DENVER, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC), a
global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, today announced
that yesterday it closed the previously announced offering of $450 million due
October 1, 2009 and $550 million due October 1, 2014. The company swapped the
entire issue to a floating interest rate.
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.
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SOURCE First Data Corp.
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Related links:
http://www.firstdata.com
CONTACT:
Investors, David Banks, +1-303-967-8057,
david.banks@firstdatacorp.com, or Media, Cara Taylor,
+1-303-967-6367, cara.taylor@firstdatacorp.com, both of First
Data Corp.
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