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Gain From Change In Accounting

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Individually Significant Customer Minimum Revenue Threshold Percentage

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Number Of Customers Accounting For More Than Ten Percent Of Total Revenue

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Payment To Related Party Included In Eliminations

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Percentage Of Customer Revenue Of Total Revenue

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Amount of loss from the write-down of an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 350
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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Operating Segments (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Operating Segments (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($) segment customer	Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($) customer	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($) customer
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments \| segment	3
Individually significant customer minimum revenue threshold percentage	10.00%
Number of customers accounting for more than ten percent of total revenue \| customer	1	1	1
Percentage of customer revenue of total revenue	19.00%	22.00%	21.00%
Payment to related parties included in corporate and eliminations		$ 8,000
Impairment of goodwill	$ 20,917
Finbond [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Gain from change in accounting			$ 2,200
Transact24 [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Fair value gain from acquisition			$ 1,900
International Transaction Processing [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Impairment of goodwill	19,865
South African Transaction Processing [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Impairment of goodwill	$ 1,052