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Trycera Financial Contracts With Western Union
Provides Stored Value Card Loading to Consumers

NEWPORT BEACH, CA (August 3, 2005) Trycera Financial, Inc. has signed an agreement with Western Union Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of First Data Corp. that will allow certain Trycera stored value cardholders the ability to load their prepaid cards at Western Union Agent locations throughout the United States.

Mi Dinero y Mis Sueños Prepaid MasterCard and Trycera Financial Prepaid MasterCard cardholders can visit any one of more than 46,000 Western Union Money Transfer Agent locations in the US to load money onto these cards within minutes. Until now, Trycera prepaid customers did not have the ability to load cards at retail locations.

Matt Kerper, CEO, Trycera Financial, said, “As we continue to expand our market presence and convenient load locations, Western Union provides unparalleled ubiquity for our cardholders. The agreement with Western Union helps Trycera provide our cardholders the flexibility they need to manage personal spending and budgets at prices below other competitive alternatives.”

Source: Trycera Financial (trycera.com)
First Data (firstdata.com)