Fiserv Inc (FISV) 2012 Q3 法說會逐字稿

Welcome to the Fiserv third-quarter 2012 earnings conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session begins, following the presentation.

Today's call is being recorded and is being broadcast live over the Internet at www.Fiserv.com. In addition, there are supplemental materials for today's call available at the Company's website. To access those materials, go to the Company's website at www.Fiserv.com and click on the earnings call link in the events section of the homepage. The call is expected to last about an hour, and you may disconnect from the call at any time.

Now I will turn the call over to Eric Nelson, Vice President of Investor Relations at Fiserv.

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our third-quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Jeff Yabuki, our Chief Executive Officer, and our Chief Financial Officer, Tom Hirsch.

Our remarks today will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We will make forward-looking statements about, among other matters, adjusted revenue, adjusted internal revenue growth, adjusted earnings per share, adjusted operating margin, free cash flow, free cash flow per share, sales pipeline, acquisitions, and our strategic initiatives.

Forward-looking statements may differ materially from actual results and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our earnings release, which can be found on our website at Fiserv.com for a discussion of these risk factors.

You should also refer to our earnings release and slide presentation for an explanation of the non-GAAP financial measures discussed on this conference call and for a reconciliation of those measures to the nearest applicable GAAP measures. These non-GAAP measures are indicators that management uses to provide additional meaningful comparison between current results and prior reported results and as a basis for planning and forecasting for future periods.

I will now turn the call over to Jeff.

Thanks, Eric. It's a great job on your inaugural call. Good afternoon, everyone.

Before I get to our results, let me thank each of you who joined us for our annual investor conference, either in person or digitally, on October 9. We provided an update on our key solutions and how we're executing against our algorithm for growth. This formula sets forth how we intend to enhance revenue growth across our cadre of market-leading businesses and also our plans to scale our newer innovation-based solutions, such as Popmoney and Mobiliti. We believe we are on track to achieve increasing levels of high-quality revenue growth.

We also highlighted the important opportunities to expand operating margin, further enhance our already compelling free cash flow per share, and our consistent and disciplined approach to capital. Our strategies are all aligned with the evolving market. We're enthusiastic about our multiple opportunities to create additional value for clients, associates, and you, our shareholders.

Now, onto the results. We're pleased with our performance for the quarter and year to date, and are well positioned to achieve our expectations for the full year. We again generated strong earnings growth with adjusted EPS increasing 9% to $1.27 in the quarter and is up 13% to $3.75 for the first nine months of the year.

Adjusted revenue increased 5% in the quarter and is up 4% through September 30. Adjusted internal revenue growth was 4% in the quarter and 3% year to date. Adjusted operating margin increased sharply to 29.8%, 80 basis points over the prior year's quarter and up 50 basis points sequentially. Adjusted operating margin to date has increased 40 basis points to 29.3%, led by strong performance in the financial segment and solid execution of our operational efficiency objectives.

Free cash flow increased 18% to $203 million compared with the third quarter of 2011, driven by strong growth in operating earnings and favorable shifts in working capital. Year to date, free cash flow is down slightly from the prior-year period to $501 million, primarily related to higher tax payments and working capital shifts early this year. We expect a strong free cash flow quarter to end the year.

For 2012, we identified three enterprise priorities, when taken together, represent key elements of our formula to create sustained shareholder value. First, to deliver an increased level of high-quality revenue growth and meet our earnings commitments. Next, to center the Fiserv culture on growth, leading to more clients, deeper relationships, and a larger share of our strategic solutions. And third, to deliver innovation that increases differentiation and enhances results for our clients.

Revenue growth accelerated in the quarter as we benefited from robust sales and strong performance across our leading solutions, such as debit, account processing, and mobile. The combination of increased operating leverage and continued achievement of operational effectiveness goals resulted in 8% growth in adjusted operating income in the quarter and 80 basis points of margin expansion.

Adjusted EPS growth was solid in the quarter as well, even net of a negative comparative tax impact, and has increased 13% through September 30. We're on track for another year of double-digit adjusted EPS growth.

Our focus on building a culture of growth continues to translate to strong sales performance. After the expected slow start to the year, the second and third quarters had strong, above-quota performance, which included another major bill payment win, Regions Bank, that we announced at investors' day. That transaction, along with the signing of TD Bank in the second quarter, is factual evidence that financial institutions continue to desire the significant product differentiation offered by CheckFree RXP. As we shared at investor day, we expect to see revenue growth acceleration in our bill payment business in 2013 and well beyond.

We had more than 140 new Mobiliti signings in the quarter, driven largely by existing relationships in our account processing and online banking client base. As of quarter's and, we have nearly 1,300 mobile banking clients and a still significant growth opportunity, driven by the combination of mobile adoption and new FI clients.

Our goal of delivering differentiation and innovation that leads to better results for our clients progressed well in the quarter. We have several solutions that straddle the unique intersection of strong consumer value and financial institution revenue.

A great example is Popmoney. We signed more than 100 new clients in the quarter and now have over 1,700 institutions in the social payments network. We added BB&T Corporation, one of the largest financial holding companies in the US, to the Popmoney network, which now includes 14 of the top 30 banks.

We believe real-time transaction processing is a critical Fiserv differentiator. This capability should provide new revenue opportunities for our clients, which we believe will ultimately be measured in the billions. And as important, institutions can provide unique user experiences in areas such as social payments, expedited bill pay, and SpotPay, our new product which allows small-business customers to accept card-based payments through a mobile phone, courtesy of their own financial institution.

And as we shared at investor day, our concept of expanding real-time movement is real now. In live Popmoney demonstrations, we've successfully debited the sender's account and credited the receiver's account at a different institution within 20 seconds of initiating the transaction.

Integrating our proprietary DDA-based payments application with our PIN debit network should create exceptional value for our clients and their customers, which will translate to attractive new growth for Fiserv, a true win-win.

With that, let me hand the discussion to Tom, who will provide more detail on our financial results.

Thanks, Jeff, and good afternoon, everyone.

Adjusted revenue increased 5% in the third quarter to $1.05 billion and increased 4% in the first nine months of 2012 to $3.1 billion. As anticipated, adjusted internal revenue growth in the third quarter accelerated over the second quarter to 4% and is now at 3% year to date.

Adjusted earnings per share increased 9% to $1.27 in the quarter and increased 13% to $3.75 through September 30. Earnings in the quarter was negatively impacted by $0.04 per share due to an almost 2 percentage point lower tax rate in the prior year's third quarter.

Adjusted operating income was up 8% to $312 million in the quarter, and adjusted operating margin was 29.8%, up 80 basis points over the prior year. For the first nine months, adjusted operating income increased 5% to $910 million and adjusted operating margin expanded 40 basis points to 29.3%, compared to the prior year.

The combined license and termination fee revenue through September 30 is about the same as last year.

Now onto the segment results. Adjusted revenue in the payments segment increased 4% to $548 million in the quarter and is up 5% to $1.6 billion for the first nine months of the year. Adjusted internal revenue growth was 2% in both the quarter and year to date.

Card services and digital channels continued to drive strong internal revenue growth, which was partially offset by weaker performance in bill payment, investment services, and the continued negative Durbin impact on our biller solutions business.

Bill payment transactions declined 2% in the quarter. This decline is due primarily to a lower number of non-weekend bill payment processing days in September, which accounted for an approximate three percentage point decline in the quarter, which we expect will reverse in the fourth quarter.

We continue to anticipate higher growth in our bill payment business in 2013, in light of the recent large signings of TD Bank, Regions Bank, and our still strong pipeline of additional opportunities.

Debit transactions grew 15% in the quarter and are up 18% year to date, primarily from better-than-market transaction growth and on-boarding of new clients. We've added 125 new debit clients so far this year and expect a strong sales finish to the year.

Our Popmoney ramp is continuing with transactions up 111% and 119% in the quarter and year to date, respectively. Our focus on building the network is critical as more consumers are exposed to this new technology. As you know, Popmoney is yet to meaningfully contribute to our revenue.

Operating income for the quarter was $168 million in the payments segment, compared with $162 million in the third quarter of 2011. Year to date, operating income was $489 million, compared to $482 million in the prior year. Adjusted operating margin was 30.7% for the quarter, down slightly from the prior-year period and up 90 basis points sequentially.

Year to date, adjusted operating margin for the segment was down 90 basis points, primarily due to the impact of previously discussed bill payment deconversions, the expected dilution from the acquisition and integration of CashEdge, and the impact of ramping up our offerings in mobile and online banking.

Internal revenue growth in the financial segment rebounded as anticipated, increasing 5% to $513 million in the quarter, compared with the prior year. Year-to-date internal revenue growth was 3%. The timing of license revenue also rebounded in the quarter, as expected, compared to the second quarter of this year. The gains in year-over-year revenue are primarily driven by recurring revenue growth in our account processing and lending businesses.

Operating income in the financial segment was up 15% to $165 million for the quarter and operating margin expanded by 270 basis points to 32.1%. This performance is driven by a number of factors, including higher license and termination fee revenue, efficiency gains and item processing, our operational effectiveness initiatives, and an easier comparison to the prior-year quarter.

Year to date, operating income was up 10% to $479 million and operating margin has increased 190 basis points to 31.6%, in each case compared with the prior year.

The operating loss in the corporate segment for the third quarter was $21 million, consistent with our second-quarter operating loss and $6 million greater than the third quarter of last year.

Our adjusted effective tax rate in the quarter was 36.6%, an increase of almost 2 percentage points over the 34.7% rate in 2011. Last year's third-quarter rate was much lower due to a number of timing items that, in the aggregate, positively impacted the period. Our full-year adjusted tax rate is projected to be approximately 36% and 37% in the fourth quarter.

Net interest expenses declined $9 million year to date versus the prior year, primarily due to lower interest rates.

Free cash flow rebounded nicely in the quarter, consistent with our plan of stronger second-half performance. Free cash flow in the quarter was $203 million, compared to $172 million in the prior-year quarter, an increase of 18%.

For the first nine months of 2012, free cash flow was $501 million, down slightly to the prior year and negatively impacted in the current year by higher tax payments and incentive accruals paid in the first quarter of the year.

Free cash flow per share through September 30 was up 3% to $3.62, compared to the prior-year period.

Total debt at September 30 was $3.45 billion, or 2.4 times trailing 12-month EBITDA. In September, we raised $700 million of 10-year public debt at a coupon rate of 3.5%. The proceeds were used to repay a portion of our $1.1 billion term loan, which is due in November of 2012.

The effective interest rate on the new debt will be higher than the coupon, due to interest rate derivatives entered into a few years ago and settled in conjunction with the recent transaction. However, the overall debt cost on the new financing will be lower than the existing term loan.

We are very well positioned with our debt structure, and after the paydown of our term loan in November, we will not have a mandatory principal payment until late 2015.

We repurchased 2.7 million shares of stock in the quarter for $189 million, and year to date we have repurchased 8.5 million shares for $577 million. As of September 30, there were approximately 6.2 million shares remaining under our existing share repurchase authorization.

With that, I will turn the call back over to Jeff.

Thanks, Tom.

Sales in the quarter were again strong with quota attainment at 116%. Actual sales value in the quarter was more than 40% higher than last year's Q3 and just below the stellar results of this year's second quarter.

Our digital channels and payments businesses led the performance, including, as we highlighted earlier, some great wins for our Popmoney and bill payment products. We are at 99% sales quota attainment on a straight-line basis through the end of the third quarter. Our qualified pipeline remains strong and is above where it was at this time last year. We expect to meet our annual sales target for the year.

Integrated sales were also solid in the quarter with payments and channel solutions again experiencing the highest demand. Through the first nine months of the year, integrated sales were $120 million, or roughly 60% of our annual target. We also expect to achieve our 2012 objective of $200 million.

We had another strong quarter of operational effectiveness performance and, through September 30, are now at $45 million in cost savings, or 113% of our full-year target.

As we shared at investor day, the environment facing financial institutions is stable, but continues to be somewhat challenged. And while technology spend is growing slowly, it is still growing. We believe institutions will focus their technology decisions on areas that contribute to enhanced customer experience, create revenue, and drive operational excellence. Technology solutions that deliver tangible, measurable value will likely get the lion's share of available spend, and that lines up very well with our overall positioning.

Through September 30 on the regulatory front, there have been 52 actions, down significantly from 91 in the same period last year. Total assets of the impacted institutions are down significantly to about $10 billion, as compared with $34 billion in 2011.

As we said upfront, we're on track to achieve results for 2012 within our guidance. We continue to expect adjusted revenue to increase 4% to 6% and adjusted internal revenue growth in the 3% to 4.5% range, both with a bias to the lower end of the range for the full year.

We expect adjusted earnings per share of $5.08 to $5.20, a range of 11% to 14% growth for the year as compared to $4.58 in 2011. We expect adjusted operating margin to expand in a range of 30 to 60 basis points for the full year, free cash flow growth of 8% to 12%, and free cash flow per share to be at least $5.70 for the full year.

We continue to move the business forward each day with a singular goal of making your Company stronger. We have made strategic progress and remain bullish on our prospects for the future. We have gained momentum based on the combination of current results, macro trends aligned with our product strategies, and the depth of our sales pipeline. Taken together, we believe this will translate to higher growth in 2013. Of course, all of this is made possible by the outstanding commitment of our 20,000 associates around the world who come together to make your company its very best. With that, operator, let's open the line for questions.

(Operator Instructions). (Technical difficulty). David Togut, Evercore Partners.

(Technical difficulty). Hello, Jeff, how are you?

Hello, Jeff, how are you? Can you hear me? (Technical difficulty)

We can hear you, sir. Go ahead with your question.

Jeff, it's David Togut. Can you hear me? (Technical difficulty). Hello, operator?

Yes, we can hear you.

I apologize, Jeff. I was switching from another call. Can you walk through some of the biggest drivers of the 5% organic revenue growth in financial, and do you see this continuing for the balance of the year and into 2013?

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Yes, sir, we're working on the problem. One moment, please.

(Inaudible) growth in financial.

They may have lost my other -- my Western Union question.

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Excuse me, sir, are you still on the line?

Yes, I am.

Okay.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you. Hang on one second, David.

Thank you.

Okay, David?

Yes.

Sorry about that. We had some technical difficulty. I'm sure it's somehow related to Sandy.

It likely is. Thanks so much for taking my question, Jeff. I appreciate it.

Sure. Can you repeat the question? I think you were talking about the revenue growth, but we just want to make sure.

Yes, thank you. What were the key drivers of the 5% organic revenue growth in financial during the third quarter? And to what extent is this growth sustainable for the balance of the year and into 2013?

Yes, clearly, David, we just had a really good quarter in our financial segment.

As you know, coming off the second quarter, which was a little bit more abnormally low because we had some timing of license revenue, but we had a solid revenue quarter from a license standpoint. We did have a little higher termination fees, but we had a strong quarter, as Jeff highlighted, in both account processing and our lending business, which continued to have a strong performance.

And as you know, the financial segment has bounced around a little bit and we look at it from a year-to-date standpoint. So clearly good progress, 3% organic revenue growth in the financial segment, which we're pleased with, and really solid across those recurring revenue businesses. But the growth rate is going to bounce around as those license fees do impact that particular segment.

What were the termination fees in the third quarter?

Roughly at the Company, they were approximately $9 million, which was, I think, up, David, about $4 million to $5 million over the prior-year quarter, but as another reminder, year to date, you know, from a contract termination fee and our license fees, they're about flat with the prior year, so I always tend to look at those on a year-to-date basis for better comparisons.

I see. And just as a quick follow-up, when would you expect payments' organic revenue growth to pick up as a result of the Regions Bank and TD Bank wins? And can you quantify the impact to revenue from these two wins for FY13?

So, those transactions will go live, obviously, sometime in 2013. They'll have different dates, and I think we had a slide up at investor day which said that those two banks, plus Zions, had about 8 million accounts that would potentially be able to be within or would potentially be able to take bill pay.

And so, if you just think about normal percentages of take rate against that, it could be as low as 10%, and typically banks of that size are running at a higher level, into the upper teens. So on a percentage basis, if you think about that relative to the 24 million active bill pay accounts we have today, that's probably the best way to think about it, knowing, of course, that we'll ramp over time.

So we think they'll have important contributions to our growth in 2013, but as we have a full -- we won't have a full year until we get into 2014, and we think that will be strong growth, and we're also going to benefit from the anniversarying of some of the negatives, like the Wachovia deconversion and a couple of remit and bar deconversions that we've had this year as well.

So I think to add to that, David, I think you'll continue to see sequential improvement in that growth rate as we move forward.

Quick final question for me, Jeff. The American Banker had a big article on the community bank market last week. Pretty negative piece citing higher capital requirements, tough pressure on net interest margin. Any updated thoughts just on your customers and their overall spending levels with Fiserv, particularly community bank customers?

Sure. One of the things that we talked about at investor day at some depth is the overall pressure that is in the financial institution space, and community banks nor credit unions are exempt from that.

I think the capital requirements under Basel III would certainly put more pressure on the industry.

That said, most of the community bankers -- a substantial majority of the community bankers that I interact with understand that the model is changing and that they need to make investments in technology that allow them to actually be more efficient, serve their customers in a different way, and look for some other product opportunities to drive additional revenue.

That's one of the reasons why, frankly, we're quite bullish about the technologies that we have within our suite. It's one of the reasons why we have such a strong take-up in things like Popmoney and Mobiliti. And as much as that model will be under pressure, the beauty of it is as these institutions have really taken the expense side down and really been more, I think, more prudent around their expense model, as revenues start to come back online, and they certainly will at some point, you'll see more of a fall through. So I think most of the bankers are preparing for that inevitability.

We are not at all bearish on the community bank space. We think it's an attractive space, we think structurally within the US you need to have a significant community bank system, and there's nothing that we've seen that would indicate that that's going to change.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Sorry for the inconvenience earlier.

Dave Koning, Baird.

Hey, guys, nice job. I guess my first question just on bill pay, I know prior to kind of the last four quarters you always grew transactions in the ballpark of 6% to 9% for many quarters. Can you get back to there on a normalized basis, even without Regions and TD and Zions? Can you get back there just as some of the remittance-only stuff anniversaries, or do you think we're going to be a little below that, but get the benefit of adding some of these bigger banks?

It's a great question and one that we think about on a fairly regular basis.

You know, we have continued to win a large number of bill payment clients every quarter, so when we think about our transaction growth, we really benefit from two areas. We benefit from new wins within, really, the account processing distribution platform, and then, secondly, kind of the growth of transactions, kind of the natural growth of transactions, which is a function of the number of makers that you have and the number of transactions per maker.

Frankly, since 2008, we've seen transactions be, frankly, lower as less people -- or people have been paying less bills. And so, we've had some issues with that, and I think that's one of the things that's been running through the numbers.

So part of the answer to the question is, when will that stabilize? And we think it has and we would expect to see that begin to move back up.

I think the other thing that we talked about at investor day that we're really excited about is the opportunity to basically move bill payments on a faster basis, whether they're faster bill payments or expedited or real time. We think that is not going to just create interesting fee opportunities, but have people use bill payment on a more frequent or a regular basis. So we think that will help as well.

All of that said, I think it would be conjecture to understand, can we get that number back up to 6% to 9% without winning deals? I think the reality is we need to do all of that. We need to win deals, we need to continue to innovate our product to deliver better and more impactful ways for institutions to benefit from bill payment, and for consumers to use the technology.

So I feel like we're in -- I think we're in a good position. I do think we will see very strong transaction growth coming from these new wins, and frankly, we expect to continue to win deals moving forward. So even though we have a pretty high penetration in, call it, the top 30 or so banks in the US, we have a pretty good opportunity to extend below the top 30 into, call it, banks 30 to 100. And so, we're quite focused in that area as well.

Great. And then, the Durbin headwind that you started to have impact you, I think that started in early October of last year, kind of the way it flowed through your business and the payment segment. I guess that anniversary of that, does that really start to benefit in Q4 of this year and maybe by how much, about?

You know, Dave, when we gave our guidance, I think we said roughly about 50 basis points for the year, and there continues to be some of that impact, just given the nature of what that is. So I think you're going to continue to see some of that in the fourth quarter.

But I think, Dave, to your point, you'll see that start to lift as we move through. We did start -- it started kind of later in the fourth quarter of last year, and some of that pressure will diminish as we move into 2013.

Yes.

Okay, great, and then my final, just quick one is, the guidance range on EPS is still pretty wide. I don't think you made a comment about kind of where it might fall in that. I'm just wondering if we should expect kind of the upper end of that range or if you just want to keep it wide for now.

Yes, I mean, we're -- you probably remember that in the second quarter, we actually moved up -- we moved up our range by, what, $0.04 in the quarter or as of the end of June, and one of the variants that we always have going into the fourth quarter is the amount of license revenue, and as we've talked about before, that can bounce around and it's about $2.5 million a penny.

So from our perspective, we see some variability there and we think the range that we've laid out is the right range for the remainder of the year.

Okay, great. Thank you.

Glenn Greene, Oppenheimer.

I'll ask [just so] in the interest of getting disconnected, potentially, last call three questions, and then just hop out. First, on the sales strength in the quarter, if I heard right, was 40% year over year. I just wanted to understand the key items that drove that, and within that, how much Zions contributed?

Second question, the bill pay comments related to fiscal 2013. If I heard it right, it suggested acceleration, and I understand the TD and Regions, but wanted to know if that reflected the drag from the BoA renewal.

And the third is the integrated sales goal of $200 million. That suggests a heckuva fourth quarter to get there. What kind of gives you the confidence to get there?

Sure, so we'll start with the last one first, and then we'll move through them.

So as it relates to integrated sales, we feel quite confident. Last year, we actually had quite a strong fourth quarter, I think around $70 million. Because of what we can see in our pipeline, we feel like there are a lot of good-sized deals that will come in in the quarter, so we're confident there, given it's only a few million dollars higher than we saw last year in Q4, so that gives us confidence.

On the second point, which is really on the bill pay acceleration, we really see that growth coming from the wins that we have had, the anniversarying of the Wachovia, and some of the other de-converts that we talked about earlier in the year, and obviously offset by any discount we are to give to Bank of America.

So, but as we talked about at investor day, we have a good level of confidence in growth in 2013, but not just in 2013. As we talked about these transactions, institutions are going to ramp up, and we have a good solid pipeline there and we believe we'll continue to win transactions.

And then, last, from a Zions perspective, most of the growth that we see in 2013 will not come from Zions. Zions would be smallest of the three big deals that we quantify. We'll get some nice growth there, but it won't be the largest of all of them.

Your other question was, Glenn, around the strength of our sales performance on a year-over-year basis, and it continues to be driven by our digital channels business, a lot of activity there.

You saw some of the Popmoney wins, you saw our bill payment wins, and the other thing I would say is that we still have a very good pipeline in that particular business, along with a lot of our other businesses, so our pipeline continues to be strong. And so, from a sales standpoint we feel good going into the finishing out the year on a strong basis.

And a lot of those sales have been more recurring revenue or long-term recurring revenue versus license, and that's a good thing for the long-term nature of our business. And especially the size of some of these wins, which are a lot larger than what we've seen as a Company kind of across the board when you look at the breadth of the wins that we have, not just in bill pay but other areas, larger transactions, which I think is contributing to that year-over-year increase in our performance in the third quarter of roughly 40% from a sales standpoint.

Terrific. Thank you.

Chris Shutler, William Blair.

First one, I just wanted to gauge your confidence in your ability to hit the long-term internal revenue growth target for the first three-year period, which I think is 2011 to 2013. Just given all the things like Durbin, BoA, et cetera, it seems that that would be a bit of a stretch to hit that, so just wanted to gauge your confidence in that. Thanks.

Chris, are you talking about kind of over the three-year period?

Correct.

Obviously, we're not going to give guidance for 2013 at this point. I think what we have said is from a notional standpoint, we expect to have growth higher in 2013 than 2012, but we'll deal with that question a little bit more depth in February.

Okay, figured I'd try. (Multiple speakers). And then, Tom, the weighted average interest rate that we should look out for Q4 as opposed to Q3?

It's going to be slightly lower, just given the fact of that recent refinancing, but it shouldn't be material. But it will be slightly lower going into the end of the year.

Because on the term loan, what was the rate that you were paying?

It was somewhere around 5%-plus on that thing because some of that debt was fixed, so there's going to be a slight benefit in Q4 and a slight benefit as we look into 2013.

And then, we'll pay off the balance of the term loan not until November, really.

November, that's correct.

Okay. And then, you might have mentioned this earlier, I'm not sure, but the term fees and the breakout between the two segments?

Yes, it's a combination of both. We don't typically give that breakout between the two, but there's -- I think it was -- as I indicated, I think $9 million roughly in the quarter. It was up about $4 million to $5 million over the prior year, and I think you have a couple million dollars in each because we have some in each segment, and so that's roughly where it was at.

Okay. Thanks, guys.

Bryan Keane, Deutsche Bank.

Hi, this is [Asheesh] calling on behalf of Bryan. Quick question on the strength in the financial segment. So you've highlighted license and the termination fees as the less strength in the processing business. I was wondering, when you think about the fourth quarter and all the macroeconomic uncertainty, how should we think about financial segment going forward? Do you expect the same kind of license revenue strength to persist, and also, any indication of what the term fee expectations are for the fourth quarter?

Let me just back up, just to make sure I answer that question appropriately. As you know our business, we tend to have volatility as termination fees and license fees, and they move quarter to quarter.

As I highlighted, year to date when you look at the first nine months of the year compared to the prior year, our license fees and our term fees just about offset, so they're about flat when you look at that compared to the prior-year period. And those can move around as we go from quarter to quarter, and we're not going to give guidance as we look into Q4 around termination fees, et cetera, or license fees.

But that being said, we have historically performed well from a license fee standpoint in the fourth quarter, compared to previous quarters. We continue to have a good pipeline there. We have to sell to a number of different financial institutions, but we're confident we're going to hit our guidance for the full year as we've laid out.

Yes, that's helpful. Thanks for the color there.

And just in terms of margin expansion, also, so you've guided to 30 to 60 basis points, and any color on where it could lie -- I understand it's a small range, but any color there on the expectations where it could lie?

No. It's -- we feel comfortable with that range for the full year.

Okay, thanks.

Thanks, everyone, we appreciate you joining us this afternoon. We apologize for the technical difficulties. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact our investor relations group. Have a good afternoon.

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