The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado

Englewood, Colorado

The city of Englewood is a Home Rule Municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. As of 2007, the city is estimated to have a total population of 32,532. Englewood is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. Englewood is located in the South Platte River Valley east of the...

. Up until 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams.

Western Union has several divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money order

Money order

A money order is a payment order for a pre-specified amount of money. Because it is required that the funds be prepaid for the amount shown on it, it is a more trusted method of payment than a cheque.-History of money orders:...

s, business payments and commercial services.

Western Union, as an industrialized monopoly

Monopoly

A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity...

, dominated the telegraph industry in the late 19th century.