From credit cards to robot cow feeders`

First it was credit cards. Frank Murphy developed a way of doing real-time exchange for card users abroad, and turned his invention into a $100m company, with him as CEO and major shareholder of Monex Financial Services Ltd.

Changing money at point of sale was taken up by Hertz, Ryanair and the Marriott Hotel group, amongst others, and it’s still his main business today.

But he has a second, less likely business stream — cattle farming. And it’s not the kind of lord-of-the-manor, pedigree stock breeding kind of farming which many business magnates indulge in; it is mainstream drystock farming — but with a difference.