Moneygram news and trends

MoneyGram Appoints Driven Brands Veteran Gary W. Ferrera as CFO
Personnel // June 10, 2024

MoneyGram International has appointed former Driven Brands chief financial officer (CFO) Gary W. Ferrera as its CFO. Ferrera succeeds Larry Angelilli, who has retired after more than 12 years with MoneyGram, the company said in a Monday (June 10) press release. In his new role,...

Report: MoneyGram Fails to Secure Lower Borrowing Costs on Leveraged Loan
Loans // May 24, 2024

MoneyGram International reportedly failed to secure lower borrowing costs on a $398 million leveraged loan before a deadline on Thursday (May 23). The company had aimed to convince lenders to cut the borrowing costs on the loan that helped finance Madison Dearborn Partners’ leveraged buyout of...

Trustly and MoneyGram Launch Cardless Cross-Border Payments in Europe
Cross-border Payments // March 20, 2024

Trustly and MoneyGram International have partnered to enable millions of MoneyGram users in Europe to make cardless international money transfers. With the service enabled by this collaboration, users can pay directly from their bank accounts when sending international money transfers through MoneyGram Online (MGO), the companies said...

MoneyGram to Launch Non-Custodial Digital Wallet for Cross-Border Payments
Cross-border Payments // September 26, 2023

MoneyGram plans to launch a non-custodial digital wallet that will offer new ways to send and receive cross-border payments. The wallet is set to debut in the first quarter of 2024 and will allow users to seamlessly move from fiat currency to digital currency and back...

Interviews & Exclusives
Real-Time Payments Are Ready, But Much of the World Isn’t

October 25, 2022
The cost, time and experience upgrade that digital payments promise cross-border senders and receivers may be crystal clear to some, but it hasn’t happened yet. Even though there’s every reason to get it done with all speed, holdouts abound in parts of the world that still love to deal in cash. Diving into this complex […]

MoneyGram CEO: 2019 Is The ‘Year Of The Consumer’

February 12, 2019
Restructuring efforts continue at MoneyGram, and — amid a tougher compliance environment — the company missed Wall Street expectations as sales declined. However, bright spots included a continued embrace of...

MoneyGram And Visa Team To Deliver Real-Time Global P2P

July 24, 2018
MoneyGram and Visa announced today (July 24) that they have partnered to deliver real-time digital disbursements to MoneyGram customers using Visa’s push payments platform, Visa Direct. Launching in October in...

As Goes The MoneyGram Deal, So Goes China, U.S. Tech Collaboration?

January 05, 2018
A pretty good songster named Paul McCartney sang once that “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” To shift that a bit for...

Quick Reads
MoneyGram Works to Restore Systems After ‘Cybersecurity Issue’

September 24, 2024
MoneyGram said Tuesday (Sept. 24) that it is working “around the clock” to bring its systems back online and resume normal business operations after finding a “cybersecurity issue.” “We continue to make progress in successfully restoring some of our key transactional systems,” the money transfer company said in a Tuesday post on social platform X. […]

MoneyGram Appoints Driven Brands Veteran Gary W. Ferrera as CFO

June 10, 2024
MoneyGram International has appointed former Driven Brands chief financial officer (CFO) Gary W. Ferrera as its CFO. Ferrera succeeds Larry Angelilli, who has retired after more than 12 years with...

Report: MoneyGram Fails to Secure Lower Borrowing Costs on Leveraged Loan

May 24, 2024
MoneyGram International reportedly failed to secure lower borrowing costs on a $398 million leveraged loan before a deadline on Thursday (May 23). The company had aimed to convince lenders to cut...

Trustly and MoneyGram Launch Cardless Cross-Border Payments in Europe

March 20, 2024
Trustly and MoneyGram International have partnered to enable millions of MoneyGram users in Europe to make cardless international money transfers. With the service enabled by this collaboration, users can pay directly...