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Everything a transfer needs
Send worldwide
Top corridors with clear rates and transparent fees.
Bank deposit
Deliver straight to eligible bank accounts.
Cash pickup
Receivers collect at participating agent locations.
Track anything
Pending, successful or failed — always visible.
Identity checks
Secure KYC verification on your account.
Phone verification
In-app code delivered to your registered number.
Our history
From telegraph wires to 200+ countries and territories
Western Union began as a telegraph company and became one of the most recognised names in moving money. Here are the moments that shaped it.
1851
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company
The company that would become Western Union is founded in Rochester, New York, linking distant towns by telegraph wire.
1856
A new name
The business is renamed Western Union to mark the union of western telegraph lines into one national system.
1861
The first transcontinental telegraph
Western Union completes a line from coast to coast, cutting communication across America from weeks to minutes.
1871
Money by wire
Western Union launches its money transfer service, letting people send funds across the country over the same wires that carried their words.
1989
Money in minutes
The Money Transfer service expands worldwide, making funds available for pickup at agent locations in minutes.
Today
200+ countries and territories
Hundreds of thousands of agent locations, bank deposits and mobile wallets keep families and businesses connected across borders.
Agents on call now
Real people on the line, every step of your transfer.
Our money transfer specialists answer calls around the clock — from setting up a receiver to confirming a cash pickup on the other side of the world.
24/7 live agents
200+ countries
Verified support
Sofia · Western Union
Cash pickup desk
“Your receiver can collect in minutes.”
In the world
Money moving between real people
Testimonials
Trusted by senders around the world
I sent money to my brother in Paris on a Sunday evening and he picked it up the next morning. The tracking screen told me exactly where it was the whole time.
The rate and the fee were on screen before I confirmed anything. No surprises, and the receipt landed in my history instantly.
Saving my receivers changed everything. Two taps and my monthly transfer is on its way — and I get a notification the moment it completes.