EFTA01382614.pdf

S- /A Table of Contents prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to foreign governments and their officials and political parties by the U.S. and other business entities for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. We have implemented policies to discourage such practices; however, there can be no assurance that all of our employees, conAdtants, and agents. including those that may be based in or from countries where practices that violate U.S. laws may be customary•, will not take actions in violation of our policks, for which we may be ultimately responsible. In addition, we are subject to anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 (the "BSA"). Among other things, the BSA requires money services businesses (such as money transmitters and providers of prepaid access) to develop and implement risk-based anti-money laundering programs. report large cash transactions and suspicious activity, and maintain transaction records. Our subsidiary Money Network Financial LLC provides prepaid access for various open loop prepaid programs for which it is the program manager and therefore must meet the requirements of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the agency that enforces the BSA. We are also subject to certain economic and trade sanctions programs that are administered by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") which prohibit or restrict transactions to or from or dealings with specified countries, their governments, and in certain circumstances. their nationals. and with individuals and entities that are specially-designated nationals of those countries, narcotics traffickers, and terrorists or terrorist organizations. Similar anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing and proceeds of crime laws apply to movements of currency and payments through electronic transactions and to dealings with persons specified in lists maintained by the country equivalents to OFAC lists in several other countries and require specific data retention obligations to be observed by intermediaries in the payment process. Our businesses in those jurisdictions are subject to those data retention obligations. Failure to comply with any of these laws and regulations or changes in this regulatory• environment, including changing interpretations and the implementation of new or varying regulatory requirements by the government, may remit in significant financial penalties. reputational harm, or change the manner in which we currently conduct some aspects of our business, which could significantly affect our results of operations or financial condition. Changes in credit card association or other network rules or standards could adversely affect our business In order to provide our transaction processing services, several of our subsidiaries are registered with Visa and MasterCard and other networks as members or service providers for member institutions. As such, we and many of our clients are subject to card association and network rules that could subject us or our clients to a variety of fines or penalties that may be levied by the card associations or networks for certain acts or omissions by us, acquiring clients, processing clients, and merchants. Visa, MasterCard, and other networks, some of which are our competitors, set the rules and standards with which we must comply. The termination of our member registration or our status as a certified service provider, or any changes in card association or other network rules or standards, including interpretation and implementation of the rules or standards, that increase the cost of doing business or limit our ability to provide transaction processing services to or through our clients, could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations. and financial condition. Failure to protect our intellectualproperty rights and defend ourselvesfrompotentialpatent infringement claims may diminish our competitive advantages or restrict usfrom delivering our services. Our trademarks, patents. and other intellectual property are important to our future success. The First Data trademark and trade name and the STAR trademark and trade name are intellectual property rights which arc individually material to us. These trademarks and trade names arc widely recognized and associated with quality and reliable service. Loss of the proprietary use of the First Data or STAR trademarks and trade names or a diminution in the perceived quality associated with them could harm the growth of our businesses. We also rely 29 http://wvoivroegov/Archivecledear/datat883980/000119312515334479/d31022dsla.htmlin/14/20l 5 9:06:38 AM] CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0082045 CONFIDENTIAL SONY GM_00228229 EFTA01382614