About Us

We help aspiring people and businesses around the world save, spend, and transfer money— empowering more prosperous financial futures for their family, friends, and communities across borders.

Leadership

Our Mission

We make financial services accessible to people everywhere.

 

We build and offer easy-to-use products and services that bridge digital and physical to give customers choice, security, and reliability, no matter where they are.

Technology Pioneers

From our earliest beginnings, we have advanced technology to connect people — always staying focused on bringing people closer to the places and loved ones that matter most to them, in good times and bad.

Technology Pioneers

From our earliest beginnings, we have advanced technology to connect people — always staying focused on bringing people closer to the places and loved ones that matter most to them, in good times and bad.

The 10-year-old Western Union Telegraph Company completes the first transcontinental telegraph line and begins carrying messages from one end of North America to the other.

The company introduces its money transfer service, enabling people and businesses to send and receive money anywhere along its extensive telegraph network.

In over 200 countries and territories

Serving millions of retail and digital customers every day

Payout available into billions of bank accounts and wallets worldwide

Hundreds of thousands of Agent locations around the globe

Our Purpose

We build and offer easy-to-use products and services that bridge digital and physical borders to give customers choice, security, and reliability, no matter where they are, simplifying and empowering their financial lives.

WU Foundation

The Western Union Foundation’s mission focuses on creating economic opportunity for disadvantaged youth and people who migrate in search of stability and prosperity. This is achieved through strategic investments in nonprofits that provide scholarships for higher education, skill building for workforce readiness, and inclusion programs. Since 2001, the Western Union Foundation has invested more than $140 million across 150 geographies, helping millions of people worldwide.

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