About Western Union
The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. Its headquarters is in Meridian, Colorado, although the postal designation of nearby Englewood is used in its mailing address. Up until it discontinued the service in 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams.
Western Union has several divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, business payments, and commercial services. They offered standard “Cablegrams”, as well as Candygrams, Dollygrams, and Melodygrams.
Western Union, as an industrialized monopoly, dominated the telegraph industry in the late 19th century. It was the first communications empire and set a pattern for American-style communications businesses as they are known today.
Western Union Details
Operating Status: Active
Business Type: Private
Founded: 1851
Headquarters: Meridian, Colorado, United States
CEO: Hikmet Ersek
Founders: Ezra Cornell
Western Union News
September 19th, 2019
Amazon has launched its Amazon PayCode service in the U.S. This service is targeted at a large number of people, who struggle with access to financial services, or who would simply prefer cash payments.
July 19th, 2019
Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO joined Squawk Alley on CNBC to share his opinion on Facebook’s Libra coin and to explain why it can pose high risks for the world of finance.
June 24th, 2019
From SWIFT they said that banks now know they cannot stand still. They need to adapt their own systems to support them. Only a seamless and open global value transfer system can enable that.
June 21st, 2019
Western Union CEO is sure: digital currencies and the blockchain have great potential of acting as a processing system for payments, however, he claims that sending money with Ripple is 5-times more expensive than Western Union.
May 24th, 2019
Facebook’s upcoming crypto-platform is designed to help users transfer money as well as make online purchases in a seamless, hassle-free manner. The company said to roll out its own cryptocurrency ‘GlobalCoin’ by the end of Q1, 2020
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The SEC is looking to stop Telegram from issuing its GRAM tokens, for violating the Commission’s rules. Telegram is yet to make an official decision, however, how much of a play does the company have?
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Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe and Mercado Pago have all pulled out of the Facebook-led Libra Association following PayPal, which pulled its own support of the project earlier this week.
