Euronet Worldwide

Euronet Worldwide is an American-headquartered worldwide provider of electronic payment services with headquarters in Leawood, Kansas. It offers automated teller machines (ATM), point of sale (POS) services, credit/debit card services, currency exchange and other electronic financial services and payments software.[7] Among others, it provides the prepaid subsidiaries Transact, PaySpot, e-pay, Movilcarga, TeleRecarga and ATX.[8]

Euronet Worldwide, Inc.
Public
Traded asNASDAQ: EEFT
Russell 1000 Component
ISINUS2987361092 
IndustryFinancial services, Electronic funds transfer, Retail
Founded1994
HeadquartersLeawood, Kansas
Key people
Michael J. Brown[1]
(Chairman, CEO, and President)
Kevin J. Caponecchi[2]
(Executive Vice President and CEO, epay, Software and EFT Asia Pacific Division)
Rick L. Weller[3]
(Executive Vice President and CFO)
Jeffrey B. Newman
Juan C. Bianchi[4]
(Executive Vice President and CEO, Money Transfer Segment)
Nikos Fountas[5]
(Executive Vice President and CEO, EFT Europe, Middle East and Africa Division)
Martin L. Brückner
Tony Warren
Revenue $2.75 billion (2019)[6]
$475 million (2019)[6]
$346.8 million (2019)[6]
Total assets $4.658 billion (2019)[6]
Total equity $1.579 billion (2019)[6]
Number of employees
7,700
Websitewww.euronetworldwide.com
ATM (with cash deposit machine) Euronet in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland

As of 2019, Euronet services 50,000 ATMs and 330,000 EFT point-of-sale terminals across 170 countries.[9]

History

The company was founded in 1994 by brothers-in-law Dan Henry and Mike Brown and headquartered in Leawood, Kansas. In 1998, Euronet purchased ARKSYS, a computer software company that specialized in electronic payment and transaction delivery systems.[10] On January 23, 2002, Euronet Worldwide announced the formation of a joint venture with Hong Kong-based First Mobile Group Holdings Limited.[11]

In February 2003, Euronet acquired e-pay Ltd, an electronic payments processor of prepaid mobile airtime top-up services in the U.K. and Australia.[12][13] This added a prepaid processing division to Euronet that grew with the September 2003 purchase of Austin International Marketing and Investments, Inc. (AIM), a U.S. based company, and the acquisition of the German company transact Elektronische Zahlungssysteme GmbH in November 2003.[14]

In 2007, the company acquired Ria Money Transfer, global money transfer company with a network of agents and company-owned stores in North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.[15] In 2013, Euronet purchased Pure Commerce, giving it access to a suite of SaaS based applications.

In April 2014, Walmart started offering a store-to-store money transfer service, partnering with Euronet's subsidiary Ria Money Transfer.[16][17] Walmart2Walmart allows shoppers to transfer money to and from 4,000 Walmart stores in the U.S.[18] In 2016, the program was expanded into the global money transfer service market with Walmart2World.[19]

In May 2014, it acquired UK-based international payments provider HiFX giving it access to cross border payment business in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.[20] This acquisition allowed Euronet to offer international payment services between accounts for high-income individuals and small-to-medium-sized businesses.[21]

In June 2015, Euronet's Ria entered the Middle East remittance market with the buyout of money transfer provider, IME.[22] In July 2015, Euronet acquired xe.com, a provider of digital foreign exchange rate information, bringing Euronet a large internet presence and users familiar with foreign currency.[23][24]

In March 2017, the company announced an unsolicited purchase offer for MoneyGram for $954 million. The acquisition however did not go through.[25]

In April 2018, the company acquired Innova, which allows Euronet to provide VAT refunds to its customers.[26] In December 2018, Euronet signed an agreement with Mozambique to provide software for the nation's financial system.[27] Under the agreement, Euronet supports transaction processing services, connections to major card associations, ATM and Point of Sale device driving, card issuing, mobile recharge, bill payments, and digital wallets, among other services.[27]

Euronet launched REN Foundation, a program that allows payment processors to add updated payment technology without having to replace existing hardware and software. The program allows banks and other payment service providers to adopt new technologies as they become available. The country of Mozambique switched its entire payment systems to run on Euronet’s REN Foundation program.[9]

In January 2019, the municipality of Amsterdam announced its plans to prevent new Euronet ATMs from opening in shop facades, as Euronet "charges a hefty fee per cash withdrawal and uses unfavorable exchange rates."[28] Advocates for dynamic currency conversion argue that fees, in general, offer visibility of the total costs at the point of transaction.[29]

In January 2020, Euronet partnered with Standard Chartered to allow international ATM users to pay in their own currency rather than the local currency using a dynamic currency conversion (DCC) service. The ATM service will be provided in countries across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.[30] That same month, Euronet began offering a recurring billing service to allow monthly payments for AppleCare products.[31] Euronet also entered an agreement with AMBER Alert Europe in January 2020 to publish active missing child alerts on ATM screens.[32]

In February 2020, Euronet's subsidiary, Ria Money, opened its first retail store in Singapore, allowing customers to transfer money at foreign exchange rates.[33] The same month, Euronet partnered with Amazon India to provide add-on payment services to Amazon’s mobile wallet platform.[34][35] In April 2020, the company acquired Dolphin Debit, a U.S. based ATM outsourcing company.[36] Euronet operates ATM outsourcing services worldwide, but the 2020 acquisition allows the company to expand its outsourcing services to the U.S. for the first time.[37] In May 2020, Euronet’s subsidiary, Ria Money Transfer, announced an expansion of their money transfer mobile app to European customers.[38]

Company operation

It operates in three segments: electronic funds transfer (EFT) processing, prepaid processing, and money transfer.[7]

  • The EFT processing segment provides outsourcing and network services to financial institutions and mobile phone companies. This segment provided these services using a network of ATMs and POS terminals in Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East.
  • The prepaid processing - ePay division distributes prepaid mobile airtime, and other prepaid products and collections services for various prepaid products, cards, and services. This segment operates in a network of locations in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Middle-East. It also provides prepaid long-distance calling card plans, prepaid internet plans, prepaid debit cards, and prepaid gift cards, as well as prepaid mobile content, such as ring tones and games.
  • The money transfer segment provides global money transfer and bill payment services primarily in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

See also

References
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  2. "Brown becomes Euronet president; Caponecchi takes new title"., Retrieved on February 27, 2020
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  4. "Juan C. Bianchi". Wall Street Journal Markets. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. "Nikos Fountas"., Retrieved on February 27, 2020
  6. "Euronet Worldwide Form 8-K 2020"., Retrieved on March 3, 2020
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  16. "Walmart Will Enter Cash Wiring Business". The New York Times. 18 April 2014.
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  20. Ashley Armstrong (March 11, 2014). "Money transfer company HiFX sold for £145m". The Telegraph.
  21. "MEDICI | Money Transfer Specialist HiFX Acquired by Euronet Worldwide Inc. for $242 Mn". MEDICI. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  22. "Euronet Ria Enters Middle East, Malaysia with IME Buyout". Nasdaq. 23 June 2015.
  23. "OzForex undeterred after missing out on xe.com buy". Sydney Morning Herald. November 10, 2015.
  24. "Euronet acquires international currency exchange specialist XE". atm marketplace. July 13, 2015.
  25. Jamerson, Joshua (2017-03-14). "Euronet Worldwide Makes Unsolicited Bid for MoneyGram". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  26. "Euronet acquisition adds tax refunds for travelers to its offerings". Kansas City Business Journal. 25 April 2018.
  27. "Euronet software will run the financial system in Mozambique". Bizjournals. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
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  30. "Euronet to provide cloud-based DCC to Standard Chartered across 1000 ATMs in 14 countries". Finextra Research. 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  31. "Euronet's Unit Launches Monthly Billing Service for AppleCare". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  32. "Euronet Worldwide to publish missing children alerts on ATM screens". Finextra Research. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  33. "Euronet Arm Opens Store in Singapore for Easy Remittance". Zacks Investment Research. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  34. "Euronet, Amazon sign deal in India, which has 400M customers". Kansas City Business Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  35. "Euronet to offer transaction processing services to Amazon India". Cards International. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  36. "Euronet Worldwide Expands in U.S. With Acquisition". Ingram's. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
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  38. "Ria announces new app for European market". FXcompared. Retrieved 2020-06-15.


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