Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the investor corner of Aurionpro Solutions Limited to discuss the Q2 and H1 FY 2025 earnings conference call. As a reminder, all participants' lines will be in the listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Ms. Aashvi Shah from Adfactors PR, Investor Relations. Thank you, and over to you, ma'am.
Thank you, Nima. Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of the company, I would like to welcome you all to the earnings conference call for Q2 and H1 FY 2025. Today, on this call, we have with us from the management, Mr. Ashish Rai, Vice Chairman and Group CEO, Mr. Vipul Parmar, Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Ninad Kelkar, Company Secretary. We will begin the call with brief opening remarks from the management, followed by a Q&A session. Please note that certain statements made during this call may be forward-looking in nature. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or projections to differ materially from those statements. Aurionpro Solutions will not be in any way responsible for any actions taken based on such statements and undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements.
I would now like to hand over the call to Mr. Ashish Rai for his opening remarks. Thank you, and over to you, sir.
Thanks, Aashvi. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this earnings call for Q2 FY 2025. I'm sure by now you've all received the investor deck, and I hope you've had an opportunity to review it. I'm very pleased to share the continuing strong performance in Q2 and in H1. We continue to make significant progress in the quarter on our agenda to expand the banking software business to newer markets, as well as to recalibrate parts of the TIG business to focus on better economics, as we've talked about before. Our revenue for Q2 has grown by 32% on the back of continued momentum across the businesses, especially on the banking side. EBITDA increased by 23%, and PAT grew by 34%, which is a great indicator of continued effective execution by the team.
Building a scaled-up enterprise technology player that delivers value on the global stage will take immense focus on a complex range of factors, and it's worth appreciating how steadily and methodically the team has continued to make progress across the various aspects of the strategic agenda. To recap the performance, revenue for the quarter stood at INR 278 crore, which is a significant increase on the YoY basis. PAT stood at INR 46 crore for Q2, and PAT margins for the quarter stood at 16.4%, which is slightly above the guided range of 15%-16%. EBITDA margin for the quarter stood at 20.3%, well within the guided range, but down a point from the previous quarter due to a one-off FX loss that we had.
This growth is driven by significant expansion in demand for our core offerings, as well as our entry into newer markets where we are increasingly succeeding because of the competitiveness of our product stack. The most important highlight of the first half of the year has been the significant progress our teams have made on product buildouts, as well as new market entries for both banking as well as TIC. This progress doesn't show up in the quarterly results, but it's probably the most significant determinant of our ability to achieve Aurionpro's stated vision 2030 and deliver industry-leading returns on capital for our shareholders.
We announced market expansion and deal wins across America, across Southeast Asia, across Middle Eastern Africa, and we feel confident that we will continue to see an acceleration of these based on the strong growth in pipeline and our ability to convert pipeline into deal wins across both the segments. Banking and fintech business continues to experience a very strong demand environment, and our win rates have been very good thanks to the competitiveness of our product stack, as well as the increasing effectiveness of our sales and delivery teams. We have especially made very strong progress on enabling our enterprise software in banking with the very mature ML offerings from Arya.ai, and that has especially enhanced both our win rates as well as the size of the revenue opportunity for our enterprise application stack.
The last quarter was also great from the standpoint of industry recognition, with Aurionpro featuring as global category leader across five of Chartis RiskTech Quadrants, as well as featuring strongly on the RiskTech100 report. Coming to the TIG business, TIG has been focusing sharply on growth in transit payment and data center space, as well as recalibrating the business on the smart city side for better economics and cash efficiency. We've been talking about this. I think we've made tremendous progress on this and feel great about improving demand and economics on this side of the business through the rest of the year. TIG had a landmark win with Safe City Panvel project, as well as significant wins with strategic partners in data center business, which will set us up very well for a strong second half.
Our focus for the rest of the year going forward will be to stick to the strategy and do more of the same, continue to invest strongly in R&D to support product buildouts, especially around entering new markets where we do need to build out some additional bits on the product to enable them for the newer markets, as well as to AI-enable the product stack, as well as focus on execution and cash efficiency in some parts of the business where we need tighter execution to wind down some projects that have struggled due to lead time that we need to build capacity to deliver. As we look towards the rest of this FY and beyond, we feel confident about our ability to continue to strongly grow the business while investing in building capabilities and offerings that will fuel the long-term earnings growth for the firm.
We are heading into the second half with great momentum and feel good about delivering our guided growth of 30%+ and keep earnings margin within the guided bands. We'll continue to explore inorganic options as well that complement our existing capabilities or enhance our presence in chosen markets to optimally impact our longer-term growth potential. Finally, we extend our sincere gratitude to our employees, customers, partners, and shareholders for their continued support and contribution to our success. With that, I'll close, and I look forward to an engaging Q&A. Over to you, Aashvi.
Thank you very much. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touch-tone telephone. If you wish to withdraw yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. The first question is from the line of Vimal Jamnadas Gohil from Alchemy Capital Management. Please go ahead.
Yeah, thank you for the opportunity. Congratulations on a great quarter.
Hey, Vimal, I can't hear you properly. Can you be a bit louder?
Is this better?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hi.
Great. Hi. So my first question was around on margins. Could you help us, or rather, could you take us through various puts and takes of this 152 basis points decline quarter- on- quarter? And even on a YoY basis, our margins have slipped to the lower band of our guided range. I do understand that you have given a guided range for a reason, but if you can help us explain the factors that have led to this particular decline, and then I have a follow-up.
Okay. Yeah. So Vimal, thanks for the question. And I think you said this in your question itself. I've said this. It's very at the pace at which we are growing, it's hard to calibrate EBITDA margin down to a fine point, and that's why we give a range of 20%-22%. I would say there are significant investments that we are making in terms of supporting the products to expand into newer markets. And we are sort of, I think when you are building products at rapid speed, even if you have order book to sort of deliver, there will be periods where the experience kind of goes a little bit ahead of the revenue, right? Not to a significant extent because we are very measured in where we make our investments, but there will be, that's why we keep the 2% band.
Expenses will sometimes shoot up, right? So I think we are expanding at a pace that we've never done before. We are entering new markets at a pace we've not done before. We are doing product buildout, especially AI-enabling the whole product stack like we've never done before. So yes, there is a significant uptick in sort of both the headcount as well as the expenses that are going in, but there is, even if it's a little bit of lag, there's revenue to back it up. In this specific quarter, we also had a INR 4 crore FX loss, which is a one-off, and that is probably a point hit or slightly more than a point hit on the EBITDA. But I would really advise not to read too much into the quarterly EBITDA numbers because honestly, we cannot calibrate down to a fine point.
So sometimes it will go to 23, sometimes it will come down to 20. But by and large, there is nothing fundamentally changing from one quarter to the next in terms of the business economics, right? I mean, that's what I would say to it. I hope that answers the question, but I would really advise not to read too much on these numbers from one quarter to the next.
Fair enough, Ashish. Thank you so much. Ashish, the second question was around our balance sheet and cash flow. So what I noticed is that while the EBITDA growth has been very strong in the first half, it hasn't led to generating operating cash. So we've sort of reported a negative operating cash of INR 66 crore in the first half, which is, of course, led by the receivables and other assets. And I believe this is due to the increase in unbilled receivables. So if you can take us, how do we sort of unwind this? How does the full year of FY 2025 look? And how do we make sure that we return back to normalize the cash generation?
Yeah. Okay, good. So great question, Vimal, right? So cash flow would be a little bit cyclical for us, and I'll probably try and explain the factors. But by and large, the headline story is when we are growing parts of the business rapidly, the cash conversion will suffer. As the businesses come down to lower growth rates, the cash conversion will get better. I mean, that's to generate a statement, but I think that is at the headline level what really happens, right? In terms of the actual factors that go into the - 66, let me think through those.
So I would say one very large factor is, and I have to be careful what I can sort of disclose, but we are in some M&A process for a large global asset, which is kind of a core sort of process, and there's been deposits that have been given. It sort of works two ways. Either you succeed, in which case we probably have an M&A. If you don't succeed, then the deposit gets returned back, but those sort of add up to the cash that goes out, especially when you show up on other assets or something. We do also have the unbilled part that you're talking about. So it's not just unbilled. It's truly unbilled as well as receivables. But basically, we have started on very large - we've had very large wins on the banking side, right?
Especially where we've had projects like State Bank of India, we've had wins in Saudi Arabia, we've had a very large global fintech vendor where we built out new products which they are selling. These are actually pretty significant successes, but what really happens as we are ramping into the projects is that we are making progress. We are accruing revenues. In some cases, we invoice those out, but bulk of the conversion will happen as we take these clients live. In the case of these large projects, most of these are within the year, and that's why I say you'll see some cyclicality between now and then, but by December, January, some of these large projects would be live. We would collect the cash before March, so I think that will normalize. The inorganic process as well will normalize.
We've had some also around the ESOP schemes that we've rolled out to attract the right kind of talent and motivate our employees. We've had some outflow in terms of loans to advances to employees to enable them to on the ESOP schemes, right? So that's also a material number. So there are quite a few of these, but I think the headline story is there will be some level of cyclicality in terms of cash flow conversion when we are going at rapid pace, and especially parts of the businesses which are going at rapid pace, so banking now is going at 50%+ , so we will start large projects, and the larger the project, the more the sort of mismatch that likely will happen. We had the same problem when TIG was growing rapidly the last couple of years at 50%+ .
So we slowed TIG down this year to focus more on cash efficiency, and that will start showing up in the second half of the year. So I fully expect by the time we get to March, a lot of these conversions would have happened, and you'll see the result. But again, when we look at balance sheet from one quarter to the next, you will see some of these variances going out. I hope that answers the question, but I'm happy to take a follow-up on this.
Yeah, yeah, sure. If I may, Ashish. So what you're saying is by the end of FY 2025, we should be returning to positive OCF. And assuming I'm just not putting words in your mouth, but assuming that the growth rate continues to be strong in FY 2026, we should not see this kind of cyclicality or rather lumpiness in cash flows because TIG would clearly be growing lesser as compared to your banking business. Correct me if I'm wrong.
True. Yeah, and also you're right. And that is the reason, and we've been very. I've been totally transparent on this, why we've slowed down parts of the business, why we are accelerating other parts of the business. Banking, I mean, other than the few large projects we've started off, tends to generally be fairly cash efficient, and we typically finish off most projects within 12 months. So you would normally be very, very reasonably efficient. So yes, by the time you finish FY 2025, I think it would be a different picture. But the second thing is also the mix of the businesses. We continue to focus on it.
I think what we need to really understand as managers, even as our shareholders, is I think businesses which go through rapid growth would not have the same predictability of cash efficiency as a mature business going at 5% or 7% growth, right, and in the product business, it sort of becomes a bit more susceptible to the timeline of the projects going live, but having said that, I am very confident as we go from one financial year to the next, we will get much stronger and stronger as we go because the bottom line is banking software is fundamentally a business with very good economics, and it's going at 50%, right, so I think some of this cyclicality aside, I think by the time we finish the year, a lot of these projects will be live.
By the time we get into FY 2026, we'll be much stronger on the balance sheet than FY 2025, right? So I think it will keep going from there.
Great. So last statement, I'll take that as the crux of it. All right. Thanks, Ashish. Thanks a lot.
Thank you.
All the very best.
Bye.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Karthik Iyer, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
Hi, can I add on?
Hi, Karthik. Yes.
Hi, Ashish. Congrats on the good set. I just had a couple of questions regarding TIG. Congrats on the Panvel order win. I just wanted to know what is the timeline for execution of that project and what would be, if you could throw some light on the margins we would be making on that?
Okay. Yeah. Hi, Karthik. So look, TIG, as I've said, we maybe give a little bit of background on this. On the smart city side, we deliberately slowed down the business over the last year to focus on identifying the levers to getting better economics on that side. We obviously built up some fantastic IP, and we built up some fantastic capabilities on that side, but we wanted to be very careful as we get that business back to growth. Safe City Panvel, we've carefully selected as a business with the right sort of parameters. They will be bringing enough value to the table for us to get the economics right, right? So that is, again, having said that, we are still calibrating that side of the business, but that is what our plan is, and hence the project.
We will get most of the delivery done between 16- 18 months. I think beyond the 12 months, I think we'll get most of the deliveries done. It is a multi-year project, but I would say on the outside, at about 18 months, we'll get most of the deliveries done.
If you could throw any light on the margins for that?
Oh, yeah. So margins are kind of on this. So I don't think we can specifically highlight the deal margins, but it's high double digits.
Okay. And if you could throw some light on, is there any fresh order wins with regard to transit and what is the order book for the data center space?
Okay. So look, transit side, we have had significant traction in America. We've announced large wins in Mexico, which we're delivering again. We've had success in Costa Rica, Ecuador, etc. We continue to double down on those. We are also now seeing some new progress in terms of closed-loop to open-loop movement in the U.S. We are involved in a bunch of POCs, which we hope will translate into large-scale sort of action on part of the government, such as the transit operators. So we hope to see for the next few quarters a lot more action in the U.S. market itself. Of course, California continues. We are working with more and more cities, and that progresses, but we feel the market is ready for more action in other states other than California, and there are a bunch of POCs going out.
We are also now on the transit side, sort of seriously getting into Europe, both largely in terms of our partnerships with other larger players, so more as part of consortia than going directly ourselves, but there is a lot more traction there, and we are now, we have some very strong, well-progressed pipeline opportunities in Asia, in, let's say, Southeast Asia and a few countries, right, so again, those should come to fruition over the next couple of quarters, so transit has very strong traction outside of India. In India, we've had success with one of the metro projects, but we are being very measured in the kind of transit business we take on in India. I think globally, the expansion would be a lot stronger.
The question around the data center space, we have had sort of significant order wins from Iron Mountain and Web Werks, which I think we've sort of publicly disclosed. That business continues to grow. We continue to work on the R&D side in that business to hopefully be able to get some productized offerings out, but it's a long haul. It's complex to really get the productization right in that space, but we are working through it. I think the order wins are there. So this year, data center business should grow at a very, very good number, but then it's been going at that rate for the last few years, so it will continue to expand. Hopefully, that covers what you asked.
Thank you. But it seems like our current participant got disconnected. We'll take our next question from the line of Ahaan from Vivana Capital. Please go ahead.
Yeah, Ashish, congrats on a fantastic set of results and growing the business. Just one or two questions. One was on the order book. Could you please give a breakout of the order book of level and across between the TIG and the banking and fintech, and what sort of goes within the smart transit, data centers, and give a brief breakout of that?
Hi, Ahaan. Thank you. So order book right now is in the range of, I would say, INR 1,150 crores, give or take, right? And the split between the banking and the TIG business is roughly 40/60. I think banking we picked up a lot of new orders, but we've also been executing against those orders pretty rapidly, right? So I think it's still a larger share on the TIG order book, also thanks to some of the newer orders we picked up on both the data center space as well as Safe City Panvel and all, right? So that is where we are. Banking continues to pick up a higher volume of smaller ticket-sized orders and continues to sort of execute on those.
Thank you. And across both the businesses, could you share a rough margin range? I know the blended one target guidance that we've got is for 22% around that range, but what would it be for individual segments?
Yeah. So look, there's a reason, Ahaan, I don't really get into segment-wise margins because I think the thing is, one, the smaller you make the scale, the lesser you get the price stability in terms of margins, right? And that's why we keep it at a macro level. But having said that, I would say banking is anywhere between four to six points above the enterprise margin, and TIG at the moment is probably four points, five points below the enterprise margin, but then it really varies by the segment inside these segments, subsegment inside these segments, as well as the nature of work that you're talking about, right? So the smaller you get, the less predictable your margin is, and some quarters it will be exceptional, and some quarters it will come down. So then that's the reason we don't really narrow it down.
Hopefully, by next year, each of the segments is scaled up enough for us to start publishing it. But at the moment, I would say, just as a general thumb rule, say four to six points above on the banking and fintech side and four to five points below on the TIG side.
Perfect. Thank you so much, and all the best for the following year. Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Karthik Iyer, an individual investor. Please go ahead.
I seem to have got cut off, so one follow-up on the banking. Are we investing in a team to execute all the successful order wins that we're doing in the banking and fintech space?
Yeah, Karthik, so I hope you got my answer to the last question, right? So on the banking team side, look, I would say the number one focus for Aurionpro at the moment, as well as the number one challenge in front of us, is scaling up lab capacity, right? I think it all looks nice that we're going at 50%, but it is complex. You need the full spectrum of skill sets. So unlike a typical services shop where someone else defines what needs to be built and we're rounding up a bunch of developers, we need a much more complex spectrum, the full spectrum of skill sets to mobilize product teams. And it's not so straightforward. The second is most of the capacity addition that we need to do on the banking side is people who implement our own applications.
So you need to really train people up on the applications that we build, and that also takes time. So I would say the lead time to really build capacity out is proving to be a little bit longer than we should have. And that also sort of results in weakness in terms of cash conversion because it comes down, right? You need to have the capacity to take the client's flight. You need to take the client's flight to convert the orders into cash, and the whole thing adds up, right? So I think we are working heavily on this. This is the number one focus item for us. We have instituted a new learning and development function inside Aurionpro to really step up how quickly we ramp up resources. We've built out internal training mechanisms because we can't find enough experienced talent out in the market.
We are hiring heavily from the global peer group in centers outside of India to be able to get the right sort of skill sets, right? And that's the reason why we run R&D centers in Singapore, R&D centers in Istanbul, in Vietnam, right? So we are broad-basing the talent base. We are instituting heavy investments in sort of internal training mechanisms to ramp up the teams. We have obviously added people, so you can see that the headcount is 2,500+ , but I think we are not a very resource-intensive business. You need the right quality of skill sets, right? So I think that is where the challenge is. That is where we are super focused on it. We have also built up the management bench. I think from time to time, we've sort of introduced people, BBCA managers who joined in, so we've hired the right.
I feel we have probably one of the most talented management teams in the industry today in terms of product buildouts, and then we've added capacity at a lower level in the question of sort of training them and ramping it up, right? I think it's a continuous process, and it's not that it's not happening fast, but I would be a lot happier if it happened a little bit faster than we are, and we'll keep sort of working at it. I mean, it's just the right question to ask, but I would say we need to keep working at it.
No, that's extremely helpful. So thank you so much for the insight. All the best moving forward.
Thank you. Thanks, Karthik. On that point, sorry to just add the answer, we will probably try to deploy some, let's say, not-so-organic approaches as well where we get an opportunity to quickly scale our talents, right? For example, on the AI side, we were struggling for quite some time, but acquiring Arya.ai has really lent us a lot of strength in terms of talent coming in. Same thing on the lending side. When we acquired Omnifin, we really grew up the talent on the lending side. We'll always be open for opportunities where there are inorganic opportunities that allow us to quickly ramp up on talent, as well as obviously commit costs and revenues, which are relevant to us.
But even just from a talent standpoint, some level of acqui-hire sort of opportunities, I think they do show that number up, and we'll probably act on those if they make sense.
Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Anmol Garg from DAM Capital. Please go ahead.
Yeah, hi, Ashish. Thanks for the opportunity. A couple of things. Firstly, we have shown very strong growth on the banking side of things. Now, can you indicate some of the areas where we are seeing this growth, particularly on the product side? Which of these products are showing more traction versus the other?
Hey, Anmol, hi. Thanks. Yeah, so banking, I think probably two or three levers which are working for us at the moment. One, the strongest area of growth is transaction banking at the moment, which is where we announced deal wins in Saudi Arabia. I mean, given the state of the pipeline and how well progressed the pipeline is, I'm pretty sure we'll announce more wins in that state going forward. So that segment, and this is where, again, we won SBI, Canara Bank, etc., last year. So this is a segment which is growing rapidly, where our win rates are, I would say, probably the best in the industry right now, and the pipeline is very large, right?
So when you combine a very large pipeline with us being the player with probably the strongest win rates in the business, then hopefully, not hopefully, I think I'm very confident that translates into a very large number of wins even in the future, but that's where the growth is very strong. The second area where we see very strong growth on the banking side is where we have sort of AI-enabled the product stack, so even the transaction banking side, part of the win rates being better than the competitors today is how AI-enabled our product stack is, right, so for example, on the transaction banking side, we have implemented a number of use cases.
Even in the wins we did in the past, like State Bank of India, the Middle East wins and all, they go together with a lot of actual AI decisioning going into the product stack, right? And I think that both improves our win rate there. But wherever we AI-enable the stack, we see just, I mean, it's just we've never seen this level of demand before, right? On that side, it's just unprecedented with the scale of demand on the enterprise area of things. So that's number two. And the third area where we've seen, let's say, over the past half, pretty rapid growth is the fintech ecosystem sort of partnerships that we built out with some of the global players.
I think that has been a lot of those have gone from zero to very material numbers even in the six months, and for the full year, they'll be very, very material numbers, right? So these fintech partnerships, especially in the U.S., probably in the second half in Europe, will get some wins. Those are working very, very well for us, right? So I think those are the three major areas. Lending also, we won a few deals that we announced, and it's growing as well. But those first three levers are expanding very strongly.
Understood. Understood. Yeah, thanks for this. And I think during your media interview, you indicated that U.S. growth will be very strong in FY 2025, probably in the range of 60%-70%. Can you again indicate that? Would this be coming from the deals that we have already won, or is there a good pipeline over there from where this growth can come from?
So I would say for the second half of the year, there may be one or two that convert from the pipeline, but most of the growth would come from deals we've already won, right? I think a lot of this expansion is around the third lever that I mentioned, which is the fintech partnerships that we've struck, right? So some of the revenue, honestly, because a lot of the IP that we provide is Singapore-based, so I need to see where some of the revenue falls, right? But it's essentially the end-user U.S. clients, mostly through the fintech partnerships. I think we see a strong growth. Bulk of it will come from orders we already won. There are deals in the pipeline, but just the revenue contribution for those would probably be next year.
Understood. Understood. And lastly, just wanted to go a little bit more on our cash flows, which have been a bit negative during the quarter. So in here, wanted to understand that we have also signed a deal in the TIG space, which is the Safe City project for Panvel. Now, how is the receivables for this particular project? What will the company advance? And do you believe that by the end of the year, our receivables can particularly, as we execute through these deals, the receivables can be impacted a bit more by executing these deals?
Yeah. So, okay, I'll probably sort that out, right? I think the Panvel project specifically, we very carefully worked on it in terms of the payment milestones, in terms of what the execution milestones are. So we feel good that it is not going to impose any additional pressure going in other than normal. There are a few TIG projects that I've talked about in the past where we know we've had pressure. We've had a very special team focused on sort of executing again these projects and getting these done in time before end of the year, right? So I think I feel that on that side, by the time we get into February, March, the execution situation would be very different, and a lot of the cash collection priorities that we set in place would already be done.
I think the Panvel specifically, we feel good that we've, as you know, we had slowed down that side of the business to really only be able to take business that we feel comfortable with. I think this is a project we very carefully identified, so I think this would be pretty much a normal project in terms of both the execution milestones as well as collections. So overall, that should get better, right? I think on the cash flow side, a lot of the pressure is coming in. What really happens is whatever part of the business is going the fastest sort of creates that issue because in the product business, a lot of the cash happens when you take the client live.
If you're starting off a lot more projects than you're finishing off, it is just natural for sort of the cash collection to come under pressure. Plus, we've had the topics I talked about. I think you were earlier in the call, so topics that I talked about earlier, which is around some inorganic opportunities, which is one of the opportunities which we feel we needed to play, right? So we'll see what the results of those are.
Understood. Understood. Yeah, I think that's it from my end. Thank you so much, Ashish, for answering the questions.
Thank you.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, you have press star and one to ask a question. The next question is from the line of Pranay Roop Chatterjee from Burman Capital Management. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thank you. Am I audible?
Yeah, Pranay. Hi.
Great. Hello, sir. This is the first time I'm attending this call, and I'm new to the company, so I have a slightly fundamental question. So I was looking at your revenue, making that 70% is from software services and around 30% is from sale of equipment and product licenses. So given this information, I wanted to understand what is the recurring portion in your total revenue, right? For example, if you're earning INR 100 crore in a quarter, what proportion is from one-time sales created software or product, and is there a maintenance component or a recurring component which allows you to continue earning revenue over a certain period of time?
Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Pranay. So look, I think the way to read the software services and product licensing difference is largely one-off versus what is either recurring, near-recurring, or implementation services, right? But a bunch of recurring revenue would also come into the product licenses mix because we increasingly do a lot more subscriptions, right? So I think it's hard to read an exact recurring number in those numbers. Sorry, let me try and answer it this way. Split the business into two parts. You got banking software, which does 55%. You got TIG, which does 45%. On the banking software side, I would say our recurring plus near-recurring revenue is something of the order of 55%-60%. When the business was growing slower, when the business was growing at 15%, that used to be closer to 65%-70%, right?
But now the business is growing a lot faster, so there's a lot more kind of one-off implementation projects, etc. So recurring plus near-recurring. So recurring is typically AMCs and subscriptions, and near-recurring is essentially ongoing services with long-time existing customers like UOB, OCBC, etc., right? So those would be 55%-60%. And the other 40% will come from a mix of one-off licenses plus one-off implementation projects, which typically are 12- to 18-month projects that we do when we take on new logos. So that is the 55% banking business. Coming to the TIG side, TIG side, I would say the recurring mix is lesser. It's probably of the order of 25%-30%. And that typically comes from the long-duration projects we sign in terms of transit revenue streams.
When we sell software and equipment outside of India, like deals like California, Maldives, etc., these tend to almost be software contracts. Because you charge something upfront, you charge an AMC, you charge an operations fee. So those again become recurring streams with some one-off there, right? I would say they're probably 30% if you added near-recurring deals, which are long-term services contracts around, let's say, so cloud, for example, most of the cloud that we sell on the TIG side is around our own part, and these are long-term multi-duration contracts. That probably climbs up by about 10%-15% in those sort of deals. So that's the way I would look at it. Does that answer the question clearly enough?
That's excellent, sir, and gives me a lot of color on the business. Thanks for that. My second and last question, sir, is trying to understand your revenue model, right? So obviously, over the course of time, you have expanded into various different products and segments. But if I were to ask you, is there a predominant way you charge your clients, like either it be per employee basis or in terms of some metric of how they use your software? How do you charge your client? Is there one answer, or would there be multiple answers?
There would be multiple answers depending on what IP that is. But typically, I would say for the banking software side, there are two models that we sell largely, which should apply to like 80% of the business. We sell term licenses, where we charge a one-off license fee, and then people pay AMCs, right? And the second is the subscription model, where both the license and the AMC would combine into one stream. Typically, let's say if you signed a $6 million five-year TCO deal, typically 1/3 of it would be license revenue. So $2 million is license revenue paid either upfront or paid over five installments over five years. The second is maintenance revenue, which is typically 20%. So that's another $2 million over five years, right? So $400,000 per year for five years. And then the third is implementation fee of $2 million.
It's typically a project that gets done over 12-18 months on average. Now, these are broad rules. There are some other models in banking which are smaller in revenue terms, especially consumption-based models, where, for example, we sell an API call, and you're charging per API call, right? But those are not. I would not say that's huge from a revenue standpoint, but those models also exist within the banking world. On the yes, I think that is a predominant way. We have, for example, on the transit side and all, we've got very long-term 10-year, 20-year contracts with revenue share and things like that. So it depends on how you are selling IP, right? And sometimes there will be transaction-driven models. A lot of times, it will be license-driven models.
Got it, sir. Thanks a lot for answering my question. Thank you.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Hardeep Khouri from Alpha Plus Capital Associates. Please go ahead.
Thanks for taking my question. What is the current mix of TIG between smart mobility and data center?
Okay. TIG, I want to sort of put three slices to it, right? And so in last year, each of those were probably 1/3 . So you have smart mobility, which is essentially the open-loop transit payments stack that we sell. The second is data center and hybrid cloud. That is the second slice. Most of it is hybrid cloud is basically around our own applications by and large, and data center is where we design and program manage the data centers. And the third slice is smart cities/online technology work that we do, right? I would say this year, the mix is so last year, I think it was probably 1/3 each out of the 45% that goes on the TIG side. This year, I would say the smart city side is probably going to be a little bit smaller.
It's more like, I would say, 35%-40%. And yeah, so they're more than 20%-25% on the smart city side. So I think that's roughly the mix.
Okay, and what is it that we are expecting, say, in the next three, four years?
Look, I think it's over three, four years. I do not like giving guidance that far out, and I think there's a bit of a reason for it, right, so I think the way to look at it is this. We have a stated Vision 2030. Externally, there is a qualitative view that we published, which says in each of the spaces that we are in, we want to be a top three global player. Internally, we have a quantitative number against each of those. The reason that quantitative number is not very important over a three to four-year horizon is I think we will keep on sort of calibrating the growth as we go. Typically, the business as a whole, we're saying we grow in the range of 30%. That's what we've done for the last four years.
That's what we feel like we can keep on doing for a long time. But inside it, we will keep on changing the pace as these businesses grow because in the product business, it's fundamentally very risky to keep your foot on the pedal all the time. What will happen in the services business? If I want to sort of grow 100%, I double the number of people, hire the right skill set, the job is largely done. You, of course, need to do the projects. In the product business, if you plan growth too fast, there are lots of interconnected pieces. Some pieces will break if you go too fast, right? So we'll keep on resetting the sort of growth.
The banking, for example, last two years was growing a lot slower, 15% last year, 30%, 15% the year before because we said we want to focus on product build-outs. We don't want to grow. Now it's going at 51%. TIG was going at 55% the year before, last year 33%. This year, we slowed it down even more because we say we want to focus on some IP build-outs. We want to focus on calibrating the business for better economics. So I would not put too much sort of emphasis on sub-segment level planning for the next four, five years. These are very large cases. If you are a top three global player by 2030, obviously, you're not growing at 30%-35% because at 30%-35%, the business becomes maybe four banks, maybe five banks over the next five years.
If you are a top three global player, you probably have to be much larger than that. So we do expect sometime between now and 2020, we will hit inflection points for various businesses where we can really step up the growth. When that time comes, we'll come and talk about it. Till that time, I would say at the enterprise level, we try and target a 30% odd range. Within that, some businesses from time to time will grow faster, and some businesses will slow down, and we will sort of face it that way. I mean, I know it's probably a pretty long-winded answer. It is something which should be a pretty straightforward question, but that's the way we think about it, at least. Hopefully, that helps.
That's helpful, and that's all from my side.
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ankush Agrawal from Surge Capital. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Hi. Thank you for taking my question. So Ashish, would it be possible for you to share some more big details on the possible M&A that you're alluding to? Is it like an operating business that you're looking to acquire, or is it like a specific IP that you're looking to acquire if you can share?
I can't share too many details. It's an operating business yet, but I can't share. It's sort of a pretty complex process. I can't say we feel confident about doing that. I mean, I just mentioned that because there was a question about cash, right? So we are always actively in a lot of processes and don't really pan out. So I would not kind of spend too much time on it.
Okay. That's awesome. Thank you.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll take this as the last question. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Ashish Rai, Vice Chairman and Group CEO, for closing comments.
Yeah. So thanks, everyone, for taking the time out of your busy days to come and join us on this call. I mean, there is really no significant changes to what we do. We do more of the same. We focus on building the product cloud. We focus on R&D. We focus on expanding to new markets. We focus on our partnerships. We really value you spending time to try and understand us. I look forward to seeing you again next quarter. Thank you.
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