Jul 20, 2010
Executives
Mary Waggoner – Senior Vice President of Investor Relations Frank Martire – President, Chief Executive Officer Mike Hayford – Chief Financial Officer Gary Norcross – Chief Operating Officer
Analysts
David Koning - Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc.
Glenn Greene - Oppenheimer & Co. Greg Smith - Duncan Williams Inc.
Brett Huff – Stephens, Inc. Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research James Kissane - BofA Merrill Lynch Tien-Tsin Huang - J.
P. Morgan David Parker - Lazard Capital Markets Karl Keirstead - Kaufman Bros.
Kartik Mehta – Northcoast Research John Williams – Goldman Sachs Karl Keirstead – Kaufman Brothers Ashburn Schiviker – Citi Brian King – Credit Suisse
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the FIS Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, today’s conference call is being recorded.
With that, I’d like to turn the conference over to Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Mary Waggoner. Please go ahead.
Mary Waggoner
Thanks to everyone joining us on the line. Today’s Earnings Press Release and Supplemental Slide Presentation have been posted to our website at www.FISGlobal.com, and a webcast replay of the audio portion of this call will also be available on the website shortly afterwards.
Joining us today on today’s call are Frank Martire, President and Chief Executive Officer; Gary Norcross, Chief Operating Officer; and Mike Hayford, Chief Financial Officer. Frank will lead today’s discussion with an overview of the leveraged recapitalization plan and a summary of second quarter results.
Gary will follow with the operations review and Mike will conclude with the detailed financial reports. Please refer to the Safe Harbor Language on Page 2 of the Presentation.
Today’s discussion will contain forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risk and uncertainties as described in the press release and other filings with the SEC.
The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Today’s comments will also include references to non-GAAP results in order to provide a more meaningful comparison between the periods presented.
Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP results are provided in the attachments to the press release. Unless otherwise stated, references on this call to revenue and EBITDA Growth Rates will be on a proforma basis to include results from Metavante in all periods.
I will now turn the call over to Frank Martire.
Frank Martire
Thanks Mary. Good afternoon everyone, and thanks for joining us on today’s call.
I’ll begin with a brief summary of our recapitalization and share repurchase plan. On May 25, FIS announced a levity capitalization plan under which the company will repurchase 2.5 billion of common stock at a price between $29.00 and $31.00 per share through a modified Dutch auction.
As previously disclosed, the FIS Board of Directors received a proposal regarding a potential leverage buy out of the Company and appointed an independent special committee to [inaudible] additional alternatives as part of the due diligence process. After a thorough evaluation, the Board concluded that the recapitalization plan is the best alternative to return value to shareholders today, and to also preserve future upside potential.
We officially launched the offer to purchase on July 6, and expect to complete the share repurchase the week of August 9th. We have completed the financing needed for the tender offer, and we’re very pleased with the increase financial commitment from our existing lenders in the highly-successful marketing effort for the Term-Loan B and the Senior Notes, which closed last Friday.
The new debt structure provides FIS with the capacity to complete the tender offer and manage the business on an ongoing basis. Now, I will continue with the business report.
Overall, we are pleased with the solid second quarter results, which were in line with our expectations. Second quarter revenue increased 2.4% to $1.29 billion compared to $1.26 billion in the prior year, and increased 1.7% in constant currency.
The EBITDA Margin expanded 140 basis points to 29.9%, driven primarily by synergy cost savings. Adjusted earnings came in at $0.46 per share, and free-cash flow totaled $108 million for the quarter.
We continue to make good progress on our integration plan, and we remain on track to achieve the synergy cost savings of $260 million. Year-to-date sales have been solid, and the pipeline remains strong.
We have been especially pleased with the number of new core processing agreements. We have signed 39 competitive core deals in the first six months of 2010, compared to a total of 50 for all of 2009.
We are clearly gaining market share and we continue to expand our presence in the mid-tier market where our product capability and scale provides us with a significant competitive advantage. In addition, the demand for Professional Services has increased considerably as banks turn to FIS to support their IT efforts, and for assistance with acquisition and consolidation-related activity.
In May, we hosted two very successful user conferences in Milwaukee and Orlando, with more than 2,000 existing and prospective clients in attendance. The outlook expressed by clients has improved considerably compared to last year.
And their discussions with us has shifted towards investing for growth and better competitive positioning in 2010, and away from bank failures and survival of the industry. Before turning the call over to Gary, I would like to provide an update on our Brazilian Card Operation.
I am pleased to report that we have agreed to terms and are working with Banco Bradesco to finalize the definitive agreement. The strength of our relationship with the Bank became even more apparent to me during my recent visit to Brazil, and we look forward to further expanding our relationship.
Now, I will turn the call over to Gary for additional details on the joint venture, and a review of our Second Quarter Operating Highlights. Gary?
Gary Norcross
Thank you, Frank. And thanks to everyone on the call.
I’m pleased to be joining you today to provide an overview of the Second Quarter Operating Highlights. I’ll begin with a few additional comments about our Brazil Joint Venture, then I’ll briefly discuss our competitive positioning, highlight some of our key client wins and conclude with a few thoughts about the regulatory landscape.
First, I’ll cover the Brazil Joint Venture. As Frank indicated, we have executed a term sheet, and we expect to negotiate and sign definitive agreements in the second half of 2010.
We expect that FIS will continue to operate the joint venture in partnership with Bradesco, delivering services to Bradesco as well as other commercial clients. And we are planning and working towards a fourth-quarter conversion of Bradesco’s Visa and Mastercard portfolio.
In April, we reported that we converted over 2 million cards issued by Bradesco through Visa Vale. As a reminder, Visa Vale is the country’s largest payment network for employee meal-voucher programs.
We are pleased to report that we converted the remaining 3 million Visa Vale Cards belonging to Banco de Brazil and sent them there in May, approximately four weeks ahead of schedule. Now, we’ll continue with the business report.
Earlier, Frank mentioned the success we are having in signing new core processing clients. In addition to providing highly-reoccurring revenue streams, these relationships drive significant pull-through revenue.
A large portion of the total contract value associated with these new clients will be generated by the ancillary core products and payment services that we’re bundled as part of the sale. This illustrates the importance of having a broad product suite and the scale and capacity to drive value to our clients.
Yesterday, we announced a new Core Processing Agreement with Sterling Savings Bank, a $10 billion institution based in Spokane, Washington. Sterling, a long-time payments client will migrate to our core processing platform which provides the full suite of integrated technology solutions.
Including Sterling, FIS has completed eight new mid-care processing agreements in 2010. We also continue to expand relationships with Tier 1 Institutions and we will soon begin providing expanded bill-payment services to one of the top four banks in the country.
This is our second bill-pay deal for a Top-25 Bank in 2010. In the community banking space, Rockland Trust Company, a long-time core processing client recently selected our item and image processing solutions, which we will provide on an outsource basis.
This is further evidence of the success of our integration efforts as we bring these companies together and leverage our combined products suite. As Frank mentioned, we are also seeing an increase in interest for services engagements.
And we are continuing to add resources to keep pace with this demand, including the build out of our new service center in the Philippines that we discussed last quarter. On the International front, we continue to see solid sales over last year and continued success in the installation of these systems.
An example of this successful launch is VTB24, the largest retail bank in Russia, which recently went live with the Profile Core Banking Suite. Now, I’d like to share a few thoughts about the recently-passed Financial Reform Act.
While it is premature to know who banks will react to the changes, I will provide our views regarding the potential impact to FIS based on our initial analysis. The new Interchange Regulations, which take effect in the Third Quarter of 2011 are primarily debit-focused and apply only to banks with more than $10 billion in assets.
Since Interchange is primarily a pass through for FIS, there is minimal impact to our bottom line. We expect the Durbin Amendment Provision, which include priority routing and exclusivity limitations to be neutral to FIS overall, as any potential downside related to changes in merchant routing is expected to be offset by increased volume processed on the NICE Network.
The new restrictions on overdraft fees will have minimal impact on FIS. While we provide the technology that enables banks to process consumer overdrafts, we do not receive any portion of the overdraft fees.
Historically, changes that require banks to refresh or upgrade systems to comply with new regulations have created opportunities for FIS to provide new services to clients. To summarize my remarks, while the market remains very competitive, we feel good about business overall.
Our sales team is doing a great job identifying opportunities and closing new deals. And our people in the field are keenly focused on maintaining high client satisfaction levels.
At the same time, our operations team is doing an outstanding job with the Metavante Integration. And as always, we’ll continue to work with our clients to meet their business needs and help them remain successful.
Now, Mike will continue with the financial report.
Mike Hayford
Thanks, Gary. I’ll begin on Slide 5 in supplemental materials.
Just as a reminder, my comments related to year-over-year growth will be on a proforma basis to include Metavante results in the prior year. On Slide 5, as adjusted revenue increased 2.4% to $1.29 billion compared to $1.26 billion in the prior year.
This increase was 1.7% in constant currency. Growth was driven by higher license sales and special services revenue, which more than offset difficult comparisons in the Second Quarter of ’09.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 7.2%to $386 million, and the EBITDA Margin increased 140 basis points to 29.9%. This growth was driven by Integration Synergy Savings.
As Frank mentioned, we continue to execute on the integration plan for the Metavante merger. We again, met our synergy savings goal, which was $40 million in the Second Quarter.
This is our third quarter since the Metavante merger and we continue to be pleased with integration efforts, which met the expected savings as scheduled. If you turn to Slide 6, it will provide additional detail on our Second Quarter Segment Results.
The Financial Solutions Revenue increased 3% to $458 million in the second quarter of 2010 compared to $445 million in the Second Quarter of ’09. The growth was driven primarily by strong growth in professional services and higher license revenue.
Financial Solutions, EBITDA increased 5% to $210 million and the EBITDA margin increased 90 basis points to 43.8. On Slide 7, Payment Solution Revenue totaled $631 million, which is comparable to the prior year.
Payment Solution Revenue increased 4.5% if you exclude our paper-based check businesses. Debit and Credit Transaction Lines continued to trend favorably.
Payment Solutions, EBITDA increased 4% to $232 million and the margin improved 140 basis points to 36.8%. Turning to Slide 8, International Revenue increased 8% on a reported basis and 3.1% in constant currency.
International EBITDA increased 1.1%. International Margins declined 130 basis points to 18.1%; compared to the prior year; it declined 40 basis points in constant currency.
International Revenue has been lower than we anticipated coming into the year due to the delay in converting the Bradesco Card Portfolio. As we had previously discussed, the deconversion of Santander and the delay in anticipated conversion of Bradesco have had a negative impact on our International Segments Financial Results in 2010.
With a positive momentum around our JV discussion, as Frank and Gary both shared earlier, we are now looking at a potential conversion by the end of the year. While this is a positive outcome for the business looking forward, Brazil continues to have a negative impact on our 2010 results.
Please turn to Slide 9 for Reconciliation of Adjusted Net Earnings. Second Quarter Adjusted Net Earnings totaled $176.5 million, or $0.46 per share, which was in line with our expectations.
These results exclude after-tax purchase amortization of $42 million, and $41 million in after-tax merger integration and recapitalization costs. The Deferred Revenue Adjustment was $3 million after tax in the Second Quarter.
Average Shares Outstanding increased $384.6 million in the Second Quarter. As shown on Slide 10, Adjusted Pre-Cash Flow totaled $108 million in the second quarter.
As discussed on last quarter’s call, Second Quarter Cash Flow was impacted by the timing of Federal Tax Payment. Capital Expenditures, which included $12 million of Integration Capital, totalled $76 million in the quarter compared to $79 in the Second Quarter of ’09.
Page 12 is the summary of our debt after the refinancing activities. As Frank shared, we completed the refinancing on Friday of last week.
This includes amending and extending our existing bank loan and revolver. We also raised more than $550 million of additional bank debt.
We raised $1.5 billion in Term-Loan B and $1.1 billion in Senior-Unsecured Notes. With the proceeds, we paid off the Metavante term loan and we used $2.5 billion for share repurchase.
The cost of our $5.6 billion of debt using the current rate is approximately 5%. The number of shares we anticipate to repurchase will be between 81 million and 86 million using the $29.00-to-$31.00 range of the Modified Dutch Auction Tender.
Although I will not provide 2011 guidance until the end of the year, you should note, as we have indicated in the past, that our Cost of Debt in 2010 prior to recapitalization was an anomaly in that 2011 would have been a rate similar to our current refinanced rate. Now, I’ll provide a few comments regarding outlook for the remainder of the year.
We continue to be cautiously optimistic about 2010. As we have shared in our past on our calls, the ramp up in revenue and earnings in the second half is higher than the first half.
The tailwinds we have heading into the second half are; number one, strong sales in the Fourth Quarter of 2009 and First Quarter of 2010, particularly in FSG; second, strong payment transaction growth; third, strong special services and improved software sales; and fourth, lower consolidation impact in 2010. Headwinds we face include the Bradesco conversion delay, the pace of the economic recovery, and the uncertainty about bank spending as a result of the Financial Reform Bill.
That being said, we continue to expect Revenue Growth and EBITDA Margins to be in the range we shared at the start of the year; constant currency growth at 1.3%, and EBITDA Margin Expansion greater than 300 basis points. As indicated on Slide 14, we are now contemplating a currency benefit of $15 million for the full year compared to a $60 million per our original guidance.
This is due to the continued weakening of the Euro and British Pound against the Dollar. This implies a second-half headwind predominately in the fourth quarter due to the currency exchange.
We expect to generate approximately $700 million in pre-cash flow, which includes the impact of our higher interest cost due to the recap. The recap should be $0.01 to $0.02 creation in 2010, predominately in the fourth quarter and will have a meaningful impact in 2011.
At this time, we continue to anticipate a full-year tax rate of 36% as previously guided with the expectation that the tax legislation, including the Irony Credit will be extended retroactive prior to the end of the year. We are assuming a 37% tax rate for Q3.
Average Shares Outstanding show approximately 350 million for the year compared to our previous guidance of 378 million after the recap was taken into account. We’d like to leave you with the following takeaways from today’s call.
First, we are pleased with the First-Half Operating Results which were in line with our expectations. Similar to prior years, the ramp will be steeper in the second half and skewed towards the fourth quarter.
We are cautiously optimistic about the remainder of the year, but like all companies, continue to look for signs of a sustainable recovery. Second, execution on the integration of our merger with Metavante continues on schedule with Second Quarter Synergy Team on plan.
Third, we are pleased with the significant progress made on the Brazil Joint Venture and are excited about the prospect of converting Banco Bradesco’s remaining cards prior to the end of the year. Fourth, as Gary mentioned, we are focused on helping our clients navigate the changing regulatory landscape, but at this time, do not expect recent changes to have a significant-direct impact on our business in 2010.
We will continue to monitor any changes in bank spending due to the Financial Reform Act. And last, but not least, the Recapitalization and Share Repurchase Plan which we expect to complete in the week of August 9th, should generate $0.01 to $0.02 creation in 2010 and meaning creation in 2011.
This concludes our prepared comments. Thank you for joining us this afternoon.
And Operator, you may open the call for questions.
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from the line of Glenn Greene with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.
Glenn Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Thank you. Good afternoon, and congratulations on the results.
I was wondering if you could just sort of give us a little bit more color on sort of this spending background on what you’re seeing from the bank market. The commentary definitely seems much more positive than six months or so ago.
We don’t really see it yet in the revenue results, is that just the function of conversion cycles? The core business seems like you’re winning a lot of takeaway deals – just some more color regarding sales activities and the commentary regarding those software and professional services increasing in the quarter.
Gary Norcross
Yeah, Glenn, this is Gary. We are seeing an increase in spending in the financial marketplace, both not only domestically, but internationally.
We’ve got a very full pipeline, we continue, as you highlighted, to find a number of significant takeaways. Our systems do take a number of months to come online.
Once you sign the deal, you can model anywhere from, typically on average, 12 months for the revenue to start really flowing through our systems as we go through conversions of these systems and implementations of these systems.
Glenn Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Are we close to a point where you think 2011 could be closer to sort of a normal-organic revenue growth environment, or is that too optimistic?
Mike Hayford
This is Mike. I think we’ll talk at the end of the year.
You know, we’d certainly like to get through 2010. We’d like to see how the economy keeps recovering.
We talk about stronger transaction buy-ins, we continue to see that in the Second Quarter. We’d like to see it in the Third and Forth Quarter.
We’d like to see, you know, Gary talked about the sales build up and that gives us some highlights into 2011. But we’ll hold off until the end of the year and then we’ll give you our expectations for ’11.
Glenn Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
And then just finally, on the Bradesco, is there anyway to just sort of contrast at a high level what the relationship may look like going forward relative to what it was before, or your assumption before?
Gary Norcross
Well, as we mentioned, we had signed a term sheet and going into the process of negotiating tentative agreements. We will maintain 51% ownership in the joint venture so the joint venture will stay intact, and we will be processing Bradesco’s card volumes through that joint venture.
Glenn Greene – Oppenheimer & Co.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Dave Koning with Baird.
Please go ahead.
David Koning – Robert W. Baird & Co.
Yeah, hey, guys, good job. First of all, Q3 is a very easy comp in both the Payment and Financial Solution Businesses.
Should we expect Q3 to the peak of growth just given how easy the comp is I guess compared to last year?
Mike Hayford
Hi David. I know it’s a little bit easier comp than Q2 was.
You know, we’d expect to see, you know, sequential growth quarter to quarter, and then obviously we’ve got a big ramp up in the fourth quarter. I don’t know if for a model purpose if whether you’d see that as peak.
You know, if you look at the plan the way we built it, we’re still looking at a pretty solid fourth quarter. I don’t know if Third or Fourth will be the peak to tell you the truth.
David Koning – Robert W. Baird & Co.
Okay, and then secondly, the Payments Business, the growth was very good excluding the check business. I’m just wondering how big in terms of the revenue are all the verification items and all the check business combined?
Mike Hayford
In some of our decks that we have out there, we kind of show you the magnitude on the high chart. You know, but I think it’s less than 10 percent of our overall revenue stream if you look at it that way.
David Koning – Robert W. Baird & Co.
Okay. And getting smaller, I would imagine, obviously.
Mike Hayford
Yeah.
David Koning – Robert W. Baird & Co.
And I guess just the last thing, you know, you mention $0.01 to $0.02 from the repurchase in Q4, is it fair just to multiple that by four for next year, or are there some things maybe you could outline what might diverge from just doing that simple math?
Mike Hayford
I would not do that. I mean, you have to look at 2010, it’s the weighted-average number shares for the full year that’s going to drive the $0.01 to $0.02.
You get the timing of, we raised the financing prior to buying back shares, so it’s a lot more complexity in 2010. I think I’d have you look at how we look at it, is we look at – we would have been refinancing our debt in 2010 heading into ’11 as we’ve shared in the past because our debt would have come current in 2011.
You know, matured in early 2012. So as we look at it, we look at here’s the cost of debt we would have had in 2011, which would have been similar to the rate that we ended up refinancing at.
We look at the added $2.5 billion of debt that we put on less the shares that we’re buying back, and you can kind of do the math and come up with a number, but it’s definitely higher than the $0.01 to $0.02 multiplied by four.
David Koning – Robert W. Baird & Co.
Yeah, okay. That sounds right.
That’s great. Thanks.
Operator
Our next question is from Brett Huff with Stephens, Inc. Please go ahead.
Brett Huff – Stephens, Inc.
Good afternoon and congrats on a nice quarter. First question is, can you talk about the way the conversations are going in the drivers for banks buying, I think you said 39 core systems.
It sounds like it’s across both small, medium and large. But what is the driver that folks are pulling the trigger on?
Frank Martire
This is Frank. There’s several things they look at.
I’ll tell you that the most important to the, the most important is strategically and directionally, they look five years out and they say we have to be competitive. And to be competitive in the marketplace, they need products that will keep them competitive and a service level that will do that for them.
So now first and foremost, they want to be competitive and they want to have products that will service their needs of their customers long term. And then obviously, they do look at price.
You have to be competitive on price. They look very much at the integration of products.
The fact that we bring our core products together with our payment products, and they’re totally integrated. That’s very, very important to them.
Those are some of the drivers they look at.
Brett Huff – Stephens, Inc.
Thanks. And then the second question; I think last quarter you told us that about 30% of sales had been cross-sale related.
Do you have a similar directional measure for this quarter?
Gary Norcross
Yeah, Brett, this is Gary. What we continue to see very strong cross-sales between the two companies in Revenue Synergy is part of the combination coming together.
As we discussed on prior calls, 75% of our sales are generated through additional products and services to existing clients. But we continue to see strong pull through between the two companies in Revenue Synergies.
It’s very consistently in line with what we saw last quarter.
Brett Huff – Stephens, Inc.
And then just on the debt, in the exhibit you gave us, and thanks for that detail, it’s helpful. Is there any swap cost included in there, and have you articulated or are the agreements articulating a certain amount of debt that needs to be swapped?
Gary Norcross
No, David, this time we didn’t include the swap cost in there. And we continue to look at how much of that debt we would fix.
You know, historically, we have fix going forward, you know, try to certainly look forward 18 months to a budget cycle, and fix our interest rates. So you could expect to see us do a little of that.
Brett Huff – Stephens, Inc.
That’s what I needed. Thanks for your time.
Gary Norcross
You’re welcome.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Ashburn Schiviker [ph] with Citi.
Please go ahead.
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
Hey, guys. Congratulations on the quarter.
Male
Thank you.
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
My first question was on Bradesco and just if you could talk about the incremental impact of Banco de Brazil headed into 2011, that would be helpful.
Mike Hayford
Why don’t we hold off on ’11. We’ll get the end of the year, and then talk about guidance for the whole business.
If you remember, in 2010, we talked earlier in the year that when Santander was going away, that left approximately a $40 million revenue hole in our business zone in Brazil. And we said we anticipate with Bradesco converting, that would fill the $40 million.
So Bradesco not converting obviously continues to create a $40 million negative impact to revenue in 2010. As Gary shared, we’re working through the timing of the conversion.
If we get them converted, you know, before the end of the year, we’ll pick up some of that $40 million. But as I mentioned, Brazil as a joint venture has been a negative based on where we thought we were going to be heading into the year.
But even within that, we’ve always said we could still meet our guidance goals even with that $40 million hit.
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
I guess the point I wanted to clarify was that the Banco de Brazil piece would be incremental to that $40 million?
Mike Hayford
Negative –
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
Well, I’m sorry, the incremental that they had on top that you talked about, the agreement that Banco Bradesco now has with Banco de Brazil, that’s what I want to talk about.
Mike Hayford
We talked about when we add Bradesco at the end of the year, I mean, you can look at that based on what we shared. And, you know, we anticipate that would have been a $40 million revenue stream in 2010 had it converted on schedule.
So, you know, assuming it converts by the end of the year, that will help us with growing in 2011. But we haven’t talked about Banco de Brazil in any of our Brazil discussions.
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
Okay, last question on free cash flow. I might have missed it, but what was the impact of the Federal Tax payments specifically?
And just to clarify, is that sort of a inter-quarter factor that should not effect full year through cash flow?
Gary Norcross
Definitely correct. It’s a second quarter inter-quarter timing issue that we had the two payments, which happens every year.
They have to come in the second quarter. All right, you know, you pay at your normal withholding, and you pay your taxes at quarter.
So, you know, that’s what we expect every year to have that double hit in the second quarter. From a full-year basis, it does not change our full-year outlook for free cash flow.
Ashburn Schiviker – Citi
Okay, good. Thank you.
Gary Norcross
You’re welcome.
Operator
Our next question is from David Parker with Lazard Capital Markets
David Parker – Lazard Capital Markets
Yes, hi. Good afternoon.
Just to follow up on a previous question, you had originally stated that you had anticipated the debt cost to be around 6% to 7%. What, with the blended all-in rate for 2011 given some of these swaps coming off and also with the upfront yield costs, what are you anticipating now?
Mike Hayford
Well, again, you know, we think approximately 5%. Again we haven’t factored in any swaps at this point, but the refinancing all in the $5.6 billion ended up right around 5%.
David Parker – Lazard Capital Markets
Okay. So it’s going to be much higher with this swap cost?
Mike Hayford
No.
David Parker – Lazard Capital Markets
Okay. And then just, have you finalized the settlement with Santander yet?
I believe last quarter you put $35 million into escrow, but you didn’t recognize it.
Mike Hayford
No, we have not. When we get to it, you know, Gary talked about we’ve got a term sheet that we lead to term with Bradesco.
When we get to contracting with Bradesco, that’s tied in with the Santander settlement, so we expect that again by the end of the year as well.
David Parker – Lazard Capital Markets
Okay.
Mike Hayford
And you’re correct. We have, you know, 35 hung up on the balance.
We have not booked it into revenue. It’s being held in escrow, and we do expect some additional term fees to come as part of the settlement.
David Parker – Lazard Capital Markets
Okay, great. Thank you guys.
Operator
Our next question is from Greg Smith with Duncan Williams.
Greg Smith – Duncan Williams Inc.
Yeah, hi guys. How should we think about debt pay down?
Should we assume that you’re going to immediately be paying down some of this debt? And if so, which component of debt would that likely be?
Mike Hayford
I think you’ve seen it. We did this before.
We did the combination of Metavante. We had some leverage and then we went and paid that down.
You know, our expectations in terms of financial policy, again is that we’ll look at managing the debt. We’ve got mandatory pay down, and then to the extent that we would expect to pay some down.
You know, a little bit tied into it, we find some small transactions to do here and there. But our expectation over the next two years is to pay down the debt.
And, you know, we pay it down on the Term-Loan A. We probably pay off the Term-Loan B next.
Greg Smith – Duncan Williams Inc.
Okay. And then the joint venture structure with Bradesco, that seems to be a bit of a surprise.
I thought last quarter you were saying they wanted to end the joint venture because they were the only partner. Now it sounds like you’re keeping it with the expectation of growing it under that structure.
Is that the right interpretation?
Gary Norcross
Yeah, no, this is Gary. That is the right interpretation.
You know, this has been a complex negotiation. We’ve got a great relationship with Bradesco.
And the fact of the matter, that relationship continues to get stronger, and Bradesco has continued to look at various alternatives and what made the most sense. As we shared with you on other calls, in no situation was there ever a scenario discussed where FIS was not a part of an ongoing relationship, whether it was through a joint venture or commercial terms.
And at this point and time, as we said, we’ve reached agreement to continue with the joint venture and us to continue with 51% ownership.
Greg Smith – Duncan Williams Inc.
Yeah, okay, at least it simplifies things. And then the card volumes, you’ve quantified that in the past.
I was wondering if you could give any numbers or at least how did they kind of progress on a monthly basis. Seems like things may have slowed in June, but did you in fact see that?
Gary Norcross
We won’t get into the monthly’s, but what we did see is, you know, debit continues to grow strong. Debit transactions, not the 15% growth year to year.
And then credit is, we saw a little bit, you know, last quarter, Second Quarter, you know, growth over 5%. So credit is actually doing well versus well.
Greg Smith – Duncan Williams Inc.
Okay, and then I doubt we can get this, but is there any chance you guys can come up with a bookings number, just kind of a new sales number aggregated altogether, or something like that? Any chance we can get something like that?
Mike Hayford
Yeah, I mean we haven’t bookings there, but we do contract value. And Gary and his team tracks that very religiously.
We intent people as you might expect. We manage to generate future revenue growth.
But, you know, we’re not going to share those kind of numbers. It gets a little hard because of all the different businesses.
The timing of when the backlog actually gets booked into revenue. You know, the duration of the different contracts.
So, you know, we talk about kind of the success of sales year over year versus prior year, but we don’t share the actual backlog number of the total contract value that we’re assigning each quarter.
Greg Smith – Duncan Williams Inc.
Okay, thank you.
Operator
Our next question is from Brian King with Credit Suites
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Yeah, hi. Good afternoon.
Just going back on the Bradesco deal, is there a way to think about the deal is going to look going forward compared to what originally you guys thought before discussions came about, about maybe breaking up the JV? I mean it sounds like it’s back to what the original plans were.
And the only major difference here is that instead of starting this year, it will just start next year. Is that fair?
Gary Norcross
I think that’s fair, Brian. I mean, you know, we’ll be coming with a lot more details when we sign the definitive agreements as we stated several times.
We’ll get that done this year. But all in all, I think, you know, the overall relationship will stay very consistent with where we were in the past.
And Bradesco will convert their Mastercard and Visa portfolio onto the platform.
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Okay, and then is it fair to say then the international revenue growth on constant currency is probably going to be a little less than you guys expected originally as a result of this? I guess I’m curious since you reiterated guidance, where is that being made up.
It looks like the financial services group has been pretty strong.
Mike Hayford
That’s a good way to look at it again. International in 2010 has that $40 million hole that, you know, if we get Bradesco converted before the end of the year, we’ll sell a little bit of that.
But that’s creating a little bit of drag in the national. Gary talked about the deals and the success in the market we’re having.
But I think that’s the way to look at it.
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Okay. And then just two clarifications.
Did you guys give the amount of synergies in the quarter for Metavante?
Mike Hayford
No, we’ve had – we’ve shared as part of the outlook for the year, that Second Quarter we expected to obtain 40 million and so we talked about, you know, we met that goal. We’re not going to give actual numbers each quarter as we go through, but you know, for the full year we expect to end up the year at 212, which is incrementally 150 better than last year.
So the 40 goal this quarter, you know, we’re very pleased we’re hitting our numbers, slightly exceeding every quarter. And then at the end of the year we’ll, you know, we’ll give a recap of where we stand.
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Okay, then just lastly, there was a $23 million term fee, I think, in a year-ago period. What segment does that show up in the results for comparison purposes?
Gary Norcross
That was a large outsourcing deal that a bank had got acquired so we got a large term fee, and that term fee falls where the business was that we lost. So it hit both those segments.
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Okay, both the segments. And then the other term fees you’re expecting to get from Santander and Bradesco, will that be in the – will that go just in the guidance for the fourth quarter, or will that be a one-time charge?
How do you guys think about that?
Gary Norcross
I’ll share that with you. We don’t know actually how it’s going to look yet.
We get the pile deal signed, what happens with the equity that was in the JV, it all goes to FIS, how this all works out. That cash is going to come to us, so we’ll get the cash.
How we actually end up structuring the balance sheet – I assume we’ll work on that. But we’ll call that out for you and tell you what it is.
Brian King – Credit Suisse
Okay, perfect. Congratulations.
Operator
Our next question is form the line of Kartik Mehta with Northcoast Research.
Kartik Mehta – Northcoast Research
Good afternoon. Frank, you talked about Professional Services doing better and I’m wondering, is this the first time that market spending is getting better or is the Professional Services at FIS is just doing better because you’re taking market share?
Frank Martire
I mean, there’s some rollout involved. Let me just qualify a little bit.
You know, it is getting better, so that’s a qualified optimism there that we have here because there is improvement in the marketplace. We’re just open and cautiously optimistic that it continues.
So clearly getting better and it helps you when you take in core deals, right, because they’re usually associated with some amount of Professional Services.
Mike Hayford
Yeah, when you look at the breadth, it also displaced an overall product set, and at this point in time, as we’ve all mentioned, we are starting to see banks, financial institutions starting to spend more in recent months. And as part of that, they’re looking for us to add services to our various products that they’re taking through each sale.
Frank Martire
And all the integrations associated with it.
Kartik Mehta – Northcoast Research
And have you seen any attitude change from your customers or perspective customers on outsources versus in-house? Are they still more focused on outsourcing right now?
Frank Martire
Well, we talk about this a lot and it all goes back and forth, but the reality is much more of a movement towards outsourcing, clearly. A feeling that they want to be more outsourced, at least either all the core systems, or a particular product.
Kartik Mehta – Northcoast Research
And then just on the international business, would you expect margins at business sequentially to continue at least in the Third Quarter and Fourth Quarter of this year, continue to ramp up?
Gary Norcross
It’s probably a little lumpier than the rest of our business time, you know, the timing of some large transactions from our software deals, you know, they move and have a bigger impact. But certainly, Third and Fourth Quarter, we expect higher than the rest of the year.
Kartik Mehta – Northcoast Research
Thank you very much.
Gary Norcross
Thank you.
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Jim Kissane with Bank of America.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
Thanks. Congratulations, especially on the Bradesco deal.
And just following up, I guess on Ashwin’s question, will you be processing the new ELO card for Bradesco? Is that something separate?
Gary Norcross
That would definitely be something separate. Obviously we’ll compete for that business and we hope we get an opportunity to win that.
But that would be separate.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
And Gary, just for clarification, I think you said the interchange is a pass through and has no impact on your profitability. But in fact, I didn’t think interchange was in your revenue at all.
It was really just your customer’s revenue.
Gary Norcross
Correct. Most of the interchange is absolutely going to our clients.
We have a very, very small amount that interchange does pass through our revenue line, but it’s a very small amount.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
Okay, and I guess a question for Frank. You know, given the recap and the additional debt, does it change your appetite for growth acquisitions?
Frank Martire
No, we look at it and we look at what makes sense for the company, and what makes sense for our clients and for the shareholders, and the best way to grow our company to add value. So we’ll clearly continue to do that.
No change.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
What’s your sense of the environment for M&A and the core processing and payment base?
Frank Martire
I don’t know. We look at it, you know, it obviously as more consolidation takes place in the marketplace, there’s less and less available participant opportunities out there.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
Okay, just to be clear, if sounds like demand, or the pipeline of demand for software and professional services is still strong and you have pretty good visibility there?
Gary Norcross
Absolutely, we’re seeing strength across most of our products. We’re obviously – I think we highlighted it in the last quarter call that we were a little bit surprised by how quickly FSG has rebounded.
We’re seeing a lot of demand on our core processing business. We’re also seeing strong demand on outsourcing throughout the US and even in certain international markets.
And then seeing nice demand on our payments business as well.
James Kissane – B of A/ Merrill Lynch
Okay, great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from the line of John Williams, with Goldman Sacs.
John Williams – Goldman Sacs
Good evening, guys. I’m in for Julio.
Quickly, we just wanted to get a sense, you’d spoken a little bit earlier about the impact of Durbin and the Financial Reform generally on the business, but some people in looking at the exclusivity for debit have thought that that might present an opportunity to maybe steal some share. What’s your take on that?
Do you think NICE can capture a little bit incrementally in terms of actual processing on debit?
Gary Norcross
No, yeah, we absolutely do think there’s some upside with our NICE network and you know, frankly, until some of this unfolds a little further it’s hard to gage all that. But we do think there’s some opportunities for outside.
John Williams – Goldman Sacs
Okay. A while back you had mentioned the core replacement for Citi.
You haven’t really said much about that since. Is there any update that you can provide or maybe some thoughts on what’s going on with that particular deal?
Gary Norcross
Well, again, carried a WIN with Citi for a quarter, a core software product, it was a software sale. And you know, we were excited about it for two reasons; one is whenever you get a large name, a large organization as prestigious as Citi that you’re winning the business to, I think that’s important.
So we shared that. And secondly, I think it’s an indication as we talked about over the years that for the larger institution they are starting to look at what they need to do to the core systems to renew them for the future.
So that’s why we shared that deal. It’s a software deal, a little bit special services, so while we think it’s a fairly substantial capital project for Citi, you know, it’s a small piece for us.
It’s not a material number. So, you know, there’s not much more to it than we got some software sales and special services and it’s a great win for us.
John Williams – Goldman Sacs
On other question, sort of a housekeeping thing. You had talked a while back about the refinancing of the Term-Loan B.
It was about $800 million or so. Is that number – are you going to do that or is that included in the updated number that you provided in the slide deck on Page 12, that $1.5 billion for the Term Loan B?
Is that sort of replacing the original?
Gary Norcross
The Metavante Term-Loan B that we got through the merger, and we paid that off as part of this refinancing. So the original Term-Loan B, which we had seen, which was from Metavante, that’s gone.
We know have the bank debt. We’ve got the new Term-Loan B, which is $1.5 billion, and then we’ve got the bonds.
John Williams – Goldman Sacs
Renamed differently?
Gary Norcross
Correct.
John Williams – Goldman Sacs
Thanks, guys, appreciate it.
Operator
And our next question is from the line of Karl Keirstead with Kaufman Brothers.
Karl Keirstead – Kaufman Brothers
Hi. Good afternoon.
I may have misheard, but could you confirm that you trimmed your free cash from the full year from $750 to $700?
Mike Hayford
Originally $750. We know say practically $700; 100% related to the recap.
So the recap, the incremental interest costs that we’ll bear between now and the end of the year is the difference.
Karl Keirstead – Kaufman Brothers
Okay. 100% of the $50 million difference?
Mike Hayford
That’s right.
Karl Keirstead – Kaufman Brothers
Okay, and the secondly, if we could just return to the EBITDA Margin expansion story. It looks like in the first half of 2010, year over year, your adjusted EBITDA Margin is up a little over 200 basis points.
So for the full year, to be up 300, you’re margin expansion story is going to have to improve in the second half. Could you just run through the two or three main levers that you’ll use to get that kind of accelerated margin expansion?
Thanks.
Mike Hayford
Year over year, Second Quarter, 140. In the second quarter, we talked about this being a very difficult comp in Second Quarter of last year.
You know, and the term fee that we had – one-time term fee at Metavante and also there was a legal settlement that Metavante booked. So if you take those two out, we’re actually pretty close to 300 basis points.
So the operating business is close to 300 and so second half of the year, we won’t have the difficult comps. We do think that, you know, the margins are going to pop back up and we still think we’ll get the 300 mark by the end of the year.
Karl Keirstead – Kaufman Brothers
Okay. Thanks very much.
Operator
And thank you. Our final question for today will come from the line of Tien-Tsin Huang with JP Morgan.
Tien Tsin Huang – JP Morgan
Thanks so much. Just a couple questions.
First I want to ask about the expanded bill-pay services. I think you said with the top four bank.
I’m curious, can you elaborate? Is that a competitive takeaway on expansion of an existing deal?
Gary Norcross
It’s an expansion of an existing deal, but taking new volumes off of a competitor. And it’s also an expansion of new products wrapped around that as well, wrapped around those bill-payment services.
Tien Tsin Huang – JP Morgan
Okay, got it. So handling more of the routing side of it.
Understood. And then just a higher-level question, just given all the Financial Reform and the negative ROE impact for the banks, I’m curious if we look beyond 2010, do you see pricing pressure becoming more problematic here given that the banks are going to look to offset some of that pressure?
Mike Hayford
We obviously are going to keep watching that. The fact that some of these regulations obviously have an impact to the banks and that’s who’s writing the checks for us.
While we don’t have a direct connection, obviously, we don’t get to participate in those fees that are being reduced, we are going to have to watch whether banks decide to spend less, or to spend differently. You know, the pricing pressure, I think I can probably answer that by, you know, we’re always fighting pricing.
I think it’s hard to say that the banks of the future, you know, like you would expect that they are leveraging all the competitors so they can get the best price they can, they’ll do that in the future. Whether they ask us to participate and take some of that out of our pocket, I assume I think they’ll ask.
I’m not sure we’ll actually see much difference in discounting based on that, but again, it’s all new. We’ll have to see how it shakes out.
We’ll have to see what happens when the regs get written and the banks actually start finding different ways to generate revenue.
Tien Tsin Huang – JP Morgan
Yeah, we’ll all be watching. I appreciate that.
Thank you.
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