1980 - for the first time in the history of Western Union revenues from money transfers exceeded the income from the telegraph service. Another invention of Western Union - time synchronization. Western Union incomes for 2007 have made $4,9 billion US dollars, and the quantity of transactions has made 572 million. Transaction with Fexco has allowed Western Union to control directly more than 10 thousand points of service, which belonged to Fexco in 7 European countries (Spain, UK, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Finland).