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 The Western Union Company WU and Arizona Attorney General Mark 
 Brnovich today announced that Western Union has successfully completed 
 the secondary recommendations for the Southwest Border program, aimed at 
 combating money laundering. The Superior Court of the State of Arizona 
 today accepted the conclusions of an independent Monitor's final report, 
 immediately concluding and closing the Monitor's engagement. This 
 milestone demonstrates the continuous enhancements made by the Company 
 to its compliance programs.
 
 
 "The partnership between the Arizona Attorney General's Office and 
 Western Union resulted in a groundbreaking effort to combat illegal 
 enterprises that are funded through money laundering," said Arizona 
 Attorney General Mark Brnovich. "I appreciate all that we have 
 accomplished, and I urge other money service providers to take similar 
 measures to help prevent human smuggling, cut off financing for 
 terrorist networks, and protect victims of fraud."
 
 
 "We take our responsibilities seriously - to protect our customers and 
 to partner with law enforcement at all levels to detect, deter and 
 prevent our services from being used for illicit purposes," said Western 
 Union Chief Compliance Officer Jacqueline Molnar. "We appreciate the 
 close partnership we have with the Arizona Attorney General's Office, 
 which has helped us strengthen our global compliance programs and create 
 a safer environment for our customers to send money to friends and 
 family worldwide."
 
 
 Globally, over the past five years, Western Union has increased overall 
 compliance funding by more than 200 percent and more than 20 percent of 
 its workforce is dedicated to compliance functions. During this time, 
 many state, national and international regulators and law enforcement 
 bodies have commended Western Union for its technology innovations, AML 
 and other compliance programs, such as developing custom algorithms to 
 help combat money laundering and terrorist financing, and for assisting 
 with numerous investigations.
 
 
 In 2010, Western Union, pursuant to a settlement agreement with the 
 State of Arizona, embarked to create and maintain an 
 anti-money-laundering (AML) program to serve as a model for the entire 
 money transfer business worldwide. The program includes several 
 innovative and cooperative steps to combat money laundering and help the 
 states along the Southwest Border protect their citizens.
 
 
 Western Union and the Arizona Attorney General thanked the 
 court-appointed Monitor, BDO USA, LLP, for its hard work and outstanding 
 efforts in overseeing the successful completion of the secondary 
 recommendations of the agreed plan.
 
 
 About Western Union
 
 
 The Western Union Company WU is a leader in global payment 
 services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western 
 Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western Union 
 provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient 
 ways to send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to 
 purchase money orders. As of March 31, 2017, the Western Union, Vigo and 
 Orlandi Valuta branded services were offered through a combined network 
 of over 550,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories and 
 over 150,000 ATMs and kiosks, and included the capability to send money 
 to billions of accounts. In 2016, The Western Union Company completed 
 268 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide, moving $80 
 billion of principal between consumers, and 523 million business 
 payments. For more information, visit <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernunion.com&amp;esheet=51572669&amp;newsitemid=20170612005219&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.westernunion.com&amp;index=1&amp;md5=bff762e0b11b5219c36133be827f196f" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">www.westernunion.com</a>.
 
 
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