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Annual 
Report  
2021

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ABN 49 103 575 042

CONTENTS

Highlights 

Chair's Letter 

CEO | Managing Director’s Report 

Operating & Financial Review 

Profiles 

Board of Directors 

Executive Leadership Team 

5 Year Track Record 

Directors' Report 

Directors' Report 

Audited Remuneration Report 

Auditor's Independence Declaration 

Financial Report 

Additional Information 

Shareholder Information 

Corporate Directory 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 20213

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 202121

Technology and product innovation 
is at the core of our value proposition 
to merchants, and we are continually 
looking for ways to enhance merchants’ 
ability to conduct commerce. 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021HIGHLIGHTS

INNOVATION - EXECUTING 
AGAINST OUR STRATEGY

Bendigo Bank Alliance 
Completed on 1 June 2021 
with all Bendigo merchants 
moving over to Tyro (18,490 
merchants at 30 June 2021)

Tyro Connect - 
an integration + 
insights platform 
connecting apps to 
POS/PMS systems 
enhancing value 
proposition to 
merchants

Acquisition of 
Medipass - 
HEALTH FINTECH INNOVATING 
IN CARDLESS DIGITAL 
HEALTHCARE CLAIMING + 
PAYMENTS 

Investment in Paypa 
Plane - recurring 
payments platform will 
add industry leading 
features to our banking 
platform

LAUNCH OF
OPEN 
BANKING
 & IMPLEMENTATION OF 
MAMBU’S CLOUD-NATIVE 
BANKING PLATFORM

N O W  
O N L I N E

EXCLUSIVE 
PAYMENT
PROVIDER TO 

me&u 

WILL BECOME 
TYRO'S LARGEST 
ECOMMERCE 
MERCHANT

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021HIGHLIGHTS$25.5B  

RECORD TRANSACTIONS 
PROCESSED BY TYRO 
MERCHANTS

     26%

(FY20: $20.1B)

DELIVERING 
STRONG FY21 
RESULTS

58,186 

MERCHANTS 
CHOOSING TYRO AS 
THEIR PAYMENTS 
SOLUTION 
PROVIDER

     81%

(FY20: 32,176)

$119.4 M

GROSS PROFIT

TRANSACTION & MERCHANT 
GROWTH DRIVING RECORD 
GROSS PROFIT OF $119.4 
MILLION

     28%

(FY20: $93.5M)

RECORD 
EBITDA $14.2 M 
- UP 424.0% 
FROM A EBITDA LOSS OF 
$4.4 MILLION IN FY20 
HIGHLIGHTING THE 
OPERATING LEVERAGE OF 
THE BUSINESS

AUSTRALIA’S 
5TH LARGEST

MERCHANT 
ACQUIRING BANK  
BY TERMINAL 
COUNT - 104,827

     67%

(FY20: 62,722)

RECORD BRAND RECOGNITION IN 
THE YEAR
Prompted 20%
(FY20: 14%)
Unprompted 19%
(FY20: 9%)

Strong Balance Sheet $172.8 million in cash and 
financial investments available for future growth
(FY20: $188.3 million)

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021HIGHLIGHTSCHAIR'S 
LETTER

Dear Shareholder,

The industry changes that have transpired over 
FY21 will forever change the payments landscape 
in Australia.  Firstly, the structural shift we are 
seeing in the way people pay both here in 
Australia and internationally will continue.  Cash, 
as a means of payment, will continue to decrease 
with customers preferring contact free payments, 
eCommerce payments and QR code-based 
payments.  Secondly, the advent of Open Banking 
which gives customers the ability to share their 
banking data with accredited third parties and 
will allow customers to get better-suited banking 
products and switch products or banks more 
easily, will provide opportunities to accredited 
participants that were not previously available.  
Tyro is perfectly placed to support our merchants 
in response to these industry changes with our 
industry leading product offerings and our future 
strategic priorities. 

Although these industry changes have and will 
continue to be a positive catalyst for growth at 
Tyro, FY21 has also presented us with some of the 
biggest challenges in our history.

COVID-19 continues to remain a significant 
challenge to our community and businesses.  
While the roll-out of vaccines in Australia and 
globally is starting to offer hope that business 
can return to normal, many of our merchants are 
still impacted by COVID-19.  There are  limitations 

placed on international travel, numerous  state-
based lockdowns, and limitations on the number 
of customers allowed in a venue at any time.  As 
we did in FY20 and continued to do in FY21, we 
remain committed to doing all that we possibly 
can to support our merchants and our teams 
during this challenging period by offering our 
range of financial and wellbeing support packages 
to merchants. We are also ensuring we continue to 
provide critical payments and banking services to 
our 58,186 merchants.

The second major event that has challenged 
Tyro in FY21 was the terminal connectivity issue 
experienced by our merchants in January 2021.  
The use of any technology comes with risk and it 
is our role to make sure that risk is minimised for 
our merchants. To this end we are committed to 
implementing an ‘industry first’ failover solution 
that will be rolled-out over FY22 to specifically 
address these types of connectivity issues. We 
will be the first merchant acquirer in Australia to 
offer merchants a complete failover solution for 
payments going forward.  Robbie will provide a 
more detailed analysis of this issue together with 
the specific steps we are taking in remediating 
our merchants as well as the industry leading 
products we are introducing to provide merchants 
with the best payments and business banking 
solutions available in Australia.

"The industry changes that have 
transpired over FY21 will forever 
change the payments landscape in 
Australia."

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CHAIR'S LETTERAs a Board, we were very encouraged by the way 
the team at Tyro dealt with the adversity of the 
continued impact of COVID-19 on our merchants 
as well as dealing with the terminal connectivity 
issue. We remain confident that Tyro, as a 
company, with the strong team in place together 
with managing through the challenges of FY21 - is 
well placed to continue to grow and achieve the 
ambitious goals and strategies we have put in 
place.

STRONG FY21 FINANCIAL 
PERFORMANCE

Against this backdrop with the structural changes 
in the payments industry in Australia as well as 
the challenges of COVID-19 and the terminal 
connectivity issue, I am happy to report that Tyro 
performed strongly in FY21. 

Our transaction value increased an impressive 26% 
to $25.5 billion (FY20: $20.1 billion) from the 58,186 
merchants that trust Tyro with their payments.  
This translated to a gross profit of $119.4 million, up 
28%. Tyro also delivered a positive EBITDA of $14.2 
million (before significant costs associated with the 
terminal connectivity issue and our M&A activity 
for the year).  

The delivery of this positive EBITDA provides 
shareholders with confidence that Tyro is on a path 
to profitability as we continue to grow.

FINANCIAL POSITION

Given the strong set of results for FY21, the Group 
has maintained a strong balance sheet throughout 
the year. The Board regularly reviews Tyro’s capital 
structure in uncertain times like these. Tyro is debt 
free and as at 30 June 2021, we had $172.8 million 
in cash available to support future growth.

with a total capital ratio of 73% (FY20: $166 million 
with a capital ratio of 162%). Tyro currently holds 
sufficient capital to meet its internal targets above 
APRA’s prudential capital requirements.

DELIVERING ON OUR 
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

FY21 saw Tyro deliver on three key strategic 
initiatives that will strongly position us for 
increasing our pace of growth into FY22 and 
beyond.

The first key project that we delivered was the 
completion of the Bendigo Bank merchant alliance 
on 1 June 2021.  This project was delivered on time 
and met all the requirements from Bendigo for a 
successful switchover of the Bendigo merchants 
to Tyro’s payments platform.  The alliance is 
progressing well with 253 Bendigo merchants now 
completely serviced by Tyro with the remaining 
Bendigo merchants to come across to Tyro over 
the next few months.

This Alliance, the first of its type in Australia, is a 
significant moment in Tyro’s history and will add an 
annualised ~$5 billion in transaction value to Tyro 
going forward.

The second strategic initiative that we delivered 
on was our focus on our Healthcare offering. In 
May we acquired  Medipass.  The acquisition 
of Medipass adds an innovative cardless digital 
healthcare claiming and payment platform to Tyro, 
that seamlessly links practitioners, funders, and 
patients.  This, in combination with Tyro’s terminal-
based offering creates a simple and unified health 
payments solution for our health business.

Medipass’ team of 20 expert people have also 
joined Tyro and will lead our new health business 
unit to drive our growth targets for the health 
vertical going forward.  

Total capital held at 30 June 2021 was $84 million 

Thirdly, we continue to focus on our eCommerce 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CHAIR'S LETTERsolution with me&u now starting to process 
their transactions through Tyro.  This clearly 
demonstrates the ability of our eCommerce 
solution, and we will continue the roll-out of this 
product to our merchants to assist them with their 
own growth ambitions.

These were the three major initiatives we 
implemented in 2021. However, there were 
many other strategic priorities that the team 
also delivered in FY21 such as our new Open 
Banking platform, our new streamlined process for 
improving customer call wait and response times 
and our ability to roll-out terminals to merchants 
significantly faster than we previously were able 
to do.

SUSTAINABILITY

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated 
how deeply interconnected our world has become 
and how social and environmental issues impact all 
of our lives and communities. 

Working with 58,186 merchants across Australia, it 
is important that we fulfil our mission of simplifying 
payments and banking for our customers.  We 
are focused on delivering solutions that create 
a sustainable future for all our stakeholders. 
This includes our shareholders, our people, our 
merchants, the broader community in which 
we operate, our suppliers and business partners 
and regulatory bodies. A sustainable future also 
includes our environmental footprint, our impact on 
the planet and the strategies we have in place to 
minimise this impact.

FY21 saw the team at Tyro embark on the journey 
to commit to Tyro being a carbon neutral business 
through a program of reducing our current 
emissions per employee as well as offsetting 
our calculated carbon emissions through carbon 
certified offset programs that will start in FY22.  
Although this is only the start of our journey, 

we recognise the fundamental importance of 
environmental sustainability to our business and 
we are committed to reducing our impact on the 
climate.

Our first standalone Sustainability Report for FY21 
can be found on our Investor Centre at https://
investors.tyro.com.

PEOPLE, CULTURE AND 
DIVERSITY

The long term success of Tyro is built on the skills, 
dedication, and culture of our team. In FY21, more 
so than any other year, the strength of our people 
was abundantly displayed.  

We have a strong emphasis on recruiting and 
retaining top talent that enhances our strong 
values-driven culture. The accumulation of our 
collective experience, shared values, and individual 
skills has allowed Tyro to deliver industry-leading 
products and solutions.

We also embrace diversity and inclusiveness and 
create a sense of belonging because we know this 
is what  makes us better as a team, as a company 
and as members of the wider community. This year 
we have set numerical targets for representation 
of women at Tyro across our leadership teams 
and across the broader team targeting a 40:40:20 
approach with at least 40% women, 40% men, 
with the remaining 20% unspecified to allow for 
flexibility and to recognise that gender is non-
binary.   

As at 30 June 2021, 33% of our executive 
leadership team and 37% of all our employees were 
women.  We have two female Directors and five 
male Directors.  More information on diversity can 
be found in our Corporate Governance Statement 
and in our Sustainability Report at https://investors.
tyro.com.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CHAIR'S LETTERto a more normal trading environment.  Our focus 
will be to continue to deliver innovative payments 
and banking products for our merchants and 
Robbie will be providing details of our key areas of 
strategic focus for FY22.

THANKS TO OUR TEAM

We could not have achieved our FY21 results 
without our amazing group of people.  We are 
fortunate to have a highly engaged, driven, and 
passionate team that consistently delivers on the 
expectations set for them. On behalf of the Board 
and all shareholders I would like to acknowledge 
the commitment and dedication of the entire Tyro 
team and their efforts towards delivering another 
successful year for Tyro.  

Finally, I would like to thank all our merchants, 
partners and investors for their support and 
engagement over the past twelve-months and we 
look forward to working with you all in FY22.

I also look forward to seeing you all at our Annual 
General Meeting on 3 November 2021.

Sincerely,

David Thodey 
Chair

26 August 2021

CHANGES TO THE BOARD

At the end of the year Cathy Harris decided to 
step down from the Board.  I would like to again 
thank Cathy for her significant contribution to our 
Company over the last five and a half years. We 
have been fortunate to have the benefit of Cathy’s 
strong customer focus and fearless counsel on 
the Board. We will miss Cathy’s contribution to 
the Board.  Cathy’s position as Chair of the People 
Committee has been taken on by Fiona Pak-Poy.

On 21 April 2021 we were pleased to welcome Aliza 
Knox to the Board.  Aliza’s experience in scaling 
banking and financial services businesses and 
particularly in the digital sector makes her a great 
addition to Tyro’s Board.

Board succession planning remains a key area of 
focus for the Board, and we continually evaluate 
the skills and competencies required for effective 
board governance.  As part of this focus, we will be 
looking to add an additional director to the Board 
in FY22. 

As Chair of the Board, I would like to thank all 
Board members for their contribution over 
this challenging year.  Their dedication, expert 
guidance, and counsel to both me and the Tyro 
leadership team over the past 12-months is much 
appreciated.

LOOKING FORWARD TO A 
SUCCESSFUL FY22

Although FY21 proved to be another year of 
challenges for Tyro, it presented new opportunities 
for the way in which we conduct business and the 
products we offer to our merchants. 

We are looking forward to supporting our 
merchants as the nation emerges from COVID-19 
- though it is difficult to predict when we will return 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CHAIR'S LETTER12

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO | MANAGING 
DIRECTOR’S 
REPORT

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021Operating & 
Financial Review

A very pleasing performance in the year with 
strong increases in transaction value, revenue, 
gross profit and EBITDA. The results delivered 
are all the more impressive when assessed 
against the backdrop of rolling Covid lockdowns, 
the terminal connectivity event in January 
and the distraction that inevitably comes with 
undertaking a major transformative project such 
as the Bendigo Bank Alliance. The resilience of 
our business has definitely shone through again 
this year. So it is with much appreciation that I 
thank the entire team at Tyro for all the effort 
invested to make the performance you see in 
this report possible. 

"...it is with much 
appreciation that I thank the 
entire team at Tyro for all the 
effort invested to make the 
performance you see in this 
report possible". 

I am particularly pleased with how 
we recovered from January’s terminal 
connectivity issue which was a whole of 
organisation effort with an absolute focus on 
doing the right thing by affected merchants. 
This approach instrumental in retaining 
stable merchant churn metrics and seeing 
our new merchant application numbers 
return to record setting highs. This event did 
not sit comfortably with me nor my team, 
and notwithstanding 18 years of operation 
with no similar issue, we are building a 
‘failover’ solution that will see us provide 
all our merchants with a dongle solution in 
combination with their standard terminals 
as an extra level of redundancy – an industry 
first move. 

We are executing against our strategy of 
‘build’, ‘buy’, ‘invest’ and/or ‘partner’ as 
outlined in our 2019 prospectus prior to 
listing on the ASX.  The business outcomes 
delivered in FY21 under this plan provide 
us with a unique opportunity to accelerate 
our growth. Our combination with Medipass 
is a significant step in building out our 
core health vertical and is consistent with 
our strategy to build our offering through 
acquisition. Our alliance with Bendigo Bank 
is an exciting combination of Australia’s fifth 
biggest retail bank with the fifth largest 
merchant acquiring bank. Partnering with 
Bendigo Bank sees Tyro’s leading proprietary 
payments platform made available to 
Bendigo Bank’s current and future business 
customers.

Before delving into our financial performance 
and position, I thought it useful to provide a 
‘snapshot’ review of the 2021 financial year, 
including highlighting some of the more 
significant actions undertaken by the team 
over the course of the year. This is followed 
by a more in-depth review of our payments 
and banking businesses.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTFY21 Snapshot

RESULTS

At a high level, we delivered an all-time high in 
transaction value of $25.5 billion with more than 58,186 
merchants trusting Tyro with their payments needs. 
We lifted revenue 13% to a new record $238.5 million 
and even more impressively we lifted gross profit 28% 
to a new high of $119.4. Statutory net loss after tax 
was $29.8 million after accounting for $13.2 million 
in costs associated with connectivity issue and $5.0 
million in costs associated with the IPO, the Bendigo 
transaction and the Medipass transaction.  Excluding 
the impact of these one-off costs, net profit before tax 
on a normalised basis was a loss of $10.9 million, a $15.0 
million improvement on the normalised net loss before 
tax generated in FY20.   

Our Banking business returned to strong growth in the 
later part of FY21 as we switched back to an automated 
merchant cash advance loan approval process following 
a period of manual loan approvals to mitigate risks 
inherent due to Covid volatility. We booked $25.8 million 
in loan originations for FY21 of which close to $20 million 
was booked in the final three months of FY21, including 
a record origination month in May 2021 of $8.1 million.  
Although loan originations was down 57% from the 
record $60.1 million booked in FY20, the results over the 
last three months of FY21 demonstrate the potential this 
product has.

Our fee-free, interest-paying bank account and term 
deposit account now have over 4,650 active accounts 
representing an increase of 26% over last year with $75.5 
million held in deposits at 30 June 2021. 

Transaction
Value

Merchant
Numbers

Gross
Profit

$25.5 B

up 26%

$20.1 B

32,176

$93.5 M

58,186

up 81%

$119.4M

up 28%

EBITDA

($4.4 M)

$14.2 M

up 424%

FY20

FY21

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTIMPACT OF COVID-19 ON RESULTS
COVID continued to impact our results through FY21 with State and Territory governments mandating social 
distancing and lockdown policies whenever outbreaks of the virus occurred together with the continued lockdown of 
our international borders.  This forced many of our merchants in all our verticals to either partially or completely close 
their operations for the period of the lockdown. Although many of our merchants found innovative ways to adapt to 
the trading restrictions, our payments business still experienced declines in transaction value whenever a lockdown 
occurred.  The impact of these lockdowns can be seen in Chart 1. 

CHART 1 – MONTHLY TRANSACTION VALUE GROWTH RATES 

79%

4

147%

Jun

May

Apr

Mar

Feb

Jan

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sep

Aug

Jul

1

(18%)

(38%)

2

(4%)

5-year CAGR - 24%

55%

7%

3%

10%

11%

13%

10%

5%

11%

40%

30%

3

19%

27%

27%

29%

32%

31%

31%

30%

(60%)

(30%)

0

30%

60%

90%

120%

150%

1 - First national lockdown March 2020 to June 2020 

2 - Second major lockdown in Victoria - July 2020 to October 2020

3 - Various States go into snap lockdowns - January 2021 to February 2021

4 - All States open and no lockdowns - March 2021 to June 2021

FY21

FY20

As can be seen in Chart 2 our FY21 transaction value growth of 26% has outpaced our five-term CAGR of 24% and we 
remain confident that we can continue to achieve these long term growth rates in a normal operating environment.

CHART 2 – ANNUAL TRANSACTION VALUE 

26.3%

26.0%

23.5%

31.0%

$16b

$14b

$12b

$10b

$8b

$6b

$4b

$2b

$0b

26.4%

15.1%

35.0%

30.0%

25.0%

20.0%

15.0%

10.0%

5.0%

0.0%

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

H1

H2

Annual Growth

5-year CAGR

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORT 
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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTENHANCING OUTCOMES FOR OUR MERCHANTS IN FY21

Some examples of actions the team took in the year 
to enhance outcomes for merchants in Australia are 
showcased below:

Technology and product innovation is at the core of 
our value proposition to our merchants, and we are 
always looking for ways to enhance and simplify 
their ability to conduct commerce, whether that be 
through solutions built by our team in-house, sourced 
from industry-leading third parties or obtained via 
acquisition. Simply put our products and services 
are focused on addressing merchant payments pain 
points and we strive to make payments between 
merchants and their customers as fast, simple and 
seamless as possible. This is true to our purpose of 
setting businesses free to get on with business by 
simplifying payments and banking. 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTBENDIGO BANK MERCHANT 
ACQUIRING ALLIANCE

LAUNCH OF TYRO GO – MOBILE 
PAYMENTS DONGLE

We completed our merchant acquiring alliance with 
Bendigo Bank on 1 June 2021 and on that date the full 
economic benefit of Bendigo Bank’s existing merchant 
service contracts moved to Tyro.  

In June 2021, we launched the pilot of our new Tyro Go 
mobile payments dongle. Tyro Go will connect wirelessly 
to the merchant’s smart phone or tablet. Tyro Go will 
complement our current  terminal offering by:

• 

• 

• 

• 

providing a ‘failover’ to all merchants should their 
existing terminals not function for any reason;

facilitating our entry into the trades verticals with a 
fit for purpose mobile payment terminal device;

providing a ‘queue buster’ for high volume retail and 
hospitality merchants who require a terminal for 
floor staff; and

providing a more appropriate solution for micro-
merchants.

Our alliance with Bendigo Bank is an exciting 
combination of Australia’s fifth biggest retail bank with 
us as the fifth largest (by terminal count) merchant 
acquiring bank in the country. Partnering with Bendigo 
Bank sees our leading proprietary payments platform 
made available to Bendigo Bank’s current and future 
business customers – giving them access to more 
features, more payment options and seamless 
integrations to more than 320 point of sale systems. 
Under our long-term, collaborative, and strategic alliance, 
Bendigo Bank continues to provide all other banking 
services to these customers. This is a great example of 
two customer focused Australian organisations coming 
together to provide better solutions for Australian 
businesses through a partnering of capability and 
expertise.

As at 30 June 2021, 18,490 Bendigo Bank merchants had 
moved across to Tyro generating annualised transaction 
value of ~$5.0 billion.

"Our Tyro Go 
terminal will accept 
‘tap & save’ cards, 
chip-based cards, 
and many of the 
current digital 
wallets"

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTMEDIPASS PAYMENTS SOLUTIONS

Multi-Sided Digital Approval + Payments Platform

PAYMENT

CLAIM

QUOTE

Current Integration

Future Integration

We acquired Medipass on 31 May 2021 and welcomed 
their 20-person strong team to Tyro. Over the past 
three years the Medipass team has built a multi-
sided platform linking healthcare funders, healthcare 
providers and patients to streamline claims approval 
and payment acceptance. Medipass is a digital health 
payment platform enabling healthcare providers to 
accept healthcare payments without the need for a 
terminal. The rise of telehealth consultations, coupled 
with the increase in eCommerce and cashless 
payments more generally, means offering cardless 
digital payment options to patients is a commercial 
necessity for healthcare practitioners.

Our combination with Medipass is a significant 
step in building out Tyro’s core health vertical and 
is consistent with our strategy to build our offering 
through acquisition where there is a distinct 
opportunity to gain scale and to enhance our 
position.  By combining Medipass’ platform with our 
existing card-present payment health offering, we 
can provide a simple, unified solution to healthcare 
practitioners for payments and claiming, as well as 
increasing the health providers working with us.

Medipass integrates with 18 cloud-based practice 
management and booking systems and has 
approximately 1,700 active healthcare merchants 
working with it. This complements, with limited 
overlap, the over 9,500 merchants in Tyro’s health 
vertical and the 52 practice management systems 
integrated with Tyro.  The acquisition will provide 
Tyro’s health merchants greater claiming and 
payment capabilities extending beyond Tyro’s private 
health insurer and Medicare Easyclaim options 
to include a range of State and Federal based 
compensatory funders. These options will continue to 
expand as Medipass completes further integrations.

HEALTHCARE 
PROVIDERS

HEALTHCARE 
PATIENTS

Other 
Compensatory 
Funders

Eclipse

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TYRO CONNECT

Launched in the year Tyro Connect is going from strength 
to strength. In today’s competitive and tech-enabled 
environment, merchants can find themselves having to 
juggle many different apps in order to meet customer 
expectations and manage day-to-day tasks.  Tyro 
Connect enables hospitality businesses to easily integrate 
and more effectively use the apps they need to thrive.  
It is a ‘plug and play’ platform software solution that 
addresses merchant pain points around ‘counter clutter’ 
and avoiding the need to re-enter items into their point 

of sale system. It provides merchants with a platform 
to promote data driven insights from their customers 
activities.

As at 30 June 2021, there were 124 active merchants using 
Tyro Connect with 12 class leading hospitality apps signed 
up and 695,000 transactions processed over the platform 
(FY20: Nil).

Tyro Connect is piloting a new partnership with Hubster which will enable us to make leading ordering apps including 
UberEats, Menulog, Easi, DoorDash, Deliveroo (and more) available to our merchants and point of sale system 
partners.  Tyro Connect is also piloting our new menu management builder which allows our merchants to build and 
manage their menus with Tyro and then publish them to all of their delivery partners, which saves our merchants from 
having to update their menu in all the different systems.

platform, along with the opportunity to market our 
eCommerce capabilities to those of our SME merchants 
who have an online sales presence, highlights the 
potential of our eCommerce payments platform and 
the growth opportunity it offers over coming years. This 
remains a significant area of focus for the team.   

ECOMMERCE + ME&U

In December 2019, we made a ~16% equity investment 
in me&u for $3.5 million, providing Tyro the right to be 
exclusive in-app payment provider to me&u.  me&u is a 
leading Australian ‘tap, order and pay’ in-venue solution 
for the hospitality industry.  It was established by the 
founder of Dimmi, Stevan Premutico, and enables 
customers to view menus, order and pay for meals via 
their mobile phone.

This innovative solution, made even more critical since 
the Covid-19 pandemic commenced making contactless 
payments increase in importance, improves customer 
experience, frees up wait staff, increases order value/
frequency and is a foundation app on the Tyro Connect 
platform.  In June 2021 me&u commenced migrating their 
in-app payments to Tyro’s eCommerce platform and this 
will continue progressively through the first half of FY22.

The addition of me&u, and other key merchant accounts 
such as the Cheesecake Shop to our eCommerce 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTOPEN BANKING

Tyro was one of the first non-major banks to become 
an active data holder under the Consumer Data Right 
or Open Banking in June 2021.  Open Banking seeks to 
provide a safe and secure way for customers to share 
their data between accredited organisations to enable:

• 

• 

• 

easier comparison of financial products and 
providers;

a single view of accounts across banks; and

streamlined application processes.

For Tyro, the first phase of Open Banking data sharing 
will be available to merchants who opt-in and are sole 
traders in relation to their Tyro bank account and/or 
Tyro term deposit account and includes things like 
transaction details and account balances and details.  
The next phase will commence for merchants who are 
sole traders in relation to their Tyro merchant loan by 1 
February 2022.

IMPROVED MERCHANT ONBOARDING 
PROCESS

We enabled digital applications and automated 
onboarding for merchants who are registered as trusts 
and partnerships in the year. This will significantly reduce 
our onboarding times for these merchants and gets 
Tyro a step closer to fully automated onboarding for all 
merchants.

PAYPA PLANE

In December 2020 we made a 20% equity investment 
in Paypa Plane for $1.9 million.  The intent of this 
investment being to expand the payments solutions we 
offer merchants by integrating Paypa Plane’s innovative 
recurring payments functionality into Tyro’s bank 
accounts. This functionality being of particular relevance 
to merchants operating businesses such as childcare 
centres, gyms, and subscription based services.  

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTDENTAL REBATE ESTIMATE FEATURE

We introduced a new rebate estimator feature in the year for 
dental practitioners in our health vertical.  Practitioners were 
asking for this functionality and it will significantly improve the 
ability for customers of dental practitioners to estimate the 
cost and rebate from private health funds for dental elective 
procedures. The addition of this new feature demonstrates our 
ability to develop solutions for merchants in our core verticals 
that can help them grow their businesses.  

TELEHEALTH 

Our telehealth payments solution responds to the requirement 
to keep health practitioners and patients in touch for 
consultations outside of the typical physical visit. Tyro 
introduced a payment and rebating solution to facilitate 
telehealth by processing both Medicare Benefits Schedule bulk-
billed telehealth claims through the Tyro terminal and gap fee 
payments through either their Tyro terminal or our eCommerce 
solution. 

The success of telehealth in Australia will see it continue to be 
offered by health practitioners even after the risk of Covid has 
abated.

BRAND AWARENESS

We have made significant inroads in lifting our brand awareness 
as a payments provider in Australia in the year as shown in 
Chart 3.  Our brand development and marketing activities 
together with our reputation for industry leading products 
and features yielded strong results and saw our prompted 
brand awareness increase to 20% (FY20: 14%) and, even more 
impressively, our unprompted brand awareness increase to 19% 
(FY20: 9%).

CHART 3 – FY21 BRAND AWARENESS

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

FY19

FY20

FY21

Unprompted

Prompted

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTTERMINAL CONNECTIVITY ISSUE

On 5 January 2021, we experienced a connectivity issue 
with respect to some of our  terminals. In accordance 
with our Business Continuity Management Policy and 
Business Continuity Plan, we immediately initiated a 
Major Incident Management Response upon the incident 
being identified to manage the incident and our recovery 
activities.

This event did not sit comfortably with us as a team, 
and notwithstanding 18 years of operation with no 
similar issue, we are establishing a ‘failover’ solution to 
mitigate the risk of any repeat incidents of this nature 
again. This solution will comprise a ‘dongle’ supplied in 
combination with our standard terminals as an extra level 
of redundancy - this is an industry first move.

The root cause of the incident was established with 
the assistance of our terminal supplier. Specifically, an 
issue existed in some versions of the terminal platform 
software installed on the impacted terminals. This issue 
caused those impacted terminals to lose connectivity 
with our network meaning they could neither transact 
nor be updated remotely.

To resolve the situation we collected, repaired, and 
returned the impacted terminals to merchants as rapidly 
as was possible and at the peak of the connectivity 
issue, 19% of our merchants were fully impacted by 
the incident, and a further 11% of our merchants were 
impacted on a limited basis as they had multiple 
terminals with at least one functioning unit allowing 
them to continue to process payments. The majority of 
our merchants (70%) were unaffected by the incident.

We have also implemented a remediation program 
for financially affected merchants and we are pleased 
to report strong progress in the resolution of make 
good claims has been made. All financially impacted 
merchants were invited to register with Tyro to enable 
remediation claims to be assessed. As at 23 August 
2021 we have settled claims with approximately 85% of 
those merchants who have sought remediation via this 
process.

The remediation process remains available for claims 
of financially impacted merchants - providing a fast 
and straightforward assessment aimed at resolution 
without the cost, delays and uncertainty inherent in legal 
proceedings.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTFinancial Performance

GROUP HIGHLIGHTS:

REVENUE

Overall financial highlights for the Group in 
the 2021 financial year include:

• 

• 

• 

• 

26% increase in transaction value to a 
record $25.5 billion (FY20: $20.1 billion).

28% increase in gross profit to a record 
$119.4 million (FY20: $93.5 million).

424% increase in EBITDA1 to a record 
$14.2 million (FY20: loss of $4.4 million).

58% improvement in normalised net 
loss before tax $10.9 million (FY20: loss 
of $25.9 million). 

•  $18.3 million before tax in one-off 

significant costs (FY20: Nil) relating to 
the connectivity issue, M&A costs, and 
IPO costs.

• 

22% improvement in statutory net loss 
after tax of $29.8 million (FY20: loss of 
$38.1 million).

•  Well positioned balance sheet with 

$83.7 million in total capital and a 
capital ratio of 73% (FY20: $165.8 million 
and 162%).

Total revenue was up 13.2% at $238.5 million (FY20: 
$210.7 million). The key factors driving this revenue uplift 
at a segmental level are described below:

PAYMENTS BUSINESS

Our Payments business generated a 13.0% lift in revenue 
to $229.2 million (FY20: $202.8 million). The key factors 
impacting this performance were the:

• 

• 

• 

• 

26.4% increase in transaction value;

23.4% increase in the number of merchants 
excluding the new Bendigo merchants who only 
contributed for one month;

8.8 basis point reduction in merchant service fees 
(FY21: 0.8075% vs FY20: 0.8953%)  reflecting the 
shift to debit cards which generate lower merchant 
service fees and a significant reduction in the 
use of international cards (with the retractions 
on international travellers) which generate higher 
merchant service fees; and

20.7% lift in terminal rental revenue to $21.3 million 
(FY20: $17.7 million) from the 16.6% increase in 
terminal numbers (excluding Bendigo terminals) and 
lower Covid terminal rental fee relief in the year as 
Covid impacts reduced.

BANKING BUSINESS

Our Banking business lifted its revenue 77.2% to $3.2 
million (FY20: $1.8 million). This performance benefited 
from a $1.3 million write-back of the previous year’s $2.4 
million fair value adjustment recognised on our business 
loans under accounting standards being management’s 
best estimate at the time of the potential Covid impact 
on loan repayments. Excluding the fair value adjustment 
to provide a better look through of our Banking 
operation’s performance, interest income on our business 
loans decreased 53.3% to $2.0 million (FY20: $4.2 
million) reflecting our actions to restrict lending activity 
in the first 9-months of FY21.  In FY21, loan originations 
decreased 57.0% with $25.8 million of loans written 
compared to $60.1 million in FY20. 

1 

Tyro uses EBITDA as a non-IFRS measure of business performance, which excludes the non-cash impact of share-based payments expense, 
share of loss from associates, expenses associated with the terminal connectivity issue and the IPO and other significant one-off costs.

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OTHER REVENUE

Other revenue remained stable at $6.1 million (FY20: $6.0 
million).  The main contribution to other revenue came 
from JobKeeper at $4.5 million (FY20: $3.9 million) and 
interest income of $1.0 million (FY20: $1.8 million). 

GROSS PROFIT1
Gross profit was up 27.8% at $119.4 million (FY20: $93.5 
million) with:

• 

our payments operation contribution lifting to $110.5 
million (FY20; $86.1 million). This reflected lower 
interchange and scheme fee costs at a portfolio 
level due to the increase in the card mix of debit 
cards (which have lower costs) and the reduction 
in the card mix of international cards (which have 
higher costs). The margin between the merchant 

CHART 4 – OPERATING LEVERAGE CHART – FY21

1.0000%

0.9500%

0.9292%

0.9531%

0.9403%

service fee we charge merchants and the costs we 
pay to the card schemes and card issuers, namely 
our merchant acquiring fee margin was 0.3437% of 
transaction value vs 0.3205% in FY20. Interchange, 
integration, and support fees for our payments 
business were up only 1.4%, significantly lower 
than the 13.0% increase in payments revenue due 
to the lower direct costs incurred on debit cards 
and the significant reduction in higher direct cost 
international cards;

• 

our banking business contribution lifting to $2.6 
million (FY20: $1.3 million). The gross profit margin 
was 88.2% (FY20: 71.6%). The uplift in gross profit 
and the margin improvement benefited significantly 
from the $1.3 million write-back of the prior year 
provision for fair value adjustment to loans.

0.9269%

0.8953%

0.9000%

0.8500%

0.8000%

0.7500%

0.7000%

0.6500%

0.6000%

0.5500%

0.5000%

0.4500%

0.4000%

0.6151%

0.5436%

0.5283%

0.5905%

0.5379%

0.5170%

0.5377%

0.5170%

0.5065%

0.5559%

0.5251%

0.4759%

0.5365%

0.4861%

0.4643%

0.8075%

0.4704%

0.4244%

0.4147%

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

MSF as a % of Transaction Value

Operating expenses as a % of Transaction Value

Interchange + Scheme Fees as a % of Transaction Value

Gross Profit as a % of Transaction Value

EBITDA2
We recorded a record positive EBITDA2 of $14.2 million (FY20: EBITDA loss of $4.4 million).  This represents a 424.0% 
improvement on the prior year.  The record EBITDA result was driven by the 27.8% increase in gross profit against a 
7.6% increase in operating costs (excluding the costs associated with the terminal connectivity issue and M&A project 
costs).

Our EBITDA result implies an EBITDA margin of 12% demonstrating operating leverage from scale in the year. 

1 

2 

Gross profit of $119.4 million includes the JobKeeper benefit of $4.5 million received from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020 and $1.0 
million in terminal rental relief provided as a result of the terminal connectivity issue less $0.7 million in commissions amortised under the 
Bendigo Bank Alliance.  Excluding JobKeeper in both FY21 and FY20, gross profit increased 23.0%.

Tyro uses EBITDA as a non-IFRS measure of business performance, which excludes the non-cash impact of share-based payments expense, 
share of loss from associates, expenses associated with the terminal connectivity issue and the IPO and other significant one-off costs.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTEARNINGS BEFORE INTEREST 
AND TAX (EBIT)
Our statutory EBIT loss for the reporting period was 
$29.3 million, an improvement on the prior year (FY20: 
loss of $37.5 million). Depreciation and amortisation 
were up 22.7% at $15.4 million (FY20: $12.5 million) 
reflecting new terminal purchases to meet the growth in 
merchant numbers (including terminals required for the 
Bendigo Bank Alliance). 

Further increasing the EBIT loss was the terminal 
connectivity issue costs amounting to $13.3 million 
(FY20: Nil), M&A project costs of $4.7 million (FY20: Nil), 
IPO costs of $0.3 million (FY20: $9.7 million) and share-
based payment expenses of $9.3 million (FY20: $10.9 
million).

On a normalised basis, excluding the impact of the 
terminal connectivity costs, the M&A project costs and 
the IPO costs, our EBIT loss was $10.4 million (FY20: 
$25.9 million).

NET LOSS AFTER TAX
Net loss after tax on a statutory basis improved 21.7% at 
$29.8 million (FY20: $38.1 million). On a normalised basis, 
net loss before tax was $10.9 million, an improvement 
of 57.9% (FY20: $25.9 million). No tax benefit was 
recognised in FY21 or FY20.  At 30 June 2021 we have 
$40.5 million in recognised and unrecognised tax losses 
available for probable future use.

FINANCIAL POSITION
We continue to maintain a balance sheet that positions 
us well for our growth ambitions.  Cash, cash equivalents 
and financial investments available at 30 June 2021 
totalled $172.8 million (FY20: $188.3 million).

At year end we held $15.4 million in merchant loans as 
assets, against merchant deposits of $75.5 million (FY20: 
$50.5 million) as current liabilities on the balance sheet.

Our net asset position decreased to $180.6 million at 
30 June 2021 (FY20: $189.7). Total assets were $396.1 
million, up $132.3 million from the FY20 position largely 
reflecting an intangible asset of $110.7 million for 
the Bendigo Bank Alliance merchant contracts. Total 
liabilities at 30 June 2021 were $215.5 million, up $141.3 
million from the FY20 position primarily relating to 
future commission payments of $102.3 million under the 
Bendigo Bank Alliance and an increase of $25.0 million in 
merchant deposits.

Total regulatory capital at 30 June 2021 was $83.7 million 
with a total capital ratio of 73% (FY20: $165.8 million with 
a capital ratio of 162%). Tyro has always held sufficient 
capital to meet its internal targets which are above 
APRA’s prudential capital requirements.

Total capital expenditure for FY21 was $23.1 million (FY20: 
$11.9 million) in the main comprising terminal purchases 
and investment in software, including capitalised internal 
development costs of $3.7 million (FY20: $2.8 million).

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(76,174)

(67,662) p

12.6%

TABLE 2 – SUMMARY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Transaction value

Payments revenue and income

Lending and investment income

Other revenue and income

Total revenue

Payments direct expenses

Interest expenses on deposits

Total direct expenses

Gross profit

Operating expenses:

Administrative expenses

Contractor and consulting expenses

Marketing expenses

Lending and non-lending losses

Significant one-off costs associated with connectivity issue and M&A

Total operating expenses

EBITDA1

Share based payments expense

IPO expenses

Share of loss from associates

Costs associated with terminal connectivity issue

M&A project costs

Bendigo partner revenue share

Depreciation and amortisation

EBIT

Net interest expense

Loss before tax  

Income tax exepnse

Loss after tax

Reconciliation to normalised net loss before tax

Net loss before tax (statutory)

Add back (before tax):

  IPO expenses 

  Share based payments expense relating to IPO

  Costs associated with terminal connectivity issue

  M&A project costs

3,222

6,078

238,522

(118,694)

(379)

(119,073)

119,449

(7,192)

(5,419)

(10,863)

17,268

FY21
($’000)

FY20
($’000)

CHANGE
%

25,453,507

20,131,045 p

26.4%

229,222

202,826 p

1,818 p

6,031 p

210,675 p

(116,684) p

13.0%

77.2%

0.8%

13.2%

1.7%

(516) q

26.6%

(117,200) p

93,475 p

1.6%

27.8%

(22,903)

(16,598) p

38.0%

(5,913) p

(5,716) q

21.6%

5.2%

(1,958) p 454.8%

- p

-

7.6%

(105,283)

(97,847) p

14,166

(9,342)

(331)

(1,119)

(13,285)

(4,681)

698

(4,372) p 424.0%

(10,896) q

14.3%

(9,730) q

96.6%

- p

- p

- p

- p

-

-

-

-

(15,364)

(12,524) p

22.7%

(29,258)

(37,522) p

(517)

(535) q

(29,775)

(38,057) p

(48)

-

22.0%

3.4%

21.8%

-

(29,823)

(38,057) p

21.6%

FY21
($’000)

FY20
($’000)

CHANGE
%

(29,775)

(38,057) p

21.8%

331

563

13,285

4,681

9,730 q

2,411 q

96.6%

76.6%

- p

- p

-

-

Net loss before tax (normalised)

(10,915)

(25,916) p

57.9%

1 

Tyro uses EBITDA as a non-IFRS measure of business performance, which excludes the non-cash impact of share-based payments expense, 
share of loss from associates, expenses associated with the terminal connectivity issue and the IPO and other significant one-off costs.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTSegment Financial  
Performance

PAYMENTS BUSINESS REVIEW

FY21 HIGHLIGHTS

Our Payment team had a very successful year 
with FY21 highlights including:

•  A record $25.5 billion (FY20: $20.1 billion) in 
transactions processed by Tyro merchants 
– an impressive 26.4% uplift in what was a 
challenging year.

•  A 81% spike in merchants choosing Tyro 
as their payments solution with a record 
58,186 merchants in our ecosystem – 
39,696 excluding Bendigo (FY20: 32,176).

•  An all-time high achieved in payments 

gross profit at $110.5 million (FY20: $86.1 
million) – up 28.3%.

• 

Transformative Bendigo Bank Alliance 
completed on schedule on 1 June 2021 
adding close to 19,000 new merchants and 
annualised transaction value of ~$5 billion.

•  Maintained our position as Australia’s 

5th largest merchant acquiring bank by 
terminal count – 104,827 terminals up 67.1% 
(FY20: 62,722).

•  Healthy retention metrics maintained with 
our merchant churn rate at 11.3% (FY20: 
11.7%) and transaction churn rate of 8.7% 
(FY20: 8.0%).

• 

eCommerce transaction value at $70.3 
million (FY20: $10.6 million) with the 
opportunity now to grow more significantly 
with in-app payment capability switching 
on for me&u a leading ‘tap, order and pay’ 
solution for hospitality venues. 

•  Pilot of ‘Tyro Go’ our mobile dongle 

launched – this new terminal type to power 
our entry into the trades vertical as well as 
providing a failover solution for merchants.

•  Health fintech Medipass acquired in May 
2021 – adding innovative card-less digital 
healthcare claiming and payments to Tyro’s 
core health vertical.

• 

‘Tyro Connect’ performing strongly after it 
was launched in late FY20 - 124 merchants 
now using Tyro Connect in their business 
with 695,000 transactions processed via 
the platform (FY20: Nil)

• 

322 point of sale system integrations – up 
from 308 in FY20.

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Transaction value

Payments revenue and income

Payments direct expenses

Payments gross profit

Gross profit margin

FY21
($’000)

FY20
($’000)

25,453,507

20,131,045

229,222

(118,694)

110,528

48.2%

202,826

(116,684)

86,142

42.5%

MAF margin to transaction value

0.3437%

0.3205%

CHANGE
%

26.4%

13.0%

1.7%

28.3%

5.7 pts

2.3 bps

p

p

p

p

p

p

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

FY21 was another record year for our Payments business despite the challenges presented by Covid and from the 
terminal connectivity issue experienced in January 2021. Our performance perhaps best evidenced by the all-time 
high $25.1 billion in transactions processed (up 24.3% on FY20’s $20.1 billion) on behalf of the 39,696 merchants 
(up 23% on FY20’s 32,176) who selected Tyro as their payments’ provider. Our new merchant acquiring alliance with 
Bendigo Bank which commenced on 1 June 2021, delivered $0.44 billion of the year’s transaction value for the month 
of June from 18,490 merchants.

Transaction value ($’ billion)

Merchants (Number)

TYRO PAYMENTS 
BUSINESS

 BENDIGO BANK 
MERCHANT ALLIANCE

$25.1 billion

$0.4 billion

COMBINED

$25.5 billion

39,696

18,490

58,186

New merchant acquisition started the year strongly after being impacted by Covid in the last quarter of FY20.  This 
momentum was disrupted in January and February 2021 as we completely focused our efforts on resolving the 
connectivity issue and the impact it had on some of our merchants. Pleasingly we returned to strong growth in the 
last quarter of FY21 to finish the year with 39,696 merchants (excluding the new Bendigo Bank merchants) – up 23.4% 
on FY20.  We averaged just under 1,000 new merchant applications per month for FY21, up 13% on FY20. Of note we 
achieved all-time record levels of new merchant applications in June with sign-ups reaching 1,482. Another positive 
indicator for our business is the stability of our merchant retention metrics which remain at comparative lows when 
considering for the segments we serve, with transaction value churn remaining stable at 8.7% (FY20: 8.0%) and 
merchant number churn decreasing 40 basis points to 11.3% (FY20: 11.7%).   

CHART 5 - NEW MERCHANT APPLICATIONS

1,600

1,400

1,200

1,000

800

600

400

200

0

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb Mar

Apr May

Jun

FY20

FY21

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Our hospitality vertical delivered exceptionally strong 
transaction value growth lifting 34.0% in FY21 as 
states came out of lockdown and consumers spent 
domestically given the international border lockdown.  
Our retail vertical delivered a solid 18.3% growth while 
our health vertical achieved 12.7% in transaction value 
growth, still impacted to a certain extent by lower 
elective procedures. 

From a geographical standpoint, all states and territories 
outside of New South Wales and Victoria delivered 
standout growth for FY21, averaging growth of ~40% 
per state or territory.  As can be seen from Chart 6, New 
South Wales delivered growth of 20%, while Victoria 
which was the state most impacted by lockdowns in 
FY21 delivered growth of only 9%.  

CHART 6 - TRANSACTION VALUE GROWTH BY STATE/TERRITORY

50%

45%

40%

35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%

NSW

VIC

QLD

WA

SA

TAS

ACT

NT

In terms of total transaction value contribution by geography, Chart 7 shows the contribution by each state and 
territory in FY21 and provides a comparative with FY20.

CHART 7 - TRANSACTION VALUE CONTRIBUTION BY STATE

7%

4%

10%

22%

37%

FY21

FY20

20%

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The growth in our transaction value and merchant 
numbers saw us deliver record revenue from our 
Payments operation of $229.2 million, up 13.0% on the 
$202.8 million achieved in FY20. This translated into 
record gross profit lifting 28.3% to $110.5 million (FY20: 
$86.1 million). Our Merchant Acquiring Fee (MAF) margin 
of 0.3437% to transaction value was up 2.3 basis points 
from the 0.3205% achieved in FY20, reflecting a card mix 
shift with:

•  more transactions via debit cards which attract a 

lower merchant service fee but carry lower scheme 
and interchange costs; and

• 

fewer transactions via international credit cards due 
to travel restrictions, which have higher merchant 
service fees but also carry higher scheme and 
interchange costs.

On 1 June 2021, we completed the Bendigo Bank 
merchant acquiring Alliance we announced on 16 
October 2020 on schedule. Under the Alliance Tyro 
exclusively provides merchant acquiring services to 
Bendigo Bank’s existing merchant acquiring customers 
and Bendigo Bank will exclusively refer new merchant 
opportunities from its business customer base to Tyro, 
all under a co-brand.  This transformative Alliance is 
expected to add an additional ~$5.0 billion in transaction 
value and to be EBITDA positive in FY22. 

We acquired Medipass on 31 May 2021.  Medipass’ 
functionality, insurer integrations and simplicity are its 
key differentiators. It integrates with 18 cloud-based 
practice management and booking systems and has 
approximately 1,700 active healthcare merchants 
working with it. This complements, with limited overlap, 
the over 9,500 merchants in Tyro’s health vertical and 
the 52 practice management systems integrated with 
Tyro.  The acquisition will provide Tyro’s health merchants 
greater claiming and payment capabilities extending 
beyond Tyro’s private health insurer and Medicare 
Easyclaim options to include a range of State and 
Federal based compensatory funders. 

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FY21 HIGHLIGHTS

 Our Banking team navigated the challenges 
of Covid and achieved a number of key 
accomplishments in FY21 including:

•  Supporting our Covid-19 impacted 

•  Delivering record monthly loan 

originations of ~$8million in May 2021 
with strong origination uptake ($21.6 
million) in the last four months of FY21.

merchants by providing loan repayment 
relief, this is a continuing initiative.

• 

Loan originations of $25.8 million 
generated in FY21, down 57% as a result 
of our deliberate actions to address Covid 
uncertainty (FY20: $60.1 million).

•  Write-back of $1.3 million prior year fair 
value adjustments to loan balances 
due to the risk of bad debts decreasing 
through FY21.

•  Strong uptake of the Tyro bank account 
and term-deposit account with deposit 
balances of $75.5 million (FY20: $50.5 
million).

•  During the first half of the year pivoting 
to a fully manual approval process for 
our merchant cash advance loans, to 
enable the volatile impacts of Covid-19 
lockdowns on merchant transactions to 
be understood and assessed on a case-
by-case basis. In addition introducing the 
ability to offer the Federal Government’s 
loan guarantee scheme. 

• 

In the second half of the year re-instating 
our automated approval process for our 
merchant cash advance loans and re-
engaging our marketing efforts, delivering 
a rapid lift in originations.

BANKING BUSINESS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Loan originations

Interest income on loans

Fair value adjustment on loan balance

Interest expense on deposits

Banking gross profit

Gross profit margin

FY21
($’000)

25,843

1,952

1,270

(379)

2,843

88.2%

FY20
($’000)

60,107

4,179

(2,361)

(516)

1,302

71.6%

q

q

p

q

p

p

CHANGE
%

57.0%

53.3%

153.8%

26.6%

118.4%

16.6 points

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Loan originations in the year of $25.8 million were 
down 57.0% (FY20 of $60.1 million). This lower level 
of originations reflecting our deliberate actions to 
address Covid uncertainty and saw revenue from our 
merchant loans decline 52.4% to $2.0 million (FY20: 
$4.2 million).  With the onset of Covid in March 2020, 
we limited access to our merchant cash advance loans 
(from April 2020 to February 2021) by pivoting from a 
fully automated loan approval process to a ‘desk top’ 
assessment to enable the volatile impacts of Covid-19 
lockdowns on merchant transactions to be understood 
and assessed on a case-by-case basis.  

In March 2021 we moved back to automated approvals 
and recommenced promoting the product to our 
merchant base.  This resulted in a record last quarter for 
FY21 with close to $20 million in loans originated, with 
May 2021 setting an all-time record month of $8.1 million 
in originations.

To further enhance the availability of our merchant 
cash advance to more merchants seeking assistance 
in managing their cashflows, the product can now be 
accessed without the prerequisite of holding a Tyro bank 
account.  

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORT 
 
 
CHART 8 - LOAN ORIGINATIONS FOR FY21

9,000,000

8,000,000

7,000,000

6,000,000

5,000,000

4,000,000

3,000,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

0

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

FY21

FY20

Our risk-based management of the loan product during Covid 
together with many merchants businesses rebounding following 
the initial lockdowns, saw our loss rates remain well within our 
risk appetite. Loan losses as a percentage of originations at 30 
June 2021 amounted to 2.8% ($0.7 million) compared to 1.8% ($1.1 
million) in FY20.

We ended the year with more than 4,600 active Tyro bank 
accounts (FY20: 4,379) with merchants attracted to the fee free 
and interest bearing features of this account. This product held 
$72.5 million in deposits at 30 June 2021 (FY20: $49.7 million). Our 
term-deposit account that was launched in July 2021 to all eligible 
merchants after a pilot phase in FY20 and ended the year with 
total balances of $3.0 million.

Our Banking business delivered gross profit of $2.8 million (FY20: 
$1.3 million) representing a gross profit margin of 88.2% (FY20: 
71.6%). The gross profit benefited from the write-back of the 
prior year fair value adjustment on loan balances of $1.3 million.  
Excluding the impact of the accounting fair value adjustments 
for FY21 and FY20, normalised gross profit was down 57.1% to 
$1.6 million (FY20: $3.7 million) due to the 57.0% decrease in loan 
originations.

Although our banking operation still only represents a small part 
of the overall Tyro business, it presents an alternative to the major 
banks and has strong prospects for continued growth.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORT 
CONTINUED ASSISTANCE 
PROVIDED TO MERCHANTS AND 
OUR TEAM 

With the continued uncertainty posed by Covid, we 
continue to do all that we can to assist and support our 
merchants and our team.

For our merchants we continue to offering financial 
assistance for those in hardship and this includes 
providing terminal rental relief, loan repayment holidays 
and waiving notice periods / break fee for drawing on 
term-deposit accounts. Our Australian based customer 
support team is available 24/7 for our merchants wishing 
to discuss their particular circumstances. We also 
have put together information and inspiration to help 
merchants survive and thrive, including:  

• 

• 

providing educational blogs on how other business 
have responded / adapted and how Tyro products 
such as eCommerce and Tyro Connect can assist;

sharing links to Government sites to assist 
merchants locate official information – in particular 
assistance that is available for small businesses as 
new economic stimulus packages are announced. 

To protect the safety of our team we have moved swiftly 
whenever a lockdown was mandated to make the 
necessary arrangements for our team to work remotely. 
Even though the vast majority of our team worked from 
home during lockdowns, we continued to service all our 
merchants to our usual high standard. We also recognise 
that for life in Australia to return to ‘normal’ can only 
happen once a majority of Australians are vaccinated. To 
play our part in this national drive, all our team members 
who choose to get vaccinated will receive half a day 
of additional paid leave for each of their two COVID-19 
vaccinations.

"...all our team 
members who choose 
to get vaccinated 
will receive half a day 
of additional paid 
leave for each of 
their two COVID-19 
vaccinations."

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR'S REPORTLOOKING AHEAD TO FY22

It is an exhilarating time to be a Tyro, we have achieved a 
lot in the last year, but it is the opportunity in front of us 
that for me remains large and exciting. 

We have a mix of features and products in train that will 
continue to build out our payments centric ecosystem. 
Products such as the Tyro Go terminal which will open up 
new verticals (trades and micro merchants for example) 
and provide a ‘queue busting’ solution for larger retailers. 
We are assessing our next generation terminal which 
presents some exciting opportunities including a mPOS 
capability. We are looking to extend our merchant cash 
advance product to make it available to a wider cohort 
of Tyro merchants with larger advances available. With 
the digital claiming capabilities including State and 
Federal compensatory funders available via Medipass, 
we have an opportunity in combination with our existing 
health solutions, to create the leading unified claiming 
and payments platform for Australian healthcare 
practitioners.

We have created IP (both technical and commercial) 
in creating our payments alliance model for Bendigo 
Bank, which has potential applicability to other market 
opportunities – this is an area we remain keenly 
interested in exploring. We continue to have appetite 
for ‘bolt on’ acquisitions, whether large or small, which 
present an avenue to gain scale, leverage our platform or 
capabilities, enhance our market position or supplement 
our ecosystem. 

In closing I would like to thank my brilliant team at Tyro 
and formally welcome the Medipass team to the family 
– without your commitment to the cause, sheer hard 
work and desire to make payments and banking better 
for Australian businesses particularly, the backbone of 
Australian business, SMEs. I would also like to thank Tyro 
Board both past and present for the support over the last 
3½ years. 

I look forward to providing you with more information on 
our trading performance for the beginning of FY22 at our 
Annual General Meeting on 3 November 2021.

Robbie Cooke 
CEO | Managing Director

"...created IP (both 
technical and 
commercial) in creating 
our payments alliance 
model for Bendigo Bank, 
which has potential 
applicability to other 
market opportunities – 
this is an area we remain 
keenly interested in 
exploring..."

"...appetite for ‘bolt on’ 
acquisitions, whether 
large or small, which 
present an avenue to 
gain scale, leverage our 
platform or capabilities, 
enhance our market 
position or supplement our 
ecosystem..."

"...I would like to thank 
my brilliant team at Tyro 
and formally welcome 
the Medipass team to the 
family ..." 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021PROFILES

39

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021Board of 
Directors

DAVID THODEY AO  
CHAIR OF THE BOARD  

Independent non-executive Director since November 2018 and 
Chairman since 15 October 2019. 

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Member of the People Committee.

Career:

David is a business leader focused on innovation, technology 
and telecommunications, with more than 30 years’ of experience 
in the technology and telecommunications industries. He has 
a track record of creating brand and shareholder value, and has 
been successfully involved in innovation across a wide range 
of sectors.  David had a successful executive career as CEO of 
Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information 
services company from 2009 to 2015.  He began his career at 
IBM, where he spent more than 22 years and held several Asia 
Pacific senior executive positions including Chief Executive 
Officer of IBM Australia and New Zealand.  In 2017, David was 
made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of 
Australia for his service to business and the promotion of ethical 
leadership and workplace diversity.

Relevant other Directorships held in the past three 
years:
•  Chair of Xero Limited, a leading New Zealand based cloud-

based accounting software platform for small and medium-
sized businesses.

•  Chair of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research 

Organisation (CSIRO).

•  Non-executive director of Ramsay Health Care, a global 

hospital group.

•  Former Non-executive director of Vodaphone plc, a global 

telecommunications company (1 September 2019 to 28 July 
2020).

Qualifications:

David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English from 
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, attended the Kellogg 
School of Management postgraduate General Management 
Program at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA, and was 
awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology from 
Deakin University in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate of Business 
from University of Technology Sydney in 2018.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021BOARD OF DIRECTORSROBBIE COOKE 
CEO | MANAGING DIRECTOR  

HAMISH CORLETT  
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

CEO since 31 March 2018 and Managing Director since 
18 October 2019. 

Independent non-executive Director since April 2019. 

Career:

Robbie has led as CEO | Managing Director three ASX 
listed companies in a business career spanning more 
than 30 years. He has traversed scale-ups, listings 
and significant M&A actions in technology enabled 
businesses delivering significant shareholder value.  
This included 7 years running Australia's leading online 
travel company Wotif.com, taking the business through 
scale-up from start-up mode, achieving a circa five 
fold increase in profits and a successful IPO in 2006.  
He operated the lotteries, race wagering and sports 
betting conglomerate Tatts Group for 5 years until its 
merger with Tabcorp in March 2018.

Qualifications:

Robbie holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the 
University of Queensland Law School, a Bachelor of 
Commerce from the University of Queensland and a 
Graduate Diploma in Company Secretarial Practice 
from the Governance Institute of Australia. Robbie 
is a member of the Australian Institute of Company 
Directors, an associate of the Governance Institute 
of Australia and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of 
Queensland. 

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Member of the Audit Committee.
•  Member of the People Committee.

Career:

Hamish is a founder and partner of TDM Growth 
Partners, a private investment firm specialising in high 
growth companies globally.  Hamish has over 20 years’ 
experience in investing and investment banking. Prior 
to TDM, Hamish worked as an Investment Manager at 
Caledonia Investments, a global fund manager, and an 
Analyst at Caliburn Partnership (now Greenhill).

Relevant other Directorships held in the past 
three years:
•  Non-executive director of SomnoMed Limited, a 

medical company providing treatment solutions for 
sleep-related breathing disorders. 

•  Non-executive director of QBiotics Group Limited, an 

Australian life sciences company

Qualifications:

Hamish holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours 
Class 1 (Accounting and Finance) from the University of 
Sydney and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling from the 
Australian College of Applied Psychologists.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021BOARD OF DIRECTORSDAVID FITE  
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR   

ALIZA KNOX   
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

Independent non-executive Director since July 2018. 

Independent non-executive Director since April 2021.

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Member of the Risk Committee.

Career:

David has over 30 years’ experience in the financial 
services industry. David has held various roles at 
Westpac Banking Corporation, including Treasurer, 
Assistant Chief Financial Officer and the Group 
Executive responsible for all retail and business banking 
products in Australia. David has also worked at Japan’s 
Shinsei Bank (formerly known as The Long-Term Credit 
Bank of Japan) as Senior Corporate Executive Officer, 
Chief Financial Officer and a member of its Board. David 
is also an active investor in various credit, financial 
services and technology businesses.

Relevant other Directorships held in the past 
three years:
•  Director of Judo Capital Holdings Ltd and Judo Bank 

Pty Ltd, a SME challenger bank.

•  Director of Evari Technologies Pty Ltd and Evari 

Services Pty Ltd, entities which own or help develop 
software for the insurance industry.

•  Director of Marsello Ltd, a company that makes 

intelligent marketing accessible and easy for multi-
channel retailers.

•  Director of MYOB Group Co Pty Ltd, a provider of 

accounting, tax and business services. 

Qualifications:

David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government (Magna 
Cum Laude) from Harvard College, and a Master of 
Business Administration and Masters in Economics from 
Stanford University.

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Member of the People Committee.
•  Member of the Risk Committee.

Career:

Aliza has more than three decades of broad international 
marketing and management experience in the financial 
services and technology sectors having held senior 
executive roles internationally at Boston Consulting Group, 
Charles Schwab, Visa International, Twitter and Google.
Her previous roles include Head of APAC for Cloudflare, 
Chief Operating Officer at Unlockd, Vice President, Asia 
Pacific at Twitter, Managing Director of Commerce and 
Online Sales & Operations for Asia Pacific at Google 
Asia Pacific,Senior Vice President, Commercial Solutions 
and Global Product Platforms at Visa International, and 
Senior Vice President, International Wireless and Global 
Expansion Asian Focus at Charles Schwab Corporation. 
Aliza was also named IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020.

Relevant other Directorships held in the past 
three years:
•  Non-executive Director of Healthway Medical Group 

Limited in Singapore

•  Former Non-executive Director of Scentre Group 

Limited (May 2015 to April 2020)

•  Former Non-executive Director of Singapore Post 

Limited (August 2013 to July 2018)

Qualifications:

Aliza holds an MBA in Marketing (Honors) from New York 
University-Leonard N. Stern, School of Business, and a B.A., 
Applied Mathematics and Economics (Magna Cum Laude) 
from Brown University.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021BOARD OF DIRECTORSFIONA PAK-POY  
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

PAUL RICKARD   
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

Independent non-executive Director since September 
2019. 

Independent non-executive Director since August 2009.

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Chair of the People Committee.
•  Member of the Audit Committee.

Career:

Fiona has over 25 years’ experience in a variety of 
industries, for companies ranging from startups to large 
public companies and not-for-profits. Fiona has served 
on various boards, including MYOB, StatePlus, and the 
commercialisation office of The University of Adelaide, 
Adelaide Research and Innovation. She was a strategy 
consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in the US 
and Australia, and was also a partner in an Australian 
venture capital fund focused on technology startups.

Relevant other Directorships held in the past 
three years:

•  Non-executive Director of ASX-listed iSentia Limited, 
a media intelligence and data technology company.

•  Non-executive Director of ASX-listed Booktopia, 

Australia’s largest online book seller.

•  Director of the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship.

•  Former Non-executive Director of Novotech Aus 
HoldCo, Asia-Pacific's leading contract research 
organisation (CRO) providing clinical research 
solutions world-wide.

•  Former Non-executive Director of MYOB Group 

Limited prior to their buyout by KKR in April 2019 
(January 2017 to April 2019).

Qualifications:

Fiona holds an Honours degree in Engineering from 
The University of Adelaide and a Master of Business 
Administration from the Harvard Business School. 
Fiona is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company 
Directors.

Other Tyro Responsibilities:
•  Chair of the Risk Committee.
•  Chair of the Audit Committee.

Career:

Paul was the founding Managing Director of CommSec, 
which he led from 1994 to 2002, and was Chairman 
until 2009.  After a 20 year career with Commonwealth 
Bank finishing in the role of Executive General Manager 
Payments & Business Technology, Paul left in 2009 
to team up with Peter Switzer and found the Switzer 
Super Report, a subscription based newsletter for 
the trustees of self-managed super funds.  An expert 
in investment and superannuation, Paul is a regular 
commentator on TV, radio and online and also oversees 
editorial development at Switzer Financial Group Pty 
Ltd.  In 2005, Paul was named ‘Stockbroker of the 
Year’ and admitted to the Industry Hall of Fame of the 
Australian Stockbrokers Foundation.

Relevant other Directorships held in the past 
three years:
•  Non-executive Director of PEXA Group Ltd (ASX: PXA).
•    Non-executive Director of WCM Global Growth Ltd 

(ASX: WQG).

•    Non-executive Director of Russh Media Pty Ltd.
•    Director of Switzer Financial Group Pty Ltd.
•    Non-executive Director of Titan Platform Pty Ltd.

Qualifications:

Paul holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics 
and Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021BOARD OF DIRECTORSExecutive 
Leadership 
Team

ROBBIE COOKE 
CEO | MANAGING DIRECTOR  

PRAV PALA  
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Praveenesh (Prav) joined Tyro in 2014 in 
the role of Chief Financial Officer. Prav 
has over 20 years’ experience gained in 
professional consulting, property funds 
management, financial services and 
the payments industry. Since starting 
his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, 
Prav has held several senior positions at 
QBE Insurance Group, Westfield Group, 
Domaine Mirvac Funds Management and 
ING Direct Australia, and has managed 
large integration and strategic finance 
related projects.

Prav holds a Bachelor of Commerce 
(Merit) from the University of New South 
Wales. He is a qualified CPA and member 
of the CFA Institute.

Robbie joined Tyro on 31 March 2018 as 
Chief Executive Officer and was appointed 
as Managing Director on 18 October 2019.

Robbie has led as CEO | Managing 
Director three ASX listed companies in 
a business career spanning more than 
30 years. He has traversed scale-ups, 
listings and significant M&A actions 
in technology enabled businesses 
delivering significant shareholder value.  
This included 7 years running Australia's 
leading online travel company Wotif.
com, taking the business through scale-
up from start-up mode, achieving a 
circa five fold increase in profits and a 
successful IPO in 2006.  He operated 
the lotteries, race wagering and sports 
betting conglomerate Tatts Group for 
5 years until its merger with Tabcorp in 
March 2018.

Robbie holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) 
from the University of Queensland Law 
School, a Bachelor of Commerce from 
the University of Queensland and a 
Graduate Diploma in Company Secretarial 
Practice from the Governance Institute 
of Australia. Robbie is a member of the 
Australian Institute of Company Directors, 
an associate of the Governance Institute 
of Australia and a solicitor of the Supreme 
Court of Queensland. 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAMSTEVEN CHAPMAN  
CHIEF RISK OFFICER AND HEAD OF INTERNAL 
AUDIT

Steve is a Chartered Global Management 
Accountant (CGMA) and Certified 
Information Systems Auditor (CISA). 
He joined Tyro in March 2019 and was 
appointed as Chief Risk Officer on 10 June 
2021 leading the Tyro Risk and Compliance 
function.  Prior to this role, Steve led the 
Internal Audit function, providing the Board 
and Management with an independent 
view on whether Tyro has an appropriate 
risk and control environment. 

After graduating from the University of 
Glasgow, Steve began his career in project 
management for a large UK utility firm 
before moving into audit and risk roles. 
Steve moved to Australia ten years ago 
with his family and has since worked for 
Woolworths, IAG and QBE.

DAVE COOMBES  
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

JONATHAN DAVEY 
CEO - MEDIPASS  

Dave joined us in 2017 in the role of Chief 
Technology Officer. Dave has over 20 
years’ experience building and leading 
teams that develop and operate large-
scale mission-critical systems for high 
profile organisations across a range of 
industries including financial services, 
wagering, retail and telecommunications. 
Prior to Tyro, Dave held senior technology 
roles at BT Financial Group, Tabcorp 
and Insurance Australia Group. Dave 
also worked as a principal consultant at 
ThoughtWorks while they were pioneering 
the use of agile development methods for 
software delivery.

Dave holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics 
from the University of Sheffield, UK 
and a first class honours degree in 
Theoretical Physics from the University of 
Birmingham, UK.

Jon joined Tyro in May 2021 in the role 
of CEO - Medipass after Tyro acquired 
Medipass.

Jon's expertise is in leading businesses 
through the changes necessary to 
succeed in a digital world. Prior to joining 
Medipass, Jon was accountable for Digital, 
Innovation and Customer Experience at 
National Australia Bank. He is the founder 
of National Australia Bank’s Innovation and 
Corporate Venture Capital teams. 

Jon has 25 years' experience in Corporate, 
Consulting and Start-up businesses. He 
has worked with leading Australian and 
International companies and is the co-
founder of a technology start-up. Jon is 
also on the Advisory Board of Finspo, a 
Fintech focused on the digital origination 
of mortgages and on the Technology 
and Innovation Advisory Board for the 
Australian Institute of Company Directors.

JAIRAN AMIGH
COMPANY SECRETARY AND SPECIAL COUNSEL

Jay was appointed as Company 
Secretary on 20 February 2020. Jay 
holds Bachelors of Law (Honours) and 
Commerce from the University of 
Queensland and has over 30 years in legal 
practice focusing on financial services 
and corporate governance.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAMYVETTE MANDANAS   
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

JAMES REVELL 
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

BRONWYN YAM  
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Yvette joined us in 2016 to establish 
the HR function in the role of Chief 
People Officer. Yvette has over 17 years’ 
experience in HR in fast growth technology 
organisations. Yvette specialises in the 
design and delivery of HR operational, 
talent acquisition, leadership development 
and culture development initiatives to 
drive business strategy. Yvette has held 
HR leadership roles during her time at 
Avanade, the Microsoft technology 
consulting arm of Accenture, and at 
Nearmap, an ASX-listed market leader in 
geospatial map technology.

James joined us in 2017 to establish the 
corporate strategy function, and was 
appointed to the leadership team as 
Chief Strategy Officer a year later. James 
specialises in analysing and driving the 
delivery of strategic growth opportunities 
in consideration of structural trends and a 
deep understanding of the current market. 
Prior to Tyro, James previously held roles at 
Monitor Deloitte and Telstra Digital.

James holds a first class Honours degree 
from the University of Cambridge and a 
Master of Commerce from the University 
of Sydney Business School.

Yvette holds a Graduate Diploma in 
Human Resource Management from 
the University of Technology Sydney, 
has completed an Executive Program in 
People, Performance and Culture from 
Stanford University, and is a professional 
member of the Australian Human 
Resources Institute (CAHRI).

LISA VITARIS   
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

Lisa joined us in 2017 to drive both 
brand and acquisition, and in 2018 was 
appointed as Chief Marketing Officer. 
Lisa has over 17 years’ experience in 
marketing, specialising in financial 
services. She has extensive experience in 
branding and high growth acquisition, and 
has held roles both client side at Aussie 
Home Loans and CMC Markets, as well 
as at advertising agencies working across 
Citibank, Bankwest, CommSec and IMB.

Lisa holds a Master of Business in 
International Marketing and is currently 
completing her Master of Business 
Administration at the University of 
Technology, Sydney.

Bronwyn joined us in 2017 and is our 
Chief Product Officer. Bronwyn has over 
25 years’ experience in financial services 
and consulting. She has extensive 
experience in challenging the status quo 
and delivering on innovative processes 
and solutions. Bronwyn has a passion 
for driving transformational change in 
organisations and teams leveraging on 
technology and disruptive thinking to 
deliver desired customer outcomes. Prior 
to joining Tyro, Bronwyn held several 
senior roles in strategy, lending and 
payments within Commonwealth Bank of 
Australia since 2005. Bronwyn also had 
a consulting career with Arthur Andersen 
Business Consulting in the US and 
across Asia, working with clients from 
multiple industries from manufacturing 
to financial services.

Bronwyn holds a Bachelors of Arts, 
Business Economics from the University 
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a 
Masters of Business Administration from 
the Hong Kong University of Science and 
Technology (HKUST).

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAMSAMI WILSON
GENERAL COUNSEL  

Sami is our General Counsel and joined 
us in 2018 to establish the in-house legal 
function.  Sami has over 10 years’ legal 
experience in a diverse range of areas, 
including advising ASX-listed entities 
on corporate law and M&A and working 
on private equity, venture capital and 
banking and finance transactions. Before 
he joined us, Sami was a Senior Associate 
at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Sami holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) 
from the University of Melbourne and 
a Bachelor of Commerce from The 
University of Adelaide. Sami is admitted 
as a solicitor of the Supreme Courts of 
New South Wales and South Australia.

GIOVANNI RIZZO
CHIEF OF INVESTOR RELATIONS

JOSH WALTHER   
CHIEF CUSTOMER OFFICER

Giovanni joined Tyro in late 2020 where 
he established the Investor Relations 
function. Giovanni is a qualified Chartered 
Accountant and a member of Chartered 
Accountants Australia and New Zealand 
with over 20 years’ professional 
experience working in South Africa, 
Canada, and Australia. 

Prior to joining Tyro, Giovanni worked at 
PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving 
into Investor Relations in 2013 as Head of 
Investor Relations at Tatts Group Limited.  
Giovanni is also a Non-executive Director 
and Chair of the Audit Committee of ASX 
listed Jumbo Interactive Limited.

Giovanni holds a Bachelor of Commerce 
(Honours) and a Higher Diploma in the 
Theory of Accounting from the University 
of Johannesburg.

Josh joined Tyro in 2017 in the role 
of Director of Sales, becoming Chief 
Customer Officer in 2018. Josh has more 
than 20 years’ experience in financial 
services and management consulting with 
ING Direct, Aussie Home Loans, KPMG 
Consulting and Arthur Andersen Business 
Consulting. He has extensive experience 
delivering sales growth and customer 
experiences for financial services 
businesses across multiple distribution 
formats including direct, digital and 
partnerships.  In his eight years at ING 
Direct, Josh’s leadership in growing and 
developing consumer sales and service 
channels culminated in him being awarded 
Australian Customer Experience Executive 
of the Year and his team awarded Best 
Contact Centre in Australia.

Josh holds a Bachelor of Business 
(Honours – First Class) from the University 
of Technology, Sydney and completed the 
Stanford University Executive Program for 
Growing Companies in 2019.

47

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM48

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 20215 YEAR 
TRACK 
RECORD

30 JUNE 2017
$’000

30 JUNE 2018
$’000

30 JUNE 2019
$’000

30 JUNE 2020
$’000

30 JUNE 2021
$’000

Transaction value

10,607,068

13,359,608

17,496,322

20,131,045

25,453,507

Transaction value annual growth

23.5%

26.0%

31.0%

15.1%

26.4%

Total revenue 

120,575

148,231

189,770

210,675

238,522

Total revenue annual growth

25.9%

22.9%

28.0%

11.0%

13.2%

Direct expenses

Gross profit

(64,538)

(79,163)

(106,510)

(117,200)

(119,073)

56,037

69,068

83,260

93,475

119,449

Gross profit annual growth

21.3%

23.3%

20.5%

12.3%

27.8%

Operating expenses

EBITDA 1

(65,245)

(78,890)

(91,871)

(97,847)

(105,283)

(9,208)

(9,822)

(8,611)

(4,372)

Share-based payments expense

(1,841)

(1,411)

(3,788)

(10,896)

IPO expenses

Share of loss from associates

Costs associated with the connectivity issue

Bendigo Bank Alliance partner share

Mergers and acquisition costs

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(9,730)

-

-

-

-

14,166

(9,342)

(331)

(1,119)

(13,285)

698

(4,681)

Depreciation & Amortisation

(5,984)

(7,064)

(7,864)

(12,524)

(15,364)

Net interest cost

Loss before income tax 

Loss after income tax 

-

-

-

(535)

(517)

(17,033)

(18,297)

(20,263)

(38,057)

(29,775)

(14,820)

(17,146)

(18,439)

(38,057)

(29,823)

Cash, cash equivalents and investments

96,755

84,251

68,758

188,324

172,780

Cash flows from operating activities 

(15,571)

(12,799)

(13,931)

8,194

11,043

 1  Tyro uses EBITDA as a non-IFRS measure of business performance, which excludes the non-cash impact 
of share-based payments expense, loss on equity investments, expenses associated with the terminal 
connectivity issue and the IPO and other significant one-off costs.  

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 202150

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' 
REPORT

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021Directors' 
Report

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021

The Directors present their report together with the Financial Report of the Group consisting of Tyro Payments 
Limited (Company or Tyro) and its subsidiaries (Group) for the financial year ended 30 June 2021 and the 
Independent Auditor’s Report thereon.

On 31 May 2021, the Company acquired a 100% ownership interest in Medipass Solutions Pty Ltd and accordingly 
has prepared consolidated financial statements as at 30 June 2021. Refer Note 21 for details.

1.  DIRECTORS

The following persons held office as Directors of the Company during the financial year and up to the date of this 
Report (unless otherwise stated): 

David Thodey AO

Chair & Non-executive Director

Independent 

Robbie Cooke

Hamish Corlett1

David Fite

CEO | Managing Director

Executive

Non-executive Director

Independent

Non-executive Director

Independent

Catherine Harris AO, PSM2

Non-executive Director

Independent

Retired on 30 June 2021

Aliza Knox3

Non-executive Director

Independent

Appointed on 21 April 2021

Fiona Pak-Poy4

Non-executive Director

Independent

Paul Rickard

Non-executive Director

Independent

1  The last Board assessment of independence concluded that Hamish Corlett is an Independent Director.
2  Catherine Harris AO, PSM retired as Chair of the People Committee on 21 June 2021 and as Non-executive Director 

effective 30 June 2021. 

3  Aliza Knox was appointed to the Tyro Board as a Non-executive Director on 21 April 2021.
4  Fiona Pak-Poy was appointed as Chair of the People Committee on 21 June 2021

Details, including term of office, qualifications, experience and information on other directorships held by Directors, 
can be found on pages 40 to 43 of the Annual Report. 

2.  COMPANY SECRETARY

Jairan Amigh 

Jay was appointed as Company Secretary on 20 February 2020.  Jay holds Bachelors of Law and Commerce and has 
over 30 years in legal practice focusing on financial services and corporate governance.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORT3.  MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS

The number of meetings of the Company’s Directors (including meetings of Committees of Directors) and the number 
of meetings attended by each Director during the financial year were:

BOARD OF  
DIRECTORS MEETINGS

AUDIT COMMITTEE

RISK  COMMITTEE

PEOPLE COMMITTEE

A

24

24

24

24

24

3

24

24

B

24

24

24

24

23

3

24

24

A

nm

nm

6

nm

nm

nm

6

6

B

nm

nm

6

nm

nm

nm

6

6

A

nm

nm

nm

8

nm 

1

7

8

B

nm

nm

nm

8

nm

1

7

8

A

7

nm

7

nm

7

2

1

B

7

nm

7

nm

7

2

1

nm

nm

David Thodey

Robbie Cooke1

Hamish Corlett

David Fite

Catherine Harris2

Aliza Knox3

Fiona Pak-Poy4

Paul Rickard

A  Number of meetings during the year while the Director was a member of the Board or Committee.

B  Number of meetings attended by the Director as a member during the year.

nm  Not a member of the relevant Committee.

1 

The CEO | Managing Director is not a Non-executive Director. Robbie was invited by the Board to attend the Risk Committee, Audit 
Committee and People Committee meetings (or part thereof).

2  Catherine Harris retired as Chair of the People Committee on 21 June 2021 and as Non-executive Director effective 30 June 2021.

3  Aliza Knox was appointed to the Board as a Non-executive Director on 21 April 2021 and attended meetings from that date.

4  Fiona Pak-Poy retired from the Risk Committee and joined the People Committee as Chair on 21 June 2021.

In addition to the Board and Committee meeting attendances noted above, a number of Directors participated in 
other Committees established for special purposes.

At the date of this report, the Company has an Audit Committee, Risk Committee and People Committee. The 
members of each Committee are as follows:

AUDIT COMMITTEE

RISK COMMITTEE

PEOPLE COMMITTEE

Paul Rickard (Chair)

Paul Rickard (Chair)

Fiona Pak-Poy (Chair)

Hamish Corlett

Fiona Pak-Poy

David Fite

Aliza Knox

Hamish Corlett

Aliza Knox

David Thodey

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORT4.  DIRECTORS INTEREST IN SECURITIES

The relevant interest of each Director in securities of the Company at the date of this Directors’ Report is as follows: 

DIRECTOR 

David Thodey

Robbie Cooke

Hamish Corlett1

David Fite2

Catherine Harris

Aliza Knox

Fiona Pak-Poy

Paul Rickard

RELEVANT INTEREST IN  
ORDINARY SHARES

OPTIONS OVER
 ORDINARY SHARES

RIGHTS OVER 
ORDINARY SHARES

990,996

891,936

25,057,776

18,593,861

791,096

-

106,420

2,098,571

82,286

5,504,530

68,000

158,144

-

-

83,000

229,400

-

1,030,476

-

-

-

-

-

-

1  Hamish Corlett’s holding reflects shares held beneficially through associated entities and directly held shares.

2  Includes shares held by Euclid Capital Partners LLC, an entity controlled by David Fite.

5.  2021 CORPORATE 

6.  PILLAR 3 INFORMATION

GOVERNANCE STATEMENT

The Group’s governance arrangements and practices 
as compared to the ASX Corporate Governance 
Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and 
Recommendations (4th Edition) are set out in our 
Corporate Governance Statement. The Group must 
also comply with its constitution, the Corporations Act 
2001 (Cth), the ASX Listing Rules, the Banking Act 1959 
(Cth), including the Banking Executive Accountability 
Regime (contained in Part IIAA of the Banking Act 1959) 
amongst other laws, and, as an Authorised Deposit-
taking Institution, with governance requirements 
prescribed by the Australian Prudential Regulation 
Authority (APRA) under Prudential Standard CPS 510 
Governance and other applicable published APRA 
Prudential Standards. 

Information about the Group’s corporate 
governance policies and practices can be found 
in the 2021 Corporate Governance Statement 
available at: https://investors.tyro.com/investor-
centre/?page=corporate-governance.

The Group provides information required by APRA 
prudential standard APS 330 Public Disclosure in the 
Regulatory Disclosures section at: www.tyro.com/
about-tyro/investors.

7.  PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

The Group is a technology-focused and values-
driven company providing Australian businesses with 
payment solutions and complementary business 
banking products.

As an Australian bank, the Group operates under the 
supervision of APRA. The Group provides credit, debit 
and EFTPOS card acquiring, Medicare and private 
health fund claiming and rebating services to Australian 
businesses. The Group takes money on deposit and 
offers unsecured cash-flow based lending to Australian 
EFTPOS merchants. The Group has implemented 
appropriate systems and controls to comply with the 
stringent prudential and regulatory requirements within 
the Australian banking system.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTOur Mission

We eliminate friction with  
payments + banking solutions, that:

Our Vision

To be Australia’s:

Businesses  
trust

Partners  
advocate

Employees are  
proud of

Our community  
backs

fastest  
growing

most loved  
+ trusted

sustainable

payments + business 
banking partner

8.  OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW

• 

a card is not presented for payment.
In-app payments: Payments made using apps such 
as me&u whereby payment is facilitated through 
the app using Tyro’s payments infrastructure and 
not through traditional point-of-sale terminals.

Value-adding Services:

• 

• 

• 

• 

Loans in the form of a merchant cash advance: An 
unsecured merchant cash advance loan designed 
to help merchants finance working capital and 
investment needs.
Tyro fee-free transaction account: A fee-free, 
interest-bearing transaction account available to 
our merchants.
Tyro term-deposit account: A competitive interest-
bearing fixed term deposit account available for our 
merchants.
Tyro Connect: Tyro Connect is an integration hub 
for apps and POS systems – a ‘plug and play’ 
platform software solution designed to address 
merchant pain points around ‘counter clutter’ and 
manual processes. It also aims to make it easier 
for POS system partners and app providers to 
meet customer needs.  Tyro Connect processed 
695,000 transactions through the platform in FY21 
generating $26.3 million in transaction value with 
124 merchants on platform and 12 apps already 
signed-up.

DEVELOPING AND 
EXECUTING AGAINST OUR 
STRATEGY

Payments are at our core, using our proprietary 
technology platform to enable credit and debit card 
acquiring. We enhance our acquiring offering with 
features purpose-designed for those merchants that 
choose to partner with us, including our point-of-sale 
system integrations, least-cost routing (Tap & Save) 
and alternative payment types such as integrated 
Alipay and Zip Pay QR based payments and tele-health 
payments. Traditionally, we have been focused on 
in-store payments, but have recently expanded into 
eCommerce.

As part of our offering, we also provide value-adding 
solutions, such as our loans in the form of merchant cash 
advances and our fee-free, interest-bearing merchant 
transaction accounts and term-deposit accounts.

Our Products and Services

We provide integrated payment solutions and value-
adding services to support merchants with growing 
their businesses and providing their customers with a 
seamless payment experience.

Core Products:

• 

• 

Card-Present Payments: Payments made at our 
merchants whereby consumers present their card 
of choice to facilitate the payment for goods and 
services purchased.
Card-Not-Present Payments: eCommerce, 
tele-health and mail-order and telephone-order 
payments made to merchants by consumers where 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTBUSINESS STRATEGIES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

We have a clear strategy which underpins our growth ambitions. This includes a number of key initiatives as set out below:

Grow

1

Expand

3

Connect

5

2

Add

N O W  
O N L I N E

2.

4

Value-add

1.

Grow merchant share in existing core 
verticals: we drive continued market 
segment growth through a variety 
of approaches including: increased 
marketing to drive brand awareness; 
more point-of-sale system integrations; 
additional payments methods; and the 
development of more industry-specific 
solutions.

Add new core verticals: we intend 
to add new core verticals, such as 
Services and Accommodation to our 
portfolio. We believe merchants in these 
verticals will benefit from a merchant 
acquirer with the technical capability to 
produce specialised solutions and the 
preparedness to build domain expertise.

4.

Cross-sell and drive expansion in 
lending and other value-adding 
services: we will continue to promote 
our value-adding offerings to existing 
merchants (including our loans in the 
form of merchant cash advances, Tyro 
fee-free transaction account, Tyro term-
deposit account and Tyro Connect) to 
enhance our unit economics through 
greater share of merchant wallet and 
retention.

6.

6

M&A

3.

Drive our expansion into eCommerce 
and other payment types: there is a 
significant opportunity to drive growth in 
eCommerce within our current merchant 
base through our unified payments 
solution. Additionally, we intend to 
continue to innovate  and provide 
multiple new and emerging payment 
types as we have with new payment 
methods like Alipay, Zip Pay and tele-
health.

5.

Tyro Connect: our ‘plug and play’ 
platform software solution is designed 
to be an integration hub for apps and 
point-of-sale systems, seeking to 
address merchant pain points around 
‘counter clutter’ and manual processes. 
This platform seeks to reinforce our value 
proposition to merchants and embed us 
more deeply into the evolving commerce 
ecosystem.

Strategic investments and M&A: we have made strategic investments in me&u and Paypa Plane.  me&u is a leading Australian 
mobile order and pay in venue solution for the hospitality industry which seeks to improve restaurant-goers’ experience, free up 
wait staff for higher value tasks and increase order value and frequency. As part of our investment, we have the right to provide 
the in-app payment solution for me&u, and me&u is one of the foundation apps on the Tyro Connect platform. Paypa Plane 
is the evolution of recurring payments in Australia.  Paypa Plane offers an innovative platform to deliver a recurring payment 
solution to consumers.

The alliance we formed with Bendigo Bank to provide our payments expertise to Bendigo's business customers, with Bendigo 
Bank continuing to provide all other banking services to these customers under a long term, collaborative, and strategic alliance 
is another example of our approach to growth.

Our acquisition of Medipass, a Melbourne based health fintech was pursued to provide an immediate uplift in cardless digital 
health claiming and payments capabilities.

Our appetite to continue to accelerate growth and development through acquisitions and/or strategic partnerships remains a 
core strategy for us so long as such opportunities align from a valuation, strategy and culture perspective.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTRefer to the CEO | Managing Director’s Report on pages 13 to 37 of the Annual Report, which forms part of this 
Directors’ Report for further information on how Tyro is delivering on our strategy.  

Tyro’s key priorities and strategies for FY22 are also discussed in the CEO | Managing Director’s Report. In the 
Directors’ opinion, any further disclosure of information on Tyro’s business strategies and future prospects would be 
likely to result in unreasonable prejudice to the Group.

REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL POSITION

Refer to the CEO | Managing Director’s Report on pages 13 to 37 of the Annual Report, which forms part of this 
Directors’ Report.

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS

In the opinion of the Directors, there were no significant changes in the state of affairs of the Group during the 
financial period, except as otherwise noted in this Report.

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AFTER THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR

Refer to Note 26 of the Financial Report, which forms part of this Directors’ Report.

MATERIAL RISKS TO BUSINESS STRATEGIES AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE 
FINANCIAL YEARS

The potential material business risks that could adversely affect the Group’s achievement of its business strategies 
and financial prospects in future years are described below. This section does not purport to list every risk that may 
be associated with the Group’s business now or in the future. There is no guarantee or assurance that the importance 
of these risks will not change, or other risks emerge. While the Group aims to manage risks in order to avoid adverse 
impacts on its financial and reputational standing, some risks are outside the control of the Group.

The management and oversight of risk is ultimately overseen by our Board and Risk Committee. We have an 
integrated Risk Management Framework in place to identify, assess, manage and report risks on a consistent basis. 
This framework has been developed to accord with the tolerance levels set out in our Risk Appetite Statement.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTGROUP’S RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

OUR  
PURPOSE

HOW MUCH  
RISK WE 
TAKE

HOW WE  
DEFINE 
RISK

WHAT RISK  
WE TAKE

Our Strategy

Risk Appetite Statement

Risk Management Strategy

1. Strategic Risk Management

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

NON-FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2. Credit Risk  
Framework

3. Liquidity Risk 
Management 
Framework

4. Market and 
Investment Risk 
Management 
Framework

5. Operational 
Risk 
Management 
Framework

6. Compliance 
Risk 
Management 
Framework

7. Customer and 
Conduct Risk 
Management

I

R
S
K
C
U
L
T
U
R
E

HOW WE  
ASSURE  
OURSELVES 

Clear business procedures aligned to policies, risk and compliance self-assessment, control assurance program, 
staff training, testing adherence to policy, analysing incidents, reporting, risks/issues/breach identification and 
management, credit decisioning, hindsight review, profiling, stress testing, audits

HOW WE  
GOVERN 
RISK

BOARD, BOARD RISK COMMITTEE, BOARD AUDIT COMMITTEE

EXECUTIVE RISK COMMITTEE

BUSINESS UNIT RISK MANAGEMENT 

To help ensure we operate within the defined risk appetite set by the Board, our approach to managing our risk is 
underpinned by a ‘three lines’ of defence model:

•   First Line of Defence: risk owners – business managers have primary responsibility for the identification and 

management of risk in the performance of their day-to-day responsibilities;

•   Second Line of Defence: risk appetite, oversight and insight – dedicated risk management and compliance 

functions are accountable for risk oversight, insight and support, including the development and regular review of 
the Risk Management Framework and appetite, advising the business on risk management tools and strategies, 
and monitoring and reporting on the risk profile; and

•   Third Line of Defence: independent assurance – internal audit is accountable for independently assuring that the 
Risk Management Framework is operating effectively. External audit provides assurance that risk management is 
appropriate in the context of their statutory and regulatory obligations.

This structured approach to risk management is key to the development of our effective risk culture.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORT 
MATERIAL RISKS

Deterioration in macroeconomic conditions

The Australian payments and business banking industries 
in which we operate depend heavily upon the overall level 
of consumer and business spending in Australia. A decline 
in general economic conditions or changes in certain 
macroeconomic factors (including rising unemployment, 
lack of income growth, reduced consumer confidence, 
inflation, volatility in local or global financial markets, 
economic tensions, health pandemics and government 
intervention, including with respect to changes in interest 
rates) may adversely affect our financial performance by 
reducing transaction volumes and the average purchase 
amount of transactions that our merchants process.

Two of our existing core verticals (Hospitality and Retail) 
are particularly exposed to discretionary spending in 
Australia. In addition, our growth plans into new verticals 
(Accommodation and Services) have been impacted 
by adverse changes in consumer confidence and 
spending due to Covid-19. Accordingly, any reduction in 
discretionary spending in these verticals could result in a 
decrease of our revenue and profitability.

A sustained weakening of the Australian economy could 
affect the financial performance of our merchants, 
cause a reduction in transaction volumes, and in some 
instances, lead to some merchants closing their business. 
This could materially affect demand for our products 
and services through reduced merchant numbers, 
declines in transaction volumes and reduced earnings 
on transactions. Further, higher interest rates or inflation, 
or deterioration in Australian economic conditions, 
may increase the likelihood that merchants and their 
cardholders have insufficient income to pay their debts, 
and could lead to increased lending losses in our banking 
business or an increased level of chargebacks and 
non-lending losses. Additionally, credit card issuers may 
reduce credit limits and become more selective in their 
card issuance practices, which could further constrain 
our merchants’ transaction volumes and values. Any of 
these developments could have an adverse impact on our 
business, financial performance and operations.

We operate primarily in the payments and business 
banking industries in Australia, which are highly 
competitive and subject to significant change driven 
by factors including advancements in technology, 
changing consumer behaviours, new products and 
services, evolving industry standards, regulation, and the 
changing needs of our merchants. Some of our existing 
and potential competitors possess significant market 
share and resources and could increase their competitive 
position through increased marketing activity, product 
innovation, or price discounting.

Furthermore, large international competitors and/or global 
technology leaders, could enter the Australian payments 

and business banking industries or expand their existing 
presence. These competitors may have greater financial 
resources to apply to: R&D; sales and marketing; or 
access to a large existing Australian merchant base, which 
may enable them to expand or enter into the payments 
and business banking industries. In addition, new or 
existing competitors that are not subject to Australian 
banking regulations (e.g. non-bank lenders) may be able 
to develop and operate business models with lower 
compliance costs.

Compliance risk

Compliance risk entails the risk of a failure to act in 
accordance with laws, regulations, industry standards and 
codes, internal policies and procedures and principles of 
good governance as applicable to the Group’s business. 
This risk includes overseeing the establishment and 
maintenance of risk-based controls to mitigate the 
risks associated with money laundering and terrorism 
financing.

We have a dedicated compliance team who operate 
within set compliance policies and supporting 
documentation which are subject to regular review to 
ensure they remain current. We have a compliance 
monitoring program in place to monitor adherence to 
policies. Our risk and controls self-assessment process is 
also used to identify, evaluate and manage compliance 
risks and for developing associated controls.

Regulatory risk

We are subject to a range of laws and regulations 
across our business and operate in an industry and 
alongside competitors that have been subject to 
increasing regulatory oversight and reform in recent 
years. Operating in an evolving regulatory environment 
means that regulatory developments may occur in the 
future that impact our business or the products that we 
currently offer, or may require us to make changes to 
products, processes or systems that have an adverse 
impact on our business or financial performance.

Merchant business performance may be affected by 
factors beyond general economic conditions, including 
changes to laws and regulations in the industries in which 
they operate (for example, laws relating to permitted 
trading hours). If such risks eventuate, they may 
adversely impact our business, financial performance 
and operations.

We manage regulatory risk through monitoring changes 
to legislation, regulations and/or industry codes, 
understanding and assessing the potential impacts to 
our products, services, and operations and developing 
strategies that support the implementation of any 
necessary changes for our business and our merchants.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTCredit risk

We face lending credit risk in granting unsecured loans in 
the form of merchant cash advances to our merchants. If 
our merchants do not repay the principal and fees owing 
under their loan contract, we may experience a decrease 
in revenue, increase in expenses (including an increase in 
impairment expenses and an increase in funding costs), 
and/or decrease in operating cash flows received. As 
our loan book grows over time, this may have a material 
adverse impact on our business, financial condition and 
operating and financial performance.

Liability Committee oversees management of this risk 
within the Board set risk appetite limits.

Operational risk

Operational risk relates to the risk of loss resulting 
from inadequate or failed internal processes, people 
and systems, or from external events which affect our 
business. Our business is exposed to operational risks 
such as external and internal fraud, processing errors, 
system or hardware failure and failure of information 
security systems.

We are also exposed to credit risk from our merchant 
acquiring activities such as being liable for chargebacks, 
which may lead to losses. If schemes fail to honour the 
settlement funds for acquired transactions, we may be 
unable to honour our merchants’ settlement positions. 
This may lead to merchant dissatisfaction, loss of 
merchants, reputational damage, and adverse impacts 
on our business, financial performance and operations.

Loss from operational risk events could divert investment 
from new products into remediation of existing systems 
and processes, damage merchant relations or our 
reputation, adversely affect our financial results or 
position, as well as divert staff away from their core roles 
to remediation activity. In addition, losses could include 
legal or remediation costs and loss of property and/or 
information.

We manage credit risk through our Risk team and credit 
risk policies within the limits set by the Board and 
Risk Committee. We also obtain guarantees from the 
directors or principals of merchants.

Liquidity, funding and capital adequacy risk

Liquidity and funding risk and capital adequacy risk is 
the risk of loss arising from the Group failing to maintain 
the level of capital required by prudential regulators 
and other key stakeholders such as shareholders and 
merchants to support Tyro’s operations, future strategies 
and risk appetite.

As a licensed Authorised Deposit-taking Institution, 
APRA requires us to hold a certain level of equity. 
Our business is currently loss-making and there is no 
certainty our organic capital generation will meet the 
future requirements of our business. We may not be able 
raise additional capital when required or at cost effective 
rates or on competitive terms. An inability to raise debt or 
equity in the future may impact our ability to operate or 
grow our business. This may result in regulatory scrutiny 
from APRA or adverse impacts on our business position, 
financial performance and results of operations.

We forecast future capital requirements and available 
capital resources to manage the business to our required 
levels of regulatory capital, target adequacy levels and 
internal capital triggers, over a forecast period. This is an 
annual exercise with the executive leadership team and 
the Board, performed in conjunction with the business 
planning and budgeting process.

We have a dedicated Operational Risk team who 
provide oversight over the operational Risk Management 
Framework which includes the following sub-categories: 
internal fraud, external fraud, employment practices and 
workplace safety, customers, products and business 
practice, damage to physical assets, business disruption 
and systems failures, and execution, delivery and 
process management.

Reputation risk

The risk of loss that directly or indirectly impacts our 
earnings, liquidity and capital adequacy, that is caused 
by adverse perceptions of the Group held by any of our 
merchants, the community, shareholders, investors, or 
regulators. There is also a risk to our reputation through 
the conduct of our employees or contractors (or both) or 
the social and/or environmental impacts of our business 
practices. Our brand reputation and awareness are 
critical to maintaining and growing our merchant base 
and Point of Sale system partner network.

We manage reputation risk by maintaining a values-
driven culture that ensures we act with integrity and 
enables us to build trusted relationships with merchants 
and wider community.

Strategic risk

Strategic risk is the risk that Tyro’s business strategy and 
strategic objectives may lead to an increase in other 
key risks such as credit risk, capital adequacy risk or 
operational risk.

Market and investment risk

Technology risk

Market and investment risk is the risk of loss arising from 
adverse changes in interest rates, foreign exchange 
rates, equity prices, commodity prices and other relevant 
parameters, such as market volatility. Tyro’s Asset and 

Technology risk concerns our ability to deliver fast and 
easy payments solutions and access to finance for our 
merchants (and to successfully assess credit risk) and 
depends on the efficient and uninterrupted operation of 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTour technology platform, technology used by others and the internet generally. There is a risk that these technologies 
and systems may experience downtime or interruption from a range of issues such as system failures, service 
outages or cyber-attacks which could cause significant damage to our reputation (particularly if the failure relates 
to our platform), our ability to facilitate payments transactions, our ability to make informed credit decisions and 
assess the credit performance of our loan book, our ability to service merchants in a timely manner, and our ability to 
retain existing merchants and generate new merchants, any of which could have an adverse impact on our business, 
financial performance and operations.

Sustainability and climate change risk

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks are becoming increasingly relevant to all businesses in Australia. 
The ongoing effects of climate change risks may impact the long term prosperity of Australia’s economy, environment 
and society, which may lead to adverse impacts upon our business.

Tyro acknowledges the importance of considering the impact of ESG factors on the sustainability of our businesses. 
We further acknowledge that there is a requirement by institutional shareholders and investors to report on our 
sustainability framework, initiatives and performance.

Although our operations are not subject to any particular and significant environmental regulation under any law of 
the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its states or territories, we still acknowledge that it is important that by 
fulfilling our mission to set businesses free to get on with business by simplifying payments and banking, we do so in 
such a manner by which we create a sustainable future for all our stakeholders. 

We manage sustainability and climate change risk through our Sustainability Framework. Refer to our Sustainability 
Report at https://investors.tyro.com/investor-centre/

9.  DIVIDENDS

No dividends were paid to shareholders or otherwise recommended or declared for payment during the year.

10.  SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS

Details of share-based payments are disclosed in our Remuneration Report on pages 64 to 97 and in Note 
14 of the Financial Report.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORT11.  SUSTAINABILITY
The Group acknowledges the importance of considering 
the impact of environmental, social and governance 
factors on the sustainability of our businesses. We 
further acknowledge that there is a requirement by 
institutional shareholders and investors to report on our 
sustainability framework, initiatives and performance.

Although our operations are not subject to any particular 
and significant environmental regulation under any law 
of the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its states 
or territories, we still acknowledge that by working with 
58,186 merchants across Australia, we are driven by our 
mission to set businesses free to get on with business 
by simplifying their payments and banking. We do this 
by delivering our solutions in a manner that aims to 
create a sustainable future for all our stakeholders. This 
includes our shareholders, our people, our merchants, 
the community in which we operate, our suppliers and 
business partners and regulatory bodies. 

Sustainability is not only about our relationship with our 
merchants -  it is also about our responsibility to the 
environment, social issues, equity, engagement with the 
community, good governance and ethical standards. 
During FY21, Tyro has undertaken a detailed assessment 
of our material sustainability risks and the impact of 
these risks on our business in the short to mid-term. 
This assessment included quantifying our current 
carbon footprint and setting a goal of achieving ‘Net-
Zero’ carbon emissions in the next 5 years, re-affirming 
our diversity and inclusion targets and extending our 
commitment to the communities where we work.

For FY21, we have also enhanced our sustainability 
reporting disclosures by reporting with reference to 
internationally recognised sustainability standards and 
have provided our first standalone sustainability report. 
This report outlines our objectives across a range of 
measures and includes details on a number of initiatives 
underway across the business.

 Tyro has always been committed to a sustainable 
business model and our 2021 sustainability report 
provides an update on our progress. We still have much 
to do, however we are committed to creating value and 
building a sustainable future for our merchants, team 
members, shareholders, and the broader community in 
which we operate.

Tyro's standalone sustainability report can be found at 
https://investors.tyro.com/investor-centre/ 

12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

INDEMNITIES AND INSURANCE

Clause 54 of the Company’s Constitution provides that 
every person who is or has been a Director or Secretary 
of the Group must be indemnified by the Company, to 
the extent permitted by law, against:

• 

• 

liabilities incurred by the person as an officer of the 
Company or a subsidiary; and
for legal costs incurred by the person in defending 
any proceedings which relate to a liability incurred by 
that person as an officer of the Company.

The Company has executed Deeds of Indemnity, 
Insurance and Access, consistent with this Clause, in 
favour of all current Directors of the Company, the 
Company Secretary who is named in this Directors’ 
Report and the Company’s current Chief Financial 
Officer. The Company has also entered into equivalent 
Deeds of Indemnity with former Directors and 
Secretaries of the Company, in accordance with 
the Company’s previous Constitution. Each Deed 
indemnifies those persons for the full amount of all such 
liabilities including costs and expenses, subject to their 
terms.

For the year ended 30 June 2021, no amounts have been 
paid pursuant to indemnities (2020: Nil). The Company’s 
Constitution also allows the Company to pay insurance 
premiums for contracts insuring the current and former 
Directors and Secretaries of the Company in relation to 
any such liabilities and legal costs.

During or since the end of the financial year, the 
Company has paid the premium in respect of contracts 
insuring each of the Directors and the Secretary 
named in this Directors’ Report, the former Directors, 
and the officers of the Company as permitted by the 
Corporations Act 2001. The class of officers insured 
by the policy includes all officers of the Company. 
The terms of the contracts of insurance prohibit the 
disclosure of the nature of the liabilities insured against 
and the amount of the premium. As at the date of this 
report, no amounts have been claimed or paid in respect 
of these insurance contracts other than the premium 
referred to above.

To the extent permitted by law, the Company has agreed 
to indemnify its auditors, Ernst & Young, as part of the 
terms of its audit engagement agreement against 
claims by third parties and resulting liabilities, losses, 
damages, costs and expenses arising from the audit (for 
an unspecified amount). This indemnity does not extend 
to matters finally determined to have arisen from Ernst & 
Young’s negligent, wrongful or willful acts or omissions.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021DIRECTORS' REPORTThe non-audit services paid to the auditors (Ernst & 
Young) was for services relating to the Tyro Bendigo 
Alliance amounting to $38,000, tax compliance 
services amounting to $14,000 and other tax matters 
amounting to $7,000. Details of the audit and non-
audit fees paid or payable for services provided by the 
auditors are detailed in Note 24 of the Financial Report.

15. AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE

A copy of the auditor’s independence declaration 
as required under Section 307C of the Corporations 
Act 2001 is set out on page 98 and forms part of 
the Directors’ Report for the financial year ended 
30 June 2021.

16. ROUNDING OF AMOUNTS

The Group is of a kind referred to in Legislative 
Instrument 2016/191, issued by the Australian Securities 
and Investments Commission, relating to the ‘rounding 
off’ of amounts in the Directors’ Report. Amounts in the 
Directors’ Report have been rounded off in accordance 
with that Legislative Instrument to the nearest thousand 
dollars, or in certain cases, to the nearest dollar.

This Directors’ Report is made in accordance with a 
resolution of the Directors.

17.  REMUNERATION REPORT

The Group's Remuneration Report which forms part of 
the Directors' Report can be found on page 64 to 97 of 
this Annual Report.

13. PROCEEDINGS ON BEHALF 

OF THE GROUP

No person has applied to the Court under Section 
237 of the Corporations Act 2001 for leave to bring 
proceedings on behalf of the Group, or to intervene in 
any proceedings to which the Group is a party, for the 
purpose of taking responsibility on behalf of the Group 
for all or part of those proceedings.

No proceedings have been brought or intervened in on 
behalf of the Group with leave of the Court under Section 
237 of the Corporations Act 2001.

14. NON-AUDIT SERVICES

The Group may decide to employ its auditor on 
assignments additional to their statutory audit duties 
where the auditor’s expertise and experience with the 
Group is important.

The Board has considered the position and, in 
accordance with the advice received from the Audit 
Committee, is satisfied that the provision of the 
non-audit services is compatible with the general 
standard of independence for auditors imposed by the 
Corporations Act 2001.

The Directors are satisfied that the provision of non-
audit services by the auditor, as set out below, did not 
compromise the auditor independence requirements of 
the Corporations Act 2001 for the following reasons:

•   all non-audit services have been reviewed by the 

Audit Committee to ensure they do not impact the 
impartiality and objectivity of the auditor; and

•   none of the services undermine the general 

principles relating to auditor independence as set 
out in APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional 
Accountants, including reviewing or auditing the 
auditor’s own work, acting in a management or a 
decision making capacity for the Group, acting as 
advocate for the Group or jointly sharing economic 
risk and rewards.

_____________________________ 

David Thodey AO 
Chair 

Sydney 

26 August 2021

_____________________________ 

Robbie Cooke 
CEO | Managing Director 

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Audited 
Remuneration 
Report

LETTER FROM CHAIR OF THE PEOPLE COMMITTEE

Dear Shareholder,

On behalf of the Board, I am pleased to present the Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2021 
(FY21).

As for most companies around the world, and 
as David and Robbie indicated earlier, FY21 was 
a challenging year for Tyro with the continued 
impacts of COVID-19 on our business, our 
merchants and our team.  In addition the significant 
terminal connectivity incident that occurred in 
January this year impacted us all.  Although these 
events had a significant impact on the business, 
what we as a Board and People Committee were 
really proud of was the way our team dealt with the 
events in the most challenging of circumstances.  
We have exited the year stronger organisationally 
having successfully navigated the challenges that 
came our way.  Tyro prides itself on having a strong 
sense of values, culture and passion including 
‘Wowing the Customer’, ‘Being Good’, ‘Staying 
Hungry’ and ‘Committing to Greatness’.  All of us at 
Tyro have worked hard to demonstrate that we live 
by these values through the challenges of FY21 and 
have always placed our merchants first.   

I am pleased to have accepted the position of 
Chair of the People Committee from 21 June 2021 
after Cathy Harris decided to step down from 
the Board after five and a half years of service.  
I would like to take this opportunity to thank 
Cathy for the phenomenal work she has done to 
put in place a best of breed People Committee 
and Remuneration structure that positions 
Tyro and our team well for the future growth.   
During this COVID-19 impacted economic and 

social environment, the People Committee has 
undertaken an extensive review and deliberation 
of executive remuneration with the aim to strike a 
fair and reasonable balance between recognition 
and reward for management, appropriate levels 
to attract new employees and ultimately for the 
delivery of performance for shareholders.

The other area of extensive review and deliberation 
for the People Committee in FY21 was the hyper 
competitive talent environment which most 
companies in Australia now face, particularly 
in the technology fields.  As you will see in this 
Remuneration Report, we have taken active steps 
to retain our talented team as well as making Tyro 
an employer of choice to attract new talent. 

COVID-19

Many of our merchants continue to be challenged 
by the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 
pandemic and the associated on-again off-again 
lock-downs.  When faced with such a challenging 
business environment, it is encouraging to see that 
so many of our merchants have reinvented their 
way of operating to remain trading and we have 
proactively worked with our merchants, both large 
and small, to assist in this process.  We have also 
continued to provide assistance as needed in the 
form of loan repayment deferrals, terminal rental 
relief or such other assistance as may be needed 
from time to time.

"We have exited the year 
stronger organisationally having 
successfully navigated the 
challenges that came our way"

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORTWe received $4.5 million in JobKeeper payments 
for the period 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020 
after which we ceased receiving any contribution 
from this Federal Government assistance scheme.  
The JobKeeper assistance payments received in 
the first quarter of FY21 were important in such 
uncertain times, enabling Tyro to retain our full 
complement of employees on board throughout 
FY21 and enabling us to assist our merchants 
through the challenges they faced. 

We are proud of the immense efforts of our team 
over the period of the incident to get merchants 
back online as rapidly as possible and we have 
been working tirelessly since then to do the right 
thing by the merchants that were affected with 
our ongoing remediation efforts.  On behalf of the 
People Committee I would like to thank each and 
every Tyro for your immense contribution during 
this period.

TERMINAL CONNECTIVITY ISSUE

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

In January 2021, Tyro experienced a significant 
terminal connectivity issue that impacted some of 
our merchants to varying degrees. In Tyro’s 18-year 
history, an event of this nature has never occurred.  
As Robbie mentioned, although the incident arose 
from circumstances outside our control, the event 
did not sit well with his team nor with the Board.  It 
was a moment when the strength, resilience and 
expertise of our team came to the fore.

For shareholders, the performance of Tyro in FY21 
has been a standout despite the operational 
environment. The Company delivered transaction 
value growth of 26%, gross profit growth of 28% 
and achieved a record EBITDA of $14.2 million.  This 
performance saw Tyro’s share price at 30 June 
2021 close at $3.68, representing shareholder value 
growth of 5.1% from a year ago and 33.8% growth 
since our listing on the ASX on 6 December 2019.

TYRO’S SHARE PRICE PERFORMANCE COMPARED TO THE S&P/ASX300

80.0%

60.0%

40.0%

20.0%

0.0%

-20.0%

-40.0%

-60.0%

-80.0%

6/12/2019

6/01/20 20

6/0 2/20 20

6/0 3/20 20

6/0 4/20 20

6/0 5/20 20

6/0 6/20 20

6/07/20 20

6/0 8/20 20

6/0 9/20 20

6/10/20 20

6/11/20 20

6/12/20 20

6/01/20 21

6/0 2/20 21

6/0 3/20 21

6/0 4/20 21

6/0 5/20 21

6/0 6/20 21

TYR

ASX300

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TYRO

We recognise that an effective remuneration 
framework is essential to attracting and retaining top 
talent and the success of our business.  In FY21, the 
Board continued to consider how to strike the right 
balance in our remuneration framework so as to:

engage and fairly reward employees for their 
contribution to the business’ long term success;

retain the great team we have in place at Tyro;

FY21 Short Term Incentive Plan

This new plan was introduced in FY20 and amended 
in FY21 to better align the strategy of Tyro to 
performance both for financial measures and 
customer performance measures.  The plan was 
also extended to a greater portion of the Tyro team 
to assist in retaining key talent and attracting new 
talent to the team.

The overall FY21 STI outcome came in at 89% of 
target with the outcomes of each component of the 
FY21 STI Plan as follows:

attract world-class talent to join our team; while

•  Financial (60% of the plan) – The target set 

• 

• 

• 

• 

ensuring optimal outcomes for shareholders.

To achieve these objectives, we have put in place 
the following measures in FY21 to complement our 
existing remuneration framework:

• 

• 

• 

• 

above inflation remuneration increases to meet 
current hyper competitive market expectations 
for certain skills sets.

an updated long term incentive plan better 
aligned to the long term needs of Tyro.

an updated short term incentive plan together 
with amending the make-up of the STI target 
components to better reflect the strategic 
direction of Tyro.  

improved employee benefits such as primary 
and secondary parental leave benefits. 

We will continue to monitor the remuneration 
framework to ensure we maintain the strong link 
between performance and reward and to drive the 
long term business outcomes as well as listening and 
acknowledging the feedback from stakeholders.

FY21 REMUNERATION OUTCOMES

The Board has carefully considered and balanced 
the FY21 Executive Key Management Personnel 
(KMP) remuneration and executive leadership 
team (XLT) outcomes, reflecting on the impact of 
COVID-19 on our results, the impact of the terminal 
connectivity issue and the need to fairly reward 
both the Executive KMP and the broader team for 
the dedication they have shown in ensuring Tyro 
delivered a strong set of financial results in such a 
challenging year.

Below is a summary of the STI and LTI outcomes for 
the Executive KMP.

by the Board for achievement of the financial 
component of the STI in FY21 was gross profit 
growth of 23%.  In determining the gross profit 
growth the Board excluded the JobKeeper 
benefits received by Tyro in FY21 but retained 
the JobKeeper benefits received in FY20 as part 
of the calculation. Based on this calculation Tyro 
achieved gross profit growth of 23% resulting in 
Executive KMP achieving this incentive on target. 

•  Customer Metrics (30% of the plan) – 

  For the customer satisfaction metric (10%), 
the Board set a target score for Tyro to 
achieve a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 
43.  Due to the impact of the terminal 
connectivity issue, we achieved a NPS 
score of 21 resulting in this part of the STI 
component not being achieved.

  For the merchant number churn metric 

(5%), Tyro achieved merchant churn of 11.3% 
against a target of 10%. This resulted in Tyro 
achieving 75% of target.

  For the transaction value churn metric (5%), 

Tyro achieved transaction value churn of 8.7% 
against a target of 8.0%.  This resulted in Tyro 
achieving 75% of target.

  Finally, for the merchant applications metric 
(10%), Tyro achieved an average of 1,116 
applications per month for the period March 
2021 to June 2021 against a target of 1,000 
applications resulting in 122% achievement 
against target.

• 

Individual Key Performance Indicators (10% of the 
plan) - The Executive KMP achieved between 90% 
to 95% of their individual key performance targets 
for FY21.

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The FY21 LTI Plan was made available to 43 
employees made up of Executive KMP, the XLT 
and key employees identified by the CEO and the 
Board.

Performance Rights were granted in February 
2021 to these employees with vesting based 
on the achievement of EBITDA and gross profit 
performance hurdles – This plan is not due to 
be tested until FY23 and as such no vesting has 
occurred.

FY19 and FY20 Legacy Long Term 
Incentive Plan

The legacy FY19 and FY20 Performance Option 
Plans continue into FY21.  These plans are tested 
for vesting on an annual basis.  The results of 
testing in FY21 are as follows:

•  Financial (100% of the plan) – The performance 
hurdle of achieving a positive net profit before 
tax and share based payments was not achieved 
at the first testing date and as such no vesting 
has taken place.  This award will be re-tested in 
FY22.

Long Term Retention Plan

As mentioned earlier, we find ourselves in a hyper 
competitive talent environment in Australia, 
particularly in the technology fields.  To address 
this situation, we have implemented a number of 
retention strategies as described in this Report, 
including remuneration increases, an improved 
STI Plan, and other improved employee benefits. 
However, to reinforce our retention initiatives (below 
Executive KMP and XLT level), a new one-off FY22 
LTI retention plan has been put in place utilising 
long term equity grants in the form of service rights 
with vesting taking place in three annual tranches 
commencing in FY23.  It is anticipated that these 
retention service rights will be granted to 53 Team 
members at a cost of approximately $3.4 million 
over the full term of the plan.

RESULTS OF ENGAGEMENT AND 
LOOKING AHEAD

We are committed as a Board to continuously 
reviewing the effectiveness of our remuneration 
framework and always welcome your feedback 
on our Remuneration Report.  Following on from 
the engagement we had with stakeholders in 
FY21, changes were made to our Remuneration 
Report and our remuneration framework to 
address the feedback we received.  These 
changes included:

• 

•  disclosing how we link Tyro’s performance 
to remuneration (refer to section 4 of this 
Report); 
improving the transparency around disclosing 
STI awards specifically in circumstances 
when the actual award exceeds the target 
award (refer to section 3.3 and section 5.2 of 
this Report); and
reviewing the performance hurdles used for 
our long term incentive plan (refer to section 
3.10 of this Report).

• 

I look forward to presenting our Remuneration 
Report to you at the Tyro Annual General 
Meeting to be held on 3 November 2021.

Yours sincerely, 

_____________________________

Fiona Pak-Poy 
Chair - People Committee

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT1.  INTRODUCTION 

This Report forms part of the Directors’ Report and sets out the remuneration arrangements of the Company for the 
year ended 30 June 2021 and is prepared in accordance with Section 300A of the Corporations Act.  The information 
has been audited as required by Section 308(3C) of the Corporations Act. 

The report details the remuneration arrangements for Tyro’s Key Management Personnel (KMP). KMP are those 
persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Company, 
directly or indirectly, including all Directors. References in this report to Executives refers only to those executives who 
are KMP, as outlined in section 2 below for FY21.

2.  WHO IS COVERED IN THIS REPORT 

The Company’s KMP covered in this report are Tyro’s Non-executive Directors, Chief Executive Officer | Managing 
Director (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Risk Officer (CRO).

Details of KMP, including changes made during the reporting period are provided in the table below:

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

David Thodey AO

Hamish Corlett

David Fite

Aliza Knox

Fiona Pak-Poy

Paul Rickard

Chair, Non-executive Director

Non-executive Director

Non-executive Director

Non-executive Director (commenced as KMP from 21 April 2021)

Non-executive Director

Non-executive Director

FORMER NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Catherine Harris AO, PSM

Non-executive Director (ceased as KMP from 30 June 2021)

EXECUTIVE KMP

Robbie Cooke

CEO | Managing Director

Praveenesh (Prav) Pala

Chief Financial Officer

Steven Chapman

Chief Risk Officer (commenced as KMP from 11 June 2021)

FORMER EXECUTIVE KMP

Angela Green

Chief Risk Officer (ceased as KMP from 10 June 2021)

There have been no changes in KMP since the end of the reporting period.

3.  APPROACH TO REMUNERATION

Tyro’s remuneration strategy is aligned with the Company’s purpose of setting businesses free to get on with business 
by simplifying payments and banking.  The achievement of our strategy is supported by our remuneration framework 
and all remuneration decisions are guided by the execution of that business strategy.  

Our approach to remuneration is summarised in the following table with a detailed analysis of each component of 
Tyro’s Remuneration Framework provided in Sections 3.1 to 3.12.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORTTYRO’S PURPOSE - SETTING BUSINESSES FREE TO GET ON WITH BUSINESS BY SIMPLIFYING PAYMENTS AND BANKING

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

N O W  
O N L I N E

Grow merchant 
share in existing 
core verticals

Enter new 
core verticals

Drive expansion into 
eCommerce + other 
payment types

Cross-sell and drive 
growth in lending 
and other value-
adding services

Tyro  
Connect

M&A and 
strategic 
partnerships

REMUNERATION PRINCIPLES

Align reward with strategic 
objectives.

Our remuneration framework aligns both the short term and long term rewards of 
employees and Executives with Tyro’s strategic goals and core values.

Attract, motivate and retain a 
highly skilled team.

Our most important competitive advantage is our people and our values driven 
approach to ‘wowing’ the customer. To attract and retain our talented team, 
we target remuneration at levels that ensure we can access the limited and 
competitive talent pool to drive our business forward.

Our approach to remuneration also motivates team members to drive overall 
customer satisfaction and perform well in all market conditions and economic 
cycles.

Incentivise and reward high 
performance that delivers 
sustainable long term value 
creation and reflects the interests 
of our shareholders as the owners 
of our business.

We aim to generate strong alignment between our team and Executive’s reward 
and shareholder outcomes through the structure of our short term incentive plan 
and long term incentive plan.

It is critical that our team and Executives have an ownership mindset that 
enhances Tyro’s long term value, rather than focusing on short term gains.

Be transparent, easy to 
understand.

Be transparent, easy to understand and deliver remuneration outcomes that meet 
team member and external stakeholder expectations.

REMUNERATION FRAMEWORK

COMPONENT

ALIGNMENT TO PERFORMANCE

ALIGNMENT TO STRATEGY

Fixed Annual 
Remuneration (base + 
superannuation) (FAR)

•  Set at a market competitive level in 
relation to the scope, complexity, 
capabilities and individual performance in 
the role

•  Provides recognition for day-to-day, 

operational activities in the role.

•  Set to attract, retain and engage the best 
people to design and lead the delivery of 
our strategy.

Short Term Incentive 
Plan (STI)

•  Performance assessed against:

•  Linked to Tyro’s key strategic priorities.

•  Financial measures (target 60%). 

•  Customer metrics (target 30%). 

•  Individual KPI achievement (target 10%).

•  The 25% of the award that is deferred into 
equity supports Executives’ alignment 
with shareholder interests, as well as 
Executive retention.

Long Term Incentive 
Plan (LTI)

•  Performance assessed against financial 

measures (target 100%)

•  EBITDA positive hurdle as the first 

•  Targeting sustained growth in gross profit 
and shareholder wealth creation through a 
pathway to profitability.

gateway to vesting.

•  The three-year vesting period encourages 

•  Achievement of a 20% compound gross 
profit growth rate (target) over the period 
of the award. 

consideration of long term decision 
making and value creation, as well as 
operating as a retention tool.

•  With a significant portion of potential 

remuneration based on equity, the Board 
provides alignment between the interests 
of Executives with shareholders.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT3.1  BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS

In order to meet our commitment of ensuring remuneration is market-competitive together with attracting world-
class talent, we adopt a benchmarking approach to setting remuneration levels for our Non-executive Directors, 
Executive KMP and executive leadership team.  

As a technology company with a banking licence we do not have any direct ASX-listed peers of a similar size.  As 
such, we used two comparator groups.  The first comparator group is based on the market capitalisation of ASX listed 
companies with ASX rankings within a range of 20 above and below (40 companies in total) of a median of $1.5 billion 
(excluding REITs and secondary ASX listings).    

MARKET CAPITALISATION PEER GROUP 

20 COMPANIES BELOW TYRO

Tyro 
Payments 
Limited

20 COMPANIES ABOVE TYRO

$1.19 billion – $1.47 billion

$1.51 billion – $1.92 billion

The second comparator group, used to validate the primary market capitalisation peer group, was based on financial 
services companies in the ASX300, and companies in the ASX 300 Diversified Financials index, excluding those that 
are above a market capitalisation of $5.0 billion and below that of $0.5 billion (excluding REITs, insurance companies, 
income trusts and secondary ASX listings). This group consists of 31 companies against which our remuneration is 
benchmarked. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES PEER GROUP

20 COMPANIES BELOW TYRO

Tyro 
Payments 
Limited

11 COMPANIES ABOVE TYRO

$500 million – $1.291 billion

$1.507 billion – $4,187 billion

3.2  SETTING TARGET REMUNERATION

Our policy is to target a total remuneration opportunity for our Executive KMP and executive leadership team (XLT) 
between the 50th and 75th percentiles of both comparator groups acknowledging that certain roles require specialist 
banking and payment skills and as such may need to be adjusted to recognise these unique skills. 

An individual KMPs and XLTs remuneration is determined by the Board after considering:

• 

• 

• 

the benchmarking data provided by our independent remuneration advisors for each Executive KMP and XLTs role 
compared to both the market capitalisation comparator group and financial services comparator group;
individual performance, Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) accountabilities, role complexity, and 
regulatory requirements specific to the role; and
industry experience and the availability of comparable talent in the domestic market.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT3.3  TOTAL REMUNERATION OPPORTUNITY FOR EXECUTIVE KMP

The charts below show the remuneration mix and total remuneration opportunity (TRO) for Executive KMP at target 
opportunity for FY21 and at maximum opportunity for FY21, comprising FAR, STI cash, STI deferred and LTI granted.

t
e
g
r
a
T

m
u
m
i
x
a
M

CEO | Managing Director

CFO

CRO

30%

23%

47%

25%

25%

19%

50%

19%

63%

25%

20%

16%

39%

41%

30%

53%

37%

39%

Fixed Annual Remuneration

STI

LTI

EXECUTIVE  
KMP

FAR

STI - 
TARGET

 LTI -
TARGET 

TOTAL

FAR

STI -
MAXIMUM

LTI -
MAXIMUM 

AT TARGET

TOTAL

AT MAXIMUM

Robbie Cooke

$990,000 $495,000 $638,500 $2,123,500 $990,000 $940,500 $638,500 $2,569,000

Prav Pala

$520,000 $260,000 $260,000 $1,040,000 $520,000 $494,000 $260,000 $1,274,000

Steven Chapman1 $360,000 $108,000 $108,000

$576,000 $360,000 $205,200 $108,000

$673,200

The actual remuneration mix will vary based on Tyro’s performance and individual performance each year.

1 

Steven Chapman was appointed as Chief Risk Officer on 11 June 2021.  The FAR and incentive targets listed above represent his TRO from 11 
June 2021.  The actual remuneration and incentive opportunity for Steven for FY21 will differ to the above TRO due a different TRO being in 
place while Steven was Head of Internal Audit.    

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT3.4  TIMELINE FOR PAYMENT OF REMUNERATION

The chart below shows the timeline of when the total maximum FY21 remuneration opportunity is payable to 
Executive KMP.

75% of STI 
payable in cash

100% Vesting  
– resultant 
shares subject 
to 24 month 
holding lock

25% of STI 
payable in 
equity vests in 
full 4 years after 
grant

Long Term 
Incentive (LTI) 
– Subject to 
Performance 
Conditions

Short Term 
Incentive (STI) - 
25% payable as 
deferred equity 
and 75% payable 
as cash

100%

80%

60%

40%

Fixed  
Remuneration 
(including super)

20%

16% - 25% of TRO 
in a LTI payable 
as an equity 
instrument

30% - 39%  
of TRO in a STI of 
25% payable in 
equity and 75% 
payable in cash

39% - 53% of TRO 
in Fixed Annual 
Remuneration

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

3.5  SHORT TERM INCENTIVE PLAN APPLICABLE TO FY21

The STI Plan for FY21 is designed to reward for the achievement of annual goals set in line with the Tyro’s strategy and 
reflecting key growth drivers to deliver returns for shareholders.  The Plan provides the STI framework for the CEO, 
Executive KMP and XLT members and employees of the Company. The CEO has a target STI potential of 50% of 
FAR.  Excluding the CEO, a target STI potential of between 30% to 50% of Executive KMP fixed annual remuneration is 
available as an STI.  All other XLT and other qualifying employees are allocated a potential target incentive amount of 
between 7.5% and 55% of FAR.

Grant of an STI is at the discretion of the Board and is assessed following the conclusion of the relevant financial year. 
Whether an STI is granted will depend on satisfaction of various criteria, including individual performance against key 
performance indicators, customer performance outcomes and financial performance outcomes, as determined by 
the Board. 

The STI award for Executive KMP and the XLT is delivered 75% in cash and 25% in equity (Service Rights) that vest in 
4-years with no performance hurdle but subject to clawback provisions and irrespective of continuous service.  For all 
other employees the STI award is delivered 25% cash and 75% in equity (Service Rights) vesting in equal tranches over 
a 3-year period with a 24-month holding lock post vesting of each tranche irrespective of continuous service.

An analysis of how the FY21 STI is calculated, specifically how the financial incentive pool is created and the measures 
and weighting applied to financial performance outcomes and customer performance outcomes is set out below.

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FINANCIAL PERFOR-
MANCE MEASURES

WEIGHTING AT 
TARGET

WEIGHTING AT 
MAXIMUM

TARGET

RATIONALE FOR METRIC

Gross profit 
growth

60%

120%

23% growth 
from FY20 gross 
profit (excluding 
JobKeeper 
contribution 
received in FY21)

•  Key indicator of financial performance

•  Ensures continued focus on growth

•  Balances growth in transaction value 
with generating new business at 
profitable margins

CALCULATION OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE POOL 

Gross Profit  
Measure

x

Cost Control  
Measure

=

Financial  
Performance Pool

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Gross profit more than $129.03 million 

•  Pool formed of 9.1%  
of FY21 gross profit capped

Gross profit of between $115.94 million to 
$128.10 million

•  Pool formed of between 4.8% to 8.8% of 
FY21 gross profit

On Target gross profit - $115.01 million 

•  Pool formed of 4.5%  
of FY21 gross profit

Gross profit of between $101.92 million to 
$114.07 million 

•  Pool formed of between 0.3% to 4.2%  
of FY21 gross profit

Gross profit less than $100.98 million 

•  No financial incentive pool formed

Margin  
Adjustment Factor 
(either upwards or 
downwards) - Operating 
Expense control

Financial  
Performance  
Incentive Pool  
created

Customer Performance Targets for FY21 - 40% of target STI 

CUSTOMER 
PERFORMANCE 
MEASURES

Transaction 
value churn 

Merchant 
number churn

Customer 
satisfaction

Merchant 
applications

WEIGHTING AT 
TARGET

WEIGHTING AT 
MAXIMUM

TARGET

RATIONALE FOR METRIC

5%

10%

8% or less churn

•  Key indicator of merchant retention 

focussing on retention of large 
merchants

•  Aligns to ‘Wowing the Customer’ value

5%

10%

10% or less churn

•  Key indicator of merchant retention 

focussing on retention of all merchants

•  Aligns to ‘Wowing the Customer’ value

10%

20%

NPS of 47 or greater

•  Key indicator of merchant satisfaction

10%

20%

Average of 1,000 new 
merchant applications 
per month for the period 
1 March 2021 to 30 June 
2021

•  Aligns to ‘Wowing the Customer’ value

•  Key indicator of winning new business

•  Aligns to ‘Stay Hungry’ value

The actual awards based on the mix of the STI components can be above target up to the maximum indicated. Refer 
to Section 5.2 of this report for an analysis of the FY21 STI outcomes against the above targets. 

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Individual Key Performance Indicators for FY21 - 10% of target STI

Individual KPIs are set at the start of each financial year for each team member and focus on providing a measure of 
individual performance together with placing emphasis on the achievement of individual goals, the development of 
team members skills and expertise and challenging team members to achieve at their highest level.

These KPIs are reviewed annually and form the basis of the evaluation of an individuals achievement against the 10% 
target. For FY21, the average achievement for all employees came out at 76%.

The key terms of the Service Rights relating to the FY21 STI are set out below.

TERM

DESCRIPTION

Administration

The plan is administered by the Board (or the Board’s delegate).

Eligibility

Full-time and part-time employees of the Company are eligible to receive awards under 
the STI Plan. The Board will select eligible employees to whom awards are to be granted 
from time to time.

Grant date

The date specified as the grant date in each participant’s offer document.

Expiry

Vesting dates

Service rights issued under the plan will lapse 10 years after the date on which the 
relevant right vests.

For Executive KMP and XLT, vesting takes place 4-years (irrespective of continuous 
service) after grant with no performance hurdle.  

For all other employees vesting takes place in equal tranches over a 3-year period 
(irrespective of continuous service) with a 24-month holding lock post vesting of each 
tranche.

Vesting condition

The holder of the rights must be employed by us or provide services to us as a contractor 
or consultant on the date of vesting.

Exercise

Rights

Following satisfaction of the vesting condition on each vesting date, the relevant number 
of Service Rights may be exercised at nil consideration

Each service right granted entitles the holder to one share on exercise. Shares resulting 
from an exercise of service rights rank equally with other shares, and shareholders are 
entitled to the same dividend and voting rights specified in our constitution.

Holding lock period

For all other employees excluding Executive KMP and XLT a 24-month holding lock post 
vesting of each tranche.

Clawback provisions

Service rights are subject to a claw back in the vesting period with no holding lock post 
vesting.

Amendments

Other terms

The Board may amend the terms of the plan without consent of the participants if the 
amendment does not reduce the rights of the participants.

The rules of the plan include other terms relating to the administration, transfer, 
termination and variation of the plan.

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The FY21 LTI Plan is open to the CEO, the Executive KMP, executive leadership team (XLT) and other nominated 
employees of Tyro and has been fulfilled via an issuance of performance rights.   

The number of performance rights to be issued for each participant will be determined by reference to:

• 

• 

the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of Tyro shares traded in the 10 trading days commencing on the day 
following the day nominated by the Board; and 

each participant’s prescribed LTI entitlement that falls within the participant’s Total Remuneration Opportunity 
(TRO) as approved under the remuneration framework. For FY21, the maximum LTI potential is 64.5% of the CEOs 
Fixed Annual Remuneration (FAR), between 30% and 50% for the Executive KMP and a maximum LTI potential of 
between 15% to 40% for the XLT.  Any other nominated employees have been allocated a maximum LTI potential 
of between 7.5% to 20% of their FAR in FY21.

The FY21 performance rights will vest subject to passing a ‘Gateway’ and then satisfying a prescribed ‘Performance 
Hurdle’, and will vest in one tranche 3 years following the effective date of the plan. 

The ‘Gateway’ that must be passed prior to testing the performance hurdle is defined as Tyro reporting a positive 
EBITDA1 (before share-based payments) result for the financial year immediately preceding the vesting date, namely 
FY23.  If the ‘Gateway’ is passed, the number of performance rights that qualify for exercise will depend on the 
vesting percentage determined by reference Tyro’s compound gross profit growth rate during the vesting period 
(Performance Hurdle).  

Compound gross profit growth rate applicable to FY21 LTI plan - Performance Hurdle

GROSS PROFIT CAGR 
(1 SEP 2020 – 31 AUG 2023 
(FY20 TO FY23)

Less than 12.5%

12.5%

VESTING PERCENTAGE 
(OF GRANTED PERFORMANCE RIGHTS)

Nil

30%

Above 12.5% to less than 20%

Straight line vesting between 30% and 100%

20% (‘target’)

100%

Above 20% and capping at 30%

Straight line vesting between 100% and 150%

1 

Tyro uses EBITDA as a non-IFRS measure of business performance, which excludes the non-cash impact of share-based payments 
expense, expenses associated with the IPO and any one-off exceptional items. 

Performance rights will be subject to forfeiture prior to vesting (malus) and any shares issued after the vesting date 
will be subject to forfeiture for a 2 year period following expiry of the holding lock sufficient to satisfy BEAR clawback 
requirements (clawback).

...the average KPI 
achievement for all 
employees came 
out at 76% for FY21

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TERM

DESCRIPTION

Administration

The plan is administered by the Board.

Eligibility

Conditions

Eligible participants are Directors, Executive KMP, XLT as well as other nominated 
employees of the Company.

Performance rights granted in respect of the FY21 LTI Plan must satisfy passing 
a ‘Gateway’ and then the Performance Hurdle to qualify for exercise.  Refer to the 
explanation of the Gateway and Performance Hurdle provided above.

Effective date

1 February 2021.

Grant date

1 February 2021.

Exercise price

Nil

Vesting 

Forfeiture

Rights

Subject to passing the ‘Gateway’ and satisfying the Performance Hurdle, the 
Performance Rights vest in one tranche 3 years following the Effective Date. 

The FY21 LTI performance rights are subject to forfeiture prior to vesting and thereafter 
any shares issued will be subject to clawback for up to a further 2 year period following 
the expiry of the ‘Holding Lock’ (ie. awards can be forfeited up to 6 years from the grant 
date.

Each FY21 LTI performance right entitles the rights holder to one share. Shares issued on 
exercise of FY21 LTI performance rights rank equally with other shares, and shareholders 
are entitled to the same dividend and voting rights specified in Tyro’s constitution.

Minimum holding period 
and holding lock 

Shares issued on exercise are subject to a holding lock for 12 months post the actual 
exercise date.

3.7  LEGACY LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLANS IN OPERATION IN FY21

Historically, share-based compensation benefits have been granted under the employee share option plan, adopted 
by the Company in October 2016. The employee share option plan was established to grant options over Shares to 
Directors and all eligible employees of the Company.

The performance-based LTI Plans for FY19 and FY20 are designed to reward for the achievement of long term targets 
that generate strong alignment between Executives and shareholders, and encourage decision making for long 
term shareholder wealth creation.  These legacy LTI plans were provided to the CEO, Executive KMP and executive 
leadership team (XLT) and nominated employees of the Company. 

Following listing on the ASX on 6 December 2019, no further options will be granted under this employee share option 
plan with the grant of options in FY20 being the last grant under this plan.

Qualifying criteria for FY20 and FY19 LTI plan

COMPONENT 

DESCRIPTION

Financial 
performance

100% of the 
LTI incentive is 
allocated to financial 
performance.

Market value options granted annually to reward Executives for the achievement of long term 
strategic objectives that contribute to shareholder wealth creation, and encourages long 
term decision making.

The options are subject to performance hurdles.  To qualify for exercise both of the following 
hurdles must be satisfied:

•  A 20% compound Gross Revenue growth rate per annum (FY19 plan: 25% per annum).

•  A positive net profit result (before tax and share-based expenses).

If a tranche does not satisfy both performance hurdles on the relevant testing date, the 
tranche will be retested at the next testing date (if any).

If the performance hurdle(s) are not satisfied at the testing date for the fourth tranche, any 
unvested options are forfeited on the expiry date or earlier cessation date of the employee, 
under the plan rules.

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Both the FY19 and FY20 options were tested on 23 July 2021 and did not meet the performance hurdles set for 
vesting based on both the Net Profit hurdle and the Gross Revenue Hurdle.  These options will be retested in FY22.

The key terms of the FY20 and FY19 LTI employee share option plan are set out in the table below.

TERM

DESCRIPTION

Administration

The plan is administered by the Board.

Eligibility

Conditions

Eligible participants are Directors, Executives, XLT as well as other nominated employees of 
the Company.

Options granted in respect of FY20 must satisfy two performance hurdles to qualify for 
exercise:

•  20% compound Gross Revenue growth per annum (FY19 plan – 25%); and 

•  a positive Net Profit result (before tax and share-based expenses).

If a tranche does not satisfy both performance criteria on the relevant testing date, the 
tranche will be retested at the next testing date (if any).

Effective date of 
the Employee Share 
Option Plan Rules

14 October 2016

Grant date

1 October 2019

Exercise price

$1.79 per option (FY19 plan - $1.50)

Vesting

Expiry

Forfeiture

Rights

FY20 options vest in equal tranches of 25%, commencing 24 months after the grant date.

30 September 2026.

FY20 options are subject to forfeiture prior to vesting and thereafter – any shares issued 
will be subject to forfeiture for a nominated period sufficient to satisfy the BEAR deferral 
requirements.

Each FY20 option entitles the option holder to one share. Shares issued on exercise of FY20 
options rank equally with other shares, and shareholders are entitled to the same dividend 
and voting rights specified in Tyro’s constitution.

Minimum holding 
period and 
holding lock 

FY20 options must be held for a minimum period of three years from the date of the grant 
or until the holder ceases employment with us in accordance with the rules of the employee 
share option plan. 

Shares issued on exercise are additionally subject to a holding lock for 24 months from the 
date the FY20 option is exercised.

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A limited number of Executive KMP and executive leadership team (XLT) of Tyro were granted performance rights 
under the Liquidity Event Performance Rights (LEPR) Plan between FY19 and FY20. A liquidity event was triggered 
under the Plan with the IPO that took place on 6 December 2019. The first tranche of the Liquidity Event Performance 
Rights vested and became exercisable on 6 December 2019.  4,100,000 LEPRs were allocated under the Plan of which 
2,733,336 have vested and 1,633,334 have been exercised at the date of this report.

Key terms of the LEPR plan are set out in the table below.

TERM

DESCRIPTION

Administration

The plan is administered by the Board.

Eligibility

Board determined.

Effective date of 
LEPR Plan Rules

9 May 2019 to 6 August 2019 (LEPR Plan Rules attached to individual grant letters)

Grant date

9 May 2019 to 6 August 2019

Price

Liquidity Event Performance Rights granted under the plan are issued for nil consideration.

Vesting dates

Vesting will occur in three equal tranches, as follows:
•  one third on the date of the liquidity event;
•  one third on the date that is 12 months after the Initial Vesting Date; and
•  one third on the date that is 24 months after the Initial Vesting Date.

The Board may resolve that any unvested Liquidity Event Performance Rights cease to vest 
for the duration of any unpaid leave of absence.

A liquidity event includes the IPO that took place on 6 December 2019. The first tranche of 
the Liquidity Event Performance Rights vested and became exercisable on 6 December 
2019.

Vesting condition

The holder of the rights must be employed by Tyro or provide services to Tyro as a contractor 
or consultant on the date of vesting.

Expiry

Exercise

Liquidity Event Performance Rights issued under the plan will lapse 10 years after the date 
on which the relevant Liquidity Event Performance Right vests.

Following satisfaction of the vesting condition on each vesting date, the relevant number of 
Liquidity Event Performance Rights may be exercised at nil consideration.

Rights

Each Liquidity Event Performance Right granted entitles the holder to one share on exercise.

Shares resulting from an exercise of Liquidity Event Performance Rights rank equally with 
other shares, and shareholders are entitled to the same dividend and voting rights specified 
in Tyro’s constitution.

Minimum holding 
period and holding 
lock 

A holder must not dispose of any share issued, allotted or transferred on exercise of a 
Liquidity Event Performance Right from the date that is 12 months from the date of issue, 
allotment or transfer.

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Employees and Directors may also participate in the Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan, following invitation by the 
Board.  Historically only Directors, Executive KMP and members of the executive leadership team (XLT) have been 
invited to participate in the Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan.  Under the plan, the Board invites participants to 
apply for Remuneration Sacrifice Rights by sacrificing a percentage of their pre-tax short term incentive (or pre-tax 
fees in the case of Directors) in exchange for rights that automatically convert into shares. The participation in the 
Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan does not change the Total Remuneration Opportunity (TRO) of any individual 
employee.

No payment is required to be made on conversion of these rights and issued rights are not subject to performance or 
employment related hurdles or conditions. The shares issued on conversion of the Remuneration Sacrifice Rights will 
be restricted for a period following the date of the grant of the rights.

Shares resulting from conversion of Remuneration Sacrifice Rights may be subject to trading restrictions (as 
nominated by the relevant Director or employee) but otherwise rank equally with other shares, and Shareholders are 
entitled to the same dividend and voting rights as ordinary shares, as specified in Tyro’s constitution.

An invitation to participate in the Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan may specify a trading restriction, which is a 
period during which the shares issued on conversion of Remuneration Sacrifice Rights cannot be transferred, sold, 
encumbered or otherwise dealt with. The minimum trading restriction period is one year from the date of grant of 
the rights, with a maximum trading restriction period being 15 years for the date of the grant of the rights.  Subject 
to these minimum and maximum trading restrictions, the trading restriction applicable to individual Remuneration 
Sacrifice Rights is nominated by the relevant Director or employee.  The trading restriction period will be lifted on the 
earlier of the date in the invitation letter, or the date the participant ceases to be an employee, or the Director ceases 
to hold that role.

3.10   FY22 LTI PERFORMANCE PLAN

In relation to the FY22 LTI Performance Plan, It is proposed that this be fulfilled via an issuance of performance rights 
(as was the case in FY21) on terms similar to the FY21 plan as set out in Section 3.6 of this Report.    

The only change being proposed to the plan for FY22 is to amend the Performance Hurdle applicable to this issuance 
from those applicable to the FY21 plan.

Performance hurdle applicable to FY22 LTI plan

In FY22, the number of performance rights that will qualify for exercise will depend on the vesting percentage 
determined by reference to Tyro’s FY24 statutory EBITDA (which excludes share based payment expenses) as 
specified below.

STATUTORY
EBITDA OUTCOME

VESTING
PERCENTAGE

COMPOUNDED ANNUAL 
GROWTH FROM FY21 
EBITDA

$49.0 million

$54.5 million

$59.9 million

$65.4 million

70%

80%

90%

100%

81.7%

94.6%

107.3%

120.2%

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In light of the current significant hyper-competitive employment market, Tyro has implemented a number of retention 
strategies as described in this Report, including remuneration increases, an improved STI Plan, and other improved 
employee benefits. However, to reinforce Tyro’s retention initiatives (below Executive KMP and XLT level), a new FY22 
LTI retention plan has been put in place utilising long term equity grants in the form of service rights.

The key terms of the LTI Retention Plan are set out in the table below.

TERM

DESCRIPTION

Administration

The plan is administered by the Board.

Eligibility

Conditions

Effective date

Grant date

Exercise price

Vesting 

Forfeiture

Rights

Full-time and part-time employees of the Company are eligible to receive awards 
under this plan. The Board will select eligible employees to whom awards are to be 
granted from time to time (excluding Executive KMP and XLT).

The holder of the rights must be employed by Tyro or provide services to Tyro as a 
contractor or consultant on the date of vesting.

The date specified as the effective date in each participant’s offer document.

The date of the instrument of grant.

Nil

To vest in three annual tranches commencing on the anniversary of grant date. 
Once vested there are no conditions which must be satisfied before the service 
rights can be exercised. 

If an employee ceases employment for any reason, any unvested service rights 
lapse and any vested service right may be exercised up until the date that is 30 
days after the date of cessation of employment.

Each FY22 LTI retention right entitles the rights holder to one share. Shares 
issued on exercise of FY22 LTI retention rights rank equally with other shares, and 
shareholders are entitled to the same dividend and voting rights specified in Tyro’s 
constitution.

Minimum holding period and 
holding lock 

No holding lock applies following exercise of the relevant service right.

3.12  FY22 MEDIPASS LTI PLAN

Following the acquisition of Medipass on 31 May 2021, certain Medipass team members received a grant of a 
combination of service rights and performance rights in FY22.  These service rights and performance rights are being 
issued to Medipass employees to align their interests and achieve retention outcomes to create long term shareholder 
value and drive growth of the overall Tyro business.    

The details of these service rights and performance rights are summarised below.

Key terms of the Medipass service rights plan:  

Number of service rights 
granted to Medipass employees

1,058,194  

Value of service rights granted

$4.0 million

Grant date

Price

Vesting date

The date of the instrument of grant. 

Service rights granted under the plan are issued for nil consideration.

31 May 2026

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The holder of the rights must be employed by us or provide services to us as a 
contractor or consultant on the date of vesting.

Expiry

Exercise

Rights

The date specified as the expiry date in each participant’s offer document.

Following satisfaction of the vesting condition on the vesting date, the relevant 
number of service rights may be exercised at nil consideration.

Each service right granted entitles the holder to one share on exercise.

Shares resulting from the exercise of service rights rank equally with other shares, 
and shareholders are entitled to the same dividend and voting rights specified in 
Tyro’s constitution.

Minimum holding period and 
holding lock

It is a requirement that a participant in the plan remains employed by Tyro at the 
vesting date.

Key terms of the Medipass performance rights plan:  

Number of performance rights 
granted to Medipass employees

1,058,194   

Value of performance rights 
granted

$4.0 million

Grant date

Price

Vesting date

Vesting condition

Expiry

Exercise

Rights

The date of the instrument of grant. 

Performance rights granted under the plan are issued for nil consideration.

30 June 2026

100% vesting on accomplishment of the 5-year forecast EBITDA for the combined 
Medipass and Tyro Health Business Unit phased per the table detailed below.

The date specified as the expiry date in each participant’s offer document.

Following satisfaction of the vesting condition on the vesting date, the relevant 
number of performance rights may be exercised at nil consideration.

Each performance right granted entitles the holder to one Share on exercise.

Shares resulting from the exercise of performance rights rank equally with other 
shares, and shareholders are entitled to the same dividend and voting rights 
specified in Tyro’s constitution.

Minimum holding period and 
holding lock

It is a requirement that a participant in the plan remains employed by Tyro at the 
vesting date.

Vesting performance hurdle for Medipass performance rights plan  

Below is the phased vesting on the accomplishment of the 5-year forecast EBITDA for the combined Medipass and 
Tyro Health Business Unit.

PERFORMANCE TO EBITDA TARGET

PERCENTAGE OF RIGHTS TO VEST

$38.4 and above (100%)

$34.6 million to $38.3 million

$30.7 million to $34.5 million

$29.6 million to $30.6 million

Below $29.6 million

100%

75%

50%

25%

0%

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One of the key principles of Tyro’s remuneration framework is to align Executive KMP, executive leadership team (XLT) 
and employee remuneration outcomes with financial and customer performance. This section provides a summary of 
Tyro’s performance outcomes for FY21 and the link to remuneration.

4.1  FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

Transaction value up 
26% to $25.5 billion

FY16 - FY21 CAGR +24%

•  Transaction value  growth of 26% for 

$25.5b

FY21 exceeds long term CAGR of 24%.

$20.1b

$17.5b

•  Bendigo Bank alliance contributed 

$439.9 million to transaction value  from 
1 June 2021.

Gross profit up 28% to 
$119.4 million

$13.4b

$10.6b

$8.6b

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

FY16 - FY21 CAGR +21%

$119.4m

$93.5m

$83.3m

$69.1m

$56.0m

$46.2m

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

Positive EBITDA of 
$14.2 million up 424% 
from a loss of $4.4 
million in FY20

FY16 - FY21 CAGR +51%

$14.2m

$1.7m

($4.4m)

($8.6m)

($9.2m)

($9.8m)

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

•  Our Payments business lifted gross 

profit by 29% to $110.5 million (FY20: 
$86.1 million). The increase in gross profit 
reflects the 26% increase in transaction 
value  and improvement in margins due 
to a change in card mix.

•  Our Banking business gross profit 

increased 118% to $2.8 million (FY20: 
$1.3 million).  The increase was driven 
by a reversal of fair value adjustments 
recognised in the prior year. 

•  Gross profit includes $6.1 million 

primarily made up of JobKeeper receipts 
and interest income.

• 

Tyro generated a positive EBITDA result 
of $14.2 million before share based 
payments, IPO costs, costs associated 
with the terminal connectivity issue, 
and Medipass and Bendigo transaction 
costs.

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4.2  CUSTOMER PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

Transaction value  
churn of 8.7% - up 
from 8.0% in FY20 

9.3%

8.7%

8.0%

• 

Transaction value churn represents 
the value of transactions lost from 
merchants that have not transacted in a 
12-month period.

Merchant number 
churn of 11.3% - down 
from 11.7% in FY20

FY19

FY20

FY21

13.0%

12.3%

11.2%

11.7%

11.7%

11.3%

FY16

FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

Churn by merchant numbers

•  Merchant churn represents the number 
of merchants that have not transacted 
in a 12-month period.

Customer satisfaction 
- Net Promoter Score 
(NPS) of 21 achieved in 
FY21 - down from 43 
in FY20

43

37

21

FY19

FY20

FY21

Net Promoter Score (NPS)

• 

• 

NPS was impacted by the terminal 
connectivity issue in January 2021 and 
declined from an all-time high of 43.9 
to negative 24.7 immediately after the 
incident.

NPS has now rebounded to 21.0 at the 
date of this report.

Merchant applications 
- Average of 1,116 
applications per 
month for the period 1 
March 2021 to 30 June 
2021 (average of 772 in 
FY20)

1,600

1,400

1,200

1,000

800

600

400

200

0

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

FY21

FY20

•  We averaged 1,116 new merchant 

applications per month for the period 1 
March 2021 to 30 June 2021, up 44.6% on 
the same period in FY20 with transaction 
value churn remaining stable at 8.7% and 
merchant number churn decreasing 40 
basis points to 11.3%.  

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REMUNERATION AREA

SUMMARY ANALYSIS

Group 
remuneration

After no fixed annual remuneration increases were provided to employees for the previous 
18-months prior to January 2021 due to the impact of COVID-19, an average increase of 4.4% 
across the Company was implemented with effect from January 2021.  

CEO

STI

LTI

Certain employees in areas of high skill demand received above average increases to ensure 
that Tyro remains competitive to the market for these skills.  

Our objective with fixed remuneration is to maintain a market-related remuneration position in 
our benchmark group and maintaining remuneration in the range of the 50th to 75th percentile 
of our peer benchmark groups. 

Total statutory remuneration for the CEO was $2,172,215 (FY20: $2,211,997). Included 
in statutory remuneration are the following elements of the CEOs Total Remuneration 
Opportunity (TRO) together with the accounting cost of long term benefits and share-based 
payments:

•  Fixed annual remuneration of $927,985 (FY20: $865,026).

•  An annual travel allowance to a maximum of $50,000 - FY21 claim was $34,693 (FY20: 

$14,032).

•  A short term incentive (STI) of $442,881 of which 25% is payable as service rights and 75% 

as cash (FY20: $209,077 of which 100% was issued as service rights). 

•  A long term incentive (LTI) of $556,104 issued as performance rights under the FY21 LTI 

plan.

Refer to Section 5.2 and 5.3 of this report for further details.

All team members participated in Tyro’s STI plan.  Excluding the CEO, the Board allocated 
$284,907 to Executive KMP as a STI of which 25% is payable as service rights and 75% as cash 
(FY20: $153,994 of which 100% was issued as service rights). 

The total STI allocated across the Company to all team members in the form of a combination 
of cash and service rights (excluding the CEO and Executive KMP) was $5.77 million (FY20: 
$2.38 million).

Refer to Section 5.2 of this report for further details.

43 team members participated in Tyro’s FY21 LTI plan.  Excluding the CEO, the Board allocated 
$361,794 in performance rights under the plan to Executive KMP. 

The total LTI allocated across the Company (excluding the CEO and Executive KMP) was 
$1,852,032 (FY20: $2,819,693).

Refer to Section 3.6 of this report for further details.

Liquidity Event 
Performance Rights 
(LEPR)

A limited number of Executive KMP and XLT of Tyro were granted performance rights under 
the LEPR plan between FY19 and FY20. A liquidity event was triggered under the plan with the 
IPO that took place on 6 December 2019. The first tranche of the Liquidity Event Performance 
Rights vested and became exercisable on 6 December 2019 with the second tranche vesting 
and becoming exercisable on 6 December 2020. 4,100,000 LEPRs were allocated under the 
plan of which 2,733,334 have vested and 1,633,334 have been exercised. 

Refer to Section 3.8 of this report for further details.

Non-executive 
Director fees

Non-executive Directors received $877,449 in fees of which $770,150 will be salary sacrificed 
to rights under the remuneration sacrifice rights plan.  Base Director fees were set at $108,000 
(FY20: $108,000).  The Chairman received $180,000 (FY20: $180,000) in fees while fees for 
Committee Chairs were $20,000 per Committee (FY20: $20,000).  

Non-executive Director fees were benchmarked to our peer group during the year and 
adjusted with the Non-executive Directors resolving to only take up the increase from 1 July 
2021. 

Refer to Section 6 of this report for further details.

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5.1  CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT

The employment conditions of the KMP (excluding Non-executive Directors) are provided in the table below.  All KMP 
are employed under contracts of no fixed duration.

NAME

CONTRACT TERM

NOTICE PERIOD

TERMINATION PAYMENT

Robbie Cooke

No fixed duration

6 months

Prav Pala

No fixed duration

9 months

Steven Chapman

No fixed duration

6 months

Combination of notice and payment in lieu, 
totalling no less than 6 months

Combination of notice and payment in lieu, 
totalling no less than 9 months

Combination of notice and payment in lieu, 
totalling no less than 6 months

In the event of serious misconduct, Tyro may terminate employment at any time without notice or a termination 
payment being made.  Any options or rights not vested before the date of termination will lapse.

Robbie Cooke is subject to a post-employment restraint period of 12 months, and Prav Pala is subject to a post-
employment restraint period of 9 months, and Steven Chapman s subject to a post-employment restraint period of 6 
months subject to all usual legal requirements.

5.2  STI OUTCOMES

The outcome of the FY21 financial, customer and individual performance targets and the Executive KMPs scorecard 
are summarised below.

Financial component - 60% of total STI  

The actual result for FY21 was achievement of 23% gross profit growth from FY20 (excluding JobKeeper benefits 
received in FY21) and a margin improvement adjustment factor of 1.18 resulting in 117% of the target being achieved.  
The margin adjustment factor relates to the improved expense margin of 88% achieved in FY21 compared to 104% in 
FY20.    

Gross profit

119,449

93,475

27.8% Gross profit growth was driven by 

FY21

FY20

GROWTH

COMMENTARY

Less: JobKeeper benefit

(4,484)

-

a 26% increase in transaction value 
and an improvement in the merchant 
acquiring fee due to a shift in card mix

- The JobKeeper benefits for FY21 have 
been excluded from gross profit for 
FY21 however are retained for the 
comparison period of FY20

Adjusted gross profit for STI 
calculation

114,965

93,475

23.0%

Target of 23% growth achieved 
resulting in 100% of financial STI 
component becoming available

Operating expenses

105,283

97,847

7.6% Before share based payments

Margin improvement 
adjustment factor

STI financial component 
outcome 

1.18

117%

-

-

- Improved expense margin of 88% 

achieved in FY21 compared to 104% in 
FY20. 

-

100% of the financial STI component x 
margin adjustment factor of 1.18

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TARGET

ACHIEVEMENT

STI OUTCOME

Customer satisfaction

Merchant number churn

Transaction value churn

NPS of 46

NPS of 21

10.0%

8.0%

11.3%

8.7%

Merchant applications (March to June 2021)

Ave. 1,000 per month

Ave. 1,116 per month

0%

75%

75%

122%

Executive KMP scorecard for FY21

Robbie Cooke - CEO  

MEASURE

TARGET

WEIGHTING 
(AT TARGET)

FY21 OUTCOME

WEIGHTED
 OUTCOME

THRESHOLD           TARGET

MAXIMUM

Financial

23% gross profit growth

Transaction value churn

Less than 8% churn

Merchant number churn

Less than 10% churn

Merchant satisfaction

NPS of 47 or greater

Merchant applications

Average of 1,000 or greater 
applications per month 
(March to June 2021)

60%

5%

5%

10%

10%

Individual KPIs

Achievement of KPIs

10%

117%

75%

75%

0%

78%

90%

Assessment of Robbie’s individual KPIs for FY21 are were determined by the People Committee according to the 
following table:

KPIS

Recovery from COVID-19 – Tyro + its merchants
• 
• 
• 

Protect the business 
Appropriately assist Tyro’s merchants 
Bring the business back to growth

Future Growth Opportunities

Executive Team Depth:
•  Review capabilities 
•  Build team strengths

Strategy: 
•  Deliver new strategic plan 
•  Drive performance to plan

Continue focus on operationalising risk framework and driving risk culture

Scalability / Automation / Innovation

•  High performing team

Living the Tyro Values: 
•  WOW the Customer 
•  Be GOOD 
•  Commit to GREATNESS 
•  Stay HUNGRY 

WEIGHTING %

25.0%

25.0%

8.0%

8.0%

8.0%

8.0%

8.0%

10.0%

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MEASURE

TARGET

WEIGHTING 
(AT TARGET)

FY21 OUTCOME

WEIGHTED
 OUTCOME

THRESHOLD           TARGET

MAXIMUM

Financial

23% gross profit growth

Transaction value churn

Less than 8% churn

Merchant number churn

Less than 10% churn

Merchant satisfaction

NPS of 47 or greater

Merchant applications

Average of 1,000 or greater 
applications per month 
(March to June 2021)

60%

5%

5%

10%

10%

Individual KPIs

Achievement of KPIs

10%

117%

75%

75%

0%

78%

95%

Steven Chapman - CRO 

MEASURE

TARGET

WEIGHTING 
(AT TARGET)

FY21 OUTCOME

WEIGHTED
 OUTCOME

THRESHOLD           TARGET

MAXIMUM

Financial

23% gross profit growth

Transaction value churn

Less than 8% churn

Merchant number churn

Less than 10% churn

Merchant satisfaction

NPS of 47 or greater

Merchant applications

Average of 1,000 or greater 
applications per month
(March to June 2021)

60%

5%

5%

10%

10%

Individual KPIs

Achievement of KPIs

10%

117%

75%

75%

0%

78%

95%

Overall STI financial outcomes

The following table provides the FY21 STI outcomes awarded to Executive KMP. Under the FY21 STI plan 25% of the 
awarded STI is provided in equity in the form of Service Rights, with vesting occurring 4-years from grant and subject 
to service conditions.

ACTUAL STI 
AWARDED
$

CASH
$

DEFERRED
$

SERVICE 
RIGHTS 
ISSUED

STI MAXIMUM
$

STI ACTUAL AS A % 
OF STI MAXIMUM
%

Robbie Cooke

442,881

331,161

110,720

Prav Pala

233,924

175,443

58,481

Steven Chapman

50,983

38,237

12,746

To be issued 
in FY22

To be issued 
in FY22

To be issued 
in FY22

940,500

47.1%

494,000

47.4%

107,667

47.4%

Total

727,788

544,841

181,947

1,542,167

47.2%

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The following table provides the statutory remuneration outcomes for Executive KMP for FY21 and FY20 and is 
prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards. The statutory remuneration outcomes disclosed in 
this table differs from the Executive KMPs’ FY21 Total Remuneration Opportunity (TRO) and the elements of the 
remuneration framework outlined in Section 3.  Differences arise mainly due to the accounting treatment of long term 
benefits (which include annual leave and long service leave) and share-based payments (performance rights, LEPRs, 
remuneration sacrifice rights and option plans). Disclosures include an accounting value for current year rights and all 
unvested option plan awards. 

The Accounting Standards require remuneration in the form of equity awards to be expensed (and therefore included 
as remuneration) over the performance period of the option plan even though an Executive KMP may not realise any 
benefit from that award. 

Statutory Executive KMP remuneration table

EXEC-
UTIVE  
KMP

CASH SAL-
ARY

SUPER- 
ANNUA-
TION

NON- 
MONETARY 
BENEFITS

CASH STI 
INCENTIVE

OTHER/
IPO  
BONUS

LONG- 
SERVICE  
LEAVE

OPTIONS

RIGHTS2

TOTAL

PERFOR-
MANCE  
BASED EQUITY  
COMPONENT

SHORT TERM

LONG TERM

$

$

$

%

$

$

$

$

Robbie Cooke

FY21

FY20

906,290

21,694

34,6931

332,161

844,023

21,003

14,0321

-

Prav Pala

FY21

FY20

453,525

21,694

409,436

24,132

Steven Chapman6

FY21

FY20

28,615

1,808

-

-

Angela Green7

367,386

21,694

379,413

21,003

FY21

FY20

Total

-

-

-

-

-

-

$

-

-

$

-

-

-

497,512 379,8653

2,172,215

641,056

691,883

2,211,997

175,443

39,916

146,738 246,9834

1,084,299

-

102,000

24,384

186,071

383,896

1,129,919

38,237

-

-

-

-

-

22,0387

10,000

-

-

-

-

35,971

38,9355

143,566

-

-

-

2,768

76,184

490,070

55,295

266,509

732,220

55.7%

60.3%

52.5%

50.4%

n/a

-

16.1%

43.9%

FY21

1,755,816

66,890

34,693

545,841

22,038

39,916 682,989

741,967 3,890,151

FY20 1,632,872

66,138

14,032

-

112,000

24,384 882,422 1,342,288 4,074,136

1  Non-monetary benefits for Robbie Cooke relate to an allowance claimable to a maximum of $50,000 annually for reimbursement of 

personal travel expenses.

2  Rights relate to the Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan, the LEPR Plan and the Service Rights awarded in FY20 under the STI Plan. These 

rights are classified as long term due to the terms of each respective Plan.      

3 

4 

5 

Included in the FY21 cost of Rights awarded to Robbie Cooke, is an amount of $110,720 relating to the FY21 STI incentive and an amount of 
$113,985 relating to the amortised accounting cost of the FY20 STI incentive.     

Included in the FY21 accounting cost of Rights awarded to Prav Pala, is an amount of $58,481 relating to the FY21 STI incentive and an 
amount of $46,933 relating to the the amortised accounting cost of the FY20 STI incentive.  

Included in the FY21 accounting cost of Rights awarded to Steve Chapman, is an amount of $12,746 relating to the FY21 STI incentive and an 
amount of $13,115 relating to the the amortised accounting cost of the FY20 STI incentive.  

6  Steven Chapman commenced as KMP effective 11 June 2021. Pro rata Fixed Remuneration figures provided from 1 June 2021 to 30 June 

2021. The STI, Options and Rights figures represent the full FY21 charges.  

7  Angela Green ceased employment with the Company effective 10 June 2021. The amount of $22,038 relates to 1 months notice payment 

received.  This amount is included as ‘Other/IPO Bonus’ remuneration.

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Non-executive Directors receive a base fee, and where applicable, an additional fee in recognition of the higher 
workload and extra responsibilities resulting from Board Committee participation.  Fees are based on peer market 
benchmarks and reviewed annually.

Non-executive Directors do not receive incentive payments, and following Tyro’s listing on the ASX on 6 December 
2019, they are no longer entitled to participate in any Tyro employee or Executive equity plans other than the 
remuneration sacrifice rights plan.  They receive no non-monetary benefits and do not participate in any retirement 
benefit scheme, other than statutory superannuation contributions.

Under the ASX Listing Rules, the total amount or value of remuneration paid to Non-executive Directors in any year 
may not exceed the amount approved by shareholders at the Company’s general meeting. This amount has been 
fixed at $1,400,000 per annum, as approved by shareholders at Tyro’s 2019 annual general meeting.  

As at the date of this report, the Non-executive Director base fee agreed to be paid by us is $140,000 effective from 
1 July 2021 (FY20: $108,000) per annum before superannuation contributions. Non-executive Directors are also paid 
additional base fees for the following roles:

•  Chair of the Board: $70,000 per annum (for total remuneration of $210,000 per annum); and
•  Chair of a Board Committee: $20,000 per Committee Chair (for total remuneration of $160,000 per annum), not 

payable if the Committee Chair is also the Board Chair.

Other than the Chair of a Board Committee, Non-executive Directors are not paid an additional fee for being a 
member of a Board Committee. In addition to the remuneration above, the Company will contribute statutory 
superannuation to a complying superannuation fund.

Remuneration is reviewed annually and any increase to it will be at the discretion of the Board but will not exceed the 
aggregate amount approved by Shareholders. The table below outlines the statutory remuneration paid to Non-
executive Directors in FY21 in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards.

NON-EXECUTIVE 
DIRECTOR

FINANCIAL 
YEAR

CASH FEES

SUPER-
ANNUATION

David Thodey

Hamish Corlett

David Fite

Catherine Harris2

Aliza Knox3

Fiona Pak-Poy

Paul Rickard

Kerry Roxburgh4

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

$

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

23,349

-

-

-

76,667

71,333

-

-

Total

FY21

100,016

FY20

71,333

$

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7,283

6,777

-

-

7,283

6,777

OPTIONS

RIGHTS1

$

$

TOTAL

$

7,691

197,100

204,791

14,272

197,525

211,797 

4,752

9,048

9,829

118,260

134,261

123,012

143,309 

118,260

128,089

18,414

134,261

152,675 

10,179

18,977

-

-

-

140,160

150,339

159,125

-

-

178,102

23,349

-

118,260

118,260

9,137

110,352

119,489 

11,234

21,065

-

78,110

91,993

-

173,294

191,168 

-

PERFORMANCE  
BASED EQUITY  
COMPONENT

%

3.8%

6.7%

3.9%

6.3%

7.7%

12.1%

6.8%

10.7%

-

-

-

7.6%

6.5%

11.0%

-

27,067

65,611

92,678

29.2%

43,685

770,150

921,134

117,980

893,128

1,089,218

1. 

Included in rights for FY21 are the fees Non-executive Directors have salary sacrificed to be issued as service rights in FY22.

2.  Catherine Harris stepped down from the Board on 30 June 2021.  Remuneration details are provided for the full year.

3.  Aliza Knox was appointed to the Board on 21 April 2021.  The table above reflects the Non-executive Director fees received from that date.

4.     Kerry Roxburgh stepped down from the Board on 15 October 2019.  

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7.1  RIGHTS 

Unissued ordinary shares in Tyro held under service rights plans, the FY21 LTI performance rights plan, the Liquidity 
Event Performance Rights plan and remuneration sacrifice rights plans at the date of this report are shown in the 
table below:

AWARD TYPE

GRANT DATE EXPIRY DATE

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY18 Executive STI

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY19 Director Fees

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY19 Executive STI

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY20 Director Fees

Liquidity Event Performance 
Rights

FY20 STI service rights

FY21 LTI performance rights

1 

10 years after relevant vesting date

18 Apr 2019

5 Sep 2018

16 Oct 2019

16 Oct 2019

9 May to  
6 Aug 2019

14 Dec 2020

5 Feb 2021

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

1

1

2

EXERCISE 
PRICE

% VESTED

% EXER-
CISED

n/a

100.0%

100.0%

n/a

100.0%

100.0%

n/a

100.0%

100.0%

n/a

100.0%

85.0%

NUMBER 
HELD AS 
RIGHTS

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

n/a

66.7%

39.8% 1,966,666

n/a

n/a

40.1%

11.9%

570,651

0%

0%

750,233

2  FY21 LTI performance rights expire immediatly after vesting date should the performance hurldes not be met.  Should the performance 

hurldes be met on vesting date, then shares are issued to plan participants without the requirement to exercise. 

Rights held by Executive and Non-executive KMP

BALANCE 
AT START OF 
YEAR

GRANTED AS 
COMPENSA-
TION

EXERCISED

FORFEITED

BALANCE AT 
END OF YEAR

VESTED AND 
EXERCIS-
ABLE

UNVESTED

NAME

NON-EXECUTIVE KMP:

David Thodey

FY21

FY20

131,905

-

(131,905)

-

131,905

-

Hamish Corlett

FY21

89,658

-

(89,658)

David Fite

FY20

FY21

FY20

-

89,658

-

89,658

-

(89,658)

-

89,658

-

Catherine Harris1

FY21

106,262

-

(106,262)

Aliza Knox

Fiona Pak-Poy

Paul Rickard

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

93,735

106,262

(93,735)

-

-

73,692

-

-

-

-

-

(73,692)

-

73,692

-

61,432

-

(61,432)

138,472

61,432

(138,472)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

131,905

131,905

-

-

89,658

89,658

-

-

89,658

89,658

-

-

106,262

106,262

-

-

-

-

-

-

73,692

73,692

-

-

61,432

61,432

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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EXECUTIVE KMP:

BALANCE 
AT START OF 
YEAR

GRANTED AS 
COMPENSA-
TION

EXERCISED

FORFEITED

BALANCE AT 
END OF YEAR

VESTED AND 
EXERCIS-
ABLE

UNVESTED

Robbie Cooke

FY21

1,200,000

230,476

-

FY20

1,306,604

270,583

(377,187)

Prav Pala

FY21

333,333

77,790

(166,667)

FY20

500,000

85,792

(252,459)

Steven Chapman2

FY21

FY20

-

-

22,187

(2,718)

7,951

(7,951)

-

-

-

-

-

-

Angela Green3

FY21

200,000

62,626

(107,671)

(154,955)

1,430,476

826,240

604,236

1,200,000

400,000

800,000

244,456

10,805

233,652

333,333

-

333,333

19,469

302

19,167

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

200,000

FY20

300,000

7,553

(107,553)

-

200,000

1  Catherine Harris stepped down from the Board on 30 June 2021.  Details are provided for the full year.

2  Steven Chapman commenced as KMP effective 11 June 2021. Details of his rights prior to the commencement as KMP are included in this 

table.  

3  Angela Green ceased employment with the Company effective 10 June 2021. All remaining rights were forfeited from that date.

Details of rights vested, exercised and forfeited in the year are included in the table below.

AWARD TYPE

GRANT DATE

VESTING DATE

VESTED %

EXERCISED
 (NUMBER)

FORFEITED
 (NUMBER)

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY18 Executive STI

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY19 Director fees

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY19 Executive STI

Remuneration sacrifice rights in 
respect of FY20 Director fees

18 Apr 2019

1 Jul 2019

100.0%

106,604

5 Sep 2018

1 Jul 2019

100.0%

391,983

16 Oct 2019

7 Apr 2020

100.0%

773,579

Nil

Nil

Nil

16 Oct 2019

1 Jul 2020

100.0%

596,421

105,617

Liquidity Event Performance 
Rights

9 May to  
6 Aug 2019 

Refer to Note 1

66.7%

1,633,334

100,000

FY20 STI service rights

14 Dec 2020

Refer to Note 2

FY21 LTI performance rights

5 Feb 2021

Refer to Note 3

40.1%

0%

87,073

Nil

73,824

84,083

1  Vesting occurs in three equal tranches, as follows: one third on the date of the liquidity event (Initial Vesting Date); one third on the date 

that is 12 months after the initial vesting date; and one third on the date that is 24 months after the Initial vesting date. 

2  Vesting occurs equally on a monthly basis over a 24-month period from the Initial Vesting Date. 

3  Subject to passing the ‘Gateway’ and satisfying the performance hurdle, the performance rights vest in one tranche 3 years following the 

effective date.  

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Unissued ordinary shares in Tyro held under option plans at the date of this report are shown in the table below:

AWARD TYPE

GRANT DATE

EXPIRY DATE

EXERCISE PRICE

NUMBER HELD AS 
OPTIONS

Options exercisable between 
$0.375 to $1.76 expiring between 
17 October 2020 and 22 July 2024

Options exercisable at Nil expiring 
between 30 December 2024 and 
25 June 2025

Options exercisable at Nil expiring 
on 31 August 2025

Between  
18 Oct 2013  
to 19 Dec 2018

31 Dec 2018  
to 26 Jun 2019

Between  
17 Oct 2020  
to 22 Jul 2024

Between  
30 Dec 2024  
and 25 Jun 2025

1 Sep 2019

31 Aug 2025

$0.375 to $1.76

14,241,742

Nil

Nil

1,670,812

1,033,074

Options exercisable at $1.50 
expiring on 30 April 2026

1 May and 6 Aug 
2019

30 Apr 2026

$1.50

5,762,443

Options exercisable at $1.79 
expiring on 30 September 2026

Options exercisable at $0.08 
expiring on 17 December 2020

1 Oct 2019

30 Sep 2026

$1.79

6,647,422

17 Dec 2010

17 Dec 2020

$0.08

-

Options held by Executive and Non-executive KMP

BALANCE 
AT START OF 
YEAR

GRANTED AS 
COMPENSA-
TION

EXERCISED

FORFEITED

BALANCE AT 
END OF YEAR

VESTED AND 
EXERCISABLE

UNVESTED

NAME

NON-EXECUTIVE KMP:

David Thodey

FY21

FY20

82,286

82,286

Hamish Corlett

FY21

68,000

FY20

68,000

David Fite

FY21

2,919,318

FY20

2,919,318

Catherine Harris1

FY21

164,626

Aliza Knox

FY20

164,626

FY21

FY20

-

-

Fiona Pak-Poy

FY21

83,000

FY20

-

83,000

Paul Rickard

FY21

253,940

FY20

253,940

-

-

(24,540)

-

-

-

-

-

(2,761,174)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

82,286

82,286

68,000

68,000

5,714

2,857

-

-

76,572

79,429

68,000

68,000

158,144

57,822

99,464

2,919,318

2,795,991

123,327

(55,888)

(107,618)

1,120

1,120

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

164,626

40,722

123,904

-

-

83,000

83,000

-

-

-

-

-

-

83,000

83,000

229,400

106,682

122,718

253,940

114,936

139,004

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EXECUTIVE KMP:

BALANCE 
AT START OF 
YEAR

GRANTED AS 
COMPENSA-
TION

EXERCISED

FORFEITED

BALANCE AT 
END OF YEAR

VESTED AND 
EXERCISABLE

UNVESTED

Robbie Cooke

FY21

5,504,530

-

FY20

3,766,945

1,737,585

-

-

Prav Pala

FY21

2,033,739

-

(225,553)

FY20

1,474,909

558,830

Steven Chapman2

FY21

342,334

-

FY20

181,337

160,997

Angela Green3

FY21

494,044

-

FY20

-

454,437

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

5,504,530

1,303,894

4,200,636

5,504,530

864,068

4,640,462

1,808,186

492,644

1,315,542

2,033,739

625,624

1,408,115

342,334

342,334

(494,044)

-

-

494,044

-

-

-

-

342,334

342,334

-

494,044

1  Catherine Harris stepped down from the Board on 30 June 2021.  Details are provided for the full year.

2  Steven Chapman commenced as KMP effective 11 June 2021. Details of his options prior to the commencement as KMP are included in this 

table.  

3  Angela Green ceased employment with the Company effective 10 June 2021. All remaining options were forfeited from that date.

Details of all current options vested, exercised and forfeited are included in the table below.

AWARD TYPE

GRANT DATE

VESTING DATE

VESTED % EXERCISED FORFEITED

Options exercisable between  
$0.375 to $1.76 expiring between  
17 October 2020 and 22 July 2024

Between  
18 Oct 2013  
to 19 Dec 2018

Monthly linear

85%

32%

6%

Options exercisable at Nil expiring 
between 30 December 2024 and  
25 June 2025

Options exercisable at Nil expiring 
on 31 August 2025

31 Dec 2018  
to 1 Apr 2019

Annual linear

38%

17%

11%

1 Sep 2019

Annual linear

18%

10%

22%

Options exercisable at $1.50 
expiring on 30 April 2026

1 May 2019

Options exercisable at $1.79 
expiring on 30 September 2026

1 Oct 2019

Annually over 4 tranches 
based on performance 
conditions

Annually over 4 tranches 
based on performance 
conditions

0%

0%

6%

0%

0%

15%

Options exercisable at $0.08 
expiring on 17 December 2020

17 Dec 2010

Fully vested on grant

100%

100%

0%

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This section sets out the required statutory disclosures of equity grants for Tyro’s Executive KMP.

EXEC-
UTIVE 
KMP

GRANT DATE

Robbie Cooke

NUMBER OF 
OPTIONS/
RIGHTS 
GRANTED

VESTING 
DATE

EXERCISE 
PRICE

VALUE OF 
OPTIONS/
RIGHTS AT 
GRANT DATE

VESTED %

VESTED
 (NUMBER) 

FORFEIT-
ED/
LAPSED %

VALUE OF 
OPTIONS/
RIGHTS 
EXERCISED 
DURING THE 
REPORTING 
PERIOD

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

$31,211

-

-

-

$15,000

-

$183,333

-

-

-

-

-

$9,024

-

$1.76

$475,159

63.3%

1,151,514

$1.50

$488,235

-

-

Nil

Nil

$1,320,000

66.7%

800,000

$419,047

40.0%

152,380

$1.79

$816,231

-

-

Nil

Nil

$0.45

$0.60

$1.49

$1.76

$209,077

41.7%

26,240

$556,104

-

-

$31,211

100.0%

211,268

 $26,479 

100.0%

166,129

 $39,580 

100.0%

141,403

 $59,492 

68.3%

170,827

Nil

$74,999

40.0%

28,570

$1.50

$197,647

-

-

Nil

$550,000

66.7%

333,334

$1.79

$262,510

-

-

$86,088

41.7%

10,805

Nil

Nil

$163,359

-

-

-

-

-

-

$1.50

$197,647

$1.79

$262,510

Nil

Nil

$24,057

41.7%

3,020

$47,064

-

-

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

$330,000

66.7%

200,000

33.3% $110,000

$1.50

$1.79

Nil

Nil

$12,334

$213,472

-

-

-

-

100.0%

100.0%

-

-

$67,906

41.7%

7,671

62.5%

$25,468

$132,845

-

-

100.0%

-

19 Dec 2018

1,818,180

1 May 2019

1,567,813

26 Jun 2019

1,200,000

26 Jun 2019

380,952

1 Oct 2019

1,737,585

2 Sep 2020

62,975

1 Feb 2021

167,501

Prav Pala

10 Oct 2014

211,268

6 Oct 2015

166,129

2 Nov 2016

141,403

1 Feb 2018

250,000

31 Dec 2018

71,428

1 May 2019

634,681

9 May 2019

500,000

1 Oct 2019

558,830

2 Sep 2020

25,930

1 Feb 2021

51,860

Steven Chapman8

1 May 2019

181,337

1 Oct 2019

160,997

2 Sep 2020

1 Feb 2021

7,246

14,941

Angela Green9

6 Aug 2019

300,000

6 Aug 2019

39,607

1 Oct 2019

454,437

2 Sep 2020

20,453

1 Feb 2021

42,173

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1

1

1

1

4

2

3

5

6

7

2

5

6

7

3

2

5

6

7

1  Options granted vest monthly in equal tranches over a period of 5 years and are not subject to any performance conditions.

2  Options granted vest annually in equal 25% tranches over a period of four years, commencing 24 months after the grant date and subject to 
the following performance conditions: (i) 25% compound gross revenue growth per annum; and (ii) a positive net profit result (before tax and 
share-based expenses). If a tranche does not satisfy both performance criteria on the relevant testing date, the tranche will be retested at 
the next testing date (if any).

3  Vesting will occur in three equal tranches, as follows: one third on the date of the liquidity event (Initial Vesting Date); one third on the date 

that is 12 months after the Initial Vesting Date; and one third on the date that is 24 months after the Initial Vesting Date.

4  Options granted vest annually in equal 20% tranches over a period of five years, commencing 12 months after the grant date and are not 

subject to any performance conditions.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT5  Options granted vest annually in equal 25% tranches over a period of four years, commencing 24 months after the grant date and subject to 
the following performance conditions: (i) 20% compound gross revenue growth per annum; and (ii) a positive net profit result (before tax and 
share-based expenses). If a tranche does not satisfy both performance criteria on the relevant testing date, the tranche will be retested at 
the next testing date (if any).

6  Vesting occurs equally on a monthly basis over a 24-month period from the Initial Vesting Date. 

7  Subject to passing the ‘Gateway’ and satisfying the Performance Hurdle, the Performance Rights vest in one tranche 3 years following the 

Effective Date.  

8  Steven Chapman commenced as KMP effective 11 June 2021. Details of his options prior to the commencement as KMP are included in this 

table.  

9  Angela Green ceased employment with the Company effective 10 June 2021. All remaining options were forfeited from that date.

8.  SUMMARY OF SHARES HELD BY EXECUTIVE AND NON-

EXECUTIVE KMP

The number of ordinary shares held in Tyro at 30 June 2021 by each KMP, including their personally related parties, is 
set out below. 

NAME

NON-EXECUTIVE KMP:

David Thodey

FY21

FY20

Hamish Corlett1

FY21

David  Fite

FY20

FY21

FY20

Catherine Harris2

FY21

Aliza Knox

Fiona Pak-Poy

Paul Rickard

EXECUTIVE KMP:

Robbie Cooke

Prav Pala

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

FY21

FY20

Steven Chapman

FY21

FY20

BALANCE AT START OF 
YEAR

RECEIVED DURING THE 
YEAR ON EXERCISE OF 
OPTIONS/RIGHTS

OTHER CHANGES 
DURING THE YEAR

BALANCE AT END OF 
YEAR

859,091

750,000

1,114,263

932,444

18,547,995

20,547,995

627,826

425,000

-

-

32,728

-

2,319,660

2,144,824

491,936

-

272,662

-

5,658

-

131,905

-

89,658

-

-

109,091

-

181,819

2,850,832

(2,804,966)

-

(2,000,000)

162,150

93,735

-

-

73,692

-

85,972

138,472

-

377,187

392,220

252,459

3,020

-

-

109,091

-

-

-

32,728

(307,061)

36,364

-

114,749

-

20,203

-

5,658

990,996

859,091

1,203,921

1,114,263

18,593,861

18,547,995

789,976

627,826

-

-

106,420

32,728

2,098,571

2,319,660

491,936

491,936

664,882

272,662

8,678

5,658

1  Shares indicated in the table are beneficially held by Hamish Corlett. Hamish Corlett also has a relevant interest in TDM Growth Partners Pty 

Ltd and other associated entities who have a total interest in Tyro of 23,853,855 ordinary shares. 

2  Catherine Harris stepped down from the Board on 30 June 2021.  Details are provided for the full year.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021AUDITED REMUNERATION REPORT9.  REMUNERATION AND BOARD GOVERNANCE

The People Committee consists of four Non-executive Directors, with one performing the role of Chair.  This 
Committee provides Tyro with a robust governance framework to ensure remuneration policies, practices and 
outcomes are reasonable and consistent with shareholder expectations. The diagram below provides an overview of 
this framework.

TYRO REMUNERATION GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK

Board - Chaired by David Thodey 
REVIEW AND APPROVE TYRO’S REMUNERATION POLICIES AND FRAMEWORK TO ENSURE 
THAT THEY ARE ALIGNED WITH TYRO’S PURPOSE, VALUES, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND RISK 
APPETITE. REVIEW AND APPROVE REMUNERATION OUTCOMES FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES, 
OTHERS AS REQUIRED BY THE LAW AND NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.

Board People Committee – Chaired by Fiona Pak-Poy (from 21 June 2021)

The Committee assists the Board with remuneration matters by providing objective oversight and making 
recommendations to the Board in relation to:
• 
• 

Tyro’s remuneration policy and frameworks;
the remuneration of the CEO | Managing Director, other senior executives and others as required by 
the law; and 
the process for allocating any pool of Directors fees approved by shareholders.

• 

Composition
The people Committee is independent of management. Accordingly, the Committee consists entirely of 
Non-executive Directors, the majority of whom are independent. Where appropriate, the CEO | Managing 
Director and Chief People Officer attend Committee meetings. However, they do not participate in formal 
decision-making or in discussions relating to their own remuneration. 

DELEGATED BOARD COMMITTEE

CEO | Managing Director 
Present proposals on remuneration, 
implementing remuneration polices and other 
matters within the authority of the Committee

Remuneration Consultants 
External and independent remuneration advice 
and information to assist the Committee in 
decision making

For further details regarding the People Committee Charter, refer to our Investor Relations website at:  
www.tyro.com/about-tyro/investors/

The People Committee is responsible for advising the Board on:

•  annual allocation of the pool of fees approved by shareholders for Directors;
•  annual remuneration of the CEO | Managing Director, the CEO | Managing Director’s direct reports and any other 

persons under the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR), amongst others;

the monitoring of culture, including risk culture;
the BEAR requirements around remuneration of accountable persons; 

•  performance review of the CEO, executive leadership team and other BEAR accountable persons;
•  employee equity plans;
• 
• 
•  executive recruitment, termination policies and succession planning;
• 
•  performance and development of Directors including ongoing skills assessment, professional development and 

recruitment, reappointment and removal of Directors;

annual evaluation of the performance of the Board; and 

•  strategic people initiatives, including diversity and related disclosures, including sustainability reporting. 

Remuneration is set by the Board with the advice of People Committee and is reviewed on an annual basis. During this 
process, consideration is given to the overall performance of Tyro, as well as prevailing market conditions. 

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9.1  BOARD GOVERNANCE

Information relating to corporate governance is covered in 
detail in the Investor section of our website and economic 
sustainability is covered in more detail in the Directors’ Report 
on pages 52 to 63.

Our Corporate Governance Statement describes in full our 
approach to corporate governance and our compliance with the 
Recommendations of the ASX Corporate Governance Council. 
Tyro complies with the fourth edition of the ASX Corporate 
Governance Principles and Recommendations, which have 
formed the basis of Tyro’s decision making and accountability 
since listing on the ASX. The Corporate Governance Statement 
in respect of FY21 has been lodged with the ASX and is available 
from our website at:  https://investors.tyro.com/investor-
centre/?page=corporate-governance.

This Corporate Governance Statement has been approved by 
the Board and is current as at 26 August 2021.

9.2  REMUNERATION CONSULTANTS

The People Committee engages independent remuneration 
advisors on an as-needs basis to provide information regarding 
market dynamics, trends and regulatory developments, 
specifically those impacting financial services companies. The 
People Committee and the Board consider this information 
along with other market insights to determine what would 
be the most appropriate recommendations to make for Tyro 
regarding remuneration.

In FY21, KPMG was engaged to provide benchmarking data 
for Non-executive Directors, Executive KMP and the executive 
leadership team (XLT) for the purposes of informing the People 
Committee of the current market positioning of KMP and XLT 
against Tyro’s benchmarking peers. KPMG was paid $22,000 
for the benchmarking review and the review of the existing 
remuneration framework’s compliance with BEAR.  Godfrey 
Remuneration Group was also engaged in FY21 relating to 
services for providing remuneration data for Executives. Godfrey 
Remuneration Group was paid $16,000 for these services.   

The Board is satisfied that no remuneration recommendations 
(as defined in the Corporations Act 2001) were provided by 
KPMG, Godfrey Remuneration Group or any other external 
remuneration advisors during FY21.

9.3  LOANS AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS

No loans have been granted to any KMP.  There were no 
transactions during the reporting period involving an equity 
instrument to KMP or related parties, other than those disclosed 
in the Remuneration Report. 

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Independence 
Declaration

Ernst & Young 
200 George Street 
Sydney  NSW  2000 Australia 
GPO Box 2646 Sydney  NSW  2001 

  Tel: +61 2 9248 5555 
Fax: +61 2 9248 5959 
ey.com/au 

Auditor’s Independence Declaration to the Directors of Tyro Payments 
Limited 

As lead auditor for the audit of the financial report of Tyro Payments Limited for the financial year 
ended 30 June 2021, I declare to the best of my knowledge and belief, there have been: 

a)  no contraventions of the auditor independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 in 

relation to the audit; and   

b)  no contraventions of any applicable code of professional conduct in relation to the audit. 

This declaration is in respect of Tyro Payments Limited and the entities it controlled during the 
financial year. 

Ernst & Young 

Michael Byrne 
Partner 
26 August 2021 

A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited 
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation 

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REPORT

101

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FY21

102

TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021Financial Statements 

Statement of Comprehensive Income 

Statement of Financial Position 

Statement of Cash Flows 

Statement of Changes in Equity 

Notes to the financial statements 

1.  General Information and Statement of Accounting Policies 

2. 

3. 

4. 

Revenue and Expenses 

Segment Reporting 

Income Tax 

5.  Cash and Cash Equivalents 

6.  Due from Other Financial Institutions 

7. 

8. 

9. 

Trade and Other Receivables 

Loans 

Leases 

10.  Financial Investments 

11. 

Investment in Associates 

12.  Property, Plant and Equipment 

13. 

Intangible Assets and Goodwill 

14.  Share Based Payments  

15.  Deposits 

16.  Trade Payables and Other Liabilities 

17.  Current and Non-Current Provisions 

18.  Contributed Equity and Reserves 

19.  Financial Risk Management Objectives, Policies and Processes  

20.  Commitments and Contingencies 

21.  Acquisition of Subsidiary  

22.  List of Subsidiaries 

23.  Earnings Per Share 

24.  Auditor’s Remuneration 

25.  Related Party Disclosures 

26.  Matters Subsequent to the End of the Financial Year  

27.  Parent Entity Disclosures 

28.  Contingent Liabilities 

Directors’ Declaration  

Independent Audit Report to the Members of Tyro Payments Limited 

104

104

105

106

107

108

108

118

119

120

121

122

123

123

123

125

125

126

127

128

130

131

131

132

133

141

142

143

144

144

145

146

147

147

148

149

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021

Fees and terminal rental income 

Interest income on loans 

Fair value gain/(loss) on loans 

Interest income on cash and deposits 

Interest income on assets at FVOCI 

Sale of terminal accessories 

Other revenue and income 

Total revenue 

Interchange, integration and support fees 

Interest expense on deposits 

Terminal accessories 

Total direct expenses 

Gross profit 

Employee benefits expense (excluding share-based expense) 

Share-based payments expense 

Administrative expenses 

Contractor and consulting expenses 

Marketing expenses 

Depreciation and amortisation 

Lending and non-lending losses 

Net interest expense 

Total operating expenses 

Share of loss from associates 

Initial Public Offering (IPO) expenses 

Loss before tax expense 

Income tax expense 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income/(loss) 

FVOCI reserve – revaluation gain/(loss), net of tax 

Total comprehensive loss for the year 

Earnings per share for loss attributable to the Ordinary Equity Holders of Tyro 
Payments Limited  

Basic loss per share

Diluted loss per share

NOTE

2021 
$000

GROUP

2020 
$000

2 

228,069 

201,770 

1,952 

1,270 

394 

557 

1,152 

5,128 

4,179 

(2,361) 

991 

791 

1,056 

4,249 

238,522 

210,675 

(117,371) 

(115,722) 

(379) 

(1,323) 

(516) 

(962) 

(119,073) 

(117,200) 

119,449 

93,475 

(76,174) 

(67,662) 

(9,342) 

(10,896) 

(22,903) 

(16,598) 

(7,192) 

(5,419) 

(5,913) 

(5,716) 

2 

2 

2 

2 

9, 12, 13 

(15,364) 

(12,524) 

2 

(10,863) 

(1,958) 

11

(517) 

(535) 

(147,774) 

(121,802) 

(1,119) 

(331) 

- 

(9,730) 

(29,775) 

(38,057) 

4 

(48) 

- 

(29,823) 

(38,057) 

105 

(96) 

(29,718) 

(38,153) 

Cents

Cents

23

23

(5.90)

(5.90)

(7.99)

(7.99)

The above Statement of Comprehensive Income should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Notes.

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AS AT 30 JUNE 2021

NOTE

2021 
$000

Assets 

Current assets 

Cash and cash equivalents 

Due from other financial institutions 

Trade and other receivables 

Loans 

Prepayments 

Net investment in sublease 

Inventories 

Total current assets 

Non-current assets 

Loans 

Financial investments 

Investment in associates 

Property, plant and equipment 

Right of use assets 

Intangible assets and goodwill 

Net investment in sublease 

Deferred tax assets 

Total non-current assets 

Total assets 

Liabilities 

Current liabilities 

Deposits 

Trade payables and other liabilities 

Lease liabilities 

Provisions 

Total current liabilities 

Non-current liabilities 

Other liabilities

Lease liabilities 

Provisions 

Deferred tax liabilities 

Total non-current liabilities 

Total liabilities 

Net assets 

Equity 

Contributed equity 

Reserves 

Accumulated losses 

Total equity 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

8 

10 

11 

12 

9 

13 

9 

4 

15 

16 

9 

17 

16

9 

17 

4 

18 

18 

18 

GROUP

2020 
$000

103,761 

18,429 

15,172 

9,840 

2,223 

823 

60 

84,521 

19,191 

17,095 

13,408 

3,337 

- 

128 

137,680 

150,308 

1,979 

69,068 

4,998 

26,027 

1,654 

140,867

- 

2,081 

69,761 

- 

17,266 

4,528 

5,367 

544 

13,856 

13,984 

258,449

113,531 

396,129 

263,839 

75,481 

29,215 

2,812 

15,382 

50,542 

10,332 

4,672 

4,347 

122,890 

69,893 

90,478 

- 

1,227 

870 

92,575 

215,465

- 

2,811 

1,416 

- 

4,227 

74,120 

180,664 

189,719 

274,436 

265,763 

40,827

28,477 

(134,599) 

(104,521) 

180,664 

189,719 

The above Statement of Financial Position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Notes.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORTSTATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021

Cash flows from operating activities 

Fees and terminal rental income received 

Interchange, integration and support fees paid 

Interest received 

Interest paid 

JobKeeper and other income received 

Payments to employees, suppliers and IPO costs: 

Personnel expenses paid 

Terminals purchased 

Other operating expenses and IPO costs 

Movement in net scheme and other receivables 

Movement in customer loans 

Movement in deposits 

Net cash flows from operating activities 

Cash flows from investing activities 

Movement in term deposit investments 

Purchases 

Proceeds on maturity 

Movement in financial investments 

Purchases 

Proceeds 

Movement in equity investments 

Investments is associates 

Purchase of property, plant and equipment (excluding terminals) 

Payments for recognised intangible assets 

Payments received from sublease 

Net cash used in investing activities 

Cash flows from financing activities 

Proceeds from issue of shares (net of transaction costs) 

Proceeds from exercise of share options 

Payments for lease liabilities 

Net cash flows from financing activities 

Net movement in cash and cash equivalents 

Effect of foreign exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 

NOTE

2021 
$000

GROUP

2020 
$000

227,920 

202,499 

(117,800) 

(115,986) 

3,018 

(415) 

6,069

6,035 

(487) 

4,264 

(75,125) 

(70,263) 

(16,360) 

(7,176) 

(30,635) 

(43,477) 

(7,650) 

(2,918) 

8,867 

294 

24,939 

23,624 

11,043 

8,194 

- 

(10,033) 

5,028 

- 

(11,883) 

(42,211) 

8,951 

12,967 

(2,491) 

(1,205) 

(28,076) 

376 

(3,498) 

(1,663) 

(3,082) 

405 

(29,300) 

(47,115) 

- 

119,994 

4,059 

(5,069) 

3,913 

(4,815) 

(1,010) 

119,092 

(19,267) 

27 

80,171 

(310) 

103,761 

23,900 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year 

5 

84,521 

103,761 

The above Statement of Cash Flows should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Notes.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORTSTATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021

GROUP

At 1 July 2019 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive income 

Issue of share capital – from IPO1 

Issue of share capital – from options and rights exercised 

Share-based payments 

Transfer to general reserve for credit losses 

At 30 June 2020 

At 1 July 2020 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income 

Deferred tax on equity movements

Total comprehensive income 

Issue of ordinary shares 

Share-based payments 

Transfer to general reserve for credit losses 

CON-
TRIBUTED 
EQUITY 

FVOCI 
RESERVE 

SHARE-
BASED 
PAYMENTS 
RESERVE 

GENERAL 
RESERVE 
FOR CREDIT 
LOSSES 

ACCU-
MULATED 
LOSSES 

$000 

$000 

$000 

$000 

$000 

TOTAL 

$000

141,856 

- 

- 

- 

119,994 

3,913 

- 

- 

265,763 

265,763 

- 

- 

- 

- 

8,673 

- 

- 

99 

- 

(96) 

(96) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

3 

3 

- 

185 

(80) 

105 

- 

- 

- 

15,475 

1,918 

(66,279) 

93,069 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

10,896 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(38,057) 

(38,057) 

- 

(96) 

(38,057) 

(38,153) 

- 

- 

- 

119,994 

3,913 

10,896 

- 

185 

(185) 

- 

26,371 

2,103 

(104,521) 

189,719 

26,371 

2,103 

(104,521) 

189,719 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

11,990 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(29,823) 

(29,823) 

- 

- 

185 

(80) 

(29,823) 

(29,718) 

- 

- 

8,673 

11,990 

- 

255 

(255) 

- 

At 30 June 2021 

18 

274,436 

108 

38,361 

2,358 

(134,599) 

180,664 

1  Net of related capital raising after-tax costs of $5,006,000.

The above Statement of Changes in Equity should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Notes.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORTNOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021

1.  GENERAL INFORMATION AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

General Information

The financial report of the Group was authorised for issue in accordance with a resolution of the Directors on 26 August 2021.

The Group is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), registered and domiciled in Australia.  The nature of the operations 
and principal activities of the Group are described in the Directors’ Report.

On 13 April 2021, Tyro Payments (Ben Alliance) Pty Ltd was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyro Payments Limited, to 
serve as the employing entity for staff moving from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd as part of the alliance.  

On 31 May 2021, the Company acquired a 100% ownership interest in Medipass Solutions Pty Ltd and its controlled entities 
(Medipass).

As a result of the transactions noted above, the financial report is now prepared on a consolidated basis.  The financial report includes 
the consolidated financial statements of Tyro Payments Limited and its controlled entities (together referred to as the Group).  In the 
comparative period there was no consolidated group and therefore Group balances represent the Company on a stand-alone basis.  

The significant policies which have been adopted in the preparation of this financial report are set out below.

(a)  Basis of preparation 

The financial report is a general purpose financial report, which has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the 
Corporations Act 2001, Australian Accounting Standards, other authoritative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards 
Board and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Interpretations as issued by the International Accounting Standards 
Board (IASB). The financial report has also been prepared on a historical cost basis, except for loans and financial investments which 
have been measured at fair value.

A number of new accounting standards and amendments have been issued but are not yet effective, none of which have been early 
adopted by the Group in this financial report. These new standards and amendments, when applied in future periods, are not expected 
to have a material impact on the financial position or performance of the Group.

Similar categories of income and expenses have been grouped together. Prior year comparative information for these amounts, where 
necessary, has been reclassified to achieve consistency in disclosure with current financial year amounts and other disclosures.

The financial report is presented in Australian dollars and all values are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars, under the option 
available to the Group under ASIC Corporations Instrument 2016/191, unless otherwise stated.

(b)  Going concern 

The Group had net current assets of $14.8 million as at 30 June 2021 (2020: $80.4 million). The Directors consider the Group is able to 
pay its debts as and when they fall due, and therefore the Group is able to continue as a going concern.

(c)  Significant accounting judgements, estimates and assumptions 

In applying the Group's accounting policies, Management continually evaluates judgements, estimates and assumptions based on 
experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that may have an impact on the Group. All judgements, estimates 
and assumptions made are believed to be reasonable based on the most current set of circumstances available to Management. 
Actual results may differ from judgements, estimates and assumptions. Significant judgements, estimates and assumptions made by 
Management in the preparation of these financial statements are outlined as follows:

Share-based payments transactions - The Group recognises the cost of equity-settled transactions with employees (including Key 
Management Personnel) and other stakeholders by reference to the fair value of the equity instruments at the date on which they are 
granted. The valuation assumptions are detailed in Note 14. The equity-settled instruments are expensed using a linear probability of 
vesting approach.

Classification and valuation of investments - The Group classifies its investments in floating rate notes and equity securities where it 
does not exercise significant influence or control as Financial Investments – at FVOCI, with movements in fair value recognised directly 
in equity. The fair value of listed shares has been determined by reference to published price quotations in an active market. Where 
no active market exists for a particular asset, the Group uses a valuation technique to arrive at the fair value. The Group prioritises the 
use of observable market inputs in the valuation of Level 3 fair valued investments and considers all reasonable sources of alternative 
information when incorporating unobservable inputs. Further details are as disclosed in the footnotes.

The equity investment in Medipass is deemed to be a business combination and is accounted for using the acquisition method of 
accounting. See Note 1(d) paragraph (i) and Note 21 for further details.

Investments in associated companies are accounted for using the equity method of accounting less impairment losses. See Note 1(m) 
and Note 11 for further details.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORTValuation of loans – The Group’s lending product differs from a conventional lending asset that accrues interest over time. Under 
the Group’s current terms, a merchant borrows a loan amount plus an upfront fee. The total loan plus fee amount does not change 
regardless of early or late repayment. As such, the product fails the “solely payments of principal and interest test” under IFRS 9 
“Financial Instruments”, and is therefore measured at fair value through the Statement of Comprehensive Income.

The fair value of loans has been estimated using a valuation technique that converts forecasted cash flows to a present value amount 
(discounted cash flow method). The forecasted cash flows are actuarially determined using predictive models based partly on evidenced 
historical performance and expected repayment profiles including an adjustment for loans to customers impacted by COVID-19. Inputs 
into the valuation model are detailed in the footnotes.

Capitalisation of internally generated software - An intangible asset arising from development expenditure on an internal project is 
recognised by the Group only when the following can be demonstrated: 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

the technical feasibility of completing the intangible asset so that it will be available for use or sale;

its intention to complete and its ability to use or sell the asset;

how the asset will generate probable future economic benefits;

availability of resources to complete the development; and

the ability to measure reliably the expenditure attributable to the intangible asset during its development.

The Group commences amortising internally generated software projects from the point the asset is ready for use.

Estimation of useful lives of assets - The estimation of the useful lives of assets has been primarily based on historical experience. In 
addition, the condition of the assets is assessed at least once per year and considered against their remaining useful lives. Adjustments 
to useful lives are made when considered necessary. Depreciation charges for property, plant and equipment are included in the 
footnotes for amortisation of intangible assets with finite useful lives. In assessing whether the useful life of an intangible asset is finite or 
indefinite, Management use judgement in determining the period over which expected future benefits will be generated, also factoring 
in the market that the Group operates in and the longer term strategy for the Group. An impairment assessment is conducted and 
reviewed by Management at least annually as to whether indicators of impairment such as technical obsolescence exist.

Provisions - Determining the amount of provisioning required in respect of customer-related refunds requires the exercise of 
significant judgement. This includes forming a view on a number of different estimates,  including number of impacted customers, 
average compensation per customer and the associated costs required to complete the remediation activities. The appropriateness 
of underlying assumptions is reviewed on a regular basis against actual experience and other available evidence, and adjustments are 
made to the provision where required.

Long service leave - Entitlements that arise in respect of non-current long service leave have been measured at their present values of 
expected future payments. Long service leave is calculated based on assumptions and estimates of when employees will take leave and 
the prevailing wage rates at the time the leave will be taken. Long service leave also requires a prediction of the number of employees 
that will achieve entitlement to long service leave.

Initial Public Offering (IPO) costs - During the year ended 30 June 2020, the Company undertook an IPO to list on the ASX. Costs 
incurred that are directly attributable and incremental to the issuance of new equity (net of tax) have been recognised in equity as an 
offset to the value of capital raised. The Company exercised judgement in determining an allocation methodology (between equity and 
expense) for costs which relate to both the issuance of new equity and other activities. The Company’s methodology was determined 
with reference to the number of new shares issued in raising capital, and the nature and purpose of services rendered in incurring costs. 
All other costs were taken directly to the Statement of Comprehensive Income during the year ended 30 June 2020.

Taxation - Provisions for taxation require significant judgement with respect to outcomes that are uncertain. Deferred tax assets are 
recognised for deductible temporary differences and carried forward tax losses after consideration of:

• 

• 

• 

implications of COVID-19 on current year results and future forecasts;

likelihood of availability of future profits, including stress testing of forecasts, for utilisation of deferred tax assets; and

outcome of Continuity of Ownership Testing (and where applicable, the Similar Business Test) to support the recognition of any 
carried forward tax losses.

Management does not recognise deferred tax assets where utilisation is not considered probable.

Tyro-Bendigo Alliance

During the year ended 30 June 2021, the Group announced an alliance with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (Bendigo Bank) for 
merchant acquiring services (Alliance). As part of the Alliance, Bendigo Bank agreed to transfer existing, and refer potential, customers to 
the Group for the provision of a co-branded merchant acquiring service and receive upfront consideration and commission from existing 
and newly referred Bendigo Bank business customers who use the Group's merchant acquiring services. The Group does not view 
the Alliance as meeting the definition of a business under AASB 3 Business Combinations, and accordingly has applied the following 
accounting policies.

The Alliance has been agreed for a ten year period. The trail commission payable on the existing customer network and future rollouts 
includes a guaranteed component for the first four years. An additional variable amount will be payable based on revenue achieved. 
The trail commission payable is initially measured at fair value in accordance with AASB 13 Fair Value Measurement and remeasured in 
subsequent periods to reflect actual and revised estimates of future revenue.

Key assumptions in respect of estimating the valuation of the trail commission payable include:

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• 

• 

discount rates derived from similar observed rates for comparable assets that are traded in the market;

the merchant churn rate; and

probability weighted forecasts considering a high, mid and low forecast estimate prepared by Management and approved by the 
Board.

The associated intangible assets were recognised in accordance with AASB 138 Intangible Assets. They are carried at cost less any 
accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses and will then be reviewed annually for any indicator of impairments 
in accordance with AASB 136 Impairment of Assets. The useful life of the acquired intangible assets is judgmental and reviewed annually 
by Management with adjustments made where deemed necessary.

Intangible assets

Customer contracts and relationships

Commission and other payables

Financial liability at amortised cost

Contingent consideration

Upfront consideration paid (exclusive of GST)

(d)  Basis of consolidation

(i)  Business combinations

AT TRANSACTION DATE
$000

111,762

39,800

62,962

9,000

The Group accounts for business combinations using the acquisition method when the acquired set of activities and assets meets 
the definition of a business and control is transferred to the Group. In determining whether a particular set of activities and assets is a 
business, the Group assesses whether the set of assets and activities acquired includes, at a minimum, an input and substantive process 
and whether the acquired set has the ability to produce outputs.

The Group has an option to apply a ‘concentration test’ that permits a simplified assessment of whether an acquired set of activities 
and assets is not a business. The optional concentration test is met if substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is 
concentrated in a single identifiable asset or group of similar identifiable assets.

The consideration transferred in the acquisition is generally measured at fair value, as are the identifiable net assets acquired. Any 
goodwill that arises is tested annually for impairment (see Note 1(p)). Any gain on a bargain purchase is recognised in profit or loss 
immediately. Transaction costs are expensed as incurred, except if related to the issue of debt or equity securities.

The consideration transferred does not include amounts related to the settlement of pre-existing relationships. Such amounts are 
generally recognised in profit or loss. 

Any contingent consideration is measured at fair value at the date of acquisition and subsequently changes in the fair value of the 
contingent consideration are recognised in profit or loss.

If share-based payment awards (replacement awards) are required to be exchanged for awards held by the acquiree’s employees 
(acquiree’s awards), then all or a portion of the amount of the acquirer’s replacement awards is included in measuring the consideration 
transferred in the business combination. This determination is based on the market-based measure of the replacement awards 
compared with the market-based measure of the acquiree’s awards and the extent to which the replacement awards relate to pre-
combination services.

(ii)  Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries are entities controlled by the Company. The Company ‘controls’ an entity when it is exposed to, or has rights to, variable 
returns from its involvement with the entity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the entity. The financial 
statements of subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date on which control commences until the 
date on which control ceases.

(iii)  Transactions eliminated on consolidation

Intra-Group balances and transactions, and any unrealised income and expenses (except for foreign currency transaction gains or losses) 
arising from intra-Group transactions, are eliminated. Unrealised gains arising from transactions with equity-accounted investees are 
eliminated against the investment to the extent of the Group’s interest in the investee. Unrealised losses are eliminated in the same way 
as unrealised gains, but only to the extent that there is no evidence of impairment.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORT(e)  Current versus non-current classification

The Group presents assets and liabilities in the Statement of Financial Position based on current and non-current classification. An asset 
is current when it is:

•  expected to be realised or intended to be sold or consumed in the normal operating cycle;

•  held primarily for the purpose of trading;

•  expected to be realised within twelve months after the reporting period;
or:

•   cash or cash equivalent unless restricted from being exchanged or used to settle a liability for at least twelve months after the 

reporting period.

All other assets are classified as non-current.

A liability is current when:

it is expected to be settled in the normal operating cycle;
it is held primarily for the purpose of trading;
it is due to be settled within twelve months after the reporting period;

• 
• 
• 

or:

•   there is no unconditional right to defer the settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting period.

The terms of the liability that could, at the option of the counterparty, result in its settlement by the issue of equity instruments do not 
affect its classification.

The Group classifies all other liabilities as non-current.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are classified as non-current assets and liabilities.

(f)  Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash balances, call deposits and term deposits with an original maturity of three months or less 
from the date of acquisition.

(g)  Due from other financial institutions

Includes term deposits with maturities greater than three months from the date of acquisition, and term deposits pledged to 
counterparties as collateral. These are initially measured at fair value and subsequently measured at amortised cost less allowance for 
expected credit losses, using the effective interest method.

(h)  Trade and other receivables

Trade receivables, which generally have 30-day terms, are recognised initially at fair value, and subsequently measured at amortised 
cost using the effective interest method, less an allowance for expected credit losses (ECL). Collectability of trade receivables is 
reviewed on an ongoing basis. Debts that are known to be uncollectible are written off when identified.

AASB 9’s impairment requirements are based on the ECL model. This replaces the “incurred loss” approach under AASB 139. The Group 
has applied the simplified approach to calculate ECL for trade receivables where a loss allowance is based on lifetime ECL at each 
reporting date. An impairment analysis is performed at each reporting date using a provision matrix to measure expected credit losses. 
The provision rates are based on days past due for groupings of various customer segments with similar loss patterns (i.e. by customer 
type). The calculation reflects the probability-weighted outcome, the time value of money and reasonable and supportable information 
that is available at the reporting date about past events, current conditions and forecasts of future economic conditions.

(i)  Loans 

Loans to merchants are classified and measured at fair value with changes in the fair value being recognised in the Statement of 
Comprehensive Income. The loans are unsecured with an upfront (“unearned”) fee charged to the merchant. As the merchant receives 
daily settlements, a percentage is taken towards loan repayments. The loan repayment includes a portion which recognises the 
unearned fee in the Statement of Comprehensive Income as interest income and is disclosed together with the fair value movement 
on loans. When the loan is uncollectible, it is written-off. Such write-offs of loans occur after all the necessary assessments for write-off 
procedures have been completed and the amount of the loss has been determined. Loan write-offs are disclosed as lending losses in 
the Statement of Comprehensive Income. Subsequent recoveries are recognised against these write-offs.

Over the reporting period, specific requests for the loans to be put on a “repayment holiday” due to hardship were assessed on a case-
by-case basis. Where appropriate, these loans may have qualified for, and were provided, a repayment holiday for an initial period of up 
to three months. Further extension requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis. The agreed revised repayment schedule of these 
loans is reflected in the fair value calculation.

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Prepayments are recognised for amounts paid whereby goods have not transferred ownership to the Group or where services have not 
yet been provided. Upon receipt of goods or the service the corresponding asset is recognised in the Statement of Financial Position or 
the expense is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income.

(k) 

Inventories 

(i)  Cost and valuation 

The costs of purchasing inventories comprise the purchase price, import duties and other taxes (other than those subsequently 
recoverable by the Group from the taxing authorities), and transport, handling and other costs directly attributable to the acquisition 
of finished goods, materials and services. Trade discounts, rebates and other similar items are deducted in determining the costs of 
purchase. Inventories are subsequently held at the lower of cost and their net realisable value. Impairment is assessed at least on an 
annual basis. Inventories are derecognised when the rights to benefits are transferred to a third party.

(ii) 

Impairment 

Management makes assessments of the net realisable value of inventory at least on an annual basis. The cost of inventory may not be 
recoverable where the inventory is damaged, wholly or partially obsolete, or if selling prices have declined. In accordance with AASB 102 
Inventories, where the cost of inventory exceeds the net realisable value, inventory is written down to their net realisable value.

Net realisable value is an estimate, based on the most reliable evidence at the time, of the amount the inventories are expected to 
realise.

(l)  Financial investments 

Recognition and initial measurement

The classification of financial investments at initial recognition depends on the financial asset’s contractual cash flow characteristics and 
the Group’s business model for managing them. The Group initially measures a financial asset at its fair value plus transaction costs.

In order for a debt investment to be classified and measured at amortised cost or fair value through Other Comprehensive Income (OCI), 
it needs to give rise to cash flows that are ‘solely payments of principal and interest (SPPI)’ on the principal amount outstanding. This 
assessment is referred to as the SPPI test and is performed at an instrument level. Financial assets with cash flows that are not SPPI are 
classified and measured at fair value through profit or loss, irrespective of the business model.

The Group’s business model for managing financial assets refers to how it manages its financial assets in order to generate cash flows. 
The business model determines whether cash flows will result from collecting contractual cash flows, selling the financial assets, or both. 
Financial investments classified and measured at fair value through OCI are held within a business model with the objective of both 
holding to collect contractual cash flows and selling.

Subsequent measurement

For debt investments at fair value through OCI, interest income, foreign exchange revaluation and impairment losses or reversals are 
recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income. The remaining fair value changes are recognised in OCI. Upon derecognition, 
the cumulative fair value change recognised in OCI is recycled to profit or loss.

For equity investments at fair value through OCI, the Group can elect to classify irrevocably its equity investments as equity instruments 
designated at fair value through OCI at initial recognition. Gains and losses on these financial assets are never recycled to profit or 
loss. Equity instruments designated at fair value through OCI are not subject to impairment assessment. The Group elected to classify 
irrevocably its non-listed equity investments under this category.

Purchase and sale of investments are recognised on trade date - the date on which the Group becomes party to the contractual 
provisions of the investment.

(m)  Investment in associates

Associated companies are entities over which the Group has significant influence, but not control, generally accompanied by a 
shareholding giving rise to significant but not controlling voting rights. Investments in associated companies are accounted for in the 
consolidated financial statements using the equity method of accounting less impairment losses, if any. Investments in associated 
companies are initially recognised at cost. The cost of an acquisition is measured at the fair value of the assets given, equity instruments 
issued or liabilities incurred or assumed at the date of exchange, plus costs directly attributable to the acquisition. Goodwill on 
associated companies represents the excess of the cost of acquisition of the associate over the Group’s share of the fair value of the 
identifiable net assets of the associate and is included in the carrying amount of the investments.

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(i)   Cost

Property, plant and equipment are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any impairment in value. The Group recognises 
in the carrying amount of an item of property, plant and equipment the cost of replacing parts when the cost is incurred, and the 
recognition criteria are met. When each major inspection is performed, its cost is recognised in the carrying amount of the item of 
property, plant or equipment, as a replacement, provided that the recognition criteria are satisfied.

(ii)   Depreciation

Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of each specific item of property, plant and equipment.

Estimated useful lives are as follows:

PLANT AND EQUIPMENT: 

Terminals

Furniture and office equipment

Computer equipment

Leasehold improvements

2021

3 years

5 years

4 years

2020

3 years

5 years

4 years

Remaining term of lease

Remaining term of lease

The assets’ residual values, remaining useful lives and depreciation methods are reassessed and adjusted, if appropriate at each 
reporting date.

(iii)  Impairment

Management identify applicable impairment indicators in accordance with AASB 136 Impairment of Assets. The carrying values of plant 
and equipment are reviewed for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. 
If any such indication exists and where the carrying values exceed the estimated recoverable amount, the assets are written down to their 
recoverable amount. The recoverable amount of plant and equipment is the greater of fair value less costs of disposal and its value in use.

(iv)  Derecognition and disposal

An item of property, plant and equipment is derecognised on disposal or when no future economic benefits are expected to arise from 
continued use of the asset. Gains and losses on disposals are calculated as the difference between the net disposal proceeds and the 
asset’s carrying amount and are included in the Statement of Comprehensive Income in the year the asset is derecognised.

(o)  Leases 

The Group assesses at contract inception whether a contract is, or contains, a lease. That is, if the contract conveys the right to control 
the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration.

(i)  Group as a lessee 

The Group applies a single recognition and measurement approach for all leases, except for short-term leases and leases of low-
value assets. The Group recognises lease liabilities to make lease payments and right-of-use assets representing the right to use the 
underlying assets.

Right-of-use assets 

The Group recognises right-of-use assets at the commencement date of the lease (i.e. the date the underlying asset is available for 
use). Right-of-use assets are measured at cost, less any accumulated depreciation and impairment losses, and adjusted for any re-
measurement of lease liabilities. The cost of right-of-use assets includes the amount of lease liabilities recognised, initial direct costs 
incurred, and lease payments made at or before the commencement date less any lease incentives received. Right-of-use assets are 
depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the lease term and the estimated useful lives of the assets.

(ii)  Lease liabilities 

At the commencement date of the lease, the Group recognises lease liabilities measured at the present value of lease payments 
to be made over the lease term. The lease payments include fixed payments (including insubstance fixed payments) less any lease 
incentives receivable, variable lease payments that depend on an index or a rate, and amounts expected to be paid under residual value 
guarantees. The lease payments also include the exercise price of a purchase option reasonably certain to be exercised by the Group 
and payments of penalties for terminating the lease, if the lease term reflects the Group exercising the option to terminate. Variable 
lease payments that do not depend on an index or a rate are recognised as expenses in the period in which the event or condition that 
triggers the payment occurs.

In calculating the present value of lease payments, the Group uses its incremental borrowing rate at the lease commencement date 
because the interest rate implicit in the lease is not readily determinable. After the commencement date, the amount of lease liabilities 
is increased to reflect the accretion of interest and reduced for the lease payments made. In addition, the carrying amount of lease 
liabilities is remeasured if there is a modification, a change in the lease term, a change in the lease payments (e.g. changes to future 
payments resulting from a change in an index or rate used to determine such lease payments) or a change in the assessment of an 
option to purchase the underlying asset.

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Short term leases and leases of low-value assets 

The Group applies the short-term lease recognition exemption to its short-term leases of equipment (i.e. those leases that have a lease 
term of 12 months or less from the commencement date and do not contain a purchase option). It also applies the lease of low-value 
assets recognition exemption to leases of office equipment that are considered to be low value. Lease payments on short-term leases 
and leases of low value assets are recognised as an expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

(iv)  Group as a lessor 

Leases in which the Group does not transfer substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership of an asset are classified as 
operating leases. Rental income arising is accounted for on a straight-line basis over the lease term and is included in revenue in the 
Statement of Comprehensive Income due to its operating nature. Initial direct costs incurred in negotiating and arranging an operating 
lease are added to the carrying amount of the leased asset and recognised over the lease term on the same basis as rental income. 
Contingent rents are recognised as revenue in the period in which they are earned.

(p) 

Intangible assets and goodwill

(i) 

Internally generated software

The Group continues to make significant investments in various projects to develop new products and enhance existing products’ 
capabilities. For certain projects, it is more probable that future economic benefits from the assets arising from the projects will flow to 
the Group and their expenditure can be measured reliably with enhancements in the Group’s data governance, system and reporting. 
Therefore, software development costs for those projects are recognised as intangible assets in the Statement of Financial Position in 
accordance with AASB 138 Intangible Assets.

Following initial recognition of the development expenditure as an asset, the intangible asset is carried at its cost less any accumulated 
amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses. Each development project will then be reviewed annually for any indicator of 
impairments in accordance with AASB 136 Impairment of Assets.

Internally generated software acquired as part of the Medipass acquisition is valued using the replacement cost technique. This 
technique estimates the fair value as all costs necessary to construct a similar asset of equivalent utility at prices applicable at the time 
of reconstruction.

(ii)  Customer contracts and relationships

The customer contracts were acquired as part of the Tyro-Bendigo Alliance (see Note 1(c) for details) and Medipass acquisition (see Note 
21). They are recognised at their fair value at the date of acquisition and are subsequently amortised on a straight-line based on the 
timing of projected cash flows of the contracts over their estimated useful lives.

The useful life of finite intangible assets is judgmental and reviewed annually by Management with adjustments made where deemed 
necessary. The following method is used in the calculation of amortisation:

INTANGIBLE ASSET

Internally generated software

Customer contracts and relationships

AMORTISATION METHOD

Straight line 

Straight line

USEFUL LIFE

Finite (3 - 5 years) 

Finite (7 - 10 years) 

Goodwill arising on the acquisition of subsidiaries is measured at cost less accumulated impairment losses. Goodwill is not amortised 
and is tested annually for impairment. Tyro completed the acquisition of Medipass on 31 May 2021. AASB 3 makes provision for a 
measurement period of 12 months to finalise the valuation of assets acquired in a business combination. Due to the proximity of the 
completion of the deal to 30 June 2021, Tyro is continuing to gather information that is relevant to the valuation of the assets, specifically 
with respect to the appropriate recognition of revenue on custom software development carried out for customers and the associated 
deferred revenue balances. The amounts included in Tyro’s financial statements as at 30 June 2021 in respect of net assets acquired and 
goodwill represent Tyro’s provisional valuation of those assets.

In future periods, goodwill will be subject to annual impairment testing using appropriate assumptions to be determined by 
management.

(q)   Deferred tax asset 

Deferred tax is provided using the liability method on temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their 
carrying amounts for financial reporting purposes at the reporting date (see Note 4).

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Deposits from customers are initially recognised at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition, these liabilities are measured at 
amortised cost. Interest expense on deposits is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income using the effective interest 
method.

(s)  Trade and other payables 

Merchant payables arise when the Group has received monies from the relevant schemes and financial institutions that have not yet 
been settled with the merchant.

Payables to merchants are only recognised to the extent that a liability arises. This liability arises when the proceeds have been paid by 
the schemes and financial institutions and received by the Group.

Liabilities for trade and other payables are carried at cost, which is the fair value of the consideration to be paid in the future for goods 
and services received, whether or not billed to the Group.

Commissions payable to Bendigo Bank 

The trail commission payable on the existing customer network and future rollouts includes an amount guaranteed by the Group and 
an additional variable amount based on revenue achieved. The trail commission payable is initially measured at fair value in accordance 
with AASB 13 Fair Value Measurement and remeasured in subsequent periods to reflect actual and revised estimates of future revenue.

The key assumptions used in estimating the valuation of the trail commission payable can be found in Note 1(c).

(t)  Provisions and contingencies 

Provisions are recognised when the Group has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event and it is probable 
that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits may be required to settle the obligation and a reliable estimate can be 
made of the amount of the obligation.

If the impact of the time value of money is material, provisions are discounted using a current pre-tax rate that reflects the risks specific 
to the liability. Where discounting is used, the increase in the provision due to the passage of time is recognised as a finance cost.

Contingent liabilities are not recognised in the Statement of Financial Position but are disclosed in the relevant notes to the financial 
statements. They may arise from uncertainty as to the existence of a liability or represent an existing liability in respect of which 
settlement is not probable or the amount cannot be reliably measured. Only when settlement becomes probable will a liability be 
recognised.

The Group is contingently liable for processed credit card sales transactions in the event of a dispute between the cardholder and a 
merchant. If a dispute is resolved in the cardholder’s favour, the Group will credit or refund the amount to the cardholder and charge 
back the transaction to the merchant. If the Group is unable to collect the amount from the merchant, the Group will bear the loss for 
the amount credited or refunded to the cardholder.

Management evaluates the risk of such transactions and estimates its potential loss from chargebacks based primarily on historical 
experience and other relevant factors. A provision is recognised in the general reserve for credit losses for merchant losses necessary to 
absorb chargebacks and other losses for merchant transactions that have been previously processed and on which revenues have been 
recorded.

(u)  Contributed equity 

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares or options are accounted in 
contributed equity as a deduction, net of tax, from the proceeds of issue.

(v)  General reserve for credit losses 

The Group appropriates for estimated future credit losses from chargebacks, with a general reserve for credit losses. The Group 
estimates the reserve by using a multiple of historical losses over a rolling 120 day period of transaction values. The general reserve for 
credit losses is then allocated as a separate reserve within equity. 

The Group also appropriates for estimated future credit losses from loans to ensure the Group has sufficient capital to cover credit 
losses estimated to arise over the full life of the loans as required by APRA Prudential Standard APS 220 Credit Quality.

The methodology and assumptions used for estimating the general reserve for credit losses required are reviewed regularly.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORT(w)  Revenue recognition 

Revenue from contracts with customers is recognised in accordance with AASB 15 which introduced a single, principle-based five step 
recognition and measurement model. The five steps are:

1.  identify the contract with a customer; 
2.  identify separate performance obligations in the contract; 
3.  determine the transaction price; 
4.  allocate the transaction price to each performance obligations identified in Step 2; and 
5.  recognise revenue when a performance obligation is satisfied. 

The Group’s fee income from contracts with customers is derived primarily from the following sources:

•  merchant service fee income is generated from merchant customers for credit, debit and charge card acquiring services. Fees are 
charged to merchants depending on the type of transaction being performed based on a percentage of transaction value or on a 
fixed amount per transaction. Fees related to payment transactions are recognised at the time transactions are processed. Related 
interchange fees, which are collected from merchants and paid to credit institutions are recognised as an expense instead of 
netting-off against merchant service fee income in the Statement of Comprehensive Income; and

• 

revenue from Dynamic Currency Conversion transactions generated from merchants is calculated based on the individual value of 
the transactions and is recognised once the transaction has been processed.

Terminal rental income generated from operating leases with merchants is recognised progressively based on a fixed monthly rental on 
terminals. There is no minimum rental period for merchants.

Interest income is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income in accordance with AASB 9 using the effective interest 
method. The effective interest method measures the amortised cost of a financial asset and allocates the interest income over the 
relevant period using the effective interest which is the rate that exactly discounts estimated future cash receipts through the expected 
life of the financial asset to the net carrying amount of the financial asset.

(x)  JobKeeper 

The Federal Government announced a temporary wage subsidy program of $1,500 per fortnight before tax per eligible employee in 
March 2020 to support businesses affected by COVID-19. This subsidy was initially offered over a six month period from 30 March 2020 
until 27 September 2020. This scheme was subsequently extended to 28 March 2021. The employer entity was eligible for the subsidy 
over the period if its Goods and Services Tax (GST) turnover for a test period of at least one month fell short of the entity’s GST turnover 
for the corresponding period in 2019, in line with thresholds specified by the Federal Government. The Company was an eligible recipient 
of JobKeeper under the initial scheme during the reporting period.

This is recognised as “Other revenue and income” in the Statement of Comprehensive Income in accordance with AASB 120 Accounting 
for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance.

(y)  Employee benefits 

Provision is made for employee benefits accumulated as a result of employees rendering services up to the reporting date. These 
benefits include wages and salaries, annual leave and long service leave. 

Entitlements arising in respect of salaries and wages, annual leave and other employee benefits that are expected to be settled within 
one year have been measured at their nominal amounts. Employees are entitled to 20 days annual leave each year.

Entitlements that arise in respect of long service leave which are expected to be settled more than 12 months after the reporting date 
have been measured at their present values of expected future payments. Long service leave is calculated based on assumptions and 
estimates of when employees will take leave and the prevailing wage rates at the time the leave will be taken. Long service leave liability 
also requires a prediction of the number of employees that will achieve entitlement to long service leave. Expected future payments are 
discounted using market yields at the reporting date on high quality corporate bonds with terms to maturity and currencies that match 
as closely as possible to the estimated future cash outflows.

No provision has been made for sick leave as all sick leave is non-vesting and the average sick leave to be taken in the future by all 
employees at the reporting date is estimated to be less than the annual entitlement for sick leave.

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021FINANCIAL REPORT(z)  Share-based payment transactions 

Share-based compensation benefits are provided to employees (including Key Management Personnel) via the Employee share 
option plans, short term incentive plans and long term incentive plans, whereby employees render services in exchange for rights 
over the Company’s shares, as well as other stakeholders under contractual arrangements. The cost of these equity-settled options or 
transactions is measured by reference to the fair value of the equity instruments at the date at which they are granted. The fair value of 
any options issuance is determined using the Black-Scholes option valuation model.

The cost of equity-settled transactions is recognised, together with any corresponding increase in equity, over the period in which the 
employees/stakeholders become fully entitled to the award (the vesting period).

The cumulative expense recognised for equity-settled transactions at each reporting date until vesting date reflects the extent to 
which the vesting period has expired and the number of awards that, in the opinion of the Directors of the Company, will ultimately vest. 
This opinion is based on the best available information at the reporting date. No adjustment is made for the likelihood of performance 
conditions being met as the effect of these conditions is included in the determination of fair value at grant date.

No expense is recognised for awards that do not ultimately vest. Details of the types of share-based payments and their respective 
terms and vesting conditions are disclosed in Note 14. 

The Company also has share-based compensation benefits in the form of rights which are tied to performance conditions, as well as 
remuneration sacrifice rights. The policy treatment is consistent with that for share options via the Employee Share Option Plan.

(aa) Income taxes 

Current tax assets and liabilities for the current and prior years are measured at the amount expected to be recovered from or paid to the 
taxation authority. The tax rates and tax laws used to compute the amount are those that are enacted or substantively enacted by the 
reporting date.

Current income tax relating to items recognised directly in equity is recognised in equity and not in the Statement of Comprehensive 
Income. Management periodically evaluates positions taken in the tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax 
regulations are subject to interpretation and establishes provisions where appropriate.

(ab) Goods and Services Tax 

Revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities are recognised net of the amount of GST except for the following:

• 

• 

when the GST incurred on the purchase of goods and services is not recoverable from the taxation authority, in which case the GST 
is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of the expense item as applicable; and

trade receivables and trade payables are stated with the amount of GST included.

The net amount of GST recoverable from or payable to the taxation authority is included as part of other receivables or other payables in 
the Statement of Financial Position. Commitments and contingencies are disclosed net of the amount of GST. Cash flows are disclosed 
net of the amount of GST (unless stated otherwise) in the Statement of Cash Flows and the GST component of cash flows arising from 
investing and financing activities, which is recoverable from, or payable to, the taxation authority is classified as part of operating cash 
flows.

(ac)  Foreign currency translation 

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded in the functional currency by applying the exchange rates ruling at the date of 
the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the spot rate of exchange ruling at 
the reporting date.

Non-monetary assets and liabilities are translated at their historic rates of exchange at their respective transaction dates.

(ad) De-recognition of assets and liabilities 

Assets and liabilities are de-recognised from the Statement of Financial Position upon sale, maturity or settlement. The Group de-
recognises scheme receivables against associated merchant payables as the risks and rewards are passed through in line with 
contractual obligations.

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The loss before tax expense has been arrived at after accounting for the following items:

Fees and terminal rental income 

Merchant service fee 

Terminal rental income 

Other fee income 

Other revenue and income 

JobKeeper receipts 

Other income 

Interchange, integration and support fees 

Interchange and scheme fees 

Integration, support and other fees 

Employee benefits expense (excluding share-based payments) 

Wages, salaries and incentives 

Superannuation 

Other employee benefits expense 

Administrative expenses 

Communications, hosting and licencing costs 

Terminal management and logistics 

Professional services 

Insurance 

Travel and entertainment 

Training and conferences 

Other administrative expenses 

Lending and non-lending losses 

Lending losses 

Non-lending losses 

Impairment of intangible assets

Terminal incident1 

1  For further information on the terminal incident see Note 1(c) and Note 17.

2021 
$000

GROUP

2020 
$000

205,542 

180,236 

21,320 

1,207 

17,660 

3,874 

228,069 

201,770 

4,484 

644 

5,128 

3,867 

382

4,249 

(108,014) 

(108,005) 

(9,357) 

(7,717) 

(117,371) 

(115,722) 

(64,914) 

(57,667) 

(5,636) 

(5,624) 

(5,236) 

(4,759) 

(76,174) 

(67,662) 

(9,896) 

(3,981) 

(2,593) 

(1,597) 

(423) 

(139) 

(4,274) 

(7,694) 

(2,371) 

(1,433) 

(1,088) 

(1,208) 

(644) 

(2,160) 

(22,903) 

(16,598) 

(722) 

(516) 

(277)

(9,348) 

(1,088) 

(870) 

-

- 

(10,863) 

(1,958) 

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(a)  Description of segments and principal activities

For management purposes, the Group is organised into two operating segments, comprising Payments and Banking. Operating 
segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision maker, which is the 
CEO | Managing Director. The Group operates in one geographical segment being Australia.

The corporate and other segment, which is not considered an operating segment of the Group, is used to reconcile the total segment 
results back to the consolidated results.  It consists of other income and costs that fall outside the day-to-day operations of the Group.  
These include the Group's Head Office, all employee benefits expenses and other operating expenses, all of which are recorded below 
Gross Profit.

The Group’s reportable segments under AASB 8 Operating Segments are as follows:

REPORTABLE SEGMENT 

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES 

Payments 

Banking 

Acquires electronic payment transactions from merchants. Revenue is primarily earned from fees charged for 
processing acquired transactions. Revenue is also earned from other fee income, terminal rental income and 
sales of terminal accessories. Direct expenses include scheme and interchange fees, integration, support and 
other fees and cost of terminal accessories sold. 

Complementary banking services to merchants. Revenue is earned from fees charged on loans to merchants. 
Interest expense is incurred on merchant deposits. 

(b)  Revenue and gross profit by segment

2021 

Revenue 

Gross profit 

2020 

Revenue 

Gross profit 

PAYMENTS1 
$000

BANKING2 
$000

CORPORATE 
AND OTHER3
$000 

229,222 

110,528 

202,826 

86,142 

3,222 

2,843 

1,818 

1,302 

6,078 

6,078 

6,031 

6,031 

2021 
$000 

GROUP 

TOTAL
$000 

238,522 

119,449 

210,675 

93,475 

2020 
$000

Reconciliation of gross profit to loss before tax:

Gross profit 

Operating expenses (excl. depreciation and amortisation, loss on equity investments and  
net interest expense) 

Depreciation and amortisation 

Share of loss on investment in associates

Net interest expense 

IPO expenses 

Loss before tax 

119,449 

93,475 

(131,893) 

(108,743) 

(15,364) 

(12,524) 

(1,119) 

(517) 

(331) 

- 

(535) 

(9,730) 

(29,775) 

(38,057) 

1  Gross profit of the payments segment is payments revenue and income less direct expenses.

2  Gross profit of the banking segment is income from merchant lending adjusted for fair value movement on loans and interest expense on merchant deposits.

3  Gross profit of corporate and other includes income from investments and other revenue and income.

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(c)   Assets and liabilities by segment

2021

Segment assets

Segment liabilities

2020

Segment assets

Segment liabilities

4. 

INCOME TAX

(a)   Income tax expense:

PAYMENTS 
$000

BANKING 
$000

CORPORATE  
AND OTHER 
$000

234,848 

35,955 

125,326

104,525 

75,481 

35,459 

GROUP

TOTAL 
$000

396,129 

215,465 

48,759 

37,790 

177,290 

263,839 

2,441 

50,543 

21,136 

74,120 

Major components of income tax expense for the period ended 30 June 2021:

Current income tax 

Current income tax charge 

Deferred income tax 

Relating to origination and reversal of temporary differences

Derecognition of DTA on temporary difference

Derecognition of previously recognised R&D tax credits & tax losses 

Income tax expense in the Statement of Comprehensive Income 

Amount reported directly in other comprehensive income and equity 

Deferred tax related to items recognised in equity during the year 

Deferred tax on capital raising costs 

Deferred tax on unrealised gain on financial investment – FVOCI 

Income tax (expense)/benefit reported in equity 

(b)   Reconciliation of income tax expense and prima facie tax: 

Operating loss before tax 

At the statutory income tax rate of 30% 

Research and development incentive 

Share-based payment remuneration 

Entertainment expenses 

Investment loss 

Adjustment in respect to previous year 

Tax effect of current year losses for which no deferred tax asset is recognised 

Total income tax expense 

2021 
$000

- 

1,883

(518)

(1,413) 

(48) 

- 

- 

(80) 

(80) 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

- 

-

-

- 

- 

- 

927 

29 

956 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

(29,775) 

(38,057) 

8,932 

- 

11,417 

70 

(2,803) 

(3,269) 

(36) 

(336) 

- 

(5,805) 

(48) 

(149) 

- 

(332) 

(7,737) 

- 

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INCOME TAX (continued)

(c) Deferred income tax assets and liabilities

GROUP

2021 

2020

STATEMENT 
OF FINANCIAL 
POSITION 
$000

STATEMENT OF 
COMPREHEN-
SIVE INCOME
$000 

OTHER COMPRE-
HENSIVE INCOME 
AND EQUITY
$000 

ACQUIRED 
IN BUSINESS 
COMBINATIONS
$000

STATEMENT 
OF FINANCIAL 
POSITION
$000 

STATEMENT OF 
COMPREHEN-
SIVE INCOME
$000 

OTHER COMPRE-
HENSIVE INCOME 
AND EQUITY
$000 

Deferred tax assets  (DTA)

Fixed assets 

Provisions & accruals 

Other 

R&D credits 

Tax losses 

Right-of-use assets 

Prepayments 

Financial investments 

Total 

Deferred tax liabilities (DTL)

Other Intangible Assets

Total 

4,835 

5,480 

2,400

- 

- 

12,715 

347 

- 

794 

1,141 

13,856 

(870)

(870)

(723) 

3,387

(1,448) 

(274) 

(1,910) 

(968) 

631 

104 

185 

920 

(48)

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

- 

- 

(80)

(80) 

(80) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

- 

- 

-

-

-

5,558 

2,093 

3,848 

274 

1,910 

13,683 

(284) 

(104) 

689 

301 

13,984 

4,850 

(1,974) 

2,888 

(6,126) 

- 

(362)

(284) 

(99) 

745 

362

- 

-

-

-

-

(870)

(870)

-

-

-

-

- 

-

927 

- 

- 

927

- 

- 

29 

29

956 

-

-

Deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to temporary differences, unused tax losses and credits.  In addition, approximately $27,550,000 
of deductible temporary differences, unused tax losses and credits have not been recognised as assets at 30 June 2021.

5.  CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Deposits at call 

Short term deposits 

2021 
$000

69,521 

15,000 

GROUP

2020 
$000

88,761 

15,000 

84,521 

103,761 

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Reconciliation of loss after tax to net cash flows used in operations

Loss for the year

Adjustments for:

Depreciation and amortisation 

Impairment of intangible assets

Share-based payments expense 

Fair value (gain)/loss 

Share of loss from associates

Impairment of investment in sublease

Loans written off 

Net interest expense 

Foreign currency (gain)/loss 

Gain on disposal of property plant and equipment 

Deferred tax expense

Other 

Changes in assets and liabilities:

(Increase)/decrease in customer loans1 

(Increase)/decrease in interest and other receivables 

Increase in terminals

Increase in prepayments 

Increase in term deposits held as collateral

Increase in retail deposits

Increase/(decrease) in interest and other payables 

Increase/(decrease) in deferred tax balances

Increase in provisions 

Net cash flow from operating activities 

1  Movement in customer loan balances excludes adjustments for write offs and fair value adjustments.

6.  DUE FROM OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Term deposits 

Deposits pledged as collateral 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

(29,823)

(38,057)

15,364 

12,524 

277

9,342

(1,270) 

1,119 

842 

722 

517 

(27) 

(107) 

48

104 

(2,918) 

(2,103) 

(16,360)

(1,113) 

(5,762)

24,938 

5,409 

998

10,846 

11,043 

2021 
$000

5,000 

14,191 

19,191 

-

10,896 

2,342 

- 

- 

1,088 

535 

310 

(190) 

-

65 

294 

8,463 

(7,176)

(400) 

-

23,624 

(7,678) 

-

1,554 

8,194 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

10,000 

8,429 

18,429 

Includes term deposits with maturities greater than three months from the date of acquisition and deposits pledged to 
counterparties as collateral. Refer to Note 20 for details of deposits pledged as collateral.

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Scheme and other receivables 

Merchant acquiring fees 

Interest receivable 

Expected credit loss provision 

2021 
$000

10,108 

7,033 

13 

(59) 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

10,625 

4,532 

53 

(38) 

17,095 

15,172 

Scheme receivables are presented net of merchant payables in line with the Group's accounting policy disclosed in Note 1.

The Group’s ageing of trade and other receivables are as follows:

Group

Carrying value 2021 

Carrying value 2020 

8.  LOANS

Current

Loans (net of unearned fees) 

Non-current 

Loans (net of unearned fees) 

TOTAL 
$000

CURRENT 
$000

1-30 DAYS 
$000

31-60 DAYS 
$000

61-90 DAYS
$000

>90 DAYS 
$000

IMPAIRMENT 
$000

17,095 

15,172 

16,935 

15,004 

11 

100 

- 

- 

52 

90 

156 

16 

(59) 

(38) 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

13,408 

9,840 

1,979 

15,387 

2,081 

11,921 

Income from loans comprises interest income of $1,952,190 (2020: $4,178,986), fair value gain of $1,269,623 (2020: loss of 
$2,361,098) and lending loss of $721,673 (2020: loss of $1,088,105).

9.  LEASES

(a)  Company as lessor – sublease arrangement

The arrangement relates to the sublease of Level 5 of the Company's registered office. It is a non-cancellable lease with a 
term of up to 2 years, 6 months and 20 days ending 20 January 2022, aligned to the Company’s head-lease. The sublease 
agreement does not provide the lessee with the option to extend the lease. Lease payments are subject to annual increases of 
4%.

Lease income recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income are as follows:

(Loss)/gain on investment in sublease 

Income from net investment in sublease 

Total amount recognised in profit and loss 

2021 
$000

(842) 

57 

(785) 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

147 

113 

260 

Set out below is a maturity analysis of lease receivables, showing undiscounted lease payments to be received after the 
reporting date.

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Within one year 

After one year but not more than five years 

Total undiscounted lease payments receivable 

Unearned interest income 

Net investment in sublease 

2021 
$000

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

892 

556 

1,448 

(81) 

1,367 

The lessee has been adversely impacted by COVID-19 during the year and has been unable to pay rent as and when it falls due. 
Accordingly, Management has taken the decision to write off this amount in full during the year.

(b)  Company as lessee – property lease

The property lease predominantly relates to the lease of the Company's registered office located at 155 Clarence Street, 
Sydney NSW. It is a non-cancellable lease with a term of up to 7 years ending 21 January 2022. 

Set out below, are the carrying amounts of the Group’s right-of-use assets and lease liabilities in the Statement of Financial 
Position and the movements during the period:

As at 30 June 2019 

Transition adjustments 

As at 1 July 2019 

De-recognition due to sublease 

Additions

Depreciation expense 

Interest expense 

Payments 

As at 30 June 2020 

As at 1 July 2020 

Additions 

Depreciation expense 

Interest expense 

Payments 

As at 30 June 2021 

Lease liabilities – Maturity analysis

Contractual undiscounted cash flows

Within one year 

After one year but not more than five years 

Total undiscounted lease liabilities 

RIGHT-OF-USE 
ASSETS
$000 

GROUP 

LEASE  
LIABILITIES 
$000

- 

9,091 

9,091 

(1,827) 

116 

(2,852) 

- 

- 

4,528 

4,528 

33 

(2,907) 

- 

- 

- 

11,534 

11,534 

- 

116 

- 

648 

(4,815) 

7,483 

7,483 

33 

- 

365 

(5,069) 

1,654 

2,812 

2021 
$000

2,872 

- 

2,872 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

5,035 

2,872 

7,907 

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The amounts recognised in the Statements of Comprehensive Income are as follows:

Depreciation expense of right-of-use assets 

Interest expense on lease liabilities 

Income from sub-leasing right-of-use assets 

Total amount recognised in Statement of Comprehensive Income 

10.  FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS

Floating rate notes 

Equity investment – meandu Australia Holdings Pty Ltd 

Equity investments – YBF Holdings Pty Ltd and Teamsquare Pty Ltd 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

(2,907) 

(2,852) 

(365) 

57 

(648) 

113 

(3,215) 

(3,387) 

2021 
$000

69,068 

- 

- 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

66,134 

3,499 

128 

69,068 

69,761 

YBF Holdings Pty Ltd and Teamsquare Pty Ltd (YBF) is a Melbourne-based tech and innovation co-working hub that took 
operational control and ownership of the Tyro Fintech Hub (co-working space) in Sydney. As part of this arrangement Tyro took 
an equity stake in YBF.

The Group elected to measure the equity investments in YBF at FVOCI, resulting in no recycling of fair value changes to the 
Statement of Comprehensive Income upon a de-recognition event.

During the financial year, the Group vested the right to appoint a member to the board of meandu Australia Holdings Pty Ltd 
(me&u), implying significant influence. Accordingly, this investment is now accounted for as an Investment in Associate using 
the equity method.

11. 

INVESTMENT IN ASSOCIATES

Axis IP Pty Ltd

meandu Australia Holdings Pty Ltd 

Closing balance 

2021 
$000

1,666

3,332 

4,998 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

-

- 

- 

Axis IP Pty Ltd (Paypa Plane) is a payments technology business transforming scheduled payments, in which Tyro took a 20% 
shareholding in December 2020. The investment is recognised at cost using the equity method. The carrying amount of the 
investment is increased or decreased by the Company’s share of Axis IP Pty Ltd’s net assets after acquisition date.

me&u is a leading hospitality in-venue food ordering and payments app in which Tyro made a 16% equity investment, providing 
Tyro with the right to be the exclusive in-app payment provider.

The carrying value of the investment is increased or decreased by the Company’s share of me&u’s net assets after the date at 
which this accounting approach was adopted.

The following table summarises the financial information and results of me&u and Paypa Plane. The information includes the 
results of me&u since the equity accounting method was adopted and of Paypa Plane since Tyro’s investment in December 
2020.

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Percentage ownership interest

Non-current assets

Current assets

Non-current liabilities

Current liabilities

Net assets (100%)

Group share of net assets

Carrying amount of interest in associate1

Revenue

Profit from continuing operations

Total comprehensive income

Group's share of total comprehensive
income

Share of loss on investment recognised in year2

INVESTMENT IN MEANDU AUSTRALIA  
HOLDINGS PTY LTD

INVESTMENT IN AXIS IP PTY LTD

2021
$000

16.04%

76

5,743

(48)

(2,489)

3,282

526

3,332

3,206

(5,580)

(5,580)

(895)

(895)

2020
$000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

2021
$000

20.0%

690

637

(283)

-

1,044

209

1,666

269

(1,120)

(1,120)

(224)

(224)

2020
$000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1 

2 

The difference between the carrying value of investments and the Group's share of net assets relates to intangible assets 
and goodwill not recognised on the balance sheet of me&u and Paypa Plane.

A total loss on investment of $1,119,000 has been recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income in the year.

12.  PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Reconciliation of net carrying amounts at the beginning and end of the year for the Group is as below:

Year ended 30 June 2021 

At 30 June 2020 net of accumulated 
depreciation and impairment 

Additions 

Acquisitions through business combination 

Disposals 

Depreciation for the year 

At 30 June 2021 net of accumulated deprecia-
tion and impairment 

At 30 June 2020 

Cost 

TERMINALS
$000 

FURNITURE  
AND OFFICE  
EQUIPMENT
$000 

COMPUTER 
EQUIPMENT
$000 

LEASEHOLD  
IMPROVEMENTS
$000 

TOTAL
$000 

12,863 

799 

2,060 

1,544 

17,266 

18,266 

- 

(67) 

24 

29 

- 

1,122 

9 

- 

- 

- 

- 

19,412 

38 

(67) 

(8,062) 

(307) 

(1,249) 

(1,004) 

(10,622) 

23,000 

545 

1,942 

540 

26,027 

42,543 

2,708 

8,758 

4,817 

58,826 

Accumulated depreciation and impairment 

(29,680) 

(1,909) 

(6,698) 

(3,273) 

(41,560) 

12,863 

799 

2,060 

1,544 

17,266 

Net carrying amount 

At 30 June 2021 

Cost 

Accumulated depreciation and impairment 

(36,610) 

(2,226) 

59,610 

2,771 

9,955 

(8,013) 

4,817 

77,153 

(4,277) 

(51,126) 

Net carrying amount 

23,000 

545 

1,942 

540 

26,027 

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TERMINALS
$000 

FURNITURE  
AND OFFICE  
EQUIPMENT
$000 

COMPUTER 
EQUIPMENT
$000 

LEASEHOLD  
IMPROVEMENTS
$000 

TOTAL
$000 

Year ended 30 June 2020 

At 30 June 2019 net of accumulated depreciation and 
impairment 

Additions 

Disposals 

13,258 

649 

2,756 

2,071 

18,734 

6,488 

(35) 

506 

- 

640 

- 

387 

- 

8,021 

(35) 

Depreciation for the year 

(6,848) 

(356) 

(1,336) 

(914) 

(9,454) 

At 30 June 2020 net of accumulated depreciation and 
impairment 

12,863 

799 

2,060 

1,544 

17,266 

At 30 June 2019

Cost 

36,668 

2,202 

8,152 

4,430 

51,452 

Accumulated depreciation and impairment 

(23,410) 

(1,553) 

(5,396) 

(2,359) 

(32,718) 

Net carrying amount 

At 30 June 2020 

Cost

13,258 

649 

2,756 

2,071 

18,734 

42,543 

2,708 

8,758 

4,817 

58,826 

Accumulated depreciation and impairment 

(29,680) 

(1,909) 

(6,698) 

(3,273) 

(41,560) 

Net carrying amount 

12,863 

799 

2,060 

1,544 

17,266 

13.  INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL

Reconciliation of net carrying amounts at the beginning and end of the year for the Group is as below:

Year ended 30 June 2021 

At 30 June 2020 net of accumulated amortisation and 
impairment 

Additions 

Acquisitions through business combinations 

Impairment expense 

Amortisation for the year 

INTERNALLY 
GENERATED 
SOFTWARE 
$000

CUSTOMER 
CONTRACTS AND 
RELATIONSHIPS 
$000

GOODWILL 
$000

5,170 

197 

3,762 

5,500 

(277) 

(851) 

111,763 

2,900 

- 

(984) 

- 

- 

13,687

- 

- 

TOTAL 
$000

5,367 

115,525 

22,087 

(277) 

(1,835) 

At 30 June 2021 net of accumulated amortisation and impair-
ment 

13,304 

113,876 

13,687 

140,867 

At 30 June 2020 

Cost 

Accumulated amortisation and impairment 

Net carrying amount 

At 30 June 2021 

Cost 

Accumulated amortisation and impairment 

5,350 

(180) 

5,170 

14,613 

(1,309) 

250 

(53) 

197 

- 

- 

- 

5,600 

(233) 

5,367 

114,912 

(1,036) 

13,687 

- 

143,212

(2,345) 

Net carrying amount 

13,304 

113,876 

13,687 

140,867 

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Year ended 30 June 2020 

At 30 June 2019 net of accumulated amortisation and impairment 

Additions 

Amortisation for the year 

At 30 June 2020 net of accumulated amortisation and impairment 

At 30 June 2019 

Cost 

Accumulated amortisation and impairment 

Net carrying amount 

At 30 June 2020 

Cost 

Accumulated amortisation and impairment 

Net carrying amount 

Impairment testing for CGUs containing goodwill

INTERNALLY 
GENERATED 
SOFTWARE 
$000

CUSTOMER 
CONTRACTS AND 
RELATIONSHIPS 
$000

2,503 

2,832 

(165) 

5,170 

2,518 

(15) 

2,503 

5,350 

(180) 

5,170 

- 

250 

(53) 

197 

- 

- 

- 

250 

(53) 

197 

TOTAL 
$000

2,503 

3,082 

(218) 

5,367 

2,518 

(15) 

2,503 

5,600 

(233) 

5,367 

Tyro has used a provisional valuation of the intangible assets acquired from Medipass and has therefore not tested for 
impairment for the initial reporting period. See Note 1(p) for further information.

14.  SHARE BASED PAYMENTS 

The Company provides benefits to employees (including Key Management Personnel (KMP) from time to time including share-
based payments as remuneration for service. Additionally, the Company provides share-based payments to other stakeholders 
as part of contractual agreements.

(a)  Employee Share Option Plan 

The Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) was established to grant options over ordinary shares in the Company to employees 
or Directors who provide services to the Company. 

Options granted pursuant to the ESOP may be exercised, in whole or part, subject to vesting terms and conditions as indicated 
below:

TYPE OF OPTION 

VESTING TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

Monthly linear vesting schedule 

Annual linear vesting schedule 

Options granted will vest in proportion to the time that passes linearly during the 
vesting schedule, subject to maintaining continuous status as an employee or 
Director with the Company during the vesting period. The options generally vest in 
equal amounts each month over the vesting period. 

Options vest similarly to the monthly linear vesting schedule; except they vest in 
equal amounts annually over the vesting period. 

Performance linear vesting schedule 

Options vest in equal amounts annually over the vesting period and are also 
subject to performance criteria. 

All option grants and any shares issued on the exercise of those options must be held for a minimum period commencing on 
the date on which the options are granted and continuing until the earlier of: 

• 
• 

the date which is 3 years after the date on which options are granted; or 
the date on which the participant ceases employment with the Company. 

Other relevant terms and conditions applicable to options granted under the ESOP include: 

• 

the term of each option grant ranges primarily between 6 – 7 years from the date of grant or such shorter term as provided 
in the ESOP or grant letter; 

•  each option entitles the holder to one ordinary fully paid share; 
•  all awards granted under the ESOP are equity-settled; 
•  a 2-year holding lock applies to those options with annual linear or performance linear vesting schedules. For annual linear 
options, the lock period applies following the relevant vesting date, and for performance linear options the lock period 
applies from exercise date. During this period the shares issued cannot be transferred, sold, encumbered or otherwise dealt 
with; and 

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•  under the ESOP rules and subject to any requirements under law or the ASX listing rules, the Board, at its discretion, may 

determine that options held by an employee or Director do not lapse on cessation of employment or Directorship and that 
the relevant holder of options has additional time to exercise their options. 

(b)  Fair value of options under the ESOP 

The fair value of each option is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. 

A zero-dividend policy assumption is used for valuing all option grants. This is in line with the Company's capital management 
policy and growth strategy. 

Expected volatility used is the historical volatility of the Company’s estimated peer group. The expected volatility reflects the 
assumption that the historical volatility is indicative of future trends, which may not necessarily be the actual outcome. 

There were 5,166,415 options exercised during the period ended 30 June 2021 (2020: 6,623,341). 

The weighted average remaining contractual life for share options outstanding as at 30 June 2021 was 4 years (2020: 5 years).

RANGE OF EXERCISE 
PRICES 

179 cents 

176 cents 

CONTRACTUAL LIFE  VESTING CONDITIONS 

NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING OPTIONS 

7 years 

4 year annual vesting, plus performance criteria 

6,647,422 

7,740,124 

JUN 2021 

JUN 2020 

6 years or less 

5 year monthly linear vesting 

162 cents to 176 cents  7 years or less 

No vesting in first 6 months of 5 year monthly linear 
vesting period 

6,830,283 

7,589,967 

591,495 

750,000 

162 cents 

150 cents 

37.5 cents to 149 
cents 

0 cents 

Total 

7 years or less 

5 year monthly linear vesting 

70,678 

90,000 

7 years 

4 year annual vesting, plus performance criteria 

5,762,443 

6,154,423 

7 years or less 

5 year monthly linear vesting 

6,749,286 

11,081,212 

6 years 

5 year annual linear vesting 

2,703,886 

3,570,372 

29,355,493 

36,976,098 

The following table illustrates the number and weighted average exercise prices (WAEP) in cents and movements of share 
options during the year:

JUN 2021  
NUMBER 

JUN 2021 WAEP  
(CENTS) 

JUN 2020  
NUMBER 

JUN 2020 WAEP  
(CENTS) 

Monthly linear and annual linear vesting 

Opening 

Granted 

Exercised 

Forfeited or expired 

Closing 

Of which: Exercisable at the end of the year 

Performance based vesting 

Opening 

Granted 

Exercised 

Forfeited or expired 

Closing 

23,081,551 

107 

30,615,768 

- 

(5,166,415) 

(969,508) 

16,945,628 

12,689,820 

- 

74 

73 

119 

110 

1,554,294 

(6,623,341) 

(2,465,170) 

23,081,551 

14,664,292 

13,894,547 

166 

6,154,423 

- 

- 

- 

- 

7,822,597 

- 

(1,484,682) 

171 

(82,473) 

12,409,865 

165 

13,894,547 

Of which: Exercisable at the end of the year 

- 

- 

- 

Total outstanding at the end of the year 

Total exercisable at the end of the year 

29,355,493 

12,689,820 

36,976,098 

14,664,292 

Refer to Note 25 for outstanding share options at the end of the period that are not part of ESOP.

102 

- 

59 

109 

107 

108 

150 

179 

- 

179 

166 

- 

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(c)  Performance rights, service rights, remuneration sacrifice rights and rights to shares under other 

contractual arrangements 

During the period, the Company granted 731,548 performance rights as part of the short term incentive (STI) arrangement and 
834,316 performance rights as part of the long term incentive (LTI) plan. The following model inputs were used in the Black-
Scholes valuation model to determine the fair values:

Grant date: 

Vesting period 

Expiry date 

Share price at grant date ($)1 

Dividend yield (%) 

Expected volatility (%) 

Risk-free interest rate (%) 

STI RIGHTS 

Jul-20 

2 years 

10 years following the vesting of the 
rights (or 30 days following cessation of 
employment, if earlier) 

$3.50 

0% 

N/A 

N/A 

1 

The Company considers the listed share price near grant date, when determining fair value.

LTI RIGHTS 

Sep-20 

3 years 

Sep-23 

$3.60 

0% 

N/A 

N/A 

Group

Opening 

Granted 

Exercised 

Forfeited or expired 

Closing 

Exercisable at the end of the year 

15.  DEPOSITS

Deposits1 

Term deposits 

JUN 2021  
NUMBER 

JUN 2021 WAEP  
(CENTS) 

JUN 2020  
NUMBER 

JUN 2020 WAEP  
(CENTS) 

6,485,940 

1,565,864 

(2,031,510) 

(607,744) 

5,412,550 

1,356,092 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

6,998,587 

1,475,617 

(1,882,647) 

(105,617) 

6,485,940 

1,652,608 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2021 
$000

72,470 

3,011 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

49,691 

851 

75,481 

50,542 

1 

The deposits are at call, earn a daily interest with rates that increase for every dollar held for longer than 30 days, 60 days and 90 days, and are 
guaranteed by the Australian Government up to $250,000 per customer.

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Current

Accounts payable 

Accruals – scheme fees, commissions, bonuses and others 

Payroll liabilities 

Commissions payable to Bendigo Bank 

Other liabilities – clearing suspense and other payables 

Non-current

Commissions payable to Bendigo Bank 

17.  CURRENT AND NON-CURRENT PROVISIONS

Current

Annual leave provision 

Long service leave provision 

Total leave provisions 

Other provisions 

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Provision during the year

Provision released during the year

Balance at the end of the year 

Make good provision 

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Transfer from non-current provisions

Provision during the year

Balance at the end of the year 

Total current provisions 

Non-current

Long service leave provision

Make good provision 

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Transfer to current provisions

Provision during the year

Balance at the end of the year 

Total non-current provisions 

2021 
$000

3,993 

11,101 

33 

11,795 

2,293 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

665 

5,576 

826 

- 

3,265 

29,215 

10,332 

90,478 

90,478 

2021 
$000

4,916 

376 

5,292 

285 

9,008 

(56) 

9,237

-

704

149 

853 

- 

-

- 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

3,721 

341 

4,062 

951 

285 

(951) 

285 

- 

-

- 

- 

15,382 

4,347 

1,227

712

704

(704)

-

-

556 

-

148 

704 

1,227 

1,416 

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17.  CURRENT AND NON-CURRENT PROVISIONS (continued)

$9,008,000 of other provisions is a provision for remediation of the terminal outage incident in January 2021. Settlement 
offers have been made to impacted customers.  Compensation payments are either in discussion or being made to those 
customers where they have registered.  Tyro continues to encourage customers to register or contact Tyro where they may 
have been impacted by the January incident.

The Make Good provision is for the costs of restoring the office space at 155 Clarence Street to its original condition at the 
conclusion of the lease.

18.  CONTRIBUTED EQUITY AND RESERVES

(i) Movement in ordinary shares on issue

At 1 July 2019 

Shares issued as part of IPO 

Share options and rights exercised 

Capital raising costs (net of tax) 

At 30 June 2020 

At 1 July 2020 

Share options and rights exercised 

Shares issued in consideration for acquisition of Medipass 

Equity instruments issued in consideration for acquisition of Medipass1

At 30 June 2021 

NUMBER OF
SHARES

443,871,751 

45,493,432 

10,130,988 

- 

GROUP 

$000

141,856 

125,000 

3,913 

(5,006) 

499,496,171 

265,763 

499,496,171 

265,763 

9,822,925 

1,220,694 

1,132,632

4,059 

4,614 

-

511,672,422 

274,436 

1 1,132,632 of the shares issued to Medipass shareholders have been accounted for as options and recognised through the share-based payments reserve.  See 
Note 21 for further details

Terms and conditions of contributed equity

Ordinary shares have the right to receive dividends when declared and, in the event of winding up of the Company, to 
participate in the proceeds from the sale of all surplus assets in proportion to the number of and amounts paid up on ordinary 
shares held. Ordinary shares entitle their holder to one vote, either in person or by proxy, at a meeting of the Company. All 
issued share capital is full paid up.

(ii)  Share-based payments reserve

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Share-based payments transactions 

Equity instruments issued in consideration for acquisition of Medipass

2021 
$000

26,371 

9,342 

2,648

GROUP 

2020 
$000

15,475 

10,896 

-

Balance at the end of the year 

38,361 

26,371 

The share-based payments reserve is used to record the value of share-based payments or benefits provided to any Directors, 
employees as part of their remuneration or compensation, and share-based payments provided to other stakeholders as part of 

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contractual agreements.

18.  CONTRIBUTED EQUITY AND RESERVES (continued)

(iii)  General reserve for credit losses

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Transfer from accumulated losses: 

Appropriation for chargeback losses 

Appropriation for lending losses 

Balance at the end of the year 

2021 
$000

2,103 

(12) 

267 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

1,918 

253 

(68) 

2,358 

2,103 

 The general reserve for credit losses has been created to satisfy APRA’s prudential standards for ADIs as described in Note 
1(v). The Group applies an internal methodology to estimate the credit risk of its merchant customers and the maximum losses 
based upon a number of assumptions concerning the performance of merchants in relation to the Group’s credit risk grading 
system and actual experience.

(iv) FVOCI reserve

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Deferred tax on equity movements

Revaluations gain/(loss) 

Balance at the end of the year 

2021 
$000

3 

(80)

185 

108 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

99 

-

(96) 

3 

Total reserves at the end of the year 

40,827 

28,477 

(v) Accumulated losses

Balance at the beginning of the year 

Loss attributable to shareholders 

Transfer to general reserve for credit losses 

Balance at the end of the year 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

(104,521) 

(66,279) 

(29,823) 

(38,057) 

(255) 

(185) 

(134,599) 

(104,521) 

19.  FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES, POLICIES AND PROCESSES 

The Group’s principal financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, deposits due from other financial institutions, 
trade and other receivables, loans, net investment in sublease, financial investments, deposits, lease liabilities, trade payables 
and other liabilities. 

(i)  Risk management 

The Board has responsibility for setting the Group’s strategy and the Risk Management Framework (RMF). The RMF includes the 
Risk Management Strategy (RMS), the Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) and the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process 
(ICAAP). The RMS supports the Group in achieving its strategic priorities by clearly articulating the approach to managing 
risks aligned with the material risk types that are consistent with the RAS. The CEO and Management team are responsible for 
implementing the RMS, and for developing policies, controls, processes and procedures for identifying and managing risk. 

Various management committees, including the Executive Risk Committee (ERC), the Pricing Committee (PriceCo) and the 
Asset and Liability Management Committee (ALCO), ensure appropriate execution of the RMS is applied to the day-to-day 
operations and regularly report to the Board Risk Committee (BRC). 

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(continued)

(ii)  Risk controls 

Risks are identified, managed and controlled through the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process. The RCSA is an 
assessment of key risks and controls which enable the business to understand its operational risk environment and facilitate 
decision-making, prioritisation, allocation of resources and effective governance. Business risks are controlled within tolerance 
levels approved by the Board through the RAS.

(iii)  Internal audit 

The Group has an independent and adequately resourced Internal Audit function. The Internal Audit function provides 
independent assurance to the Board on the adequacy and effectiveness of the control environment and risk framework. 

(iv)  Credit risk 

Credit risk is the risk that a counterparty will not meet its obligations under a financial instrument or customer contract, leading 
to a financial loss. The Group is exposed to credit risk from its operating activities (primarily trade receivables) and from its 
lending and investing activities, including deposits with banks and financial institutions, foreign exchange transactions and 
financial investments in floating rate notes. 

The maximum exposure to credit risk is represented by the carrying amounts of the financial assets at the reporting date. The 
Group’s credit risk management framework outlines the core values which govern its credit risk-taking activities and reflect the 
priorities established by the Board. 

The framework is used to develop underwriting standards and credit procedures which define the operating processes. The 
operation of a credit risk grading system coupled with ongoing monitoring, reporting and review allows the Group to identify 
changes in credit quality at the client and portfolio levels and to take corrective actions in a timely manner. 

Credit losses from chargebacks 

In addition, the Group is subject to the risk of credit card losses via chargebacks. The maximum period the Group is potentially 
liable for such chargebacks is 120 days after the date of the transaction. The Group manages credit risk associated with its 
merchant portfolio both at an individual and a portfolio level, by monitoring the concentration of risk by industry and type of 
counterparty. 

It is the Group’s policy that all merchants are subject to credit verification procedures including an assessment of their 
independent credit rating, past behaviour and an overview of trading history. 

As part of equity, a General Reserve for Credit Losses (GRCL) is maintained to cover losses due to uncollectible chargebacks 
that have not been specifically identified. The reserve is calculated based on estimated future credit losses as described in 
Note 1(v). The Group does not hold any credit derivatives or collateral to offset its credit exposure. The Group’s exposure to bad 
debts from chargebacks is not significant at the reporting date. 

Credit losses from loans 

The Group is also subject to the risk of credit losses from its unsecured loan product and loan product operating under the 
Government SME guarantee scheme. The Group manages this risk in accordance with the Board approved Lending Credit Risk 
Policy. Responsibility for monitoring and management of this risk is delegated to the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). The CRO is also 
responsible for ensuring the Lending Credit Risk Policy is reviewed regularly and submitted to the BRC for endorsement and 
approval by the Board. 

To manage the risk of credit losses, various underwriting criteria is in place before a loan can be offered. A merchant must 
also have a minimum acquiring transaction history to be eligible for a loan offer, as well as providing a personal guarantee. 
Loans issued under the Government SME guarantee scheme are guaranteed up to 50% of the loan balance by the Australian 
Government. 

The Group maintains a GRCL to also cover credit losses estimated but not certain to arise over the full life of the loans as 
described in Note 1(v).

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This table summarises the Group’s credit risk exposures as at reporting date:

30 JUNE 2021 

STANDARD & POORS CREDIT RATING1 

CASH AND CASH 
EQUIVALENTS 

DUE FROM OTHER 
FINANCIAL 
INSTITUTIONS 

TRADE AND OTHER 
RECEIVABLES 

($000) 

AAA 

AA 

A+ 

A 

A- 

BBB+ 

unrated 

30 JUNE 2020 

($000) 

39,857 

44,664 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

($000) 

- 

19,191 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

($000) 

379 

9,852 

5,815 

92 

- 

234 

723 

84,521 

19,191 

17,095 

STANDARD & POORS CREDIT RATING1 

CASH AND CASH 
EQUIVALENTS 

DUE FROM OTHER 
FINANCIAL 
INSTITUTIONS 

TRADE AND 
OTHER 
RECEIVABLES 

($000) 

AAA 

AA 

A+ 

A 

A- 

BBB+ 

unrated 

($000) 

31,218 

72,543 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

($000) 

- 

18,356 

73 

- 

- 

- 

- 

($000) 

1,638 

8,249 

4,415 

- 

- 

168 

702 

LOANS2 

($000) 

NET INVESTMENT 
IN SUBLEASE 

($000)

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

15,387 

15,387 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

LOANS2 

($000) 

NET INVESTMENT 
IN SUBLEASE 

($000)

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

11,921 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

1,367 

1,367 

103,761 

18,429 

15,172 

11,921 

1 

2 

Long term credit rating

Includes loans issued under the Government SME guarantee scheme of $251,000.

(v)  Operational risk

Operational risk is the risk that arises from inadequate or failed internal processes and systems, human error or misconduct, or 
from external events. It includes, amongst other things, fraud, technology risk, model risk and outsourcing risk.

The BRC is responsible for monitoring the operational risk profile, the performance of operational risk controls, and the 
development and ongoing review of operational risk policies.

(vi)  Market risk

Market risk is the potential loss of value or potential reduction in expected earnings resulting from movements in interest rates 
and currency exchanges rates. The Group’s balance sheet activities expose the profit and loss to earnings volatility. Ultimately, 
the aim of managing market risks is to stabilise earnings. Market prices comprise four types of risk: interest rate risk, foreign 
currency risk, commodity price risk and other price risk, such as equity price risk. The Group does not engage in financial market 
trading activities nor assume any foreign exchange, interest rate or other derivative positions and does not have a trading 
book. The Group does not undertake any hedging around the values of its financial instruments as any risk of loss is considered 
insignificant to the operations of the Group at this stage.

Any government securities, bank bills or other marketable instruments that the Group holds are for investment or liquidity 
purposes and held in the normal course of business in line with investment and liquidity guidelines. Each component of market 
risk is detailed below as follows:

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(i) 

Interest rate risk

Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes 
in market interest rates. The Group has exposure to interest rate risk primarily on its variable interest-bearing cash and cash 
equivalent balances, term deposits, floating rate notes, loans and variable deposits (bank accounts for businesses).

Interest rate sensitivity analysis

The following demonstrates the sensitivity to a reasonably possible change in interest rates. With all other variables held 
constant, the profit is affected as follows:

An increase of 50 basis points for 12 months in the general cash rate (assuming other factors remain constant) will increase 
the Group’s profit and increase equity by $563,431 (2020: $748,512). A decrease of 50 basis points in the general cash rate 
will have an equal and opposite effect.

The following table shows the financial assets and liabilities on which the interest rate sensitivity analysis has been 
performed.

30 JUNE 2021 

Financial assets 

VARIABLE INTER-
EST RATE 
($'000)

< 3 MONTHS 
($'000)

FIXED INTEREST 
RATE 3 TO 12 
MONTHS
($'000) 

> 1 YEAR
($'000) 

TOTAL
($'000) 

Cash and cash equivalents 

69,521 

15,000 

Other term deposits 

USD term deposit 

Loans 

Floating rate notes 

Financial liabilities 

Deposits 

30 JUNE 2020 

Financial assets 

Cash and cash equivalents 

Other term deposits 

USD term deposit 

Loans 

Floating rate notes 

Financial liabilities 

Deposits 

(ii)  Foreign currency risk 

- 

- 

- 

69,068 

8,471 

1,729 

2,866 

- 

- 

2,991 

- 

10,543 

- 

(72,470) 

(2,961) 

(50) 

- 

6,000 

- 

1,978 

- 

- 

84,521 

17,462 

1,729 

15,387 

69,068 

(75,481) 

VARIABLE INTER-
EST RATE 
($'000)

< 3 MONTHS 
($'000)

FIXED INTEREST 
RATE 3 TO 12 
MONTHS
($'000) 

> 1 YEAR
($'000) 

TOTAL
($'000) 

88,761 

1,924 

73 

- 

66,134 

15,000 

1,547 

- 

3,182 

- 

(49,691) 

(851) 

- 

12,991 

1,894 

6,658 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

2,081 

- 

- 

103,761 

16,462 

1,967 

11,921 

66,134 

(50,542) 

Foreign currency risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of 
changes in foreign exchange rates. 

The Group is not exposed to foreign currency risk in the settlement of merchant transactions as all monies received and 
paid are in Australian dollars. The Group’s settlement of fees with card schemes and the purchases of terminals from 
foreign suppliers are transacted in foreign currencies at the exchange rate prevailing at the transaction date. At the 
reporting date the Group has some US dollar and Euro exposures. 

Foreign currency sensitivity analysis 

The following demonstrates the sensitivity to a reasonably possible change in the US dollar and Euro exchange rates, with 
all other variables held constant. 

An appreciation of 15% of the US dollar and Euro compared to the Australian dollar (assuming other factors remain 
constant), will increase the Group’s profit and increase equity by $67,527 (2020: $311,776). A depreciation of 15% of the 
US dollar and Euro compared to the Australian dollar will reduce the Group’s profit and reduce equity by $49,911 (2020: 
$230,443). 

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The following table shows the financial assets and liabilities on which the foreign currency sensitivity analysis has been 
performed.

USD term deposit 

UnionPay deposit 

Trade payables 

Trade payables 

(iii)  Other price risk

AUD 
2021 
$000

1,729 

- 

2,106 

6 

USD 

USD 

EUR 

USD 

GROUP

AUD 
2020 
$000

1,894 

73 

200 

- 

Other price risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes 
in market conditions (other than those arising from interest rate risk or currency risk), for example from changes in equity 
prices and commodity prices.

(vii) 

Capital Management

The Group’s capital management objectives are to:

•   maintain a sufficient level of capital above the regulatory minimum to provide a buffer against loss arising from 

unanticipated events, and allow the Group to continue as a going concern; and

•   ensure that capital management is closely aligned with the Group’s business and strategic objectives.

The Group manages capital adequacy according to the framework set out by the APRA Prudential Standards.

APRA determines minimum prudential capital ratios that must be held by all ADIs. Accordingly, the Group is required to 
maintain a minimum prudential capital ratio on a Level 1 basis as determined by APRA.

The Board considers the Group’s strategy, financial performance objectives, and other factors relating to the efficient 
management of capital in setting target ratios of capital above the regulatory required levels. These processes are formalised 
within the Group’s ICAAP. The Group operates under the specific capital requirements set by APRA. The Group has satisfied 
its minimum capital requirements throughout the 2021 financial year in the form of Tier 1 Capital which is the highest quality 
component of capital.

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Capital Adequacy

Tier 1 Capital 

Common Equity Tier 1 Capital 

Contributed capital 

Accumulated losses & reserves 

Regulatory adjustments to Common Equity Tier 1 Capital 

Net deferred tax assets 

Capitalised expenses 

Goodwill and other intangible assets

Other adjustments 

Common Equity Tier 1 Capital 

Additional Tier 1 Capital 

Total Tier 1 Capital 

Tier 2 Capital 

General reserve for credit losses1 

Total Tier 2 Capital 

Total Capital 

Total risk weighted assets 

Risk weighted capital ratios 

Common Equity Tier 1 

Tier 1 

Total Capital ratio 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

274,435 

265,763 

(96,127) 

(78,147) 

178,308 

187,616 

(13,856) 

(13,984) 

(7,800) 

(5,169) 

(69,234)

-

(4,999) 

(3,825) 

(95,889) 

(22,978) 

82,419 

164,638 

- 

- 

82,419 

164,638 

1,273 

1,273 

1,147 

1,147 

83,692 

165,785 

115,357 

102,200 

% 

71 

71 

73 

% 

161 

161 

162 

1   Standardised approach (to a maximum of 1.25% of total credit risk weighted assets).

(viii) Liquidity risk 

The Group’s liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will have insufficient liquidity to meet its obligations as they fall due. This 
could potentially arise as a result of mismatched cash flows. 

The Group manages this risk by the Board approved liquidity framework. Responsibility for liquidity management is delegated 
to the CFO and CEO. The CFO manages liquidity on a daily basis and submits regular reports to the ALCO and to the BRC. The 
CFO is also responsible for monitoring and managing capital planning. The capital plan outlines triggers for additional funding 
should liquidity be required. The CRO provides oversight of the business’ adherence with the liquidity risk framework and 
reports to the BRC. Liquidity risk management framework models the ability to fund under both normal conditions and periods 
of stress. The capital plan and liquidity management are reviewed at least annually. At the reporting date, the Board of Directors 
determined that there was sufficient cash available to meet its financial liabilities and anticipated expenditure. 

Maturity analysis 

Amounts in the table below are based on contractual undiscounted cash flows for the remaining contractual maturities. 

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Financial liabilities 

As at 30 June 2021 

Variable rate deposits 

Term deposits 

Lease liabilities 

< 3 MONTHS 

3 TO 6 
MONTHS 

>6 TO 12 
MONTHS 

>1 TO 5 YEARS 

>5 YEARS 

TOTAL 

CONTRACTUAL CASH FLOWS (AMOUNTS IN $’000S)

(72,470) 

(3,011) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(1,286) 

(1,286) 

(300) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(72,470) 

(3,011) 

(2,872) 

Commissions payable to Bendigo Bank 

(2,043) 

(2,058) 

(7,899) 

(42,350) 

(63,343) 

(117,693) 

Trade payables and other liabilities 

(27,172) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(27,172) 

(105,982) 

(3,344) 

(8,199) 

(42,350) 

(63,343) 

(223,218) 

As at 30 June 2020 

Variable rate deposits 

Term deposits 

Lease liabilities 

(49,691) 

(851) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(1,237) 

(1,237) 

(2,561) 

(2,872) 

Trade payables and other liabilities 

(10,332) 

- 

- 

- 

(62,111) 

(1,237) 

(2,561) 

(2,872) 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(49,691) 

(851) 

(7,907) 

(10,332) 

(68,781) 

Amounts falling due after greater than 5 years include variable component of commissions payable to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank under the Tyro-Bendigo 
Alliance.

(ix)  Fair values

The Group uses various methods in estimating the fair value of a financial instrument. The methods comprise:

Level 1 

Level 2 

The fair value is calculated using quoted prices in active markets. 

The fair value is estimated using inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable for the 
asset or liability, either directly (as prices) or indirectly (derived from prices). 

Level 3 

The fair value is estimated using inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data. 

Quoted market price represents the fair value determined based on quoted prices in active markets as at the reporting date 
without any deduction for transaction costs.

The table below shows the Group’s financial assets and financial liabilities that are measured at fair value, or where not 
measured at fair value, their fair value equivalent. Management has assessed that for other financial assets and liabilities not 
disclosed in the table below, that due to their short term maturity or repricing profile, the carrying amount is an approximation 
of fair value.

30 JUNE 2021 ($000) 

30 JUNE 2020 ($000) 

FINANCIAL ASSETS 

LEVEL 1 

LEVEL 2 

LEVEL 3 

TOTAL 

LEVEL 1 

LEVEL 2 

LEVEL 3 

TOTAL 

Floating rate notes 

69,068 

Loans 

Equity investment 

Net investment in sublease 

- 

- 

- 

69,068 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

69,068 

66,134 

15,387 

15,387 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

15,387 

84,455 

66,134 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

66,134 

11,921 

3,627 

1,367 

11,921 

3,627 

1,367 

16,915 

83,049 

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Floating rate notes

The floating rate notes invested in by the Group have a short term repricing profile and are of high credit quality. The fair value 
of these floating rate notes is obtained from an independent third-party pricing service that uses tradable prices and quotes 
from active markets.

Loans 

Loans are included in Level 3 due to one or more of the significant inputs used in determining the fair value being based on 
unobservable inputs. To determine the fair value, an income valuation approach is used. This technique converts forecasted 
cash flows to a present value amount (also known as a discounted cash flow method). Forecast cash flows are actuarially 
determined using predictive models based partly on evidenced historical performance and expected repayment profiles. 

The fair value model will be periodically reviewed, tested and refined as needed. 

The fair value of loans requires estimation of: 

• 
• 

the expected future cash flows; 
the expected timing of receipt of those cash flows; and 

•  discount rates derived from similar observed rates for comparable assets that are traded in the market. 

The main inputs used in measuring the fair value of loans are as follows: 

loan balance - accepted principal and fee, outstanding principal and fee, and date of acceptance; 

• 
•  annual settlement amount - forecasted total annual settlements for loan customers; 
•  current repayment percentage - percentage of daily settlements through the loan customers’ terminals that go towards loan 

repayments; 

•  historical default and recovery information; and 
•  discount rates - market benchmarked discount rate which allows for a market level of default risk. 

The unobservable pricing inputs which determine fair value are based on: 

the pricing of loans including adjustments for credit risk, with the risk adjustments ranging between 35% and 37%; 

• 
•  historical data with respect to behavioural repayment patterns – generally ranging between 3 to 12 months; 
•  default experience for loans deemed uncollectable and which are valued at $0; and 
•  an estimate for the deterioration in credit risk of merchants as a result of COVID-19. 

These inputs directly affect the fair value of the loans. A sensitivity of a change of 10% in the value ascribed to credit risk 
for loans to merchants that are either not trading completely, or are on repayment holidays, will have an impact of between 
negative $26,738 and positive $26,738 to profit and loss. 

Equity investments 

At the reporting date, the Group held unlisted equity instruments in me&u, YBF and Paypa Plane and 100% of the share capital 
of Medipass which was acquired on 31 May 2021. Further detail can be found of the Medipass acquistion in Note 21. The 
valuations of YBF is a level 3 financial instruments with several unobservable inputs. me&u and Paypa Plane are valued using the 
equity accounting method as noted in Note 11.

Net investment in sublease 

The arrangement relates to the sublease of Level 5 of the Company’s registered office. It is a non-cancellable lease with a term 
of up to 2 years, 6 months and 20 days ending 21 January 2022, aligned to the Company’s head-lease. The sublease agreement 
does not provide the lessee with the option to extend the lease. The lessee has been adversely impacted by COVID-19 during 
the year and has been unable to pay rent as and when it falls due. Accordingly, the Company has taken the decision to impair 
the investment in full during the year. 

Transfer between categories 

There were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3 during the financial year.

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(a)  Commitments relating to BECS

The Group pays merchants through the Bulk Electronic Clearing System (BECS). As a result of BECS intra-day settlements 
which went live in November 2013, all merchant settlements committed are processed on the same day.

Contingent liabilities arising from commitments are secured by way of standby letters of credit or bank guarantees as follows.

Contingent liabilities - secured 

(i) Irrevocable standby letters of credit in favour of: 

Mastercard International 

Visa International 

UnionPay International 

(ii) Bank Guarantee in favour of: 

UIR Australia (lessor of 155 Clarence Street, Sydney)

Premium Custody Services (lessor of 1.15/14-16 Lexington Drive, Bella Vista)

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited – Alliance Agreement

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

3,129 

3,294 

524 

- 

524 

73 

4,525 

4,525 

13 

6,000

13 

-

14,191 

8,429 

The Group has provided irrevocable standby letters of credit of $3,653,183 (2020: $3,891,000) secured through fixed charges 
over term deposits with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Corporation, to Mastercard International, 
Visa International and Union Pay International. These are one-year arrangements that are subject to automatic renewal on 
a yearly basis. Mastercard International and Visa International, at their discretion, may increase the required amounts of the 
standby letters of credit upon written request to the Company. The required amounts of the standby letters of credit are 
dependent on Mastercard International's and Visa International's view of their risk exposure to the Company. 

A bank guarantee in favour of UIR Australia is held with Westpac Banking Corporation in relation to the lease arrangement for 
the office premises. The amount represents up to 9 month’s rent and includes all annual increases of 4% since 2016 until lease 
maturity and is refundable on expiry of the lease agreement, subject to satisfactory vacation of the leased premises. 

(b)  Commitments relating to Tyro – Bendigo Bank Alliance 

During the year ended 30 June 2021, the Group announced an alliance with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (Bendigo Bank) 
for merchant acquiring services (Alliance). As part of the Alliance, Bendigo Bank agreed to transfer existing and refer potential 
customers to the Group for the provision of a co-branded merchant acquiring service and receive upfront consideration and 
commission from existing and newly referred Bendigo Bank business customers who use the Group's merchant acquiring 
services.

The present value of commitments arising from the commission payable on existing customer network and future rollouts 
includes an amount guaranteed by the Group and an additional variable amount based on revenue achieved as follows:

Guaranteed amount 

Variable amount 

Key assumptions in respect of estimating the variable amount can be found in Note 1(c).

2021 
$000

39,183

63,090 

102,273 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

- 

-

- 

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(c) Commitments relating to lease at 55 Market Street

On 23 June 2021, the Company entered into an agreement for a lease at 55 Market Street terminating in January 2031, with an 
option to renew for a further 5 years. The annual rental charge is $7,208,085 in the first year with annual reviews of 3.25% in year 
2 and 3, and of 3.5% in years 4 to 8.

On 2 July 2021 Tyro obtained a Bank Guarantee from Westpac Banking Corporation for $4,867,529 which has been provided to 
the lessor.

21.  ACQUISITION OF SUBSIDIARY 

On 31 May 2021, the Company acquired a 100% ownership interest in Medipass, a Melbourne-based digital health payments 
business.

Included in the identifiable assets and liabilities acquired at the date of acquisition of Medipass are inputs (a software platform, 
customer contracts, customer relationships), production processes and an organised workforce. The Company has determined 
that together the acquired inputs and processes significantly contribute to the ability to create revenue. The Company has 
concluded that the acquired asset is a business.

Acquisition of Medipass adds an innovative cardless digital healthcare claiming and payment platform, that seamlessly links 
practitioners, funders and patients. Medipass’ digital health payments platform will be integrated with the Company’s card-
present health solution to provide a unified health payment offering that delivers both card-present and card-not-present 
transactions. The acquisition will provide the Company’s health merchants greater claiming and payment capabilities extending 
beyond the Company’s private health insurer and Medicare Easyclaim options to include a range of State and Federal based 
compensatory funders.

For the one-month trading in 2021, Medipass contributed reported revenue of $222,278 and a loss of $131,162 to the Group's 
results.

The following summarises the major classes of consideration transferred, the recognised amounts of assets acquired, and 
liabilities assumed, and the goodwill recognised as a result of the acquisitions at the acquisition date:

(a)  Consideration transferred

Cash 

Share capital issued (1,220,694 ordinary shares)

Equity instruments (1,132,632 ordinary shares)

Total consideration transferred 

2021 
$000

13,541 

4,614 

2,648 

20,803 

As part of the transaction, a limited recourse loan totalling $1,675,138 was made to Medipass option holders to allow them to 
exercise their options prior to the completion of the transaction. The Tyro shares that were issued in exchange for the shares 
issued on the exercise of these options are being held in escrow with a holding lock period of 1-3 years. Tyro will only have 
recourse in respect of the loan to the proceeds arising from disposal of the shares. 

These shares have been treated as share options in Tyro’s equity reserves. They have been valued using the Black-Sholes 
method and recognised in the Share Based Payment Reserve. For further detail on how Tyro values its share options, see Note 
1(c) and Note 14.

(i)  Equity instruments issued

The fair value of ordinary shares issued was based on the 20 day volume weighted average share sale price of the Company at 
31 May 2021 of $3.78 per share.

(b)  Acquisition costs

The Company incurred acquisition-related costs of $1,136,364 on legal fees and due diligence costs. These costs have been 
included in ‘administrative expenses’.

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(c) 

Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed

The following table summarises the recognised amounts of assets acquired, and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition.

Cash and cash equivalents

Trade receivables 

Prepayments and other debtors 

Software - Medipass platform 

Customer relationships 

Property, plant and equipment

Loans and borrowings 

Deferred tax liabilities

Trade and other payables 

Total identifiable net assets acquired 

2021 
$000

171

126 

242 

5,500 

2,900 

38

(113) 

(870)

(878) 

7,116 

The valuation techniques used for measuring the fair value of material assets acquired were as follows:

ASSETS ACQUIRED 

VALUATION TECHNIQUE 

DESCRIPTION 

Software 

Replacement cost 

Estimates the Fair Value as all costs necessary to construct a 
similar asset of equivalent utility at prices applicable at the time 
of reconstruction. 

Customer relationships  Multi-excess earnings method  Estimates Fair Value based on the present value of the cash flows 
derived from the intangible asset adjusted for charges relating to 
the supporting assets used to derive that income. This return on 
assets is deducted as a contributory asset (CAC) in the DCF. 

(d)  Goodwill

Goodwill arising from the acquisition has been recognised as follows.

Consideration transferred 

Fair value of identifiable assets 

Goodwill 

None of the goodwill recognised is expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

22. LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES

2021 
$000

20,803 

(7,116) 

13,687 

PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS 

OWNERSHIP INTEREST 

2021 

2020 

Parent entity 

Tyro Payments Limited 

Subsidiaries 

Medipass Solutions Pty Ltd

Medipass Solutions Limited 

Australia 

Australia 

United Kingdom 

Tyro Payments (Ben Alliance) Pty Ltd

Australia

100% 

100% 

100%

- 

- 

-

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Basic loss per share shows the loss attributable to each ordinary share. It is calculated as the net loss attributable to ordinary 
shareholders divided by the weighted average number of ordinary shares in each year.

Diluted loss per share shows the loss attributable to each ordinary share if all the dilutive potential ordinary shares had been 
ordinary shares. There are no discontinued operations of the Group.

Earnings

Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders used to calculate basic and diluted earnings per 
share 

JUNE 2021 
$000

JUNE 2020 
$000

(29,823) 

(38,057) 

JUNE 2021 
NUMBER

JUNE 2020 
NUMBER

Weighted average number of ordinary shares used in calculating basic earnings per share 

505,773,888  476,033,272 

Weighted average number of potentially dilutive ordinary shares 

Basic loss per share 

Diluted loss per share 

Diluted EPS is consistent with basic EPS due to the Group currently generating negative earnings.

24. AUDITOR’S REMUNERATION

Fees in respect of the role of the appointed auditor 

Audit and review of the financial reports1 

Fees for assurance services required by legislation to be performed by the auditor 

Discretionary fees for other assurance related services 

IPO related services 

Other assurance and agreed-upon-procedures services 

Fees for other non-assurance services 

Tax compliance 

Other assistance and services 

531,633,132  504,695,120 

JUNE 2021 
CENTS

JUNE 2020 
CENTS

(5.90) 

(5.90) 

(7.99) 

(7.99) 

GROUP 

2020 
$000

2021 
$000

425 

388 

- 

- 

- 

38

14 

7 

484 

- 

- 

223 

17 

55 

29 

712 

1 

This includes fees in the capacity as the appointed auditor under APRA’s APS 310 Audit and Audit Related Matters.

The Directors are satisfied that the provision of non-audit services, during the year, by the auditor (or by another person or firm 
on the auditor’s behalf) is compatible with the general standard of independence for auditors imposed by the Corporations Act 
2001.

The Directors are of the opinion that the services disclosed above do not compromise the external auditor’s independence for 
the following reasons:

•   all non-audit services have been reviewed and approved to ensure that they do not impact the impartiality and objectivity of 

the auditor; and

•   none of the services undermine the general principles relating to auditor independence as set out in APES 110 Code of 

Ethics for Professional Accountants issued by the Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board, including reviewing or 
auditing the auditor’s own work, acting in a management or decision-making capacity for the Group, acting as an advocate 
for the Group or jointly sharing economic risks and rewards.

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(a)  Compensation of Key Management Personnel

The amounts disclosed in the table are the amounts recognised as an expense during the reporting period related to the 
following Key Management Personnel.

DIRECTORS 

David Thodey 

Robbie Cooke 

Hamish Corlett 

David Fite 

Catherine Harris1 

Aliza Knox 

Fiona Pak-Poy 

Paul Rickard 

EXECUTIVES 

Robbie Cooke 

Steven Chapman

Angela Green2 

Praveenesh Pala 

TITLE 

Non-executive Director, Chair

CEO | Managing Director 

Non-executive Director 

Non-executive Director 

Non-executive Director 

Non-executive Director 

Non-executive Director 

Non-executive Director 

TITLE 

CEO | Managing Director 

Chief Risk Officer

Chief Risk Officer 

Chief Financial Officer 

1  Retired as Non-executive Director on 30 June 2021.

2  Employment ceased on 10 June 2021.

Compensation of Key Management Personnel 

Short term benefits 

Long term benefits (long service leave) 

Post-employment benefits (superannuation) 

Share-based payments 

Total 

APPOINTED 

16 November 2018 

18 October 2019 

18 April 2019 

3 July 2018 

17 December 2015 

21 April 2021 

4 September 2019 

28 August 2009 

APPOINTED 

23 March 2018 

11 June 2021

3 June 2019 

20 October 2014 

2021 
$000

GROUP 

2020 
$000

2,458 

1,708 

40 

74 

2,355 

4,927 

24 

73 

3,781 

5,586 

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Interests held by Key Management Personnel

Share options and rights held by Key Management Personnel to purchase ordinary shares have the following expiry dates and 
exercise prices.

ISSUE YEAR 

EXPIRY YEAR 

EXERCISE PRICE ($) 

NUMBER 
OUTSTANDING 

NUMBER 
OUTSTANDING 

2021 

GROUP 

2020 

FY13/14 

FY14/15 

FY15/16 

FY16/17 

FY17/18 

FY18/19 

FY18/19 

FY18/19 

FY18/19 

FY18/19 

FY19/20 

FY19/20 

FY20/21 

FY20/21

FY20/21 

FY21/22 

FY22/23 

FY23/24 

FY23/24 

FY24/25 

FY24/25 

FY25/26 

FY28/29 

FY29/30 

FY26/27 

No expiry date 

No expiry date 

FY32/33

$0.375 

$0.450 

$0.600 

$1.490 

$1.760 

$0.000 

$1.760 

$1.500 

$0.000 

$0.000 

$1.790 

$0.000 

$0.000 

$0.000

- 

28,169 

187,634 

159,401 

375,000 

480,953 

1,818,180 

2,686,131 

966,666 

- 

61,350 

281,691 

221,506 

207,828 

500,000 

526,668 

1,818,180 

2,741,001 

1,533,333 

200,000 

2,540,412 

2,833,852 

- 

552,607 

234,302 

93,433

- 

-

During the year, 393,079 rights were granted to Key Management Personnel.

(b)  Transactions with related parties – Tyro SaleCo Limited (SaleCo)

Tyro SaleCo Limited (SaleCo) was registered on 5 November 2019, for the purpose of facilitating the initial public offering (IPO) 
and ASX listing of the Company. Robbie Cooke CEO | Managing Director of the Company holds 100% of the shares in SaleCo. 

In total, SaleCo held 58,962,897 shares at a value of $162,147,967, representing 11.9% of the shares on issue as at completion of 
the IPO. As at 30 June 2021, SaleCo no longer held any shares in the Company. 

As SaleCo has now served its sole function of facilitating the sale of shares in the Company by existing shareholders into the 
IPO, SaleCo was deregistered during the current financial year.

(c)  Share options with related parties (not under ESOP)

In December 2010, the Company granted 7.5 million share options to related parties for providing a (now expired) loan facility to 
the Company for liquidity purposes, which was drawn down and subsequently repaid. These options were not issued under the 
ESOP.

As at 30 June 2021, there were no options outstanding.

Euclid Capital Partners LLC, related party of David Fite  

Total 

2021 

NUMBER 

- 

- 

GROUP 

2020 

NUMBER 

2,625,000 

2,625,000 

26. MATTERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR 

In the opinion of the Directors, there have been no matters or circumstances which have arisen between 30 June 2021 and the 
date of this report that have significantly affected or may significantly affect the operations of the Group, the result of those 
operations or the state of affairs of the Group in subsequent financial years.

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As at, and throughout the financial year ended 30 June 2021 the parent entity of the Group was Tyro Payments Limited.

Result of parent entity 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive income for the year 

Financial position of parent entity at year end 

Current assets 

Non-current assets 

Total assets 

Current liabilities 

Non-current liabilities 

Total liabilities 

Net assets 

Total equity of parent entity comprising of: 

Contributed equity 

Reserves 

Accumulated losses 

Total equity 

28. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES 

2021 
$000

2020 
$000

(29,690) 

(38,057) 

105 

(96) 

(29,585) 

(38,153) 

137,401 

257,131 

150,308 

113,531 

394,532 

263,839 

122,098 

69,893 

91,637 

213,735 

4,227 

74,120 

180,797 

189,719 

274,436 

265,763 

40,827 

28,477 

(134,466) 

(104,521) 

180,797

189,719 

In relation to the January 2021 terminal incident and as previously noted in Tyro’s ASX Announcement on 19 January 2021, during 
the reporting period, Tyro has received correspondence from a law firm advising that it is investigating a potential class action 
against the Company with respect to the terminal incident. As at the reporting date and to the date of signing, no proceedings 
have been served on the Company in relation to the incident.

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In the Directors’ opinion:

a.  the financial statements and notes set out on pages 101 to 147 are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including:
(i) complying with Accounting Standards, the Corporations Regulations 2001 and other mandatory professional reporting 

requirements; and

(ii) giving a true and fair view of the Group’s financial position as at 30 June 2021 and of its performance for the financial year 

ended on that date; and

b.  there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Group will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and 

payable;

c.   the remuneration disclosures set out in the Directors’ Report comply with Accounting Standard AASB 124 Related Party 

Disclosures and the Corporations Regulations 2001; and

d.  the financial statements and notes also comply with International Financial Reporting Standards as disclosed in the financial 

statements.

The Directors have been given the declarations by the CEO | Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer required by Section 
295A of the Corporations Act 2001.

The declaration is made in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.

_____________________________ 

David Thodey AO 
Chair 

Sydney 26 August 2021

_____________________________ 

Robbie Cooke 
CEO | Managing Director  

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Report on the audit of the financial report 

Opinion 
We have audited the financial report of Tyro Payments Limited (the Company) and its subsidiaries 
(collectively the Group), which comprises the consolidated statement of financial position as at 
30 June 2021, the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, consolidated statement of 
changes in equity and consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then ended, notes to the 
financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies, and the directors’ 
declaration. 

In our opinion, the accompanying financial report of the Group is in accordance with the Corporations 
Act 2001, including: 

a.  Giving a true and fair view of the consolidated financial position of the Group as at 30 June 2021 

and of its consolidated financial performance for the year ended on that date; and 

b.  Complying with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001. 

Basis for opinion 
We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Our responsibilities under 
those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial 
report section of our report. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the auditor 
independence requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and the ethical requirements of the 
Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional 
Accountants (including Independence Standards) (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the 
financial report in Australia. We have also fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with 
the Code.  

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis 
for our opinion. 

Key audit matters 
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in 
our audit of the financial report of the current year. These matters were addressed in the context of 
our audit of the financial report as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, but we do not provide 
a separate opinion on these matters. For each matter below, our description of how our audit 
addressed the matter is provided in that context. 

We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the 
financial report section of our report, including in relation to these matters. Accordingly, our audit 
included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of 
material misstatement of the financial report. The results of our audit procedures, including the 
procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the 
accompanying financial report. 

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Valuation of contingent consideration 

Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

As detailed in Note 1(c) of the financial report, 
during the financial year the Group entered into a 
long-term merchant acquiring alliance with 
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited.  The 
consideration included a contingent component 
based on future revenue that is recorded as a 
liability. The contingent consideration is required 
to be re-measured at each reporting date to 
reflect the Group’s estimate of the amount of 
further consideration it expects to pay. 

Given the value of the liability and the judgement 
involved in measuring the financial liability, this 
was considered to be a key audit matter. 

Our audit procedures included the following: 

•  Read the purchase agreements to obtain an 

understanding of the key terms. 

•  Evaluated, with the involvement of our 

valuation experts, the methodologies used by 
Management and the external valuation 
expert to determine the value of the 
contingent consideration at reporting date, 
the underlying assumptions and estimates 
applied, and the mathematical accuracy of 
the calculations made. 

•  We considered the consistency of 

judgements and assumptions made with 
respect to other accounting estimates and 
models. 

•  Evaluated the qualifications, competence and 
objectivity of the experts used by the Group 
to value the contingent consideration and the 
scope of their work. 

•  Assessed the adequacy of the related 
disclosures within the financial report 
regarding the contingent consideration.  

Remediation provisions 

Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

As detailed in Note 17, during the financial year, 
the Group has recorded and made disclosures in 
relation to matters requiring merchant 
remediation in connection with a terminal outage 
incident that affected some of the Group’s EFTPOS 
terminal fleet held by merchants.  

This was a key audit matter due to the significant 
judgment required to determine a reliable estimate 
of the provision.  

Key areas of judgment included: 

Our audit procedures included the following: 

•  We developed an understanding of the 

Group’s processes for identifying potential 
merchant-related remediation obligations. 

•  We held discussions with management, 
reviewed Board of Directors and Board 
committee minutes, reviewed 
correspondence with merchants and 
attended Board Audit Committee and Board 
Risk Committee meetings. 

•  We discussed ongoing and potential legal 

matters with management, including General 
Counsel, and obtained external legal 
confirmations. 

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Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

•  The decision as to whether to recognise a 
provision and/or disclose a contingent 
liability, including whether sufficient 
information existed to allow a provision to 
be reliably measured; and 

•  Assumptions used to estimate the 

merchant related remediation payments, 
including how many merchants will claim 
compensation and average compensation 
amounts. 

•  We assessed key assumptions used to 

estimate the merchant-related remediation 
amounts, including a consideration of 
compensation experience to date.  
•  Tested the mathematical accuracy of the 

provision calculations made. 

•  For those matters where the Group 

determined that a sufficiently reliable 
estimate of the amount of the obligation 
could be made and for which no provisions 
have been recognised, we assessed the 
appropriateness of this conclusion and any 
related contingent liability disclosure. 

•  We considered the existence of any economic 
benefits that would require disclosure as 
contingent assets. 

•  We considered the adequacy of the 

disclosures within the financial report related 
to the provision 

Recoverability of deferred tax assets 

Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

The financial statements include $13.9 million in 
deferred tax assets. The assessment of their 
recoverability was subject to significant 
judgements made by the Group in forecasting 
future taxable profits and determining the 
availability and expected timing of utilising the 
deferred tax assets against future taxable income 
in accordance with tax legislation. 

The judgements involve expected business growth 
which is dependent upon market and economic 
conditions. They include judgements concerning 
COVID-19 and the impact the pandemic may have 
on the Group’s ability to earn sufficient future 
taxable profits. 

Accordingly, this was considered to be a key audit 
matter. 

Our audit procedures included the following: 

•  Assessed the mathematical accuracy of the 

Group’s deferred tax asset utilisation model.  

•  Agreed the amount of unused tax benefits 

carried forward as deferred tax assets to 
prior period lodged income tax returns.  
•  Evaluated the Group’s assumptions and 
estimates in relation to the likelihood of 
generating sufficient future taxable income 
based on most recent Board approved 
forecasts, prepared by the Group, principally 
by performing sensitivity analyses and 
evaluating and testing the key assumptions 
used to determine the amounts recognised. 
•  Evaluated the Group’s consideration of the 
impact of COVID-19 in the forecasted cash 
flows. 

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Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

Disclosures relating to deferred tax assets are set 
out in in Notes 1(c) and 4. 

•  Considered the consistency of judgements 

and assumptions made with respect to other 
accounting estimates and models. 
•  Assessed the historical accuracy of the 

Group’s previous future taxable profit 
forecasts by comparing to actual outcomes.  

• 

Involved our taxation specialists in reviewing 
the Group’s assessment of their ability to 
utilise carry forward tax losses in accordance 
with income tax legislation. 

Revenue recognition – merchant service fees 

Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

As detailed in Note 2 of the financial report, the 
Group generated $205.5 million in revenue from 
merchant service fees for the year ended 30 June 
2021. 

Given the importance of revenue to the users of 
the financial report, specifically as a key 
performance indicator for the Group and a key 
metric for senior management of the Group, this 
was considered to be a key audit matter. 

Our audit procedures included the following: 

•  Evaluated the Group’s revenue accounting 

and assessed whether the Group’s 
accounting policies comply with the 
requirements of Australian Accounting 
Standards. 

•  Assessed the operating effectiveness of key 

controls over revenue recognition. 
•  For a sample of merchant service fee 
revenue transactions, we obtained 
supporting evidence such as customer 
contracts and transaction records to support 
the timing and value of revenue recognised.  

•  Analysed accounting entries impacting 

revenue that did not arise from the system-
generated reporting of underlying 
transactions. 

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IT systems and controls over financial reporting 

Why significant 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

The Group’s operations and financial reporting 
systems are heavily dependent on IT systems, 
including automated accounting procedures and IT 
dependent manual controls. The Group’s controls 
over IT systems include: 

•  The framework of governance over IT 

systems; 

•  Controls over program development and 

changes; 

•  Controls over access to programs, data 

and IT operations; and 

•  Governance over generic and privileged 

user accounts. 

Given the reliance on the IT systems in the 
financial reporting process, we considered this to 
be a key audit matter. 

Our procedures included evaluating and testing the 
design and operating effectiveness of certain 
controls over the continued integrity of the IT 
systems that are relevant to financial reporting. 

We also carried out direct tests, on a sample basis, of 
system functionality that was key to our audit testing 
in order to assess the accuracy of certain system 
calculations, the generation of certain reports and 
the operation of certain system enforced access 
controls. 

Where we noted design or operating effectiveness 
matters relating to IT system controls relevant to our 
audit, we performed alternative audit procedures. 
We also considered mitigating controls in order to 
respond to the impact on our overall audit approach.  

Information other than the financial report and auditor’s report thereon 
The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the 
information included in the Group’s 2021 annual report, but does not include the financial report and 
our auditor’s report thereon. 

Our opinion on the financial report does not cover the other information and accordingly we do not 
express any form of assurance conclusion thereon, with the exception of the Remuneration Report 
and our related assurance opinion. 

In connection with our audit of the financial report, our responsibility is to read the other information 
and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial 
report or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.  

If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this 
other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard. 

Responsibilities of the directors for the financial report 
The directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation of the financial report that gives a 
true and fair view in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Act 2001 
and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of the 
financial report that gives a true and fair view and is free from material misstatement, whether due to 
fraud or error. 

In preparing the financial report, the directors are responsible for assessing the Group’s ability to 
continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters relating to going concern and using the 

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going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the Group or to cease 
operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. 

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial report 
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial report as a whole is 
free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that 
includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an 
audit conducted in accordance with the Australian Auditing Standards will always detect a material 
misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material 
if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic 
decisions of users taken on the basis of this financial report. 

As part of an audit in accordance with the Australian Auditing Standards, we exercise professional 
judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also: 

► 

Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial report, whether due to 
fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit 
evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not 
detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from 
error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the 
override of internal control. 

►  Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit 

procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an 
opinion on the effectiveness of the Group’s internal control.  

►  Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting 

estimates and related disclosures made by the directors. 

►  Conclude on the appropriateness of the directors’ use of the going concern basis of accounting 
and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to 
events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going 
concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in 
our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial report or, if such disclosures are 
inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up 
to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Group to 
cease to continue as a going concern.  

►  Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial report, including the 

disclosures, and whether the financial report represents the underlying transactions and events 
in a manner that achieves fair presentation. 

►  Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the financial information of the entities or 

business activities within the Group to express an opinion on the financial report. We are 
responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the Group audit. We remain solely 
responsible for our audit opinion. 

We communicate with the directors regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of 
the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we 
identify during our audit. 

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We also provide the directors with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical 
requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other 
matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, actions 
taken to eliminate threats or safeguards applied.

From the matters communicated to the directors, we determine those matters that were of most 
significance in the audit of the financial report of the current year and are therefore the key audit 
matters. We describe these matters in our auditor’s report unless law or regulation precludes public 
disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter 
should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing so would 
reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.

Report on the audit of the Remuneration Report

Opinion on the Remuneration Report
We have audited the Remuneration Report included in pages 64 to 97 of the directors’ report for the 
year ended 30 June 2021.

In our opinion, the Remuneration Report of Tyro Payments Limited for the year ended 30 June 2021, 
complies with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001.

Responsibilities
The directors of the Company are responsible for the preparation and presentation of the 
Remuneration Report in accordance with section 300A of the Corporations Act 2001. Our 
responsibility is to express an opinion on the Remuneration Report, based on our audit conducted in 
accordance with Australian Auditing Standards.

Ernst & Young 

Michael Byrne 
Partner 
Sydney 
26 August 2021 

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TYRO PAYMENTS LIMITED - ANNUAL REPORT 2021Shareholder 
Information

The shareholder information set out below is based on the information recorded in the Tyro Payments Limited share 
register as at 15 August 2021.

ORDINARY SHARES

Tyro has on issue 512,821,941 fully paid ordinary shares.

VOTING RIGHTS

The voting rights attaching to each class of equity securities are set out below:

a.  Ordinary shares – On a show of hands every member present at a meeting in person or by proxy shall have one vote 

and upon a poll each share shall have one vote.

b.  Options and rights – No voting rights.

SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS

The following is a summary of the current substantial shareholders pursuant to notices lodged with the ASX in accordance 
with section 671B of the Corporations Act:

NAME

Gockco Pty Ltd

DATE OF INTEREST

NUMBER OF ORDINARY SHARES1

% OF ISSUED CAPITAL2

6 Dec 2019

69,119,528

13.72%

1. 

2. 

As disclosed in the last notice lodged with the ASX by the substantial shareholder. 

The percentage set out in the notice lodged with the ASX is based on the total issued share capital of Tyro at the date of interest.

ON MARKET BUY-BACK

There is no current on-market buy-back in respect of Tyro’s ordinary shares.

DISTRIBUTION OF SECURITIES HELD

Analysis of number of ordinary shareholders by size of holding:

RANGE

100,001 and Over

10,001 to 100,000

5,001 to 10,000

1,001 to 5,000

1 to 1,000

Total

ORDINARY SHARES1

NUMBER OF HOLDERS

NUMBER OF SECURITIES

158

1,502

2,044

5,564

5,860

15,128

442,212,954

38,034,767

15,228,894

14,424,776

2,920,550

512,821,941

1. 

Ordinary shares include shares offered to employees under the Company’s incentive arrangements.

There were no holders of less than a marketable parcel of ordinary shares.

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The names of the 20 largest quoted equity security holders as they appear on the Tyro share register are listed below:

NAME

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

J P MORGAN NOMINEES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED 

HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED 

CBC CO PTY LIMITED 

NATIONAL NOMINEES LIMITED 

MS DANITA RAE LOWES 

INVIA CUSTODIAN PTY LIMITED 

HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED - A/C 2 

CITICORP NOMINEES PTY LIMITED 

HANS-JOSEF JOST STOLLMANN 

BNP PARIBAS NOMINEES PTY LTD 

PACIFIC CUSTODIANS PTY LIMITED TYR EMP SUB REGISTER

JASGO NOMINEES PTY LTD 

JH 7 PROPERTIES PTY LTD 

SOPHIA-KONSTANTINA FIONA STOLLMANN 

DROP KNEE INVESTMENTS PTY LTD 

SINALUNGA PTY LTD 

EUCLID CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC 

18 MR KERRY CHISHOLM DART ROXBURGH 

19

HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED 

20

AUSTRALIAN DIRECT INVESTMENTS PTY LIMITED 

TOTAL

ORDINARY SHARES

NUMBER OF 
SHARES

% OF TOTAL OF 
SHARES

84,135,471

79,381,160

66,396,843

23,353,919

19,528,582

18,500,000

17,587,191

14,307,986

13,811,154

10,354,552

5,428,736

5,060,726

3,272,728

3,261,237

2,868,174

2,482,978

2,425,000

2,120,540

2,053,596

2,027,055

378,357,628

16.41

15.48

12.95

4.55

3.81

3.61

3.43

2.79

2.69

2.02

1.06

0.99

0.64

0.64

0.56

0.48

0.47

0.41

0.4

0.4

73.79

DOMICILE OF ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS1

DOMICILE

NUMBER OF HOLDERS

% HOLDERS

NUMBER OF SHARES

% OF SHARES

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

Overseas

Total

1 

As at 31 July 2021

216

7,433

54

2,044

921

147

3,448

856

114

15,233

1.40

48.80

0.35

13.42

6.05

0.97

22.64

5.62

0.75

667,656

406,645,510

164,289

12,100,920

6,628,169

501,997

78,012,707

6,705,587

1,089,381

0.13

79.34

0.03

2.36

1.29

0.10

15.22

1.31

0.22

100.00

512,516,216

100.00

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UNQUOTED EQUITY SECURITIES

Performance rights in respect of ordinary shares issued under the Tyro STI Rights Plan, the Tyro 
Remuneration Sacrifice Rights Plan and the Liquidity Event Performance Rights Plan

NUMBER ON ISSUE

3,157,067

Options in respect of ordinary shares issued under the Tyro Options Plans

28,479,769

GO ONLINE TO MANAGE YOUR SHAREHOLDING

Online share registry facility

Tyro offers shareholders the use of an online share registry facility through www.linkmarketservices.com.au or https://
investorcentre.linkmarketservices.com.au/ to conduct standard shareholding enquiries and transactions, including:

lodge or update banking details;

•  update registered address;
• 
•  notify Tax File Number / Australian Business Number;
•  check current and previous shareholding balances; and
•  appoint a proxy to vote at the Annual General Meeting.

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DIRECTORS

David Thodey AO - Chair of the Board

Robbie Cooke – CEO | Managing Director

Hamish Corlett – Non-executive Director

David Fite – Non-executive Director

Aliza Knox – Non-executive Director 

Fiona Pak-Poy – Non-executive Director & Chair of People 
Committee

Paul Rickard – Non-executive Director & Chair of Audit 
Committee and Risk Committee

REGISTERED AND PRINCIPAL 
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE IN 
AUSTRALIA

Tyro Payments Limited

1/155 Clarence Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia

Telephone: 1300 966 639

ABN: 49 103 575 042

WEBSITE ADDRESS

www.tyro.com

https://investors.tyro.com/investor-centre/

SPECIAL COUNSEL AND COMPANY 
SECRETARY

Jairan Amigh

email: jamigh@tyro.com

INVESTOR RELATIONS

Giovanni Rizzo

email: grizzo@tyro.com

MEDIA

Monica Appleby

email: mappleby@tyro.com

AUDITOR

E&Y Australia

200 George Street

Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia

SHARE REGISTRY

Link Market Services Pty Limited

Level 12, 680 George Street

Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES 
EXCHANGE (ASX) LISTING

Tyro Payments Limited shares are listed on the ASX under 
the code TYR.

email: registrars@linkmarketservices.com.au

Telephone within Australia 1300 554 474

Telephone outside Australia +61 1300 554 474 

Fax +61 2 9287 0303

DIRECTOR PROFILES

Refer to profiles on pages 40 to 43.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Refer to profiles on pages 44 to 47.

To maintain or update your details online and enjoy full 
access to all your holdings and other valuable information, 
simply visit https://investorcentre.linkmarketservices.
com.au.

TYRO ASX ANNOUNCEMENTS

Details of all announcements released by Tyro Payments 
Limited can be found on our Investors page at https://
investors.tyro.com/investor-centre/

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