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Divestitures, Investment Activities, and Goodwill | 12 Months Ended
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Divestitures Investment Activities and Goodwill [Abstract] |
Divestitures, Investment Activities, and Goodwill | 4. Divestitures, Investment Activities, and Goodwill Business Solutions Divestiture On August 4, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its Business Solutions business to Goldfinch Partners LLC and The Baupost Group LLC for cash consideration of $910.0 million. The sale was completed in three closings, with the entire cash consideration collected at the first closing and allocated to the closings on a relative fair value basis. The first closing occurred on March 1, 2022, excluded the operations in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and resulted in a gain of $151.4 million. In connection with the first closing, the Company reclassified $17.8 million of currency translation gains previously included within AOCL as a component of Gain on divestiture of business in the Consolidated Statements of Income. The second closing, which occurred on December 31, 2022 and included the United Kingdom operations, resulted in a gain of $96.9 million. As of December 31, 2022, the Company classified the proceeds allocated to the European Union operations of approximately $104 million within Other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance She ets. The final closing occurred on July 1, 2023, included the European Union operations, and resulted in a gain of $18.0 million. During the period between the first and final closings, the Company was required to pay the Buyer a measure of profit of the European Union and United Kingdom operations, while owned by the Company, adjusted for the occupancy charges for employees of the Buyer using Company facilities and other items, as contractually agreed, which was $2.7 million and $32.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and was included in Other expense, net in the Consolidated Statements of Income. The related income tax expense on this income was also passed to the Buyer. Business Solutions revenues included in the Consolidated Statements of Income were $29.7 million, $196.9 million, and $421.8 million, and direct operating expenses, excluding corporate allocations, were $26.1 million, $140.3 million, and $317.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Divestiture costs directly associated with this transaction were $1.1 million, $5.2 million, and $14.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. The following table reflects the assets held for sale and associated liabilities of the Business Solutions business in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions).
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2022 |
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 5.2 |
Settlement assets |  |  | 74.9 |
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $1.0 |  |  | 0.7 |
Goodwill |  |  | 61.4 |
Other intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization of $9.8 |  |  | 1.4 |
Other assets |  |  | 118.0 |
Total assets |  | $ | 261.6 |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |  | $ | 18.2 |
Settlement obligations |  |  | 74.9 |
Other liabilities |  |  | 89.4 |
Total liabilities |  | $ | 182.5 |
Investment Activities The Company entered into an agreement in November 2020, which was subsequently amended, to acquire an ownership interest in stc Bank (formerly Saudi Digital Payments Company), a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Company and one of the Company’s Consumer Money Transfer digital white label partners. Under the terms of the amended agreement, the Company agreed to invest $200.0 million for a 15% ownership in stc Bank (“Investment”), and this transaction closed in October 2021. In conjunction with the Investment, the Company and stc Bank extended and expanded the terms of their commercial agreement. T he Company assigned a value of $36.0 million to certain rights under the commercial agreement that are included in Other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheets and are being amortized over the life of the agreement. During the fourth quarter of 2023, the majority shareholder communicated that it will make an additional equity contribution at the same per share price as the Company’s carrying value of the Investment, which would dilute the Company’s ownership to 12.4%. The Company is measuring the Investment at cost, less any impairment, adjusted for any changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for identical or similar investments in stc Bank. In April 2021, the Company sold a substantial majority of the noncontrolling interest it held in a private company for cash proceeds of $50.9 million. The Company recorded a gain of $47.9 million within Total other income/(expense), net, during the year ended December 31, 2021. The Company retains an immaterial equity interest in this private company. Goodwill The following tables present changes to goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 and the accumulated impairment losses as of December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021 (in millions):
|  | Consumer Money Transfer |  |  | Business Solutions(a) |  |  | Consumer Services |  |  | Total |
January 1, 2022 goodwill, net |  | $ | 1,980.7 |  |  | $ | 532.0 |  |  | $ | 53.9 |  |  | $ | 2,566.6 |
Additions |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Divestiture(a) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (470.6 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (470.6 | )
December 31, 2022 goodwill, net |  | $ | 1,980.7 |  |  | $ | 61.4 |  |  | $ | 53.9 |  |  | $ | 2,096.0 |
Additions |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Divestiture(a) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (61.4 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (61.4 | )
December 31, 2023 goodwill, net |  | $ | 1,980.7 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 53.9 |  |  | $ | 2,034.6 |
(a) Related to the Business Solutions divestiture, as described above.
|  | As of December 31, |
|  | 2023 |  |  | 2022 |  |  | 2021 |
Goodwill, gross |  | $ | 2,034.6 |  |  | $ | 2,125.6 |  |  | $ | 3,030.6 |
Accumulated impairment losses |  |  | — |  |  |  | (29.6 | ) |  |  | (464.0 | )
Goodwill, net(a) |  | $ | 2,034.6 |  |  | $ | 2,096.0 |  |  | $ | 2,566.6 |
(a) As of December 31, 2022, Goodwill of $61.4 million related to the Company’s Business Solutions business was included in Assets held for sale on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets, as further described above. All of the Company’s accumulated impairment losses related to the Business Solutions business. The Company did no t record any goodwill impairments during the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

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