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Violation Tracker Current Parent Company Summary
Current Parent Company Name: Western Union
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol WU)
Headquartered in: Colorado
Major Industry: financial services
Specific Industry: financial services
Penalty total since 2000: $1,271,959,508
Number of records: 13
| Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined) | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| financial offenses | $748,409,508 | 6 |
| consumer-protection-related offenses | $523,539,000 | 6 |
| safety-related offenses | $11,000 | 1 |
| Top 5 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| anti-money-laundering deficiencies | $748,000,000 | 4 |
| consumer protection violation | $523,539,000 | 6 |
| economic sanction violation | $409,508 | 2 |
| workplace safety or health violation | $11,000 | 1 |
Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the
Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.
Links: For a summary of this company's regulatory penalties in more than 50 other countries, see its Violation Tracker Global summary page
here.
Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found
here.
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case.
| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Western Union Company | anti-money-laundering deficiencies | 2017 | DOJ_CRIMINAL | $586,000,000 |
| Western Union Co. | consumer protection violation | 2000 | private lawsuit-federal | $375,000,000 |
| Western Union Co. | consumer protection violation | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $133,000,000 |
| Western Union Financial Services, Inc. | anti-money-laundering deficiencies | 2010 | MULTI-AG | $94,000,000 |
| Western Union | anti-money-laundering deficiencies | 2018 | NY-DFS | $60,000,000 |
| Western Union Financial Services | consumer protection violation | 2005 | MULTI-AG | $8,529,000 |
| Western Union Financial Services, Inc. | anti-money-laundering deficiencies | 2002 | NY-DFS | $8,000,000 |
| Western Union Co. | consumer protection violation | 2017 | MULTI-AG | $5,000,000 |
| Western Union Financial Services, Inc. | consumer protection violation | 2008 | AZ-DIFI | $2,000,000 |
| Western Union Financial Services, Inc. | economic sanction violation | 2019 | OFAC | $401,697 |
| WESTERN UNION | workplace safety or health violation | 2015 | OSHA | $11,000 |
| Western Union International Services LLC | consumer protection violation | 2019 | FL-OFR | $10,000 |
| Ruesch International, Inc. | economic sanction violation | 2004 | OFAC | $7,811 |
