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First Data Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

    DENVER, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC)
today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.02 per common share.  The
dividend is payable on April 12, 2004, to shareholders of record on
April 1, 2004.

    First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC), with global headquarters in Denver, helps
power the global economy.  As a leader in electronic commerce and payment
services, First Data serves approximately 3.5 million merchant locations,
1,400 card issuers and millions of consumers, making it easy, fast and secure
for people and businesses to buy goods and services using virtually any form
of payment.  With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, the company provides
credit, debit, smart card and stored-value card issuing and merchant
transaction processing services; Internet commerce solutions; money transfer
services; money orders; and check processing and verification services
throughout the United States.  First Data also offers a variety of payment
services in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the
Netherlands, the Middle East and Germany.  Its Western Union and Orlandi
Valuta money transfer networks include a total of approximately 182,000 agent
locations in more than 195 countries and territories.  For more information,
please visit the company's Web site at http://www.firstdata.com .

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SOURCE First Data Corp.




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