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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-091569"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WU"
cik: "0001365135"
company_name: "Western Union CO"
filed_at: "2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T12:26:16.864406+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Union appoints Barry Cooper as Chief Accounting Officer, effective July 1, 2025

## Summary
- Barry Cooper, 58, appointed CAO; previously SVP Controller at Envestnet Inc. since 2018.
- Compensation: $300,000 base salary; annual incentive target $350,000 (cash + equity); sign-on RSUs of $250,000.
- No family relationships or arrangements with any director or officer of the Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-091569
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WU
- cik: 0001365135
- company_name: Western Union CO
- filed_at: 2025-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017025091569/0000950170-25-091569-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1365135/000095017025091569/wu-20250627.htm

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