General

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

GENERAL

GENERAL

Organization

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (the “Company” or “Euronet”) was established as a Delaware corporation on December 13, 1997 and succeeded Euronet Holding N.V. as the group holding company, which was founded and established in 1994. Euronet is a leading electronic payments provider. Euronet offers payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers. Euronet's primary product offerings include comprehensive automated teller machine (“ATM”), point-of-sale (“POS”), card outsourcing, card issuing and merchant acquiring services, electronic distribution of prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic payment products, and global money transfer services.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared from the records of the Company, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In the opinion of management, such unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) necessary to fairly present the consolidated financial position and the results of operations, comprehensive income and cash flows for the interim periods. The unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2019, including the notes thereto, set forth in the Company’s 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include computing income taxes, estimating the useful lives and potential impairment of long-lived assets and goodwill, as well as allocating the purchase price to assets acquired and liabilities assumed in acquisitions and revenue recognition. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2020.

Seasonality

Euronet’s Electronic Funds Transfer ("EFT") Processing Segment experiences its heaviest demand for dynamic currency conversion services during the third quarter of the fiscal year, normally coinciding with the tourism season. Additionally, the EFT Processing and epay Segments are normally impacted by seasonality during the fourth quarter and first quarter of each year due to higher transaction levels during the holiday season and lower levels following the holiday season. Seasonality in the money transfer segment varies by region of the world. In most markets, Euronet usually experiences increased demand for money transfer services from the month of May through the fourth quarter of each year, coinciding with the increase in worker migration patterns and various holidays, and its lowest transaction levels during the first quarter of the year.

COVID-19 (coronavirus)

The outbreak of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has resulted in travel restrictions across borders, and shelter-in-place orders in most of the countries where the Company operates. The majority of these orders went into effect in late February 2020 or early March 2020. These orders have negatively impacted all of our three operating segments. The EFT Segment has experienced declines in transaction volumes due to these restrictions, especially high-margin cross-border transactions. Although the epay Segment has experienced revenue growth from increased digital content purchases which can be completed remotely, many of its POS retail locations have been closed, reducing in person transactions. Our Money Transfer Segment has experienced declines in transaction volumes due to the restrictions noted above, which have also led to the temporary closure of many of our company owned stores and agents. The Money Transfer Segment has experienced an increase in receivable delinquencies as our agents have been temporarily closed as nonessential services.

In response to the COVID-19 driven impacts, the Company has implemented several key measures to offset the impact across the business, including negotiating certain third party contracts, reducing travel, decreasing planned 2020 capital expenditures, and expanding ATM winterizations (placing them in dormancy status) in more sites and more markets.