Q4 2021 Dlocal Ltd Earnings Call
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On the call today I'm joined by Tim.
Our Chief Executive Officer.
Our chief operating officer and Diego.
Our Chief Financial Officer.
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Now I will turn the conference over to stable, Thanks, Doug and Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us today before we dig into our Q4 and full year 2020, where results. Let me start this presentation by saying that that would be viewed as a public company in June 2021 at the beginning of a new chapter for <unk>.
Extremely proud of what we have achieved since we started serving global e-commerce veterans over six years ago, our priorities and budgets have remained unchanged. We remain laser focused on building infrastructure connecting the emerging markets of the rest of the world.
Continue to turn the complex simple for a golar merchant and we continue to really find the online payments experience in emerging markets. We also value. The continued support of our global team and our investors. We have continued to grow and deliver despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Our strong performance in 2021 laid a solid foundation to pursue our long term vision. We are literally just getting started.
On slide three.
21 was a record year for us with triple digit growth in total payments volumes revenues and EBITDA.
In 2021 total process volumes surpassed the 6 billion threshold.
Almost tripled our TPB, increasing by 193% over prior year 2020, if we compare our TPB in 2021 versus three years back we have increased it by 11.
Revenues for the year reached $244 million lawyers.
134% increase over prior year to 2020, if we compare where revenues in 2021 with 2018 have increased by an impressive seven.
We reached an all time high of 219% in 2021 and 198% in the fourth quarter as we grew wallet share with our existing merchants on the hub minimal churn Merck <unk>.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year 2021 grew 136% year over year to 90 nanometer.
We posted a strong adjusted EBITDA margin of 41% during the full year 2020 . One is also comparable to the 40% we posted in the full year 2020, our EBITDA margin for Q4 2021 was 38% in line with our expectations for the second half of the year as we focus on growing with regard to go our merchants and continued.
In infrastructure and people to support our long term growth spread.
These results were driven by the continued expansion of our relationship with both existing and new merchants using our platform, mainly driven by increased levels of digitization in emerging markets.
The inherent diversification of our business has continued to strengthen our business fundamentals, we serve a broad set of merchants across geographies sectors umbrella.
As a robust natural of hedged through different economic cycles and consumption, but we remain committed to agile decision, making helping our merchants achieved their growth plans in emerging markets, we remain bullish and optimistic about our prospects for 2022, our relationship with our existing customers and our commercial pipeline is stronger than ever.
We are not currently seeing a major change in our business from a specific factors such as higher interest rates higher inflation in some developed markets challenges in logistics in specific geographies, the Russia, Ukraine conflict or the return to work.
On slides four and five of them.
Mentioned, our CPB has nearly tripled in 2021 year over year. The significant increase has been supported by the growth of our global merchant. We are proud to come to some of the largest global merchants on marketplaces, our Scott such as Microsoft Rugby melting Spotify Dropbox some deal amongst various others we cannot name.
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Besides during the year, we have on boarded high growth merchants, who are looking to expand outside their home geographies, but just which I'm quite sure. Among many others. Our TPB growth will continue to be supported by the strong organic growth of our merchant PPV as well as our ability to expand wallet share sell additional products to our system.
Merchants are baked into new geographies.
On slide five our business model is not dependent on the performance on anything.
Any single industry vertical as you can see we have merchant from more than 10 different Burke.
The last two years, we have seen different verticals to go to the specific cycle, but our overall business benefits from vertical showing growth while another vertical make goes through our short term down cycle.
Right hailing a streaming during 2020 are a great example of this financing.
We are constantly looking for new opportunities to further diversify our basis well following debit in the six hundreds in terms of risk we have added crypto as a new vertical we are still early stages of pilots that we're running a similar use cases, we are exploring in multiple geographies with several Merck will continue to evaluate the risk framework an extra.
Areas of growth.
On slide six our merchants are also well diversified on a geographical basis.
We serve merchants located in more than 40 countries. We have continued to grow our presence in Africa, and Southeast Asia, I think Pakistan Tonya on a wonder or infrastructure networks during Q4 2021.
For the full year 2021, we added nine countries stores, bringing the total number of countries, which we make our services available to <unk> 35 compared to 26 in 2021.
Other new countries based on where our merchants want us to serve them as well as our internal view of the prospects for our new country across our merchant base on the wider industry.
Typically our merchant and waiting when we are there in Europe and this enables us to generate a high ROI on our expansion into new countries.
We believe that infrastructure, we are building across Europe is a key strategic differentiator for our business.
On the new countries and establishing multiple local connections as context on merchants value the infrastructure network, we are creating.
On slide seven.
Our expansion efforts are reflected in our strong revenue growth across all geographies. Our dollar revenues in Latam increased by 140% year over year.
<unk> accounted for 92% of the total revenue in 2021, whereas Asia and Africa accounted for 8% of the total growth.
Despite the fact that Asia and Africa revenues increased by 86% year over year and grew almost five in the last two years.
Our addressable market, where core markets in Latin America.
We are pleased to note that our core markets in Latam continues to see solid triple digit growth as we deepen our relationship with garden merchants for us.
Our share of Asia, and Africa revenues to gradually increase over time as we continue to cross sell to merchants that originally started a relationship with us and Latin America countries, such as Nigeria, Kenya, India and Indonesia. We are also increasingly starting to see merchants initiate their relationship with us through market in Asia and Africa, and then expanding throughout the numeric Gilbert.
Unity remained significant across our different regions and we will continue to take steps to further diversify our geographic footprint, especially in Africa and Asia.
Slide eight during the year, we have been able to not only upsell and cross sell to our existing merchants, but also to onboard new merchants with solid prospects such as our leading U S video streaming platform that launched 13 geographies without a leading Chinese short video search all of that has been explosive growth globally and our lead.
Latin America on demand delivery platform.
Our total merchants on our platform growth steady for 300, plus in 2020 to 400 plus in 2021.
If we focus on merchants with TPB greater than $100000 annually as a threshold, we see that our merchants count increased massively from 150, plus in 2020 to 240 plus in 2021 going forward, we will focus on a minimum CPB thresholds to provide their merchant comp for <unk> merger.
He is a better indicator of the performance of our clients.
As we add new merchants on scale existing once our revenue share from our top 10 merchants have continued to decrease revenues from top their merchants dropped to 56% in 2021 compared to 64% in 2020 and 73% back in 2018.
I will now hand, it over to Sumit.
Thanks for that I am pleased to join you today I'm on slide nine there's a lot of data on this slide so let me try to simplify the key messages vishal.
We show the performance of each of our cohorts. We've added in the last few years on this slide let's focus on the left hand side. There are three key takeaways here.
Each cohort is posting solid PPD growth year after year two each cohort.
Highest stopping point in the previous year. This demonstrates our ability to continue adding incremental volume from new launches and the <unk> relationships.
The 2018 in 'twenty 'twenty cohort showed the highest growth in 2021.
The margins, we add in a given year typically take a few quarters to show a relevant growth on our platform.
These specific cohorts growth was driven by the performance of some blue chip clients that have scaled their volume very thoughts why have you been able to add new geos and payment methods, but then that is gaining significant share of wallet with these customers.
Look at the right hand side of this slide you can see the kind of core revenues over PPD or take rate for each cohort during 2021.
For those of you who followed our post IPO journey.
We see that we do not manage our business to maximize peak rate and because it is not an input to our modern it is an output based on business mix volume for merchant and volume based pricing so much sense with increasing volumes.
Take rate also ladies by region. For example, Latam is different from Africa, which is different from Asia product as well as payment method does.
It has gone up as well as come down in the last few quarters given these factors.
There are three key takeaways for the right hand side of this slide.
Each cohort the take rate remains almost unchanged versus 2020.
Different cohorts have different pricing points, depending on the business mix and we continue to see that there are multiple factors that make our merchants want to do business with us and pricing is just one of them, they're dropping not average take rate from 5% in 2022, 4% in 2021.
Is mainly explained by changes in the underlying business.
The cohorts that grew the most in 2021, whether 2018 and 2020 vintages and these cohorts came with a lower take rate.
Driven by their business makes up higher payouts and local to local payment flows.
Hi, It is worth to highlight that the 2021 cohort of merchant bolstered a higher take rate than our overall take rate in 2021.
We've included this slide to show a strong performance by cohort and going forward, we expect to share this cohort data, but adequately before.
Before we go onto the next slide let me say that our focus is on increasing our gross profit dollar and Diego will show you in the financial section. This is how we manage our business, we do not manage our business on a daily basis.
Sales team is not incentivized to maximize cross bakery instead, they negotiated the contract aiming to maximize the next dollar total value while deducting processing cost that the agreement will bring to the locals.
Slide 10.
On this slide you can see that we have three primary vectors of growth commercial efforts product expansion and geographic expansion.
Our commercial efforts are focused on our land and expand strategy.
Growth is driven by the organic growth of our merchant unable to cross sell to account management and unable if you to add new clients.
For the fourth quarter was an impressive 198%.
I believe they are not all by measuring the dollar revenues beyond from existing merchants, we had on our platform on a year over year basis.
As we mentioned in the past, we expect the NII to be at the 150% plus level in the next 12 months.
The innovation journey is never static emerging markets are constantly changing and we need to remain vigilant energize. This is what keeps us at the forefront of the industry. During the year, we continued to enhance our product portfolio with improvements in our feature for <unk> together with the development.
And launch of new product lines, such as issuing as a service.
On the geography expansion vector as fab I previously mentioned.
Have added nine new countries during 2021 six.
Six are outside of Latin America, we will continue to deepen our presence in the countries that we currently operate and add new countries.
An example of our commitment to growing our non Latin America business did move towards senior executives to Singapore, and South Africa to lead our promotion and expansion efforts in Asia and Africa, respectively.
That's good ethane at the local culture, and a new geography and at the same time, we are focused on hiring locally to grow faster.
Do you believe that the strong cash flow generation of our business supports our complementary inorganic strategy.
Tolerate our time to market, we plan to pursue selective inorganic opportunities to accelerate any of our prospectus.
The correction in valuations on Fintech outfit has made many more businesses more attractive and we continue to evaluate M&A. So nothing is eminent.
Next slide slide 11.
Slide 11 shows our continued success in bringing our merchants to more countries than payment method.
In 2021, our enterprise margins on average processed payments in seven countries and through more than six or seven payment methods.
In comparison in 2018 on average lead the processing payments in four countries and 2009 payment methods.
Credit cards continue to account for about 35% of par volume. So a significant portion of our businesses include a non credit card based payment method.
We also more than 700 payment methods in 35 countries, our merchant value the convenience of a one stop shop that gives them access to so many alternatives to a single API.
This gives us an immense opportunity to continue scaling our customer and increase the barriers of entry for our competitors.
We remain focused on continuing to monetize our existing client base and gaining share of wallet.
Slide 12.
This slide we show the number of opportunities we have in our sales funnel for both existing and new clients and how this compares with the opportunities we had in March 2021 before that ideal.
<unk> seen a major increase in the opportunities for both existing and new clients in the last year. Our IPO has significantly enhance the visibility of our company and capabilities to our margin and it has reinforced our credibility as a solid and trusted payments spot now.
Starting with our existing clients, we have an account management team solely focused on harvesting these relationships.
This team works closely with our clients to solve their existing needs and cross sell new payment methods, new countries as well as new product use cases.
We have over 190 open opportunities with existing clients to expand to new markets product stocking that method.
These proposals are at different stages, having over 50 pricing proposals extended to our existing clients and about 40 plus waiting to go live.
A lot of opened opportunities compared with about 60 plus back in March of 2021, representing a strong increase of three times in less than a year.
Moving to our new clients, we have seen that our sales funnel continues to expand given the rapid expansion and ramp up of much as online the growth of the creator economy de emphasis on merchants place on digital marketing that in many cases have no geographic boundaries and a vital growth of users that some of our highest drove much of the experience.
We expect this trend to continue as we see new companies emerge and become dominant online much more quickly today than even a few years back. These companies as we call them. The next tier of merchant are not always the same size and type of the Mega merchants, we already have in our portfolio, but then also not SMB.
They are mainly regional players that want to expand outside their home market and we enable them to access consumers any of that into light.
As shown on this slide we have open opportunities with more than 650, new much. It did over 250 pricing propose those extended to new clients and over 100 waiting to go live what slide we typically take three to six quarters to ramp up volumes to do much in the number of opportunities Husky.
Is significantly by about two times compared to the $3 50, plus we had in March of 2021.
The merchants, we expect to onboard during 2022 came from diverse businesses, such as Kalmar scheming crypto messaging apps piano amongst many others.
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On this slide we show a recap of the main enhancements done during the year to our existing product portfolio.
On balance we started offering new integrations to add redundancy to our card processing in existing as well as new markets. During the year, we enhanced our solution with new features such as networked organization, removing the need to handle sensitive cardholder data adds network tokens are maintained it and automatically updated.
They indicated picks in Brazil, enabling instant payments by users, which provides a better user experience new integration options through full API solutions, and even giving local merchants their Olympics Keith.
We recently received an award for aspects integration that you can find on our website that you can provide you more details on that initiative.
The improved opex manager to allow tax handling by payment method, both debit or credit in.
In Q4, we introduced a new auto debit payment solution for subscription business module companies in India for both domestic and cross border transactions to comply with the latest auto debit regulation.
We also increased our card and ATM acceptance rates, better smart routing changing and UX improvements through rigorous testing.
On the B outside the expanded instant payouts offing in more countries previously only available in Nigeria in Brazil, and improved our fixed payout solution with a fixed mobile app.
We also enhanced our logic and automation to overcome local advanced processing limitations. Besides during the year. We added 20, plus direct connections with new partners and banks for processing redundancy and capability enhancements in both existing and new markets.
Slide 14, we also broadened our product portfolio, we launched defense suite, including our smart defense and defense manager products. Additionally, we continued improving our fraud and data modules with new machine learning models tailored for retail and gaming verticals, we added profiling and fingerprinting to light device IV life.
Among others gave IC improvement.
In the middle of last year. We had also launched are issuing as a service solution, which enables merchants to create new lines of revenue and easily issue prepaid cards in local currencies to reach millions of consumers in emerging market.
This product comes toward offering as another building block for what we consider to be a one stop shop, particularly appealing when analyzing backwardation rates, which are significantly lower than in developed countries.
We have launched a solution and full market and have signed new deals that we are in the process of integrating our portable light.
We have partnered with local banks as insurers to help grow the products. Although we are still at very early days, we remain bullish about the evolving use cases for our margin.
Slide 15.
We continue to invest in our business responding to the incremental opportunities be fees at the end of 2021, we had 535 employees, increasing by 73% or by 225 ftes year over year.
During the year, we grew significantly in all areas with particular focus on technology and product as well as sales and marketing, but also in a couple of ideas to upgrade them to the standards and best practices of public company.
We'll continue hiring in scaling our team with focus on technology and product and sales and marketing we intend to do so with a balanced approach, making sure we identified guidance that fit with our culture.
With that I'm going to turn it over to Diego to review our financial highlights. Thanks, Amit let's.
Let's start with slide 17.
We have seen strong TPB growth during the year in 2021, our PPV surpassed the $6 billion threshold, increasing by 193% year over year.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, CPD has grown 145% year over year.
The growth is happy with the performance and continued growth.
Smartphones across most of our.
Particularly in ride hailing streaming advertising software as a service on the Monday or you've already and commerce.
During 2021, both rfps and payout experienced triple digit growth.
For <unk>, we have seen a steady increase in CBD quarter after quarter and specifically in Q4 2021 basis have grown 190% year over year, and 14% compared to the third quarter of 2021.
But you also have if you've got any short term fluctuations, resulting in a quarter over quarter drop in Q4 2021.
Given higher than normal volume that came from certain merchants in Q2.
Q3 of 2021, I'll say decided to run big marketing campaigns in these quarters.
Year over year basis, RTP before but still showed strong double digit growth.
The strength of our business is best measured over a slightly longer time period as we continue to grow our relationship with our margins.
Going forward, we expect our business to continue growing strongly in 2022.
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Slide 19 revenues also reached a new record high of $76 million during Q4, 2021 and $244 million for the year 2021.
Having grown 120%.
4% year over year perspective.
And 11% over the third quarter up assessment anymore.
Our revenue Sabra PPV take rate decreased from 5% in 2022, 4% in 2021, mainly explained by changes in the underlying business mix for us.
I should've myself.
So a higher share of local to local payments as explained before by suite.
Particularly in Q4, we see a slight increase in take rate from three eight to one.
1% when compared to the third quarter of 2015 was mainly explained by a higher share of base.
Slide 20.
Swimming in our revenue, we continue that even with strong revenue growth both from our existing from our new customers.
Revenues from existing medicines are those revenues that are driven by Medtronic.
Processing in the same period of last year.
Revenues from you mentioned are those revenues driven by imagine that started operating with us after the same video of last year.
March is typically a three to six quarters to ramp up period, we believe that the revenues from the Americas are just any initial indication of the quotation.
During 2021 of the 134% year over year revenue growth, 119% or $124 million came from existing markets.
A 15% or $16 billion came from newmont.
For Q4, 2021 of the 120% year over year revenue growth, 98% or $34 million came from existing maritime and 22% or $8 million came from humor.
Some of the flexibility match us on board in late 2020 into the existing restaurants buckets. During 2021, they contributed to the kind of hurting your retention of 219% for the year.
198% for the fourth quarter.
Our kind of revenue essentially is driven by having a minimum level of churn by the growth of our maritime.
The size of our own performance in terms of gaining share of wallet.
However, we do not expect to maintain the same net revenue retention levels in 2022 of 2021% at an all time high in terms of revenue and PPD growth.
Therefore, the comparison.
Subsequently synthetic.
Quarter of 2022.
Thus in the next 12 months, we expect to maintain a healthy net revenue.
Potential not black under 50% in line with what we talked about being able to achieve in the previous years.
Slide 21.
Sumit I mentioned, our commercial focus is to increase our gross profit dollars per merchant.
So our gross profit continues to grow at a healthy rate.
In 2021, we more than doubled our gross profit increasing 17% year over year, what kind of media.
And we weren't able to scale, our gross profit each quarter, reaching $39 million in Q4, 2021 up by 88% year over year by 17% when compared to the third quarter of 2021.
Our cost of services for the full year 2021 represented one 9% of our PPV compared to two.
Two one in 2020.
This decrease was mainly driven by an increase in the share of local to local for us with our cost below.
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In the fourth quarter of 2021, our cost of processing was 2% compared to one 9% in the first quarter of 2021, and one 8% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
These sequential increases were mainly driven by a higher share of both local to local and cross border with higher cost somebody else.
Slide 22.
Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $29 million, increasing by 12% year over year.
Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 38% compared to 39% in Q4 of 2020 and flat on a quarter over quarter basis.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year increased by 136% year over year to 19 $90 million and represented 41% of revenue compared to 40% in 2020.
This shows our commitment to continue driving profitable growth.
If we look at operating expenses for the year, excluding one time or non cash items and language of the adjusted EBITDA calculation, we see that they have grown 81% year over year slightly above our heads on increase of 73% as we got into more senior members of our team.
Our professional services.
Becoming a public company.
We expect our EBITDA margin for 2022 to remain north of 35% in the medium term as we grow our top line and gain scale, we continue to expect operating leverage.
And therefore, the ability to expand our margin.
With that I will turn the call back to say about the company.
Thank you.
Slide 24, as we look ahead, we are very excited with the opportunities. We foresee we remained focus on our yards on expanding from our direct integrations with our merchants, our scalable infrastructure, our exposure to a diverse mix of vertical and our focus on growth and profitability.
We do not anticipate a change where expectations for our overall business for 2022 from specific factors such as the higher interest rates high inflation in some developed markets John JD logistics in specific European the Russia, Ukraine conflict or their return tool while individual merchants may have idiosyncratic exposure to these factors, we continued to benefit from the liver.
If our merchant base geographic and consumer behavior partners as we expand our pregnancy infrastructure across 3500, and 700 plus amendments.
Remain bullish about our business and our expectations for 2022 from both our existing clients as well as the addition of nuclear.
As mentioned in our previous quarterly earnings calls, we reiterate our expectation of our net retention rates to be at the hungrier than 50 plus level in the next 12 months and we expect a healthy new client revenue based on the current pipeline. We see we expect our EBITDA margin for the full year 2022 to be north of 35%.
Third we continue to expect operating leverage in our business and therefore, the ability to expand our markets. We are immensely grateful to our merchants employees and investors for your continuous support I'll now turn it back to the operator to open it up for questions.
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Our first question comes from Tayo, Great deal with UBS you May proceed with your question.
Hello, everyone. Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions I have two questions here, if I may start with this.
First one.
The first one is that I would like to understand what kind of impact you could have in our business because of the geopolitical scenario correct.
I understand that you don't have presence in the end of this conference today, but I believe you'll have some clients who have headquarters and some of this so just would like to understand if that is the case and what is the company doing about that did pressure see any patterns of PPV and revenues because of this and then I will follow up with my second question. Please.
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Hi, Guy you have to attack here. Thank you very much for the question.
Your exposure today, the crane on Russia businesses.
We've explained we don't process payments and many of those countries, we don't have a merchant basis either.
Russia.
Don't expect any impact in 2022, alright, that's great.
Okay, Okay, great and the second question is that this year you added nine new countries and looks like more than 100 motions. According to those lights. So I was wondering if you could give us some details about the pipeline for 2022.
And how should we expect in terms of revenues coming from new motions throughout the year. Please.
Sure. So I think it's important that the breakdown did your graphic expansion. So I thought it'd be geographic expansion from our new revenue.
We will continue to increase our geographic footprint and we do have it.
Covered this a focus on making sure we continue to double down on our carton pretty hard here and we do expect to continue to be able to add.
New geographies, our merchants will require it keep in mind, we did have a merchant team Tonight, we're launching a new country.
Europe with are extremely important to us or geographic expansion, it's extremely important to us in the sense that it allows us to have more touch points with our merchants the more full.
We have the better chances, we have to be able to get a merchant to integrated to us and that's where the whole net revenue retention.
We know once we are integrated our merchants don't churn, but not only that continue to drive more revenue dollars.
Yep.
Okay, Great and just a follow up how could we expect.
<unk> of revenues coming from new merchants throughout the year, because you mentioned that net revenue retention rate around 150, but coming from new merchants do you have an estimate.
Sure.
When I take it.
Yes, sure Gail I think.
As you've heard US say, we think that our pipeline is super strong we are not giving a specific guidance on new client revenue you've seen how we have performed consistently as far as new client revenue is concerned not just in the whole year, but in every given quarter.
I think it's going to be a strong growth, but given how quickly. We are growing we are giving you. What we think is our best estimate of net retention rate, which comes from existing clients that we can measure more accurately for new clients. We are not giving a specific range at this point in 2022, but we expect it to be strong.
Okay, great. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jason Kupferberg with Bank of America. You May proceed with your question.
Hey, guys. This is Kathy on for Jason.
First wanted to ask where you guys provide medium term financial targets at your upcoming analyst day.
Hi, Thanks for the question.
Sure.
Yes.
Please go ahead.
Sorry, you said.
Thanks for the question.
We don't have an exact date for AGA animals be yet we expect it to be in the next few weeks, we decided to delay because of the current geopolitical situation.
When we have an analyst day, we will share our views of our business at that point in time, but we are not giving specific guidance for the full year other than what we've shared with you which includes our net retention rate, we expect it to be 150% plus it also indicating that as far as our EBITA margin is concerned.
We expect it to be 25% plus.
As you've seen we've continued to perform above our expectations in every quarter.
Since we went public and the guidance that we've given since then so it's very consistent with the guidance that we've given to you in Q2 Q3 as well as Q code that we are giving you down.
Okay got it and on the margins that you mentioned, the 35% plus I mean can you quantify some of the specific investments that you're making I mean, you guys said, 40% north of 40% of EBITDA margins in 2021, I know you guys talked about sales and sales and marketing investments in head count, but can you give a little bit more quantification.
Where are these additional investments will come in in 2022 versus 2021.
Sure. Thanks for the question so for us investments always come down to technology on infrastructure and the tilt sorry on the team to support them.
We have an expansion a very aggressive infrastructure expansion plan, where we continued to add new geographies new products.
Required investments, we do expect those investments to pay off in the long term, we think our business has shown.
And very profitable. So we do want to help them do you wait to be able to invest more as we see fit.
Yeah.
We will continue to expand our commercial teams are empowered support him keeping.
Keep in mind, we are still running on a relatively small organization, we like it that way we want to preserve the culture, but we do expect to be able to invest more in the future.
End of the day to make sure we have a better product better technology embedded infrastructure farmers.
Okay got it and if I get off a really quick follow up I. Just wanted to ask are there any mix effects on volume our take rate that we should be aware of in the near term.
Yeah.
Give us some feel free to complement.
No Hey, we just come from a from an amazing quarter on a year, we're extremely proud of.
We've never been more bullish about or our expectations for next year, we've never been in a better place from an operating perspective the product we have the infrastructure. We have so we do expect take rates to fluctuate over time, you'd see it going up and going down in Q2 Q3 Q4. So that's partly a function of the business mix. We think that's healthy it doesn't mean it that way.
Multiple business lines multiple geographies that are being used by our merchant. So we don't have any specific expectations, but we are extremely bullish about the 2022 .
Okay great.
What we saw in Q4, you'll see that.
Went up from three eight to four 1% and that is why we are.
Always explained that <unk> changed from quarter to quarter going forward as real estate on the medium term, we expect the grade to sequentially go down on any quarter May go up on balance and when we talk about the one five grams to dip last month any retention, we see potential growth multibank payoffs cross sell.
Truckload diversions.
Thank you.
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Hey, good morning, guys and thanks for taking my question just wanted to a point of clarification, so the <unk> rate of 150%.
Going out in 2022 is that a full year number or is that kind of where you should be as like an extra rate in fourth quarter.
And how should we think about the cadence of that number as we kind of progress throughout the year.
So let me tell you what I think.
Yes.
Thanks for that question.
The 150% plus guidance that we're giving for net retention rate is.
For the full year.
We expect that for the full year that fed will come out and then I'd add in any given quarter. We expect it to be but then that change obviously, because it was going to come down to about 150% plus.
And youre seeing that our current turnaround is much much higher for Q4 that.
There will be some linear decrease a bet that that can happen in Q2 or Q3 will depend on when we come out in those quarters. As you know Q2 Q3 of last year, the extremely strong quarters for us and so our base is already higher than the previous year and therefore, we expect changes in the quarters going forward.
But do you want to read today, but it is a 150% plus in at our guidance for the full year 2022.
Got it thank you for that color.
And so look you had the the increased volumes on payouts in Q2 and Q3 from.
The marketing campaigns called out from certain clients how much visibility do you have into these marketing campaigns and do you do you expect the payouts to Reaccelerate as we kind of get through.
The next couple of years and maybe if there were any COVID-19 impacts that affected certain verticals in the fourth quarter.
Interested to hear that.
Sure. Thanks for the question. So we have a FERC amount of visibility in terms of our of our buyout space. The same way that we're faced.
We are extremely bullish on on what we see for that product nothing has changed from a fundamental perspective, we continue to have a very healthy pipeline, we continue to be able to onboard merchants on our existing merchants continue to operate at very healthy rates. We do expect our payout to be slightly more chunky that order cranes business. So we do expect.
Two two.
Expectations, we have for your churn in this space. That's a very important point. So all the merchants that we're driving good volume sorry fuel without it.
We are very bullish in Toronto, and I read your payouts, but not only to recover but continue to grow keeping mind that and I'm wondering if some of these points. We continue to look at our product together, we think of merchants first so it will help some of those volumes moving campaigns to pay out all in a threat or something close to a different cycle.
But we do feel extremely confident that our payouts business will continue to perform overtime.
Great and congratulations for the first year as a public company.
I appreciate it.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the Agarwalla with HSBC you May proceed with your question.
Hi, Thank you for taking my question and apologies if you've already discussed it.
Could you please explain.
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Thank you Dan.
Yes.
Thank you.
Sure Youre welcome.
Yes, thanks very much for the question of what do you care to repeat the question. Please.
The impact of FX.
FX movements.
I'll pass them on watch for launches in the fourth quarter.
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I can't think of that one.
As you remember.
Thanks for asking the total revenue, so which is another with a license growth.
You have a lot of nice things like a new ball mill.
When you when we provide cross border services to any of our milestones which are unaffected.
Revenue.
And from a cost perspective, we managed our costs. So we discounted receivables to minimize the effects of social and comparable you guys brought up 80 basis on the balance sheet.
Whenever we have an amount for more than one or two days, we hedge it. So we can better about risk costs, the anomalies that putting the financial statements. If you look at 2021.
We combine together.
What is called effects of valuations or volatility and broker costs and that put together, what's roughly 3% of our revenues in 2021, and that's probably also a 3% in 2020 roughly half of that is broker costs on the other copies what activity. So it's a cost for us it's very minimal compared to other revenues.
And obviously for US FX is more.
I saw in coming months or so of costs.
In terms of impact on your volume.
The quantity conversions.
Yes.
Can you say that again, please so can you kind of estimates.
Apologies.
I have two more in terms of one is because of the FX movement impacted your volumes in the fourth quarter.
No yes, I got the question. So basically you see that in the slide that shows if they use somebody else.
We typically don't measure or PPV on a FX neutral basis, we think of the company in U S dollars.
Obviously, if we were to produce growth in local currencies will be slightly higher than that in U S dollars, but the main driver of the two 5% roughly quarter over quarter increase in PPV from Q3 to Q4 is what you see in slide 18 of payouts that we had this.
Somehow and sharp.
Marketing campaigns from short video social media company that did a strong investment in those periods, even better in America and data or using that these investments as we always mentioned that we have no term. These companies do to work with us, but they were just significantly the level of investments <unk> work this way a little bit more.
Thank you, Dan Dan billions, but going forward I think I mentioned, we have very strong opportunities in both based on payout something we see them growing going forward.
Perfect Thats very helpful.
Just if I can.
Any thoughts on your expansion in Asia and Africa.
North and Latin America had strong within in Asia and Africa.
Can you give us any thoughts on how come the proportion of total revenue change in the makeup chief Williams, what currency, 92% is somewhat similar.
Do you see it in the maker for the 20th.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for the question I think Theres two sides to this question number one we continue to grow really really.
Heavily on Latam I think that's a really important point, our that's where we started on our Tam continues to expand.
The order in our email Latam market.
If you look at our non Latam business, including Africa, and Asia, It's already very healthy.
We've done over 20 of music revenue for the year and we are not optimizing for sure.
Of a split between Latam on Africa, and Asia, We don't think that's the right way to do it we do expect.
Africa and Asia to continue to grow we've grown this year to 86%. So it's a very healthy growth. We do have the positive challenge of Latam going even higher at 140%.
We highlight that because we are investing very heavily in both Africa and Asia regions, where it with more people we are moving more of our head count there.
So while we don't commit to a specific share between both regions.
Do expect our Asia and Africa regions to continue to grow very heavily because we do see lots of opportunity and we do see a lot of the friction and challenges we face back in the day, let them replicating themselves in Africa, and Southeast Asia and India.
If if I may also emphasize here I think one really important point towards just stay focused on is that our Latam business actually grew by 140% year over year, a very very strong growth.
On a much bigger base <unk> to $223 million for 2021.
So we think it's a great sign to know that even our core business can continue to grow at those levels with in Latam.
Thank you. Thank you so much and congratulations on the upstream.
Yeah.
Thank you and I'm not showing any further questions. At this time I would now like to turn the call back over to Sebastian for any further remarks.
I want to thank everyone. Once again for joining the call for Merck jumped employees investor Thanks for being with US right. We've had an amazing 2021.
I'm very very bullish in terms of forward, probably redo of continuing to grow not only 2022, but the long term I want to thank you everyone. Once again, probably all have a great day.
Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.
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