[5] In 1965, Travelers Express was acquired by The Greyhound Corporation[11] (later known as Viad Corp) and became the nation's largest provider of money orders before initiating a company reorganization plan in 1993.

[9] In order to approve the merger, the Federal Trade Commission forced First Data to sell Integrated Payment Systems.

[14] Thomas Cook Global Foreign Exchange, under the stewardship of John Bavister, launched a re-engineered money transfer service in 1994.

[16] In November 2000, the MoneyGram brand and business was sold to Travelex as part of its acquisition of Thomas Cook Financial Services for £400m.

[23] It lost more than $1.6 billion from investments in securities backed by risky mortgages in 2008, and the losses led the company to sell a majority stake to Thomas H. Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs in exchange for a cash infusion.

[25] Amid MoneyGram's turnaround, Pamela Patsley became the executive chairwoman of the company in January 2009 and was later named CEO in September of that year.

Within 6 months, in February 2021 MoneyGram announced the end of the partnership after the US Securities and Exchange Commission sued Ripple for violating investor protection laws; [34] later that year MoneyGram announced a new partnership with Ripple's competitor Stellar to facilitate cross-border blockchain transactions settled in the USDC stablecoin.

Through this partnership, eWallet consumers would be able to initiate real-time foreign money transfers to friends and families in more than 200 countries and territories around the world through a network of mobile wallet providers, bank account deposit facilities, and more than 350,000 walk-in locations.

[36] In February 2022, MoneyGram agreed to be acquired for $1 billion in cash by Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm.

[42] In February 2015, MoneyGram assisted a Houston reporter in shutting down a fraud scam after discovering a scheme that utilized an account with the company.

[44] In February 2016, MoneyGram agreed to pay $13 million to end a probe stemming from customer complaints that scam artists duped them into wiring funds via the money transfer service.

As a result, most all high-level litigation brought by the CFPB is on hold awaiting US Supreme Court review and action on the pending appeal.

[49][50] In 2012, MoneyGram contributed to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts by pledging to donate $1 per transaction up to $200,000 to the American Red Cross.

[55] As of the end of 2023, MoneyGram facilitated more than 955,000 transactions totaling more than $307 million for its partners Red Rose and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), representing vital aid in seven European countries (Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Hungary).