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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders of The Western Union Company
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Western Union Company as of
December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows, and
stockholders’ equity/(deficiency) for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010. Our
audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a). These financial
statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express
an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated
financial position of The Western Union Company at December 31, 2010 and 2009, and the consolidated results of
its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2010, in conformity
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule,
when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects
the information set forth therein.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States), The Western Union Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2010, based on
criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 25, 2011 expressed an unqualified
opinion thereon.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Denver, Colorado
February 25, 2011
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