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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-063489"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WU"
cik: "0001365135"
company_name: "Western Union CO"
filed_at: "2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T09:40:52.830927+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Union shareholders approve 2024 Long-Term Incentive Plan and elect directors

## Summary
- 22,300,000 new shares authorized under 2024 Plan, plus shares remaining from prior plans.
- All 11 director nominees elected; highest votes for at 283.3M (Julie M. Cameron-Doe).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed: 259.1M for, 25.9M against, 459K abstentions.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as 2024 auditor approved with 302.5M votes for.
- 2024 Plan replaces 2015 Plan for future grants, subject to stockholder approval.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-063489
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WU
- cik: 0001365135
- company_name: Western Union CO
- filed_at: 2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017024063489/0000950170-24-063489-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017024063489/wu-20240517.htm

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