at the same rate as common stock. Restricted stock generally vests ratably
over a three year period, with vesting conditioned upon the recipient’s continuous service through the applicable vesting date and
under certain circumstances, the achievement of certain performance targets, as described below.
Recipients are entitled to all rights of a shareholder of the Company except as otherwise provided in the restricted stock
agreements. These rights include the right to vote and receive dividends and/or other distributions. However, the restricted stock
agreements generally prohibit transfer of any nonvested and forfeitable restricted stock. If a recipient ceases to be a member of the
Board of Directors or an employee for any reason, all shares of restricted stock that are not then vested and nonforfeitable will be
immediately forfeited and transferred to the Company for no consideration. Forfeited shares of restricted stock are available for
future issuances by the Remuneration Committee.
The Company issues new shares to satisfy restricted stock awards.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
Restricted Stock (continued)
Valuation Assumptions
The fair value of restricted stock is generally based on the closing price of the Company’s stock quoted on The Nasdaq Global
Select Market on the date of grant.
Vesting of all non-employee director shares issued prior to June 30, 2017
Grants of restricted stock to non-employee directors made during fiscal 2017, as well as those grants made in prior years,
originally vested over a three-year period. After the end of fiscal 2017, the Company’s board consulted with Pay Governance, an
independent compensation consultant, and determined that one-year vesting of restricted stock grants is a more common
compensation practice for independent directors and therefore, amended the terms of outstanding awards to vest one-year after grant.
As a result of this amendment, 56,250 shares of restricted stock held by the non-employee directors as of June 30, 2017, were fully-
vested during the year ended June 30, 2018.
Forfeiture of restricted stock awarded in August and November 2014 that did not achieve targeted market conditions
In August and November 2014, respectively, the Remuneration Committee approved an award of 127,626 and 71,530 shares of
restricted stock to employees. These shares of restricted stock were scheduled to vest in full only on the date, if any, the following
conditions were satisfied: (1) the closing price of the Company’s common stock equals or exceeds $19.41 (subject to appropriate
adjustment for any stock split or stock dividend) for a period of 30 consecutive trading days during a measurement period
commencing on the date that the Company filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 2017 and ending on
December 31, 2017 and (2) the recipient was employed by the Company on a full-time basis when the condition in (1) was met. The
$19.41 price target represented a 20% increase, compounded annually, in the price of the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq over
the $11.23 closing price on August 27, 2014. These shares of restricted stock were forfeited during the year ended June 30, 2018,
because the target market conditions were not achieved. The stock-based compensation charge related to these awards was not
reversed upon forfeiture because these awards contained market conditions.
The 127,626 and 71,530 shares of restricted stock were effectively forward starting knock-in barrier options with a strike price
of zero. The fair value of these shares of restricted stock was calculated utilizing an adjusted Monte Carlo simulation discounted
cash flow model which was developed for the purpose of the valuation of these shares. For each simulated share price path, the
market share price condition was evaluated to determine whether or not the shares would vest under that simulation.
The “adjustment” to the Monte Carlo simulation model incorporates a “jump diffusion” process to the standard Geometric Brownian
Motion simulation, in order to capture the discontinuous share price jumps observed in the Company’s share price movements on
stock exchanges on which it is listed. Therefore, the simulated share price paths capture the idiosyncrasies of the observed Company
share price movements.
In scenarios where the shares do not vest, the final vested value at maturity is zero. In scenarios where vesting occurs, the final
vested value on maturity is the share price on vesting date. The value of the grant is the average of the discounted vested values. The
Company used an expected volatility of 76.01%, an expected life of approximately three years, a risk-free rate of 1.27% and no
future dividends in its calculation of the fair value of the 127,626 shares of restricted stock. The Company used an expected
volatility of 63.73%, an expected life of approximately three years, a risk-free rate of 1.21% and no future dividends in its
calculation of the fair value of the 71,530 shares of restricted stock. Estimated expected volatility was calculated based on the
Company’s 30 day VWAP share price using the exponentially weighted moving average of returns.
Forfeiture of restricted stock with Performance Conditions awarded in August 2015
In August 2015, the Remuneration Committee approved an award of 301,537 shares of restricted stock to employees. The
shares of restricted stock awarded to employees in August 2015 were subject to time-based and performance-based vesting
conditions. In order for any of the shares to have vested, the recipient had to remain employed by the Company on a full-time basis
on the date that it filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018. If that condition was satisfied, then
the shares would vest based on the level of Fundamental EPS the Company achieved for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018 (“2018
Fundamental EPS”), as follows:
• One-third of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2018 Fundamental EPS of $2.88;
• Two-thirds of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2018 Fundamental EPS of $3.30; and
• All of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2018 Fundamental EPS of $3.76.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
Restricted Stock (continued)
Forfeiture of restricted stock with Performance Conditions awarded in August 2015 (continued)
At levels of 2018 Fundamental EPS greater than $2.88 and less than $3.76, the number of shares that would have vested would
be determined by linear interpolation relative to 2018 Fundamental EPS of $3.30. All shares of restricted stock have been valued
utilizing the closing price of shares of the Company’s common stock quoted on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on the date of
grant.
Any shares that did not vest in accordance with the above-described conditions would be forfeited. During the year ended June
30, 2017, the Company reversed the stock-based compensation charge recognized to date related to the 301,537 shares of restricted
stock because it believed that it was unlikely that the 2018 Fundamental EPS target would be achieved due to the dilutive impact on
the fundamental EPS calculation as a result of the issuance of approximately 10 million shares to the IFC in May 2016. The
Company has not achieved the 2018 Fundamental EPS target and the 173,262 remaining shares that had not been forfeited as a result
of terminations were forfeited during the year ended June 30, 2018.
Forfeiture of 150,000 shares of restricted stock with Performance Conditions awarded in August 2016
In August 2016, the Remuneration Committee approved an award of 350,000 shares of restricted stock to executive officers. In
May 2017, the Company determined to accelerate the vesting of all (200,000) of the shares of restricted stock awarded to its former
CEO. The shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers in August 2016 were subject to time-based and performance-based
vesting conditions. In order for any of the shares to vest, the recipient was required to remain employed by the Company on a full-
time basis on the date that it files its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. If that condition is
satisfied, then the shares will vest based on the level of Fundamental EPS the Company achieves for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2019 (“2019 Fundamental EPS”), as follows:
• One-third of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2019 Fundamental EPS of $2.60;
• Two-thirds of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2019 Fundamental EPS of $2.80; and
• All of the shares will vest if the Company achieves 2019 Fundamental EPS of $3.00.
At levels of 2019 Fundamental EPS greater than $2.60 and less than $3.00, the number of shares that will vest will be
determined by linear interpolation relative to 2019 Fundamental EPS of $2.80. All shares of restricted stock have been valued
utilizing the closing price of shares of the Company’s common stock quoted on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on the date of
grant.
Any shares that did not vest in accordance with the above-described conditions would be forfeited. During the year ended June
30, 2019, the Company reversed the stock-based compensation charge recognized related to 150,000 shares of restricted stock
because the Company did not achieve the 2019 Fundamental EPS target. The 150,000 shares of restricted stock were forfeited.
Market Conditions - Restricted Stock Granted in August 2017
In August 2017, the Remuneration Committee approved an award of 210,000 shares of restricted stock to executive officers.
The shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers in August 2017 are subject to a time-based vesting condition and a
market condition and vest in full only on the date, if any, that the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the price of the Company’s
common stock must equal or exceed certain agreed VWAP levels (as described below) during a measurement period commencing
on the date that it files its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020 and (2) the
recipient is employed by the Company on a full-time basis when the condition in (1) is met. If either of these conditions is not
satisfied, then none of the shares of restricted stock will vest and they will be forfeited. The $23.00 price target represents an
approximate 35% increase, compounded annually, in the price of the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq over the $9.38 closing
price on August 23, 2017. The VWAP levels and vesting percentages related to such levels are as follows:
• Below $15.00 (threshold)—0%
• At or above $15.00 and below $19.00—33%
• At or above $19.00 and below $23.00—66%
• At or above $23.00—100%
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
Restricted Stock (continued)
Market Conditions - Restricted Stock Granted in August 2017 (continued)
These 210,000 shares of restricted stock are effectively forward starting knock-in barrier options with multi-strike prices of
zero. The fair value of these shares of restricted stock was calculated utilizing a Monte Carlo simulation model which was developed
for the purpose of the valuation of these shares. For each simulated share price path, the market share price condition was evaluated
to determine whether or not the shares would vest under that simulation. A standard Geometric Brownian motion process was used
in the forecasting of the share price instead of a “jump diffusion” model, as the share price volatility was more stable compared to
the highly volatile regime of previous years. Therefore, the simulated share price paths capture the idiosyncrasies of the observed
Company share price movements.
In scenarios where the shares do not vest, the final vested value at maturity is zero. In scenarios where vesting occurs, the final
vested value on maturity is the share price on vesting date. The value of the grant is the average of the discounted vested values. The
Company used an expected volatility of 44.0%, an expected life of approximately three years, a risk-free rate ranging between
1.275% to 1.657% and no future dividends in its calculation of the fair value of the restricted stock. The estimated expected
volatility was calculated based on the Company’s 30 day VWAP share price using the exponentially weighted moving average of
returns.
On August 5, 2020, the Company and its chief executive officer and member of its board of directors, Mr. Herman G. Kotzé,
entered into a Separation and Release of Claims Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”). The parties have agreed that Mr. Kotzé’s
last day of employment with the Company will be September 30, 2020, unless terminated earlier by the Company for cause. Upon
separation from the Company, Mr. Kotzé will forfeit 150,000 shares of restricted stock that are subject to the market conditions
described above because he will no longer be an employee of the Company as of the vesting date.
Market Conditions - Restricted Stock Granted in September 2018
In September 2018, the Remuneration Committee approved an award of 148,000 shares of restricted stock to executive
officers. The 148,000 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers in September 2018 are subject to a time-based vesting
condition and a market condition and vest in full only on the date, if any, that the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the price of
the Company’s common stock must equal or exceed certain agreed VWAP levels (as described below) during a measurement period
commencing on the date that it files its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 2021 and ending on December 31,
2021 and (2) the recipient is employed by the Company on a full-time basis when the condition in (1) is met. If either of these
conditions is not satisfied, then none of the shares of restricted stock will vest and they will be forfeited. The $23.00 price target
represents an approximate 55% increase, compounded annually, in the price of the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq over the
$6.20 closing price on September 7, 2018. The VWAP levels and vesting percentages related to such levels are as follows:
• Below $15.00 (threshold)—0%
• At or above $15.00 and below $19.00—33%
• At or above $19.00 and below $23.00—66%
• At or above $23.00—100%
The fair value of these shares of restricted stock was calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation of a stochastic volatility
process. The choice of a stochastic volatility process as an extension to the standard Black Scholes process was driven by both
observations of larger than expected moves in the daily time series for the Company’s VWAP price, but also the observation of the
strike structure of volatility (i.e. skew and smile) for out-of-the money calls and out-of-the money puts versus at-the-money options
for both the Company’s stock and NASDAQ futures.
In scenarios where the shares do not vest, the final vested value at maturity is zero. In scenarios where vesting occurs, the final
vested value on maturity is the share price on vesting date. In its calculation of the fair value of the restricted stock, the Company
used an average volatility of 37.4% for the VWAP price, a discounting based on USD overnight indexed swap rates for the grant
date, and no future dividends. The average volatility was extracted from the time series for VWAP prices as the standard deviation
of log prices for the three years preceding the grant date. The mean reversion of volatility and the volatility of volatility parameters
of the stochastic volatility process were extracted by regressing log differences against log levels of volatility from the time series
for at-the-money options 30 day volatility quotes, which were available from January 2, 2018 onwards.
Upon separation from the Company, Mr. Kotzé will forfeit 58,000 shares of restricted stock that are subject to the market
conditions described above because he will no longer be an employee of the Company as of the vesting date.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
Restricted Stock (continued)
Performance Conditions - Restricted Stock Granted in February 2020
The 454,400 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers in February 2020 are subject to time-based and
performance-based vesting conditions and vest in full only on the date, if any, that the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the
achievement of an agreed return on average net equity per year during a measurement period commencing from July 1, 2021,
through June 30, 2023, and (2) the recipient is employed by the Company on a full-time basis when the condition in (1) is met. Net
equity is calculated as total equity attributable to the Company’s shareholders plus redeemable common stock, in conformity with
GAAP. The net equity as of June 30, 2021, was set as the base year for the measurement period. The average net equity is calculated
as the simple average between the opening net equity and closing net equity during each fiscal year within the measurement period.
The targeted return per year within the measurement period is derived from GAAP net income attributable to the Company per fiscal
year.
The performance-based awards vest based on the achievement of the following targeted return on average net equity during the
measurement period, of:
•
•
8% per year: 50% vest;
14% per year: 100% vest.
No shares of restricted stock will vest at a return on average net equity of less than 8%. Calculation of the award based on the
returns between 8% and 14% will be interpolated on a linear basis. The Company’s Remuneration Committee may use its discretion
to adjust any component of the calculation of the award on a fact-by-fact basis, for instance, as the result of an acquisition.
Upon separation from the Company, Mr. Kotzé will forfeit 267,200 shares of restricted stock that are subject to the
performance conditions described above because he will no longer be an employee of the Company as of the vesting date.
Stock Appreciation Rights
The Remuneration Committee may also grant stock appreciation rights, either singly or in tandem with underlying stock
options. Stock appreciation rights entitle the holder upon exercise to receive an amount in any combination of cash or shares of
common stock (as determined by the Remuneration Committee) equal in value to the excess of the fair market value of the shares
covered by the right over the grant price. No stock appreciation rights have been granted.
Stock option and restricted stock activity
Options
The following table summarizes stock option activity for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Weighted
average
exercise
price
($)
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual
term
(in years)
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
($'000)
Weighted
average
grant date
fair value
($)
13.87
11.23
13.99
6.20
19.27
6.65
7.81
3.07
7.50
5.83
3.80
2.67
10.00
7.05
10.00
7.56
486
-
370
1,212
-
-
-
676
-
-
4.21
4.55
4.20
2.02
5.00
2.00
2.62
1.20
2.81
2.01
Number of
shares
846,607
(37,333)
809,274
600,000
(370,000)
(174,695)
864,579
561,000
(93,928)
1,331,651
Outstanding - July 1, 2017
Forfeited
Outstanding - June 30, 2018
Granted – September 2018
Expired unexercised
Forfeited
Outstanding - June 30, 2019
Granted – October 2019
Forfeited
Outstanding - June 30, 2020
These options have an exercise price range of $3.07 to $11.23.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
Options (continued)
On August 5, 2020, the Company granted one of its non-employee directors, Mr. Ali Mazanderani, in his capacity as a
consultant to the Company, 150,000 stock options with an exercise price of $3.50. These stock options are subject to the non-
employee director’s continuous service through the applicable vesting date, and half of the options vest on each of the first and
second anniversaries of the grant date.
The following table presents stock options vested and expected to vest as of June 30, 2020:
Vested and expecting to vest - June 30, 2020
Weighted
average
exercise
price
($)
5.83
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual
term
(in years)
7.56
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
($’000)
-
Number of
shares
1,331,651
These options have an exercise price range of $3.07 to $11.23.
The following table presents stock options that are exercisable as of June 30, 2020:
Exercisable - June 30, 2020
Weighted
average
exercise
price
($)
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual
term
(in years)
8.77
5.26
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
($’000)
-
Number of
shares
474,986
During the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2018, 170,335 and 105,982 stock options became exercisable, respectively. No stock
options became exercisable during the year ended June 30, 2019. No stock options were exercised during the years ended June 30,
2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. During the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, employees forfeited 93,928, 174,695 and
37,333 stock options, respectively. During the year ended June 30, 2019, 200,000 stock options awarded in August 2008 and
170,000 stock options awarded in May 2009 expired unexercised. The Company issues new shares to satisfy stock option exercises.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
The following table summarizes restricted stock activity for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Non-vested – July 1, 2017
Total Granted
Granted – August 2017
Granted – March 2018
Granted – May 2018
Vested – August 2017
Total forfeitures
Forfeitures – employee terminations
Forfeitures – August and November 2014 awards with market conditions
Forfeitures – August 2015 awards with performance conditions
Non-vested – June 30, 2018
Granted – September 2018
Total vested
Vested – August 2018
Vested – March 2019
Total forfeitures
Forfeitures – employee terminations
Forfeitures – August 2016 awards with performance conditions
Non-vested – June 30, 2019
Granted – February 2020
Total vested
Vested – March 2020
Vested – March 2020 - accelerated vesting
Forfeitures
Non-vested – June 30, 2020
Number of
shares of
restricted
stock
505,473
618,411
588,594
22,817
7,000
(56,250)
(302,223)
(33,635)
(95,326)
(173,262)
765,411
148,000
(64,003)
(52,594)
(11,409)
(265,500)
(115,500)
(150,000)
583,908
568,000
(18,908)
(11,408)
(7,500)
(17,500)
1,115,500
Weighted
average
grant date
fair value
($’000)
11,173
4,581
4,288
234
59
527
3,222
516
1,133
1,573
3,410
114
503
459
44
1,060
460
600
3,410
2,300
70
42
28
65
5,354
The February 2020 grants comprise 113,600 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers that are subject to time-
based vesting and 454,400 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers that are subject to performance and time-based
vesting. The September 2018 grants comprise 148,000 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers that are subject to
market and time-based vesting. The Company agreed to accelerate the vesting of 66,800 shares of restricted stock that are subject to
time-based vesting and that were granted to Mr. Kotzé in February 2020 pursuant to the terms of the Separation Agreement. These
66,800 shares of restricted stock will vest upon Mr. Kotzé’s separation from the Company.
The August 2017 grants comprise (i) 326,000 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers and employees that are
subject to time-based vesting, (ii) 210,000 shares of restricted stock awarded to executive officers that are subject to market and
time-based vesting as described above, and (iii) 52,594 shares of restricted stock awarded to non-employee directors. The March
2018 grant relates to an award made to the Company’s new chief financial officer. The May 2018 grant comprises 7,000 shares of
restricted stock awarded to employees on the same terms as the 326,000 awards made. The 326,000 and 7,000 shares of restricted
stock will only vest
if the recipient is employed by the Company on a full-time basis on August 23, 2020. The 52,594 shares of restricted stock
awarded to non-employee directors only vested if the recipient was a director on August 23, 2018. The 22,817 shares of restricted
stock vest in two tranches, 11,409 vested on March 1, 2019, and 11,408 will vest on March 1, 2020, subject to the chief financial
officer’s continued employment.
The fair value of restricted stock vested during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, was $0.1 million, $0.5 million
and $0.5 million, respectively. During the year ended June 30, 2020, 11,408 shares of restricted stock, representing approximately
half of the 22,817 shares granted to our chief financial officer on March 1, 2018, vested on March 1, 2020. During the year ended
June 30, 2019, 52,594 shares of restricted stock held by the non-employee directors and 11,409 shares of restricted stock held by the
Company’s chief financial officer vested. During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company determined that 56,250 shares of
restricted stock held by the non-employee directors as of June 30, 2017, were fully-vested.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
18. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (continued)
Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (continued)
During the year ended June 30, 2020, employees forfeited 17,500 shares of restricted stock upon termination and 7,500 shares
(50% of the original award) of restricted stock with time-based vesting conditions were forfeited by an executive officer upon the
disposal of Net1 Korea and. The Company’s Board of Directors accelerated the vesting of the other half of the award and 7,500
vested. During the year ended June 30, 2019, employees forfeited 115,500 shares of restricted stock upon termination which had
either time-based or market conditions. In addition, an executive officer forfeited 150,000 shares of restricted stock as the
performance conditions were not achieved. During the year ended June 30, 2018, employees forfeited (i) 3,000 shares of restricted
stock upon termination which did not have performance or market conditions attached and (ii) 30,635 shares of restricted stock upon
termination which had either market or performance conditions. In addition, executive officers and employees forfeited 95,326
shares of restricted stock as the market conditions were not achieved and forfeited 173,262 shares of restricted stock as the
performance conditions were not achieved. During the year ended June 30, 2017, employees and the former chief executive officer
that resigned during the year ended June 30, 2017, forfeited 205,470 shares of restricted stock that had not vested.
Stock-based compensation charge and unrecognized compensation cost
The Company has recorded a net stock compensation charge of $1.7 million, $0.4 million and $2.6 million for the years ended
June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, which comprised:
Allocated to IT
processing,
servicing and
support
Allocated to
selling, general
and
administration
Total charge
Years ended June 30, 2020
Stock-based compensation charge
Reversal of stock compensation charge related to stock
options and restricted stock forfeited
Total - years ended June 30, 2020
Years ended June 30, 2019
Stock-based compensation charge
Reversal of stock compensation charge related to stock
options and restricted stock forfeited
Total - years ended June 30, 2019
Years ended June 30, 2018
Stock-based compensation charge
Reversal of stock compensation charge related to stock
options and restricted stock forfeited
Total - years ended June 30, 2018
$
1,873
$
$
$
$
$
$
(145)
1,728
2,319
(1,926)
393
2,656
(49)
2,607
$
$
$
$
$
-
-
-
$
$
-
$
-
-
$
-
$
-
-
$
1,873
(145)
1,728
2,319
(1,926)
393
2,656
(49)
2,607
The stock-based compensation charges and reversal have been allocated to selling, general and administration based on the
allocation of the cash compensation paid to the relevant employees.
As of June 30, 2020, the total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options was approximately $0.9 million, which
the Company expects to recognize over approximately two years. As of June 30, 2020, the total unrecognized compensation cost
related to restricted stock awards was approximately $2.3 million, which the Company expects to recognize over approximately two
years.
Tax consequences
The Company recorded a deferred tax asset of approximately $0.4 million and $0.2 million, respectively, for the years ended
June 30, 2020. As of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded a valuation allowance of approximately $0.4 million and $0.2
million respectively, related to the deferred tax asset because it does not believe that the stock-based compensation deduction would
be utilized as it does not anticipate generating sufficient taxable income in the United States. The Company deducts the difference
between the market value on date of exercise by the option recipient and the exercise price from income subject to taxation in the
United States.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
19. INCOME TAX
Impact of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”), was enacted into law, significantly modifying U.S. federal
tax laws. The TCJA reduced the federal statutory tax rate for corporations from 35% to 21% effective from January 1, 2018,
eliminates alternative minimum tax for corporations, limits net operating loss carryforwards (and eliminates carrybacks), repeals
indirect foreign tax credits carry-forward rules, limits the deductibility of interest expense and transitions the system of U.S.
international taxation of corporations from a worldwide tax system to a territorial tax system.
The transition to a territorial tax system has not significantly impacted the Company. The Company generates the majority of
its taxable income in tax jurisdictions with tax rates that are higher than the federal statutory tax rate of 21% (mainly South Africa,
where its income is taxed at 28%). The most meaningful impact on the Company relates to the limitations on the deductibility of
interest and the inclusion of certain passive, so called sub-part F, income in its federal taxation computation.
Global intangible low taxed income
The TCJA creates a new requirement that certain income earned by controlled foreign corporations (“CFCs”) must be included
in the gross income of the CFCs’ U.S. shareholder. Global intangible low taxed income (“GILTI”) is the excess of the shareholder’s
“net CFC tested income” over the net deemed tangible income return, which is currently defined as the excess of (1) 10 percent of
the aggregate of the U.S. shareholder’s pro rata share of the qualified business asset investment of each CFC with respect to which it
is a U.S. shareholder over (2) the amount of certain interest expense taken into account in the determination of net CFC-tested
income.
GILTI was only applicable for the Company’s tax year commencing July 1, 2018 (i.e. its June 2019 tax year). The Company
has not incurred a GILTI tax during the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, because it primarily operates in tax jurisdictions (such
as South Africa and South Korea) which have higher corporate income tax rates than the United States and certain of its South
Africa subsidiaries and most of its non-South African subsidiaries have incurred operating losses. However, due the nature and
operation of the tax law regarding GILTI, the Company believes that it may incur a GILTI tax in future periods because GILTI is
calculated and assessed on an annual basis without regard to prior periods. Any net operating loss carryforwards generated in foreign
jurisdictions are excluded from the annual GILIT computation. The result of this is that the Company may pay a GILTI tax on
income generated by a controlled foreign corporation in its foreign jurisdiction that is not taxed in that foreign jurisdiction due to the
utilization of foreign net operating loss carryforwards.
Deemed repatriation of foreign earnings liability
The TCJA also requires a U.S. shareholder of a specified foreign corporation to include a deemed repatriation of foreign
earnings (“Transition Tax”) as part of the transition to a territorial tax system. However, the Company did not incur a net Transition
Tax liability because it generated sufficient foreign tax credits to offset any potential repatriation transition tax liability. The
Transition Tax is a tax on previously untaxed accumulated and current earnings and profits (“E&P”) of certain of the Company’s
foreign subsidiaries. In order to determine the amount of any Transition Tax liability, the Company was required to determine, in
addition to other factors, the amount of post-1986 E&P of the relevant subsidiaries, as well as the amount of non-U.S. income taxes
paid on such earnings. During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company made a reasonable estimate of its Transition Tax liability
as of June 30, 2018, and recorded a provisional Transition Tax, before the application of any foreign tax credits, of $55.8 million,
and had no liability after the application of generated foreign tax credits. In fact, the Company generated excess foreign tax credits.
During the year ended June 30, 2019, the Company finalized its Transition Tax liability as of June 30, 2018, and incurred a
Transition Tax, before the application of any foreign tax credits, of $56.9 million, and has no liability after the application of
generated foreign tax credits.
Income tax provision
The table below presents the components of income before income taxes for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
South Africa
Liechtenstein
United States
Other
(Loss) Income before income taxes
2020
(26,230)
(17,519)
(8,984)
(12,283)
(65,016)
$
$
2019
(273,265)
-
(23,479)
(22,699)
(319,443)
$
$
2018
131,366
-
(15,329)
(21,479)
94,558
$
$
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
19. INCOME TAX (continued)
Income tax provision (continued)
Presented below is the provision for income taxes by location of the taxing jurisdiction for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019
and 2018:
Current income tax
South Africa
United States
Other
Deferred taxation charge (benefit)
South Africa
United States
Other
Foreign tax credits generated – United States
Change in tax rate – United States
Income tax provision (benefit)
2020
1,652
1,552
12
88
932
653
0
279
72
-
2,656
$
$
$
2019
(as restated)(A)
4,789
3,689
1,100
-
(8,917)
(8,538)
4
(383)
(944)
-
(5,072)
$
2018
(as restated)(A)
90,467
$
35,745
55,788
(1,066)
10,108
9,149
477
482
(55,778)
309
45,106
$
(A) Deferred taxation (benefit) charge – South Africa for 2019 and 2018 have been restated to correct the misstatement
discussed in Note 1.
There were no changes to the enacted tax rate in the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018. However, during the year
ended June 30, 2018, there were changes to the U.S. tax code which, among other things, changed the Federal tax rate. The
Company has a June year end and used a blended rate of 28.10% for its tax year ending June 30, 2018, in the U.S. Certain of the
Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities which it expected would be utilized/ reversed during the period ended June 30, 2018,
were re-measured at the blended rate and those deferred taxes that the Company believed would only be utilized/ reversed in
subsequent tax years, were re-measured at 21%. The net impact of the change in the tax rate on the Company’s deferred taxes
included in income tax expense during the year ended June 30, 2018, was $0.3 million. The Company also provided an additional
valuation allowance of approximately $0.6 million during the year ended June 30, 2018, related to net operating loss carryforwards
that it believed would not be utilized as a result of the enactment of the TCJA.
During the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company incurred net operating losses through certain of it its South
African wholly-owned subsidiaries and recorded a deferred taxation benefit related to these losses. However, the Company has
created a valuation allowance for these net operating losses which reduced the deferred taxation benefit recorded. The movement in
the valuation allowance for the year ended June 30, 2018, is primarily attributable to the creation of the valuation allowance related
to excess tax credits recognized from the preliminary Transition Tax calculation and the creation of a valuation allowance related to
net operating losses generated during the year ended June 30, 2018, that the Company does not believe it will be able to utilize in the
foreseeable future.
The Company incurred a net capital gain, after the application of capital loss carryforwards, related to the internal restructuring
of a wholly-owned subsidiary during the year ended June 30, 2020. The Company also generated taxable capital gains during the
year ended June 30, 2020, related to the disposal of FIHRST (refer to Note 3) and the sale of DNI (refer to Note 10) but utilized
capital loss carryforwards to reduce the capital gains on these transactions to zero ($0).
The Company calculated its Transition Tax liability as of June 30, 2018, and incurred a Transition Tax, before the application
of any foreign tax credits, of $55.8 million, and has no liability after the application of generated foreign tax credits. During the year
ended June 30, 2019, the Company recorded the difference of $1.1 million between the Transition Tax liability of $56.9 million and
the provisional Transition Tax liability of $55.8 million in current income tax, United States. During the year ended June 30, 2019,
the Company also included the additional foreign tax credits utilized of $1.1 million against this Transition Tax in foreign tax credits
generated – United States. During the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company included a provisional Transition Tax of $55.8
million in current income tax, United States. Foreign tax credits of $65.3 million were generated and included in the computation of
provisional Transition Tax of which $55.8 million were utilized against the Transition Tax in that year. The foreign tax credits
utilized are included in Foreign tax credits generated – United States for the year ended June 30, 2018.
As discussed above, the Company has generated excess foreign tax credits related to the Transition Tax and any distribution
received from Net1’s subsidiaries will first be applied against the deemed distributions recognized as a result of the Transition Tax
as so called “previously taxed income, or PTI”. Therefore distributions actually made during the year ended June 30, 2018, were
treated as PTI and did not generate any additional foreign tax credits because the quantum of the actual distributions were lower than
the deemed distributions calculated as a result of the Transition Tax.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
19. INCOME TAX (continued)
A reconciliation of income taxes, calculated at the fully-distributed South African income tax rate to the Company’s effective
tax rate, for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, is as follows:
Income taxes at fully-distributed South African tax rates
Release from FCTR
Non-deductible items
Foreign tax rate differential
Subpart F inclusions
Movement in valuation allowance
Capital gains differential
Foreign tax credits
Prior year adjustments
Taxation on deemed dividends in the United States
Transition Tax
Change in tax laws – United States
Income tax provision
2020
28.00%
(14.65%)
(10.38%)
(4.17%)
(2.85%)
1.64%
(1.59%)
(0.08%)
(0.01%)
-
-
-
(4.09%)
2019
(as
restated)(A)
28.00%
-
(3.33%)
(0.07%)
-
(22.98%)
(1.46%)
0.35%
(0.03%)
1.45%
(0.34%)
-
1.59%
2018
(as
restated)(A)
28.00%
-
13.25%
0.14%
-
6.35%
(1.92%)
(58.99%)
0.04%
2.04%
58.79%
-
47.70%
(A) Non-deductible items for 2019 and 2018 have been restated to correct the misstatement discussed in Note 1.
Percentages included in the 2020 and 2019 columns in the reconciliation of income taxes presented above are impacted by the
loss incurred by the Company during the year ended June 30, 2020 and 2019. For instance, the income tax provision of $ 2.7 million
represents (4.09%) multiplied by the net loss before tax of $ (65,016). Movement in the valuation allowance for the year ended June
30, 2020, includes allowances created related to net operating losses incurred during the year and valuation allowances created for a
deferred tax asset recorded related to the deconsolidation of CPS and other corporate transactions. Release from FCTR for the year
ended June 30, 2020, relates to the releases from accumulated other comprehensive loss (refer to Note 16) that are not deductible for
tax purposes. Non-deductible items for the year ended June 30, 2020, includes the option termination fee paid and the goodwill
impairment loss recognized.
Movement in the valuation allowance for the year ended June 30, 2019, includes allowances created related to net operating
losses incurred during the year and a valuation allowance created for a deferred tax asset recorded related to the DNI disposal capital
losses generated (refer to Note 10) and the Cell C capital loss following the fair value adjustment (refer to Note 7). Non-deductible
items for the year ended June 30, 2019, includes the impairment losses recognized related to goodwill impaired.
Non-deductible items for the year ended June 30, 2018, includes the impairment loss recognized related to goodwill impaired,
non-deductible interest on borrowings and the accretion of interest. The impact on foreign tax during the year ended June 30, 2018,
was primarily due to the impact of the Transition Tax.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
19. INCOME TAX (continued)
Deferred tax assets and liabilities
Deferred income taxes reflect the temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities
using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. The primary components of the
temporary differences that gave rise to the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities as of June 30, and their classification, were
as follows:
Total deferred tax assets
Capital losses related to investments
Net operating loss carryforwards
Foreign tax credits
Provisions and accruals
FTS patent
Other
Total deferred tax assets before valuation allowance
Valuation allowances
Total deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance
Total deferred tax liabilities:
Intangible assets
Investments
Other
Total deferred tax liabilities
Reported as
Long-term deferred tax assets
Long-term deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred income tax liabilities
June 30,
2020
June 30,
2019
(as restated)(A)
$
$
36,721
32,459
32,799
3,936
181
815
106,911
(106,433)
478
171
1,755
53
1,979
358
1,859
1,501
$
$
43,569
35,821
32,799
13,230
277
529
126,225
(125,887)
338
340
1,019
69
1,428
234
1,324
1,090
(A) Total deferred tax liabilities: Investments and long-term deferred tax liabilities have been restated to correct the
misstatement discussed in Note 1.
Increase in total net deferred income tax liabilities
Capital losses related to investments
Capital losses as of June 30, 2020, related to investments decreased primarily related to the 2020 utilization of capital
losses generated in prior years and due to the impact of currency changes between the South Africa Rand against the United States
dollar. The June 30, 2020 amounts comprises the capital loss arising from the difference between the amount paid for Cell C in
August 2017 and the its fair value as of June 30, 2020, of $0.0 million, and difference between the amount paid for CPS in 2004 and
the its fair value as of June 30, 2020, of $0.0 million.
Net operating loss carryforwards
Net operating loss carryforwards have decreased primarily as a result of the utilization of prior period net operating loss
carryforwards and currency changes between the South Africa Rand against the United States dollar, but partially offset by the
increase in losses incurred by certain of the Company’s subsidiaries.
Provisions and accruals
Deferred tax assets – provisions and accruals decreased during the year ended June 30, 2020, primarily as a result of the
deconsolidation of CPS.
Decrease in valuation allowance
At June 30, 2020, the Company had deferred tax assets of $0.5 million (2019: $0.3 million), net of the valuation allowance.
Management believes, based on the weight of available positive and negative evidence it is more likely than not that the Company
will realize the benefits of these deductible differences, net of the valuation allowance. However, the amount of the deferred tax
asset considered realizable could be adjusted in the future if estimates of taxable income are revised.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
19. INCOME TAX (continued)
At June 30, 2020, the Company had a valuation allowance of $106.4 million (2020: $125.9 million) to reduce its deferred tax
assets to estimated realizable value. The movement in the valuation allowance for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, is
presented below:
Capital losses
related to
investments
Net operating
loss carry-
forwards
Foreign tax
credits
Total
FTS patent
Other
July 1, 2018
$
48,691 $
3,226 $
9,047 $
32,644 $
57 $
3,717
Charged to statement of
operations
Reversed to statement
of operations
Utilized
Foreign currency
adjustment
June 30, 2019
Reversed to statement
of operations
Charged to statement of
operations
Deconsolidation
Utilized
Foreign currency
adjustment
June 30, 2020
$
79,029
40,159
26,570
155
-
12,145
-
-
(57)
-
(881)
(1,730)
-
-
778
125,887
184
43,569
(198)
(10)
452
35,861
(14,314)
(5,486)
(77)
27,700
(16,130)
(3,896)
5,399
-
-
20,602
(15,830)
(3,632)
(12,814)
106,433 $
(6,761)
36,721 $
(4,651)
32,273 $
-
32,799
-
-
-
-
-
32,799 $
(626)
(1,720)
142
13,658
(8,751)
1,699
(300)
(264)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- $
(1,402)
4,640
Net operating loss carryforwards and foreign tax credits
United States
The TCJA amends the rules regarding net operating loss carryforwards for Federal income tax purposes effective from July 1,
2018. The new rules prohibit net operating loss carrybacks, allow indefinite net operating loss carryforwards and limit the amount of
the net operating loss carryforwards generated after July 1, 2018, that may be used against future taxable income, to 80% of taxable
income before the net operating loss deduction. These new rules did not impact the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards
generated during the year ended June 30, 2018 and in prior periods.
In March 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (the “Cares Act”) was enacted. The Cares Act, among
other items, provides for a temporary repeal of the 80 percent net operating loss limitation and provides temporary modifications to
the limitation on deductibility of business interest.
As of June 30, 2020, Net1 had net operating loss carryforwards that will expire, if unused, as follows:
Year of expiration
2024
U.S. net
operating loss
carry
forwards
$
1,141
During the year ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, Net1 generated additional direct foreign tax credits related to dividends
received from a foreign investment. Net1 had no net unused foreign tax credits that are more likely than not to be realized as of June
30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Uncertain tax positions
As of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company had no unrecognized tax benefits which would impact the Company’s effective
tax rate. The Company files income tax returns mainly in South Africa, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malta, the United Kingdom,
Botswana and in the U.S. federal jurisdiction. As of June 30, 2020, the Company’s South African subsidiaries are no longer subject
to income tax examination by the South African Revenue Service for periods before June 30, 2016. The Company is subject to
income tax in other jurisdictions outside South Africa, none of which are individually material to its financial position, statement of
cash flows, or results of operations. The Company does not expect the change related to unrecognized tax benefits will have a
significant impact on its results of operations or financial position in the next 12 months.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
20. (LOSS) EARNINGS PER SHARE
The Company has issued redeemable common stock (refer to Note 15) which is redeemable at an amount other than fair value.
Redemption of a class of common stock at other than fair value increases or decreases the carrying amount of the redeemable
common stock and is reflected in basic earnings per share using the two-class method. There were no redemptions of common stock,
or adjustments to the carrying value of the redeemable common stock during the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
Accordingly, the two-class method presented below does not include the impact of any redemption.
Basic (loss) earnings per share include shares of restricted stock that meet the definition of a participating security because
these shares are eligible to receive non-forfeitable dividend equivalents at the same rate as common stock. Basic (loss) earnings per
share have been calculated using the two-class method and basic (loss) earnings per share for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019
and 2018, reflects only undistributed earnings. The computation below of basic (loss) earnings per share excludes the net loss
attributable to shares of unvested restricted stock (participating non-vested restricted stock) from the numerator and excludes the
dilutive impact of these unvested shares of restricted stock from the denominator.
Diluted (loss) earnings per share have been calculated to give effect to the number of shares of additional common stock that
would have been outstanding if the potential dilutive instruments had been issued in each period. Stock options are included in the
calculation of diluted (loss) earnings per share utilizing the treasury stock method and are not considered to be participating
securities, as the stock options do not contain non-forfeitable dividend rights. The calculation of diluted (loss) earnings per share
includes the dilutive effect of a portion of the restricted stock granted to employees in August and November 2014, August 2015,
August 2016, August 2017, March 2018, September 2018, and February 2020 as these shares of restricted stock are considered
contingently returnable shares for the purposes of the diluted earnings per share calculation and the vesting conditions in respect of a
portion of the restricted stock had been satisfied. The vesting conditions are discussed in Note 18.
The following table presents net (loss) income attributable to Net1 and the share data used in the basic and diluted (loss)
earnings per share computations using the two-class method for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Numerator:
Net (loss) earnings attributable to Net1
Undistributed (loss) earnings
Continuing
Discontinued
Percent allocated to common shareholders
(Calculation 1)
Numerator for (loss) earnings per share: basic and diluted
Continuing
Discontinued
Denominator
Denominator for basic (loss) earnings per share:
weighted-average common shares outstanding
Effect of dilutive securities:
Stock options
Denominator for diluted (loss) earnings per share: adjusted
weighted average common shares outstanding and assumed
conversion
(Loss) Earnings per share:
Basic
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted
Continuing
Discontinued
(Calculation 1)
Basic weighted-average common shares outstanding (A)
Basic weighted-average common shares outstanding and unvested
restricted shares expected to vest (B)
Percent allocated to common shareholders
(A) / (B)
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2020
2018
2019
(as
(as
restated)(A)
restated)(A)
(in thousands except percent and per share data)
(78,358)
(78,358)
(97,214)
18,856
98%
(76,827)
(95,315)
18,488
$
$
$
$
(311,007)
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
99%
(306,640)
(307,383)
743
$
$
$
$
62,087
62,087
52,142
9,945
98%
61,052
51,273
9,779
56,003
55,963
55,860
-
18
51
56,003
55,981
55,911
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
56,003
57,119
98%
$
$
$
$
$
$
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
$
$
$
$
$
$
55,963
56,760
99%
1.10
0.92
0.18
1.09
0.92
0.17
55,860
56,807
99%
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatement discussed in Note 1.
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Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
20. (LOSS) EARNINGS PER SHARE (continued)
Options to purchase 1,331,651, 864,579 and 660,698 shares of the Company’s common stock at prices ranging from $3.07 to
$11.23 (2020), $6.20 to $11.23 (2019) and $10.59 to $24.46 (2018) per share were outstanding during the year ended June 30, 2020,
2019 and 2018, respectively, but were not included in the computation of diluted (loss) earnings per share because the options’
exercise prices were greater than the average market price of the Company’s common shares. The options, which expire at various
dates through October 14, 2029, were still outstanding as of June 30, 2020.
21. SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION
The following table presents supplemental cash flow disclosures for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Cash received from interest
Cash paid for interest
Cash paid for income taxes
Investing activities
2020
2019
2018
$
$
$
3,057 $
6,050 $
5,001 $
5,596 $
10,636 $
13,110 $
16,835
8,645
41,065
The transaction referred to in Note 3 under which the Company reduced its shareholding in DNI from 55% to 38% and used the
proceeds, of $27.6 million, from the sale to settle its obligation, of $27.6 million, to subscribe for additional shares in DNI was
closed using a cashless settlement process. Therefore, the proceeds from sale and the settlement of the obligation to subscribe for
additional shares in DNI were not included in net cash provided by investing activities in the Company’s consolidated statement of
cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2019.
The transaction referred to in Note 3 and Note 13 under which the Company reduced its shareholding in DNI from 38% to 30%
and used the proceeds from the sale to settle a portion of its long-term borrowings, of $15.0 million, was closed using a cashless
settlement process. Therefore, the proceeds from sale was not included in net cash provided by (used in) investing activities in the
Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2019.
As disclosed in Note 10, during the year ended June 30, 2018, the Company agreed to underwrite the Finbond rights offer up to
an amount of 55,585,514 shares and utilized a $10.0 million loan due by Finbond to the Company to acquire the 55,585,514 Finbond
shares. Therefore, as this transaction was net settled in 2018 and there was no transfer of cash between the parties, the repayment of
the loan by Finbond and the acquisition of 55,585,514 Finbond shares are not included within net cash provided by (utilized) in
investing activities in the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2018.
Financing activities
The transaction referred to in Note 3 and Note 10 under which the Company reduced its shareholding in DNI from 38% to 30%
and used the proceeds from the sale to settle a portion of its long-term borrowings, of $15.0 million was closed using a cashless
settlement process. Therefore, the part settlement of the long-term borrowings was not included in net cash (used in) provided by
financing activities in the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2019.
Disaggregation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash included on the Company’s consolidated statement of cash flows includes restricted
cash related to cash withdrawn from the Company’s various debt facilities to fund ATMs. This cash may only be used to fund ATMs
and is considered restricted as to use and therefore is classified as restricted cash. Refer to Note 13 for additional information
regarding the Company’s facilities. The following table presents the disaggregation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as
of June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Continuing
Discontinued
Cash and cash equivalents
Restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
2020
217,671 $
-
217,671
14,814
232,485 $
2019
20,014 $
26,051
46,065
75,446
121,511 $
2018
57,607
32,447
90,054
-
90,054
$
$
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
21. SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (continued)
Leases
The following table presents supplemental cash flow disclosure related to leases for the year ended June 30, 2020:
Cash paid related to short-term leases
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities
Operating cash flows from operating leases
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations
Operating leases
22. OPERATING SEGMENTS
2020
4,244
$
3,603
$
2,974
The Company discloses segment information as reflected in the management information systems reports that its chief
operating decision maker uses in making decisions and to report certain entity-wide disclosures about products and services, major
customers, and the countries in which the entity holds material assets or reports material revenues.
The Company currently has three reportable segments: South African transaction processing, International transaction
processing and Financial inclusion and applied technologies. The South African transaction processing and Financial inclusion and
applied technologies segments operate mainly within South Africa while the International transaction processing segment operates
mainly within South Korea, Hong Kong and the European Union. The Company’s reportable segments offer different products and
services and require different resources and marketing strategies and share the Company’s assets.
The South African transaction processing segment currently consists mainly of an ATM infrastructure deployed in South
Africa, transaction processing for retailers, utilities, and banks, and a welfare benefit distribution service provided to the South
African government through September 30, 2018. The welfare benefit distribution services ceased following the SASSA contract
expiration on September 30, 2018. Fee income is earned from customers utilizing our ATM infrastructure. Utility providers and
banks are charged a fee for transaction processing services performed on their behalf at retailers. Fee income was also earned based
on the number of recipient cardholders paid through September 30, 2018. There were no individually significant customers providing
more than 10% of total revenue during the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. This segment had an individually
significant customer that accounted for more than 10% of the total revenue of the Company during the year ended June 30, 2018
(19%). During the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, the operating segment incurred goodwill impairment losses of $5.6
million, $1.2 million and $1.1 million, respectively (refer to Note 10).
The International transaction processing segment consists mainly of activities in South Korea from which the Company
generated revenue from the provision of payment processing services to merchants and card issuers. The Company’s South Korean
business has been reported as a discontinued operation following its disposal in March 2020 (refer to Note 3). Accordingly, the
Company’s South Korean business did not contribute to segment performance during the last four months of the year ended June 30,
2020. This segment included fee revenue from the provision of payment processing services and to a lesser extent from the sale of
goods, primarily point of sale terminals, to customers in South Korea up until the sale of our Korean operations. Fees generated from
payment services processing and other processing activities by the IPG are included in this segment. During the year ended June 30,
2019 and 2018, the operating segment incurred goodwill impairment losses of $7.0 million and $19.9 million, respectively (refer to
Note 10).
The Financial inclusion and applied technologies segment derives revenue from the provision of short-term loans as a principal
and the provision of bank accounts, as a fixed monthly fee per account is charged for the maintenance of these accounts. This
segment also includes fee income and associated expenses from merchants and card holders using the Company’s merchant
acquiring system, the sale of prepaid products (electricity and airtime) as well as the sale of hardware and software. Finally, the
Company earns premium income from the sale of life insurance products through its insurance business. DNI was acquired on June
30, 2018, and was allocated to the Financial inclusion and applied technologies segment. DNI contributed to segment performance
for the first nine months of the year ended June 30, 2019. DNI has been reported as a discontinued operation following its disposal
of the Company’s controlling interest in March 2019 (refer to Note 3). Accordingly, DNI did not contribute to segment performance
during the year ended June 30, 2020, the last three months of the year ended June 30, 2019 and during the year ended June 30, 2018.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
22. OPERATING SEGMENTS (continued)
DNI primarily derived revenue from fees generated through the distribution of starter packs and, to a less extent, from interest
income earned through the provision of financing to Cell C in order for it to expand components of Cell C’s telecommunications
infrastructure in South Africa. During the year ended June 30, 2019, the operating segment incurred a goodwill impairment loss of
$6.2 million (refer to Note 10).
Corporate/eliminations includes the Company’s head office cost center and the amortization of acquisition-related intangible
assets. The $17.5 million termination fee paid to terminate the Bank Frick option (refer to Note 10) during the year ended June 30,
2020, has been allocated to corporate/ elimination. The $5.3 million impairment loss related to the impairment of DNI intangible
assets (refer to Note 3) during the year ended June 30, 2019, has been allocated to corporate/ elimination.
The reconciliation of the reportable segment’s revenue to revenue from external customers for the years ended June 30, 2020,
2019 and 2018, respectively, is as follows:
Revenue
Reportable
Segment
Corporate/
Eliminations
(Note 14)
Inter-segment
From
external
customers
$
$
$
Continuing
Discontinued
7,956 $
-
-
-
2,226
10,182
10,182
73,796 $
90,416
5,041
85,375
82,342
246,554
161,179
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Total for the years ended June 30, 2020
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Reportable segments
Corporate/Eliminations – revenue refund (Note 14)
65,840
90,416
5,041
85,375
80,116
236,372
150,997
85,375
89,048
148,268
9,842
138,426
143,383
87,046
56,337
380,699
(19,709)
360,990
166,227
194,763
238,098
180,027
26,713
153,314
194,764
194,764 -
-
612,889
459,575
153,314
The Company does not allocate interest income, interest expense or income tax expense to its reportable segments.
The Company evaluates segment performance based on segment operating income before acquisition-related intangible asset
amortization which represents operating income before acquisition-related intangible asset amortization and allocation of expenses
allocated to Corporate/Eliminations, all under GAAP.
0 $
-
-
-
-
-
-
- $
$
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(19,709)
(19,709)
(19,709)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
85,375 $
$
96,038
148,268
9,842
138,426
146,184
89,847
56,337
390,490
-
390,490
195,727
194,763
268,047
180,027
26,713
153,314
221,906
221,906
669,980
516,666
153,314
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
- $
6,990 $
-
-
-
2,801
2,801
-
9,791
-
9,791
9,791
- $
29,949 $
-
-
-
27,142
27,142
57,091
57,091
Total for the years ended June 30, 2018
Total for the years ended June 30, 2019
Continuing
Discontinued
Continuing
Discontinued
- $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
F-78
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
22. OPERATING SEGMENTS (continued)
The reconciliation of the reportable segments measures of profit or loss to income before income taxes for the years ended June
30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, is as follows:
Reportable segments measure of profit or loss
Less: Discontinued operations: reportable segments' measure of
$
(20,247)
$
(42,692)
$
85,690
profit or loss
(14,568)
(43,739)
(17,977)
Continuing operations: reportable segments' measure of profit or
2020
2019(1)
2018
loss
Continuing operations : Operating income -
Corporate/Eliminations
Change in fair value of equity securities
Gain on disposal of FIHRST (Note 3)
(Loss) Gain on disposal of DNI interest as an equity method
investment (Note 3)
Loss on deconsolidation of CPS (Note 3)
Termination fee to cancel Bank Frick option
(34,815)
(86,431)
67,713
(9,433)
-
9,743
(48,501)
(167,459)
-
(13,904)
32,473
-
(1,010)
(7,148)
(17,517)
2,805
(7,641)
-
(65,016)
177
-
-
5,424
(9,860)
(12,793)
(319,443)
-
-
-
16,845
(8,569)
-
94,558
Interest income
Interest expense
Impairment of Cedar Cellular Note
Loss before income taxes
(1) - Operating loss: Corporate/Eliminations includes $34.0 million related to the accrual referred to in Note 13.
$
$
$
The following tables summarize segment information for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Revenues
Revenue
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Total
Continuing
Discontinued
Operating (loss) income
South African transaction processing (1)
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies(1)
Continuing (1)
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Total (1)
Continuing (1)
Discontinued
2020
2019
2018
$
$
73,796
90,416
5,041
85,375
82,342
82,342
-
246,554
161,179
85,375
(19,575)
2,051
(12,517)
14,568
(2,723)
(2,723)
-
(20,247)
(15,217)
(9,433)
(5,784)
(35,464)
(44,248)
8,784
$
96,038 $
148,268
9,842
138,426
146,184
89,847
56,337
390,490
195,727
194,763
(30,771)
2,837
(16,502)
19,339
(14,758)
(39,158)
24,400
(42,692)
(70,816)
(48,501)
(22,315)
(113,508)
(134,932)
$
21,424 $
268,047
180,027
26,713
153,314
221,906
221,906
-
669,980
516,666
153,314
42,796
(12,478)
(30,455)
17,977
55,372
55,372
-
85,690
(26,741)
(13,904)
(12,837)
58,949
53,809
5,140
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
22. OPERATING SEGMENTS (continued)
The following tables summarize segment information for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018:
Depreciation and amortization
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Continuing
Discontinued
Total
Continuing
Discontinued
Expenditures for long-lived assets
South African transaction processing
International transaction processing
Continuing
Discontinued
Financial inclusion and applied technologies
Continuing
Discontinued
Subtotal: Operating segments
Corporate/Eliminations
Total
Continuing
Discontinued
2020
2019
2018
2,512
4,405
502
3,903
1,368
1,368
-
8,285
5,014
265
4,749
13,299
4,647
8,652
3,443
2,206
703
1,503
289
289
-
5,938
-
5,938
4,435
1,503
$
$
$
3,612
9,962
254
9,708
1,968
1,355
613
15,542
21,807
6,882
14,925
37,349
12,103
25,246
3,590
3,607
664
2,943
2,219
1,488
731
9,416
-
9,416
5,742
3,674 $
4,625
17,627
750
16,877
1,441
1,441
-
23,693
11,791
3,657
8,134
35,484
10,473
25,011
3,988
4,397
139
4,258
1,264
1,264
-
9,649
-
9,649
5,391
4,258
$
$
(1) South African transaction processing and Financial inclusion and applied technologies include retrenchment costs for the
year ended June 30, 2019, of: $4,665 and $1,604, respectively, for total retrenchment costs for the year ended June 30, 2019, of
$6,269. The retrenchment costs are included in selling, general and administration expense on the consolidated statement of
operations for the year ended June 30, 2019.
The segment information as reviewed by the chief operating decision maker does not include a measure of segment assets per
segment as all of the significant assets are used in the operations of all, rather than any one, of the segments. The Company does not
have dedicated assets assigned to a particular operating segment. Accordingly, it is not meaningful to attempt an arbitrary allocation
and segment asset allocation is therefore not presented.
F-80
NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
22. OPERATING SEGMENTS (continued)
Geographic Information
Long-lived assets based on the geographic location for the years ended June 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, are presented in the table
below:
South Africa
Liechtenstein - investment in Bank Frick (Note 10)
India - investment in MobiKwik (Note 10)
South Korea (Note 3)
Rest of world
Total
2020
Long-lived assets
2019
(as
restated)(A)
2018
(as
restated)(B)
$
$
68,521
29,739
26,993
-
9,119
134,372
$
$
141,235 $
47,240
26,993
149,390
9,739
374,597 $
493,902
48,129
26,917
177,388
41,597
787,933
(A) The South Africa and total amounts have been restated by $2,689 to correct the misstatement discussed in Note 1.
(B) The South Africa and total amounts have been restated by $ 2,540 to correct the misstatement discussed in Note 1.
23. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Capital commitments
As of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company had outstanding capital commitments of approximately $0.1 million and $2.0
million, respectively.
Purchase obligations
As of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the Company had purchase obligations totaling $1.7 million and $3.5 million, respectively. The
purchase obligations as of June 30, 2020, primarily include inventory that will be delivered to the Company and sold to customers in
the second half of calendar 2020.
Guarantees
The South African Revenue Service and certain of the Company’s customers, suppliers and other business partners have asked
the Company to provide them with guarantees, including standby letters of credit, issued by a South African bank. The Company is
required to procure these guarantees for these third parties to operate its business.
Nedbank has issued guarantees to these third parties amounting to ZAR 93.6 million ($5.4 million, translated at exchange rates
applicable as of June 30, 2020) and thereby utilizing part of the Company’s short-term facility. The Company pays commission of
between 0.4% per annum to 1.94% per annum of the face value of these guarantees and does not recover any of the commission
from third parties.
The Company has not recognized any obligation related to these counter-guarantees in its consolidated balance sheet as of June
30, 2020. The maximum potential amount that the Company could pay under these guarantees is ZAR 93.6 million ($5.4 million,
translated at exchange rates applicable as of June 30, 2020). The guarantees have reduced the amount available for borrowings under
the Company’s short-term credit facility described in Note 13.
Contingencies
The Company is subject to a variety of other insignificant claims and suits that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of
business. Management currently believes that the resolution of these other matters, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a
material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Notes to the consolidated financial statements
for the years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018
(All amounts stated in thousands of United States Dollars, unless otherwise stated)
24. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
A subsidiary, Transact24, had an existing relationship in place between itself and a company controlled by the spouse of
Transact24’s Managing Director at the time of the Transact24 acquisition during the year ended June 30, 2016. This arrangement
therefore was also in place before the Managing Director became an executive officer of the Company. This relationship was
disclosed to the Company during the due diligence process and was considered by the Company’s management to be critical to the
ongoing operations of Transact24. The company controlled by the spouse of the managing director performed transaction processing
and Transact24 provides technical and administration services to the company. These services ceased during the year ended June 30,
2019. The Company has recorded revenue of approximately $0.4 million and $4.4 million related to this relationship during the
years ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Transact24’s Managing Director has an indirect interest in these transactions as a
result of his relationship with his spouse, with an approximate value of $0.1 million and $0.3 million during the years ended June 30,
2019 and 2018, respectively. No amounts were due to the Company as of June 30, 2019.
25. UNAUDITED QUARTERLY RESULTS
The following tables contain selected unaudited consolidated statements of operations information for each quarter of
fiscal 2020 and 2019:
Three months ended
Jun 30, 2020 Mar 31, 2020 Dec 31, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 June 30, 2020
(In thousands except per share data)
Revenue
Operating loss
Net (loss) income attributable to Net1
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income per share, in United
States dollars
Basic (loss) earnings attributable to Net1
shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted (loss) earnings attributable to
Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
25,978 $
(13,180)
(38,880)
(38,601)
(279) $
36,514 $
(14,212)
(34,881)
(48,361)
13,480 $
40,567 $
(10,420)
(205)
(2,925)
2,720 $
47,938 $
(6,436)
(4,392)
(7,327)
2,935 $
150,997
(44,248)
(78,358)
(97,214)
18,856
(0.68) $
(0.68) $
(0.00) $
(0.69) $
(0.69) $
(0.00) $
(0.61) $
(0.85) $
0.24 $
(0.62) $
(0.86) $
0.24 $
- $
(0.05) $
0.05 $
- $
(0.05) $
0.05 $
(0.08) $
(0.13) $
0.05 $
(0.08) $
(0.13) $
0.05 $
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
(1.37)
(1.70)
0.33
Three months ended
Jun 30, 2019 Mar 31, 2019 Dec 31, 2018 Sep 30, 2018 June 30, 2019
(as restated)(A)
(as restated)(A) (as restated)(A)
(In thousands except per share data)
Revenue (Q4 includes $19,709 refund)
Operating (loss) income
Net (loss) income attributable to Net1
Continuing
Discontinued
Net (loss) income per share, in United
States dollars
Basic (loss) earnings attributable to Net1
shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
Diluted (loss) earnings attributable to
Net1 shareholders
Continuing
Discontinued
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
17,053 $
(52,356)
(183,048)
(184,320)
1,272 $
36,586 $
(23,776)
(58,819)
(51,050)
(7,769) $
42,042 $
(51,465)
(63,941)
(66,723)
2,782 $
70,546 $
(7,335)
(5,199)
(9,668)
4,469 $
166,227
(134,932)
(311,007)
(311,761)
754
(3.22) $
(3.24) $
0.02 $
(3.27) $
(3.29) $
0.02 $
(1.03) $
(0.90) $
(0.13) $
(1.04) $
(0.91) $
(0.13) $
(1.12) $
(1.17) $
0.05 $
(1.13) $
(1.18) $
0.05 $
(0.09) $
(0.17) $
0.08 $
(0.09) $
(0.17) $
0.08 $
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
(5.48)
(5.49)
0.01
(A) Certain amounts have been restated to correct the misstatements discussed in Note 1. The impact of the restatements for the
year ended June 30, 2019, have been recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and March 31, 2019, respectively. The
impact of the restatements for the year ended June 30, 2018, has been recorded during the three months ended June 30, 2018
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