JANUARY 16, 2019 / 1:30PM, FDC - Fiserv, Inc., First Data Corporation - M&A Call
I joined this company in 2013. And since that time, we have invested in and developed a number of industry’s most innovative products in an ever-evolving industry. Our Clover platform developed from a concept in 2012 to a leading tablet-based integrated POS solution, our next-generation
ISV solutions, our cutting-edge agent and merchant tools like CoPilot and CardPointe, a full suite of digital solutions for our financial institution clients, fullnon-PIN and signature debit capabilities for our STAR Network and some of the most robust security and fraud solutions in the industry. Those are just a handful of examples, and we will always look to innovate and evolve our solutions.
Because of us, it has always been about the client. We’ve looked at the client, whether it’s themom-and-pop corner bakery, a global financial institution or anything in between.
Even more important than where First Data is today is where we will go together tomorrow. The strategic fit is compelling, and the opportunity to create value is extraordinary. We are uniting 2 premier financial technology and payments companies. Through this transformative transaction, we will be better positioned to more fully participate in theend-to-end consumer payments value chain while generating significant value for our stakeholders.
Together with First Data, Fiserv will deliver an expanded set of integrated, technology-driven solutions to all of our clients, including financial institutions, billers and merchants. In addition, we will have the largest and broadest merchant services platform in the world. We will be aone-stop-shop with the ability to enhance distribution channels and capabilities throughe-commerce, integrated payments and cloud-basedpoint-of-sale solutions.
We will also meaningfully expand our issuer processing capabilities across credit, debit and network services. As the payment landscape continues to evolve, these services, together with our leading account processing, digitalDDA-based payment and biller capabilities, we will create a world-class, differentiated platform for our clients to better compete in the ever-evolving market.
I’ll turn it back to you, Jeff.
Jeffrey W. Yabuki- Fiserv, Inc. - President, CEO &Director
Thanks, Frank. You and the team should be quite proud of what you’ve done, and it sounds like we’re going to have a pretty exciting future together.
Now we all know that scale is increasingly important in the network and payments processing businesses. This combination meaningfully extends our leadership in payments, broadens client reach and provides opportunities to deliver differentiated integration, which will translate to more value for our clients and their customers. Together, we will be the #1 global issuer and merchant processor. Closer to home, we’re the leading provider of core account processing, digital services and merchant acquiring. The combined company will have thousands of clients, millions if you include individual merchants, supported by nearly 50,000 associates based in more than 100 countries.
Now while those are impressive stats, we see opportunities to do much more and are committed to achieving results in a manner that enables long-term success for our clients, to retain and attract the best and brightest associates and to deliver significant value for you, our shareholders.
As you may know, one of our core values is create with purpose, which is a nod to delivering innovation and excellence. To better align talk and action, we’re allocating an incremental $500 million over a5-year period, which is well above any of the other market participants’. This commitment should and will ensure that the combined company both achieves thecloser-in benefits identified earlier but will also enable new sources of growth and client value over the longer term. We intend to advance our solution capabilities across a wide range of fronts, including digital enablement, advanced risk management, cognitive technologies and machine learning, data management, next-generation merchant solutions and, very importantly,best-in-market integration to our account processing solutions to better serve commercial customers.
Importantly, while we’ve included this reinvestment in our long-term financial model, we have not incorporated any revenue benefits from these investments.
The new Fiserv will be a much larger, broad-based, global company. On a trailing12-month basis and including run rate synergies, we’ll have nearly $15 billion of adjusted revenue, a 36% adjusted operating margin and baseline, before-future-growth free cash flow of $3.6 billion. After layering in the strong growth characteristics and opportunities of the company, there’s a tremendous business with even more potential.
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