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The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in global payment services, extended its exclusive agreement with Eurogiro, with scope to allow its members greater access to the full range of Western Union Money Transfer^® services including digital offerings.

Eurogiro is a global payment network for national postal organisations, post banks, commercial banks and other payment service providers. The agreement extends a16-year collaboration.

Eurogiro offers the exclusive Western Union^® money-in-minutes service – as part of a portfolio of cross border payment services to 35 of its members. These members represent 52,000 Agent locations across 30 countries.

Giovanni Angelini, Senior Vice President and General Manager, European Union, said: “The extension of this long tenured relationship is a testament to the value brought by Western Union to Eurogiro’s members, banks, post offices and payment providers in major regional hubs across the world.

“Western Union’s global footprint of nearly half a million locations¹ connects Eurogiro’s member institutions to every corner of the world - urban and rural.

“Working together – we are keen to enhance services to Eurogiro's members to facilitate more choice as consumer preference for both cash and cashless money transfers grows.”

Today, Western Union is harnessing its system with modifications to link cash and digital transfers between retail Agent locations, mobile phones, prepaid cards, online and traditional bank accounts and ATM.

“While cash has a strong preference to instantly fund spending; some of our existing customers as well as new customers have evolving preferences. They also want choice of cashless transactions with the same speed of money-in–minutes,” said Almeida.

Eurogiro was founded by a group of European postal organizations focused on improving cross-border payments for customers, providing connectivity and payment services to its membership community of financial institutions.

Michel Stuijt, Eurogiro CEO, said, “This agreement honors the great contributions over the years by Eurogiro members to Western Union in attracting and servicing customers with a need to send or to collect funds wherever they are.

“The Western Union urgent cash service has been a premium and highly valued addition to the basic services which Eurogiro members have in their payment portfolio. We have a common goal of providing excellent services to non-banked people and maintaining a dense branch network close to the customers in both urban and rural areas all over the world,” he added.

The Western Union global money transfer platform moved an average of 29 transactions per second across the world in 2013.

About Western Union

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders. As of June 30, 2014, the Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services were offered through a combined network of over 500,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories and over 100,000 ATMs. In 2013, The Western Union Company completed 242 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $82 billion of principal between consumers, and 459 million business payments. For more information, visit www.westernunion.com .

About Eurogiro

Eurogiro is a payments network that connects different organisations and payment ‘ecosystems’ and espouses business ventures among its members consisting of over 60 posts, banks and other financial institutions around the world. It allows its members to explore and develop business opportunities with other Eurogiro members that share a common goal of providing secure, transparent and cost-efficient payment solutions for their clients around the world. Members connect to the highly flexible network and may tap other Eurogiro members that combined reach more than 500,000 branches and 4 billion people in more than 50 countries. Eurogiro was founded in 1993 by a group of European Postal institutions and its head quarter is in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an office in Manila. www.eurogiro.com

¹ Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services are offered through a combined network of over 500,000 Agent locations

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Contact:

Western Union Americas and European Union:
Pia De Lima, +1 954-260-5732
Pia.delima@westernunion.com
or
Western Union Northern and Western Europe:
Mark Godson, 44 (0)208 576 57730
mark.godson@westernunion.com
or
Western Union Central and Southern Europe :
Sabine Fischer, +43 15 013-4535
sabine.fischer@westernunion.com

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