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Visa and Western Union collaborate on cross-border money transfers

Today, Visa (NYSE:V) announced a new strategic agreement with Western Union (NYSE:WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement.

10 June 2019

Company announcement

Visa and Western Union strike strategic alliance

Today, Visa (NYSE:V) announced a new strategic agreement with Western Union (NYSE:WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement.

05 June 2019

Company announcement

Western Union integrates with blockchain wallet from Coins.ph

Coins.ph, one of the Philippines' leading e-wallet providers, and The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, today announced a collaboration to enable more than five million customers to receive international and domestic money transfers directly into their Coins.ph wallets in the Philippines.

08 April 2019

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Western Union teams up with Dollar General

Dollar General (NYSE: DG) and Western Union (NYSE: WU) announced today that customers are now able to complete Western Union® money transfers at more than 15,400 locations throughout the 44 states Dollar General serves.

02 April 2019

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Western Union partners Thunes for mobile wallet transfers

Western Union (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, has teamed up with Thunes, a cross-border payments network for emerging markets, to enable Western Union customers to send funds directly into mobile wallets around the world.

21 March 2019

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ACI Worldwide acquires bill payment firm Speedpay for $750 million

ACI Worldwide has acquired Western Union's US bill pay business Speedpay for $750 million in an all-cash transaction.

28 February 2019

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Western Union strikes alliance with TerraPay

Western Union (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, announces an alliance with TerraPay to enable mobile wallet and bank account payout.

14 December 2018

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Western Union and Hong Kong’s Tap & Go partner for online global money transfers

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, and HKT Payment Limited HKT (SEHK: 6823), a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license holder1, signed an agreement to enable Tap & Go customers to use their Tap & Go mobile wallet to send money to their loved ones around the world, via the Western Union® mobile app and Westernunion.com.

13 November 2018

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Western Union reinforces M-Pesa's inclusion stronghold by unlocking global pay-outs

Western Union has partnered with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile network and wallet provider to allow 28 million M-Pesa users to send outbound money transfers overseas.

07 November 2018

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Amazon to offer Western Union option for cross-border shopping

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, today announced it is has been engaged by Amazon to launch a new payment option that allows international shoppers to pay in person, in local currency where available, for their online purchases. Amazon is focused on providing international customers with access to millions of products.

31 October 2018

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Western Union lets consumers in US pay bills in Mexico

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement today advanced its bill payment services cross-border, enabling consumers in the United States to pay bills and reload mobile phone services in Mexico.

22 October 2018

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IBM and banks back data project to fight human trafficking

Western Union, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group are backing a new project that uses IBM's Watson technology to tap into financial data to help track and combat human trafficking.

19 October 2018