Card Briefs: First Data Unit Extends Its First Premier Pact

First Data Resources said it will provide transaction processing and other cardholder services to First Premier Bank through 2005, as part of a three-year contract extension.

Financial details were not disclosed, but First Data Resources, a unit of First Data Corp., will handle more than 300,000 credit card accounts.

"This extension clearly shows that we consider First Data a strategic partner in helping us achieve our goals for the management and growth of our credit card portfolio," said Miles K. Beacon, president of First Premier's credit card division.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based First Premier has been a client of First Data Resources since 1989.

Last September First Premier chose Vital Processing Services over First Data to handle its merchant processing. Vital is a joint venture of Visa U.S.A. and Total System Services Inc.

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