Pierre Naude
Analyst · Barclays. Please proceed.
Yes. So look, if you look at the map internationally, we've got a great U.K. island business. We struggled to penetrate the continent. That's why we hired JoaquÃn, he lives in Madrid, Spain is one of our target areas, I've got Santander, both in the U.K. as well as the U.S. And to me, there's no reason why we shouldn't penetrate those very large Spanish banks that also then carries you into Latin America. So that is a positive highlight for us for the future. but we've not been successful there. In the Nordics, you saw the announcement there. This focused territory approach that we're taking now, we see some results coming from it. Japan, I was in Japan, excited about Japan. Culturally, I don't speak the language, so you get there, you get the translators and you listen to everything, I've never seen a group of Japanese people that excited in my life, but I haven't been that much exposed, but I'm just telling you it is very positive. It was the largest banking conference in Japan for the year. We had great attendance people on stage spoke very positively about the company. And then you go down to Asia Pac, Australia and New Zealand, got a great installed base in New Zealand. To me, that business is just slower. It's a smaller market. People tend to look at the map and think it's a big market. South Africa is doing well for us. That local businesses keep on selling and doing well. So as you look at all over the place, great installed basis, whereas the momentum on sales, I see the Nordics, and I see Japan as momentum. And then for the future, I look at Spain for momentum and across the place. I still believe Germany is more of a place where we have to do an acquisition or something to get a solid enough footprint to tackle that marketplace.