Global Cash Access Signs New Contracts with 21 Casinos; Properties To Use GCA's Latest Products And Services

Business Wire, June 18, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2003

Twenty-one gaming properties have signed contracts to use the innovative products and services of Global Cash Access (GCA), the leading supplier of cash access and customer relationship marketing technologies to the gaming industry.

GCA offers an array of products and services, ranging from the latest ATM technology to guest development marketing services that help casinos better understand their customers and increase traffic to the gaming floor and special events. The company provides cash access and customer relationship marketing services to approximately 1,000 gaming properties and other clients in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean and Europe.

In addition to GCA's core credit and debit cash advance products, properties will be using new technologies such as the Casino Cash Plus 3-in-1 ATM, Automated Cashier Machine, ACM(SM), and QuikCash Plus (QCP) Web.

Properties that recently signed agreements with GCA are:

-- Big Dog's Bar & Grill - Las Vegas

-- Big Dog's Cafe & Casino - Las Vegas

-- Bully's Sports Bar and Grill #5 - Sparks, Nev.

-- Carson Station Hotel Casino - Carson City, Nev.

-- Casuarina Casino Resort - Las Vegas

-- Dancing Eagle Casino - Casa Blanca, N.M.

-- Dancing Eagle Family Fun Center - Casa Blanca, N.M.

-- Doc Holiday's Rainbow - Las Vegas

-- Draft House Bar & Grill - Las Vegas

-- Eureka Casino Black Hawk - Black Hawk, Colo.

-- Gila River Gaming Enterprises:

             Gila River Lone Butte - Chandler, Ariz.
             Gila River Vee Quiva - Laveen, Ariz.
             Gila River Wild Horse Pass - Chandler, Ariz.

-- Greater Las Vegas Auto Auction - Las Vegas

-- Klondike Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas

-- Lake Tahoe Horizon Casino Resort - Stateline, Nev.

-- Majesty Casino - Madeira Beach, Fla.

-- Pinion Plaza Resort - Carson City, Nev.

-- Route 66 Casino - Albuquerque, N.M.

-- Winners Haven Casino - Black Hawk, Colo.

-- Wonderland Greyhound Park - Revere, Mass.

About Global Cash Access and First Data Corp.

Las Vegas-based Global Cash Access (GCA), majority owned by First Data Corp., is the global leader in providing cash access and customer relationship marketing services to approximately 1,000 gaming properties and other clients in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean and Europe. More than 50 percent of all U.S. gaming revenue is transacted through GCA cash access devices. Providing access to the largest industry database of more than 10 million gaming patrons worldwide, GCA is widely recognized for successfully developing and deploying technological innovations that increase client profitability, operational efficiency and customer loyalty. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.globalcashaccess.com.

First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC), with global headquarters in Denver, helps power the global economy. Serving approximately 3 million merchant locations, 1,400 card issuers and millions of consumers, First Data makes it easy, fast and secure for people and businesses to buy goods and services, using virtually any form of payment: credit, debit, smart card, stored-value card or check at the point-of-sale, over the Internet or by money transfer. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.firstdata.com.