MoneyGram International, Inc is an American cross-border P2P payments and money transfer company based in the United States with headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
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28 Facts About MoneyGram International
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MoneyGram International provides its service to individuals and businesses through a network of agents and financial institutions.
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In 2014, MoneyGram International was the second largest provider of money transfers in the world.
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MoneyGram International operates in more than 200 countries and territories with a global network of about 347,000 agent offices.
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MoneyGram International formed as a result of two businesses merging, Minneapolis-based Travelers Express and Denver-based Integrated Payment Systems Inc MoneyGram was first established as a subsidiary of Integrated Payment Systems and afterwards became an independent company before it was acquired by Travelers in 1998.
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MoneyGram International was formed in 1988 as a subsidiary of Integrated Payment Systems Inc Integrated Payment Systems was a subsidiary of First Data Corporation, which was itself a subsidiary of American Express.
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At the time when MoneyGram International was established, MoneyGram Payment Systems owned 51 percent of the company, while the other 49 percent was owned by the Thomas Cook Group.
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MoneyGram International was then folded into Viad's Travelers Express in Minneapolis.
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MoneyGram International had introduced additional services such as bill payment and online money transfers.
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MoneyGram International continues to maintain global operations and information technology centers in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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In 2014, MoneyGram International lost a relationship with Wal-Mart Stores and then began restructuring to cut costs.
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MoneyGram International closed a call center in Lakewood, Colorado resulting in over 500 layoffs.
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Furthermore, MoneyGram International closed its 376-person Brooklyn Center operation in 2015.
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On June 17th 2019, MoneyGram International announced they were partnering with Ripple to utilize the digital asset XRP for cross-border remittance.
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In July 2020, Digital Financial Services LLC and MoneyGram International have collaborated to provide overseas remittance services in the UAE.
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In February 2022, MoneyGram International agreed to be acquired for $1 billion in cash by Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm.
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In November 2012, MoneyGram International admitted to anti-money laundering and wire fraud violations.
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MoneyGram International services were used by unrelated parties involved in mass marketing and consumer phishing scams that defrauded thousands of victims in the United States.
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MoneyGram International retained a corporate monitor who will report regularly to the United States Department of Justice for a five-year trial period.
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MoneyGram International terminated any agents complicit in the 2009 scams and invested more than $84 million in improvements to the company's consumer anti-fraud systems and consumer awareness education.
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In February 2015, MoneyGram International assisted a Houston reporter in shutting down a fraud scam after discovering a scheme that utilized an account with the company.
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In February 2016, MoneyGram International agreed it would pay $13 million to end a probe stemming from customer complaints that scam artists duped them into wiring funds via the money transfer service.
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The MoneyGram International Foundation distributed grants in 19 countries in its first year of operations.
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In 2012, MoneyGram International contributed to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts by pledging to donate $1 per transaction up to $200,000 to the American Red Cross.
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MoneyGram International has participated in the One Laptop per Child initiative and Habitat for Humanity through the MoneyGram Foundation.
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