In the Western Union in the 30s of the 20th century worked 14 thousand couriers delivering telegrams. You do not need to open a bank account, so you can send or receive money in any of the 170 000 service points of Western Union around the world. On the market was placed about 765 million of ordinary shares of the company. On the first day trading on the exchange the company's shares rose by 3.3% and the cost was $ 19.96. 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). Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same.