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Earnings Call Transcript
2023-Q3

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P
Praveen Malik
executive

[Audio Gap] fiscal year 2022, '23, ending December 31, 2022. The investor presentation and press release have

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A
Arun Jain
executive

[Audio Gap] interruption, let me continue the safe harbor statement, which has been there in any presentation we make on quarterly results, which speaks about it that this is not all the statements which we make concerning our future prospects are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are by nature involve number of risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the market business.

This is a full statement is the part of the debt which normally all of you. This time, we will not go through the presentation that we want to look at it since our business is monitored on the last 12 months basis, it's annualized business. So our data shows for this quarter, we have last 12 months revenue are INR 2,126 crores revenue, which is at -- moved on INR 1,751 crores. Our platform revenue has grown at 43% from INR [ 464 ] crores to INR [ 324 ] crores. Our license revenue has a dip, there's a slowdown of licensee revenue decision-making in Europe, which was the earlier point, it may happen to U.K. or that there's a de slowdown.

It is at minus 18%, so down to INR 360 crores to INR 297 crores. AMC has healthy rose by 14% from INR [ 360 ] to INR 361 crores in the last 12 months. PAT has come down substantially from INR 334 crores over the last 12 months to INR 272 crores because of the investment, which I mentioned for moving to the geo platform I take you over there.

Our EBITDA margin is minus 4% of INR 437 crores to INR 419 crores. gross margin is up from INR 1,000 crores to INR 1,161 crores. Gross margin percentage has come down to [ 27% ] to [ 35% ]. EBITDA has come down from 25% to [ 28% ], and license-linked revenue has grown by 12% from INR 1,000 crores to INR 1,121 crores. These are top line metrics number.

In this what the improvement side is healthily growing at 21%. EBITDA is having a constraint of the brand cost investment, which has planned investment. And third thing is that days has moved from -- to 139 days. So that is the other point to be -- explained in this what is the basis of this 3 different elements.

Our quarterly numbers are INR 555 crores. Our quarterly number is INR 105 crores EBITDA. So these are 2 major numbers and of the DSO.

The first number is EBITDA from 25% to 20%. This 5% reinvestment back from moving the business from for to platform. During the April presentation, we mentioned about moving the business from 25% to 20%. That 5% will be reinvesting back for looking at a very positive number what we are seeing in a platform-based business. So that's one important piece between trying to intact. This last quarter number was much lower. This quarter, we have close to 19% EBITDA in this quarter despite And we are looking next quarter will be better than this number.

And second point I want to make our investment in people are always in is not as linear. It will always happen on a step basis. So step base are $45 million or $60 million quarterly run rate, and $60 million to $75 million run rate. Now we are close to on constant currency, our revenue at $72 million, and we are close to $75 million, which we are looking at it to be -- So this number of $60 million to $75 million, we looked at it in last October. Released in 5 quarters, we reached from close to $75 million. And we are expecting Q4 revenue to cross $75 million on constant currency basis.

On the -- we have something called contractually not due revenue. We have then we sell a 5-year deal with the customer, a long-term deal with our customer. The money gets due after a certain milestone. And those milestones are makes up contractually not due number, including Gem. Because Gem also they pay us x percentage upfront and y percent after the product gets delivered within the -- when the payment is marked on the system I shared with you. That number of contractual not due out of the total of INR 648 crores. That number, which is on orders over INR 250 crores. So that's a -- might figure of DSOs at 139 days. If you take it over that number, it's close to 108 days of DSO.

And then we look at geographically, this number -- it is -- In America, our DSOs are 16 days. In Europe, our DSOs are 28 days, APAC is 189 days, EMEA is 177 days and India is 131 days if you remove the contractually not due number from the old DSO [ 54 ] days.

So now let me come to the product versus platform strategy. The platform revenue are growing healthily to INR 464 crores -- which is almost -- we started from INR 50 crores to INR 464 crores. In past years, we were able to move that platform revenue, which is giving a sustainability to that business and platform of -- give a flavor of each business.

In -- we mentioned our 2 main product lines, liquidity product lines and DTV product line, both our leading products. We are winning 3 out of 4 deals in the marketplace. Both these products are performing very, very well. There was a delay in the decision cycle time last quarter, last 2 quarters -- or last 3 quarters, there is a decision slow down of cycle. We lost some of the -- like per bank, we lost during the -- after -- on the date of signing the contract -- [ $20 ] million products when the team has been for the signing it off on 24th of February, unfortunately

So those happens, but that doesn't change the business scenario of the compelling business position, which is happening. So in this area, the GDP, if I look at liquidity, we are now getting a good traction since interest rates -- global interest rates are higher. There's a good traction. France, we are announcing the second deal in the France after deal last year. Now we are also second largest bank in France is also selected to and then we have another 3 to 4 deals in liquidity in France. Liquidity is now moving into Canada and then it can look at to Spain, Italy and other countries. We are looking very focused way country by country to taking a major market share. It takes 2 or 3 kind of take up liquidity and then we are leadership parties Then we did it in PTV. Same way we are doing it over here.

In GCB business platform -- banking platform, which is we call IBC. In the last 6 months, our micro services-based API-based, cloud nature even driven headless platform has been very, very well accepted in the marketplace. We are able to differentiate ourselves in Europe and America or Canadian market is headless is a great proposition. We are working in at least 7 deals over there in Europe market on MAC compliant or MAC bond, I would not say compliant, MAC bond sole system.

One good news to the investor is now we are in top 3 -- one of the top 3 players in now. When we are looking at survey, [indiscernible] participating. We are part of Thought Machine. Thought Machine is a new competitor emerging in a new technology space, and Temenos is a 900-pound gorilla sitting in Europe, which is a large customer site agreement. So these are 2 more competition to But core banking market space perspective, getting qualified in top 3 is a very, very big success from our viewpoint, and we are seeing that we are able to compete head on with Thought Machine and some of the deals Temenos is coming third, is it very tooling positions. Those deals may not have closed during the last 6 months. Deal closing in core banking takes 12 to 24 months, so cycle time for changing the core banks be like engaging the customer [indiscernible] 24 months.

We implemented business solution of one of the German clients, which we announced a deal 2 years back, our second largest retailer of Germany. That system is working smoothly. In the Wombat processing -- on a single day using our micro services architecture. I think that's a kind of power we are able to get a reputable client in European market, which is giving us at acceleration on this business.

Second business of DCB and DCB-based -- which is designing semi product. It's a company in 360 products where all the credit portfolio of the bank from retail loans to SME loans and the SME loan to credit card has a -- secured and unsecured loan can be processed on this particular platform. This platform we announced 3 quarters back from another Swedish largest financial institution has selected us for their platform leases, and platform has a very good traction because using the [ 16 ], one can design their own positions. So that's our second digital platform. Third platform, they have GCB has Quantums. Quantums, we had a good deal until June. The last 2 quarters, we had a slowdown. We are having a pipeline of more than 7 to 8 days in central banking. The best part is we are fighting this battle in an advanced market now. The Central Bank in each have moved from not only in the African market, it move to the adverse markets. So which is very, very heartening to know.

When we look at Intellect AI. We consolidate our business in good 3 units from 5 units. So we had an RTM unit and a wealth unit. So RTM unit has been on with DCB business. So treasury business has been bunched with the GCB business and wealth business has been, Intellect AI. We renamed Intellect SEEC to Intellect AI. So there are 3 units now. We have GTB, GCB and Intellect AI. Policy unit has been merged with -- And the thinking process behind all of it is Intellect design arena when we set up. Arena was at ease when we say that there will be incubation system, and there will be an ecosystem there will be a scale company. So when a product is getting created and 5 customers are there. It is in the incubation stage, we give it final a lot of freedom to the team, which are [indiscernible] They work like a start-up company in that particular space. Once it reaches the first 5 customer, we believe that it's a time when we can use organical resources at a scale level and global reach of the company. And that is the time when we merge with larger units. So that's a strategy which we announced sometime in 2017, that's how it is done.

Now the media business is in these 3 units. There are minor products in the scale space and some other spaces which are running, which are not significant. So we will be talking about those products in any of these conversations.

So Intellect AI Space Magic submission, which we launched in U.S., which we mean -- Banesh has highlighted to you, 3 things we does -- it does extraction, it does enrichment, it does transformation, it does validation. The entire piece, which is there on underwriting policy now have matured to a level where is moving in a design thinking -- 3 circles are here. First circle is called lean startup; second circle is called ecosystem and third circle is called scale. So this business on a Magic Submission is moving from team start-up where we are selling items clients to be working on a platform. Now to the ecosystem space, the 3 elements for differentiating between start-up, lean start-up and ecosystem is -- in lean start-up, it is desirability, feasibility and viability. Once the viability gets established, then it needs moves into feasibility, and adaptive. So it move to that value enhansibility and activity in this space which is disrupting the test significantly. There's a very, very heavy pavement. And this here, we will be hiring and investing more money in this business.

Second business, wealth. We took some time under the leadership of -- some of you know him. After the start-up, he handed over to the patient to Banesh and Sudheer to run this business, and this business now has a great traction that largest Indian bank. SBI is the customer of this may be going live recently and other 2 large wealth managers have also chosen, one of them is in this quarter. We are announcing the deal with the largest client in this quarter. And there is a pipeline of almost 50% of the -- to lease miles with a infected wealth view. So that's a second line of business and very, very exciting early because we are focused on RM office as a key strategy there.

And third thing is the AI platform, and that's why Intellect AI comes from. And in this platform, we have 2 core technology, which I mentioned to you during our Technology Day. Both the technologies are now getting combined to deliver ESG and delivering corporate awareness. At the end of the presentation, maybe 10 minutes' time will just demonstrate how one of the outcome of this product is so -- platform, we launched Magic Invoice on this platform. We launched the industry platform, this platform and third product on the same platform is -- So demo I will be giving you once we -- after pushing on the session for the last 10 minutes, anybody who wants to stay back for asking questions, they can stay back. That is a preview, very, very small preview. We are working on it. It will take another 6 months to get to the go to the market. But that's one which we'll be doing it preview in that end of the presentation.

So with this, I leave the platform for question and answer.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Now we are opening the session for Q&A. [Operator Instructions] The first question is from Mr. Pratap from Finance.

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Unknown Analyst

I just had one question that last quarter, I believe that we had a contract of around $3 million that the revenues had not flowed in. So have we started booking those revenues now in this quarter?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes. That revenue has been booked in this quarter for getting the current numbers.

U
Unknown Analyst

And those revenues are flowing into which part of our business, that platform revenue license revenue? And perhaps if you could just maybe tell us the quantum of how much we booked out of the $3 million?

A
Arun Jain
executive

And that $3 million is booked in license revenue. There are 2 deals to is, which was there. The license deals.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

The next question is the from Pradyumna Choudhury from JM Financial.

U
Unknown Analyst

So I'm just trying to get a basic understanding here, like traditionally, my understanding is that the BFSI focused product industry has been very slow growing, like there have been phases when there's been a lot of investment and the growth has accelerated, whereas in other phases because of the tendency of these banking customers to stick to their old softwares, the growth has been slow. So I just wanted to understand, currently, are we entering into a high-growth stage like because of the entire COVID which has led to digital transformation. Are we entering into a higher growth stage? And is the demand coming back for the industry as a whole? I understand you guys have grown out a much healthier pace. But overall, for the industry, is it coming back? .

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Arun Jain
executive

I think to say is coming back for the industry. The product space will be slow growth only because decisions around changing the platform are very difficult decision in a bank. The cycle time of decision are very, very long. And they are long because they are more than -- in some of the contracts, just to highlight to you. We have 21 signature in a one single contract. Even contract was 21 signature for a one single contract on the similar platform. it's a difficult business. Some things -- there are some tailwinds for us. What is we invested into cloud technology, we had of time. So in 2017, '18, '19, when our stock was lowest, we were in investing phase of the product. And we are moving to the cloud technology and micro services technology. We kept on highlighting that this is an investment phase of the company. But that's what we did it.

to say that we will build up this cloud technology. And because we build this cloud technology, today, we are in a very healthy position where entire GTB business, GCB business, AI business is on can be consumed and composed to deliver a specific solution with a contextuality built in. So we promised the customer we think to design their own solution. And actually to make decisions -- appropriate decisions for themselves and for their customers by using AI. And we help them extend their solution using our terminal workbench. And that helps us out in growing better than us. I promise to the market was a design of the promise, internal design loss 20% growth year-on-year is our design of the organization. And we always mentioned that it can be last year, we grew 25%. This year, we'll be growing slow, but 20% is our design -- the strategy is designed around 20% year-on-year.

U
Unknown Analyst

Okay. Just a couple of follow-ups, sir. So one, so as such, COVID hasn't really been that big of an inflection for the industry is what I understand from your commentary. And second, so other players that we have, like we have Temenos, the likes of even Oracle Financial Services, the French Cube company. They are not really offering this cloud-based solution, is it?

A
Arun Jain
executive

We are having a lot of sitting there. They are communicating the market that they have out with technologies. But our architect sitdown with them. There's a -- we should not comment on our competitor, but it's more of a buy more share than a core cloud bond solution. There are 2 cloud bond solution -- you make some solutions compatible to the cloud. I think we saw the trends ahead in stand they are going to captain. That's why they did challenge. We are along with Thought Machine -- companies --

U
Unknown Analyst

Okay. Understood. And second, although competitive intensity, definitely from your commentary as well, it's still we've been doing well. But overall, even if we look at like somewhere I had read that Oracle had won a customer where initially we were solving in Uganda, believe. So like -- what is really happening in those terms? Like are we witnessing significant competition in the industry as a whole? And are we gaining market share, especially in the consumer banking product, are we gaining market share? Or are we maintaining or are we losing market share?

A
Arun Jain
executive

We have kind of more deals over there in core banking now in the Uganda, on the African circle. But I think our focus is more towards Europe to find the battle. I don't know whether you are tracking the company. If you track the company, you should track submission. Thought Machine has invested $550 million investment in the last 7 years in building that product. Our corresponding investment is the $50 million is for -- They invested $550 million at evaluation of $2.7 billion only on core banking by the last investors taking in there. But that will help you in position to provide understanding.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. [indiscernible]

U
Unknown Analyst

Two questions from my side. Firstly, you've mentioned that you're seeing decision cycles recover in Europe and that Q4 looks digitally better. So could I just get a little more color on this? What exactly are we seeing in the European markets right now in the short term at least for Q4?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Rajesh, would you like to answer?

R
Rajesh Saxena
executive

Sure. So I think as you look at Europe, what we have seen, actually, we are seeing there is a play for, let's say, Tier 1 banks and large regional bank players where what Arun talked about, our IDC platform, which is MAC -- and based on composability and extensibility is what is seeing traction and we are competing in many deals in Europe as we speak, where we are competing 3 competitors. We are in last 3, where we would have thought machine, Temenos and us. So we are seeing us and our solution and the way we have architected resonate with most of the banks in Europe. So that's the good news. Which also, as we have implemented and created references in Europe, we are seeing more and more opportunities in Europe, banks coming to us. Customers are recognizing us. And the word of mouth and the references is building the brand image for us. So we're seeing good opportunities come to us. We are seeing that in these opportunities, we are in a head-to-head fight with one of these 2 other competitors that I talked about. So we are seeing a good traction from a Europe perspective, both in U.K. and in Continental Europe.

U
Unknown Analyst

Okay. Okay. My second question was on the U.S. So I did notice that you've won a large deal with a U.S. bank. So are we seeing more traction in the U.S.? And could you maybe give us a little more color on the U.S. market?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes. So U.S. color, U.S. and Canada, the common market is customers, so not from the market. And with this solution, which we mentioned about liquidity, accounts, platform on the dimension side. Magic Submission is on insurance side. And our digital solutions on GCB side as well as on GDB side. There are 4 product lines we are putting in Canada. We must have energy strategy Canada. And then going to U.S., so now we are getting a good traction in U.S. now. U.S. is for next --

So incremental growth perspective within U.S., U.S. definitely will be growing at 20% plus next year, so that's the number we can put on the table, but it can be faster than 20% of the U.S. market. So U.S. market in insurance, Magic Submissions, Banesh, if you want to cover highlight how the U.S. market is playing with

U
Unknown Executive

So I think getting a very strong traction on Magic Submission. I think we've already this year have overlay clients in a very, very good healthy top line of customers. I think Magic submission in most of these 2 of these clients are insurance companies. I think we're also seeing the replacement of one competitors. And therefore, this sort of gives very good insight into how we will be disrupting the space around AI related to magic submission, then we are effectively eliminating the BPO companies and improving the speed of being able to process transactions very well. As a matter of fact, one of our clients came back and shared his number after implementing Magic submission, whereas revenue is almost tripled for that month. So I think there is a very positive capability of AI tools available to help customers, take decisions around submissions of underwriting documents in a much more efficient way and much faster than active to help the underwriting institutions. So they're seeing excellent traction in the U.S. and business side.

U
Unknown Analyst

And if I can ask, what is the contribution of U.S. to the total revenues for

A
Arun Jain
executive

[indiscernible] Are you using the coming months, coming years, it will be good.

U
Unknown Analyst

Okay. And my last question was on margins. So I mean we've seen a sequential improvement in EBITDA. So what is your outlook on margins moving forward? Do you see more scope for improvement in margins? And any steps that you're taking for further improvement?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes. Next quarterly weather.

U
Unknown Analyst

Okay. Any specific drivers for this?

A
Arun Jain
executive

[Technical Difficulty] top line our license has come down from $14 million last year. Quarter-to-quarter if you see it as $14.8 million and this time, $8.8 million, that is a $6 million shortfall is just a margin So far us the -- let's look at it, what kind of a license deal we went to get the margin. Besides the operational efficiency, which we are reinvesting in is stepped by the investment. So now between Q2 and Q3, our operation cost -- moved from INR 442 crores to INR 450 crores, only INR 8 crores increase is the operational cost. Why that caused us increase between INR 375 crores to [indiscernible] INR 443 crores for the 3 quarters over there. That 3 quarter was January to September for a phase of substantial investments. So this cost will surprise us for [ $18 ] million to around $320 million run rate. This cost of -- Then we are shooting for another $100 million from $80 million. We may require another step-up costs and that cost will be there for 2 or 3 quarters and we take a decision. It will be 3 quarters, this cost will be there, the margin will come down. So you will observe the company will get into high-margin space, but we reinvest -- investment money back to -- is that from the business.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. Mohit Jain from Anand Rathi Securities.

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

Yes. Sir, 2 questions. One, and both related to revenue growth only. So one is that, is there a slowdown or some sort of softness you've kind of seen on the SaaS growth for this year, meaning this quarter or 9 months? And the second related question is when do we see revenue momentum building up again when we look at from a Q2 Y-o-Y perspective? Last 9 months have not been so good, and we are way behind the 20% trajectory that we often spoke about the last year. So when do you think we can catch up to that? TCV wise also it appears that we are dealing quarter-on-quarter are sort of segmenting it in the large ones. So in that context, what should we expect from the top line? .

A
Arun Jain
executive

Our projection is the same, 20% on design. When we had last year, 25%, we didn't change the anytime more [indiscernible] we celebrate the 25% growth item we are looking 20%. So 20% and business few quarters will be 15%, a few quarters will be 25%, that relation is a part of the business bank itself. So we are moving on that trajectory.

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

But license revenue is going down, you still think 20% is something with should target?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes -- You are saying that then, this is still 21% growth We think all we monitor --

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

You are referring to rupee growth probably. We are looking at dollar growth.

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes. You need to pick up some point -- which is to beat that company down the 21% growth is 21% growth, yes. You are investing -- so you're not investing in dollars yet.

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

No, no, no, we are not. Okay. So we should basically get target 20% rupee growth is the point.

A
Arun Jain
executive

That's right.

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

Sorry, I missed one part. On the SaaS growth, is there any slowdown in SaaS revenue growth?

A
Arun Jain
executive

In this quarter, last quarter, are coming to a high class or pricing comes down over there. So the Gen growth, which is normally driven much higher, has come down there. The price cross INR 1 lakh crores. So after crossing INR 1 lakh crores --

M
Mohit Jain
analyst

Okay. And outside them, you do not see any slowdown in SaaS, right? We could see that pickup...

A
Arun Jain
executive

[indiscernible]

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Sugandhi Sood from

U
Unknown Analyst

I just wanted to verify, as you mentioned in your initial remarks that you are looking at a $75 million run rate, if I got that number correct, in the coming quarter. And also, just looking at your -- the disclosures that you make on funnels. And I wanted to get a sense in terms of deals. Is there any extension in the term of contracts that you are experiencing because our deal momentum has -- deals in momentum on the larger deals has been improving at the margin. But on the revenue growth front, I understand there are offsetting factors in traditional license probably. But is there any change in the tenure of contracts? Yes, those 2 questions to being with.

A
Arun Jain
executive

Yes. To be deal, these are based on license plus AMC, which we offered term license. So earlier, we were using perpetual licenses. Now we started offering only for term license of 5 years, 7 years. Term license that as increment revenue after 7 years can be approved to the company? So policy came here made in the company policy of giving a term license perpetual license, which are offering after 7 years, which are visible now, but this will give us a future protection to our revenue stream.

-- is a platform-based revenue, which has got 2 point of pricing strategy. We call it -- even in my license revenue, we got it -- is my subscription base revenue, whereas it gives us platform to the customer and charging $50,000 per month, $200 per month is the relation of the platform an offer to the customer, which means between $600,000 to $2.4 million is a kind of a number which variation -- And this is on subscription basis as long we use it. So for that, we need to make very high upfront investment of POC, proof of contract to the customer to sell it. Once you sell it at $2.4 million per 10 year, that will become $24 million. And that after 30 year, our margin on those deals goes up to 70% on 30-year time. But first 2 years, our margins may be as low as 20% for those deals. So that's a second respect. These are 2 constructs there.

U
Unknown Analyst

The SaaS contracts, is there a contractual duration for these? And is there beyond which point we negotiate terms?

A
Arun Jain
executive

The initial typical SaaS contract -- 5 years. But normally SaaS contracts are like -- difficult to move out in back in system.

U
Unknown Executive

[indiscernible]

U
Unknown Analyst

Sure, sure. My question is maybe on just trying to correlate the traction in deal wins with the revenue recognition based on the tenure of the contract. So basically, what we are seeing is, in fact, the tenure has shortened because of the policy change. Is that correct?

A
Arun Jain
executive

It was perpetual. Now it's 5 to 7 years. The company actually makes more money, that's the first one. The second side you are seeing, the funnel is growing, which means there is demand. It's just the frequency of closures -- Those are -- but there is demand getting business case approved, which is taking time at tax.

U
Unknown Analyst

And sir, would it be possible to give an idea of the AMC revenue, how much of it is on account of legacy and how much would be from platform?

A
Arun Jain
executive

AMC doesn't go to platform. AMC is only for the --

U
Unknown Analyst

It's only for the non touch-on revenues, yes.

A
Arun Jain
executive

Exactly.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. Harshil Shethia from AUM Advisors.

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

Sir, first question I had was on Slide 16 of our presentation, where you mentioned that our current funnel is approx INR 70,000 crores. So how do you calculate that?

A
Arun Jain
executive

[indiscernible] [ $5 ] million is the funnel, that's what we are looking at it. Yes. $55 million, [indiscernible] $7,000 something longer here in a -- is the $9 million per just at it may be some because it was mentioned in the medium, and that's the number it takes -- [ $1,000 ] million. So they've put in so -- sorry for the accounting as $70,000 million is our number. So when you are moving between million and crores, these kind of errors will happen. So that explanation is INR 700 crores is on the funnel side, what we have as of now. Because what -- when we qualify the deal where we know client has needing a solution, there is criteria called bank criteria. The client has a budget, client has authorities, client has -- and the client has a time line. Once the fourth parameter has established, that funnel we bring in to [ $55 ] million funnel. That's a system which we have. Then there is a weak pipeline which we don't report here. The weak pipeline could be similar size, which is we are the budget or time line for the customer is not defined.

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

Okay. But is the INR 7,000 crores or $70,000 million, is this contract in our hand executable? Or do we have to bid for it and then the client will select out of the top 3 or whatever it is? Or how we will...

A
Arun Jain
executive

We are saying these are the pipeline, it's not contracted. On rate, these are bids out there. prospective going to be giving a bit shortly.

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

Okay. And how much is generally the conversion ratio for us.

A
Arun Jain
executive

The conversion ratio varies. We look at it conversion ratio on destinies in the next slide, [ 56 ] views are there. We noted the 68 deals in design. We had it was 67 deals last year same period. Out of 68 deals, we look at [ 60 ] closed this quarter. Every time 10% every quarter, 10% to 15% is the

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

Okay. Sir, secondly, where one of the previous participant asked about the 20% -- that we are building a 20% growth rate company and you said -- and the LTM number for us is 21%. Out of the 10% is due to the ForEx exchange rate. Do we also take a call on ForEx rate to justify growth?

A
Arun Jain
executive

We're doing come on -- we have a hedge loss of INR 9 crores this quarter. We do take a 3-year hedge which was around -- we take 60% of the forward [indiscernible] and 40% we leave it for them.

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

Sir, actually, my question was not on the hedging end of our business or how do we hedge our revenue. My question is that when we say 20% growth from -- So shouldn't us being a product and dollar-wise company, shouldn't we take it on CC basis?

A
Arun Jain
executive

We are taking constant currency basis. So constant currency is $72 million. But since we are comparing all our earnings, everything under crores, we want to just simplify our migration -- Indian currency average multi currency confuse systems. Because every currency that there is keen moving from one currency. So we are not a large exposer -- and Europe currencies, which has got a large from 1.24 to 1.08 unit as -- So that's -- it's a huge reporting issues.

H
Harshil Shethia
analyst

So when we say that it is a 20% growth company or that the company you are building, should we take it in terms of constant currency only going ahead that we'll be on a longer term the year, we'll be able to deliver 20% on a constant currency basis.

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Arun Jain
executive

That's right. That's right.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. Rahul Jain from Dolat Capital.

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Rahul Jain
analyst

So firstly, my question is related to your profitability. As you see your pipeline right now and you already have a fair bit of hang in terms of where the mindset moving in terms of SA versus license kind of a deal. So is the optimum time to understand a gradual shift towards the SaaS model and the eventual impact of that on the profitability to arrive at the potential profitability of the business? Because initially, I think the growth-led operating leverage was an obvious factor. Now since growth may be slightly slower than what we were thinking earlier given the macro and also because of the mix of the SaaS both could come as a headwind. So is there a realignment that we need to do to our margin bank?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. That's a good point out. We have to bucket out for the impact -- still is not clear because we are getting a client which is asking license revenue in Europe and Americas as well as license revenue in Asia Pacific. So this is still -- the jury is not fully out. We have just 50-50 kind of a jury. We have a few customers are in -- and few customers are in businesses. So it's difficult as an immediately your suggestion is good, which we're working on our impact of that license

R
Rahul Jain
analyst

Right. And any -- of course, I know you don't know which within the pipeline you will end up winning and the mix could be -- eventual mix would be very different. But any range you would like to give for next year? And the potential swing in the SaaS revenue that can happen versus this year? .

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Arun Jain
executive

We can only say that the Magic submission had a very good pipeline with a growth 50% plus year-on-year. So that is the one thing that we know that SaaS been -- of Magic submission can grow 50% in the U.S. market. Whereas [indiscernible]

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Rahul Jain
analyst

Right. And just one more question, if I may. Regarding the growth, of course, a lot of people have asked in a different way. But the way this year started and what we were expecting out of this year in terms of growth and the way it has shaped up. And also based on the minimal input that you have at this point from your client conversation, is it fair to assume that next year at this point also looks like at best be at the current pace? Or do you think there are some reason to think positive -- more positive than what this year was?

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Arun Jain
executive

We are more positive with the compliance software and AI solution. So we are differentiating on 2 things for the architecture and The other company which is architecture base and intelligence base, these are 2 key marks to which we are helping our banks to grow fastly. The exact number the next quarterly call. Looking at the past 3 months of the new financial year, the new calendar year as to strong clients we'll able to be better. We can get it better at that time.

R
Rahul Jain
analyst

Sure. Sure. Just one last bit. On foundry, if you are aware about this development in Temenos where the CEO and Executive Chairman are about to leave the organization and the new

-- is there any opportunity for us? Or do you think these are part and parcel of the business and there's not a major advantage or disadvantage because of that?

A
Arun Jain
executive

A part of the business that people are selling by a company much is okay. This is like that only -- [indiscernible] need to be put in ourselves to create value for our customers. All these things will happen.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. Anil Sarin from Centrum Broking.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

So I think first off, it's been a good kind of a recovery in this quarter coming off the base of the previous quarter. So congratulations on that. My first question is on the Banking as a Service. I think there was an initiative along with a large tech company to go in the U.S. Is there any update you would like to provide?

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Arun Jain
executive

Sorry, Banking as a Service was the --

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Unknown Executive

Yes. No, that's the demand in U.S. That's where we're working a lot on the 12 providers. Still on our one of our growth journey right now, and that's where the U.S. is saying between this Banking as a Service as well as adding some

A
Arun Jain
executive

virtual account -- like a banking -- a valid finance.

A
Anil Sarin
analyst

Okay. On Magic submission, I mean, there is a fair amount of enthusiasm. First off, it's a platform. It's a SaaS solution or it's a license solution?

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Arun Jain
executive

It's a SaaS solution. It operates some briefly on AWS and the offering to the client is AWS, fully hosted Magic submission, which includes injection of documents are from India close fulfillment and into the underwriting platforms. Some of them will use our underwriting platforms, some use other underwriting platforms. The ability to enrich the quality of data and to the whole AI capturing of information from documents or people from various commercial line business or insurance process, partner and more accurately is the heart of the suite. It is fully a SaaS-based solution. Subject -- solution is not charged at a minimum subscription level, depending on the number of submissions the plan wants to start with.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

Got it. And is it -- like there is -- we have GTB, we have GCB, so one license sale of Magic solution, how would it relate to one license -- sorry, one kind of a subscription-based sale of a GTB or a GCB? Like how big is this product?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. So initially we launched its Magic submission last 2 years. We were looking at being value clients close to $0.5 million. Now we are getting it with the Magic submission, which can go up to $3 million ARR, not even be valued. So we have leased in the pipeline, which is a year of $3 million submissions, single client base

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Unknown Executive

U.S. currency is 200 million submissions. Just to give you a picture of the size of the market.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

Okay, okay. So that's very helpful. Again, still going on with U.S., I mean an earlier participant also asked this, but I just wanted a little bit more clarity is that generally, when we speak of Intellect, there is a feeling that, oh, very strong in Asia Pac and Africa, getting quite strong in Europe, but U.S. is AWIP. And on the other hand, now we have this Magic submission. So how would you sort of at an overall level, describe your progress -- recent progress in the U.S.

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Arun Jain
executive

It's a part of strategy, Anil. We communicated [indiscernible] strategies at central Europe. And then we entered into the U.S. The U.S. has started focusing only 2 years back. So we are getting a very good traction as we are able to master the technology in Europe. So it's a part of 2015 strategy is. Nothing good is the U.S. business has been in a platform subscription business. So it's not keeping into new business. So these are new products and new markets being grown. So the are baseline.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

Okay. So again, on the core banking, that process that is going on, which can be a lengthy process, as explained. Earlier, you were mentioning Mambu also within those top 3. Now the name has been dropped. Is that -- I mean, if you can just throw some light on that?

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Arun Jain
executive

Mambu is moving out. [indiscernible] We cross on for the Mambu. Rajesh will on that.

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Rajesh Saxena
executive

Yes. So I think what we see, we have -- when we are competing in the kind of opportunities that we are seeing and typically, a bank would start with a long list and then go to a short list. And as I said, in the use of the -- especially in Europe and advanced markets, we are seeing thought machine and Temenos as our competitors. We do see very -- in 1 or 2 opportunities in Mambu. But Mambu is more tuned -- what we are finding in Mambu is more tuned for a start-up digital bank with limited user journeys. So we are not really seeing them as a big -- at least at this point of time, as a big competitor as we go and compete in some of these markets and some of the clients that we are competing with.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

Okay. Okay. So first of all, I mean, congratulations on making it to the elite group. I mean, especially since the kind of funding that has gone into one of your competitors and the size of the other competitor and the history of that other competitor for you to move into the top 3 is something for all of us to be proud of. But given the -- I mean there was a reference that Arun made about valuation of thought machine also. So would you just attribute it to the frothy nature of the previous funding round? Or is this an indication of what thought machine can actually achieve? And from that, I'm trying to draw some conclusions regarding Intellect also.

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Arun Jain
executive

Well, we don't know that reference on the funding a very late in the last 2, 3 months of frothy point was not there. And we're also making the business case -- that business case of core banking is so large. When -- like today, FIS, Fister, they are into $5 billion, $7 billion kind of the market size, and that is what we are attacking. Obviously, it is difficult to attack America [indiscernible] embedded in the system and then Temenos is a various systems are there. But a market at $5 million -- if you take -- it's a $5 billion market. That's us and every bank needs a core banking system. And liquidity can be taken by top 3 Indian banks, but core banking will be taken by all the 1,000 banks -- 5,000 banks, as Manish corrected it.

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Anil Sarin
analyst

5,000 banks, so -- so good. You've made an entry into the thing. So I just have 2 more questions, if I may sneak those in. One is your SaaS now run rate -- SaaS stroke platform run rate is now crossing INR 100 crores. Now there is GM's component in that, as you just explained. But that I can say that's a INR 400 crore kind of a revenue run rate. So based on the momentum that you're seeing based on especially Magic submissions will be a contributor to that. I mean, when does it start becoming $100 million per annum, such that you can even absorb the POC cost, like it's very strange in SaaS that firstly, you take a revenue hit. Second, you take a margin hit because the business acquisition cost remains the same, but the revenue is a fraction. So with the naked eye, to an outsider, it appears like, oh my God, the business is suffering. Whereas you feel the business is doing very well. So where is that inflection point where -- there is enough money coming in from SaaS high-margin revenue coming in, which pays for the POCs and all the beauty pareds that you have to do.

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Arun Jain
executive

-- $50 million to $60 million, as you say, INR 400 crores, which is $50 million to $100 million maybe on the 8 to 12 quarters to get into the journey of $100 million -- And -- but I really appreciate a little understanding the nature -- underlying dynamics. So you understand the business dynamics of not -- that, let me time the word business -- of the SaaS business, which was -- SaaS business is having a -- it is s kinetic energy, which drives the growth of our business. So what other POC costs has a double on us, that gets countered by the size of the -- so when we have on value limitation, we have 40 clients -- sorry, pipelines, then we are able to get into the 50% margin on. As soon as it becomes 50 clients, we will be getting to the 70% margin.

A
Anil Sarin
analyst

Right. Right. And my last -- absolute last question is, you had started this journey of enrolling partners in Europe. And a few quarters ago, you had mentioned. But the way I look at it, I mean, there are many powerful Indian system integrators. So why have you not gone with Indian system integrators, which can really lead to faster sales growth for you?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. [indiscernible] As of now, with Indian FLS, we don't have a differentiation between Indian But I think global relations client relationship and important. So our core value for the partner is bank relations with and delivery capability, their constituency there are 2 factors there looking at it. And we are not having saying Indian is different from international, but Accenture or ICM has a deeper relationship in meaning influencing the core systems by -- system versus some of the service providers who are deeply negotiate with CIOs. So we are looking for both most of that.

A
Anil Sarin
analyst

And as a corollary, I mean, has there been any progress? I mean, you've got into relationship, you have committed people onto that relationship. Have they also committed senior leaders? And is there any traction?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. Microsoft has committed to senior people. AWS committed senior people into this relationship. We are doing the event in Bombay on 21st February, where the senior most person from AWS is bank down for the event.

A
Anil Sarin
analyst

Okay. And is there a pipeline building as a result of all that senior management attention on to that?

A
Arun Jain
executive

It takes time. I think I would say pipeline is building in there's a direct pipeline and -- pipeline. So the principal pipeline will start building a -- Direct pipeline start building the Phase 2.

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Praveen Malik
executive

One demo for the -- one of the AI businesses tools since you are there and you're looking at Indian market, we just want to give you a preview of 5 minutes. So the investors on corporate governance, the ESG corporate governance. We call this product under -- Right now, we named it -- the internal name right now is Sherlock, which is for the corporate data investigation. Banesh will take over some 10 minutes time for you. [indiscernible]

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Unknown Executive

Yes. Yes, sir. Yes.

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. just if you could present the peak. So Solok, so what we'll be doing with the ASG business clients that we're dealing with them as probably mentioned to you earlier, one of them is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. They basically use data to be able to access questions related to ES&G. It is always 3 elements of environment, social and governance. So we are going to sort of touch on 1 governance capability that we have also available. Deepak, who is the CTO for Intellect AI is on the call. He got to actually take us through well quick waste, you will relate to this very easily. This is done obviously for investors. So it's people like you will actually be able to relate to it in a easy way.

So we just -- he's going to sign in and show it to you. And then I will -- is there any thoughts or questions, please free to. If you don't have the time and send it over to us. [indiscernible] Yes. So basically, what it to do is if you take an ice number of a company name, and it would give you a lot of specific information about governance of a company is right now tapping in Tata Steel. And that's it's already something that we have access. So you need an idea. Go ahead.

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Unknown Executive

Sure. I think here looking for the company details, right, from a corporate due diligence perspective, every information that you require, it is as simple as doing a Google search, looking for the company. You can search either on the company name or is a company unique quantification number. So what did it was we just -- I just to Tata Steel Limited and I got a number on based on that selected. This is typically when you search further for the first time, it will take you anywhere between 3 to 10 minutes, depending upon the size of data that is required to be acquired across. And we connect to the multiple data sources, largely both public resources and other sources. And here, what you can look for is say, the company information -- and basically, where the company -- whether the number of the company, tax identification number, where it's registered and also the charges, basically, what are the loans that company has on. So in the case where Tata Steel has loans from the various bank from Central Bank, Industrial Development bank, Andhra Bank and everything. And also the status of the particular loans, whether they're open, closed and all. So you have a complete the book of loan information of the particular company. And also the financial statement, probably whatever is the recent statement that they have, we have, and we also can do historical statements also. And what is the ownership looks like from mutual funds, promoters and everything. And also, the subsidiaries of the companies, again, there are -- there could be I mean domestic or international, and then also the related companies, especially if there are any -- and the related not be direct, it could be from indirect also where the directors of these particular companies are also directors in another company.

So we'll be able to kind of triangulate and arrive at a particular information. And then finally, moving on to the -- who are the existing directors of this particular company. If you look into that, I mean, this generally, if you want to just take information, for example, Koushik Chatterjee, who is an existing director. We also can get the complete view of where else, Mr. Koushik Chatterjee is a Director. I mean, Centennial Steel Limited, Tata Steel, so we can get into the complete view. This is the picker view, but we also the details of where else, Mr. Koushik Chatterjee is a Director at present and also in the past, when the directorship has started and ended also, we can get a complete download of the particular information. And what also is possible here is, in this case, not only the present Directors of this particular company and also the past directors of this particular company and their nationality and all other particular details also we can get.

And then what is another important information is we'll be continuously doing a social listening about this particular company. And whether there is any governance-related things that can be flagged out and it could be positive or it could be negative. And this is where we use our sentiment analysis to understand. If there's -- again, specifically on the governance thing, anything that probably requires an attention. So that will -- that also we can do. So this is a complete end-to-end aggregated information of the company on the financials and their subsidiaries, the directors and their current relationships with the directors of various other company, and also the news about these companies.

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Arun Jain
executive

So this is a picture you get across all of these dimensions in a single place. Because we've already actually accessed and put together data both from various data sources as well as the optimal, et cetera, on this. And this is done on the fly, just like a Google Search. [indiscernible]

They don't have too many subsidies, but we don't have too many.

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Unknown Executive

Again, a seamless information of Paytm. Paytm, I took a subsidy already, so -- but it could figure out the related companies of the Paytm, like 197 and everything. Paytm payment bank is the one that I took. While we didn't have the subsidiaries, but again, here, similarly Paytm, who are all the directors, who are the existing directors, for example, Mr. Again, he is actually a director in many, many other companies and so we can see all the company details of that particular director. And again, similarly where exactly he is already a director and all. At this moment, he's Director President than 197 and the parent company and many other companies. And again, directorship is also with various other companies. So this is an example of the month of the year.

Again, similarly looking into the social listening fleet, right, while probably nothing happened recently, but again, it picked up in the past year. If any other incident happened on this particular thing. So we can -- for example, in last year March, RBI has taken action on against the Paytm payments bank under Section 35A. And also is there anything that comes into the governance-related thing, whether positive or negative. Again, our AM orders will give the alerts to the end user.

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. So this is an example. Of course, obviously, we keep building on capabilities as we go. But this is a very, very comprehensive way for anyone who wants to govern a particular status of a company or something else. And obviously, there's a lot of noise around governance building up quite aggressively across the world. So this is just one way. We can take Sherlock as a platform and help in people, either government companies, whether they are banks or asset managers or even investors and so on and so forth, even the regulators and our auditors and so on. So I think it's a very, very broad-based capability.

[indiscernible]

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Unknown Executive

Thank you. [indiscernible] so ideas to show a small review of it. This can be enhanced with the ESG compliance. We can have a ESG support tomorrow, but to be converted into the total for company. These capabilities are already there with the areas of the intelligence company.

Any comments on anybody has or we can move to the next question.

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Praveen Malik
executive

I know there are a couple of more questions. Can we go ahead?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes. 5 more minutes, may be.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. from

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Unknown Analyst

I'm just asking from your commentary, your last con call, you have mentioned that the 3 wide areas like Banking as a Service, this GCB, where we are becoming one of the top 3 players. And then Intellect AI. You asked us to look at these 3 other new growth areas. You have been giving extremely good comment qualitatively. So my questions are, like you have mentioned in this result press release that -- there are almost 10 that you are going to -- you are very content of signing up in the next 6 months in Intellect AI. So how much of the other participants about that you're being the top 3? And also how confident are you that this will turn into quantitative? I'm not seeing immediate quarters, but how confident are you about your qualitative comment turning into this quantitative in the coming 1, 2 years?

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Arun Jain
executive

I have to just tell you that I show the symptoms where we are talking about going 2 places our IT has given us a leadership To get into the corner of patent of payments among 30 companies of payment and 2 leaders -- I think that based on that. [indiscernible] not recognizing us just based on some money we paid to them. [indiscernible] how many companies are the payment space, which is there in the last slide, Slide 29 on the debt. We are all the respected companies, including IP and rotate and other part outside circle. They are not inside circle. There are 2 companies we are putting in inside circle, which is Intellect and -- And others in liquidity management, it's only one company in the indirect circle. If you don't make it in just and it's our project

U
Unknown Analyst

I'm just asking. So the second question following on this last sentence that you asked -- Intellect payments has been implemented is India's largest private bank with cross-country corporate payment coverage of 60% expected to scale to 100% of transaction. Can you just like really going to understand what you mean by 60% of the country or corporate payments in the country or -- I'm not asking the -- but can you explain this? Sorry?

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Arun Jain
executive

Yes, go ahead. The larger side the --

U
Unknown Executive

No. The 60% of your payments have moved on to this platform. And it's going to grow. It's valuating from the other platform, and it's going to grow by 100%. That's just to talk about the scale. But it's also at a country level, our game plan in India is to reach to that level basis what we have signed or what's in pipeline. So that much amount of corporate payments will flow in our network in the next 12 to 18 months.

U
Unknown Analyst

So corporate payments of the country is what you're saying. You guys are whatever --

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Arun Jain
executive

That is our goal for this specific bank.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

Next, we have Mr. Nishid Shah.

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Nishid Shah
analyst

A good set of number, Arun and your team. And also a special congratulations for the fifth third bank deal win. Now with this, how many banks in the U.S. we have on the platform? And how many we have in the pipeline?

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Arun Jain
executive

With this, we have done North America 10 banks platform, and then we have enough number of insurance side. [indiscernible] 50-odd on the insurance side, again are in the banking segment. So we would be close to 25 customers in --

U
Unknown Analyst

So would we say that we will be at an inflection point in terms of benefiting the banking customers in U.S. with these number of reference sites?

A
Arun Jain
executive

[indiscernible] infection point. I think we are building the pipeline because references when you get a point -- we believe that 18 months -- to get an inflection point. We believe that 18 months, we can be...

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Unknown Executive

I think, our previous references was a lot of global banks. Now we're getting U.S. domestic banks as reference. That's the journey like Arun said, 18 months more. There's some in implementation, we'll bring more. That's when we will get to become a local domestic player.

U
Unknown Analyst

I understand. And how is our partnership with Microsoft and Accenture and AWS progressing? That's not just confined to U.S. I understand it's global, right?

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Arun Jain
executive

All 3 are global. We are working with all 3 of them. We are working in multiple division with each once of them. So some of the -- so in IBM, we are working in one of the large central bank in -- and Accenture, we are working in other few deals with Accenture. We are working with general commitment is there So all the 4 of them are we are working right now. So we are all playing positive for us because the cross-reference are -- million deals. So some time, we are directly working with them, sometimes we work as a cross --

U
Unknown Analyst

That's great. And on the GCB side, we had a lot of deals in the pipeline, especially in Europe, where -- we were in the top 2 -- Are we closer to the kind of cat there? Or are we still aware on that?

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Arun Jain
executive

Europe is slowing down. Digital cycle is slow, so that's -- But I think you've seen we have announced a very large European bank of $3 million, where we have closed a deal in this quarter. French bank. Before I mentioned valuation cycle much longer.

P
Praveen Malik
executive

We can have one more question. Vibhu Gupta from GSS.

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Unknown Analyst

It's a very good quarter this time. Sir, are you planning for buyback?

A
Arun Jain
executive

Board decision of the investor.

U
Unknown Analyst

So the stock price has fallen from INR 9.50 to INR 4.50. It's a good time to buy back.

A
Arun Jain
executive

So if are suggesting something, we can -- I'll put it to the Board, yes.

Thank you very much. Thank you for advising us on some of the strategies is good dialogue with you. So I would call this investor conversation at an investor dialogue in the coming months. Because this time, we have more time for conversation than presentation, since we roll a -- no point as we're seeing a time. Even if we not turn off whether the market will be looking at it, you right and well and seen. And anybody who wants to have more detail of standing we may do some session on technology sessions -- any of your customers. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Praveen Malik
executive

Thank you, everybody. Now we are closing the call. Thank you.

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