DENVER, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC), a
global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, today announced it
has priced $450 million of 3.9% Notes due October 1, 2009, and $550 million of
4.85% Notes due October 1, 2014. The company said the proceeds from the
offering will be used to repay outstanding commercial paper, with any
remaining proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes or the repurchase
of First Data common stock.
A written prospectus describing the Notes may be obtained by writing First
Data at the following address:
First Data Corporation
6200 South Quebec St.
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Attn: Investor Relations Department
Citigroup and Wells Fargo Institutional Brokerage and Sales managed the
offering.
About First Data
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 around the world to buy goods and services using
virtually any form of payment. With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, the
company provides credit, debit, private-label, smart and stored-value card
issuing and merchant transaction processing services; Internet commerce
solutions; money transfer services; money orders; and check guarantee and
verification services. The STAR(R) Network offers PIN-secured debit
acceptance at 261,000 ATMs and one million point-of-sale locations nationwide.
First Data also offers a variety of payment services to businesses around the
world including those in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico,
Spain, Panama, Brazil, China, the Netherlands, the Middle East and Germany.
Its Western Union and Orlandi Valuta money transfer networks include
approximately 200,000 Agent locations in more than 195 countries and
territories.
SOURCE First Data Corp.
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CONTACT:
Investor Relations, David Banks,
+1-303-967-8057, david.banks@firstdatacorp.com, or Media
Relations, Cara Taylor, +1-303-967-6367,
cara.taylor@firstdatacorp.com, both of First Data
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