M&A Deal Summary

Western Union Acquires Travelex Global Business Payments

On July 5, 2011, Western Union acquired financial services company Travelex Global Business Payments from Travelex for 606M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Western Union’s 4th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Western Union’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Western Union’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-07-05
Target Travelex Global Business Payments
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) Western Union
Sellers(s) Travelex
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 606M GBP

Target

Travelex Global Business Payments

London, United Kingdom
Travelex Global Business Payments conducts business payments annually for 35,000 customers in 14 countries. Travelex provides payments services to a variety of business clients, including over 500 financial institutions.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Western Union

Denver, Colorado, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1851
Sector Financial Services
Employees11,000
Revenue 4.5B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Western Union's corporate headquarters in Englewood, Colorado.
Entrance to Western Union's corporate headquarters in Englewood, Colorado.

Western Union is a financial services company that provides people and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send money and make payments around the world. Western Union's consumer-to-consumer money transfer service enables people to send money around the world, usually within minutes. Western Union also provides consumers with flexible and convenient options for making one-time or recurring payments in our consumer-to-business segment. This segment consists of United States bill payments, Pago Fácil (bill payments in Argentina), and international bill payments. Western Union's business solutions segment facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. Western Union was founded in 1851 and is based in Denver, Colorado.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 4
Sector (Financial Services) 4 of 4
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
Country (United Kingdom) 1 of 1
Year (2011) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-01 Finint S.r.l.

Milan, Italy

Finint S.r.l. is a money transfer network agent in Europe. Finint manages more than 10,000 subagent locations across Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-05-09 Speedpay

United States

Speedpay, Inc. provides electronic bill presentment and payment solutions to a variety of business sectors in the U.S., including utilities, auto finance, mortgage, consumer finance, insurance, telecommunications, and government finance.

Sell $750M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Travelex

London, United Kingdom

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Category Company
Founded 1976
Sector Financial Services
Revenue 740M GBP (2010)
DESCRIPTION

Travelex is a specialist provider of foreign exchange and international business payments. The Group processes £20 billion of foreign exchange transactions every year. The Group’s consumer focused operations provide cash and pre-paid cards to over 30 million retail customers each year through a network of close to 1,000 stores and over 500 ATMs spread across 24 countries. Travelex was founded in 1976 and is based in London, United Kingdom


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Financial Services) 2 of 2
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
Country (United Kingdom) 2 of 2
Year (2011) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-12-09 Access Prepaid Worldwide

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Access Prepaid Worldwide Ltd. - Travelex's prepaid card business focuses on travelers that use plastic instead of travelers checks. But MasterCard hopes to expand the business to offer cards to consumers in emerging markets that do not have bank accounts and therefore cannot use credit or debit cards.

Sell $459M