Visa : Q1 2022 Earnings Call Corrected Transcript

Corrected Transcript

27-Jan-2022

Visa, Inc. (V)

Q1 2022 Earnings Call

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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS

Jennifer Como	Vasant M. Prabhu
Senior Vice President-Investor Relations, Visa, Inc.	Vice Chairman & Chief Financial Officer, Visa, Inc.
Alfred F. Kelly, Jr.	Mike Milotich
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Visa, Inc.	Senior Vice President-Investor Relations, Visa, Inc.

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OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Darrin Peller	Lisa Ellis
Analyst, Wolfe Research LLC	Analyst, MoffettNathanson LLC
Rayna Kumar	Jason Kupferberg
Analyst, UBS Securities LLC	Analyst, BofA Securities, Inc.
Harshita Rawat	Tien-Tsin Huang
Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC	Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC
Sanjay Sakhrani	David Mark Togut
Analyst, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.	Analyst, Evercore ISI
Kenneth Suchoski	Daniel R. Perlin
Analyst, Autonomous Research US LP	Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC

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MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION SECTION

Operator: Welcome to Visa's fiscal first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. All participants are in a listen- only mode until the question-and-answer session. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your hosts from Investor Relations, Ms. Jennifer Como and Mr. Mike Milotich. Ms. Como, you may begin.

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Jennifer Como

Senior Vice President-Investor Relations, Visa, Inc.

Thanks, Jordan. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Visa's fiscal first quarter 2022 earnings call. Joining us today are Al Kelly, Visa's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Vasant Prabhu, Visa's Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer.

This call is being webcast on the Investor Relations section of our website at www.investor.visa.com. A replay will be archived on our site for 30 days. A slide deck containing financial and statistical highlights has been posted on our IR website.

Let me also remind you that this presentation includes forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and our actual results could differ materially as a result of many factors.

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Additional information concerning those factors is available in our most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q which you can find on the SEC's website and the Investor Relations section of our website. For non-GAAP financial information disclosed in this call, the related GAAP measures and reconciliations are available in today's earnings release.

And with that, let me turn the call over to Al.

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Alfred F. Kelly, Jr.

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Visa, Inc.

Jennifer, thank you, and good afternoon to everybody, and thanks for joining us.

Amidst much uncertainty this quarter resulting from the ongoing COVID pandemic, Visa's financial performance was very strong. Our net revenues grew 24% year-over-year,non-GAAP EPS was $1.81, up 27%, and our financial performance was driven by record volumes, transactions and credentials. In Q1, we crossed the $60 billion payment transaction mark for the first time in history, up 26% from two years ago. Visa cards were used 28 million times per hour in the last quarter. And we also increased our card credentials to over 3.8 billion, up 10% in one year.

I'm going to leave the rest of the details to Vasant as I want to focus on the future. As we look ahead, we expect accelerated revenue growth versus pre-COVID over the coming years driven by our three strategic levers of consumer payments, new flows and value-added services. Many current trends in payments including A2A, RTP, buy now, pay later, crypto and wallet are enabling new ways to pay. These represent opportunities for Visa where we are extraordinarily well positioned to utilize our unique strengths in global network to help them grow and scale.

Let me start by talking about consumer payments. The opportunity to displace cash and check is enormous. At our last Investor Day, we said it was $18 trillion. In Q1, we saw debit cash volumes at Visa grow 6%, while debit payment volumes grew 19%.

While cash displacement is certainly a reality, global personal consumption expenditure of cash and check grew at a CAGR of 2% over the 10 years ending in 2019. When we look at the opportunity ahead, if you assume global cash grows at 1% annually, industry-wide digital penetration of personal consumption expenditure wouldn't reach 90% for several decades.

For example, in Latin America, until a few quarters ago, there was more cash volume than payments volume on Visa credentials. In fact, in the past year, there has been a nearly 6.5-point shift, and payments volume is now 55% of the total volume even with cash in Latin America growing 10% this past quarter. We have expanded acceptance locations in Latin America by almost 30% in the past year to 18.5 million locations and we've grown credentials over 20%.

This quarter, we signed an eight-year agreement with Santander-Chile, one of the largest issuers in the company country. And in Brazil, we recently signed a deal with Banco XP, one of country's largest digital banks with over 3 million customers. Brazil remains a growth market with payments volume growth up more than 1.5 times historic levels in recent quarters.

The key to digitizing cash is that the on-ramps to our network have never been easier to access. Wallet providers have been rapidly issuing Visa credentials as they see value in an open-loop ecosystem. Naranja X is a rapidly

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growing Argentinian wallet using Visa card with 2 million credentials issued between prepaid and debit over the last two years.

This quarter we renewed our partnership with PayPay Bank, which enables accounts to PayPay wallet users. PayPay is one of the fastest-growing digital wallets in Japan with 42 million users, and the bank already has 4 million Visa debit users. We recently extended our partnership with Safaricom, the operator of M-PESA, to cover African markets outside of Kenya where M-PESA has 50 million customers.

We are also providing on-ramps for crypto players creating connectivity with fiat economies. There are over 65 crypto platforms and exchanges that have partnered to issue Visa credentials. This quarter, Visa credentials in crypto wallets had more than $2.5 billion in payments volume, which is already 70% of the payments volume for all of fiscal 2021.

In addition to embedding credentials in crypto platforms, we continue to innovate around our settlement and crypto API capabilities which have been key differentiators for us for fintechs and financial institutions that are looking to extend crypto capabilities to their customers. We will continue to lean into the crypto space and our strategy is to be a key partner to provide the connectivity, scale, consumer value propositions, reliability and security that is needed for crypto offerings to grow.

Earlier this month, we previewed CBDC payment APIs currently in development which would enable central banks to connect their Ethereum-based CBDCs with Visa rails through a wallet with digital issuance capabilities enabling consumers to spend with CBDCs at any Visa merchant. We partnered with ConsenSys to develop this concept which was selected as one of the winning entries out of 300 ideas from 50 countries at the global CBDC challenge as part of the Singapore FinTech Festival judged by representatives from the IMF, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements (sic) [Bank for International Settlements] (00:07:34), and the central banks of Brazil, India, Kenya and Indonesia.

In the face-to-face world, tap to pay continues to accelerate growth. Let me highlight progress in a few larger markets. In Brazil, the tap to pay penetration has increased from 5% to 24% in the past year. In India, where we have increased merchant locations 30% since fiscal year 2019 to 6 million at the end of fiscal year 2021, the tap to pay penetration has nearly doubled to 16% in the same period. And all of these efforts have helped to fuel our 40% plus year-over-year growth rate in payments volume in India this past quarter.

In the United States, we're nearing 20% tap to pay penetration with key metro cities showing even stronger growth. LA, Seattle, Detroit, Orange County, Miami, and Salt Lake City have all surpassed 25%. San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland are up over 30%. And New York has reached 45%.

E-commerce is also key to digitizing payments, and e-commerce merchants are certainly growing as are our relationships with them. We successfully closed a US co-brand deal with Shopify, a key e-commerce platform with millions of global merchants and entrepreneurs. The Shopify Balance card will allow Shopify's US merchants to access funds from sales by the next business day and receive cashback on everyday business expenses like shipping and marketing.

Buy now, pay later or BNPL continues to grow and we're seeing more and more BNPL fintechs issuing Visa credentials. Visa is enabling their shift to open-loop so that their value proposition to consumers can scale through Visa's broad acceptance. Last quarter, I mentioned Klarna, and this quarter I'm pleased to announce that Affirm has chosen Visa as their network partner for Affirm Debit+ card, as well as renewing the virtual card business. We look forward to supporting Affirm's continued growth through Visa's wide acceptance and reach.

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BNPL fintechs are increasingly using Visa virtual cards to settle with merchants, driving triple-digit payments volume growth year-over-year in the United States. BNPL fintech consumers also continue to use their cards to pay off their installments with active cards growing 50% in the same period.

For traditional issuers, we have a network installment solution called Visa Installments which enables our financial institution clients to seamlessly offer BNPL capabilities through an existing credit credential on any Visa transaction. In Canada, one of the countries where we are launching the capability, we now have commitment from issuers and acquirers representing the majority of payments volume.

Credentials on our network of networks through BNPL, crypto, other fintechs and our traditional issuers bring compelling value propositions like identity protection, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, security loyalty and more to consumers. This tremendous value motivates consumers to use their Visa credential online or in face-to- face versus cash, A2A, RTP or even blockchains.

So, to summarize, the opportunity in consumer payments is huge and has an incredible long-term runway. On- ramps to our network of networks have never been easier. We provide a compelling consumer value proposition and the advances in new ways to pay are good for Visa and these payment providers. Visa's enabling utility and scale for BNPL, crypto and wallets and all other nuance entrants.

Now let me move to progress with use cases and new flows, which represents a $185 trillion opportunity, 10x that of consumer payments. We are seeing a large appetite from our partners in experiencing significant growth. A key driver is Visa Direct which targets a $65 trillion opportunity across P2P, B2b, B2C and G2C. These are all use cases that Visa didn't really serve just five years ago. By aggressively pursuing these flows with our more compelling solution, Visa is seemingly displacing alternatives that rely on fragmented and dated technology, not the other way around.

Visa transaction growth was 35% this quarter. In the US, domestic P2P is currently our largest use case and also our lowest yielding one. As we scale and grow other geographies and use cases, especially those that are cross- border, we expect the revenue yield to increase. Regardless of the yield, Visa Direct is accretive, given it mostly leverages our existing platforms and capabilities.

Usage is growing with banks signing on for global remittances using cards or accounts, among them the Qatar Islamic Bank, one of the largest banks in Qatar, and CIBC and Simplii Financial in Canada. Visa Direct is also enabling fintech Chime and neobank Varo in the US for account-to-account money movement.

Usage has also expanded across several other use cases this quarter, such as payouts to DoorDash Dashers in Canada. We also recently signed an agreement with Toast to leverage Visa Direct on several fronts: first, near- instant cash flow access to daily sales and loan disbursement for their 48,000-plus restaurant customers; and second, for fast tip payouts and earned wage access for their restaurant client employees.

Visa Direct is a compelling capability because we offer incredible reach to more than 5 billion cards and accounts, global scale, a leading technology stack, world-class security, and 24x7 365 reliability, all of which is easier to access through hundreds of partners across our global network of networks, reaching bank accounts through a combination of card, ACH and RTP systems in more than 175 countries.

In the B2B new flows opportunity, we expect future growth to have several vectors. Let me just highlight a couple, first, B2B carded issuance in both physical and virtual cards where we have a leading share. This quarter in India,

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