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First Data Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

    DENVER, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC)
today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.02 per common share.  The
dividend is payable on October 10, 2003, to shareholders of record on
October 1, 2003.

    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 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 29,000 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 165,000 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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