EXHIBIT 99.1

Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-Looking Statements
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      In passing the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the
 "Reform Act"), Congress encouraged public companies to make "forward-looking
 statements"* by creating a safe-harbor to protect companies from securities law
 liability in connection with forward-looking statements. First Data Corporation
 ("FDC") intends to qualify both its written and oral forward-looking statements
 for protection under the Reform Act. To qualify oral forward-looking statements
 for protection under the Reform Act, a readily available written document must
 identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
 from those in the forward-looking statements. FDC provides the following
 information in connection with its continuing effort to qualify forward-looking
 statements for the safe harbor protection of the Reform Act.

Important factors upon which the Company's forward-looking statements are
premised include the following: (a) continued growth at rates approximating
recent levels for card-based payment transactions, consumer money transfer
transactions and other product markets; (b) successful conversions under service
contracts with major clients; (c) renewal of material contracts in the Company's
business units consistent with past experience; (d) timely, successful and cost-
effective implementation of processing systems to provide new products, improved
functionality and increased efficiencies particularly in the card issuing
services segment; (e) successful and timely integration of significant
businesses and technologies acquired by the Company and realization of
anticipated synergies; (f) continuing development and maintenance of appropriate
business continuity plans for the Company's processing systems based on the
needs and risks relative to each such system; (g) absence of consolidation among
client financial institutions or other client groups which has a significant
impact on FDC client relationships and no material loss of business from
significant customers of the Company; (h) achieving planned revenue growth
throughout the Company, including in the merchant alliance program which
involves several joint ventures not under the sole control of the Company and
each of which acts independently of the others, and successful management of
pricing pressures through cost efficiencies and other cost management
initiatives; (i)  maintenance of effective risk management programs to control
credit and fraud losses in the Company's business units and the merchant
alliances, particularly in the context of the developing e-commerce markets; (j)
no material slowing of economic conditions or consumer spending; (k)
anticipation of and response to technological changes, particularly with respect
to e-commerce; (l) attracting and retaining qualified key employees; (m) no
unanticipated changes in laws, regulations, credit card association rules or
other industry standards affecting FDC's businesses which require significant
product redevelopment efforts, reduce the market for or value of its products or
render products obsolete; (n) continuation of the existing interest rate
environment, avoiding increases in agent fees related to the Company's consumer
money transfer products and the Company's short-term borrowing; (o) absence of
significant changes in foreign exchange spreads on retail money transfer
transactions, particularly between the United States and Mexico, without a
corresponding increase in volume or consumer fees; (p) continued political
stability in countries in which Western Union has material operations; (q)
implementation of Western Union agent agreements with governmental entities
according to schedule and no interruption of relations with countries in which
Western Union has or is implementing material agent agreements; (r) no
unanticipated developments relating to previously disclosed lawsuits against
Western Union, inter alia, violation of consumer protection laws in connection
with advertising the cost of money transfer; and (s) successfully managing the
potential both for patent protection and patent liability in the context of
rapidly developing legal framework for expansive software patent protection.

Variations from these assumptions or failure to achieve these objectives could
cause actual results to differ from those projected in the forward-looking
statements. Due to the uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements,
readers are urged not to place undue reliance on these statements. In addition,
FDC undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to
reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes
to projections over time.

* "Forward-looking statements" can be identified by use of words such as
"expect", "estimate", "project", "forecast", "anticipate", "plan" and similar
expressions.

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