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[Table of Contents](#i82eec5aa49a24290a07e4a9f99c1e608_7)                                  million (net of income tax provision of $36 million), $(151) million and $(62) million in other comprehensive income (loss) from the Euro- and British Pound-denominated senior notes and Euro commercial paper notes during the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company recorded a prior period adjustment which resulted in an increase to retained earnings of $71 million to reclassify prior year deferred tax benefits on such foreign currency translation losses from accumulated other comprehensive loss that were not previously recorded in other comprehensive income (loss). Management believes this prior period adjustment was not material to the consolidated financial statements.15. Employee Benefit PlansDefined Contribution PlansThe Company and its subsidiaries maintain defined contribution savings plans covering the majority of their employees. Under the plans, eligible participants may elect to contribute a specified percentage of their salaries and the Company makes matching contributions, each subject to certain limitations. The plans provide tax-deferred amounts for each participant, consisting of employee elective contributions, company matching and discretionary company contributions. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has taken several actions since the onset of the pandemic to manage discretionary costs, including the reduction or temporary suspension of certain employee-related benefits such as company matching contributions to the plans during 2021 and most of 2020. The Company temporarily suspended company matching contributions during most of 2020 and re-established such contributions effective January 1, 2021, to equal 100% on the first 1% contributed and 25% on the next 4% contributed for eligible participants. Effective January 1, 2022, company matching contributions were increased to 100% on the first 1% contributed and 50% on the next 4% contributed for eligible participants. Expenses for company contributions under these plans totaled $58 million, $38 million, and $65 million and in 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.In connection with the acquisition of First Data (see Note 4), the Company assumed defined contribution savings plans and defined contribution pension plans covering substantially all employees of the former First Data. Effective January 1, 2020, the 401(k) Savings Plan of Fiserv, Inc. (the “Plan”) was amended to freeze the Plan to new participants and contributions and to allow for the merger of the Plan into the surviving Fiserv 401(k) Savings Plan (f/k/a the First Data Corporation Incentive Savings Plan) (“New Fiserv Plan”) for the purpose of providing a single plan covering current and former employees of both companies and their affiliates. Participants in the Plan became eligible to make salary reduction contributions in the New Fiserv Plan effective January 1, 2020. The merger of the Plan into the New Fiserv Plan was completed in the third quarter of 2020.Defined Benefit PlansThe Company maintains noncontributory defined benefit pension plans covering a portion of its employees in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), the U.S., Germany and Austria. The majority of these plans are frozen, representing substantially all of the benefit obligations and plan assets, and provide benefits to eligible employees based on an employee’s average final compensation and years of service. 83
