Remitly Global Inc
For the period ended Mar 31, 2025. Filed May 7, 2025.
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Mar 31, 2025 · Filed May 7, 2025
What changed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-09-30; filed 2024-10-30.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2025-03-31; filed 2025-05-07.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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Key Performance Metrics
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Our Technology
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We continue to assess the impact of developments in foreign trade policy, including taxes and tariffs, and global market conditions. While the imposition of tariffs have not had a significant impact on our business historically, we recognize there is a potential for indirect effects, particularly from foreign exchange volatility to which we are exposed due to the global nature of our cross-border payment operations. We maintain a balanced portfolio of currency and manage foreign exchange risk through various operational measures. While foreign exchange fluctuations may impact certain areas of our business, our proactive risk management is designed to help mitigate potential impacts. Refer to our discussion of foreign currency exchange rate risk included in Part I, Item 3 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for further details.
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Customer support and operations expenses increased $2.5 million, or 12%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by a $2.2 million increase in personnel-related costs compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.
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General and administrative expenses increased $8.7 million, or 20%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase included a $3.0 million increase in personnel-related expenses. The increase in general and administrative expenses was also driven by $1.0 million of charitable contributions related to our quarterly Pledge 1%, historically performed annually.
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As previously announced on February 19, 2025, our non-GAAP financial measures have been updated to exclude the impact of payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation expense, net. We consider this adjustment to improve the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating underlying operating performance by more completely reflecting the extent of stock-based compensation expense, net, and related impacts. This update has no effect on any of our previously reported GAAP results for any period. Non-GAAP financial measures for 2024 and 2023 have been recast to reflect this change, and the financial outlook guidance previously provided on February 19, 2025, was in accordance with this updated presentation. Refer to the press release furnished as Exhibit 99.1 of the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 7, 2025, for historical non-GAAP reconciliations, including reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.
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(3) As previously announced on February 19, 2025, our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA now excludes the impact of payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation expense, net. Prior period Adjusted EBITDA has been recast to reflect this change.
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Net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $7.1 million, a decrease of $19.0 million, compared to net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024 of $26.1 million. The decrease was primarily driven by the decrease in proceeds from net borrowings on our 2021 Revolving Credit Facility of $20.0 million.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
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Key Business Metrics
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Send volume increased 38%, to $39.2 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $28.4 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, driven by the increase in active customers.
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Our Technology Platform
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Customer support and operations expenses increased $0.6 million, or 3%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily driven by a $1.3 million increase in third-party personnel costs to support customer operations compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was partially offset by $0.7 million in restructuring costs incurred during the three months ended September 30, 2023 primarily related to severance (refer to Note 13. Restructuring Initiatives in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information on the restructuring costs).
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Customer support and operations expenses decreased $0.7 million, or 1%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease was primarily driven by a $0.5 million decrease in personnel-related costs driven by a decrease in customer support and operations headcount and a $0.4 million decrease in other customer support and operating expenses compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
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Marketing expenses increased $60.8 million, or 38%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to an increase of $51.6 million in advertising expense and other targeted marketing expense, including online and offline marketing spend and promotion costs to acquire new customers. In addition, personnel-related costs increased by $7.1 million, driven by a 23% increase in marketing headcount compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
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As a percentage of revenue, marketing expenses increased to 24% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, from 23% for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
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General and administrative expenses increased $1.1 million, or 2%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily driven by a $4.9 million increase in personnel-related expenses resulting from a 24% increase in headcount compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. This was partially offset by a $2.0 million decrease in the fair market value of our charitable contributions related to our annual Pledge 1% donation and $1.7 million reduction in professional fees.
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General and administrative expenses increased $10.3 million, or 8%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily driven by a $16.4 million increase in personnel-related expenses resulting from a 23% increase in headcount compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. This was partially offset by a $2.6 million decrease in taxes, a $2.1 million decrease in acquisition and integration costs, primarily related to the change in the fair value of the holdback liability, and a $2.0 million decrease in the fair market value of our charitable contributions related to our annual Pledge 1% donation.
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(1)Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. Refer to Note 2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Net cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was $128.9 million, an increase of $125.4 million, compared to net cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 of $3.5 million. The increase was primarily driven by the increase in net repayments on our 2021 Revolving Credit Facility of $130.0 million and the settlement of amounts previously held back for the Rewire acquisition of $10.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2024. offset by the repayment of assumed indebtedness of $17.1 million that occurred in the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
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Purchase Commitments
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During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we entered into a three-year cloud infrastructure arrangement. For further details on this arrangement, refer to Note 15. Commitments and Contingencies in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Significant Lease Not Yet Commenced
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In June 2024, we entered into an agreement to lease certain office space in Seattle, Washington, for the use of our corporate headquarters office. For further details on this lease agreement, refer to Note 15. Commitments and Contingencies in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Our brand promise is to bring “peace of mind” into everything we do. We focus on bringing trust, reliability, and a fair and transparent price to cross-border remittances and complementary financial services.
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Our brand promise is to bring “peace of mind” into everything we do. We focus on bringing trust, reliability, and a fair and transparent price to cross-border financial services.
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•Mobile First. Our mobile app for cross-border remittances provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end process with a simple and reliable user experience that delivers peace of mind. In just a few minutes, customers are able to set up and send money for the first time with Remitly, and repeat transactions are easier with just a few taps. Our customers and their recipients can also track the status of their transactions as they are processed, and we provide a reliability promise to customers which is underpinned by our sophisticated risk models, high quality network, and empathetic customer service. This mobile-first experience enables us to engage beyond the initial transaction, generating strong repeat usage and high customer loyalty. Our services are highly non-discretionary for our customers which results in high revenue visibility throughout economic cycles. As of September 30, 2024, our Remitly app had a 4.9 iOS App Store rating with approximately 2.9 million reviewers and a 4.8 Android Google Play rating with over 900,000 reviewers. App rating is based on all countries or regions and the rating may vary based on user location and device type.
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•Mobile First. Our mobile app for cross-border remittances provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end process with a simple and reliable user experience that delivers peace of mind. In just a few minutes, customers are able to set up and send money for the first time with Remitly, and repeat transactions are easier with just a few taps. Our users can also track the status of their transactions as they are processed, and we provide a reliability promise to customers which is underpinned by our sophisticated risk models, high quality network, and empathetic customer service. This mobile-first experience enables us to engage beyond the initial transaction, generating strong repeat usage and high customer loyalty. Our services are highly non-discretionary for many of our customers which results in high revenue visibility throughout economic cycles. As of March 31, 2025, our Remitly app had a 4.9 iOS App Store rating with over 3.4 million reviewers and a 4.8 Android Google Play rating with over 1.0 million reviewers. App rating is based on all countries or regions and the rating may vary based on user location and device type.
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•Global Scale and High Quality Money Movement Platform. Our global network of funding and disbursement partnerships enables us to complete money transfers efficiently in over 5,100 corridors without the need to deploy local operations in each country. We are able to do this while complying with global and local licensing and regulatory requirements. A corridor represents the pairing of a send country, from which a customer can send a remittance, with a specific receive country to which such remittance can be sent. As a result of the quality of our network and the foundational investments we have made, in general every new send country we add results in a significant number of new corridors, as we are able to quickly connect send countries with receive countries, allowing us to continue to scale rapidly. Our scale and direct integration strategy allows us to negotiate favorable terms with both funding and disbursement partners while providing a great end-to-end customer experience including rapid and reliable transfers.
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•Global Presence and High Quality Money Movement Network. Our global network of funding and disbursement partnerships enables us to complete money transfers efficiently in over 5,200 corridors without the need to deploy local operations in each country. We are able to do this while complying with global and local licensing and regulatory requirements. A corridor represents the pairing of a send country, from which a customer can send a remittance, with a specific receive country to which such remittance can be sent. As a result of the quality of our network and the foundational investments we have made, in general, every new send country we add results in a significant number of new corridors, as we are able to quickly connect send countries with receive countries, allowing us to continue to scale rapidly. Our significant global presence and direct integration strategy allows us to negotiate favorable terms with both funding and disbursement partners while providing a great end-to-end customer experience including rapid and reliable transfers.
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Our disbursement network enables us to send (or pay-out) funds to over 5.0 billion bank accounts and mobile wallets and approximately 470,000 cash pick-up options. We focus on creating financial inclusion by providing payout optionality and access for recipients who do not always have convenient access to traditional banking. We believe our focus on financial inclusion creates peace of mind for our customers and their families while attracting and retaining loyal customers.
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Our disbursement network enables us to send (or pay-out) funds to over 5.0 billion bank accounts and mobile wallets and approximately 460,000 cash pick-up options. We focus on creating financial inclusion by providing payout optionality and access for recipients who do not always have convenient access to traditional banking. We believe our focus on financial inclusion creates peace of mind for our customers and their families while attracting and retaining loyal customers.
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•Highly Attractive Unit Economics. Our data driven approach to optimizing customer lifetime value combined with a localized and scalable marketing platform allows us to acquire new customers at highly attractive unit economics. As we continue to improve customer lifetime value through product enhancements and changes to variable operating costs, we can optimize marketing spend to drive both growth and efficiency with a focus on maintaining strong unit economics. We believe our expertise in localizing our marketing, products, and customer support at scale is a key differentiator and enables us to provide customers with a personalized experience that drives peace of mind while also delivering high returns on marketing and product investments.
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•Highly Attractive Unit Economics. Our data driven approach to optimizing customer lifetime value combined with a localized and scalable marketing solution allows us to acquire new customers at highly attractive unit economics. As we continue to improve customer lifetime value through product enhancements and improvements to variable operating costs, we can optimize marketing spend to drive both growth and efficiency with a focus on maintaining strong unit economics. We believe our expertise in localizing our marketing, products, and customer support at scale is a key differentiator and enables us to provide customers with a personalized experience that drives peace of mind while also delivering high returns on marketing and product investments.
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•Superior Technology Platform. We believe that our differentiated approach to building our technology infrastructure enables a great customer experience and allows us to scale to meet customer demands in a more flexible way. We have been able to scale to more customers, more regions, and more use cases while continuing to get better at our reliability, speed, and performance due to our investments and unique approach to our technology platform. This enables not only our ability to scale, but also accelerates innovation on behalf of our customers - whether that is doing simple things well or about enabling new use cases like complementary new products over time. Because our customers initiate transfers digitally, we capture and leverage a body of transaction-related data that provides insight into customer behavior and customer experience. This data and the analytics we perform inform our marketing investments and product development prioritization. In addition, we leverage our data platform and proprietary models to improve our compliance systems and manage pricing, treasury, fraud risk, and customer support. Finally, our proactive investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have continued to drive scaled improvement in the areas of fraud and risk, pricing, customer support, and marketing.
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•Superior Technology. We believe that our differentiated approach to building our technology infrastructure enables a great customer experience and allows us to meet customer demands in a more flexible way. We have been able to reach more customers, more regions, and more use cases while continuing to get better at our reliability, speed, and performance due to our investments and approach to our technology. This enables not only our ability to scale, but also accelerates innovation on behalf of our customers - whether that is doing simple things well or about enabling new use cases like seafarers or micro businesses. Because our customers initiate transfers digitally, we capture a body of transaction-related data that provides insight into customer behavior and customer experience. This data and our analytics inform our marketing investments and product development prioritization. In addition, we use data and our proprietary models to improve our compliance systems and manage pricing, treasury, fraud risk, and customer support. Finally, our proactive investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have continued to drive improvement in the areas of fraud and risk, pricing, customer support, and marketing.
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We regularly review the following key business metrics to evaluate our performance, identify trends affecting our business, prepare financial projections, and make strategic decisions. We believe that these key business metrics provide meaningful supplemental information for management and investors in assessing our historical and future operating performance. The calculation of these key business metrics discussed below may differ from other similarly titled metrics used by other companies, analysts, or investors. The key business metrics that we use to measure the performance of our business are defined as follows:
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We regularly review the following key performance metrics to evaluate our performance, identify trends affecting our business, prepare financial projections, and make strategic decisions. We believe that these key performance metrics provide meaningful supplemental information for management and investors in assessing our historical and future operating performance. The calculation of these key performance metrics discussed below may differ from other similarly titled metrics used by other companies, analysts, or investors. The key performance metrics that we use to measure the performance of our business are defined as follows:
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Active customers increased to approximately 7.3 million, or 35% growth, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily due to an increase in the number of new customers, driven by investments in our mobile platform and efficient marketing spend, our focus on customer experience and how we serve our customers, expansion of our global disbursement network, and the continued diversification across both send and receive countries. While we continue to see strong results in our largest existing receive countries (India, Mexico, and the Philippines), our successful diversification of our corridor portfolio across both send and receive countries has contributed to new customer growth.
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Active customers increased to approximately 8.0 million, or 29% growth, for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the number of new customers, driven by investments in our mobile app and efficient marketing spend, our focus on customer experience and how we serve our customers, expansion of our global disbursement network, and the continued diversification across both send and receive countries. While we continue to see strong results in our largest existing receive countries (India, Mexico, and the Philippines), our successful diversification of our corridor portfolio across both send and receive countries has contributed to new customer growth.
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We measure send volume to assess the scale of remittances sent using our platform. Our customers mostly send from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other countries in Europe. Our customers and their recipients are located in over 170 countries and territories across the globe; the largest receive countries by send volume include India, Mexico, and the Philippines.
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We measure send volume to assess the scale of remittances sent by our customers. Our customers mostly send from the United States and Canada. Our customers and their recipients are located in over 170 countries and territories across the globe; the largest receive countries by send volume include India, Mexico, and the Philippines.
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Send volume increased 42% to $14.5 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $10.2 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2023, driven by the increase in active customers.
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Send volume increased 41% to $16.2 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $11.5 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2024, driven by the increase in active customers.
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Our continued ability to attract new customers to our platform is a key driver for our long-term growth. We continue to expand our customer base by launching new send and receive corridors, by continuing to innovate on existing and new products, and by providing the most trusted financial services for customers with cross-border financial needs. We plan to continue to acquire new customers through digital marketing channels and word-of-mouth referrals from existing customers, and by exploring new customer acquisition channels. Given the nature of our business, new customer acquisition marketing investments may negatively impact net loss and Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter they are acquired, but are expected to favorably impact net loss and Adjusted EBITDA in subsequent periods as many customers continue to send transactions in the periods after they are acquired.
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Our continued ability to attract new customers is a key driver for our long-term growth. We continue to expand our customer base by launching new send and receive corridors, by continuing to innovate on existing and new products, and by providing the most trusted financial services for customers with cross-border financial needs. We plan to continue to acquire new customers through digital marketing channels and word-of-mouth referrals from existing customers, and by exploring new customer acquisition channels. Given the nature of our business, new customer acquisition marketing investments may negatively impact net income (loss) and Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter they are acquired, but are expected to favorably impact net income (loss) and Adjusted EBITDA in subsequent periods as many customers continue to send transactions in the periods after they are acquired.
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We will continue to invest significant resources in our technology platform. These investments will allow us to introduce new and innovative products, add features to current products, enhance the customer and recipient experience, grow our payment and disbursement network, invest in our risk and security infrastructure, and continue to secure data in accordance with evolving best practices and legal requirements. While we expect our expenses related to technology and development to increase, which may impact short-term profitability, we believe these investments will ultimately contribute to our long-term growth.
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We will continue to invest significant resources in our technology. These investments will allow us to introduce new and innovative products, add features to current products, enhance the customer and recipient experience, grow our payment and disbursement network, invest in our risk and security infrastructure, and continue to secure data in accordance with evolving best practices and legal requirements. While we expect our expenses related to technology and development to increase, which may impact short-term profitability, we believe these investments will ultimately contribute to our long-term growth.
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Global macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, including inflation, currency fluctuations, immigration, regulatory changes, trade and regulatory policies, regional and global conflicts, global crises and natural disasters, unemployment, potential recession, and the rate of digital remittance adoption impact demand for our services and the options that we can offer. These factors evolve over time, and periods of significant currency appreciation or depreciation, whether in send or receive currencies, changes to global migration patterns, and changes to digital adoption trends may shift the timing and volume of transactions, or the number of customers using our service. In addition, foreign currency movements impact our business in numerous ways. For example, as the U.S. dollar strengthens, we see customers in certain markets taking advantage of the ability to get more local currency to their families and friends. We also believe the strength of the U.S. dollar and the strength of other developed market currencies versus emerging market currencies make it easier to acquire new customers in certain markets. Conversely, expansion of our international business can negatively impact our condensed consolidated results when these currencies weaken against the U.S. dollar. As we grow, we are becoming more diversified across geographies and currencies, which can help mitigate some localized geopolitical risks and macroeconomic trends. As foreign currency can have a significant impact on our business, we strive to maintain a diversified cash balance portfolio and frequently assess for foreign currency cash concentrations. See Note 2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a more comprehensive description of current business concentrations.
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Global macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, including inflation, currency fluctuations, immigration and immigration policy, regulatory changes, trade and regulatory policies, including imposition of trade restrictions, taxes and tariffs, and any related market or economic uncertainty or slowdown, regional and global conflicts, global crises and natural disasters, unemployment, potential recession, and the rate of digital remittance adoption impact demand for our services and the options that we can offer. These factors evolve over time, and periods of significant currency appreciation or depreciation, whether in send or receive currencies, changes to global migration patterns, immigration policy, or international trade, and changes to digital adoption trends may shift the timing and volume of transactions, or the number of customers using our service. In addition, foreign currency movements impact our business in numerous ways. For example, as the U.S. dollar strengthens, we see customers in certain geographies taking advantage of the ability to get more local currency to their families and friends. We also believe the strength of the U.S. dollar and the strength of other developed country currencies versus emerging country currencies make it easier to acquire new customers in certain geographies. Conversely, expansion of our international business can negatively impact our condensed consolidated results when these currencies weaken against the U.S. dollar. As we grow, we are becoming more diversified across geographies and currencies, which can help mitigate some localized geopolitical risks and macroeconomic trends. As foreign currency can have a significant impact on our business, we strive to maintain a diversified cash balance portfolio and frequently assess for foreign currency cash concentrations. Refer to Note 2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a more comprehensive description of current business concentrations.
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Transaction expenses include fees paid to disbursement partners for paying funds to the recipient, provisions for transaction losses, and fees paid to payment processors for funding transactions. Transaction expenses also include credit losses, chargebacks, fraud prevention, fraud management tools, and compliance tools. We establish reserves for transaction losses based on historical trends and any specific risks identified in processing customer transactions. This reserve is included in ‘Accrued expenses and other current liabilities’on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Over the long term we expect to continue to benefit from increasing scale and improvements in our proprietary fraud models, although we expect some variability in transaction expense from quarter to quarter.
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Transaction expenses include fees paid to disbursement partners for paying funds to the recipient, provisions for transaction losses, and fees paid to payment processors for funding transactions. Transaction expenses also include chargebacks, fraud prevention, fraud management tools, and compliance tools. We establish reserves for transaction losses based on historical trends and any specific risks identified in processing customer transactions. This reserve is included in ‘Accrued expenses and other current liabilities’on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Over the long term we expect to continue to benefit from improvements in our proprietary fraud models, although we expect some variability in transaction expense from quarter to quarter.
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General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses for our finance, legal, compliance, human resources, facilities, administrative personnel, and other leadership functions, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation expense. General and administrative expenses also include professional services fees, software subscriptions, facilities, indirect taxes, and other corporate expenses, including acquisition and integration expenses. Such expenses primarily include external legal, accounting, valuation, and due diligence costs, advisory and other professional services fees necessary to integrate acquired businesses. See Note 6. Business Combinations in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for further details.
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General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses for our finance, legal, compliance, human resources, facilities, administrative personnel, and other leadership functions, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation expense. General and administrative expenses also include professional services fees, software subscriptions, facilities, indirect taxes, credit losses, and other corporate expenses, including acquisition and integration expenses. Such expenses primarily include external legal, accounting, valuation, and due diligence costs, advisory and other professional services fees necessary to integrate acquired businesses.
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Depreciation and amortization expense includes depreciation on property and equipment and leasehold improvements, as well as the amortization of internal-use software costs and amortization of intangible assets.
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Depreciation and amortization expense includes depreciation on property and equipment and leasehold improvements, as well as the amortization of internal-use software costs and intangible assets.
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Provision for income taxes consists primarily of income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business and state income taxes in the United States. We maintain a full valuation allowance for U.S. deferred tax assets, which includes net operating loss carryforwards. We expect to maintain this full valuation allowance in the United States for the foreseeable future as it is more likely than not that the assets will not be realized based on our history of losses.
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Provision for income taxes consists primarily of income taxes in certain foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business and state income taxes in the United States. We maintain a full valuation allowance for U.S. deferred tax assets. We expect to maintain this full valuation allowance in the United States for the foreseeable future as it is more likely than not that the assets will not be realized based on our history of losses.
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Comparison of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023
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Comparison of the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024
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The following tables set forth our results of operations together with the dollar and percentage change for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:
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The following table sets forth our results of operations together with the dollar and percentage change for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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The following discussion and analysis is for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the same period in 2023, unless otherwise stated.
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The following discussion and analysis is for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024.
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Revenue increased 39%, or $94.9 million, and 34%, or $232.5 million, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily driven by a 35% increase in active customers period over period, continued strength in the retention of existing customers, favorable customer behavior based on foreign currency movement, and a continued mix shift trending towards digital disbursements. Revenue derived from each transaction varies based on a number of attributes, including the funding method chosen by the customer, the size of the transaction, the currency to be ultimately disbursed, the rate at which the currency was disbursed, the disbursement method chosen by the customer, and the country to which the funds are transferred.
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Revenue increased $92.5 million, or 34%, to $361.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $269.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. This increase was primarily driven by a 29% increase in active customers period over period, continued strength in the retention of existing customers, favorable customer behavior based on foreign currency movement, and a continued mix shift trending towards digital disbursements. Revenue derived from each transaction varies based on a number of attributes, including the funding method chosen by the customer, the size of the transaction, the currency to be ultimately disbursed, the rate at which the currency was disbursed, the disbursement method chosen by the customer, and the country to which the funds were transferred.
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As a reflection of this growth, send volume increased 42% and 38% to $14.5 billion and $39.2 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, as compared to $10.2 billion and $28.4 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively.
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As a reflection of this growth, send volume increased 41% to $16.2 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2025, as compared to $11.5 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
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Transaction expenses increased $29.8 million, or 35%, to $115.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $85.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily due to a $21.9 million, or 31%, increase in direct costs associated with processing a higher volume of our customers’ remittance transactions and the disbursement of our customers’ funds to their recipients and a $7.7 million increase in our provision for transaction losses.
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Transaction expenses increased $31.5 million, or 35%, to $121.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to $89.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily due to an $24.2 million, or 33%, increase in direct costs associated with processing a higher volume of our customers’ remittance transactions and the disbursement of our customers’ funds to their recipients, and a $6.3 million increase in our provision for transaction losses.
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As a percentage of revenue, transaction expenses decreased to 34% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared to 35% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.
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As a percentage of revenue, transaction expenses increased to 34% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, from 33% for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
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As a percentage of revenue, customer support and operations expenses decreased to 7% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, from 9% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease was primarily due to process improvements and automation driving scale across customer support headcount at internal and third-party customer support sites.
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As a percentage of revenue, customer support and operations expenses decreased to 6% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, from 7% for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease was primarily due to process improvements and automation across customer support headcount at internal and third-party customer support sites.
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Marketing expenses increased $13.4 million, or 22%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to an increase of $10.8 million in advertising expense and other targeted marketing expense, including online and offline marketing spend and promotion costs to acquire new customers. In addition, personnel-related costs increased by $1.9 million, driven by a 19% increase in marketing headcount compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023.
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Marketing expenses increased $5.3 million, or 8%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase of $1.7 million in advertising expense and other targeted marketing expense, including online and offline marketing spend and promotion costs to acquire new customers. In addition, the increase was driven by a $1.9 million increase in personnel-related costs compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.
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As a percentage of revenue, marketing expenses decreased to 22% for the three months ended September 30, 2024, from 25% for the three months ended September 30, 2023, due to channel efficiencies and optimized local marketing.
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As a percentage of revenue, marketing expenses decreased to 20% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, from 25% for the three months ended March 31, 2024, as we benefited from efficiencies in digital and brand marketing.
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Technology and development expenses increased $11.4 million, or 20%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was driven by $9.7 million in personnel-related expenses, net of personnel-related expenses capitalized as internal-use software, resulting from a 22% increase in headcount compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, as part of our continued investment in our technology platform. The increase in technology and development expense was also driven by a $2.0 million increase in software costs for cloud services to support incremental transaction volume.
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Technology and development expenses increased $10.6 million, or 17% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was driven by $8.0 million in personnel-related expenses, net of personnel-related expenses capitalized as internal-use software. The increase in technology and development expense was also driven by an $1.5 million increase in software costs for cloud services to support incremental transaction volume.
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As a percentage of revenue, technology and development expenses decreased to 20% and 22% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, from 24% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, as we benefited from increasing efficiencies and scale.
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As a percentage of revenue, technology and development expenses decreased to 20% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, from 23% for the three months ended March 31, 2024, as we benefited from increasing efficiencies.
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As a percentage of revenue, general and administrative expenses decreased to 15% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, from 21% and 19% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, as we continue to leverage scale in our general and administrative functions.
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As a percentage of revenue, general and administrative expenses decreased to 15% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, from 16% for the three months ended March 31, 2024, as we continue to leverage efficiencies in our general and administrative functions.
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Depreciation and amortization increased $1.2 million and $2.6 million, or 36% and 27%, respectively, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily driven by an increase in amortization of internal-use software.
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Depreciation and amortization increased $1.7 million, or 47%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase is primarily driven by an increase in amortization of intangibles and internal-use software.
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Interest income increased $0.3 million and $1.0 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, as compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. These increases are primarily due to an increase in average invested balances throughout the periods.
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Interest income decreased $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease is primarily due to a decrease in average invested balances throughout the quarter.
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Interest expense increased $0.2 million and $0.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, as compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to draws on the 2021 Revolving Credit Facility.
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Interest expense increased by $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to draws on the 2021 Revolving Credit Facility.
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Other income (expense), net is primarily driven by unrealized losses and gains on foreign exchange remeasurements of certain foreign currency denominated monetary assets and liabilities.
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Other income (expense), net is primarily driven by unrealized gains and losses on foreign exchange remeasurements of certain foreign currency denominated monetary assets and liabilities.
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The provision for income taxes increased $1.6 million and $5.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, as compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to increases in taxable income in certain foreign jurisdictions and decreases in discrete income tax benefits related to excess stock-based compensation deductions.
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The provision for income taxes increased by $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase is primarily due to increases in taxable income in the United States and in certain foreign jurisdictions.
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We use Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure to supplement net income (loss). Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net income (loss) adjusted by (i) interest (income) expense, net; (ii) provision for income taxes; (iii) noncash charges of depreciation and amortization; (iv) gains and losses from the remeasurement of foreign currency assets and liabilities into their functional currency; (v) noncash charges associated with our donation of common stock in connection with our Pledge 1% commitment; (vi) noncash stock-based compensation expense, net; and (vii) certain acquisition, integration, restructuring, and other costs.
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We use Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure to supplement net income (loss). Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net income (loss) adjusted by (i) interest (income) expense, net; (ii) provision for income taxes; (iii) noncash charges of depreciation and amortization; (iv) other income (expense), net; (v) noncash charges associated with our donation of common stock in connection with our Pledge 1% commitment; (vi) noncash stock-based compensation expense, net; (vii) payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation expense, net and (viii) certain integration, restructuring, and other costs.
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•Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the effect of gains and losses from the remeasurement of foreign currency assets and liabilities into their functional currency;
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•Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the changes in other income (expense), net, primarily driven by the effect of gains and losses from the remeasurement of foreign currency assets and liabilities into their functional currency;
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•Adjusted EBITDA excludes stock-based compensation expense, net, which has recently been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, a significant recurring expense for our business and an important part of our compensation strategy;
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•Adjusted EBITDA excludes stock-based compensation expense, net and payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation expense, net. These charges have recently been, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, significant recurring expenses for our business as they are an important part of our compensation strategy, however, they are not directly linked to current period’s operational performance. Additionally, payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation expense, net are outside of our direct control;
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•Adjusted EBITDA excludes certain transaction costs related to acquisition, integration, restructuring, and other costs. The acquisition and integration costs are primarily related to the Rewire acquisition and primarily include external legal, accounting, valuation, and due diligence costs, advisory and other professional services fees necessary to integrate acquired businesses, and the change in the fair value of the holdback liability as part of the acquisition of Rewire. The restructuring costs are primarily related to severance and other associated costs; and
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•Adjusted EBITDA excludes certain transaction costs related to integration, restructuring, and other costs. The integration costs are primarily related to the Rewire acquisition and primarily include external legal, accounting, valuation, and due diligence costs, advisory and other professional services fees necessary to integrate acquired businesses, and the change in the fair value of the holdback liability as part of the acquisition of Rewire. The restructuring costs are primarily related to severance and other associated costs; and
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(2)Acquisition, integration, restructuring, and other costs for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 consisted primarily of $0.8 million in restructuring charges incurred, $0.5 million of non-recurring legal charges, and $0.2 million related to the change in the fair value of the holdback liability associated with the acquisition of Rewire (O.S.G.) Research and Development Ltd. ("Rewire"). Acquisition, integration, restructuring, and other costs for the three months ended September 30, 2023 consisted primarily of $1.4 million in restructuring charges incurred, $0.9 million related to the change in the fair value of the holdback liability, and $0.6 million of expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition and integration of Rewire. Acquisition, integration, restructuring, and other costs for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 consisted primarily of $1.9 million related to the change in the fair value of the holdback liability, $1.4 million in restructuring charges incurred, and $1.1 million of expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition and integration of Rewire. Refer to Note 6. Business Combinations and Note 13. Restructuring Initiatives in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information on these costs.
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(2)Integration, restructuring, and other costs for the three months ended March 31, 2025 consisted primarily of non-recurring termination benefits. Integration, restructuring, and other costs for the three months ended March 31, 2024 consisted primarily of $0.8 million in restructuring charges incurred, $0.5 million of non-recurring legal charges, and $0.2 million related to the change in the fair value of the holdback liability associated with the acquisition of Rewire (O.S.G.) Research and Development Ltd. (“Rewire”).
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Transaction expenses increased $73.2 million, or 31%, to $313.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $240.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily due to a $55.6 million, or 29%, increase in direct costs associated with processing a higher volume of our customers’ remittance transactions and the disbursement of our customers’ funds to their recipients and a $16.6 million increase in our provision for transaction losses.
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Technology and development expenses increased $38.5 million, or 24%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was driven by $32.0 million in personnel-related expenses, net of personnel-related expenses capitalized as internal-use software, resulting from a 27% increase in headcount compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, as part of our continued investment in our technology platform. The increase in technology and development expense was also driven by a $6.0 million increase in software costs for cloud services to support incremental transaction volume.