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Issuer:     Western Union CO (WU)
CIK:        0001365135
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-10-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-22-019761
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Western Union unveils Evolve 2025 strategy; provides 2023-2025 financial outlook
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- 2023 outlook: GAAP revenue -10% to -8%; adjusted (constant currency) -4% to -2%; EPS $1.55-$1.65; operating margin 19%-21%.
- By 2025: revenue growth of 2% with annual improvement; operating margin 19%-21%; EPS mid-single digit growth.
- Operational efficiency program aims to redeploy ~$150M in expenses over 5 years via vendor, real estate, marketing, and people cost optimizations.
- Impacts include sale of Business Solutions, loss of two European agents (Q4 2022 and Q2 2023), Russia/Belarus suspension, and USD strength.
- CEO McGranahan says strategy builds on 600K agent locations, strong compliance, to provide essential financial services beyond money transfer.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017022019761/0000950170-22-019761-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017022019761/wu-20221020.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-019761

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