It can be a challenge for an almost 170-year-old global payments firm to turn headlines in a space dominated by FinTechs and Big Techs eager to make waves on a global stage. But as Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek told me, Western Union has opened its platform to enable some of those very same players to reach the billions of consumer end points that is the heart and soul of its vast global network. Ersek said that it’s all part of the firm’s massive investment in digitization so that everyone, everywhere in the world, can access financial services. …see more