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Equity-Accounted Investments And Other Long-Term Assets
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Equity-Accounted Investments And Other Long-Term Assets [Abstract]  
Equity-Accounted Investments And Other Long-Term Assets
9.
 
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
 
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS
Equity-accounted investments
The Company’s ownership percentage
 
in its equity-accounted investments as of June 30, 2025 and 2024, was as follows:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
June 30,
June 30,
2025
2024
Sandulela Technology
 
Proprietary Limited ("Sandulela")
49
 
%
49
 
%
SmartSwitch Namibia (Pty) Ltd (“SmartSwitch Namibia”)
50
 
%
50
 
%
Finbond
In December
 
2023, the
 
Company sold
 
its entire
 
remaining equity
 
interest in
 
Finbond which
 
comprised of
220,523,358
 
shares,
and which represented approximately
27.8
% of Finbond’s issued and
 
outstanding ordinary shares immediately
 
prior to the
 
sale. Lesaka
SA had pledged, among other things, its entire equity interest in Finbond as security for its previous South African facilities described
in Note 12.
Sale of Finbond shares during the years ended
 
June 30, 2024
 
and 2023
On
 
August
 
10,
 
2023,
 
the
 
Company,
 
through
 
its
 
wholly
 
owned
 
subsidiary
 
Net1
 
Finance
 
Holdings
 
(Pty)
 
Ltd,
 
entered
 
into
 
an
agreement with Finbond to sell its remaining shareholding to Finbond for a cash consideration of ZAR
64.2
 
million ($
3.5
 
million), or
ZAR
0.2911
 
per share. The transaction closed in December 2023. The Company did
no
t record a gain or loss on the disposal because
the sale
 
proceeds were
 
equivalent to
 
the net
 
carrying value,
 
including accumulated
 
reserves, of
 
the investment
 
in Finbond
 
as of
 
the
disposal
 
date.
 
The
 
cash
 
proceeds
 
received
 
of
 
ZAR
64.2
 
million
 
($
3.5
 
million)
 
were
 
used
 
to
 
repay
 
capitalized
 
interest
 
under
 
our
borrowing facilities, refer to Note 12.
The
 
Company
 
sold
25,456,545
 
shares
 
in Finbond
 
for
 
cash during
 
the
 
year
 
ended
 
June 30,
 
2023,
 
and
 
recorded
 
a
 
loss of
 
$
0.4
million in the caption loss on equity-accounted investment in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the years ended
June 30, 2023.
 
9.
 
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
 
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Finbond (continued)
Sale of Finbond shares during the years ended
 
June 30, 2024 and 2023 (continued)
The following table presents the
 
calculation of the loss on disposal
 
of Finbond shares during the
 
years ended June 30, 2024
 
and
2023:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year
 
ended June 30,
2024
2023
Loss on disposal of Finbond shares:
Consideration received in cash
$
3,508
$
265
Less: carrying value of Finbond shares sold
(2,112)
(363)
Less: release of foreign currency translation reserve from accumulated other
 
comprehensive
loss
(1,543)
(252)
Add: release of stock-based compensation charge related
 
to equity-accounted investment
147
9
Loss on sale of Finbond shares
$
-
$
(341)
Finbond impairments
 
recorded during
 
the year ended June 30, 2024
The Company performed an impairment assessment of its holding in Finbond, including the foreign currency translation reserve
and other equity
 
account amounts, as
 
of September
 
30, 2023. The
 
Company recorded
 
an impairment
 
loss of $
1.2
 
million during the
quarter ended September
 
30, 2023, which
 
represented the difference
 
between the determined
 
fair value of
 
the Company’s
 
interest in
Finbond and the Company’s carrying value, including the foreign currency translation reserve (before the impairment). The Company
used the
 
price of
 
ZAR
0.2911
 
referenced in
 
the August
 
2023 agreement
 
referred to
 
above to
 
calculate the
 
determined fair
 
value for
Finbond.
Finbond impairments
 
recorded during
 
the year ended June 30, 2023
The Company
 
considered the combination
 
of the ongoing
 
losses incurred and
 
reported by Finbond
 
and its lower
 
share price as
impairment indicators as of
 
September 30, 2022. The
 
Company performed an impairment
 
assessment of its holding
 
in Finbond as of
September 30,
 
2022. The Company
 
recorded an impairment
 
loss of $
1.1
 
million during the
 
year ended
 
June 30, 2023,
 
related to the
other-than-temporary
 
decrease
 
in
 
Finbond’s
 
value,
 
which
 
represented
 
the
 
difference
 
between
 
the
 
determined
 
fair
 
value
 
of
 
the
Company’s interest
 
in Finbond and the Company’s
 
carrying value (before the impairment).
 
During fiscal 2023, there continued
 
to be
limited trading
 
in Finbond
 
shares on
 
the JSE
 
because a
 
small number
 
of shareholders
 
owned approximately
80
% of
 
its issued
 
and
outstanding shares between them. The Company calculated a fair value per share for Finbond by applying a liquidity discount of
25
%
to the September 30, 2022, Finbond closing price of ZAR
0.49
. The Company increased the liquidity discount from
15
% (used in the
previous impairment assessment)
 
to
25
% (used in
 
the September 30,
 
2022 assessment) as
 
a result of
 
the ongoing limited
 
trading activity
observed on the JSE.
Carbon
In September 2022, the
 
Company entered into a binding
 
term sheet to sell its entire
 
interest, or
25
%, in Carbon for $
0.5
 
million
and a
 
loan due from
 
Carbon, with a
 
face value of
 
$
3
 
million, for $
0.75
 
million. Both
 
the equity
 
interest and
 
the loan had
 
a carrying
value of
 
$
0
 
(zero) at June
 
30, 2022.
 
The Company
 
received $
0.25
 
million on closing
 
and the outstanding
 
balance due by
 
Etobicoke
was expected to be paid
 
as follows: (i) $
0.25
 
million on September 30,
 
2023 (the amount was received
 
in October 2023), and (ii)
 
the
remaining
 
amount, of
 
$
0.75
 
million in
 
March 2024
 
(the amount
 
has not
 
been received
 
as of
 
June 30,
 
2024 (refer
 
to Note
 
4)). The
Company
 
has
 
allocated
 
the $
0.25
 
million
 
received
 
on closing
 
to the
 
sale of
 
the
 
equity interest
 
and
 
allocated
 
the subsequent
 
funds
received first to the sale of the equity interest and then to the loans.
 
9.
 
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
 
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Equity-accounted investments (continued)
Carbon (continued)
The Company
 
believed that
 
the fair
 
value of
 
the Carbon
 
shares provided
 
as security
 
was $
0
 
(zero), which
 
was in
 
line with
 
the
carrying value as
 
of June 30, 2022,
 
and created an allowance
 
for doubtful loans receivable
 
related to the $
1.0
 
million previously due
from Etobicoke.
 
The Company
 
did not
 
incur any significant
 
transaction costs.
 
The Company
 
has included
 
the gain of
 
$
0.25
 
million
related to the sale of the Carbon equity interest in the caption net
 
gain on disposal of equity-accounted investments in the Company’s
consolidated statements of operations.
The following table presents the calculation of the gain on disposal of Carbon
 
during the year ended June 30, 2023:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year
 
ended
 
June 30,
2023
Gain on disposal of Carbon shares:
Consideration received in cash in September 2022
$
250
Less: carrying value of Carbon
-
Gain on disposal of Carbon shares:
(1)
$
250
(1)
 
The
 
Company
 
did
 
not
 
pay
 
taxes
 
related
 
to
 
the
 
sale
 
of
 
Carbon
 
because
 
the
 
base
 
cost
 
of
 
its
 
investment
 
exceeds
 
the
 
sales
consideration
 
received.
 
The Company
 
does not
 
believe
 
that it
 
will be
 
able to
 
utilize the
 
loss generated
 
because
 
Net1 BV
 
does
 
not
generate taxable income.
VantagePay
 
Limited
The Company provided VantagePay with a working capital
 
facility of $
1.5
 
million. The Company created
 
an allowance for credit
losses related to loans receivable of $
1.5
 
million during the year ended June 30,
 
2021, related to the full amount
 
outstanding as of June
30, 2021. This amount was still outstanding as of June 30, 2025.
Summarized
 
below is
 
the movement
 
in equity-accounted
 
investments during
 
the years
 
ended June
 
30, 2025
 
and 2024,
 
which
includes the investment in equity and the investment in loans provided
 
to equity-accounted investees:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Finbond
Other
(1)
Total
Investment in equity
Balance as of June 30, 2023
$
3,040
$
131
$
3,171
Stock-based compensation
 
14
-
14
Comprehensive loss:
(956)
166
(790)
Other comprehensive income
 
489
-
489
Equity accounted (loss) earnings
(1,445)
166
(1,279)
Share of net (loss) income
(278)
166
(112)
Impairment
(1,167)
-
(1,167)
Dividends received
 
-
(95)
(95)
Sale of shares in equity-accounted investment
(2,096)
-
(2,096)
Foreign currency adjustment
(2)
(2)
4
2
Balance as of June 30, 2024
-
206
206
Comprehensive income:
-
114
114
Equity accounted earnings
-
114
114
Share of net income
-
114
114
Dividends received
 
-
(96)
(96)
Sale of shares in equity-accounted investment
-
(507)
(507)
Equity-accounted investment acquired in business combination (Note
 
3)
-
477
477
Foreign currency adjustment
(2)
-
5
5
Balance as of June 30, 2025
$
-
$
199
$
199
(1) Includes Sandulela and SmartSwitch Namibia;
(2) The foreign currency
 
adjustment represents the
 
effects of the fluctuations
 
of the ZAR and
 
Namibian dollar, against
 
the U.S.
dollar on the carrying value.
9.
 
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
 
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Other long-term assets
Summarized below is the breakdown of other long-term assets as of June 30,
 
2025, and June 30, 2024:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
June 30,
June 30,
2025
2024
Total equity investments
 
$
-
$
76,297
Investment in MobiKwik (June 30, 2024:
10
%)
(1)
-
76,297
Investment in
5
% of Cell C (June 30, 2024:
5
%) at fair value (Note 6)
-
-
Investment in
87.50
% of CPS (June 30, 2024:
87.50
%) at fair value
(1)(2)
-
-
Policy holder assets under investment contracts (Note 11)
125
216
Reinsurance assets under insurance contracts (Note 11)
1,837
1,469
Other long-term assets
1,847
-
Total other long-term
 
assets
$
3,809
$
77,982
(1) The
 
Company determined
 
that MobiKwik
 
(up until
 
December 2024)
 
and CPS do
 
not have
 
readily determinable
 
fair values
and therefore elected
 
to record these
 
investments at cost
 
minus impairment, if
 
any,
 
plus or minus
 
changes resulting from
 
observable
price changes in orderly
 
transactions for the identical
 
or a similar investment
 
of the same issuer.
 
The Company disposed
 
of its entire
investment in MobiKwik in late June 2025.
(2) On October 16, 2020, the
 
High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division,
 
Pretoria ordered that Cash Paymaster Services (Pty)
Ltd (“CPS”) be placed into liquidation.
MobiKwik
The Company
 
signed a
 
subscription agreement
 
with MobiKwik,
 
which is
 
one of
 
India’s
 
largest independent
 
mobile payments
networks and buy now
 
pay later businesses.
 
Pursuant to the
 
subscription agreement, the Company agreed
 
to make an
 
equity investment
of up to $
40.0
 
million in MobiKwik over a
24
-month period. The Company made an
 
initial $
15.0
 
million investment in August 2016
and a
 
further
 
$
10.6
 
million investment
 
in June
 
2017,
 
under this
 
subscription
 
agreement.
 
During the
 
year ended
 
June 30,
 
2019, the
Company
 
paid
 
$
1.1
 
million
 
to
 
subscribe
 
for
 
additional
 
shares
 
in
 
MobiKwik.
 
The
 
Company
 
owned
6,215,620
 
equity
 
shares
 
in
MobiKwik, which as of June 30, 2024, represented approximately
10
% of MobiKwik’s issued share capital.
Refer to Note 6 for additional information
 
regarding the determination of the fair value
 
of Company’s investment
 
in MobiKwik
as of June 30, 2025. The Company disposed of its entire equity interest in
 
MobiKwik for $
16.4
 
million during the year ended June 30,
2025,
 
and
 
recorded
 
a
 
loss of
 
$
59.8
 
million.
 
This
 
loss comprised
 
of (i)
 
fair
 
value
 
adjustments
 
to
 
decrease
 
the carrying
 
value
 
of its
investment by $
54.2
 
million from $
76.3
 
million as of June 30, 2024, to $
22.1
 
million as of March 31, 2025, and (ii) a further loss $
5.6
million upon disposal in the
 
fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. The
 
loss is included in the
 
caption “Change in fair value of
 
equity securities”
in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2025.
The Company
 
did not
 
identify any
 
observable transactions
 
during
 
the years
 
ended June
 
30, 2024
 
and 2023,
 
respectively,
 
and
therefore there
 
was no
 
change in
 
the fair
 
value of
 
MobiKwik during
 
these years.
 
During the
 
year ended
 
June 30,
 
2021, MobiKwik
entered
 
into
 
a number
 
of
 
separate
 
agreements
 
with
 
new
 
shareholders
 
to
 
raise
 
additional capital
 
through
 
the
 
issuance
 
of additional
shares. The Company used the
 
valuation from MobiKwik’s June 2021 capital raise as
 
the basis for its
 
fair value determination of $
76.3
million as of June 30, 2024.
 
Cell C
On
 
August
 
2,
 
2017,
 
the
 
Company,
 
through
 
its
 
subsidiary,
 
Net1SA,
 
purchased
75,000,000
 
class
 
“A”
 
shares
 
of
 
Cell
 
C
 
for
 
an
aggregate purchase price of ZAR
2.0
 
billion ($
151.0
 
million) in cash. The Company funded the transaction through
 
a combination of
cash and a borrowing facility. Net1 SA has pledged, among other things, its entire equity interest in Cell
 
C as security for the previous
South African
 
facilities described
 
in Note 12.
 
On September 30,
 
2022, Cell C
 
completed its
 
recapitalization process
 
which included
the issuance of
 
additional equity instruments
 
by Cell C. The
 
Company’s
 
effective percentage
 
holding in Cell C’s
 
equity has reduced
from
15
% to
5
% following
 
the
 
recapitalization.
 
The Company’s
 
investment
 
in
 
Cell C
 
is carried
 
at
 
fair
 
value.
 
Refer
 
to Note
 
6
 
for
additional information regarding changes in the fair value of Cell C.
CPS
The Company
 
deconsolidated
 
its investment
 
in CPS
 
in May
 
2020. As
 
of June
 
30, 2025
 
and 2024,
 
respectively,
 
the Company
owned
87.5
% of CPS’ issued share capital.
 
9.
 
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED
 
INVESTMENTS AND OTHER LONG-TERM ASSETS (continued)
Other long-term assets (continued)
Summarized below
 
are the components
 
of the Company’s
 
equity securities
 
without readily
 
determinable fair
 
value and held
 
to
maturity investments as of June 30, 2025:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cost basis
Unrealized
holding gains
Unrealized
holding losses
Carrying
value
Equity securities:
Investment in CPS
$
-
$
-
$
-
$
-
Held to maturity:
Investment in Cedar Cellular notes
 
-
-
-
-
Summarized below are the components of the Company’s
 
equity securities without readily determinable fair value and held to
maturity investments as of June 30, 2024:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cost basis
Unrealized
holding gains
Unrealized
holding losses
Carrying
value
Equity securities:
Investment in MobiKwik
$
26,993
$
49,304
$
-
$
76,297
Investment in CPS
-
-
-
-
Held to maturity:
Investment in Cedar Cellular notes
 
-
-
-
-
Total
 
$
26,993
$
49,304
$
-
$
76,297