First Data Corp.

Private Subsidiary, Headquarters Location
5565 Glenridge Connector NE, Atlanta, GA 30342-4756, United States
(800)735-3362, (303)967-8000, http://www.firstdatacorp.com

Primary SIC: Data Processing Services, Primary NAICS: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
Description: Founded by the Mid-America Bankcard Association (MABA) as a non-profit bankcard processing cooperative in 1971, First Data Corp. incorporated in 1971, reincorporated in 1989, and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1992. First Data provides financial instruments and data processing operations in 3 primary lines of business: payment instruments, merchant processing, and card issuing. The company issues official checks and money orders for banks and savings institutions. First Data also embosses and issues plastic cards, activates the cards, corresponds with cardholders, and produces and mails billing statements. The company processes check verification, prepaid cards, and merchant transactions internationally through its remote clearing network as well as handles commercial and financial services for merchant and debit PIN POS STAR ATM network processing. Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, First Data has operations in 37 countries, including the United States, and globally in 4 main geographic regions including Europe, Middle East and Africa; Latin America, Canada and Caribbean; Australia and New Zealand; Asia markets and the United Kingdom. As of 2008, TeleCheck Services, Inc.; TeleCheck Recovery Services, Inc; Western Union Financial Services, Inc.; Wells Fargo Merchant Services, L.L.C.; Chase Merchant Services, L.L.C.; Credit Performance Inc. and Paymenttech are subsidiaries maintained by First Data. More

Services: Information processing of credit cards, debit cards and merchant transactions. Finance: Provider of shareholder services to the mutual fund industry.