MoneyGram International Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results

As announced yesterday, Brian Johnson, who currently serves as Head of Corporate Finance and Global Treasurer, has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective September 1, 2022. He succeeds Larry Angelilli, who has been appointed Executive Vice Chairman of MoneyGram, effective on the same date. In this role, Angelilli will help ensure an orderly transition of the CFO role and assist on external relations and other strategic matters.

MoneyGram also announced that Anna Greenwald, who currently serves as Chief Readiness Officer, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. In addition to her existing responsibilities, which include oversight of global go-to-market, product, customer care, agent network oversight and engagement and global regulatory exam readiness, Greenwald will also assume responsibility for the global IT organization.

MoneyGram and Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC (“MDP”) continue to make progress toward completing the closing conditions of the previously announced merger transaction. To date, money transmitter regulators in 32 U.S. states and territories have provided their approval or non-objection of the transaction. All supplemental U.S. state filings have been submitted. The required pre-transaction notifications and applications to international money transmitter regulators have been made or are on track to be filed shortly, and the parties continue to engage with the regulators.

As previously disclosed, the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 has expired and MoneyGram stockholders have overwhelmingly approved the transaction. The parties have submitted all applicable foreign antitrust and Foreign Direct Investment filings.

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of certain regulatory approvals.

This communication contains forward-looking statements which are protected as forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are not limited to historical facts, but reflect MoneyGram’s current beliefs, expectations or intentions regarding future events and speak only as of the date they are made. Words such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “project,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “pursuant,” “target,” “forecast,” “outlook,” “continue,” “currently,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. The statements in this communication that are not historical statements are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Specific forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding the Company’s projected results of operations and specific factors expected to impact the Company’s results of operations. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond MoneyGram’s control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:

• the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic or future pandemics on our business, including the potential work stoppages, lockdowns, shelter-in-place, or restricted movement guidelines, service delays and lower consumer and commercial activity;
• our ability to compete effectively;
• our ability to maintain key agent or biller relationships, or a reduction in business or transaction volume from these relationships, including with our largest agent, Walmart, through its introduction of additional competing white label money transfer products or otherwise;
• our ability to continue to grow our Digital Channel, including through our direct-to-consumer digital business, MoneyGram Online;
• a security or privacy breach in systems, networks or databases on which we rely;
• current and proposed regulations addressing consumer privacy and data use and security;
• our ability to manage fraud risks from consumers or agents;
• the ability of us and our agents to comply with U.S. and international laws and regulations;
• litigation and regulatory proceedings involving us or our agents and other commercial relationships, which could result in material settlements, fines or penalties, revocation of required licenses or registrations, termination of contracts, other administrative actions or lawsuits and negative publicity;
• disruptions to our computer systems and data centers and our ability to effectively operate and adapt our technology;
• the ability of us and our agents to maintain adequate banking relationships;
• our ability to successfully develop and timely introduce new and enhanced products and services and our investments in new products, services or infrastructure changes;
• our high degree of leverage and substantial debt service obligations, significant debt covenant requirements and our ability to comply with such requirements;
• our below investment-grade credit rating;
• our ability to maintain sufficient capital;
• weakness in economic conditions,including recession and inflation, in both the U.S. and global markets;
• the financial health of certain European countries or the secession of a country from the European Union;
• a significant change, material slow down or complete disruption of international migration patterns;
• our ability to manage risks associated with our international sales and operations, including exchange rates among currencies;
• our offering of money transfer services through agents in regions that are politically volatile or, in a limited number of cases, that may be subject to certain OFAC restrictions;
• major bank failure or sustained financial market illiquidity, or illiquidity at our clearing, cash management and custodial financial institutions;
• changes in tax laws or unfavorable outcomes of tax positions we take, or a failure by us to establish adequate reserves for tax events;
• our ability to manage credit risks from our agents and official check financial institution customers;
• our ability to adequately protect our brand and intellectual property rights and to avoid infringing on the rights of others;
• our ability to manage risks related to the operation of retail locations and the acquisition or start-up of businesses;
• any restructuring actions and cost reduction initiatives that we undertake may not deliver the expected results and these actions may adversely affect our business;
• our capital structure;
• risks relating to the proposed Merger (as defined in the form 8-K filed on February 15, 2022), including the possibility that the consummation of the Merger could be delayed or not completed, and the effect of announcement or pendency of the Merger on our business; and
• the risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of MoneyGram’s public period reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including MoneyGram’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.

Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in MoneyGram’s SEC filings. MoneyGram’s SEC filings may be obtained by contacting MoneyGram, through MoneyGram’s web site at ir.moneygram.com or through the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering and Analysis Retrieval System (“EDGAR”) at www.sec.gov. MoneyGram undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.

In addition to results presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP), this news release and related tables include certain non-GAAP financial measures, including a presentation of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, including agent signing bonus amortization), Adjusted EBITDA (EBITDA adjusted for certain significant items), Adjusted EBITDA margin, Adjusted Free Cash Flow (Adjusted EBITDA less cash interest, cash taxes and cash payments for capital expenditures and agent signing bonuses), constant currency measures (which assume that amounts denominated in foreign currencies are translated to the U.S. dollar at rates consistent with those in the prior year), diluted adjusted income (loss) per share and adjusted net income. In addition, we present gross profit for our two reporting segments. The following tables include a full reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the related GAAP financial measures. The equivalent GAAP financial measures for projected results are not provided, and projected results do not reflect the potential impact of certain non-GAAP adjustments, which include (but in future periods, may not be limited to) stock-based, contingent and incentive compensation costs; compliance enhancement program costs; direct monitor costs; legal and contingent matter costs; restructuring and reorganization costs; currency changes; and the tax effect of such items. We cannot reliably predict or estimate if and when these types of costs, adjustments or changes may occur or their impact to our financial statements. Accordingly, a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the equivalent GAAP financial measures for projected results is not available.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors because they are an indicator of the strength and performance of ongoing business operations. These calculations are commonly used as a basis for investors, analysts and other interested parties to evaluate and compare the operating performance and value of companies within our industry. Finally, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, constant currency, diluted adjusted income (loss) per share and adjusted net income (loss) figures are financial and performance measures used by management in reviewing results of operations, forecasting, allocating resources or establishing employee incentive programs. Although MoneyGram believes the above non-GAAP financial measures enhance investors’ understanding of its business and performance, these non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the accompanying GAAP financial measures.

Source: MoneyGram