---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-003842"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WU"
cik: "0001365135"
company_name: "Western Union CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:40:49.799473+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Union CAO Mark Hinsey to retire effective June 30, 2025

## Summary
- Mark Hinsey, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, notified company on Jan 7, 2025 of his retirement.
- Retirement effective June 30, 2025; no immediate successor named.
- Company will initiate process to appoint a successor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-003842
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WU
- cik: 0001365135
- company_name: Western Union CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017025003842/0000950170-25-003842-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017025003842/wu-20250107.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-003842.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-003842.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Hinsey departed as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Western Union CO.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: On January 7, 2025, Mark Hinsey, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of The Western Union Company (the “Company”), notified the Company that he intends to retire effective June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017025003842/0000950170-25-003842-index.htm

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