ACE Cash Express

ACE Cash Express, Inc. provides various retail financial services to unbanked and underbanked individuals in the United States. It owns, operates, and franchises check cashing stores and short-term consumer loan stores. The company’s stores offer check cashing, short-term consumer loans, prepaid debit cards, bill payments, money orders, and money transfer services, as well as other retail financial services. Its stores serves as an agent for the transmission and receipt of wire transfers through the MoneyGram network, as well as sells money orders issued by MoneyGram in amount up to $1,000. The company also provides other retail financial services, such as photocopying, fax transmission services, postage stamps, and various prepaid services, including long-distance telephone cards. As of June 30, 2006, it had a network of 1,573 stores, including 1,353 company-owned stores and 220 franchised stores in 38 states and the District of Columbia. ACE Cash Express was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.