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First Data Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

    DENVER, Dec. 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 January 12, 2004, to shareholders of record on
January 2, 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 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 169,000 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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