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Recent Events Jan 27 Earnings Announcement Jan 14 Dividend payment of $0.02 Jan 13 Price hit new 52-week high ($54.25) Location 5660 New Northside Drive, Suite 1400 Atlanta, GA 30328 Phone: (770) 857-0001 Fax: (770) 857-0411 Email: investor.relations@firstdatacorp.com Employees as of 12/98: 32,000 Financial Links  ·Top Institutional Holders  ·Top Mutual Fund Holders  ·Upgrade/Downgrade History  ·Historical Quote Data  ·Journal Archive  ·Raw SEC Filings Competitors:  ·Sector: Technology  ·Industry: Computer Services Company Websites  ·Home Page  ·Divisions  ·Yahoo! Category  ·Search Yahoo! for related links... Index Membership  ·S&P 500 Ownership · Insider: 1% · Over the last 6 months:  · one insider sell; 81.0K shares   (1.9% of insider shares) · Institutional: 89% (90% of float) (1,280 institutions) · Net Inst. Selling: 2.09M shares (+0.56%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

Business Summary First Data Corporation provides transaction processing services. In partnership with clients and a worldwide Western Union agent network, First Data processes the information that allows consumers to pay for goods and services by check or card or any form of payment, except cash. The Payment Instruments segment includes Western Union, Integrated Payment Systems, Orlandi Valuta Companies and TransPoint, and provides non-bank money transfer and payment services to consumers and commercial entities, including money transfer, official checks and money orders. The Card Issuer Services segment encompasses domestic and international card processing, bankcard customer servicing and certain information based services. The Merchant Processing Services segment is comprised of First Data Merchant Services, TeleCheck, First Data POS and its joint venture interests in BMCF and Card Service International, Inc. This segment provides merchants with credit and debit card transaction processing services. Financial Summary First Data Corporation provides high-volume information processing and related services, payment instruments, card issuer services, and merchant processing services. For the nine months ended 9/30/99, total revenues rose 8% to $4.07 billion. Net income increased 49% to $541.4 million. Revenues reflect strong volume increases related to international and commercial money transfer. Earnings also reflect the absence of a $125.2 million contract loss provision. Recent Earnings Announcement For the 3 months ended 12/31/1999, revenues were 1,472,100; after tax earnings were 658,300. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.) Officers [Insider Trade Data] FY1998 Pay Henry Duques, 55 Chairman, CEO $3.4M Charles Fote, 50 Pres and COO 1.6M Lee Adrean, 47 Exec. VP and CFO 1.3M Robert Levenson, 57 Exec. VP 1.3M David Bailis, 43 Exec. VP 805K Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1998 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.. More from Market Guide: Highlights -Performance - Ratio Comparisons