Complete the first stage of the Western Union Business Solutions divestiture
Delivered by the deadline
AI-confirmed · human review in progress Independent AI checks agreed on primary SEC or regulator evidence. Records are now being reviewed by hand, starting with those our customers order.
- Announced
- 4 Aug 2021
- Due
- 31 Mar 2022
- Delivered
- 1 Mar 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“In the first closing, which is expected to be completed in early 2022, Western Union Business Solutions, excluding the business that is operated through Western Union International Bank in the European Union and the United”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The first closing of the Business Solutions sale occurred on March 1, 2022, before the March 31, 2022 deadline, excluding EU and UK operations as announced.
-
A Western Union 8-K filed 2022-04-28
“On March 1, 2022, the Company completed the first close of the Business Solutions business, which excluded the operations of the European Union and the United Kingdom” ✓ confirmed on the page
-
A Western Union 10-Q filed 2022-04-28
“the first of which occurred on March 1, 2022 with the entirety of the cash consideration collected and allocated to the closings” ✓ confirmed on the page
-
A Western Union 10-K filed 2023-02-23
“The first closing occurred on March 1, 2022, excluded the operations in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and resulted in a gain of $151.4 million.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -5.6% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 Apr 2022 to 2 May 2022). What this measures
Checked 21 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Transaction other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- First stage of Western Union Business Solutions divestiture
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to requisite works council and trade union consultations, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Partner, Government
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
Confirmed. This outcome counts towards the company's Kept Score. How verification works
Are you Western Union? You can publish an official statement next to this entry, free. Add a statement.
Is something here wrong or out of date? Companies and readers can ask us to check it. Please bring a link to a public source.
Report an error in this entry Reference: KI-C-2021-WU-019694 · Corrections policy