---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-049176"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WU"
cik: "0001365135"
company_name: "Western Union CO"
filed_at: "2023-09-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T10:28:36.847636+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Union appoints Suzette Deering to Board; former Ford CMO joins effective Sept. 21

## Summary
- Appointed Suzette Deering to Board effective Sept. 21, 2023, increasing board size from 9 to 10.
- Deering will serve on Compensation and Benefits and Compliance Committees.
- She brings 30 years of marketing and brand strategy experience; former Global CMO of Ford (2021-2022) and eBay (2020), and CEO of Moxie.
- Board determined Deering meets NYSE independence standards; no related-party transactions disclosed.
- She will receive standard non-employee director compensation prorated for 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-049176
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WU
- cik: 0001365135
- company_name: Western Union CO
- filed_at: 2023-09-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017023049176/0000950170-23-049176-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017023049176/wu-20230921.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-049176
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-049176.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-049176.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Suzette Deering was appointed as Director at Western Union CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On September 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Western Union Company (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from 9 to 10 directors and appointed Suzette Deering to the Board to fill the vacancy resulting from such increase, each effective September 21, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017023049176/0000950170-23-049176-index.htm

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