424B5

Barclays

RBC Capital Markets

Wells Fargo Securities

Lloyds Securities

Mizuho Securities

TD Securities

CastleOak Securities, L.P.

Drexel Hamilton

Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5)
Registration File No. 333-205964, 333-205964-01, 333-205964-02


The issuing entity will issue —
	Class A certificates	Class B certificates
Principal amount	$2,300,000,000	$98,572,000
Certificate rate	1.93% per year	2.10% per year
Interest paid	Monthly	Monthly
First interest payment date	March 15, 2017	March 15, 2017
Expected final payment date	February 18, 2020	February 18, 2020
Legal final maturity	September 15, 2022	September 15, 2022
Price to public	$2,299,456,970 (99.97639%)	$98,552,857 (99.98058%)
Underwriting discount	$5,750,000 (0.25000%)	$295,716 (0.30000%)
Proceeds to transferors	$2,293,706,970 (99.72639%)	$98,257,141 (99.68058%)
The primary assets of the issuing entity are receivables generated in a portfolio of designated consumer revolving credit accounts or features and, in the future, may include other charge or credit accounts or features or products. Credit Enhancement — The Class B certificates are subordinated to the Class A certificates. Subordination of the Class B certificates provides credit enhancement for the Class A certificates. The issuing entity is also issuing a collateral interest in the amount of $230,001,000 that is subordinated to the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates. Subordination of the collateral interest provides credit enhancement for both the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates.

You should rely only on the information in this prospectus, including the information incorporated by reference. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. We are not offering the certificates in any state where the offer is not permitted. We do not claim the accuracy of the information in this prospectus as of any date other than the date stated on the cover.

We include cross references in this prospectus to captions in these materials where you can find additional related discussions. The Table of Contents in this prospectus provides the pages on which these captions are located.

A part of this prospectus uses defined terms. You can find these terms and their definitions under the caption “Glossary of Defined Terms” on page 121 in this prospectus.

Articles 404-410 of the European Union’s (“EU”) Capital Requirements Regulation ((EU) No. 575/2013) (as supplemented by EU secondary legislation) (the “CRR”) imposes restrictions on the ability of credit institutions or investment firms regulated in the EEA and their affiliates (“Institutions”) to invest in asset-backed securities. Article 405 of the CRR allows Institutions to invest in asset-backed securities only if the sponsor, originator or original lender has disclosed to investors that it will retain, on an ongoing basis, a specified minimum net economic interest in the securitization transaction. Similar requirements (i) are in effect with respect to EEA-regulated alternative investment fund managers under Article 17 of the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (2011/61/EU) and Articles 50-56 of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulation ((EU) No. 231/2013), (ii) are in effect with respect to EEA-regulated insurers and reinsurers under Article 254 of the Commission Delegated Regulation ((EU) No. 2015/35), which supplements Article 135(2)(a) of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the taking up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, and (iii) will be implemented in respect of Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (“UCITS”) when the relevant risk retention provisions of the EU’s Securitization Regulation come into force (together with the CRR and any other similar EEA national requirements, the “EU Retention Rules”).

None of the sponsors, the transferors, the servicer, the issuing entity, the trustee, the underwriters or any affiliate thereof, makes any representation or agreement that it is undertaking or will have undertaken to comply with the requirements and criteria set out in the EU Retention Rules. As a result, any EEA-regulated entity required to comply with the EU Retention Rules that is seeking to invest in the Series 2017-1 certificates (either on the closing date or thereafter) will generally be unable to satisfy the requirements of the EU Retention Rules in respect of such investment. Failure to comply with one or more of the requirements set out in the EU Retention Rules may result in the imposition of a penalty regulatory capital charge through additional risk weights levied in respect of the Series 2017-1 certificates acquired by applicable certificateholders that are subject to the EU Retention Rules. Prospective certificateholders are responsible for analyzing their own regulatory position and are advised to consult with their own advisors regarding the suitability of the Series 2017-1 certificates for investment and compliance with the applicable EU Retention Rules.

The American Express Credit Account Master Trust is not now, and immediately following the issuance of the Series 2017-1 certificates will not be, a “covered fund” for purposes of regulations adopted under Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, commonly known as the “Volcker Rule.” In reaching this conclusion, although other statutory or regulatory exemptions under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, may be available, we have relied on the exemption from registration set forth in Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act.

Summary of Series Terms

This summary highlights selected information about the certificates and does not contain all the information that you need to consider in making your investment decision. You should carefully read this entire document before you purchase any certificates.

Risk Factors

Investment in the Series 2017-1 certificates involves certain risks. You should consider carefully the risk factors beginning on page 16 of this prospectus.

The Issuing Entity

American Express Credit Account Master Trust is the issuing entity of the certificates. It was formed in 1996 pursuant to a pooling and servicing agreement. This agreement, as it has been amended and restated from time to time, most recently as of July 20, 2016, and as may be further amended from time to time, is among American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., as servicer, American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC and American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC, as transferors, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.

We refer to the American Express Credit Account Master Trust as the “trust” or the “issuing entity.”

The trust is a master trust under which multiple series of certificates may be issued. The trust issues each series pursuant to a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement. The terms of a series are set forth in the series supplement.

Some classes or series may not be offered by this prospectus. They may be offered, for example, in a private placement offering.

Account Owners and Sponsors

The receivables owned by the trust will arise in designated credit or charge accounts owned by American Express Centurion Bank, American Express Bank, FSB or any of their affiliates.

Centurion

American Express Centurion Bank, a Utah state-chartered industrial bank, owns credit card and other credit or charge accounts from which receivables are transferred to American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC. American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC may then, subject to certain conditions, add those receivables to the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” and “Description of the Purchase Agreements.”

We refer to American Express Centurion Bank as “Centurion.”

FSB

American Express Bank, FSB, a federal savings bank, owns credit card and other credit or charge accounts from which receivables are transferred to American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC. American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC may then, subject to certain conditions, add those receivables to the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” and “Description of the Purchase Agreements.”

We refer to American Express Bank, FSB as “FSB” and, together with Centurion, the “account owners” or the “banks.”

Depositors and Transferors

American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 11, 2004. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centurion. RFC III purchases from Centurion receivables arising in credit card and other credit or charge accounts owned by Centurion. RFC III may then, subject to certain conditions, add those receivables to the trust. See “Description of the Purchase Agreements” in this prospectus. American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC structures the issuing entity’s transactions. Its address is 4315 South 2700 West, Room 1100, 02-01-46A, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184 and its phone number is (801) 945-5648.

American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 11, 2004. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FSB. RFC IV purchases from FSB receivables arising in credit card and other credit or charge accounts owned by FSB. RFC IV may then, subject to certain conditions, add those receivables to the trust. See “Description of the Purchase Agreements” in this prospectus. American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC structures the issuing entity’s transactions. Its address is 4315 South 2700 West, Room 1100, 02-01-46B, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184 and its phone number is (801) 945-2068.

We refer to American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC as “RFC III,” a “depositor” or a “transferor.” We refer to American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC as “RFC IV,” a “depositor” or a “transferor.” RFC III and RFC IV collectively are referred to as the “transferors.”

Servicer

American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. is the servicer of the trust. As servicer, it is responsible for servicing, managing and making collections on the receivables in the trust. See “Transaction Parties — Servicer” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Collection and Other Servicing Procedures” in this prospectus. American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. has outsourced certain functions to affiliated and unaffiliated third parties, but it remains responsible for the overall servicing process. For information about certain affiliated and unaffiliated third party vendors that provide these services, including Centurion and FSB, see “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Outsourcing of Servicing” in this prospectus.

In limited cases, the servicer may resign or be removed, and either the trustee or a third party may be appointed as the new servicer. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Servicer Default” in this prospectus.

The servicer receives a servicing fee from the trust, and each series is obligated to pay a portion of that fee. See “Series Provisions — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus for a description of the monthly servicing fee allocated to each series of certificates.

We refer to American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. as “TRS” or the “servicer.”

Trustee

The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, is the trustee of the trust and each series of certificates issued by the trust. Its address is 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7 West, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Asset-Backed Securities Unit. Its telephone number is (212) 815-6258.

Under the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement, the role of the trustee is limited. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — The Trustee” in this prospectus.

Offered Securities

American Express Credit Account Master Trust is offering:

$2,300,000,000 of Class A certificates; and

$98,572,000 of Class B certificates.

In this document, references to Series 2017-1 certificates include only the Class A certificates and Class B certificates and references to Series 2017-1 include the Series 2017-1 certificates and the collateral interest.

Only the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates are offered by this prospectus.

Beneficial interests in the Series 2017-1 certificates may be purchased in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1,000.

The Series 2017-1 certificates are expected to be issued on February 21, 2017.

Distribution Dates

Distribution dates for the Series 2017-1 certificates will commence on March 15, 2017 and, after that, will be the 15th day of each month, if the 15th is a business day and, if not, the following business day.

Interest

Interest on the Series 2017-1 certificates will be paid on each distribution date.

The Class A certificates will bear interest at 1.93% per year. The Class B certificates will bear interest at 2.10% per year.

Interest on the Class A certificates for any distribution date will equal one-twelfth the product of:

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the Class A certificate rate; and

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the principal amount of the Class A certificates as of the related record date.

For the first distribution date, however, interest on the Class A certificates will equal $2,959,333.33.

Interest on the Class B certificates for any distribution date will equal one-twelfth the product of:

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the Class B certificate rate; and

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the principal amount of the Class B certificates as of the related record date.

For the first distribution date, however, interest on the Class B certificates will equal $138,000.80.

See “Series Provisions — Interest Payments” in this prospectus for a discussion of the determination of amounts available to pay interest.

No payment of interest will be made on the Class B certificates until the required payment of interest has been made on the Class A certificates. See “—Credit Enhancement” and “Series Provisions — Subordination of the Class B Certificates and the Collateral Interest” in this prospectus.

Principal

Principal of the Series 2017-1 certificates is expected to be paid in full on the February 2020 distribution date, which is the expected final payment date. On approximately February 1, 2019, we are scheduled to begin accumulating collections of principal receivables for payment to you, but we may begin accumulating at a later date.

Although the Series 2017-1 certificates are expected to be paid on the date noted above, principal may be paid earlier or later.

There is no penalty for early or late payment of principal. If certain adverse events known as pay-out events occur, principal may be paid earlier than expected. If collections of the credit card receivables are less than expected or are collected more slowly than expected, then principal payments may be delayed. No principal will be paid on the Class B certificates until the Class A certificates are paid in full.

The final payment of principal and interest on the Series 2017-1 certificates will be made no later than the September 2022 distribution date.

See “Maturity Considerations” and “Series Provisions — Allocation Percentages” and “— Principal Payments” in this prospectus for a discussion of the determination of amounts available to pay principal.

The Collateral Interest

At the same time the Series 2017-1 certificates are issued, the trust will issue an interest in the assets of the trust known as the collateral interest. The initial amount of the collateral interest is $230,001,000, which represents 8.75% of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Series 2017-1 certificates plus the collateral interest.

The holder of the collateral interest will have voting and certain other rights as if the collateral interest were a subordinated class of certificates. The collateral interest will be subordinated to the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates.

The collateral interest is not offered by this prospectus.

Credit Enhancement

Subordination

Subordination of the Class B certificates provides credit enhancement for the Class A certificates. Subordination of the collateral interest provides credit enhancement for both the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates. In addition, the portion of the collateral interest that exceeds the collateral senior invested amount provides credit enhancement for the portion of the collateral interest represented by the collateral senior invested amount. If, on any distribution date, there are insufficient funds available to make required Class A certificate payments, certain funds that would otherwise be used to make required collateral interest and Class B certificate payments will be used to make required Class A certificate payments, and the collateral invested amount and the Class B invested amount will be reduced accordingly. Similarly, if on any distribution date, there are insufficient funds available to make required Class B certificate payments, certain funds that would otherwise be used to make required collateral interest payments will be used to make required Class B certificate payments, and the collateral invested amount will be reduced accordingly. Similarly, if on any distribution date, there are insufficient funds available to make certain required payments on the portion of the collateral interest represented by the collateral senior invested amount, certain funds that would otherwise be used to make required collateral interest payments will be used to make those required payments on the portion of the collateral interest represented by the collateral senior invested amount, and the collateral invested amount will be reduced accordingly. The collateral invested amount and the Class B invested amount must be reduced to zero before the Class A invested amount will suffer any loss of principal. The collateral invested amount must be reduced to zero before the Class B invested amount will suffer any loss of principal.

Credit enhancement for the Series 2017-1 certificates is for the benefit of Series 2017-1 only and you are not entitled to the benefits of any credit enhancement available to other series.

See “Series Provisions — Reallocation of Cash Flows,” “—Application of Collections” and “— Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs” in this prospectus for a description of the events which may lead to a reduction of the Class A invested amount, the Class B invested amount and the collateral invested amount.

Other Interests in the Trust

Other Series of Certificates

The trust has issued other series of certificates and expects to issue additional series. The trust may also issue additional Series 2017-1 certificates in the future. You can review a summary of each series previously issued and currently outstanding under the caption “Annex III: Other Series” included at the end of this prospectus. Future series and any additional Series 2017-1 certificates will be issued without prior notice to, or review or consent by, you or any other certificateholder. We cannot assure you that the terms of any future series or issuance of additional Series 2017-1 certificates might not have an impact on the timing or amount of payments received by a certificateholder.

The Transferors’ Interest

The interest in the trust not represented by your series or by any other series is the transferors’ interest, which is held by the transferors. The transferors’ interest may be held either in certificated form represented by the transferor certificates or in uncertificated form. Any reference in this prospectus to the transferor certificates means the transferors’ interest as held in either certificated or uncertificated form. The transferors’ interest does not provide credit enhancement for your series or any other series.

Credit Risk Retention

In accordance with the credit risk retention requirements of Regulation RR, Centurion and FSB, directly as sponsors, or RFC III and RFC IV, as depositors and as wholly-owned affiliates of the sponsors, are required to retain an economic interest in the credit risk of the receivables in the trust. The sponsors and the depositors intend to satisfy the risk retention requirements by maintaining a seller’s interest (as defined by and calculated in accordance with Regulation RR) in the trust through the depositors’ ownership of the transferors’ interest. See “Credit Risk Retention” in this prospectus.

Trust Assets

The Trust Portfolio

The primary assets of the trust are receivables in designated consumer American Express^® credit card accounts and Pay Over Time revolving credit features associated with charge card accounts and, in the future, may include other charge or credit accounts or features or products.^* The receivables consist of principal receivables and finance charge receivables.

The following information is as of December 31, 2016:

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Total receivables in the trust:

$26,129,462,078

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Principal receivables in the trust:

$25,435,689,920

*	American Express is a federally registered servicemark of American Express Company and its affiliates.

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Finance charge receivables in the trust:

$693,772,157

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Accounts designated to the trust:

15,781,412

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Account billing addresses: generally all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico

Additional information regarding the receivables in the trust portfolio is provided in Annex I to this prospectus, which forms an integral part of this prospectus.

See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses” and “The Trust Portfolio — The Accounts” in this prospectus.

Certificateholders will not be notified of any changes to the composition of the assets in the trust due to additions or removals of receivables. However, monthly reports containing certain information relating to the certificates and the collateral securing the certificates will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports will not be sent to certificateholders. See “Where You Can Find More Information” in this prospectus for information as to how these reports may be accessed.

Subject only to the eligibility criteria established in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement, the account owners have the discretion to select the accounts to be designated to the trust. All receivables in the accounts when designated to the trust were transferred to the trust and all new receivables generated in those accounts have been and will be transferred automatically to the trust.

The receivables transferred to the trust are the trust’s primary assets. The total amount of receivables in the trust fluctuates daily as new receivables are generated and payments are received on existing receivables.

The trust’s assets also include or may include:

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funds collected on the receivables;

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monies and investments in the trust’s bank accounts;

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the right to receive certain issuer rate fees attributed to the receivables;

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recoveries (net of collection expenses) and proceeds of credit insurance policies relating to the receivables; and

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credit enhancement that varies from one series to another and, within a series, may vary from one class to another.

Additional assets may be transferred to the trust as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” in this prospectus. The transferors may add additional receivables to the trust at any time without limitation, provided that the receivables are eligible receivables, the transferors reasonably believe that the addition will not result in an adverse effect, and the rating agencies confirm the ratings on the outstanding certificates. Under certain limited circumstances, the transferors may be obligated to add additional receivables to the trust if required to maintain the required minimum principal balance or the required seller’s interest amount (for credit risk retention purposes).

The transferors may also remove receivables that previously were transferred to the trust as described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Removal of Accounts” in this prospectus, provided that

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the transferors reasonably believe that the removal will not result in an adverse effect,

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the rating agencies confirm the ratings on the outstanding certificates,

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the receivables subject to removal are selected randomly, and

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only one removal occurs each month.

If a transferor breaches certain representations and warranties relating to the eligibility of receivables included in the trust, however, that transferor may be required to remove immediately those receivables from the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

Finally, on the date when any receivable in an account is charged off as uncollectible, the trust automatically transfers those receivables back to the applicable transferor.

Asset Representations Review

Under certain circumstances, investors in the certificates may direct an asset representations reviewer to perform a review of all receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent (i.e., 60 days past the date a payment amount is first due under the applicable card member agreement) and the accounts relating to such receivables for compliance with certain representations and warranties on the receivables and the accounts. Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is the asset representations reviewer under the asset representations review agreement with respect to the receivables in the Trust Portfolio.

The asset representations reviewer will be paid an annual fee by the transferors, or the sponsors at the direction of the transferors, in accordance with the asset representations review agreement. However, the annual fee does not include the fees and expenses payable to the asset representations reviewer in connection with an asset representations review. Under the asset representations review agreement, the asset representations reviewer will be entitled to receive an additional fee in connection with an asset representations review, which fee will be paid by the transferors, or the sponsors at the direction of the transferors.

See “Asset Representations Review” in this prospectus.

Collections by the Servicer

The servicer will collect payments on the receivables, will deposit (or cause to be deposited) those collections in the collection account and will keep track of those collections that are finance charge receivables and those that are principal receivables.

Allocations to you and your Series

The following discussion is a simplified description of certain allocation provisions and is qualified by the full descriptions of these provisions in this prospectus.

Each month, the servicer will allocate collections of finance charge receivables, collections of principal receivables and the amount of principal receivables that are not collected and are written off as uncollectible, called the defaulted amount. Set forth below, is a brief description of how these finance charge collections, principal collections and the defaulted amount are allocated to you and your series, addressed in four steps. Allocations of finance charge collections involve each of Steps 1, 2, 3 and 4. However, allocations of principal collections and the defaulted amount involve only Steps 1, 2 and 4.

You are entitled to receive payments of interest and principal based upon allocations to your series. The invested amount, which is the primary basis for allocations to your series, is the sum of:

(a) the Class A invested amount,

(b) the Class B invested amount and

The Class A invested amount, the Class B invested amount and the collateral invested amount will initially equal the outstanding principal amount of the Class A certificates, the Class B certificates and the collateral interest. The invested amount of a series or class will decline, however, as a result of principal payments and may decline if the defaulted amount is not covered by collections of finance charges allocated to your series or for other reasons. If the invested amount of your series or class declines, amounts allocated and available for payment to you will be reduced.

For a description of the events which may lead to these reductions, see “Series Provisions — Reallocation of Cash Flows” in this prospectus.

Step 1: Allocations Among Series

Finance Charge Collections, Principal Collections and the Defaulted Amount: Each month, the servicer will allocate finance charge collections, principal collections and the defaulted amount among:

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your series, based on the size of its invested amount at that time (which is initially $2,628,573,000, but may be reduced or increased); and

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other outstanding series, based on the sizes of their respective invested amounts at that time.

Step 2: Allocations Within Your Series

Finance Charge Collections, Principal Collections and the Defaulted Amount: Finance charge collections, principal collections and the defaulted amount that are allocated to your series in Step 1 will then be further allocated, based on varying percentages, between:

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your series, based on the size of its invested amount; and

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the holders of the transferor certificates, which will receive the remainder of these finance charge collections, principal collections and the defaulted amount.

Step 3: Reallocations Among Series

Finance Charge Collections: Collections of finance charge receivables allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the collateral interest in Step 2 will then be combined with the collections of finance charge receivables allocated to any other series in group I. Group I is a group of series which share finance charge collections pro rata, based upon the relative size of the required payments to each series in group I as compared to the total required payments of all series in group I. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Reallocations Among Different Series Within a Reallocation Group” in this prospectus.

Upon issuance, Series 2017-1 will be the fourth outstanding series issued by the trust in group I. Any issuance of a new series in group I, or any increase in the invested amount of any outstanding series in group I due to issuance of additional certificates of that series, may reduce or increase the amount of finance charge collections allocated to your series.

Step 4: Final Allocations Among Class A, Class B and the Collateral Interest

Finance Charge Collections, Principal Collections and the Defaulted Amount: The finance charge collections reallocated in Step 3, together with the principal collections and the defaulted amount allocated in Step 2, will then be further allocated, based on varying percentages, among:

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the Class A certificates, based on the Class A invested amount (which is initially $2,300,000,000, but may be reduced or increased);

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the Class B certificates, based on the Class B invested amount (which is initially $98,572,000, but may be reduced or increased); and

Fees and Expenses Payable from Collections

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Fees and expenses payable from collections of finance charge receivables: 2.0% of invested amount paid to the servicer (as described below).

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Fees and expenses payable from collections of principal receivables: servicing fee shortfall

Servicing Fee

The servicer is entitled to receive a monthly servicing fee as compensation for its servicing activities and as reimbursement for any expenses incurred by it as servicer. For each month, the servicing fee will equal one-twelfth of the product of:

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2.0% per year; and

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the invested amount for the related monthly period.

The servicing fee will be allocated among the transferors’ interest and the certificateholders.

Revolving Period

The revolving period begins on the closing date and ends on the day before the commencement of the controlled accumulation period or, if earlier, the early amortization period. During the revolving period, no principal payments will be made to or for the benefit of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders or the holder of the collateral interest. Unless a pay-out event has occurred, the controlled accumulation period is scheduled to begin at the close of business on the last day of the January 2019 monthly period, but may be delayed as described herein.

Pay-Out Events

Certain adverse events called pay-out events might lead to the end of the revolving period or controlled accumulation period and the start of an early amortization period. A pay-out event may affect more than one series.

The pay-out events for your series are described in “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events” in this prospectus. In addition, see “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Transferor Insolvency” in this prospectus for a discussion of the consequences of an insolvency or receivership of any transferor.

Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections

Collections of finance charge receivables allocated to each series in group I will be combined and will be available for certain required payments to all series in group I. These amounts will be reallocated pro rata, based on the size of the required payment for each of the series in group I as compared with the total required payments for all of the series in group I. Any issuance of a new series in a reallocation group, or any increase in the invested amount of any outstanding series in a reallocation group due to an issuance of additional certificates of that series, may reduce or increase the amount of finance charge collections allocated to any other series of certificates in that group.

See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Reallocations Among Different Series Within a Reallocation Group” and “Risk Factors — Issuances of additional series by the trust may adversely affect your certificates” in this prospectus.

Shared Principal Collections

Your series will be included in a group of series designated as “principal sharing series.” To the extent that collections of principal receivables allocated to your series are not needed to make payments or deposits to a trust account for the benefit of your series, these collections will be applied to cover principal payments for other principal sharing series, if any. Any reallocation for this purpose will not reduce the invested amount for your

series. In addition, you may receive the benefits of collections of principal receivables and certain other amounts allocated to other principal sharing series. However, there can be no assurance that the trust will issue additional principal sharing series designated to share collections of principal receivables with your series.

See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus.

Excess Finance Charge Collections

Your series will be included in a group of series designated as “excess allocation series.” To the extent that collections of finance charge receivables allocable to your series exceed the amount necessary to make required payments for your series payable from collections of finance charge receivables, such excess collections may be applied to cover shortfalls of collections of finance charge receivables allocable to other excess allocation series. In addition, you may receive the benefits of collections of finance charge receivables allocated to other excess allocation series designated to share collections of finance charge receivables with your series. However, there can be no assurance that the trust will issue additional excess allocation series designated to share collections of finance charge receivables with your series.

See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections Among Excess Allocation Series” in this prospectus.

Optional Repurchase

So long as a transferor is the servicer or an affiliate of the servicer, that transferor will have the option to repurchase your Series 2017-1 certificates when the invested amount for your series has been reduced to 5% or less of the initial invested amount for your series. See “Series Provisions — Optional Repurchase” in this prospectus.

Series Termination

If on the distribution date which is two months prior to the Series 2017-1 termination date, the invested amount exceeds zero, the servicer will, within the 40-day period beginning on such date, solicit bids for the sale of interests in the principal receivables or certain principal receivables, together in each case with the related finance charge receivables, in an amount equal to the invested amount at the close of business on the last day of the monthly period preceding the Series 2017-1 termination date. The servicer will sell such receivables on the Series 2017-1 termination date to the bidder who provided the highest cash purchase offer and will deposit the proceeds of such sale in the collection account for allocation to Series 2017-1. See “Series Provisions — Series Termination” in this prospectus.

Registration

The Series 2017-1 certificates will be in book-entry form and will be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of The Depository Trust Company. Except in limited circumstances, you will not receive a definitive certificate representing your interest. See “Description of the Certificates — Definitive Certificates” in this prospectus.

You may elect to hold your Series 2017-1 certificates through DTC, in the United States, or Clearstream Banking or the Euroclear System in Europe. See “Description of the Certificates — Book-Entry Registration” in this prospectus.

Tax Status

Subject to important considerations described under “Tax Matters” in this prospectus, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, as special tax counsel to the transferors, is of the opinion that under existing law your certificates will be characterized as debt for federal income tax purposes. By your acceptance of a certificate, you will agree to treat

your certificates as debt for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes. See “Tax Matters” in this prospectus for additional information concerning the application of federal income tax laws.

ERISA Considerations

Subject to important considerations described under “ERISA Considerations” in this prospectus, the Class A certificates are eligible for purchase by persons investing assets of employee benefit plans or individual retirement accounts.

For reasons discussed under “ERISA Considerations” in this prospectus, the Class B certificates are not eligible for purchase by persons investing assets of employee benefit plans or individual retirement accounts, other than insurance companies investing assets solely of their general accounts.

You should consider the following factors before you decide whether or not to purchase the certificates.

There is no public market for the certificates. As a result, you may be unable to sell your certificates or the price of the certificates may suffer.

The underwriters may assist in resales of the certificates but they are not required to do so. A secondary market for any certificates may not develop. If a secondary market does develop, it might not continue or it might not be sufficiently liquid to allow you to resell any of your certificates.

In addition, some certificates have a more limited trading market and experience more price volatility. There may be a limited number of buyers when you decide to sell those certificates. This may affect the price you receive for the certificates or your ability to sell the certificates.

Moreover, events in the financial markets, including increased illiquidity, de-valuation of various assets in secondary markets and the lowering of ratings on certain asset-backed securities, may adversely affect the liquidity and/or reduce the market price of your certificates.

You should not purchase certificates unless you understand and know you can bear these investment risks and you should consider that general market conditions may adversely affect the liquidity, marketability and overall market value of your certificates.

Some interests could have priority over the trustee’s interest in the receivables, which could cause delayed or reduced payments to you.

Representations and warranties are made that the trustee has a perfected interest in the receivables. If any of these representations and warranties were found not to be true, however, payments to you could be delayed or reduced.

In addition, the transaction documents permit certain tax liens to have priority over the trustee’s perfected interest in the receivables. If any of these tax liens were to arise, or if other interests in the receivables were found to have priority over those of the trustee, you could suffer a loss on your investment.

Furthermore, if a conservator or receiver for either bank, the transferors or a bankruptcy trustee for TRS or for either transferor were to argue that any of its administrative expenses relate to the receivables or the transaction documents, those expenses could be paid from collections on the receivables before the trustee receives any payments, which could result in losses on your investment.

The trustee may not have a perfected interest in collections commingled by the servicer or any subservicer with its own funds, which could cause delayed or reduced payments to you.

The servicer is obligated to deposit collections into the collection account no later than the second business day after the date of processing for those collections. In the event that certain conditions are met, however, the servicer is permitted to hold all collections received during a Monthly Period and to make only a single deposit of those collections on the following distribution date. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Deposits in Collection Account.”

All collections that the servicer is permitted to hold are commingled with its other funds or the funds of a subservicer and used for its own benefit. The trustee may not have a perfected interest in these amounts, and thus payments to you could be delayed or reduced if the servicer or any subservicer were to become bankrupt, enter conservatorship or receivership, were to become insolvent, or were to fail to perform its obligations under the transaction documents.

The conservatorship, receivership, bankruptcy, or insolvency of Centurion, FSB, TRS, a transferor, the trust, or any of their affiliates could result in accelerated, delayed, or reduced payments to you.

Centurion is a Utah state-chartered industrial bank and FSB is a federal savings bank, and the deposits of each bank are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). If certain events occur involving either bank’s financial condition or the propriety of its actions, the FDIC could be appointed as conservator or receiver for that bank and, in that capacity, could exercise broad powers over that bank and its assets, obligations, and operations.

Prior to April 16, 2004, Centurion transferred receivables directly to the trustee. Since April 16, 2004, receivables have been transferred by Centurion to RFC III, and by RFC III to the trustee, and receivables have been transferred by FSB to RFC IV, and by RFC IV to the trustee.

Each transfer of receivables by Centurion is treated by Centurion as a sale, and each transfer of receivables by FSB is treated by FSB as a sale. The FDIC or other interested parties, however, could take the position that any of these transfers constitutes only the grant of a security interest under applicable law, that the applicable bank continues to own receivables, and that the FDIC as conservator or receiver for either bank should control and administer the receivables transferred by that bank.

Under the current version of the FDIC’s regulation on securitization transactions, the FDIC has surrendered its rights to reclaim, recover, or recharacterize a depository institution’s transfer of financial assets (such as the receivables) with respect to obligations of a revolving trust or a master trust if:

Each transfer of receivables by Centurion and FSB has been intended to satisfy all of these conditions.

If any of these conditions were found not to have been met, then a statutory injunction automatically preventing the trustee and the certificateholders from exercising their rights, remedies, and interests for up to 90 days would apply. The delay caused by this injunction could result in losses to you.

In addition, the FDIC as conservator or receiver for Centurion or FSB could seek to reclaim, recover, or recharacterize the transfer of the receivables by Centurion or FSB. If the FDIC were successful, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, would limit any damages to “actual direct compensatory damages” determined as of the date that the FDIC was appointed as conservator or receiver for Centurion or FSB. The FDIC may not be subject to an express time limit in deciding whether to take these actions, and a delay by the FDIC in making a decision could result in losses on your investment. If the FDIC were successful in any of these actions, moreover, you may not be entitled under applicable law to the full amount of your damages.

Even if the FDIC did not reclaim, recover, or recharacterize the transfer of the receivables by Centurion or FSB, payments to you could be delayed or reduced if either bank entered conservatorship or receivership.

For instance, the FDIC may argue that the statutory injunction nevertheless applies to automatically prevent the trustee and the certificateholders from exercising their rights, remedies, and interests for up to 90 days. The FDIC

also may be able to obtain a stay of any action to enforce the transaction documents or the certificates beyond the 90-day statutory period. The FDIC also may require that its claims process be followed before payments on the receivables are released. The delay caused by any of these actions could result in losses to you.

The FDIC, moreover, may have the power to choose whether or not the terms of the transaction documents will continue to apply. Thus, regardless of what the transaction documents provide, the FDIC could:

If any of these events were to occur, payments to you could be delayed or reduced. You also may suffer a loss if the FDIC were to argue that any term of the transaction documents violates applicable regulatory requirements.

RFC III is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centurion. RFC IV is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FSB. Certain banking laws and regulations may apply not only to Centurion and FSB but to their subsidiaries as well. If RFC III or RFC IV were found to have violated any of these laws or regulations, you could suffer a loss on your investment.

Arguments also may be made that the FDIC’s rights and powers extend to the servicer, RFC III, RFC IV, and the trust and that, as a consequence, the FDIC could repudiate or otherwise directly affect the rights of certificateholders under the transaction documents. If the FDIC were to take this position, losses to you could result.

In addition, no assurance can be given that the FDIC would not attempt to exercise control over the receivables or the other assets of RFC III, RFC IV, or the trust on an interim or a permanent basis. If this were to occur, payments to you could be delayed or reduced.

RFC III, RFC IV, and the trust have been established so as to minimize the risk that any of them would become insolvent or enter bankruptcy. Nevertheless, each of them may be eligible to file for bankruptcy, and no assurance can be given that the risk of insolvency or bankruptcy has been eliminated. If RFC III, RFC IV, or the trust were to become insolvent or were to enter bankruptcy, or a receiver or conservator were appointed for RFC III, RFC IV, or the trust, you could suffer a loss on your investment. Risks also exist that, if RFC III, RFC IV, or the trust were to enter bankruptcy, or a receivership, conservatorship or similar insolvency proceeding were to be commenced against any of their assets, any of the others and their assets (including the receivables) would be treated as part of the bankruptcy estate.

If TRS or any of its affiliates were to become a debtor in a bankruptcy case, the court could exercise control over the receivables or the other assets of RFC III, RFC IV, or the trust on an interim or a permanent basis. If this were to occur, payments to you could be delayed or reduced. The court, moreover, may have the power to choose whether or not the terms of the transaction documents will continue to apply. Thus, regardless of what the transaction documents provide, the court could:

In addition, you could suffer a loss on your investment if an orderly liquidation of TRS, the banks, or certain of its subsidiaries, the issuing entity, the transferors or any affiliate affected by these transactions were commenced under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”). In such a liquidation, the FDIC would be appointed as receiver and could exercise broad powers similar to those available to it as receiver under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Although some of the protections afforded to creditors under the Bankruptcy Code are included in the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC would have wide discretion and would be subject to only limited judicial review, and the proceedings, standards, powers of the receiver and many other substantive provisions of the orderly liquidation authority differ from those of the Bankruptcy Code in several respects. In addition, creditors generally would not be entitled to recover more than the amount that they would have received in a case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code. Because the legislation remains subject to clarification through FDIC regulations and has yet to be applied by the FDIC in any receivership, it is unclear exactly what impact these provisions will have on any particular company, including the trust, TRS, the transferors or their affiliates. Furthermore, there is uncertainty about which companies will be subject to the orderly liquidation authority rather than the Bankruptcy Code. For a company to become subject to the orderly liquidation authority, the Secretary of the Treasury (in consultation with the President of the United States) must determine, among other things, that the company is in default or in danger of default, the failure of such company and its resolution under the Bankruptcy Code would have serious adverse effects on financial stability in the United States, no viable private sector alternative is available to prevent the default of the company and an orderly liquidation authority proceeding would mitigate these adverse effects.

Regardless of any decision made by the FDIC or ruling made by a court, moreover, the mere fact that Centurion, FSB, TRS, RFC III, RFC IV, the trust, or any of their affiliates has become insolvent or entered conservatorship, receivership, or bankruptcy could have an adverse effect on the value of the receivables and on the liquidity and value of the certificates.

If a condition required under the FDIC’s Securitization Rule described above were not met (including as a result of future amendments to the Securitization Rule), the banks have taken and will take the necessary actions to ensure that the trustee has a perfected interest in the receivables. Regardless of this perfected interest, if a conservator, a receiver, or a bankruptcy trustee were appointed for the banks, TRS, the transferors or the trust, and if the administrative expenses of the conservator, the receiver, or the bankruptcy trustee were found to relate to the receivables or the transaction documents, those expenses could be paid from collections on the receivables before the trustee receives any payments, which could result in losses on your investment. See “— Some interests could have priority over the trustee’s interest in the receivables, which could cause delayed or reduced payments to you” above.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), and policy statements issued by the FDIC provide that the FDIC should respect a security interest granted by a bank where the security interest (a) is validly perfected before the bank’s insolvency and (b) was not taken in contemplation of the bank’s insolvency or with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud the bank or its creditors.

FDIC staff positions taken prior to the passage of FIRREA do not suggest that the FDIC would interrupt the timely transfer to the trust of payments collected on the receivables; however, these positions were taken prior to the adoption of, and the amendments to, the FDIC’s Securitization Rule, and the FDIC has not expressed its position since that time. Furthermore, the statutory injunction described above could apply to automatically prevent the trustee and the certificateholders from exercising their rights, remedies, and interests for up to 90 days. The FDIC also may be able to obtain a stay of any action to enforce the transaction documents or the certificates beyond the 90-day statutory period.

If the FDIC were to assert a different position, your payments of outstanding principal and interest could be delayed and possibly reduced. For example, in addition to the powers of the FDIC described above, under the FDIA, the FDIC could:

Centurion is regulated, supervised and regularly examined by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions (UDFI) and the FDIC. FSB is regulated, supervised and regularly examined by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). TRS is a bank holding company and, as such, is regulated, supervised and regularly examined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Beginning in July 2011, TRS, the banks and other credit card issuers became subject to supervision, examination and enforcement by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with respect to the marketing and sale of consumer financial products and compliance with certain federal consumer financial laws, including, among others, the Consumer Financial Protection Act and the Truth in Lending Act. See “— Regulatory oversight and supervision could adversely impact the trust or your certificates, including by impeding origination or collection efforts, changing account holder use patterns, or reducing collections.” These regulatory authorities, as well as others, have broad powers of enforcement with respect to the banks, TRS and their affiliates.

If any regulatory authority were to conclude that an obligation under the transaction documents were an unsafe or unsound practice or violated any law, regulation, written condition, or agreement applicable to a bank or its affiliates, that authority may have the power to order that bank or the related affiliate to rescind the transaction document, to refuse to perform the obligation, to amend the terms of the obligation, to sell or transfer assets, or to take any other action determined by that authority to be appropriate. In addition, that bank or the related affiliate probably would not be liable to you for contractual damages for complying with such an order, and you would be unlikely to have any recourse against the regulatory authority. Therefore, if such an order were issued, payments to you could be delayed or reduced.

In one case, the OCC issued a cease and desist order against a national banking association that was found to have been servicing credit card receivables on terms that were inconsistent with safe and sound banking practices. That order required the financial institution to cease performing its duties as servicer within approximately 120 days, to immediately withhold and segregate funds from collections for payment of its servicing fee (notwithstanding the priority of payments in the securitization documents and the perfected security interest of the relevant trust in those funds), and to increase its servicing fee percentage above that which was specified in the securitization documents.

The banks have no reason to believe that their servicing arrangements are contrary to safe and sound banking practices or otherwise violate any law, regulation, written condition, or agreement applicable to the banks or their affiliates. If a regulatory authority were to conclude otherwise, however, you could suffer a loss on your investment.

Regulatory oversight and supervision could adversely impact the trust or your certificates, including by impeding origination or collection efforts, changing account holder use patterns, or reducing collections.

The Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in July 2010, is comprehensive in scope and contains a wide array of provisions intended to govern the practices and oversight of financial institutions and other participants in the financial markets. The Dodd-Frank Act has resulted in increased scrutiny and oversight of consumer financial services and products, primarily through the establishment of the CFPB. The CFPB has broad rulemaking, examination and enforcement authority over providers of credit, savings and payment services and products and authority to prevent “unfair, deceptive or abusive” acts or practices. The CFPB has the authority to write regulations under federal consumer financial protection laws, and to enforce those laws against and examine for compliance large financial institutions like the American Express, TRS, Centurion and FSB. It is also authorized to collect fines and require consumer restitution in the event of violations, engage in consumer financial education, track consumer complaints, request data and promote the availability of financial services to underserved consumers and communities. In addition, a number of U.S. states have significant consumer credit protection and disclosure laws (in certain cases more stringent than U.S. federal laws). U.S. federal law also regulates abusive debt collection practices. Bankruptcy and debtor relief laws can also affect the ability to collect amounts owed.

The current regulatory environment, enhanced supervision and regulatory investigations and enforcement have resulted in, and are likely to continue to result in, changes to pricing, business practices, products and procedures. They could also result in increased costs related to regulatory oversight, supervision and examination, additional remediation efforts and possible penalties. See “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables — Consumer Financial Products Regulation.”

Changes to consumer protection laws, including in the application or interpretation thereof, may impede origination or collection efforts, change account holder use patterns, or reduce collections, any of which may result in acceleration of or reduction in payment on the certificates.

Credit card receivables that do not comply with consumer protection laws may not be valid or enforceable under their terms against the obligors of those credit card receivables.

Federal and state consumer protection laws regulate the creation and enforcement of consumer loans, including credit card receivables. For instance, the federal Truth in Lending Act was amended by the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (“Credit CARD Act”) to require additional disclosure and impose certain substantive requirements relating to marketing, underwriting, pricing and billing. While Centurion, FSB and their affiliates have made certain changes to their card product terms and practices that are designed to comply with, and mitigate the impact of the changes required by, the Credit CARD Act, there is no assurance that such changes will continue to be successful. The long-term impact of the Credit CARD Act on Centurion, FSB and their affiliates will depend upon a number of factors, including their ability to successfully implement their business strategies, consumer behavior and the actions of American Express’ competitors, which are difficult to predict at this time.

Congress, the states and regulatory agencies also could further regulate the credit card and consumer credit industry in ways that make it more difficult for Centurion, FSB or their affiliates to originate additional accounts or for the servicer to collect payments on the receivables, that reduce the finance charges and other fees that Centurion, FSB or their affiliates as owners of the accounts can charge on credit card account balances, or that cause account holders to decrease their use of credit cards. Further, changes in the regulatory application or judicial interpretation of the laws and regulations applicable to financial institutions, including Centurion, FSB and TRS, could impact the manner in which they conduct their business. The regulatory environment in which financial institutions, including Centurion, FSB and TRS, operate has become increasingly complex and robust, and following the financial crisis of 2008, supervisory efforts to apply relevant laws, regulations and policies have become more intense. Congress and regulators, as well as various consumer advocacy groups, have continued to focus their attention on certain practices of credit card issuers, such as unfair and deceptive business practices, increases in annual percentage rates, changes

in the terms of the account, and the types and levels of fees and financial charges charged by card issuers for, among other things, late payments, returned checks, payments by telephone, copies of statements and the like. See “— Regulatory oversight and supervision could adversely impact the trust or your certificates, including by impeding origination or collection efforts, changing account holder use patterns, or reducing collections.”

Various regulatory agencies and legislatures are also considering regulations and legislation covering identity theft, account management guidelines, credit bureau reporting, disclosure rules, security and marketing that could directly affect the underwriting and account management procedures of card issuers and could restrict the ability of Centurion, FSB or their affiliates to originate additional accounts or for the servicer to collect payments on the receivables.

Each of the transferors, Centurion and FSB makes representations and warranties about its compliance with legal requirements. Each of the transferors also makes certain representations and warranties in the pooling and servicing agreement about the validity and enforceability of the accounts and the receivables. However, the trustee will not make any examination of the receivables or the records about the receivables for the purpose of establishing the presence or absence of defects, compliance with such representations or warranties, or for any other purpose. However, under certain circumstances, investors in the Series 2017-1 certificates and all other outstanding series issued by the issuing entity will have the right to vote to initiate a review of all receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent and the accounts relating to such receivables for compliance with the certain representations and warranties on the receivables and the accounts. If certain representations or warrants, including the representations and warranties regarding compliance with legal requirements, validity and enforceability, are breached, the only remedy is that the transferors or the servicer, as the case may be, must accept reassignment of receivables affected by the breach. See “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Representations and Warranties,” “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” and “— Asset Representations Review.”

As a result of the Credit CARD Act, other consumer protection laws and regulations, including rules adopted in December 2008 by the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the National Credit Union Administration, any future consumer protection laws or regulations, changes in the regulatory application or judicial interpretation of the foregoing, and the establishment of the CFPB under the Dodd-Frank Act, it may be more difficult for Centurion, FSB or their affiliates to originate additional accounts or for the servicer to collect payments on the receivables, and the finance charges and other fees that Centurion, FSB or their affiliates can charge on credit card account balances may be reduced. Furthermore, account holders may choose to use credit cards less as a result of these consumer protection laws. Each of these results, independently or collectively, may reduce the effective yield of revolving credit card accounts and could result in a pay-out event and an acceleration of payment or reduced payment on the certificates. See “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events” and “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables — Consumer Financial Products Regulation.”

Changes to federal or state bankruptcy or debtor laws may impede collection efforts or alter timing and amount of collections, which may result in acceleration or reduction in payment of your certificates.

If an account holder sought protection under federal or state bankruptcy or debtor relief laws, a court could reduce or discharge completely the account holder’s obligations to repay amounts due on its revolving credit card account. As a result, the related credit card receivables arising in that credit card account would be written off as uncollectible. You could suffer a loss if no funds were available from credit enhancement or other sources and collections of finance charge receivables allocated to the certificates to cover the applicable defaulted amount. In addition, the ability of Centurion, FSB and their affiliates to manage credit risk may be adversely affected by legal or regulatory changes (such as bankruptcy laws and minimum payment regulations). See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Defaulted Receivables; Rebates and Fraudulent Charges” in this prospectus.

Regulation of payment card networks could adversely impact the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates.

The Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act prohibits payment card networks from inhibiting the ability of merchants to offer discounts or incentives to encourage customers to pay with particular forms of payment such as cash, check, credit or debit cards, so long as offers to encourage use of a credit or debit card do not discriminate on

the basis of the network or issuer. Further, to the extent required by federal law or applicable state law, the discount or incentive must be offered to all prospective buyers and must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed. The Durbin Amendment also permits U.S. merchants to establish minimum purchase amounts of no more than $10 for credit card purchases, provided that the merchants do not discriminate between networks or issuers. Federal government agencies and institutions of higher learning are also permitted to establish maximum amounts for credit card purchases provided they do not discriminate between networks or issuers. As a result of this law, customers may be incentivized by merchants to move away from the use of charge and credit card products to other forms of payment, such as debit cards. In addition, a number of lawsuits have been filed by merchants seeking to overturn some of the existing state laws in the United States banning credit card surcharges, and these lawsuits are in various stages of appeal. The challenge to New York’s no-surcharge law, which the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld as lawful, is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court. If these state laws are struck down, merchants may be more likely to seek to surcharge credit and charge card transactions.

The impact of the evolving regulatory environment on American Express’ business and operations, including in connection with the matters discussed above, depends up on a number of factors including final implementing regulations, guidance and interpretations of regulatory agencies, supervisory actions and priorities, the actions of American Express’ competitors and other marketplace participants, the behavior of consumers, and the outcome of pending and future litigation. The evolving regulatory environment may increase compliance costs or result in a reduction of the number or size of transactions processed on the American Express networks or merchant discount revenues from such transactions, which could materially and adversely impact the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates, including the ability to generate new receivables, the level of receivables, including finance charge receivables, held in the trust or the amount of certificates issued in the future.

Payment patterns of account holders may not be consistent over time and variations in these payment patterns may result in reduced payment of principal, or receipt of payment of principal earlier or later than expected.

The receivables may be paid at any time. We cannot assure you that the creation of additional receivables in the accounts will occur or that any particular pattern of account holder payments will occur. The timing of the payment of principal on your certificates may be different than expected if the principal payment pattern of the receivables is different than expected or if certain adverse events happen to an account owner, a transferor or the trust. A significant decline in the amount of receivables generated could result in the occurrence of a pay-out event for one or more series. If a pay-out event occurs for your series, you could receive payment of principal sooner than expected. Centurion’s and FSB’s ability to compete in the current industry environment will affect its ability to generate new receivables and might also affect payment patterns on the receivables.

In addition to other factors discussed elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section, changes in finance charges can alter the monthly payment rates of accountholders. A significant decrease in monthly payment rates could slow the return or accumulation of principal during an amortization or an accumulation period.

One development which affects the level of finance charge collections is the increased convenience use of credit cards. Convenience use means that the customers pay their account balances in full on or prior to the due date. The customer, therefore, avoids all finance charges on his account. This decreases the effective yield on the accounts and could cause an early payment of your certificates.

The account owners may not be able to generate new receivables, or the transferors may not be able to designate new accounts to the trust when required by the pooling and servicing agreement. This could result in an acceleration of or reduction on payments on your certificates.

The trust’s ability to make payments on the certificates will be impaired if sufficient new receivables are not generated by Centurion or FSB, as applicable. We do not guarantee that new receivables will be created, that any receivables will be added to the trust or that receivables will be repaid at a particular time or with a particular pattern.

The pooling and servicing agreement requires that the balance of principal receivables in the trust not fall below a specified level. If the level of principal receivables does fall below the required level, an early payment of your certificates could occur. To maintain the level of principal receivables in the trust, the transferors periodically add

receivables through the designation of additional accounts for inclusion in the trust. There is no guarantee that the transferors will have enough receivables to add to the trust. If the transferors are not able to add additional accounts when required, an early payment of your certificates will occur.

Social, economic and geographic factors, as well as the effects of geopolitical events, weather, natural disasters and other conditions, can affect credit card spending and payments and may cause a delay in or default on payments.

Changes in credit card use, payment patterns and the rate of defaults by cardholders may result from a variety of social, economic and geographic factors. Social factors include changes in consumer confidence levels and attitudes towards incurring debt, the public’s perception of the use of credit cards and changing attitudes about incurring debt and the stigma of personal bankruptcy. Economic factors include the rates of inflation, the unemployment rates and the relative interest rates offered for various types of loans. Moreover, adverse changes in economic conditions in states where cardholders are located, terrorist acts against the United States or other nations, the commencement of hostilities between the United States and a foreign nation or nations or natural disasters could have a direct impact on the timing and amount of payments on your certificates. In particular, economic conditions or other factors affecting states with high concentrations of cardholders could adversely impact the delinquency or credit loss experience of the Trust Portfolio and could result in delays in payments or losses on the certificates. See “The Receivables — Composition by Geographic Distribution” in this prospectus.

Uneven economic growth has had, and may continue to have, an adverse effect on American Express and its affiliates, in part because American Express is very dependent upon the level of consumer and business activity and the demand for payment and financing products. A prolonged period of slow economic growth or deterioration in economic conditions could change customer behaviors, including spending on American Express’ cards and the ability and willingness of Card Members to pay amounts owed to American Express. Factors such as consumer spending, business investment, government spending, interest rates, tax rates, fuel and other energy costs, surcharges merchants may apply for the use of a credit card, the volatility and strength of the capital markets, inflation and deflation all affect the economic environment and could result in declines in credit and charge card usage and result in adverse changes in payment patterns, causing increases in delinquencies and default rates.

Further, geopolitical events, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, severe weather conditions, floods, health pandemics and other catastrophic events can also have a negative effect on spending on American Express’ cards and the ability and willingness of Card Members to pay amounts owed to American Express.

We cannot predict what effect the factors and circumstances discussed above, should they continue or occur, will have on repayment patterns or card use and, consequently, the timing and amount of payments on your series. Any reductions in the amount or timing of interest or principal payments will reduce the amount available for distribution on the certificates.

Competition in the credit card and payments industry may result in a decline in Centurion’s or FSB’s ability to generate new receivables. This may result in the payment of principal earlier or later than the expected final payment date, or in reduced amounts.

The payments industry is highly competitive. The American Express-branded proprietary credit card programs operated by American Express and its affiliates encounter substantial and intense competition. As a card issuer, American Express competes in the United States with financial institutions that issue general-purpose charge and revolving credit cards and debit cards. Competition also exists from businesses that issue their own private label cards or otherwise extend credit to their customers, such as retailers, airline associations and on-line lenders. American Express faces increasing competition for co-brand relationships.

American Express’ credit cards compete with charge, credit and debit card networks and issuers, paper-based transactions (e.g., cash and checks), bank transfer models (e.g., wire transfers and ACH), as well as evolving and growing alternative payment and financing providers.

American Express-branded cards are issued on the American Express network. As a network, American Express competes in the payments industry with other card networks, including, among others, Visa, MasterCard, Discover^® (primarily in the United States), Diners Club International^® (which is owned by Discover Financial Services), and JCB and China Union Pay (primarily in Asia).

The competitive nature of the payments and credit card industries may result in reduced amounts of finance charge receivables collected and available to pay interest on the certificates. This competition also may affect Centurion’s and FSB’s ability to originate new accounts and generate new receivables. Such events could cause a pay-out event to occur and an early payment of your certificates.

Changes in or termination of co-branding arrangements may affect the performance of the trust’s receivables and cardholder usage, and, consequently, the timing and amount of payments on your series.

Centurion and FSB enter into co-branding arrangements with certain retail and services companies, some of which, if not extended, are scheduled to expire while the certificates are outstanding. Under co-branding arrangements, participating cardholders earn “points” or other benefits, such as frequent flyer miles, hotel loyalty points and cash back, that may be redeemed with the co-branding partner or other parties. These arrangements are entered into for a fixed period, generally ranging from five to eight years, and will terminate in accordance with their terms, including at the end of the fixed period unless extended or renewed at the option of the parties, or upon early termination as a result of an event of default or otherwise. The co-branded receivables in the trust have, as a whole, had higher payment rates and lower losses as compared to the general population of Centurion and FSB’s portfolio of credit card receivables. The competition among credit card issuers and networks for attractive co-brand card partnerships is quite intense because these partnerships can generate high-spending loyal cardholders. Competition for relationships with key business partners is very intense and there is no assurance that American Express will be able to grow or maintain its partner relationships.

As of December 31, 2016, co-branded receivables represented approximately 26% of receivables in the Trust Portfolio. Currently, the largest co-branding arrangement is with Delta Air Lines. As of December 31, 2016,

Delta Air Lines co-branded receivables represented approximately 20% of the co-branded receivables in the Trust Portfolio.

The volume of receivables generated under a co-branding arrangement could decline significantly, including as a result of a general decline in the business or financial condition of the co-brand partner. Upon expiration or other termination of a co-branding arrangement, cardholders may change their credit card usage to card programs of issuers other than Centurion or FSB. In addition, some of the co-branding arrangements provide that, upon expiration or termination, the co-brand partner may purchase or designate a third party to purchase the co-branded accounts and the related receivables generated with respect to its program, which may include receivables in the trust.

Following any of such events, if Centurion or FSB were unable to provide receivables of a similar quality arising under newly designated additional accounts, the performance of the trust’s receivables would suffer. This could result in a reduction in the amount or timing of interest or principal payments on trust receivables and could result in a reduction of the amount available for distribution on the certificates of your series or in early amortization of your series.

A significant operating disruption, a major information security incident or an increase in fraudulent activity using American Express-branded cards could lead to reputational damage to the American Express brand and could reduce the use and acceptance of American Express-branded cards, which could adversely affect the ability to generate new receivables, the level of the receivables held in the trust or the amount of certificates issued in the future.

American Express, its affiliates and other third parties process, transmit and store Card Member account information and in the normal course of business collect, analyze and retain significant volumes of certain types of personally identifiable and other information pertaining to Card Members. Information security risks for large financial institutions like American Express have significantly increased in recent years and these institutions will likely continue to be the target of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, including computer viruses, malicious or destructive code, social engineering attacks (including phishing and impersonation), denial of service and security attacks. There are a number of motivations for cyber threat actors, including criminal activities such as fraud, identity theft and ransom, corporate or nation-state espionage, political agendas, public embarrassment with the intent to cause financial or reputational harm, intent to disrupt information technology systems, and to expose and exploit potential security and privacy vulnerabilities in corporate systems and websites.

As outsourcing, specialization of functions and technology innovation within the payments industry increase, more third parties are involved in processing transactions using American Express-branded cards and there is a risk the confidentiality, privacy and/or security of data held by third parties, including merchants that accept American Express-branded cards and American Express’ business partners, may be compromised, which could lead to unauthorized transactions on American Express’ cards. American Express develops and maintains systems and processes aimed at detecting and preventing information security incidents and fraudulent activity, which require significant investment, maintenance and ongoing monitoring and updating as technologies and regulatory requirements change and as efforts to overcome security measures become more sophisticated. Despite these efforts, the possibility of information security incidents, malicious social engineering, fraudulent or other malicious activities and human error or malfeasance cannot be eliminated entirely. Risks associated with each of these remain, including the unauthorized disclosure, release, gathering, monitoring, misuse, modification, loss or destruction of confidential, proprietary and other information (including account data information) or negative impact to online accounts and systems. These risks will likely evolve as new technology is deployed.

American Express’ information technology systems, including its transaction authorization, clearing and settlement systems, and data centers may experience service disruptions or degradation because of technology malfunction, sudden increases in customer transaction volume, natural disasters, accidents, power outages, telecommunications failures, fraud, denial-of-service and other cyber-attacks, terrorism, computer viruses, physical or electronic break-ins, or similar events. For example, American Express and other U.S. financial services providers have been targets of distributed denial-of-service attacks from sophisticated third parties. Service disruptions could prevent access to online services and account information, compromise company or customer data, and impede transaction processing and financial reporting.

If these information technology systems experience a significant disruption or breach or if actual or perceived fraud levels or other illegal activities involving American Express-branded cards were to rise due to an information security incident at a business partner, merchant or other market participant, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise, it could lead to the loss of data or data integrity, regulatory investigations or intervention (such as mandatory card reissuance), increased litigation, remediation and response costs, greater concerns of customers and/or business partners relating to the privacy and security of their data, and reputational and financial damage to the American Express brand, which could reduce the use and acceptance of American Express-branded cards, and have an adverse impact on the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates, including the level of receivables held in the trust or the amount of certificates issued in the future. If such disruptions or breaches are not detected quickly, their effect could be compounded. Information security incidents and other actual or perceived failures to maintain confidentiality, privacy and/or security of data may also negatively impact the assessment of American Express, TRS and its U.S. banking subsidiaries by banking regulators and rating agencies.

Successful cyber-attack or data breaches at other large financial institutions, large retailers or other market participants, whether or not American Express is impacted, could lead to general loss of customer confidence that could negatively affect American Express, including harming the market perception of the effectiveness of American Express’ security measures or the financial system in general, which could result in reduced use of American Express products and services, and have an adverse impact on the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates, including the level of receivables held in the trust or the amount of certificates issued in the future.

Disruptions in American Express’ global network systems could impact the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates.

The transaction authorization, clearing and settlement systems and data centers utilized by American Express and its affiliates may experience service disruptions or degradation because of technology malfunction, sudden increases in customer transaction volume, natural disasters, accidents, power outages, internet outages, telecommunications failures, fraud, denial-of-service and other cyberattacks, terrorism, computer viruses, physical or electronic break-ins or similar events. Service disruptions could prevent access to American Express’ online services and account information, compromise company or customer data, and impede transaction processing.

Terrorists, activists or hackers may also attack these facilities or systems and data centers, leading to service interruptions, increased costs or information security compromises. Additionally, American Express relies on third-party service providers, merchants, processors, aggregators, GNS partners and other third parties for services integral to its operations, including the timely transmission of information across its global network. Inadequate infrastructure in lesser developed countries could also result in service disruptions. If a service provider fails to provide the required data quality, communications capacity or services, as a result of natural disaster, operational disruption, terrorism, hacking or other cybersecurity incidents or any other reason, the failure could interrupt or compromise the quality of services provided to customers, adversely affect the perception of the American Express brands’ reliability and adversely impact the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates, including the ability to generate new receivables, the level of receivables in the trust, collections of such receivables and the amount of certificates issued in the future, which could result in a pay-out event and acceleration of payment or reduced payment on your certificates.

Ongoing legal proceedings regarding provisions in American Express’ merchant contracts have required, and could in the future require, changes to those provisions that could adversely impact the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates.

In 2010, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and certain state attorneys general brought an action against American Express alleging that the provisions in American Express’ card acceptance agreements with merchants that prohibit merchants from discriminating against American Express’ card products at the point of sale violate the U.S. antitrust laws. VISA and MasterCard, which were also defendants in the DOJ and state action, entered into a settlement and have been dismissed as parties pursuant to that agreement, which was approved by the court. The settlement enjoins VISA and MasterCard from entering into contracts that prohibit merchants from engaging in various actions to steer cardholders to other cards products or payment forms at the point of sale. On February 19, 2015, the trial court found that the challenged provisions in American Express card acceptance agreements were anticompetitive and on April 30, 2015, the court issued a final judgment entering a permanent

injunction. Following American Express’ appeal of this judgment, on September 26, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the trial court decision and directed the trial court to enter a judgment for American Express. A negative outcome in the DOJ or merchants cases could leave American Express’ card products exposed to the possibility of increased steering and other forms of discrimination that could impair the Card Member experience. See “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables — Legal Proceedings” in this prospectus.

No assurance can be given that the consequences of the outcomes in these and other proceedings against American Express would not have an adverse impact on the trust, TRS, the banks, the transferors or their affiliates, including the ability to generate new receivables, the level of receivables, including finance charge receivables, held in the trust or the amount of certificates issued in the future.

Centurion and FSB may change the terms of the credit card accounts in a way that reduces or slows collections. These changes may result in reduced, accelerated or delayed payments to you.

As owners of the accounts, Centurion and FSB retain the right to change various credit card account terms (including finance charges and other fees it charges and the required minimum monthly payment). A pay-out event could occur if Centurion or FSB, as applicable, reduced the finance charges and other fees it charges, and a corresponding decrease in finance charges resulted. In addition, changes in the credit card account terms may alter payment patterns. If payment rates decrease significantly at a time when you are scheduled to receive principal, you might receive principal more slowly than expected.

Neither Centurion nor FSB will reduce the interest rate it charges on the receivables or other fees if that action would result in a payout event, unless it is required by law to do so or it determines that such reduction is necessary to maintain its credit card business on a competitive basis, based on its good faith assessment of its business competition.

Neither Centurion nor FSB has restrictions on its ability to change the terms of the credit card accounts except as described above or in this prospectus. Changes in relevant law, changes in the marketplace or prudent business practices could cause Centurion or FSB, as applicable, to change credit card account terms.

Credit card rates may decline without a corresponding change in the amounts needed to pay the certificates, which could result in a delay or reduction in payments of your certificates.

Some accounts may have finance charges set at a variable rate based on a designated index (for example, the prime rate). A series or class of certificates may bear interest either at a fixed rate or at a floating rate based on a different index. If the rate charged on the accounts declines, collections of finance charge receivables may be reduced without a corresponding reduction in the amounts payable as interest on the certificates and other amounts paid from collections of finance charge receivables. This could result in delayed or reduced principal and interest payments to you.

The market value of the certificates could decrease if the ratings of the certificates are lowered or withdrawn or if there is an unsolicited issuance of a lower rating.

The initial rating of a certificate addresses the likelihood of the payment of interest on that certificate when due and the ultimate payment of principal of that certificate by its legal maturity date. The ratings do not address the likelihood of the payment of principal of a certificate on its expected final payment date. In addition, the ratings do not address the likelihood of early payment or acceleration of a certificate, which could be caused by a pay-out event.

The ratings of the certificates are not a recommendation to buy, hold or sell the certificates. The ratings of the certificates may be lowered or withdrawn entirely at any time by the applicable rating agency without notice from Centurion, FSB, TRS or the transferors to certificateholders of such change in rating. In addition, a rating agency could choose to provide an unsolicited rating on a series, class or tranche of certificates, without notice to or from the banks, TRS, the transferors or the issuing entity, and that unsolicited rating could be lower than the ratings provided by the other rating agencies. If a series, class or tranche of certificates has had its ratings lowered or

withdrawn, or if a series, class or tranche of certificates has received an unsolicited rating that is lower than the other ratings of such series, class or tranche of certificates, the market value of the certificates could decrease.

You may have limited or no ability to control actions under the pooling and servicing agreement.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, some actions require the consent of certificateholders holding more than a specified percentage of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the certificates of a series or class of certificates or all of the certificates. In the case of votes by holders of a series or class of certificates or votes by holders of all the certificates, the unpaid principal amount of the senior-most class of certificates will generally be substantially greater than the unpaid principal amount of the subordinated certificates. Consequently, the holders of the senior-most class of certificates will generally have the ability to determine whether and what actions should be taken. The subordinated certificates will generally need the concurrence of the senior-most certificateholders to cause actions to be taken.

Issuances of additional series or additional certificates in outstanding series by the trust may adversely affect your certificates.

The trust is a master trust that has issued other series of certificates and is expected to issue additional series from time to time. The trust may also “reopen” or later issue additional certificates in an outstanding series, including Series 2017-1, as described under “Series Provisions — Additional Issuances of Series 2017-1 Certificates.” All such certificates are payable from the receivables in the trust. The trust may issue additional series or additional certificates in an outstanding series with terms that are different from your series without notice to you (or the existing certificateholders) and without your (or their) prior review or consent. Before the trust can issue a new series, or additional certificates in an outstanding series, each rating agency that has rated an outstanding series must confirm in writing that the issuance of the new series or additional certificates will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of its earlier rating. Nevertheless, the issuance of a new series, or additional certificates in an outstanding series, could affect the timing and amounts of payments on any outstanding certificates.

The owners of the certificates of any new series or of any additional certificates issued in an outstanding series will have voting rights that will reduce the percentage interest represented by your certificates. Such voting rights may relate to the ability to approve waivers and give consents. The actions which may be affected include directing the appointment of a successor servicer following a servicer default, amending the pooling and servicing agreement and directing a reassignment of the entire portfolio of accounts.

See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Groups of Series” in this prospectus.

Addition of accounts to the trust or other changes in the composition or performance of the trust’s assets may decrease the credit quality of the assets securing the repayment of your certificates. If this occurs, your receipt of payments of principal and interest may be reduced, delayed or accelerated.

The assets of the trust change every day. The transferors may choose, or may be required, to add receivables to the trust. The accounts from which these receivables arise may have different terms and conditions from the accounts already designated to the trust. For example, the new accounts may have higher or lower fees or interest rates or different payment terms. We cannot guarantee that new accounts will be of the same credit quality as the accounts currently or historically designated to the trust, nor can we guarantee that the future performance of the accounts in the trust will remain consistent with historical performance. If the credit quality or performance of the assets in the trust were to deteriorate, the trust’s ability to make payments on the certificates could be adversely affected. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” in this prospectus.

If your certificates are repaid prior to the scheduled principal payment date, you may not be able to reinvest your principal in a comparable security.

If you receive an early payment of principal on your certificates at a time when prevailing interest rates are relatively low, you may not be able to reinvest the proceeds in a comparable security with an effective interest rate equivalent to that of your certificates.

The objective of the asset representations review process is to independently identify noncompliance with a representation or warranty concerning the receivables but no assurance can be given as to its effectiveness.

Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC will act as the asset representations reviewer under the asset representations review agreement. As more particularly described under “Asset Representations Review,” once both the delinquency event and the voting event have occurred, the asset representations reviewer will conduct a review of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent and the accounts relating to such receivables for compliance with certain representations and warranties concerning those receivables and accounts made in the related receivables purchase agreement and the pooling and servicing agreement. The objective of the review process, including the final determination by the asset representations reviewer, is to independently identify noncompliance with a representation or warranty concerning the receivables. The applicable sponsor will investigate any findings of noncompliance contained in the asset representations reviewer’s final report determine whether a contractual breach has occurred relating to the receivables or the accounts. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally—Representations and Warranties” and “Description of the Purchase Agreements—Representations and Warranties” and “—Repurchase Obligations” for a discussion of the obligations of the transferors and the sponsors, and the rights of the trustee and certificateholders, if a transferor or a sponsor breaches certain representations and warranties concerning the receivables made in the related receivables purchase agreement and the pooling and servicing agreement.

None of the accounts or receivables comprising the Trust Portfolio have been subject to the asset representations review process, and no assurance can be given that the asset representations review process will achieve the intended result of identifying noncompliance with representations and warranties concerning the receivables. A determination by the asset representations reviewer represents the analysis and the opinion of the reviewer based on the testing procedures related to the performance of its review, and there can be no assurance that any asset representations review will identify all inaccurate representations and warranties concerning the subject receivables. As a result, there can be no assurance that the asset representations review will provide the transferors or the trustee with an effective tool to identify a breach of any contractual provision. Neither investors nor the trustee will be able to change the scope of the testing procedures or any review using the testing procedures, or to contest any finding or determination by the asset representations reviewer.

The asset representations review agreement provides that, in connection with any review, the servicer will grant the asset representations reviewer access to copies of documentation related to the performance of its review of the accounts and receivables. The asset representations reviewer will conduct its review based on the information in the review materials and other generally available information. Therefore, the asset representations reviewer’s ability to determine if receivables have failed to comply with a representation or warranty will depend on whether the review materials for those receivables or the related accounts provide a sufficient basis for that conclusion.

Finally, even if none of the representations and warranties concerning the receivables are untrue, the receivables may still suffer from delinquencies and charge offs, and the certificates may incur losses or have reduced market values.

The certification provided by the chief executive officer of the depositor does not guarantee that the securitization will produce expected cash flows at times and in amounts to service scheduled payments of interest and the ultimate repayment of principal on the offered certificates in accordance with their terms as described in this prospectus.

One of the transaction requirements for the use of a shelf registration statement is the filing at the time of each offering from the shelf of a certification from the chief executive officer of the depositor of the issuing entity concerning the disclosure contained in the prospectus and the structure of the securitization.

While in the certification the chief executive officer expresses a belief that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the securitization is structured to produce expected cash flows at times and in amounts to service scheduled repayments of interest and the ultimate payment of principal on the offered securities in accordance with their terms, investors should be aware that the certification does not guarantee that the securitization will produce those expected cash flows or that you will not suffer from delays or reductions in or acceleration of repayment on your certificates.

American Express Credit Account Master Trust, also referred to as the issuing entity or the trust, was formed in 1996 pursuant to a pooling and servicing agreement. This pooling and servicing agreement, as amended and restated as of April 16, 2004, as of January 1, 2006 and as of July 20, 2016, and as may be further amended from time to time, is among American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., or TRS, as servicer, RFC III and RFC IV, as transferors, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee. The trust does not have any officers or directors.

Prior to April 16, 2004, Centurion transferred receivables directly to the trustee. Prior to April 16, 2004, Centurion also transferred receivables to American Express Credit Corporation (“Credco”), which in turn transferred receivables to RFC II, which then transferred receivables to the trustee. As permitted by the pooling and servicing agreement, the pooling and servicing agreement was amended and restated as of April 16, 2004 (the “substitution date”) to substitute RFC III as transferor in place of Centurion. In addition, the pooling and servicing agreement was amended to designate FSB as an account owner and RFC IV as a transferor. RFC II ceased transferring receivables to the trustee but remained a transferor until July 20, 2016 (the “RFC II removal date”), when the pooling and servicing agreement was amended and restated again, in part to remove RFC II as a transferor.

On the substitution date, Centurion entered into a purchase agreement with RFC III and FSB entered into a purchase agreement with RFC IV. Under the purchase agreements, each of Centurion and FSB sold its existing right, title and interest in, and on an ongoing basis will sell, the receivables in the designated accounts to RFC III and RFC IV, respectively. RFC III and RFC IV, as transferors under the pooling and servicing agreement, in turn transfer the receivables to the trust.

The trust, as a master trust, previously has issued other series of asset backed certificates and expects to issue additional series from time to time.

Consequently, the trust does not and is not expected to have any source of capital resources other than the trust assets. The trust is formed under and administered in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. The fiscal year for the trust will end on December 31 of each year.

Each transferor, being Centurion and RFC II prior to the substitution date, being RFC II, RFC III and RFC IV on and after the substitution date but prior to the RFC II removal date, and being RFC III and RFC IV and any additional transferor on and after the RFC II removal date, has conveyed and will convey to the trust, without recourse, its interest in all receivables arising under the portfolio of accounts in the trust. The receivables consist of all amounts charged by account holders for goods and services and cash advances, called principal receivables, and all related periodic rate finance charges, annual membership fees, cash advance fees, late charge fees, returned check charges, overlimit fees, Issuer Rate Fees, and any other fees and charges billed on the accounts from time to time, collectively called finance charge receivables.

The trust assets consist of such receivables, all monies due or to become due thereunder, the proceeds of the receivables, all monies and other property on deposit in certain accounts maintained for the benefit of the certificateholders and Recoveries (net of collection expenses) received by the servicer including proceeds from the

sale or securitization of Defaulted Receivables and proceeds of credit insurance policies relating to such receivables and related property conveyed to the trustee pursuant to an assignment, the right to receive Issuer Rate Fees attributed to the receivables, all monies on deposit in the Collection Account, the Special Funding Account and in certain accounts maintained for the benefit of the certificateholders, any series enhancements, and all of each transferor’s legal rights and remedies under the purchase agreements. Uniform Commercial Code financing statements have been and will be filed, to the extent appropriate, to perfect the ownership or security interests of the trust and the trustee described herein.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, a transferor will have the right (subject to certain limitations and conditions set forth therein), and in some circumstances will be obligated, to designate from time to time additional eligible accounts to be included as accounts and to transfer to the trust all receivables of such additional accounts, whether such receivables are then existing or thereafter created. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” in this prospectus.

A transferor also has the right (subject to certain limitations and conditions) to require the trustee to reconvey all receivables in accounts designated by that transferor for removal, whether such receivables are then existing or thereafter created. Once an account is removed, receivables existing under that account are not transferred to the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Removal of Accounts” in this prospectus.

Throughout the term of the trust, the accounts from which the receivables arise will be the accounts designated on the Initial Cut-Off Date plus any Additional Accounts minus any accounts that have been removed. With respect to each series of certificates issued by the trust, the transferors will represent and warrant that, as of the related selection dates, such receivables meet certain eligibility requirements.

Additional information regarding the receivables in the Trust Portfolio is provided in Annex I to this prospectus, which forms an integral part of this prospectus.

The primary assets of the trust are receivables generated from time to time in a portfolio of designated consumer American Express credit card accounts and Pay Over Time revolving credit features associated with charge card accounts and, in the future, may include other charge or credit accounts or products.

Additional information regarding the receivables in the Trust Portfolio is provided in Annex I to this prospectus, which forms an integral part of this prospectus.

Static pool information regarding the performance of the receivables in the Total Portfolio is provided in Annex II to this prospectus, which forms an integral part of this prospectus.

As required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the transferors are responsible for performing a review of the receivables in the Trust Portfolio and the disclosure relating to those receivables required to be included in this prospectus by Item 1111 of Regulation AB. The review, which is conducted by the transferors and their affiliates as described further below, primarily consists of the periodic review of internal data systems, including the related financial controls and processes, and the review of information relating to the receivables included in this prospectus, including both quantitative data and certain qualitative or factual disclosure.

The review described below is designed and effected to provide reasonable assurance that the disclosure regarding the receivables in the Trust Portfolio in this prospectus, including the information provided in Annex I and Annex II to this prospectus, is accurate in all material respects.

Centurion, FSB and their affiliates have data collection systems that, together, are designed to process and validate all incoming financial transactions for U.S. credit and charge Card Members and service establishments, including Card Member spending and other activity such as remittances, fees, account adjustments and merchant transactions. Centurion, FSB and their affiliates have established controls over these data collection systems to provide reasonable assurance regarding the completeness, accuracy, validity and timeliness of data received and sent by the data collection systems.

Data relating to Card Member spending and remittance activity is output from the data collection systems to the servicer’s account servicing platform, which accumulates and processes spending and other activity for American Express’ credit and charge Card Members. The servicer and its affiliates have established controls over the account servicing platform to provide reasonable assurance regarding the completeness, accuracy, validity and timeliness of the data received and sent by the account servicing platform.

Data generated by the account servicing platform is sent to the servicer’s securitization technology system. The securitization technology system also utilizes data provided by an internal risk information management system, including Card Members’ credit bureau information. Within the securitization technology system, information relating to the accounts in the Trust Portfolio is processed and consolidated for reporting purposes, including for the inclusion in this prospectus of data relating to the receivables in the Trust Portfolio. The servicer and its affiliates have established controls over the securitization technology system to provide reasonable assurance regarding the completeness, accuracy, validity and timeliness of the data input from the account servicing platform to the securitization technology system.

As described above, Centurion, FSB, the servicer and their affiliates have developed financial controls over the data collection systems, the account servicing platform and the securitization technology system to provide reasonable assurance regarding the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of data received by and exchanged between these systems. Included among these are controls to validate, confirm, balance, reconcile and calculate data as it moves through the systems. Discrepancies identified by these controls are recorded, investigated and resolved. Internal risk management standards developed by Centurion, FSB, the servicer and their affiliates require the periodic testing of these controls using predetermined sampling methodologies. The sample size used for testing each control is based on the frequency with which that control operates and whether the control is automated or manual. Centurion, FSB, the servicer and their affiliates have determined that the frequency with which these controls are tested and the testing methods used provide reasonable assurance that the data generated by these systems is accurate in all material respects. In addition to periodic testing of the controls, the internal departments that oversee the controls certify to the effectiveness of the controls on a quarterly or annual basis, depending on the type of control.

The transferors and their affiliates use information generated by the securitization technology system to create reports used to populate the tables included in Annex I and Annex II to this prospectus. The transferors and their affiliates, with the assistance of a third party, conduct a review of the quantitative data in those tables in which the data presented is compared with the reports generated by the securitization technology system and certain recalculations are performed. The transferors attribute all findings and conclusions of the review to themselves.

Disclosure in this prospectus consisting of qualitative or factual information regarding the receivables in the Trust Portfolio was reviewed and approved by those officers and employees of Centurion, FSB, the servicer, the transferors and their affiliates who are knowledgeable about such information.

The underwriting and authorization procedures applicable to the accounts are described under “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses — Underwriting and Authorization Process” in this prospectus. Centurion, FSB and their affiliates regularly engage in activities that are designed to monitor and measure compliance with

established credit underwriting and authorization policies, including testing of automated approval systems. These activities are overseen by an individual credit risk committee and a number of its specialized subcommittees. This committee is responsible for the design and implementation of credit processes and credit risk controls, including in the areas of authorizations, new account approval, credit line management, risk modeling, identification, monitoring and measurement of risk, and escalation of risk issues. Among other functions, this committee and its subcommittees review and approve underwriting and customer management policies as well as changes to said policies, monitor adherence to these policies and monitor performance of credit risk processes.

On a quarterly basis, employees of Centurion, FSB and their affiliates conduct a review to validate the accuracy of the proprietary risk score used in the underwriting and authorization process to predict future credit performance. The results of this validation are evaluated by the modeling subcommittee to determine whether adjustments to the individual credit risk model should be made. Using an automated system that operates on a daily basis, Centurion, FSB and their affiliates verify that the applications approved and credit lines granted by the automated system have correctly applied the decision logic established by the system’s designers. On a monthly basis, employees of Centurion, FSB and their affiliates measure the outcomes of the underwriting and authorization systems and specified portfolio level statistics against pre-set escalation metrics. Issues are escalated in accordance with policy to the individual credit risk committee or the appropriate subcommittee for evaluation to determine whether any changes to policies, strategies or models should be made.

After undertaking the review described above, the transferors have concluded that they have reasonable assurance that the disclosure regarding the receivables in the Trust Portfolio in this prospectus, including the information provided in Annex I and Annex II to this prospectus, is accurate in all material respects.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, each transferor makes certain representations and warranties to the trust about the receivables. If a transferor materially breaches certain of those representations or warranties, under certain circumstances, all of the Ineligible Receivables will be reassigned to such transferor and the related accounts will no longer be included in the Trust Portfolio. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

Under the purchase agreements, each of Centurion and FSB, respectively, makes certain representations and warranties to the applicable purchaser about the receivables. If Centurion or FSB, as applicable, breaches certain of those representations or warranties and, as a result, the respective purchaser is required under the pooling and servicing agreement to accept a reassignment of the related Ineligible Receivables as described above, then Centurion or FSB, as applicable, will accept reassignment of such Ineligible Receivables. See “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Repurchase Obligations” in this prospectus.

In the past three years, no assets securitized by the sponsors were the subject of a demand for reassignment or repurchase for breach of representations and warranties. All such demands for reassignment or repurchase are disclosed on Form ABS-15G and on the trust’s monthly distribution reports on Form 10-D. The most recent Form ABS-15G covering the receivables in the trust was filed on February 7, 2017 under CIK number 0001283434.

Under certain circumstances, investors in the certificates may direct an asset representations reviewer to perform a review of all receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent and the accounts relating to such receivables for compliance with certain representations and warranties on the receivables and the accounts. See “Asset Representations Review” in this prospectus.

The receivables have arisen or will arise in certain revolving credit accounts that have been selected from the Total Portfolio, in each case, on the basis of criteria set forth in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement. An account in the Total Portfolio must be an Eligible Account to be selected for inclusion in

the portfolio of accounts, the receivables of which will be owned by the trust. The accounts include and may include all related accounts that satisfy certain conditions set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement or are originated as a result of (a) a credit or charge card being lost or stolen or (b) the conversion of an account into another type of Eligible Account.

Accounts which relate to bankrupt obligors or certain charged-off receivables may be designated as accounts provided that the amount of principal receivables in any such account is deemed to be zero for purposes of all allocations under the pooling and servicing agreement.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, in certain circumstances, the transferors will be obligated (subject to certain limitations and conditions) to designate, from time to time, eligible accounts to be included as accounts, the receivables of which will ultimately be conveyed to the trust. None of the transferors owns accounts. If any transferor is required to designate accounts to the trust, it may give notice of the required addition directly or indirectly, as the case may be, to Centurion or FSB, as applicable. Under the applicable purchase agreement, Centurion or FSB will be obligated to designate accounts as requested. In addition, Centurion or FSB, as applicable, may, with the consent of the applicable transferor designate accounts and sell the receivables in those accounts to such transferor. See “The Purchase Agreements” in this prospectus. Such accounts designated for the trust must meet the eligibility criteria set forth in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement as of the applicable selection date. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” in this prospectus for a more detailed discussion of the circumstances and manner in which the receivables arising in Additional Accounts will be conveyed to the trust.

As of each date with respect to which any transferor transfers any receivables arising in Additional Accounts, such transferor will represent and warrant to the trust that such receivables meet the eligibility requirements set forth in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Conveyance of Receivables” in this prospectus. The eligibility of accounts is assessed only on the applicable selection date, while the eligibility of receivables is assessed only on the applicable selection date (in the case of receivables then existing in Additional Accounts on such date) or as of the date of creation (in the case of new receivables arising in an account). Accordingly, there can be no assurance that all of such accounts and receivables will continue to meet the eligibility requirements as of any subsequent date, including any subsequent series closing date.

Subject to certain limitations and restrictions, the transferors may also designate certain accounts for removal from the trust, in which case the receivables of the removed accounts will be reassigned to the transferors. Throughout the term of the trust, the receivables in the trust will consist of receivables generated under the accounts (including Additional Accounts). Such receivables will not include the receivables generated under removed accounts.

Centurion and FSB transfer to RFC III and RFC IV, respectively, and RFC III and RFC IV in turn transfer to the trust, the Issuer Rate Fees. Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, these Issuer Rate Fees are treated as collections of finance charge receivables. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses — Issuer Rate Fees” above.

Centurion is a sponsor of the trust and, as such, organizes and initiates the asset-backed securities transactions of the trust. Centurion also is an account owner of certain consumer credit or charge card accounts or features, the receivables of which are included in the trust. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses” in this prospectus. In addition, on behalf of TRS as servicer, Centurion performs limited servicing functions with respect to receivables in the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Collection and Other Servicing

Procedures” in this prospectus for a description of certain matters relating to the servicing functions provided by Centurion.

Centurion has been involved in the securitization of consumer credit card receivables since 1996, when it formed the trust. In addition, Centurion is an account owner of certain charge accounts, the receivables of which are included in the American Express Issuance Trust II, which securitizes consumer and small business charge receivables. The American Express Issuance Trust II was formed in 2012, but Centurion has been involved in the securitization of charge receivables since 1998, first in connection with the American Express Master Trust and then in connection with the American Express Issuance Trust.

Centurion is a bank incorporated under Utah laws in 1987. It received FDIC insurance in 1989. Its principal office is located at 4315 South 2700 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184, and its telephone number is (801) 945-2000. Centurion is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRS.

Centurion is the surviving company of a 1996 merger with an affiliated bank which was also named American Express Centurion Bank. Prior to the merger, the affiliated bank was one of the transferors. In connection with the merger, Centurion assumed all of the rights and obligations of the affiliated bank with respect to the accounts owned by it.

FSB is a sponsor of the trust and, as such, organizes and initiates the asset-backed securities transactions of the trust. FSB also is an account owner of certain consumer credit or charge card accounts or features, the receivables of which are included in the trust. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses” in this prospectus. In addition, on behalf of TRS as servicer, FSB performs limited servicing functions with respect to receivables in the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Collection and Other Servicing Procedures” in this prospectus for a description of certain matters relating to the servicing functions provided by FSB.

FSB has been involved in the securitization of consumer credit card receivables since 2004, when it was added as an account owner. In addition, FSB is an account owner of certain charge accounts, the receivables of which are included in the American Express Issuance Trust II, which securitizes consumer and small business charge receivables. Centurion had previously been involved in the securitization of charge receivables in connection with the American Express Issuance Trust, which was formed in 2005.

FSB was chartered by the OTS under the laws of the United States of America as a federal savings bank in 2000 and received FDIC insurance in 2000. Its principal office is located at 4315 South 2700 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184, and its telephone number is (801) 945-3000. FSB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRS.

In December 2003, FSB and certain of its affiliates received OTS approval to, among other things, transfer ownership of FSB from American Express Financial Corporation to TRS, relocate its headquarters from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Salt Lake City, Utah, and amend its business plan to permit FSB to offer certain credit, charge and consumer lending products, small business loans, mortgages and mortgage-related products and a transactional website. The implementation of the changes to FSB’s business plan began in the first quarter of 2004 with the transfer of certain credit card and charge accounts from Centurion to FSB.

Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the responsibility and authority of the OTS to supervise federal savings associations, including FSB, was transferred to the OCC in July 2011.

RFC III, a depositor and transferor, was formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 11, 2004. Its sole member is Centurion. RFC III was formed for the limited purpose of issuing securities of the type offered hereby, purchasing, holding, owning and selling receivables and any activities incidental to and necessary or

convenient for the accomplishment of such purposes. Neither Centurion, as sole member of RFC III, nor RFC III’s board of directors, intends to change the business purpose of RFC III.

Since its formation, RFC III has been engaged in these activities solely as (i) the purchaser of receivables from Centurion pursuant to the related purchase agreement, (ii) a transferor of receivables to the issuing entity pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, (iii) the holder of the Transferors’ Interest in the issuing entity and (iv) a transferor that executes underwriting, subscription and purchase agreements in connection with each issuance of certificates. RFC III may also act as a depositor for other master trusts or other securitization special purpose entities affiliated with Centurion, but has not done so to date.

A description of RFC III’s obligations as a transferor of the receivables to the trust can be found in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Conveyance of Receivables,” “— Representations and Warranties,” “— Addition of Accounts” and “— Removal of Accounts” in this prospectus.

RFC III was initially capitalized by a cash contribution from Centurion. Pursuant to a revolving credit agreement, RFC III may borrow funds from Centurion for the sole purpose of purchasing receivables from Centurion under the related purchase agreement. Under the revolving credit agreement, payments from RFC III are due only to the extent that those funds are not required for any other purpose and so long as the payment will not cause RFC III to default under the pooling and servicing agreement.

RFC III’s executive offices are located at 4315 South 2700 West, Room 1100, 02-01-46A, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184, and its telephone number is (801) 945-5648.

RFC IV, a depositor and transferor, was formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on March 11, 2004. Its sole member is FSB. RFC IV was formed for the limited purpose of issuing securities of the type offered hereby, purchasing, holding, owning and selling receivables and any activities incidental to and necessary or convenient for the accomplishment of such purposes. Neither FSB, as sole member of RFC IV, nor RFC IV’s board of directors, intends to change the business purpose of RFC IV.

Since its formation, RFC IV has been engaged in these activities solely as (i) the purchaser of receivables from FSB pursuant to the related purchase agreement, (ii) a transferor of receivables to the issuing entity pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, (iii) the holder of the Transferors’ Interest in the issuing entity and (iv) a transferor that executes underwriting, subscription and purchase agreements in connection with each issuance of certificates. RFC IV may also act as a depositor for other master trusts or other securitization special purpose entities affiliated with FSB, but has not done so to date.

A description of RFC IV’s obligations as a transferor of the receivables to the trust can be found in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Conveyance of Receivables,” “— Representations and Warranties,” “— Additions of Accounts” and “— Removal of Accounts” in this prospectus.

RFC IV was initially capitalized by a cash contribution from FSB. Pursuant to a revolving credit agreement, RFC IV may borrow funds from FSB for the sole purpose of purchasing receivables from FSB under the related purchase agreement. Under the revolving credit agreement, payments from RFC IV are due only to the extent that those funds are not required for any other purpose and so long as the payment will not cause RFC IV to default under the pooling and servicing agreement.

RFC IV’s executive offices are located at 4315 South 2700 West, Room 1100, 02-01-46B, Salt Lake City, Utah 84184, and its telephone number is (801) 945-2068.

In accordance with the credit risk retention requirements of Regulation RR issued by the SEC, Centurion and FSB, directly as sponsors, or RFC III and RFC IV, as depositors and as wholly-owned affiliates of the sponsors, are

required to retain an economic interest in the credit risk of the receivables in the trust. The sponsors and the depositors intend to satisfy the risk retention requirements by maintaining a seller’s interest in the trust, as defined by and calculated in accordance with Regulation RR, that will equal not less than five percent of the aggregate unpaid principal balance of all investor certificates, other than any certificates that have been at all times held by the sponsors or one or more wholly-owned affiliates of the sponsors, minus the aggregate amount of principal collections on deposit in a segregated principal accumulation account as permitted by Regulation RR (which amount we refer to as the “adjusted outstanding investor ABS interests” in this section). For purpose of the calculation described in the preceding sentence, a wholly-owned affiliate of either sponsor will include any person, other than the issuing entity, that directly or indirectly, wholly controls (i.e. owns 100% of the equity in such sponsor), is wholly controlled by, or is wholly under common control with, such sponsor.

The required seller’s interest will be maintained by the sponsors and the depositors through depositors’ ownership of the Transferors’ Interest, which represents the interest in the trust not represented by your series or by any other series. The Transferors’ Interest is entitled to share in allocations of certain amounts, including finance charge collections, principal collections and defaults, as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Allocations.” The amount of principal receivables in the master trust will vary each day as new principal receivables are created and others are paid or charged off as uncollectible. Therefore, the amount of the Transferors’ Interest will fluctuate each day to reflect the changes in the amount of the principal receivables in the trust. In addition, the Transferors’ Interest will generally increase to reflect reductions in the invested amount of any series, including as the result of payments of principal, and will generally decrease as a result of the issuance of a new series of investor certificates or of additional investor certificates in an outstanding series. The sponsors and the depositors will not sell or otherwise transfer an interest in the Transferors’ Interest in a manner that is prohibited under the Regulation RR, nor will they enter into any prohibited hedging arrangement with respect to the Transferors’ Interest.

Though similar in concept, the obligation to comply with Regulation RR and the requirement to maintain the Transferors’ Interest as set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement are independent obligations and are calculated differently. The Transferors’ Interest is reported in the monthly distribution reports as a percentage of the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust, while the seller’s interest under Regulation RR is required to be maintained at an amount equal to not less than 5% of the adjusted outstanding investor ABS interests. Generally, the obligation to maintain the Transferors’ Interest in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement will result in a higher minimum Transferors’ Interest than the minimum seller’s interest required under Regulation RR.

For purposes of compliance with Regulation RR, the seller’s interest will equal the excess of the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust over the aggregate investor interest in receivables for all outstanding series of certificates. As of the closing date, through the ownership of the Transferors’ Interest, we expect to have a seller’s interest equal to $9,548,249,920.43, which will equal 61.88% of the adjusted outstanding investor ABS interest. For purposes of determining the seller’s interest on the closing date, we have used the aggregate principal balance of the receivables in the trust as of the last day of the December 2016 Monthly Period and the principal balance of the certificates expected to be outstanding as of the closing date, including $2,628,573,000 of Series 2017-1 and $804,599,000 of Series 2017-2. As of the closing date, approximately 72.94% of the seller’s interest is expected to be allocated to RFC III, and approximately 27.06% of the seller’s interest is allocated to RFC IV. The issuing entity will disclose on Form 8-K within a reasonable time after the closing date the amount of the seller’s interest as of the closing date and the allocation of the seller’s interest to each transferor, in each case if materially different from that disclosed in this prospectus. In addition, the transferors will disclose in each of the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D the amount of the seller’s interest as of each measurement date described below.

The seller’s interest will be calculated as a percentage of the adjusted outstanding investor ABS interest as of the last day of each Monthly Period. If, as of the end of any Monthly Period, the seller’s interest is less than the required seller’s interest under Regulation RR, the transferors will be required to designate Additional Accounts to increase the amount of the seller’s interest to at least equal the required seller’s interest within ten Business Days. Any failure by the transferors to designate such Additional Accounts, if not cured within five Business Days, will result in a Pay-Out Event. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” and “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events.”

TRS is the servicer of the trust. As servicer, it is responsible for servicing, managing and making collections on the receivables in the trust. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Collection and Other Servicing Procedures” in this prospectus. TRS has outsourced certain functions to affiliated and unaffiliated third parties, but it remains responsible for the overall servicing process. For information about certain affiliated and unaffiliated third party vendors that provide these services, including Centurion and FSB, see “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Outsourcing of Servicing” in this prospectus.

TRS, a company incorporated under the laws of the State of New York on May 3, 1982, is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express Company and the direct parent company of Centurion, FSB, RFC II and Credco. TRS, directly or through its subsidiaries, provides a variety of products and services, including the charge card accounts, consumer loans, American Express^® Travelers Cheques, consumer travel products and services, database marketing and management and insurance. TRS’ principal office is located at 200 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10285-4405, and its telephone number is (212) 640-2000.

American Express Company and TRS are bank holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (“BHC Act”) and have elected to be treated as financial holding companies under the BHC Act. As bank holding companies under the BHC Act, American Express Company and TRS are subject to supervision and examination by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, is the trustee under the pooling and servicing agreement. Its principal corporate trust office is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7 West, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration — Asset Backed Securities, New York, New York 10286. The Bank of New York Mellon has been, and currently is, serving as indenture trustee and trustee for numerous securitization transactions and programs involving pools of credit card receivables.

In the ordinary course of business, The Bank of New York Mellon is named as a defendant in or made a party to pending and potential legal actions. In connection with its role as trustee of certain residential mortgage-backed securitization (“RMBS”) transactions, The Bank of New York Mellon was named as a defendant in a number of legal actions brought by RMBS investors. These lawsuits allege that the trustee had expansive duties under the governing agreements, including the duty to investigate and pursue breach of representation and warranty claims against other parties to the RMBS transactions. While it is inherently difficult to predict the eventual outcomes of pending actions, The Bank of New York Mellon denies liability and intends to defend the litigation vigorously.

The Bank of New York Mellon has provided the above information for purposes of complying with Regulation AB. Other than the previous two paragraphs and the first three sentences under “Prospectus Summary — Trustee” in this prospectus, The Bank of New York Mellon has not participated in the preparation of, and is not responsible for, any other information contained in this prospectus.

The transferors, the servicer, the account owners and their respective affiliates may from time to time enter into normal banking and trustee relationships with the trustee and its affiliates. The trustee or the transferors may hold certificates in their own names; however, any certificates so held shall not be entitled to participate in any decisions made or instructions given to the trustee by the certificateholders as a group. In addition, for purposes of meeting the legal requirements of certain local jurisdictions, the trustee shall have the power to appoint, with the consent of the transferors (who shall not unreasonably withhold their consent), a co-trustee or separate trustees of all or any part of the trust. In the event of such appointment, all rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be conferred or imposed upon the trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly or, in any jurisdiction in which the trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform certain acts, singly upon such separate trustee or co-trustee, who shall exercise and perform such rights, powers, duties and obligations solely at the direction of the trustee.

See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — The Trustee” in this prospectus.

The receivables transferred to the trust are generated from transactions made by holders of consumer American Express revolving credit card accounts and “Pay Over Time” revolving credit features associated with American Express charge card accounts, all issued by Centurion or FSB. Cards issued by Centurion and FSB are accepted worldwide, and may be used for the purchase of merchandise and services.

Subject to certain conditions, the transferors may convey to the trust receivables arising in charge or credit accounts or other charge or credit products that may be of a type not currently included as accounts. Such accounts and products may be originated, underwritten, used or collected in a different manner than the accounts described below and may differ with respect to loss and delinquency experience, revenue experience and historical payment rates. Such accounts and products may also have different terms than the accounts described below and may be subject to different servicing, charge-off and collection practices. Consequently, the addition to the trust of receivables arising in such accounts or from such products could have the effect of reducing the Portfolio Yield.

Credit Card Accounts. American Express credit card accounts may be used to purchase merchandise and services from merchants accepting American Express credit cards, to transfer balances from other credit accounts or to obtain cash advances. American Express credit card accounts are primarily solicited through direct mail, inbound and outbound telemarketing, online and other remote marketing channels. Offers are made to existing Card Members and to non-Card Members. In addition, FSB offers American Express credit card accounts that are originated under affinity or co-branded programs between one of the American Express banks and certain unaffiliated entities, which can include in-person marketing. Centurion and FSB also run print, radio, television and online advertisements for American Express credit card accounts and have a toll-free telephone number and online channels for requests for information and applications. Receivables may also be generated by soliciting the transfer of account balances from American Express’ competitors’ accounts.

Pay Over Time Features (for Charge Card Members). Certain charge card account holders in good standing may be eligible to use one or more Pay Over Time features. Sign & Travel, the Extended Payment Option, and Select & Pay Later are the three Pay Over Time features a Card Member may qualify for or enroll in at this date. Each Pay Over Time feature allows charge Card Members enrolled in the feature to pay off certain eligible charges over time, while all other non-eligible charges remain due in full upon receipt of the statement by the Card Member. The majority of Card Member’s Pay Over Time balances are capped at $35,000. Card Members who enroll in Sign & Travel have all eligible travel-related charges (such as airline and cruise ship tickets, hotels, car rentals and foreign charges) automatically placed into a Pay Over Time balance. Card Members who enroll in the Extended Payment Option have all charges of $100 or more (except for cash and certain other transactions) automatically placed into a Pay Over Time balance. Card Members who use Select & Pay Later have charges of $100 or more (except for cash and certain other transactions) placed into a Pay Over Time balance by request, subject to approval.

Underwriting. On an ongoing basis, Centurion and FSB adopt, evaluate and enhance policies for underwriting and authorizations. They contract with TRS for services, including the development and implementation of systems, controls and specifications for underwriting and authorizations.

Centurion and FSB evaluate applications for American Express credit card and charge card accounts using a framework that evaluates available information to predict the risk of each applicant. The framework uses proprietary risk scoring decision models and other risk criteria applied through application of underwriting policies. Underwriting policies reflect the banks’ risk tolerance levels, which take account of factors including the current and future economic environments. The performance trends of accounts originated at different score cut-off levels as compared to projected performance are monitored and evaluated to refine the scoring and identify enhancements to the framework.

Evaluations of applications consider, among other factors, information from credit bureaus (including one or more of Experian PLC, TransUnion LLC and Equifax Information Services LLC), commercially available risk scores, internal and external credit history, each applicant’s relationship and history with American Express and other information, which is either publicly available or provided by the applicant in response to the application process or by third parties. The underwriting process also verifies the identity of the applicant, and that the information on the application is accurate as provided by the true applicant and incorporates legal requirements.

Virtually all underwriting and authorization decisions use an automated system to capture the relevant information, execute the scoring logic, compare the proprietary risk scores against cut-off levels, apply business rules and legal requirements and then execute the approve or decline decision. In specified circumstances, including for certain product applications or where certain information is unavailable, the framework incorporates manual decision-making by a dedicated, specialized and experienced team to evaluate the available information to assess the applicant’s predicted risk, adhering to the same underwriting policies and standards.

Credit limits are determined based upon the Card Member’s past spending patterns in relation to available credit, the Card Member’s payment behavior and the proprietary risk assessment, as well as the Card Member’s experience with other creditors and personal resources. Credit limits are assigned at the time a new account is approved. Centurion and FSB reevaluate credit limits proactively based on monitoring the Card Member’s account activity, and reactively after a Card Member initiates a request for a line increase. In both cases the evaluation includes a risk assessment. A stricter policy is applied to customer requests for a higher credit limit made by new customers shortly after account openings (e.g., within 60 days).

The credit limits for American Express credit card accounts generally range from $500 to $50,000.

Credit Monitoring. To monitor and control the quality of the portfolio, accounts are monitored monthly, including by obtaining refreshed credit bureau information. The banks use behavioral scoring models to score each active account on its monthly cycle date. The behavioral scoring models are used to dynamically evaluate whether or not credit limits should be increased or decreased.

Point of Sale Authorization. The banks use an automated process to approve or decline transactions at the point of sale based on proprietary risk models. Merchant point-of-sale and online terminals connect with a proprietary authorization system. Card Member transactions are passed through the authorization system which considers the credit limit and other behavioral and risk factors to determine whether each transaction should be approved or declined.

Fraud. The banks contract with TRS to monitor and manage the risk of different types of fraud. TRS uses a variety of tools and proprietary models to identify suspicious transactions resulting from different types of fraud, such as fraud rings, new account fraud and transactional fraud.

Pay Over Time Features (for Charge Card Members). Centurion or FSB, as appropriate, allows qualifying charge Card Members to pay certain charges over time using the Sign & Travel, Extended Payment Option, and/or

Select & Pay Later features. While there generally is no preset spending limit on the charge card account, the total of a Card Member’s Pay Over Time balances generally may not exceed $50,000. This Pay Over Time limit is set at the account level and therefore is shared across all Pay Over Time features in which the account is enrolled. It is not a committed line of credit but a cap that the Pay Over Time balance may not exceed. If a purchase eligible to be paid over time would cause the total Pay Over Time balance to exceed that amount, then the transaction will not be added to the Pay Over Time balance but instead to the account’s due in full balance. Charge transactions are subject to approval at the time of utilization through a credit authorization process prior to being approved.

Consumer accounts owned by Centurion and FSB have various billing and payment structures, including various annual fees and monthly finance charges. Each account holder is subject to an agreement governing the terms and conditions of the American Express credit card account and any applicable Pay Over Time feature. Pursuant to each such agreement, Centurion or FSB, as applicable, reserves the right to add, change or terminate any terms, conditions, services or features of the account (including increasing or decreasing monthly finance charges on new transactions, fees or minimum payments). Such changes are subject to the requirements of applicable laws, including the Credit CARD Act, and to certain limitations in the pooling and servicing agreement described herein. Any announced increase in the formula used to calculate the APR, or other change making the terms of an account more stringent, generally becomes effective on a designated future date.

Credit Card Accounts. Generally, an American Express credit card account holder is charged:

(ii) Finance charges on purchases, cash advances, and balance transfers, based on variable APRs equal to an index (currently the prime rate) plus a margin. The margin for purchases currently range from 9.74% to 19.74%, depending on the Card Member’s risk profile, product, and date of acquisition. The margin for cash advances is currently 21.99%. Credit card account holders who violate certain payment terms may be subject to a penalty APR with a current margin of 25.99%. A number of products have 0.00% introductory APRs and low non-variable APRs for balance transfers. Few customers have standard non-variable APRs, currently ranging generally from 9.99% to 19.99%.

(iii) Amounts payable for certain uses of the American Express credit card, including balance transfer fees of the greater of $5.00 or 3% of the transfer amount, the standard network fee of 3% on cash advances obtained through an automated teller machine, with a $5.00 minimum charge and a 1% fee for obtaining American Express Travelers Cheques. Certain cards also have foreign exchange fees equal to 2.7% of each transaction after conversion to U.S. dollars.

American Express credit card accounts are billed on a cycle basis. Payments on the American Express credit card accounts are generally applied, up to the minimum payment due, first to the balance with the lowest interest rate, and then to balances with higher interest rates. After the minimum payment has been paid, payments are applied to the balance with the highest interest rate, and then to balances with lower interest rates. Within each balance, payments are applied first to finance charges, then fees, then principal. If there is any past due amount, that amount is paid first. American Express credit card holders are required to make a minimum payment each cycle. The calculation of the minimum payment starts with the highest of (1) interest charged on the statement plus 1% of the new balance (excluding any overlimit amount, late fees and interest); or (2) $35; then late fees, 1/24th of any overlimit amount, and any amounts past due are added, provided that the minimum payment will not exceed the new balance.

Pay Over Time Features (for Charge Card Members). There is no annual fee or other fee imposed for Pay Over Time features, except for finance charges accrued on Pay Over Time balances. The APR applicable to the Pay Over Time features is a variable rate determined based on the card product the Card Member has. Currently, except for certain Centurion Card Members who are given a Prime + 5.99% APR when they enroll in Select & Pay Later

and Card Members who may benefit from promotional APRs from time to time, most Card Members enrolled in a Pay Over Time feature have an APR equal to the prime rate plus a margin of either 11.99% or 14.99%. To the extent a Card Member enrolled in Select & Pay Later decides to enroll in additional Pay Over Time features, the APR applicable to the Select & Pay Later feature will apply to those additional features. Charge Card Members with a Pay Over Time balance who violate certain payment terms may be subject to a penalty APR, with a current margin of 25.99%, applied to new spend that qualifies for the Pay Over Time feature. Pay Over Time balances are billed on a cycle basis at the same time as the Card Member’s charge card account. Currently, payments made on charge card accounts with a Pay Over Time balance are generally applied first to past due Pay Over Time balances, second to past due Pay in Full balances, third to current Pay Over Time minimum payments due, fourth to current Pay in Full balances, and finally, to Pay Over Time balances exceeding the Pay Over Time minimum due. Charge Card Members with a Pay Over Time balance are required to make a minimum payment of their Pay Over Time new balance each cycle, in addition to the Pay in Full balance. Provided that it will not exceed the Pay Over Time new balance, the Pay Over Time minimum due is equal to the sum of (1) any amount past due, and (2) the greater of (i) current billed finance charges plus 1% of the Pay Over Time new balance (excluding current billed finance charges), or (ii) $35.

Efforts to collect delinquent American Express credit card accounts and Sign & Travel/ Extended Payment Option accounts are made by the appropriate issuing bank, TRS and collection agencies and attorneys retained by such issuing bank. Under current practice, Centurion and FSB include a request for payment of overdue amounts on all billing statements upon delinquency. Each of Centurion and FSB uses its proprietary risk evaluation systems to determine the appropriate collection strategy. Account holders may be contacted by either a letter or a telephone call when the account becomes delinquent or sooner based on a number of factors, including the account holder’s tenure and the amount owed in relation to prior spending and payment behavior. An account is generally considered to be delinquent if the minimum payment specified in the account holder’s most recent billing statement is not received by the due date. If it is determined that the account holder is unable to pay the outstanding balance, the account is “pre-empted” — i.e., the card is cancelled, credit privileges are revoked, and more intensive collection action is initiated. For all other account holders, credit privileges are generally cancelled no later than 90 days from initial billing. If an account remains delinquent, it may be sent to collection agencies or attorney firms to continue collection efforts including letters, telephone calls, and legal action. Centurion and FSB, respectively, may enter into arrangements with account holders to extend or otherwise change payment schedules to maximize collections. Each of Centurion and FSB may sell its rights to certain collections to its affiliates, collection agencies, or debt buyers.

Generally, it is Centurion’s and FSB’s practices to cause the receivables in an account to be charged off no later than the date on which such account becomes seven contractual payments past due (i.e., approximately 180 days past the first due date), although charge-offs may be made earlier in some circumstances, such as confirmed bankruptcies. The credit evaluation, servicing, charge-off and collection practices of Centurion and FSB may change over time in accordance with its business judgment and applicable law.

Centurion and FSB, in their capacities as issuers of American Express cards, receive certain fees (referred to in this prospectus as “Issuer Rate Fees”), collected by the American Express network, in connection with account holder charges for merchandise and services. These Issuer Rate Fees are individually negotiated directly between Centurion or FSB, as applicable, and TRS, and may change from time to time. The amount of Issuer Rate Fees included in finance charge collections for each Monthly Period during calendar year 2016, as a percentage of total finance charge collections for each such Monthly Period (excluding collections of discount option receivables), ranged from a high of 43.29% to a low of 36.36%.

Issuer Rate Fees payable to Centurion and FSB will be allocated and sold to RFC III and RFC IV, respectively, for each month in an amount equal to the sum of:

This calculation represents an estimate of the actual Issuer Rate Fees payable to Centurion and FSB from time to time in respect of the receivables and may be greater or less than the actual amount of Issuer Rate Fees so payable. Each of Centurion and FSB will be required, pursuant to the terms of the related purchase agreement, to transfer to RFC III and RFC IV, respectively, and RFC III and RFC IV will in turn be required, pursuant to the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement, to transfer to the trust for the benefit of the certificateholders, these Issuer Rate Fees. Issuer Rate Fees, if any, will be included in collections of finance charge receivables pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement for purposes of determining the amount of finance charge collections and allocating such collections and payments to the certificates. Issuer Rate Fees, if any, will also be included in finance charge receivables for purposes of calculating the average yield on the portfolio of accounts included in the trust applicable to any series of certificates.

The net proceeds from the sale of the certificates offered hereby, before the deduction of expenses, will be paid to the transferors. RFC III will use these proceeds to purchase additional receivables from Centurion or for its general company purposes, including repayment of loans made from time to time by Centurion to RFC III, and RFC

IV will use these proceeds to purchase additional receivables from FSB or for its general company purposes, including repayment of loans made from time to time by FSB to RFC IV. Each of Centurion and FSB will use such amounts received from RFC III or RFC IV, respectively, for general corporate purposes.

The pooling and servicing agreement and the Series 2017-1 supplement for this series provide that the Class A certificateholders will not receive payments of principal until the Expected Final Payment Date, or earlier in the event of a Pay-Out Event which results in the commencement of the Early Amortization Period. Class A certificateholders will receive payments of principal on each Special Payment Date until the Class A Invested Amount has been paid in full or the Series 2017-1 Termination Date has occurred. The Class B certificateholders will not begin to receive payments of principal until the final principal payment on the Class A certificates has been made. The holder of the Collateral Interest will not begin to receive payments of principal until the final principal payment on the Class B certificates has been made.

On each Distribution Date during the Controlled Accumulation Period, amounts equal to the least of:

(a) Available Principal Collections (see “Series Provisions — Principal Payments” in this prospectus) for the related Monthly Period on deposit in the Collection Account,

will be deposited in the Principal Funding Account for Series 2017-1 held by the trustee until the Expected Final Payment Date or the first Special Payment Date. See “Series Provisions — Principal Payments” in this prospectus for a discussion of the circumstances under which the commencement of the Controlled Accumulation Period may be delayed.

Subject to satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition, the transferors may, at or after the time at which the Controlled Accumulation Period begins for Series 2017-1, cause the trust to issue another series (or some portion thereof, to the extent that the full principal amount of such other series is not otherwise outstanding at such time) as a paired series with respect to Series 2017-1 to be used to finance the increase in the Transferor Amount caused by the accumulation of principal in the Principal Funding Account with respect to Series 2017-1. Although no assurances can be given as to whether such other series will be issued and, if issued, the terms thereof, the outstanding principal amount of such series may vary from time to time (whether or not a Pay-Out Event occurs with respect to Series 2017-1, and the interest rate with respect to certificates of such other series may be established on its date of issuance and may be reset periodically. Further, since the terms of the Series 2017-1 certificates will vary from the terms of such other series, the Pay-Out Events or Reinvestment Events with respect to such other series will vary from the Pay-Out Events with respect to Series 2017-1 and may include Pay-Out Events or Reinvestment Events which are unrelated to the status of the transferors or the servicer or the receivables, such as Pay-Out Events or Reinvestment Events related to the continued availability and rating of certain providers of series enhancement to such other series. If a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event does occur with respect to any such paired series prior to the payment in full of the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest, the final payment of principal to the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest may be delayed.

Should a Pay-Out Event occur with respect to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest and the Early Amortization Period begin, any amount on deposit:

(a) in the Principal Funding Account will be paid to the Series 2017-1 certificateholders on the first Special Payment Date, and the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest will be entitled to receive Available Principal Collections on each Distribution Date with respect to such Early Amortization Period as described herein until the Class A Invested Amount, the Class B Invested Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount are paid in full or until the Series 2017-1 Termination Date occurs, and

(b) in the Special Funding Account will be released and treated as Shared Principal Collections to the extent needed to cover principal payments due to or for the benefit of any series, including Series 2017-1 entitled to the benefits of Shared Principal Collections. See “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events” in this prospectus.

The ability of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest to receive payments of principal on the Expected Final Payment Date depends on the payment rates of the receivables, the amount of outstanding receivables, delinquencies, charge-offs and new borrowings on the accounts, the potential issuance by the trust of additional series and the availability of Shared Principal Collections. Monthly payment rates of the receivables may vary because, among other things, account holders may fail to make required minimum payments, may only make payments as low as the minimum required amount or may make payments as high as the entire outstanding balance. Monthly payment rates may also vary due to seasonal purchasing and payment habits of account holders and due to changes in any terms of incentive programs in which account holders participate. See the table entitled “Account Holder Monthly Payment Rates of the Trust Portfolio” under “The Trust Portfolio — Payment Rates” in Annex I to this prospectus. The transferors cannot predict, and no assurance can be given, as to the account holders’ monthly payment rates that will actually occur in any future period, as to the actual rate of payment of principal of the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest or whether the terms of any subsequently issued series might have an impact on the amount or timing of any such payment of principal. See “Risk Factors — Payment patterns of account holders may not be consistent over time and variations in these payment patterns may result in reduced payment of principal, or receipt of payment of principal earlier or later than expected” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus.

In addition, the amount of outstanding receivables and the delinquencies, charge-offs and new borrowings on the accounts may vary from month to month due to seasonal variations, the availability of other sources of credit, legal factors, general economic conditions and spending and borrowing habits of individual account holders. There can be no assurance that collections of principal receivables with respect to the Trust Portfolio, and thus the rate at which Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest could expect to receive payments of principal on the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest during an Early Amortization Period or the rate at which the Principal Funding Account could be funded during the Controlled Accumulation Period, will be similar to the historical experience set forth in the table entitled “Account Holder Monthly Payment Rates of the Trust Portfolio” under “The Trust Portfolio — Payment Rates” in Annex I to this prospectus. As described under “Series Provisions — Principal Payments” in this prospectus, the transferors may shorten the Controlled Accumulation Period and, in such event, there can be no assurance that there will be sufficient time to accumulate all amounts necessary to pay the Class A Invested Amount and the Class B Invested Amount on the Expected Final Payment Date. In addition, the trust, as a master trust, has issued, and from time to time may issue, additional series, and there can be no assurance that the terms of any such series might not have an impact on the timing or amount of payments received by the Series 2017-1 certificateholders. Further, if a Pay-Out Event occurs and the Early Amortization Period begins, the average life and maturity of the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates could be significantly reduced, thereby reducing the anticipated yield on such certificates.

Due to the reasons set forth above, there can be no assurance that deposits in the Principal Funding Account will be made on or prior to the Expected Final Payment Date in an amount equal to the sum of the Class A Invested Amount and the Class B Invested Amount or that the actual number of months elapsed from the date of issuance of the Class A certificates and Class B certificates to their respective final distribution dates will equal the expected number of months. See “Risk Factors — Payment patterns of account holders may not be consistent over time and variations in these payment patterns may result in reduced payment of principal, or receipt of payment of principal earlier or later than expected” in this prospectus.

On or about February 21, 2017, the trust will issue $2,300,000,000 of Class A Series 2017-1 1.93% Asset Backed Certificates and $98,572,000 of Class B Series 2017-1 2.10% Asset Backed Certificates. In addition, the trust will issue a specified undivided Collateral Interest in the trust assets in an initial amount equal to 8.75% of the Initial Invested Amount which will be subordinated to the Series 2017-1 certificates as described herein. The Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest will be issued pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement and the

Series 2017-1 supplement specifying the principal terms of the certificates, the forms of which have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus are a part.

The following summary describes certain terms applicable to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally” in this prospectus for additional information concerning the Series 2017-1 certificates, the Collateral Interest and the pooling and servicing agreement.

Interest on the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates will accrue from the closing date on the outstanding principal balances of the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates at the Class A certificate rate and Class B certificate rate, respectively. Interest will be distributed on each Distribution Date, beginning March 15, 2017 to the Series 2017-1 certificateholders in whose names the Series 2017-1 certificates were registered on the relevant Record Date. Interest for any Distribution Date will accrue from and including the preceding Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, from and including the closing date) to but excluding such Distribution Date. Interest on the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

On each Distribution Date, interest due to the Class A certificateholders will be equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

(ii) the outstanding principal balance of the Class A certificates as of the preceding Record Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, as of the closing date).

For the first Distribution Date, however, interest on the Class A certificates will equal $2,959,333.33.

Interest due on the Class A certificates but not paid on any Distribution Date will be payable on the next succeeding Distribution Date together with additional interest on such amount at the Class A certificate rate plus 2% per year. Such additional interest shall accrue on the same basis as interest on the Class A certificates, and shall accrue from the Distribution Date such overdue interest became due, to but excluding the Distribution Date on which such additional interest is paid.

The Class A certificates will bear interest from and including the closing date to but excluding March 15, 2017, and during each Interest Period thereafter, at the rate of 1.93% per year.

On each Distribution Date, Class A Outstanding Monthly Interest due but not paid to the Class A certificateholders and any Class A Additional Interest will be paid, to the extent funds are available, to the Class A certificateholders. Payments to the Class A certificateholders in respect of interest on the Class A certificates on any Distribution Date will be funded from Class A Available Funds for the related Monthly Period. To the extent Class A Available Funds allocated to the holders of the Class A certificates for such Monthly Period are insufficient to pay such interest, Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and Reallocated Principal Collections allocable first to the Collateral Invested Amount and then the Class B Invested Amount will be used to make such payments.

On each Distribution Date, interest due to the Class B certificateholders will be equal to one–twelfth of the product of:

(ii) the outstanding principal balance of the Class B certificates as of the preceding Record Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, as of the closing date).

For the first Distribution Date, however, interest on the Class B certificates will equal $138,000.80.

Interest due on the Class B certificates but not paid on any Distribution Date will be payable on the next succeeding Distribution Date together with additional interest on such amount at the Class B certificate rate plus 2% per year. Such additional interest shall accrue on the same basis as interest on the Class B certificates, and shall accrue from the Distribution Date such overdue interest became due, to but excluding the Distribution Date on which such additional interest is paid.

The Class B certificates will bear interest from and including the closing date to but excluding March 15, 2017, and during each Interest Period thereafter, at the rate of 2.10% per year.

On each Distribution Date, Class B Outstanding Monthly Interest due but not paid to the Class B certificateholders and any Class B Additional Interest will be paid, to the extent funds are available, to the Class B certificateholders. Payments to the Class B certificateholders in respect of interest on the Class B certificates on any Distribution Date will be funded from Class B Available Funds for the related Monthly Period. To the extent Class B Available Funds allocated to the holders of the Class B certificates for such Monthly Period are insufficient to pay such interest, Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and Reallocated Principal Collections allocable to the Collateral Invested Amount and not required to pay the Class A Required Amount or reimburse Class A Investor Charge-Offs will be used to make such payments.

Interest will accrue on the Collateral Senior Invested Amount at the Collateral Senior Minimum Interest Rate from the closing date. Interest will be distributed on each Distribution Date, beginning March 15, 2017, to the holder of the Collateral Interest in an amount equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

For the first Distribution Date, however, interest on the Collateral Senior Invested Amount will equal $205,905.43. The Collateral Interest will also provide for additional interest as provided herein and in the Series 2017-1 supplement.

On each Distribution Date, Collateral Senior Outstanding Minimum Monthly Interest due but not paid to the holder of the Collateral Interest and any Collateral Senior Additional Interest will be paid, to the extent funds are available, to the holder of the Collateral Interest. Payments to the holder of the Collateral Interest in respect of interest on the Collateral Senior Invested Amount on any Distribution Date will be funded from Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections, but only after such amounts are applied to make certain other payments. To the extent Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to the holder of the Collateral Interest for such Monthly Period are insufficient to pay such interest, Reallocated Principal Collections allocable to the portion of Collateral Invested Amount not represented by the Collateral Senior Invested Amount and not required to make certain other payments will be used to make such interest payments to the holder of the Collateral Interest.

The Revolving Period begins on the closing date and ends on the day before the commencement of the Controlled Accumulation Period or, if earlier, the Early Amortization Period. During the Revolving Period, no principal payments will be made to or for the benefit of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders or the holder of the Collateral Interest. Unless a Pay-Out Event has occurred, the Controlled Accumulation Period is scheduled to begin at the close of business on the last day of the January 2019 Monthly Period, but may be delayed as described herein, and ends on the earliest to occur of:

During the Controlled Accumulation Period (on or prior to the Expected Final Payment Date), principal will be deposited in the Principal Funding Account as described below and on the Expected Final Payment Date will be distributed to Class A certificateholders up to the Class A Invested Amount and then to Class B certificateholders up to the Class B Invested Amount.

On each Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period, the trustee will deposit in the Principal Funding Account an amount equal to the least of:

(a) Available Principal Collections on deposit in the Collection Account with respect to such Distribution Date,

until the amount on deposit in the Principal Funding Account equals the sum of the Class A Invested Amount and the Class B Invested Amount. Amounts on deposit in the Principal Funding Account will be paid to the Class A certificateholders and, if the amount on deposit in the Principal Funding Account exceeds the Class A Invested Amount, to the Class B certificateholders on the Expected Final Payment Date. No principal payments will be made in respect of the Collateral Invested Amount until the final principal payment has been made to the Class A certificateholders and the Class B certificateholders.

The Controlled Accumulation Period is scheduled to begin at the close of business on the last day of the January 2019 Monthly Period. However, the date on which the Controlled Accumulation Period actually begins may be delayed if — after making a calculation prescribed by the pooling and servicing agreement — the servicer determines, in effect, that enough Shared Principal Collections are expected to be available for your series from principal sharing series that will be in their revolving periods during the Controlled Accumulation Period to delay the start of the Controlled Accumulation Period, without affecting the payment in full of the certificates of your series by the Expected Final Payment Date. This calculation will take into account the then-current principal payment rate on the accounts and the principal amount of principal sharing series that are entitled to share principal with Series 2017-1.

If the beginning of your series’ Controlled Accumulation Period is delayed and then a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event occurs with respect to any outstanding principal sharing series, your series’ Controlled Accumulation Period will start on (i) the first day of the Monthly Period immediately succeeding the date on which the Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event occurred or, if sooner, (ii) the date on which the Controlled Accumulation Period is then scheduled to start.

If a Pay-Out Event with respect to Series 2017-1 occurs during the Controlled Accumulation Period, the Early Amortization Period will commence and any amount on deposit in the Principal Funding Account will be paid first to the Class A certificateholders on the first Special Payment Date and then, after the Class A Invested Amount is paid in full, to the Class B certificateholders.

If, on the Expected Final Payment Date, monies on deposit in the Principal Funding Account are insufficient to pay the Class A Invested Amount and the Class B Invested Amount or if there are insufficient collections of principal receivables to pay the Collateral Invested Amount, a Pay-Out Event will occur and the Early Amortization Period will commence.

On each Distribution Date with respect to the Early Amortization Period until the Class A Invested Amount has been paid in full or the Series 2017-1 Termination Date occurs, the holders of the Class A certificates will be entitled to receive Available Principal Collections in an amount up to the Class A Invested Amount. After payment in full of the Class A Invested Amount, the holders of the Class B certificates will be entitled to receive, on each Distribution Date, Available Principal Collections until the earlier of the date the Class B Invested Amount is paid in full and the Series 2017-1 Termination Date. After payment in full of the Class B Invested Amount, the holder of the Collateral

Interest will be entitled to receive, on each Distribution Date, Available Principal Collections until the earlier of the date the Collateral Invested Amount is paid in full and the Series 2017-1 Termination Date.

The presence of credit enhancement for a class is intended to enhance the likelihood of receipt by certificateholders of such class of the full amount of principal and interest and to decrease the likelihood that such certificateholders will experience losses. However, the credit enhancement, if any, for a series will not provide protection against all risks of loss and will not guarantee repayment of the entire principal balance of the certificates and interest thereon. If losses occur that exceed the amount covered by the credit enhancement or that are not covered by the credit enhancement, certificateholders will bear their allocable share of such losses. In addition, if specific credit enhancement is provided for the benefit of more than one class or series, certificateholders of any such class or series will be subject to the risk that such credit enhancement will be exhausted by the claims of certificateholders of other classes or series.

With respect to Series 2017-1, credit enhancement is provided in the form of subordination.

The Class B certificates and the Collateral Interest will be subordinated to the extent necessary to fund certain payments with respect to the Class A certificates. In addition, the Collateral Interest will be subordinated to the extent necessary to fund certain payments with respect to the Class B certificates. Certain principal payments otherwise allocable to the Class B certificateholders may be reallocated to the Class A certificateholders and the Class B Invested Amount may be reduced.

Similarly, certain principal payments otherwise allocable to the Collateral Interest may be reallocated to the Class A certificateholders, the Class B certificateholders and, to the extent the Collateral Invested Amount exceeds the Collateral Senior Invested Amount, the holder of the Collateral Interest, and all such principal reallocations will reduce the Collateral Invested Amount. If the Collateral Invested Amount is reduced to zero, holders of the Class B certificates will bear directly the credit and other risks associated with their interest in the trust. To the extent the Class B Invested Amount is reduced, the percentage of collections of finance charge receivables allocated to the Class B certificateholders in subsequent Monthly Periods will be reduced. Moreover, to the extent the amount of such reduction in the Class B Invested Amount is not reimbursed, the amount of principal distributable to the Class B certificateholders will be reduced. If the Class B Invested Amount is reduced to zero, the Class A certificateholders will bear directly the credit and other risks associated with their undivided interest in the trust. In the event of a reduction in the Class A Invested Amount, the Class B Invested Amount or the Collateral Invested Amount, the amount of principal and interest available to fund payments with respect to the Class A certificates and the Class B certificates will be decreased. See “— Allocation Percentages,” “— Reallocation of Cash Flows” and “— Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections” below.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer will allocate among Series 2017-1 and all other series outstanding all collections of finance charge receivables and principal receivables and the Defaulted Amount with respect to such Monthly Period as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Allocations” in this prospectus and, with respect to Series 2017-1 specifically, as described below.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, during each Monthly Period, the servicer will allocate to Series 2017-1 its Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections, Series Allocable Principal Collections and Series Allocable Defaulted Amount.

The Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections and the Series Allocable Defaulted Amount for Series 2017-1 with respect to any Monthly Period will be allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest based on the Floating Allocation Percentage and the remainder of such Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections and Series Allocable Defaulted Amount will be allocated to the interest of the holders of the Transferor Certificates.

Investor Finance Charge Collections (which for any Monthly Period is equal to the product of the Floating Allocation Percentage and the Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections) will be reallocated among all series, including Series 2017-1, in the first group of series known as Group I as set forth in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Reallocations Among Different Series Within a Reallocation Group” in this prospectus. Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and the Investor Default Amount will be further allocated among the Class A certificateholders, the Class B certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest in accordance with the Class A Floating Percentage, the Class B Floating Percentage and the Collateral Floating Percentage, respectively.

Series Allocable Principal Collections for Series 2017-1 will be allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest based on the Principal Allocation Percentage and the remainder of such Series Allocable Principal Collections will be allocated to the holders of the Transferor Certificates. Such principal collections so allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest will be further allocated to the Class A certificateholders, the Class B certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest based on the Class A Principal Percentage, the Class B Principal Percentage and the Collateral Principal Percentage, respectively.

The servicer will establish and maintain in the name of the trustee, on behalf of the trust, the Principal Funding Account as an Eligible Deposit Account held for the benefit of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders. During the Controlled Accumulation Period, the servicer will transfer collections in respect of principal receivables allocated to Series 2017-1, Shared Principal Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and other amounts described herein to be treated in the same manner as collections of principal receivables from the Collection Account to the Principal Funding Account as described below under “—Application of Collections.”

Unless a Pay-Out Event has occurred and the Early Amortization Period has begun with respect to Series 2017-1, all amounts on deposit in the Principal Funding Account on any Distribution Date (after giving effect to any deposits to, or withdrawals from, the Principal Funding Account to be made on such Distribution Date) will be invested through the following Distribution Date by the trustee at the direction of the servicer in Eligible Investments or, if no such direction is provided, will remain uninvested. On each Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period, the interest and other investment income (net of investment expenses and losses) earned on such investments will be withdrawn from the Principal Funding Account and will be treated as a portion of Class A Available Funds. If such investments with respect to any such Distribution Date yield less than the Covered Amount, such shortfall will be funded from Class A Available Funds (including a withdrawal from the Reserve Account, if necessary, as described below under “—Reserve Account”) and from Class B Available Funds. The Available Reserve Account Amount at any time will be limited and there can be no assurance that sufficient funds will be available to fund any such shortfall.

The servicer will establish and maintain in the name of the trustee, on behalf of the trust, an Eligible Deposit Account for the benefit of the Class A certificateholders, the Class B certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest. The Reserve Account is established to assist with the subsequent distribution of interest on the Class A certificates as provided in this prospectus during the Controlled Accumulation Period. On each Distribution Date from and after the funding of the Reserve Account begins, but prior to the termination of the Reserve Account, the trustee, acting pursuant to the servicer’s instructions, will apply Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 (in the order of priority described below under “—Application of Collections — Payment of Interest, Fees and Other Items”) to increase the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account (to the extent such amount is less than the Required Reserve Account Amount).

On each Distribution Date, after giving effect to any deposit to be made to, and any withdrawal to be made from, the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date, the trustee will withdraw from the Reserve Account an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account over the Required Reserve Account Amount and shall distribute such excess to the holder of the Collateral Interest.

If the Reserve Account has not terminated as described below, all amounts remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account on any Distribution Date (after giving effect to any deposits to, or withdrawals from, the Reserve Account to be made on such Distribution Date) will be invested to mature on or before the following Distribution Date by the trustee at the direction of the servicer in Eligible Investments or, if no such direction is provided, will remain uninvested. The interest and other investment income (net of investment expenses and losses) earned on such investments will be retained in the Reserve Account (to the extent the amount on deposit therein is less than the Required Reserve Account Amount) or deposited in the Collection Account and treated as collections of finance charge receivables allocable to Series 2017-1.

On or before each Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period (on or prior to the Expected Final Payment date) and on the first Special Payment Date (if such Special Payment Date occurs on or prior to the Expected Final Payment Date), a withdrawal will be made from the Reserve Account, and the amount of such withdrawal will be deposited in the Collection Account and included in Class A Available Funds in an amount equal to the lesser of:

(a) the Available Reserve Account Amount for such Distribution Date or Special Payment Date, and

(b) the amount, if any, by which the Covered Amount for such Distribution Date or Special Payment Date exceeds the investment earnings (net of losses and investment expenses), if any, in the Principal Funding Account for the related Distribution Date;

provided that the amount of such withdrawal will be reduced to the extent that funds otherwise would be available to be deposited in the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date or Special Payment Date. On each Distribution Date, the amount available to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account will equal the Available Reserve Account Amount.

(a) the termination of the trust pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement,

(c) if the Controlled Accumulation Period has not commenced, the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event with respect to Series 2017-1 or, if the Controlled Accumulation Period has commenced, the earlier of the first Special Payment Date and the Expected Final Payment Date.

Upon the termination of the Reserve Account, all amounts on deposit therein (after giving effect to any withdrawal from the Reserve Account on such date as described above) will be distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest. Any amounts withdrawn from the Reserve Account and distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest as described above will not be available for distribution to the Class A certificateholders and the Class B certificateholders.

On each Determination Date, the servicer will calculate the Class A Required Amount. If the Class A Required Amount is greater than zero, the following reallocations will occur:

In the event that such reduction would cause the Collateral Invested Amount to be a negative number, the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced to zero, and the Class B Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount by which the Collateral Invested Amount would have been reduced below zero (but not by more than the excess of the Class A Investor Default Amount, if any, for such Distribution Date over the amount of such reduction, if any, of the Collateral Invested Amount for such Distribution Date).

In the event that such reduction would cause the Class B Invested Amount to be a negative number, the Class B Invested Amount will be reduced to zero and the Class A Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount by which the Class B Invested Amount would have been reduced below zero (but not by more than the excess, if any, of the Class A Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount of the reductions, if any, of the Collateral Invested Amount and the Class B Invested Amount with respect to such Distribution Date as described above). Any such reduction in the Class A Invested Amount may have the effect of slowing or reducing the return of principal and interest to the Class A certificateholders. In such case, the Class A certificateholders will bear directly the credit and other risks associated with their undivided interest in the trust. See “— Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs” below.

Reductions of the Class A Invested Amount and Class B Invested Amount will thereafter be reimbursed and the Class A Invested Amount and Class B Invested Amount increased on each Distribution Date by the amount, if any, of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocable to Series 2017-1 and available to reimburse such reductions. See “Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections” below. When such reductions of the Class A Invested Amount and Class B Invested Amount have been fully reimbursed, reductions of the Collateral Invested Amount will be reimbursed and the Collateral Invested Amount increased in a similar manner.

On each Determination Date, the servicer will calculate the Class B Required Amount. If the Class B Required Amount is greater than zero, the following reallocations will occur:

In the event that such reduction would cause the Collateral Invested Amount to be a negative number, the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced to zero, and the Class B Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount by which the Collateral Invested Amount would have been reduced below zero (but not by more than the excess of the Class B Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount of such reduction of the Collateral Invested Amount). Any such reduction in the Class B Invested Amount may have the effect of slowing or reducing the return of principal and interest to the Class B certificateholders. In that case, the Class B

certificateholders will bear directly the credit and other risks associated with their undivided interests in the trust. See “— Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs” below.

On each Determination Date, the servicer will calculate the Collateral Senior Required Amount. If the Collateral Senior Required Amount is greater than zero, Reallocated Principal Collections allocable to the Collateral Interest and not required to pay the Class A Required Amount or the Class B Required Amount will be used to fund the Collateral Senior Required Amount. Reallocated Principal Collections will only be applied to fund the Collateral Senior Required Amount to the extent the Collateral Invested Amount will be no lower than the Collateral Senior Invested Amount following the reduction in the Collateral Invested Amount.

On each Distribution Date, the trustee, acting pursuant to the servicer’s instructions, will apply the Class A Available Funds, Class B Available Funds and Collateral Available Funds on deposit in the Collection Account in the following priority:

(A) an amount equal to the Class A Available Funds will be distributed in the following priority:

(i) an amount equal to Class A Monthly Interest for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Class A Outstanding Monthly Interest, plus the amount of any Class A Additional Interest for such Distribution Date and any Class A Additional Interest previously due but not distributed to the Class A certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date, will be distributed to the Class A certificateholders;

(ii) if TRS or an affiliate of TRS is no longer the servicer, an amount equal to the Class A Servicing Fee for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Class A Servicing Fee previously due but not distributed to the servicer on a prior Distribution Date, will be distributed to the servicer;

(iii) an amount equal to the Class A Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date will be treated as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date; and

(iv) the balance, if any, shall constitute Excess Spread and shall be allocated and distributed as described under “—Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections” below.

(B) an amount equal to the Class B Available Funds will be distributed in the following priority:

(i) an amount equal to Class B Monthly Interest for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Class B Outstanding Monthly Interest, plus the amount of any Class B Additional Interest for such Distribution Date and any Class B Additional Interest previously due but not distributed to the Class B certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date, will be distributed to the Class B certificateholders;

(ii) if TRS or an affiliate of TRS is no longer the servicer, an amount equal to the Class B Servicing Fee for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Class B Servicing Fee previously due but not distributed to the servicer on a prior Distribution Date, will be distributed to the servicer; and

(iii) the balance, if any, shall constitute Excess Spread and shall be allocated and distributed as described under “—Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections” below.

(i) if TRS or an affiliate of TRS is no longer the servicer, an amount equal to the Collateral Interest Servicing Fee for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Collateral Interest Servicing Fee previously due but not distributed to the servicer on a prior Distribution Date, will be paid to the servicer; and

(ii) the balance, if any, will constitute a portion of Excess Spread and will be allocated and distributed as described under “—Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections” below.

On each Distribution Date, the trustee, acting pursuant to the servicer’s instructions, will apply Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 for the related Monthly Period to make the following distributions in the following priority:

(a) an amount equal to the Class A Required Amount, if any, for such Distribution Date will be used to fund the Class A Required Amount, and if the Class A Required Amount for such Distribution Date exceeds the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1, such Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections will be applied:

(b) an amount equal to the aggregate amount of Class A Investor Charge-Offs that have not been previously reimbursed will be treated as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date as described under “—Payments of Principal” in this prospectus;

(c) an amount equal to the interest accrued with respect to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class B certificates not otherwise distributed to the Class B certificateholders on such Distribution Date will accrue at the Class B certificate rate and be paid to Class B certificateholders, except that any such interest previously due but not paid will accrue at the Class B certificate rate plus 2% per year;

(d) an amount equal to the Class B Required Amount, if any, for such Distribution Date will be (I) used to fund the Class B Required Amount and applied first, to pay shortfalls in the payment of amounts described in clause (B)(i) under “—Payment of Interest, Fees and Other Items” in this prospectus, and second, to pay shortfalls in the payment of amounts described in clause (B)(ii) under “—Payment of Interest, Fees and Other Items” in this prospectus and then (II) treated up to the Class B Investor Default Amount, as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date;

(e) an amount equal to the aggregate amount by which the Class B Invested Amount has been reduced pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of Class B Invested Amount (but not in excess of the aggregate amount of such reductions that have not been previously reimbursed) will be treated as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date;

(f) an amount equal to Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest for such Distribution Date, plus the amount of any Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest previously due but not distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest on a prior Distribution Date and any Collateral Senior Additional Interest will be distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest;

(g) an amount equal to the Monthly Servicing Fee due but not paid to the servicer on such Distribution Date or a prior Distribution Date shall be paid to the servicer;

(h) an amount equal to the Collateral Default Amount shall be treated as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date;

(i) an amount equal to the aggregate amount by which the Collateral Invested Amount has been reduced pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of Collateral Invested Amount (but not in excess of the aggregate amount of such reductions that have not been previously reimbursed) shall be treated as a portion of Available Principal Collections for such Distribution Date;

(j) on each Distribution Date from and after the date on which the Reserve Account is funded, but prior to the date on which the Reserve Account terminates as described under “— Reserve Account” above, an amount up to the excess, if any, of the Required Reserve Account Amount over the Available Reserve Account Amount shall be deposited into the Reserve Account; and

(k) the balance, if any, will be distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest.

On each Distribution Date, the trustee, acting pursuant to the servicer’s instructions, will distribute Available Principal Collections (see “— Principal Payments” above) on deposit in the Collection Account in the following priority:

(i) on each Distribution Date with respect to the Revolving Period, all such Available Principal Collections will be treated as Shared Principal Collections and applied as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus;

(ii) on each Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period, all such Available Principal Collections will be distributed or deposited in the following priority:

(A) an amount equal to the lesser of (x) the Controlled Deposit Amount and (y) the sum of the Class A Adjusted Invested Amount and the Class B Adjusted Invested Amount will be deposited in the Principal Funding Account;

(B) for each Distribution Date beginning on the Distribution Date on which the Class B Invested Amount is paid in full, an amount up to the Collateral Invested Amount will be paid to the holder of the Collateral Interest; and

(C) for each Distribution Date, the balance, if any, of Available Principal Collections not applied pursuant to paragraphs (A) and (B) (as applicable) above will be treated as Shared Principal Collections and applied as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus; and

(iii) on each Distribution Date with respect to the Early Amortization Period, all such Available Principal Collections will be distributed as follows:

(A) an amount up to the Class A Adjusted Invested Amount will be distributed to the Class A certificateholders;

(B) for each Distribution Date beginning on the Distribution Date on which the Class A Invested Amount is paid in full, an amount up to the Class B Adjusted Invested Amount will be distributed to the Class B certificateholders;

(C) for each Distribution Date beginning on the Distribution Date on which the Class B Invested Amount is paid in full, an amount up to the Collateral Invested Amount will be distributed to the holder of the Collateral Interest; and

(D) for each Distribution Date, the balance, if any, of Available Principal Collections not applied pursuant to paragraphs (A), (B) and (C) (as applicable) above will be treated as Shared Principal Collections and applied as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus.

On each Determination Date, the servicer will calculate the Investor Default Amount for the related Distribution Date. An amount equal to the Class A Investor Default Amount for each Distribution Date will be paid from Class A Available Funds, Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and from Reallocated Principal Collections, if applicable, and applied as described above in “—Application of Collections — Payment of Interest, Fees and Other Items.” An amount equal to the Class B Investor Default Amount for each Distribution Date will be paid from Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and from Reallocated Principal Collections allocable to the Collateral Invested Amount, if applicable, and applied as described above in “—Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections.”

On each Distribution Date, if the Class A Required Amount for such Distribution Date exceeds the sum of (i) Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocable to Series 2017-1 and (ii) Reallocated Principal Collections, the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount of such excess, but not by more than the Class A Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date.

In the event that such reduction would cause the Collateral Invested Amount to be a negative number, the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced to zero, and the Class B Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount by which the Collateral Invested Amount would have been reduced below zero, but not by more than the excess, if any, of the Class A Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount of such reduction, if any, of the Collateral Invested Amount for such Distribution Date.

In the event that such reduction would cause the Class B Invested Amount to be a negative number, the Class B Invested Amount will be reduced to zero, and the Class A Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount by which the Class B Invested Amount would have been reduced below zero, but not by more than the excess, if any, of the Class A Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount of the reductions, if any, of the Collateral Invested Amount and of the Class B Invested Amount with respect to such Distribution Date as described above. A reduction in the Class A Invested Amount as described in the preceding sentence is a “Class A Investor Charge-Off.” Such Class A Investor Charge-Offs will reduce the amounts allocable and available for payment and may have the effect of slowing or reducing the return of principal to your series. If the Class A Invested Amount has been reduced by the amount of any Class A Investor Charge-Offs, it will thereafter be increased on any Distribution Date (but not by an amount in excess of the aggregate Class A Investor Charge-Offs) by the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocable to Series 2017-1 available for such purpose as described above under “— Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections.”

On each Distribution Date, if the Class B Required Amount for such Distribution Date exceeds the sum of (i) Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocable to Series 2017-1 and not required to pay the Class A Required Amount or reimburse Class A Investor Charge-Offs, and (ii) Reallocated Principal Collections allocable to the Collateral Interest and not required to pay the Class A Required Amount, then the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount of such excess, but not by more than the Class B Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date.

excess, if any, of the Class B Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount of such reduction, if any, of the Collateral Invested Amount for such Distribution Date. A reduction in the Class B Invested Amount as described in the preceding sentence is a “Class B Investor Charge-Off.”

The Class B Invested Amount will also be reduced by the amount of Reallocated Principal Collections in excess of the Collateral Invested Amount and the amount of any portion of the Class B Invested Amount allocated to the Class A certificates to avoid a reduction in the Class A Invested Amount. Any reductions in the Class B Invested Amount will reduce the amounts allocable and available for payment and may have the effect of slowing or reducing the return of principal to your series. The Class B Invested Amount will thereafter be increased on any Distribution Date (but not by an amount in excess of the amount of such reductions in the Class B Invested Amount) by the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocable to Series 2017-1 available for such purpose as described above under “—Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections.”

On each Distribution Date, if the Collateral Default Amount for such Distribution Date exceeds the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 which is allocated and available to fund such amount as described above under “—Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections,” the Collateral Invested Amount will be reduced by the amount of such excess but not by more than the lesser of the Collateral Default Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount for such Distribution Date. A reduction in the Collateral Invested Amount as described in the preceding sentence is a “Collateral Charge-Off.”

The Collateral Interest will also be reduced by the amount of Reallocated Principal Collections and the amount of any portion of the Collateral Invested Amount allocated to the Class A certificates to avoid a reduction in the Class A Invested Amount or to the Class B certificates to avoid a reduction in the Class B Invested Amount. Any reductions in the Collateral Invested Amount will reduce the amounts allocable and available for payment and may have the effect of slowing or reducing the amount of payments to your series. The Collateral Invested Amount will thereafter be increased on any Distribution Date (but not by an amount in excess of the amount of such reductions in the Collateral Invested Amount) by the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 allocated and available for that purpose as described above under “—Application of Collections — Excess Spread; Excess Finance Charge Collections.”

Series 2017-1 may be paired with one or more other series (each called a “paired series”) at or after the commencement of the Controlled Accumulation Period if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied. As funds are accumulated in the Principal Funding Account, the invested amount in the trust of such paired series will increase by up to a corresponding amount. Upon payment in full of the Series 2017-1 certificates, assuming that there have been no unreimbursed charge-offs with respect to any related paired series, the aggregate invested amount of such related paired series will have been increased by an amount up to an aggregate amount equal to the Invested Amount paid to or deposited for the benefit of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders after the Series 2017-1 certificates were paired with the paired series. The issuance of a paired series will be subject to the conditions described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — New Issuances” in this prospectus. There can be no assurance, however, that the terms of any paired series might not have an impact on the timing or amount of payments received by the Series 2017-1 certificateholders. See “Risk Factors — Issuances of additional series by the trust may adversely affect your certificates” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Paired Series” in this prospectus.

The pooling and servicing agreement allows the transferors to “reopen” or later increase the amount of an outstanding series, including Series 2017-1, without notice by issuing and selling additional certificates subject to the same terms as the original certificates of the related outstanding series. Any additional Series 2017-1 certificates will be treated, for all purpose, like the Series 2017-1 certificates that we are offering in this prospectus, except that any new Series 2017-1 certificates may begin to bear interest on a later date. Additional Series 2017-1 certificates may be issued only if the conditions to issuance described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — New Issuances” in this prospectus are satisfied.

The Pay-Out Events with respect to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest will include each of the following:

(a) the occurrence of an insolvency event (as such term is defined in this prospectus) with respect to any transferor or other holder of the original transferor certificate;

(b) the trust becomes an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

(i) to make any payment or deposit required under the pooling and servicing agreement or the Series 2017-1 supplement within five Business Days after the day such payment or deposit is required to be made; or

(ii) to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement of such transferor set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement or the Series 2017-1 supplement, which failure has a material adverse effect on the Series 2017-1 certificateholders or the holder of the Collateral Interest and which continues unremedied for a period of 60 days after written notice;

(d) any representation or warranty made by any transferor in the pooling and servicing agreement or the Series 2017-1 supplement or any information required to be given by any transferor to the trustee to identify the accounts proves to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or delivered and continues to be incorrect in any material respect for a period of 60 days after written notice and as a result of which the interests of the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest are materially and adversely affected; provided, however, that a Pay-Out Event shall not be deemed to occur thereunder if a transferor has repurchased the related receivables or all such receivables, if applicable, during such period (or such longer period as the trustee may specify not to exceed an additional 60 days) in accordance with the provisions of the pooling and servicing agreement;

(e) a failure by a transferor to convey receivables in additional accounts to the trust within five Business Days after the day on which it is required to convey such receivables pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement or the Series 2017-1 supplement;

(g) a reduction of the average Series Adjusted Portfolio Yield for any three consecutive Monthly Periods to a rate less than the average of the Base Rates for such three Monthly Periods;

(h) the failure to pay in full the Class A Invested Amount, the Class B Invested Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount on the Expected Final Payment Date;

(i) any transferor is unable for any reason to transfer receivables to the trust in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement or the Series 2017-1 supplement;

(j) the occurrence of an insolvency event as defined in the related purchase agreement relating to any account owner; and

(k) any account owner is unable for any reason to transfer receivables to the related transferor in accordance with the related purchase agreement.

In the case of any event described above in subparagraph (c), (d) or (f), after the applicable grace period, if any, set forth in such subparagraphs, either the trustee or the holders of Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral

Interest evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest by notice then given in writing to the transferors and the servicer (and to the trustee if given by the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest) may declare that a Pay-Out Event has occurred with respect to Series 2017-1 as of the date of such notice, and, in the case of any event described in subparagraph (b), (e), (g) or (h), a Pay-Out Event shall occur with respect to Series 2017-1 without any notice or other action on the part of the trustee immediately upon the occurrence of such event.

In the case of any event described in subparagraph (a), (i), (j) or (k), a Pay-Out Event shall occur with respect to Series 2017-1 without any notice or other action on the part of the trustee, the Series 2017-1 certificateholders or the holder of the Collateral Interest immediately upon the occurrence of such event (or, in the case of clause (y) below, immediately following the expiration of the 60-day grace period), but only to the extent that:

(x) as of the date of such event, the average of the Monthly Receivables Percentage for the immediately preceding three Monthly Periods is equal to or greater than 10%, or

(y) as of the date of such event, the average of the Monthly Receivables Percentage for the immediately preceding three Monthly Periods is less than 10%, and within 60 days following the occurrence of the related insolvency event or inability to transfer receivables, the aggregate amount of principal receivables outstanding in the trust does not at least equal the Required Minimum Principal Balance (without giving effect to principal receivables attributable to the transferor or the account owner with respect to which the insolvency event or the inability to transfer receivables has occurred).

The share of the Servicing Fee allocable to Series 2017-1 for any Distribution Date, called the Monthly Servicing Fee, will be equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

The share of the Monthly Servicing Fee allocable to the Class A certificateholders for any Distribution Date, called the Class A Servicing Fee, shall be equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

The share of the Monthly Servicing Fee allocable to the Class B certificateholders for any Distribution Date, called the Class B Servicing Fee, shall be equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

The share of the Monthly Servicing Fee allocable to the holder of the Collateral Interest for any Distribution Date, called the Collateral Interest Servicing Fee, shall be equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

The remainder of the Servicing Fee shall be paid by the holders of the Transferor Certificates or the certificateholders of other series (as provided in the related supplements). In no event will the trust, the trustee, the Series 2017-1 certificateholders or the holder of the Collateral Interest be liable for the share of the Servicing Fee to be paid by the holders of the Transferor Certificates or the certificateholders of any other series.

The servicer will pay from its servicing compensation certain expenses incurred in connection with servicing the receivables including, without limitation, payment of the fees and disbursements of the trustee, paying agent, transfer agent and registrar and independent accountants

So long as a transferor is the servicer or an affiliate of the servicer, on any Distribution Date occurring on or after the date that the sum of the Class A Invested Amount, the Class B Invested Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount is reduced to an amount equal to 5% of the initial outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Class A certificates, the Class B certificates and the Collateral Interest or less, that transferor will have the option to repurchase the Class A certificateholders’ interest, the Class B certificateholders’ interest and the Collateral Interest. The purchase price will be equal to the sum of the Adjusted Invested Amount and accrued and unpaid interest on the Class A certificates, the Class B certificates and the Collateral Interest (and accrued and unpaid interest with respect to interest amounts that were due but not paid on such Distribution Date or any prior Distribution Date) through (a) if the day on which such repurchase occurs is a Distribution Date, the day preceding such Distribution Date or (b) if the day on which such repurchase occurs is not a Distribution Date, the day preceding the Distribution Date next following such day. Such proceeds will be allocated first to pay amounts due to the Class A certificateholders, then, to pay amounts due to the Class B certificateholders and finally, to pay amounts due to the holder of the Collateral Interest. Following any such repurchase, the Receivables will be assigned to the transferors and the Class A certificateholders, the Class B certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest will have no further rights with respect thereto. In the event that the transferors fail for any reason to deposit the aggregate purchase price for such receivables, the trust will continue to hold the receivables and payments will continue to be made to the Class A certificateholders, Class B certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest as described herein.

If on the Distribution Date which is two months prior to the Series 2017-1 Termination Date, the Invested Amount (after giving effect to all changes therein on such date) exceeds zero, the servicer will, within the 40-day period beginning on such date, solicit bids for the sale of interests in the principal receivables or certain principal receivables, together in each case with the related finance charge receivables, in an amount equal to the Invested Amount at the close of business on the last day of the Monthly Period preceding the Series 2017-1 Termination Date (after giving effect to all distributions required to be made on the Series 2017-1 Termination Date other than from the proceeds of the sale). No transferor, any affiliate thereof, any agent thereof or any other party consolidated with such transferor for purposes of United States generally accepted accounting principles will be entitled to participate in such bidding process or to purchase the receivables; provided, however, that, to the extent the holder of the Collateral Interest is not a transferor, an affiliate thereof, an agent thereof or any other party consolidated with a transferor for purposes of United States generally accepted accounting principles, the holder of the Collateral Interest may participate in such bidding process. Upon the expiration of such 40-day period, the trustee will determine (a) which bid is the highest cash purchase offer and (b) the amount which otherwise would be available in the Collection Account on the Series 2017-1 Termination Date for distribution to the Series 2017-1 certificate-holders and the holder of the Collateral Interest. The servicer will sell such receivables on the Series 2017-1 Termination Date to the bidder who provided the highest cash purchase offer and will deposit the proceeds of such sale in the Collection Account for allocation (together with the amount which otherwise would be available in the Collection Account on the Series 2017-1 Termination Date for distribution to the Series 2017-1 certificateholders and the holder of the Collateral Interest) to Series 2017-1.

No later than the second Business Day prior to each Distribution Date, the servicer will forward to the trustee, the paying agent, the transferors, each Rating Agency and the holder of the Collateral Interest, a monthly report prepared by the servicer setting forth certain information with respect to the trust, the Class A certificates, the Class B certificates and the Collateral Interest, including:

(a) the aggregate amount of principal receivables and finance charge receivables in the trust as of the end of such Monthly Period;

(b) the Class A Invested Amount, the Class B Invested Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount at the close of business on the last day of the preceding Monthly Period;

(c) the Series Allocation Percentage, the Floating Allocation Percentage, the Class A Floating Percentage, the Class B Floating Percentage and the Collateral Floating Percentage and the Principal Allocation Percentage, the Class A Principal Percentage, the Class B Principal Percentage and the Collateral Principal Percentage;

(d) the amount of collections of principal receivables and finance charge receivables processed during the related Monthly Period and the portion thereof allocated to the interest of the holders of the Series 2017-1 certificates and the holder of the Collateral Interest;

(e) the aggregate outstanding balance of accounts that were 31, 61, 91 and 121 days or more delinquent as of the end of such Monthly Period;

(f) the Class A Investor Default Amount, the Class B Investor Default Amount and the Collateral Default Amount and the Defaulted Amount with respect to the related Distribution Date;

(g) the aggregate amount, if any, of Class A Investor Charge-Offs, Class B Investor Charge-Offs, any reductions in the Class B Invested Amount pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of Class B Invested Amount, and the amounts by which the Collateral Invested Amount has been reduced pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) of the definition of Collateral Invested Amount and any Class A Investor Charge-Offs, Class B Investor Charge-Offs or Collateral Charge-Offs reimbursed on the related Monthly Period, for such Monthly Period;

(h) the Monthly Servicing Fee, Class A Servicing Fee, Class B Servicing Fee and Collateral Interest Servicing Fee for such Monthly Period;

The certificates will evidence undivided beneficial interests in the trust assets allocated to such certificates, representing the right to receive from such trust assets funds up to (but not in excess of) the amounts required to make payments of interest and principal in the manner described below. The certificates will be available for purchase in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in book-entry form.

Payments of interest and principal will be made on each related interest payment date to the certificateholders in whose names the certificates were registered on the last day of the calendar month preceding such interest payment date, known as the record date.

The certificates offered by this prospectus will be delivered in book-entry form. This means that, except in the limited circumstances described in “— Definitive Certificates” below, purchasers of certificates will not be entitled to have the certificates registered in their names. Furthermore, these purchasers will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of the certificates in definitive paper form. Instead, upon issuance, all the certificates of a class will be represented by one or more fully registered permanent global certificates, without interest coupons.

Each global certificate will be deposited with a securities depository named The Depository Trust Company and will be registered in the name of its nominee, Cede & Co. No global certificate representing book-entry certificates may be transferred except as a whole by DTC to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to another nominee of DTC. Thus, DTC or its nominee will be the only registered holder of the certificates and will be considered the sole representative of the beneficial owners of certificates for purposes of the pooling and servicing agreement.

The registration of the global certificates in the name of Cede & Co. will not affect beneficial ownership and is performed merely to facilitate subsequent transfers. The book-entry system, which is also the system through which most publicly traded common stock is held, is used because it eliminates the need for physical movement of securities. The laws of some jurisdictions, however, may require some purchasers to take physical delivery of their certificates in definitive form. These laws may impair the ability to own or transfer book entry certificates.

Purchasers of certificates in the United States may hold interests in the global certificates through DTC, either directly, if they are participants in that system — such as a bank, brokerage house or other institution that maintains securities accounts for its customers with DTC or its nominee — or otherwise indirectly through a participant in DTC. Purchasers of certificates in Europe may hold interests in the global certificates through Clearstream Banking or through Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear system.

Because DTC will be the only registered owner of the global certificates, Clearstream Banking and Euroclear will hold positions through their respective U.S. depositories, which in turn will hold positions on the books of DTC.

As long as the certificates are in book-entry form, they will be evidenced solely by entries on the books of DTC, its participants and any indirect participants. DTC will maintain records showing:

The participants and indirect participants, in turn, will maintain records showing:

Thus, each beneficial owner of a book-entry certificate will hold its certificate indirectly through a hierarchy of intermediaries, with DTC at the “top” and the beneficial owner’s own securities intermediary at the “bottom.”

The trust, the trustee and their agents will not be liable for the accuracy of, and are not responsible for maintaining supervising or reviewing DTC’s records or any participant’s records relating to book-entry certificates. The trust, the trustee and their agents also will not be responsible or liable for payments made on account of the book-entry certificates.

Until definitive certificates are issued to the beneficial owners as described under “—Definitive Certificates” in this prospectus, all references to “holders” of certificates means DTC. The trust, the trustee and any paying agent or transfer agent and registrar may treat DTC as the absolute owner of the certificates for all purposes.

Beneficial owners of book-entry certificates should realize that the trust will make all distributions of principal and interest on the certificates to DTC and will send all required reports and notices solely to DTC as long as DTC is the registered holder of the certificates. DTC and the participants are generally required by law to receive and transmit all distributions, notices and directions from the trustee to the beneficial owners through the chain of intermediaries.

Similarly, the trustee will accept notices and directions solely from DTC. Therefore, in order to exercise any rights of a holder of certificates under the pooling and servicing agreement, each person owning a beneficial interest in the certificates must rely on the procedures of DTC and, in some cases, Clearstream Banking or Euroclear. If the beneficial owner is not a participant in that system, then it must rely on the procedures of the participant through which that person owns its interest. DTC has advised the trust that it will take actions under the pooling and servicing agreement only at the direction of its participants, which in turn will act only at the direction of the beneficial owners. Some of these actions, however, may conflict with actions it takes at the direction of other participants and beneficial owners.

Notices and other communications by DTC to participants, by participants to indirect participants, and by participants and indirect participants to beneficial owners will be governed by arrangements among them.

Beneficial owners of book-entry certificates should also realize that book-entry certificates may be more difficult to pledge because of the lack of a physical certificate. Beneficial owners may also experience delays in receiving distributions on their certificates since distributions will initially be made to DTC and must be transferred through the chain of intermediaries to the beneficial owner’s account.

DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law and is a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law. DTC is also a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a “clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. DTC was created to hold securities deposited by its participants and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among its participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the participants, thus eliminating the need for physical movement of securities. DTC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). DTCC is the holding company for DTC, National Securities Clearing Corporation and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, all of which are registered clearing agencies. DTCC is owned by the users of its regulated subsidiaries. The rules applicable to DTC and its participants are on file with the SEC.

Clearstream Banking is registered as a bank in Luxembourg and is regulated by the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Central Bank, which supervises Luxembourg banks. Clearstream Banking holds securities for its customers and facilitates the clearance and settlement of securities transactions by electronic book-entry transfers between their accounts. Clearstream Banking provides various services, including safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing. Clearstream Banking also deals with over 50 securities markets worldwide through established depository and custodial relationships. Clearstream Banking has established an electronic bridge with Euroclear in Brussels to facilitate settlement of trades between Clearstream Banking and Euroclear. Clearstream Banking. Over 300,000 domestic and internationally traded bonds, equities, and investment funds are currently deposited with Clearstream Banking.

Clearstream Banking’s customers are worldwide financial institutions including underwriters, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations. Clearstream Banking’s U.S. customers are limited to

securities brokers and dealers and banks. Currently, Clearstream Banking has approximately 2,500 customers located in over 110 countries, including all major European countries, Canada, and the United States. Indirect access to Clearstream Banking is available to other institutions that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with an account holder of Clearstream Banking.

Euroclear was created in 1968 to hold securities for participants of Euroclear and to clear and settle transactions between Euroclear participants through simultaneous electronic bookentry delivery against payment. This system eliminates the need for physical movement of securities and any risk from lack of simultaneous transfers of securities and cash. Euroclear includes various other services, including securities lending and borrowing and interfaces with domestic markets in several countries. The Euroclear system is operated by Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V. The Euroclear operator conducts all operations. All Euroclear securities clearance accounts and Euroclear cash accounts are accounts with the Euroclear operator. The Euroclear operator establishes policy for Euroclear on behalf of Euroclear participants. Euroclear participants include banks, including central banks, securities brokers and dealers and other professional financial intermediaries and may include the underwriters. Indirect access to Euroclear is also available to other firms that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Euroclear participant, either directly or indirectly.

Securities clearance accounts and cash accounts with the Euroclear operator are governed by the Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear and the related Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System and applicable Belgian law. These Terms and Conditions govern transfers of securities and cash within Euroclear, withdrawals of securities and cash from Euroclear, and receipts of payments with respect to securities in Euroclear. All securities in Euroclear are held on a fungible basis without attribution of specific securities to specific securities clearance accounts. The Euroclear operator acts under the Terms and Conditions only on behalf of Euroclear participants, and has no record of or relationship with persons holding through Euroclear participants.

This information about DTC, Clearstream Banking and Euroclear has been compiled from public sources for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a representation, warranty or contract modification of any kind.

The trust will make distributions of principal of and interest on book-entry certificates to DTC. These payments will be made in immediately available funds by the trust’s paying agent, The Bank of New York Mellon, at the office of the paying agent in New York City that the trust designates for that purpose.

In the case of principal payments, the global certificates must be presented to the paying agent in time for the paying agent to make those payments in immediately available funds in accordance with its normal payment procedures.

Upon receipt of any payment of principal of or interest on a global certificate, DTC will immediately credit the accounts of its participants on its book-entry registration and transfer system. DTC will credit those accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to the participants’ respective beneficial interests in the stated principal amount of the global certificate as shown on the records of DTC. Payments by participants to beneficial owners of book-entry certificates will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in “street name,” and will be the responsibility of those participants.

Distributions on book-entry certificates held beneficially through Clearstream Banking will be credited to cash accounts of Clearstream Banking customers in accordance with its rules and procedures, to the extent received by its U.S. depository.

Distribution on book-entry certificates held beneficially through Euroclear will be credited to the cash accounts of Euroclear participants in accordance with the Terms and Conditions, to the extent received by its U.S. depository.

In the event definitive certificates are issued, distributions of principal of and interest on definitive certificates will be made directly to the holders of the definitive certificates in whose names the definitive certificates were registered at the close of business on the related Record Date.

Initial settlement for the certificates will be made in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading between DTC participants will occur in the ordinary way in accordance with DTC’s rules and will be settled in immediately available funds using DTC’s Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Secondary market trading between Clearstream Banking customers and/or Euroclear participants will occur in the ordinary way in accordance with the applicable rules and operating procedures of Clearstream Banking and Euroclear. Such secondary market trading will be settled using the procedures applicable to conventional eurobonds in immediately available funds.

Cross-market transfers between persons holding directly or indirectly through DTC, on the one hand, and directly or indirectly through Clearstream Banking customers or Euroclear participants, on the other, will be effected in DTC in accordance with DTC’s rules on behalf of the relevant European international clearing system by the U.S. depositories. However, cross-market transactions of this type will require delivery of instructions to the relevant European international clearing system by the counterparty in that system in accordance with its rules and procedures and within its established deadlines, European time. The relevant European international clearing system will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements, deliver instructions to its U.S. depository to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving certificates in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures for same-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Clearstream Banking customers and Euroclear participants may not deliver instructions directly to DTC.

Because of time-zone differences, credits to certificates in Clearstream Banking or Euroclear as a result of a transaction with a DTC participant will be made during subsequent securities settlement processing and will be credited the business day following a DTC settlement date. The credits to or any transactions in the certificates settled during processing will be reported to the relevant Euroclear participants or Clearstream Banking customers on that business day. Cash received in Clearstream Banking or Euroclear as a result of sales of certificates by or through a Clearstream Banking customer or a Euroclear participant to a DTC participant will be received with value on the DTC settlement date, but will be available in the relevant Clearstream Banking or Euroclear cash account only as of the business day following settlement in DTC.

Although DTC, Clearstream Banking and Euroclear have agreed to these procedures in order to facilitate transfers of certificates among participants of DTC, Clearstream Banking and Euroclear, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform these procedures and these procedures may be discontinued at any time.

Beneficial owners of book-entry certificates may exchange those certificates for definitive certificates registered in their name only if:

If any of these three events occurs, DTC is required to notify the beneficial owners through the chain of intermediaries that the definitive certificates are available. The appropriate global certificate will then be exchangeable in whole for definitive certificates in registered form of like tenor and of an equal aggregate stated

principal amount, in specified denominations. Definitive certificates will be registered in the name or names of the person or persons specified by DTC in a written instruction to the registrar of the certificates. DTC may base its written instruction upon directions it receives from its participants. Thereafter, the holders of the definitive certificates will be recognized as the “holders” of the certificates under the pooling and servicing agreement.

Definitive certificates will be transferable and exchangeable at the offices of the transfer agent and registrar, which will initially be the trustee. No service charge will be imposed for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the transfer agent and registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection with that registration.

RFC III and RFC IV, as transferors to the trust (and Centurion and RFC II, as former transferors to the trust), have sold and assigned to the trust their interest in the receivables in the accounts existing at the applicable cut-off dates, all receivables thereafter created from time to time under the accounts, all Recoveries allocable to the trust and the proceeds of all of the foregoing. From time to time, RFC III and RFC IV may assign to the trust the receivables in designated Additional Accounts existing at the close of business on the applicable cut-off-dates. In addition, each of RFC III and RFC IV may assign to the trust all insurance proceeds, all Recoveries allocable to the trust, and the proceeds of all of the foregoing.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, RFC III and RFC IV make representations and warranties to the trust and the trustee about the receivables, to the effect, among other things, that:

(i) as of the applicable cut-off date with respect to the accounts, the list of accounts and information concerning the accounts provided by it is accurate and complete in all material respects, with certain permitted exceptions;

(ii) each receivable conveyed by it to the trust has been conveyed free and clear of any lien or encumbrance, except liens permitted by the pooling and servicing agreement;

(iii) all governmental authorizations, consents, orders or approvals required to be obtained, effected or given by it in connection with the conveyance of receivables to the trust have been duly obtained, effected or given and are in full force and effect;

(iv) as of each applicable selection date, each account was an Eligible Account;

(v) as of each applicable selection date, each of the receivables then existing in the accounts was an Eligible Receivable; and

(vi) as of the date of creation of any new receivable, such receivable is an Eligible Receivable.

If a transferor materially breaches any representation and warranty described in this paragraph, and such breach remains uncured for 60 days (or such longer period as to which the servicer and the trustee agree) after the earlier to occur of the discovery of the breach by such transferor and receipt of written notice of the breach by such transferor, and the breach has a material adverse effect on the certificateholders’ interest in such receivable, all of the Ineligible Receivables will be reassigned to such transferor on the terms and conditions set forth below. In such case, the account will no longer be included as an account in the Trust Portfolio.

An Ineligible Receivable will be reassigned to the related transferor on or before the Monthly Period in which such reassignment obligation arises by the servicer deducting the portion of such Ineligible Receivable that is a principal receivable from the aggregate amount of principal receivables used to calculate the Transferor Amount. In

the event that the exclusion of an Ineligible Receivable from the calculation of the Transferor Amount would cause the Transferor Amount to be less than the Required Transferor Amount, on the Distribution Date following the Monthly Period in which such reassignment obligation arises, such transferor will make a deposit into the Special Funding Account in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the amount by which the Transferor Amount would be reduced below the Required Transferor Amount.

The reassignment of any Ineligible Receivable to the related transferor, and the obligation of such transferor to make deposits into the Special Funding Account as described in the preceding paragraph, is the sole remedy respecting any breach of the representations and warranties described in the preceding paragraphs with respect to such receivable available to the certificateholders or the trustee on behalf of the certificateholders.

Each transferor will also make representations and warranties to the trust to the effect, among other things, that, as of each series closing date:

(ii) it has the authority to consummate the transactions contemplated by the pooling and servicing agreement and each supplement; and

(b) a valid sale, transfer and assignment to the trust of all right, title and interest of such transferor in the receivables, whether then existing or thereafter created and the proceeds thereof (including proceeds in any of the accounts established for the benefit of the certificateholders) and in recoveries or the grant of a first-priority perfected security interest under the applicable UCC in such receivables and the proceeds thereof (including proceeds in any of the accounts established for the benefit of the certificateholders) and in Recoveries, which is effective as to each receivable then existing on such date.

In the event of a material breach of any of the representations and warranties described in the above paragraphs that has a material adverse effect on the certificateholders’ interest in the receivables or the availability of the proceeds thereof to the trust (which determination will be made without regard to whether funds are then available pursuant to any series enhancement), either the trustee or certificateholders holding certificates evidencing not less than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all outstanding certificates, by written notice to the transferors and the servicer (and to the trustee if given by the certificateholders), may direct the related transferor to accept the reassignment of the receivables in the trust within 60 days of such notice, or within such longer period specified in such notice. Such transferor will be obligated to accept the reassignment of such receivables on the Distribution Date following the Monthly Period in which such reassignment obligation arises. Such reassignment will not be required to be made, however, if:

(i) at the end of such applicable period, the representations and warranties shall then be true and correct in all material respects, and

The price for such reassignment will be an amount equal to the sum of the amounts specified therefor with respect to each series in the related supplement. The payment of such reassignment price in immediately available funds will be considered a payment in full of the certificateholders’ interest and such funds will be distributed upon presentation and surrender of the certificates. If the trustee or certificateholders give a notice as provided above, the obligation of the related transferor to make any such deposit will constitute the sole remedy respecting a breach of the representations and warranties available to certificateholders or the trustee on behalf of certificateholders. See “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

On each series closing date, the trustee will authenticate and deliver one or more certificates representing the series or class of certificates, in each case against payment to the transferors of the net proceeds of the sale of the certificates. In the case of the first series closing date, the trustee delivered the original transferor certificate, representing the Transferors’ Interest.

In connection with each transfer of receivables to the trust, the computer records relating to such receivables will be marked to indicate that those receivables have been conveyed to the trust. In addition, the trustee will be provided with a computer file or a microfiche list containing a true and complete list showing for each account, as of the applicable cut-off date:

(ii) except in the case of new accounts and the list delivered on the substitution date, the aggregate amount of receivables in such account.

The transferors, Centurion and FSB will retain and will not deliver to the trustee any other records or agreements relating to the accounts or the receivables, as applicable. Except as set forth above, the records and agreements relating to the accounts and the receivables will not be segregated from those relating to other credit accounts and receivables, and the physical documentation relating to the accounts or receivables will not be stamped or marked to reflect the transfer of receivables to the transferor or the trust. Each transferor has filed and is required to file UCC financing statements for the transfer of the receivables to the trust meeting the requirements of applicable state law. See “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables” in this prospectus.

It is not required or anticipated that the trustee will make any initial or periodic general examination of the receivables or any records relating to the receivables for the purpose of establishing the presence or absence of defects, the compliance by Centurion, FSB and the transferors of their respective representations and warranties or for any other purpose. In addition, it is not anticipated or required that the trustee will make any initial or periodic general examination of the servicer for the purpose of establishing the compliance by the servicer with its representations or warranties or the performance by the servicer of its obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement, any supplement or for any other purpose. The servicer, however, will deliver to the trustee on or before March 31 of each calendar year an opinion of counsel with respect to the validity of the interest of the trust in and to the receivables and certain other components of the trust.

As discussed under “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Repurchase Obligations” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties,” upon the breach of certain representations or warranties made on the receivables or the related accounts, the sponsors or the transferors, as applicable, may be required to accept the reassignment of the receivables with respect to which a breach occurred. If the trustee or any Series 2017-1 certificateholder (the “requesting party”) requests that a sponsor or a transferor, as applicable (the “representing party”), accept reassignment of any receivable pursuant to the applicable purchase agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement due to an alleged breach of a representation or warranty, and the repurchase request has not been fulfilled or otherwise resolved within 180 days of the receipt of notice of such request by the sponsor or transferor, as applicable, then the requesting party will have the right to refer the matter, at its discretion, to either mediation or non-binding third-party arbitration or to binding third-party arbitration, and the representing party will agree to the selected resolution method.

At the conclusion of the 180-day period described above, the representing party will provide notice informing the requesting party of the status of its request. However, in the absence of any such notice, the requesting party may presume that its request remains unresolved. The requesting party must provide the representing party written notice of its intention to refer an unresolved repurchase request to mediation or arbitration within 30 days of the conclusion of the 180-day period described above. If the requesting party is a certificateholder but is not a record holder (including if such certificateholder owns a beneficial interest in a certificates in book-entry form), in connection with submitting a repurchase request, such requesting party will be required to provide (i) a written certification that it is a beneficial owner of certificates and (ii) one other form of documentation, such as a trade confirmation, an account

statement, a letter from a broker or dealer or other similar document to verify that the certificateholder is, in fact, a beneficial owner of certificates.

If the requesting party selects mediation as the resolution method, the mediation will be administered by a nationally recognized mediation association, and the fees and expenses of the mediation shall be allocated as mutually agreed upon by the representing party and the requesting party as part of the mediation. The mediator(s) will be appointed from a list of neutrals maintained by the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”). If the requesting party selects third-party arbitration as the resolution method, the third-party arbitration will be administered by a nationally recognized arbitration association mutually agreed upon by the representing party and the requesting party. The arbitrator(s) will be appointed from a list of neutrals maintained by the AAA. The arbitrator(s) will determine the allocation of the costs and expenses of the third-party arbitration.

A failure by the parties to resolve a disputed matter through mediation or non-binding arbitration shall not preclude either party from seeking a resolution through other options available to it, including the initiation of a judicial proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction, subject to the provisions specified below as applicable to both mediations and arbitrations. By selecting binding arbitration, the requesting party will give up the right to sue in court, including the right to a trial by jury. No person may bring a putative or certified class action to arbitration.

The following provisions will apply to both mediations and third-party arbitrations:

A requesting party may not initiate a mediation or arbitration as described above with respect to a receivable that is, or has been, the subject of an ongoing or previous mediation or arbitration (whether by that requesting party or another requesting party) but will have the right to join an existing mediation or arbitration with respect to that receivable if the mediation or arbitration has not yet concluded.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the transferors may exchange a portion of the original transferor certificate for a Supplemental Certificate for transfer or assignment to a person designated by the transferors upon the execution and delivery of a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement (which supplement shall be subject to the amendment section of the pooling and servicing agreement to the extent that it

amends any of the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement; see “— Amendments”); provided that prior to such transfer or assignment:

(b) each transferor shall have delivered to the trustee an officer’s certificate to the effect that such transferor reasonably believes that such transfer or assignment will not, based on the facts known to such officer at the time of such certification, have an Adverse Effect,

(d) the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust as of the date of such transfer or assignment will be greater than the Required Minimum Principal Balance as of such date, and

(e) the transferors or other holders of the original transferor certificate as of the date of such transfer or assignment shall have a remaining interest in the trust of not less than, in the aggregate, 2% of the total amount of principal receivables and funds on deposit in the Special Funding Account, the principal funding account and any other similar account.

The primary purpose for such a transfer would be to convey an interest in the original transferor certificate to another person. Any transfer or assignment of a Supplemental Certificate is subject to the condition set forth in (c) above.

If an affiliate of the transferors owns Eligible Accounts, the receivables of which are eligible for transfer to the trust, the transferors may wish to designate such affiliate to be included as a “transferor” under the pooling and servicing agreement (by means of an amendment to the pooling and servicing agreement that will not require the consent of any certificateholder; see “—Amendments” below). In connection with the designation of an additional transferor, the transferors will surrender the Transferor Certificate to the trustee in exchange for a newly issued Transferor Certificate modified to reflect such additional transferor’s interest in the Transferors’ Interest; provided, however, that:

(i) the conditions set forth in clauses (a), (c) and (e) in the preceding paragraph with respect to a transfer of a Supplemental Certificate shall have been satisfied with respect to such designation and transfer, and

(ii) any applicable conditions described in “— Additions of Accounts” below shall have been satisfied with respect to the transfer of receivables by any additional transferor to the trust. Following the inclusion of an additional transferor, the additional transferor will be treated in the same manner as a transferor, and each additional transferor generally will have the same obligations and rights as a transferor described herein.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, the transferors (without independent verification of their authority) may designate from time to time Additional Accounts to be included as accounts in the trust. Subject only to the eligibility requirements in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement and applicable regulatory guidelines, the account owners have the discretion to select the accounts from the Total Portfolio for addition to the Trust Portfolio. In connection with any such designation, the transferors will convey to the trust all of their respective interests in all receivables arising from those Additional Accounts. The conveyance by any transferor is subject to the following conditions, among others:

(a) the selection of the Additional Accounts is done in a manner which the relevant transferor reasonably believes will not result in an Adverse Effect, and

The transferors will be obligated to designate Additional Accounts (to the extent available) if, as of the end of any Monthly Period, the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust is less than the Required Minimum Principal Balance or the seller’s interest amount is less than the required seller’s interest amount (for credit risk retention purposes).

Any Additional Accounts designated to the trust will be selected from accounts owned by Centurion or FSB. Therefore, if Additional Accounts are to be designated, a transferor shall, under the applicable purchase agreement, request that Centurion or FSB, as applicable, designate accounts which qualify as Eligible Accounts to such transferor. Such transferor will then designate such accounts to the trust.

Each Additional Account must be an Eligible Account as of the applicable selection date. Because Additional Accounts may be created after the applicable selection dates with respect to the accounts already in the Trust Portfolio, they may not be of the same credit quality as the accounts currently in the Trust Portfolio. The Additional Accounts may have been originated at a later date using credit, origination or underwriting criteria different from those which were applied to the accounts currently in the Trust Portfolio. Furthermore, they may have been acquired from another revolving credit issuer or entity that had different credit, origination or underwriting criteria. Consequently, the performance of such Additional Accounts may be better or worse than the performance of the accounts already in the Trust Portfolio.

On any day of any Monthly Period, the transferors (without independent verification of their authority) may, but shall not be obligated to, acquire all receivables and proceeds thereof with respect to removed accounts. The removal could occur for a number of reasons, including a determination by the transferors that the trust contains more receivables than the transferors are obligated to retain in the trust under the pooling and servicing agreement and any applicable supplements and a determination that the transferors do not desire to obtain additional financing through the trust at such time.

The transferors are permitted to designate and require reassignment of the receivables from removed accounts upon satisfaction of the conditions listed in the pooling and servicing agreement, including:

(i) no selection procedure believed by such transferor to be materially adverse to, or materially beneficial to, the interests of the certificateholders or such transferor was utilized in removing the removed accounts from among any pool of accounts of a similar type,

(iii) such removal will not result in the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event or a Reinvestment Event;

In addition, the transferors’ designation of any account as a removed account shall be random, unless the removed accounts are accounts (i) originated or acquired under a specific affinity agreement, private label agreement, merchant agreement, co-branding agreement or other program which is co-owned, operated or promoted, provided that such agreement has terminated in accordance with the terms therein or (ii) being removed due to other circumstances caused by requirements of agreements in which the right to such removed accounts or control thereof is determined by a party or parties to such agreements other than the transferors, any affiliate of the transferors or any agent of the transferors.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the transferors may at any time and from time to time designate a fixed or variable percentage, known as the discount percentage, of the amount of principal receivables existing and arising in all or any specified portion of the accounts on and after the date such designation becomes effective to be treated as finance charge receivables, which will be called discount option receivables. Although there can be no assurance that the transferors will do so, such designation may occur because the transferors determine that the exercise of the discount option is needed to provide a sufficient yield on the receivables to cover interest and other amounts due and payable from collections of finance charge receivables or to avoid the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event relating to the reduction of the average yield on the portfolio of accounts in the trust, if the related supplement provides for such a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event. The existence of discount option receivables will result in an increase in the amount of collections of finance charge receivables, a reduction in the balance of principal receivables outstanding and a reduction in the Transferor Amount.

After any such designation, pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, the transferors may, without notice to or consent of the certificateholders, from time to time increase, reduce or withdraw the percentage of receivables subject to such designation. The transferors must provide 30 days prior written notice to the servicer, the trustee, each Rating Agency and any provider of Series Enhancement of any such designation or increase, reduction or withdrawal. Such designation or increase, reduction or withdrawal will become effective on the date specified therein only if:

(i) delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that such reduction of the percentage of discount option receivables will not adversely affect the tax characterization as debt of any certificates of any outstanding series or class that were characterized as debt at the time of their issuance and

(ii) in certain circumstances, obtained the prior written consent of each provider of series enhancement entitled to consent thereto.

On the Date of Processing of any collections on or after the date the exercise of the discount option takes effect, the product of:

will be deemed collections of finance charge receivables and will be applied accordingly.

The transferors have increased and decreased the discount percentage from time to time, but the discount percentage is currently 0%.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the transferors may at any time and from time to time designate a specified fixed or variable percentage, known as the premium percentage, of the amount of finance charge receivables existing arising in all or any specified portion of the accounts existing on and after the date such designation becomes effective to be treated as principal receivables, which will be called premium receivables. Although there can be no assurance that the transferors will exercise the option to designate premium receivables, the transferors may do so if, among other things, the transferors determine that the exercise of such option is needed to cover shortfalls of the principal receivables available to make scheduled principal payments on the certificates or scheduled deposits into the principal funding account, as applicable, or to avoid the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event or a Reinvestment Event relating to the existence of such shortfalls. Any such designation would result in an increase in the amount of collections of principal receivables and a lower yield on the portfolio with respect to collections of finance charge receivables than would otherwise occur.

After any such designation, pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, the transferors may, without notice to or consent of the certificateholders, from time to time increase, reduce or withdraw the premium percentage. The transferors must provide 30 days prior written notice to the servicer, the trustee, each Rating Agency and any provider of series enhancement of any such designation or increase, reduction or withdrawal. Such designation or increase, reduction or withdrawal will become effective on the date specified therein only if:

On the Date of Processing of any collections on or after the date the exercise of the premium option takes effect, the product of:

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the servicer will indemnify the trust and the trustee from and against any loss, liability, expense, damage or injury suffered or sustained arising out of certain of the servicer’s actions or omissions with respect to the trust pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, each transferor has agreed to be liable directly to an injured party for the entire amount of any liabilities of the trust (other than those incurred by a certificateholder in the capacity of an investor in the certificates of any series) arising out of or based on each of the arrangements created by the pooling and servicing agreement and the actions of each transferor taken pursuant thereto as though the pooling and servicing agreement created a partnership under the New York Uniform Partnership Act in which each transferor was a general partner.

Except as provided in the two preceding paragraphs, the pooling and servicing agreement provides that neither the transferors nor the servicer nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents will be under any other liability to the trust, the trustee, the certificateholders, any provider of Series Enhancement or any other person for any action taken, or for refraining from taking any action, in good faith pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement. However, neither the transferors nor the servicer will be protected against any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence of any such person in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties thereunder.

In addition, the pooling and servicing agreement provides that the servicer is not under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action which is not incidental to its servicing responsibilities under the pooling and servicing agreement. The servicer may, in its sole discretion, undertake any such legal action which it may deem necessary or desirable for the benefit of certificateholders with respect to the pooling and servicing agreement and the rights and duties of the parties thereto and the interests of the certificateholders thereunder.

TRS has been servicing credit card accounts since 1987 and charge card accounts since 1958 when American Express began offering such accounts. TRS has been the servicer for the trust since the trust’s formation in 1996. It has been servicing securitized consumer charge card receivables since 1992 in its capacity as the servicer of the American Express Master Trust. TRS currently is the servicer of the American Express Issuance Trust II and, in the future, may be the servicer of other master trusts or other securitization special purpose entities.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer, whether acting itself or through one or more subservicers, is responsible for servicing, collecting, enforcing and administering the receivables in accordance with customary and usual procedures for servicing similar credit or charge receivables.

Servicing activities to be performed by the servicer include collecting and recording payments, communicating with account holders, investigating payment delinquencies, evaluating the increase of credit limits and the issuance of credit cards and credit accounts, providing billing and tax records to account holders and maintaining internal records with respect to each account. Managerial and custodial services performed by the servicer on behalf of the trust include providing assistance in any inspections of the documents and records relating to the accounts and receivables by the trustee pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, maintaining the agreements, documents and files relating to the accounts and receivables as custodian for the trust and providing related data processing and reporting services for certificateholders and on behalf of the trustee.

If TRS were to become a debtor in a bankruptcy case, a Servicer Default would occur and TRS could be removed as servicer for the trust and a successor servicer would be appointed. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Servicer Default” in this prospectus for more information regarding the appointment of a successor servicer.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, TRS, as servicer, has the right to delegate its duties as servicer to any person who agrees to conduct such duties in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement, the applicable account guidelines and the applicable account agreements.

TRS has outsourced certain of its servicing functions by contracting with affiliated and unaffiliated third parties. TRS has contracted with Centurion and FSB to perform certain limited servicing functions with respect to the receivables arising in the accounts owned by each of Centurion and FSB, consisting of collecting and depositing or causing to be deposited into the collection account payments received in respect of such receivables and, when appropriate, charging off as uncollectible such receivables.

The performance of certain servicing functions has been outsourced by TRS and its affiliates to third party vendors. Functions that are performed by outside vendors include, but are not limited to, card production and fulfillment, card replacement, contacting of customers to collect delinquent and charged-off balances, responding to telephone service center inquiries from customers and prospects, processing of customer disputes, preparing customer statements, data entry and imaging and remittance processing. Among other functions, TRS and its affiliates identify areas of risk, design, develop and implement models to minimize financial exposure and maximize customer spending, develop credit underwriting policies and procedures, underwrite and re-underwrite accounts and formulate risk management and credit criteria. The logic and rules inherent in the systems used by outside vendors to route customer inquiries and to make decisions about accounts are developed by TRS and its affiliates. Third party vendors are required to follow detailed account management procedures and policies of TRS in connection with any decisions made with respect to accounts with respect to which they provide services. TRS and its affiliates regularly audit and assess the performance of third party vendors to measure vendor quality and compliance. All third party vendors are required to comply with the account owners’ security and information protection requirements. Decisions to retain a third party vendor are based on compliance with standards, cost, the ability of third parties to provide greater flexibility to TRS and its affiliates, financial stability and various other factors.

TRS’ proprietary facilities conduct paper payment remittance processing services. Since 1999, Regulus West LLC, a Delaware limited liability company referred to as “Regulus,” also has performed paper payment remittance processing services pursuant to an agreement with TRS. Regulus provides these services at three locations in the United States. Regulus also provides disaster recovery services to TRS. As a remittance processor, Regulus is responsible for, among other services, transmitting payment information to TRS, which TRS in turn uses to update its obligor records. Regulus also is responsible for encoding and processing the remittance checks received by TRS at these locations. Regulus is required to perform the services in accordance with service levels and procedures prescribed by TRS, and TRS regularly monitors Regulus’ performance and compliance with TRS’ standards. Regulus may not subcontract any of its duties to any third party without the prior consent of TRS, which TRS may withhold in its sole discretion. TRS has also reserved the right to perform for itself or have a third party perform any of the services performed by Regulus. Regulus West LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Regulus Group LLC, a remittance processing and print distribution company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Napa, California. Effective June 30, 2011, TransCentra, Inc., an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”), one of the world’s leading private investment firms, completed its acquisition of 3i Infotech Limited’s (NSE: 3IINFOTEC) US-based Global Billing & Payments unit. The acquired unit, consisting of the subsidiaries formerly known as Regulus Group (including Regulus West LLC) and J&B Software, became a standalone Cerberus portfolio company, which now operates under the TransCentra brand. Regulus continues to provide remittance processing services to banks, credit card issuers, telecommunications carriers, utilities and insurance companies worldwide. Regulus is one of the largest retail remittance processors in the United States, processing more than 45 million payments per month.

In connection with the remittance processing conducted by TRS at its proprietary facility, TRS also has outsourced to a vendor in India the responsibility to manually review and balance paper remittances that cannot be handled by TRS’ automatic payment matching equipment.

Notwithstanding any such delegation or outsourcing, the servicer will continue to be liable for all of its obligations under the transfer and servicing agreement. In certain circumstances, however, TRS could be relieved of its duties as servicer upon the assumption of such duties by another entity. See “— Servicer Default” in this prospectus.

TRS and its affiliates retain the right to change various terms and conditions of the agreements with the third party vendors, and retain the right to change the third party vendors themselves. These changes may be the result of several different factors, including but not limited to: expiration of the servicing contract with the vendor, customer satisfaction, vendor quality and financial strength, compliance with required service levels, adherence to data protection and privacy requirements, adherence to security standards and requirements, performance and skill evaluations, risk management policies, and cost considerations. Accordingly, third party vendors who provide services to TRS, its affiliates and its Card Members may change from time to time, and certificateholders will not be notified of any change. Similarly, to the extent that the terms and conditions are altered for agreements with third party vendors, certificateholders will not be given notice of those changes.

If an affiliated or unaffiliated third party performing certain outsourced or delegated functions were to enter bankruptcy or become insolvent, then the servicing of the accounts in the Total Portfolio could be delayed and payments on your certificates could be accelerated, delayed or reduced.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that, pursuant to one or more supplements, the transferors may cause the trust to issue one or more series of certificates and may define all principal terms of such series. Each series may have different terms and enhancements than any other series. None of the transferors, the servicer, the trustee or the trust is required or intends to provide prior notice to, or obtain the consent of, any certificateholder of any other series issued prior to the issuance of a new series. The transferors may offer any series to the public under a prospectus or other disclosure document in transactions either registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or exempt from registration thereunder directly, through one or more purchasers or placement agents, in fixed-price offerings or in negotiated transactions or otherwise. The transferors intend to offer, from time to time, additional series. Each issuance of a new series will have the effect of decreasing the Transferor Amount to the extent of the initial invested amount of such new series. You can review a summary of each series previously issued and currently outstanding under the caption “Annex III: Other Series” included at the end of this prospectus.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the transferors may designate principal terms such that each series has a Controlled Accumulation Period or a Controlled Amortization Period that may have a different length and begin on a different date than such periods for any other series. Further, one or more series may be in their Controlled Accumulation Period or Controlled Amortization Period while other series are not. Moreover, each series may have the benefits of series enhancement issued by enhancement providers different from the providers of Series Enhancement with respect to any other series.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, the trustee shall hold any such Series Enhancement only on behalf of the certificateholders of the series to which such Series Enhancement relates. With respect to each such Series Enhancement, the transferors may deliver a different form of Series Enhancement agreement. The transferors also have the option under the pooling and servicing agreement to vary among series the terms upon which a series may be repurchased by the transferors or remarketed to other investors. There is no limit to the number of new issuances the transferors may cause under the pooling and servicing agreement. The trust will terminate only as provided in the pooling and servicing agreement. There can be no assurance that the terms of any series might not have an impact on the timing and amount of payments received by a certificateholder of another series.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement and pursuant to a supplement, a new issuance may only occur upon the satisfaction of certain conditions. The obligation of the trustee to authenticate the certificates of such new series and to execute and deliver the related supplement is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

Notwithstanding the conditions to issuance described above, a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement may provide that, in connection with the issuance of any subsequent series, the Rating Agency Condition need not be satisfied for the series governed by such supplement with respect to one or more of the Rating Agencies then rating such series.

The pooling and servicing agreement also provides that the transferors may from time to time, without notice to or the consent of, the registered holders of an outstanding series or class of certificates, cause the trust to create and issue additional certificates equal in rank to the series or class of certificates originally issued in all respects, except that interest will begin accruing on the additional certificates on the related issuance date. These additional series or classes of certificates may be consolidated and form a single series or class with the previously issued certificates and will have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the previously issued series or class of certificates. In addition, the transferors may retain certificates of a series or class upon initial issuance or upon a reopening of a series or class certificates and may sell them on a subsequent date.

There are no restrictions on the timing or amount of any issuance of additional certificates of an outstanding series or class of certificates so long as the conditions described above for a new issuance are met or waived. As of the date of any issuance of additional certificates of an outstanding series or class of certificates, the Invested Amount and outstanding dollar principal amount of that series or class will be increased to reflect the principal amount of the additional certificates. If the additional certificates are part of a series or class of certificates that has the benefit of a derivative agreement, the transferors will cause the trust to enter into a derivative agreement for the benefit of the additional certificates. Furthermore, the targeted deposits, if any, to any trust account will be increased proportionately to reflect the principal amount of the additional certificates.

When issued, the additional certificates of a series or class will be identical in all respects to the other outstanding certificates of that series or class equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the pooling and servicing agreement as applicable to the previously issued certificates of such series or class without preference, priority or distinction.

The servicer has established and maintains for the benefit of the certificateholders of each series, in the name of the trustee, on behalf of the trust, an Eligible Deposit Account called the Collection Account. The Collection Account, which is maintained with The Bank of New York Mellon, bears a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the certificateholders of each series. If at any time the Collection Account is no longer an Eligible Deposit Account, the Collection Account must be moved so that it will again be qualified as an Eligible Deposit Account.

Funds on deposit in the Collection Account generally will be invested by the trustee, at the direction of the servicer, in Eligible Investments. The servicer may appoint as its agent under a separate agreement a registered investment advisor to give instruction on its behalf to the trustee for funds to be invested in Eligible Investments. Any earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds in the Collection Account will be paid to the transferors. The servicer will have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Collection Account and to instruct the trustee to make withdrawals and payments from the Collection Account for the purpose of carrying out its duties under the pooling and servicing agreement and any supplement.

The servicer, no later than two Business Days after each Date of Processing, will deposit all collections received with respect to the receivables in each Monthly Period into the Collection Account. It will then make the deposits and payments to the accounts and parties shown below on the date of such deposit.

For as long as TRS or an affiliate of TRS remains the servicer under the pooling and servicing agreement and any of:

(i) the servicer maintains a short-term credit rating (which may be an implied rating) of not less than P-1 from Moody’s and A-1 from S&P (or such other rating below P-1 or A-1, as the case may be, which is acceptable to such Rating Agency), which is currently the case, or

(ii) the servicer obtains a guarantee with respect to its deposit and payment obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement (in form and substance satisfactory to the Rating Agencies) from a guarantor having a short-term credit rating of not less than P-1 from Moody’s and A-1 from S&P (or such other rating below P-1 or A-1, as the case may be, which is acceptable to such Rating Agency), or

(iii) the Rating Agency Condition will have been satisfied despite the servicer’s inability to satisfy the rating requirement specified in clause (i) above, and for five Business Days following any such reduction of any such rating or failure to satisfy the conditions specified in clause (ii) or (iii) above, the servicer need not deposit collections into the Collection Account on the day indicated in the preceding sentence. Instead it may use for its own benefit such collections until the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date. On that Business Day, the servicer will make such deposits in an amount equal to the net amount of such deposits and withdrawals which would have been made had the conditions of this sentence not applied.

TRS does not currently maintain the required short-term credit rating described in (i) above and has not taken action as described in (ii) or (iii) above. Therefore, TRS, as servicer, deposits all collections received with respect to the receivables in each Monthly Period into the Collection Account no later than two Business Days after each Date of Processing.

On each Determination Date, the servicer will calculate the amounts to be allocated to the certificateholders of each class or series and the holders of the Transferor Certificates as described herein in respect of collections of receivables received with respect to the preceding Monthly Period.

With respect to the certificateholders’ interest, if the net amount in respect of finance charge receivables to be deposited into the Collection Account on any transfer date exceeds the sum of the interest payments due to certificateholders for the related Distribution Date, the Defaulted Amount and the Servicing Fee, plus certain

amounts payable with respect to any Series Enhancement, then the servicer may deduct the Servicing Fee and, during the Revolving Period, the Defaulted Amount (which will be distributed to the transferors, but not in an amount exceeding the Transferors’ Interest in principal receivables on such day, after giving effect to any new receivables transferred to the trust on such day) from the net amount to be deposited into the Collection Account.

In addition, on each Distribution Date with respect to any Controlled Amortization Period or Controlled Accumulation Period, the servicer may deduct the amount of any Shared Principal Collections not required to cover principal shortfalls (which will be distributed to the transferors, but not in an amount exceeding the Transferors’ Interest in principal receivables on such day, after giving effect to any new receivables transferred to the trust on such day) from the net amount to be deposited into the collection account. The trustee may not have a perfected security interest in collections held by the servicer that are commingled with other funds of the servicer or used by the servicer in the event of the bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, conservatorship or receivership of the servicer or, in certain circumstances, the lapse of certain time periods.

On the day any such deposit is made into the Collection Account, the servicer will withdraw from the Collection Account and pay to the transferors to the extent not deducted from collections as described above,

(i) an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the aggregate amount of such deposits in respect of principal receivables treated as Shared Principal Collections for all series over the aggregate amount of Principal Shortfalls for all series and, without duplication,

(ii) the aggregate amount of Series Allocable Principal Collections for all outstanding series to be paid to the transferors with respect to such date.

Any amounts in respect of principal receivables not distributed to the transferors on any day because the Transferor Amount does not exceed zero on such day (after giving effect to any principal receivables transferred to the trust on such day) shall be deposited into the Special Funding Account.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, during each Monthly Period the servicer will allocate to each outstanding series its Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections, Series Allocable Principal Collections and Series Allocable Defaulted Amount.

The servicer will then allocate amounts initially allocated to a particular series between the certificateholders’ interest and the Transferors’ Interest for such Monthly Period as follows:

(a) Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections and the Series Allocable Defaulted Amount will at all times be allocated to the invested amount of a series based on the Floating Allocation Percentage of such series; and

(b) Series Allocable Principal Collections will at all times be allocated to the invested amount of such series based on the Principal Allocation Percentage of such series.

Amounts not allocated to the invested amount of any series as described above will be allocated to the Transferors’ Interest.

The certificates of a series may be included in a Reallocation Group. Collections of finance charge receivables allocable to each series in a Reallocation Group will be aggregated and made available for certain required payments for all series in such group. Consequently, the issuance of new series in such group may have the effect of reducing or increasing the amount of collections of finance charge receivables allocable to the certificates of other series in such group. See “Risk Factors — Issuances of additional series by the trust may adversely affect your certificates” in this prospectus.

Series 2017-1 is included in Group I. Upon issuance, Series 2017-1 will be the fourth outstanding series issued by the trust in Group I. Any issuance of a new series in Group I may reduce or increase the amount of finance charge collections allocated to your series.

Group Investor Finance Charge Collections. For each Monthly Period, the servicer will calculate the Group Investor Finance Charge Collections for a particular Reallocation Group and, on the following Distribution Date, will allocate such amount among the certificateholders’ interest (including any collateral invested amount) for all series in such group in the following priority:

(v) the balance pro rata among each series in such group based on the current invested amount of each such series.

In the case of clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, if the amount of Group Investor Finance Charge Collections is not sufficient to cover each such amount in full, the amount available will be allocated among the series in such group pro rata based on the claim that each series has under the applicable clause. This means, for example, that if the amount of Group Investor Finance Charge Collections is not sufficient to cover Group Investor Monthly Interest, each series in such group will share such amount pro rata and any other series in such group with a claim with respect to monthly interest, overdue monthly interest and interest on such overdue monthly interest, if applicable, which is larger than the claim for such amounts for any other series in such group offered hereby (due to a higher certificate rate) will receive a proportionately larger allocation.

The chart that follows demonstrates the manner in which collections of finance charge receivables are allocated and reallocated among series in such a group. The chart assumes that the trust has issued three series (Series 1, 2 and 3), and that each such series is in its Revolving Period.

In Step 1, total collections of finance charge receivables are allocated among the three series based on the Series Allocation Percentage for each series. The amounts allocated to each series pursuant to Step I are referred to as “Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections.” See “— Allocations” above.

In Step 2, the amount of Investor Finance Charge Collections is determined by multiplying Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections for each series by the applicable floating allocation percentages. See “— Allocations” above.

Investor Finance Charge Collections for all series in a particular Reallocation Group (or Group Investor Finance Charge Collections) are pooled as shown above in Step 3 for reallocation to each such series as shown in Step 4. In Step 4, Group Investor Finance Charge Collections are reallocated to each series in such group as described above based on the respective claim of each series with respect to interest payable on the certificates or collateral invested amount (if any) of such series, the Defaulted Amount allocable to the certificateholders’ interest of such series and the monthly servicing fee and certain other amounts with respect to such series. The excess is allocated pro rata among the series in such group based on each series’ respective shortfall amounts.

Each series issued by the trust may be designated as an Excess Allocation Series. Series 2017-1 will be an Excess Allocation Series

If a series is an Excess Allocation Series, collections on finance charge receivables and Excess Finance Charge Collections may be applied to cover any shortfalls with respect to amounts payable from collections of finance charge receivables allocable to any other Excess Allocation Series pro rata based upon the amount of the shortfall, if any, with respect to each other Excess Allocation Series. The sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections among Excess Allocation Series will stop if each transferor delivers to the trustee a certificate of an authorized representative to the effect that, in the reasonable belief of that transferor, the continued sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections among Excess Allocation Series would have adverse regulatory implications with respect to the transferors or any account owner. Following the delivery by the transferors of any such certificates, there will be no further sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections among such series in any such group.

In all cases, any Excess Finance Charge Collections remaining after covering shortfalls with respect to all outstanding Excess Allocation Series will be paid to the holders of the Transferor Certificates. While any series offered hereby may be designated as an Excess Allocation Series, there can be no assurance that:

Although the transferors believe that, based upon applicable rules and regulations as currently in effect, the sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections among Excess Allocation Series will not have adverse regulatory implications for them, or any account owner, there can be no assurance that this will continue to be true in the future.

Each series issued by the trust may be designated as a principal sharing series. Series 2017-1 will be a principal sharing series.

If a series is a principal sharing series, collections of principal receivables for any Monthly Period allocated to the certificateholders’ interest of any such series will first be used to cover certain amounts in respect of such series (including any required deposits into a principal funding account or required distributions to certificateholders of such series in respect of principal, if any). The servicer will determine the amount of collections of principal receivables for any Monthly Period (plus certain other amounts, including, respect to Series 2017-1, certain amounts described under “Series Provisions — Application of Collections — Payments of Principal” in this prospectus) allocated to such series remaining after covering such required deposits and distributions and any similar amount remaining for any other principal sharing series, collectively called “Shared Principal Collections.” The servicer will allocate the Shared Principal Collections to cover any principal distributions to certificateholders and deposits to principal funding accounts for any principal sharing series that are either scheduled or permitted and that have not been covered out of collections of principal receivables and certain other amounts allocable to the certificateholders’ interest of such series.

If principal shortfalls exceed Shared Principal Collections for any Monthly Period, Shared Principal Collections will be allocated pro rata among the applicable series based on the respective principal shortfalls of such series. To

the extent that Shared Principal Collections exceed principal shortfalls, the balance will be allocated to the holders of the Transferor Certificates; provided that:

Any such reallocation of collections of principal receivables will not result in a reduction in the invested amount of the series to which such collections were initially allocated. There can be no assurance that there will be any Shared Principal Collections with respect to any Monthly Period or that any other series will be designated as a principal sharing series.

As described under “Series Provisions — Application of Collections — Paired Series” in this prospectus, a series of certificates may be paired with another series issued by the trust. As the invested amount of the series having a paired series is reduced, the invested amount in the trust of the paired series will increase by an equal amount. If a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event occurs with respect to the series having a paired series or with respect to the paired series when the series is in a Controlled Amortization Period or Controlled Accumulation Period, the Series Allocation Percentage and the Principal Allocation Percentage for the series having a paired series and the Series Allocation Percentage and the Principal Allocation Percentage for the paired series will be reset as provided in the related supplement. In addition, the Early Amortization Period or Early Accumulation Period for such series could be lengthened. Series 2017-1 is not currently paired with another series.

If, on any date, the Transferor Amount is less than or equal to the Required Transferor Amount, the servicer will not distribute to the holders of the Transferor Certificates any collections of principal receivables allocable to a series or a group that otherwise would be distributed to such holders. Instead it will deposit such funds in an Eligible Deposit Account, called the Special Funding Account, established and maintained by the servicer for the benefit of the certificateholders of each series, in the name of the trustee, on behalf of the trust. The Special Funding Account will bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the certificateholders of each series.

So long as no series is in a Controlled Accumulation Period, Early Accumulation Period, Controlled Amortization Period or Early Amortization Period, funds on deposit in the Special Funding Account will be withdrawn and paid to the holders of the Transferor Certificates on any Distribution Date to the extent that, after giving effect to such payment, the Transferor Amount exceeds the Required Transferor Amount on such date. If a Controlled Accumulation Period, Early Accumulation Period, Controlled Amortization Period or Early Amortization Period starts and is continuing for any series, however, any funds on deposit in the Special Funding Account will be released, deposited in the Collection Account and treated as collections of principal receivables to the extent needed to make principal payments due to or for the benefit of the certificateholders of such series, but only to the extent that doing so would not cause the Transferor Amount to be less than the Required Transferor Amount.

If the transferors determine that by decreasing the amount on deposit in the Special Funding Account, one or more series for which the related supplements permit partial amortization, may be prevented from experiencing a Pay-Out Event due to the insufficiency of yield, funds on deposit in the Special Funding Account may be applied to each such series (on a pro rata basis according to each series’ invested amount) to reduce the invested amount thereof. Such reduction would enable that series to avoid a yield insufficiency Pay-Out Event, but may be done only to the extent that it would not cause the Transferor Amount to be less than the Required Transferor Amount. The transferors, at their option, may instruct the trustee to deposit to the Special Funding Account any Shared Principal Collections that would otherwise be payable to the holders of the Transferor Certificates in accordance with the foregoing.

Funds on deposit in the Special Funding Account will be invested by the trustee, at the direction of the servicer, in Eligible Investments or, if no such direction is provided, will remain univested. Any earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) earned on amounts on deposit in the Special Funding Account during any Monthly Period will be withdrawn from the Special Funding Account and treated as collections of finance charge receivables for that Monthly Period.

For any series, the related supplement may specify that during a Funding Period, the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust allocable to such series may be less than the aggregate principal amount of the certificates of such series. If so specified in the related supplement, the amount of such deficiency, called the Prefunding Amount, will be held in a prefunding account pending the transfer of additional principal receivables to the trust or pending the reduction of the invested amounts of other series issued by the trust. The related supplement will specify the initial invested amount for such series, the aggregate principal amount of the certificates of such series and the date by which the invested amount is expected to equal the aggregate principal amount of the certificates. The invested amount will increase as receivables are delivered to the trust or as the invested amounts of other series of the trust are reduced. The invested amount may also decrease due to the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event for that series.

During the Funding Period, funds on deposit in the prefunding account for a series of certificates will be withdrawn and paid to the transferors to the extent of any increases in the invested amount. If the invested amount does not for any reason equal the aggregate principal amount of the certificates by the end of the Funding Period, any amount remaining in the prefunding account and any additional amounts specified in the related supplement will be payable to the certificateholders of such series in the manner and at such time as set forth in the related supplement.

If so specified in the related supplement, moneys in the prefunding account will be invested by the trustee in Eligible Investments or will be subject to a guaranteed rate or investment agreement or other similar arrangement. In connection with each Distribution Date during the Funding Period, investment earnings on funds in the prefunding account during the related Monthly Period will be withdrawn from the prefunding account and deposited, together with any applicable payment under a guaranteed rate or investment agreement or other similar arrangement, into the Collection Account for distribution in respect of interest on the certificates of the related series in the manner specified in the related supplement.

Receivables in any account will be charged off as uncollectible in accordance with the account guidelines and the servicer’s customary and usual policies and procedures for servicing charge and other credit account receivables comparable to the receivables. The current policy of Centurion and FSB is to charge off the receivables in an account when the account is six contractual payments past due (i.e., approximately 180 days delinquent) or sooner if the death or bankruptcy of the account holder has been confirmed. This policy may change in the future to conform with regulatory requirements and applicable law.

If the servicer adjusts downward the amount of any principal receivable (other than Ineligible Receivables that have been, or are to be, reassigned to a transferor) because of a rebate, refund, counterclaim, defense, error, fraudulent charge or counterfeit charge to an account holder, or such principal receivable was created in respect of merchandise that was refused or returned by an account holder, or if the servicer otherwise adjusts downward the amount of any principal receivable without receiving collections therefor or charges off such amount as uncollectible, the Transferor Amount — and not the investors’ interests — will be reduced by the amount of the adjustment. Furthermore, in the event that the exclusion of any such receivables would cause the Transferor Amount at such time to be less than the Required Transferor Amount, the transferors will be required to pay an amount equal to such deficiency into the Special Funding Account.

In the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer has agreed as to each receivable and related account that it will:

(a) duly fulfill all obligations on its part to be fulfilled under or in connection with the receivables or the related accounts, and will maintain in effect all qualifications required in order to service the receivables or accounts, the failure to comply with which would have a material adverse effect on the certificateholders;

(b) not authorize any rescission or cancellation of the receivables except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or other governmental authority;

(d) not reschedule, revise or defer payments due on the receivables except in accordance with its guidelines for servicing receivables.

Under the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement, if the servicer discovers, or receives written notice from the trustee, that:

then all receivables in the related account will be assigned and transferred to the servicer and the account will no longer be included as an account in the Trust Portfolio.

Such assignment and transfer will be made when the servicer deposits an amount equal to the amount of such receivables in the Collection Account on the Business Day preceding the Distribution Date following the Monthly Period during which such obligation arises. This transfer and assignment to the servicer constitutes the sole remedy available to the certificateholders if such covenant or warranty of the servicer is not satisfied and the trust’s interest in any such assigned receivables will be automatically assigned to the servicer.

The servicer may not resign from its obligations and duties under the pooling and servicing agreement except:

(i) upon determination that the performance of such obligations and duties is no longer permissible under applicable law or

(ii) if such obligations and duties are assumed by an entity that has satisfied the Rating Agency Condition.

No such resignation will become effective until the trustee or a successor to the servicer has assumed the servicer’s obligations and duties under the pooling and servicing agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the servicer may assign part or all of its obligations and duties as servicer under the pooling and servicing agreement if such assignment satisfies the Rating Agency Condition. TRS may assign or delegate all or part of its rights, duties and obligations as servicer to Centurion within the next two years.

Any person into which, in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer may be merged or consolidated or any person resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the servicer is a party, or any person succeeding to the business of the servicer, will be the successor to the servicer under the pooling and servicing agreement.

In the event of any Servicer Default, either the trustee or certificateholders holding certificates evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all certificates, by written notice to the servicer (and to the trustee if given by the certificateholders), may terminate all of the rights and obligations of the servicer, as servicer, under the pooling and servicing agreement. The trustee will appoint a new servicer. Any such termination and appointment is called a service transfer. If the only Servicer Default is bankruptcy-, insolvency-, receivership-, or conservatorship-related, however, the bankruptcy trustee, the receiver or the conservator for the servicer or the servicer itself as debtor-in-possession may have the power to prevent the trustee or certificateholders from appointing a successor servicer. See “Risk Factors — The conservatorship, receivership, bankruptcy, or insolvency of Centurion, FSB, TRS, a transferor, the trust, or any of their affiliates could result in accelerated, delayed, or reduced payments to you.”

The rights and interest of the transferors under the pooling and servicing agreement in the Transferors’ Interest will not be affected by any termination notice or service transfer. If, within 60 days of receipt of a termination notice, the trustee does not receive any bids from eligible servicers but receives an officer’s certificate from each transferor to the effect that the servicer cannot in good faith cure the Servicer Default which gave rise to the termination notice, then the trustee shall, except when the Servicer Default is caused by certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, conservatorship or receivership of the servicer, offer the transferors a right of first refusal to purchase the certificateholders’ interest on the Distribution Date in the next calendar month. The purchase price for the certificateholders’ interest will be equal to the sum of the amounts specified therefor for each outstanding series in the related supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement.

The trustee will, as promptly as possible, appoint a successor servicer. The successor servicer may be Centurion, FSB, the trustee or an entity which, at the time of its appointment as successor servicer, (1) services a portfolio of charge or credit accounts, (2) is legally qualified and has the capacity to service the trust, (3) has, in the sole determination of the trustee, demonstrated the ability to service professionally and competently a portfolio of similar accounts in accordance with high standards of skill and care, (4) is qualified to use the software that is then being used to service the accounts or obtains the right to use or has its own software which is adequate to perform its duties under the pooling and servicing agreement and other securitization agreements and (5) has a net worth of at least $50,000,000 as of the end of its most recent fiscal quarter. The successor servicer shall accept its appointment by written instrument acceptable to the trustee. The successor servicer is entitled to compensation out of collections; however, that compensation will not be in excess of the servicing fee. See “Description of the Certificates — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus for a discussion of the monthly servicing fee. Because TRS, as servicer, has significant responsibilities with respect to the servicing of the receivables, the trustee may have difficulty finding a suitable successor servicer. Potential successor servicers may not have the capacity to adequately perform the duties required of a successor servicer or may not be willing to perform such duties for the amount of the servicing fee currently payable under the pooling and servicing agreement. If no successor servicer has been appointed by the trustee and has accepted such appointment by the time the servicer ceases to act as servicer, all rights, authority, power and obligations of the servicer under the pooling and servicing agreement will be vested in the trustee. The Bank of New York Mellon, the trustee, does not have credit card operations. If The Bank of New York Mellon is automatically appointed as successor servicer, it may not have the capacity to perform the duties required of a successor servicer and current servicing compensation under the pooling and servicing agreement may not be sufficient to cover its actual costs and expenses of servicing the accounts. Prior to any service transfer, the trustee will seek to obtain bids from potential servicers meeting certain eligibility requirements set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement to serve as a successor servicer for servicing compensation not in excess of the Servicing Fee plus any amounts payable to the transferors pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement.

The fiscal year for the trust will end on December 31 of each year. The servicer will file with the SEC an annual report on Form 10-K on behalf of the trust 90 days after the end of its fiscal year.

The servicer will deliver to the trustee and, if required, file with the SEC as part of an annual report on Form 10-K filed on behalf of the trust, the following documents:

(i) a review of the servicer’s activities during the reporting period and of its performance under the pooling and servicing agreement has been made under such officer’s supervision; and

(ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the servicer has fulfilled all of its obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement in all material respects throughout the reporting period or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature and status thereof.

The servicer’s obligation to deliver any servicing assessment report or attestation report and, if required, to file the same with the SEC, is limited to those reports prepared by the servicer and, in the case of reports prepared by any other party, those reports actually received by the servicer.

Copies of all statements, certificates and reports furnished to the trustee may be obtained by a request in writing delivered to the trustee. Except as described in this prospectus, there will not be any independent verification that any duty or obligation to be performed by any transaction party — including the servicer — has been performed by that party.

In addition to the consequences of a Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event discussed above, if an insolvency event occurs, the transferors immediately will stop transferring principal receivables to the trust. They also will promptly notify the trustee of the insolvency event.

An “insolvency event” shall occur if any transferor or other holder of the original transferor certificate shall consent to or fail to object to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator or trustee in any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, conservatorship, liquidation, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or relating to such transferor or other holder or of or relating to all or substantially all of such transferor’s or other holder’s property, or a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises shall issue, or enter against such transferor or other holder a decree or order for the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator or trustee in any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, conservatorship, liquidation, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings or for the winding-up or liquidation of such transferor’s or other holder’s affairs; or any such transferor or other holder shall admit in writing its inability, or shall be unable, to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, receivership, or conservatorship statute, make any assignment for the benefit of its creditors or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations; or a proceeding shall have been instituted against such transferor or other holder by a court having jurisdiction in the premises seeking a

decree or order for relief in respect of any such person in an involuntary case under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or liquidation statute, or for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or other similar official, of such transferor or other holder or for any substantial part of such transferor’s or other holder’s property, or for the liquidation and winding up of such transferor’s or other holder’s affairs and, if instituted against such transferor or other holder, any such proceeding shall continue undismissed or unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days, or any of the actions sought in such proceeding shall occur.

If the only Pay-Out Event or Reinvestment Event to occur with respect to any series is the bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation receivership or conservatorship of a transferor, the trustee may not be permitted to suspend transfers of receivables to the trust.

The pooling and servicing agreement and any supplement may be amended from time to time, including in connection with:

Amendments to the pooling and servicing agreement and any supplement may be made by agreement of the trustee, the transferors and the servicer without the consent of the certificateholders of any series, so long as:

The pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement also may be amended by the trustee, the transferors and the servicer:

(a) in the case of a change in the permitted activities of the trust which is not materially adverse to holders of certificates, with the consent of certificateholders evidencing not less than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the certificates of each outstanding series affected by such change, unless such change is necessary for compliance with accounting requirements or tax requirements or required to cure any ambiguity or correct or supplement any provision contained in the pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement which may be defective or inconsistent with any provisions thereof, and

(b) in all other cases with the consent of the certificateholders evidencing not less than 66²⁄₃% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the certificates of all affected series for which the transferors have not delivered an officer’s certificate stating that there will be no Adverse Effect, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement or of modifying in any manner the rights of certificateholders.

Promptly following the execution of any amendment to the pooling and servicing agreement (other than an amendment described in the first paragraph), the trustee will furnish written notice of the substance of such amendment to each certificateholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any supplement executed in connection with the issuance of one or more new series of certificates will not be considered an amendment to the pooling and servicing agreement.

In addition to being subject to amendment pursuant to the provisions described above, the pooling and servicing agreement and the related supplement may be amended by the transferors without the consent of the servicer, the trustee or any certificateholder to account for the transfer of assets as sales in accordance with FASB Statement No. 140, including providing for the transfer of receivables from Centurion or FSB to a bankruptcy-remote special purpose entity and from that entity to the trust. Promptly after the effectiveness of any such amendment, the transferors shall deliver a copy of such amendment to each of the servicer, the trustee, each Rating Agency and any other party entitled to receive it pursuant to the relevant supplement. Furthermore, such amendment shall be subject to the delivery by the transferors of a Tax Opinion.

Only if so expressly provided in the applicable supplement, then pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, the transferors may terminate their substantive obligations in respect of a series or the pooling and servicing agreement by depositing with the trustee, under the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement satisfactory to the trustee, from amounts representing or acquired with collections on the receivables (allocable to the defeased series and available to purchase additional receivables) monies or Eligible Investments sufficient to make all remaining scheduled interest and principal payments on the defeased series on the dates scheduled for such payments and to pay all amounts owing to any provider of Series Enhancement. To achieve that end, the transferors have the right to use collections on receivables to purchase Eligible Investments rather than additional receivables.

Prior to the first exercise of their right to substitute monies or Eligible Investments for receivables, the transferors shall deliver:

(i) to the trustee an opinion of counsel with respect to such deposit and termination of obligations to the effect that, for federal income tax purposes, such action would not cause the trust to be deemed to be an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation; and

(ii) to the servicer and the trustee written notice from each Rating Agency that the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied.

In addition, the transferors must comply with certain other requirements set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement, including requirements that the transferors deliver:

If the transferors discharge their substantive obligations in respect of the defeased series, any Series Enhancement for the affected series may no longer be available to make payments with respect to that series.

Upon the making of any deposit described in the preceding paragraph, the certificateholders of the defeased series could recognize taxable gain for federal income tax purposes to the extent that the value of the affected certificates exceeds the tax basis therein, but in no event would be allowed to deduct a taxable loss for such purposes.

Upon written request of any holder or group of holders of certificates of any series or of all outstanding series of record holding certificates evidencing not less than 10% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the certificates of such series or all series, as applicable, the trustee will afford such holder or holders of certificates access during business hours to the current list of certificateholders of such series or of all outstanding series, as the case may be, for purposes of communicating with other holders of certificates with respect to their rights under the pooling and servicing agreement. See “Description of the Certificates — Book-Entry Registration” and “— Definitive Certificates” in this prospectus.

The pooling and servicing agreement will not provide for any annual or other meetings of certificateholders.

The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, is the trustee under the pooling and servicing agreement. See “Transaction Parties — The Trustee” in this prospectus for a description of The Bank of New York Mellon.

Under the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer agrees to pay to the trustee reasonable compensation for performance of its duties under the pooling and servicing agreement. The trustee has agreed to perform only those duties specifically set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement. Many of the duties of the trustee are described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally” and throughout this prospectus. Under the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement, the trustee’s limited responsibilities include the following:

In addition to the responsibilities described above, the trustee has the discretion to require the transferors or the servicer, as applicable, to cure a potential Pay-Out Event and to declare a Pay-Out Event. See “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events.”

If a servicer default occurs, in addition to the responsibilities described above, the trustee may be required to appoint a successor servicer or to take over servicing responsibilities under the pooling and servicing agreement. See “— Servicer Default.” In addition, if a servicer default occurs, the trustee, in its discretion, may proceed to protect its rights or the rights of the investor certificateholders under the pooling and servicing agreement by a suit, action or other judicial proceeding.

The trustee is not liable for any errors of judgment as long as the errors are made in good faith and the trustee was not negligent. The trustee may resign at any time, and it may be forced to resign if the trustee fails to meet the eligibility requirements specified in the pooling and servicing agreement.

The holders of a majority of investor certificates have the right to direct the time, method or place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee under the pooling and servicing agreement.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that a transferor may not consolidate with or merge into, or sell all or substantially all of its assets as an entirety to, any other entity unless:

(i) the surviving entity is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

(ii) the surviving entity, the transferors and the trustee shall have entered into a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement providing for the entity’s assumption of the applicable transferor’s obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement;

(a) an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel regarding the enforceability of such assumption agreement against the surviving entity; and

(iv) all filings required to perfect the trustee’s interest in the receivables to be conveyed by the surviving entity shall have been duly made and copies thereof shall have been delivered to the trustee;

(v) the trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel with respect to clause (iv) above and certain other matters specified in the pooling and servicing agreement; and

(vi) if the surviving entity is not subject to Title 11 of the United States Code, the applicable transferor shall have delivered notice to each Rating Agency of the assumption of such transferor’s obligations by the surviving entity. If the surviving entity is subject to Title 11 of the United States Code, the applicable transferor shall have delivered the notice described above and the transferors shall have received notice that the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.

Assumption of obligations by entities subject to Title 11 of the United States Code in accordance with the provisions described above may alter or increase certain insolvency risks described under “Risk Factors — The conservatorship, receivership, bankruptcy, or insolvency of Centurion, FSB, TRS, a transferor, the trust, or any of their affiliates could result in accelerated, delayed, or reduced payments to you” in this prospectus.

Under the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer may not consolidate with or merge into, or sell all or substantially all of its assets as an entirety to, any other entity unless, among other things:

(i) the surviving entity is an eligible servicer under the pooling and servicing agreement;

(ii) the surviving entity is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; and

(iii) in a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement, the surviving entity expressly assumes the servicer’s obligations under such agreement.

The pooling and servicing agreement permits a transfer of all or a portion of a transferor’s credit or charge accounts and the receivables arising thereunder. This transfer may include all (but not less than all) of the accounts and may also include such transferor’s remaining interest in the receivables arising thereunder and its interest in the trust, together with all servicing functions and other obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement or relating to the transactions contemplated thereby, to another entity that may or may not be affiliated with that transferor. Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, each transferor is permitted to assign, convey, and transfer these assets and obligations to such other entity, without the consent or approval or any certificateholders, if the following conditions, among others, are satisfied:

(i) the assuming entity is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

(ii) the assuming entity, the transferors and the trustee shall have entered into a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement or an assumption agreement providing for the entity’s assumption of the applicable transferor’s obligations under the pooling and servicing agreement;

(a) an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel regarding the enforceability of such assumption agreement against the assuming entity; and

(iv) all filings required to perfect the trustee’s interest in the receivables to be conveyed by the assuming entity shall have been duly made and copies thereof shall have been delivered to the trustee;

(v) the trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel with respect to clause (iv) above and certain other matters specified in the pooling and servicing agreement; and

(vi) if the assuming entity is not subject to Title 11 of the United States Code, the applicable transferor shall have delivered notice to each Rating Agency of the assumption of such transferor’s obligations by the surviving entity. If the assuming entity is subject to Title 11 of the United States Code, the applicable transferor shall have delivered the notice described above and the transferors shall have received notice that the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.

The pooling and servicing agreement provides that the transferors, the surviving entity and the trustee may enter into amendments to that agreement to permit the transfer and assumption described above without the consent of any certificateholders. After any permitted transfer and assumption, the assuming entity will be considered to be a “transferor” for all purposes hereof, and the applicable transferor will have no further liability or obligation under the pooling and servicing agreement. Assumption of obligations by entities subject to Title 11 of the United States Code in accordance with the provisions described above may alter or increase certain insolvency risks described under “Risk Factors — The conservatorship, receivership, bankruptcy, or insolvency of Centurion, FSB, TRS, a transferor, the trust, or any of their affiliates could result in accelerated, delayed, or reduced payments to you” in this prospectus.

The following summarizes the material terms of the RFC III purchase agreement, which is the receivables purchase agreement between Centurion and RFC III, and the RFC IV purchase agreement, which is the receivables purchase agreement between FSB and RFC IV. We refer to the RFC III purchase agreement and the RFC IV purchase agreement collectively as the “purchase agreements” and we refer to RFC III and RFC IV individually as the “purchaser” and collectively as the “purchasers.” Forms of the purchase agreements are filed as exhibits to this registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part.

Centurion and FSB are the owners of the accounts which contain the receivables that are purchased by RFC III and RFC IV, respectively, pursuant to the respective purchase agreement and then transferred by RFC III and RFC IV to the trust. In connection with the sale of receivables to RFC III and RFC IV, respectively, each of Centurion and FSB has:

Under each purchase agreement, the allocated Issuer Rate Fees for each calendar month is to be paid by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, to the respective purchaser in the second following calendar month. For each calendar month, the allocated Issuer Rate Fees will be an amount equal to the sum of (i) the product of (A) the rate at which Issuer Rate Fees accrued to Centurion or FSB, as applicable, during the second preceding Monthly Period on credit accounts owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, multiplied by (B) a fraction, (I) the numerator of which is the aggregate amount of cardholder charges in all credit accounts owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, excluding balance transfer transactions, purchases made by convenience checks, cash advances, certain ineligible products and services offered by TRS or any affiliate or subsidiary thereof, and all other transactions on which Issuer Rate Fees did not accrue to Centurion or FSB, as applicable, in each case with respect to such Monthly Period, and (II) the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of cardholder charges in all credit accounts owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, with respect to such Monthly Period, multiplied by (C) new principal receivables that arose during such Monthly Period in the accounts that constitute credit accounts, plus (ii) the product of (A) the rate at which Issuer Rate Fees accrued to Centurion or FSB, as applicable, during the second preceding Monthly Period on charge accounts or lines of credit owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, multiplied by (B) a fraction, (I) the numerator of which is the aggregate amount of obligor charges on all charge accounts or lines of credit owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, excluding balance transfer transactions, purchases made by convenience checks, cash advances, certain ineligible products and services offered by TRS or any affiliate or subsidiary thereof, and all other transactions on which Issuer Rate Fees did not accrue to Centurion or FSB, as applicable, in each case with respect to such Monthly Period, and (II) the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of obligor charges on all charge accounts or lines of credit owned by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, with respect to such Monthly Period, multiplied by (C) new principal receivables that arose during such Monthly Period in the accounts that constitute charge accounts or lines of credit.

Pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, each of RFC III and RFC IV has assigned all of its right, title and interest in the respective purchase agreement, including its right to enforce the agreement against Centurion or FSB, as applicable, to the trustee, on behalf of the trust.

In each purchase agreement, Centurion or FSB, respectively, represents and warrants to the respective purchaser that, among other things:

In each purchase agreement, each of Centurion and FSB, respectively, makes the following representations and warranties, among others:

As described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus, each purchaser, in its capacity as transferor to the trust, makes corresponding representations to the trust and the trustee. The pooling and servicing agreement provides that if a transferor materially breaches any of such representations, subject to certain conditions, such transferor will be required to accept reassignment of the related Ineligible Receivables. The purchase agreements provide that if Centurion or FSB, as applicable, materially breaches any of the representations and warranties described above and, as a result, the respective purchaser is required under the pooling and servicing agreement to accept a reassignment of the related Ineligible Receivables transferred to the trust by such purchaser, then Centurion or FSB, as applicable, will accept reassignment of such Ineligible Receivables and pay to the respective purchaser an amount equal to the unpaid balance of such Ineligible Receivables. See “— Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

Each of Centurion and FSB, as applicable, also represents and warrants in the respective purchase agreement that (a) such purchase agreement and any supplemental conveyance each constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Centurion or FSB, as applicable, and (b) such purchase agreement and any supplemental conveyance constitute a valid sale to the respective purchaser of all right, title and interest of Centurion or FSB, as applicable, of the receivables, including all Issuer Rate Fees, insurance proceeds, Recoveries, all monies due or to become due, all amounts received or receivable, all collections and all proceeds, each as it relates to such receivables, and that the sale is perfected under the applicable UCC. If a representation described in (a) or (b) of the preceding sentence is not true and correct in any material respect and as a result of the breach the respective purchaser is required under the pooling and servicing agreement to accept a reassignment of all of the receivables previously sold by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, pursuant to such purchase agreement, Centurion or FSB, as applicable, will accept a reassignment of those receivables. See “— Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus. If Centurion or FSB, as applicable, is required to accept such reassignment, Centurion or FSB, as applicable, will pay to the respective purchaser an amount equal to the unpaid balance of the reassigned receivables.

Each of Centurion and FSB, as applicable, also agrees in the respective purchase agreement that

The purchase agreements may be amended by Centurion or FSB, as applicable, and the respective purchaser without consent of any investor certificateholders. No amendment, however, may be effective unless:

The purchase agreements will not terminate at least until the earlier of (a) the termination of the trust pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement and (b) an amendment to the pooling and servicing agreement to replace RFC III with an affiliate of RFC III as a transferor under the pooling and servicing agreement or to replace RFC IV with an affiliate of RFC IV as a transferor under the pooling and servicing agreement, as applicable. Nevertheless, if a receiver or conservator is appointed for either of Centurion or FSB or certain other liquidation, bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar events occur, Centurion or FSB, as the case may be, will cease to transfer receivables to the respective purchaser and promptly give notice of that event to such purchaser and the trustee, unless the receiver, conservator or bankruptcy court instructs otherwise.

As discussed under “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Representations and Warranties” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties,” the sponsors and the transferors

make certain representations and warranties regarding the receivables and the related accounts. As described below, the asset representations reviewer will be responsible for performing a review of all receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent (i.e., 60 days past the date a payment amount is first due under the applicable card member agreement) and the accounts relating to such receivables for compliance with certain of these representations and warranties if the following sequential events occur:

If, with respect to any Monthly Period, the 60-Day Delinquency Percentage equals or exceeds the Delinquency Threshold, the transferors will disclose such occurrence in the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D relating to such Monthly Period.

The “60-Day Delinquency Percentage” for any Monthly Period will equal the average for the three consecutive Monthly Periods ending with such Monthly Period of the aggregate outstanding balance of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent (not including any Defaulted Receivables), as a percentage of the total receivables outstanding in the Trust Portfolio, in each case as of the end of the applicable Monthly Period. We determined to base the delinquency event on the percentage of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that are more than 60 days contractually delinquent because it is a relatively stable metric by which to measure nonperforming assets at different points in time. We determined to use a rolling three-month average of monthly delinquency percentages because it is a measure of nonperforming assets over a period of time and is, therefore, a better measure of the significance of that nonperformance than is a measure of nonperforming assets at any particular point in time.

The “Delinquency Threshold” will initially equal 7.79%, although the Delinquency Threshold will be reviewed and may be adjusted as described below. The initial Delinquency Threshold is calculated as the product of the historical peak percentage of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that were more than 60 days contractually delinquent (not including any Defaulted Receivables) as of the end of any Monthly Period from the formation of the trust in May 1996 to December 2016 (3.9%) and a multiplier of 2.

In determining the manner in which the Delinquency Threshold is calculated, we sought to identify a circumstance when rising delinquencies might begin to cause a reasonable investor concern that the receivables in the Trust Portfolio might not have complied with the representations and warranties made with respect to those receivables in the pooling and servicing agreement and the purchase agreements. We considered two primary factors: (i) the historical peak percentage of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that were more than 60 days contractually delinquent and (ii) the history of repurchase demands for receivables in the Trust Portfolio where the breach of a representation or warranty had been asserted. During the period from the formation of the trust in May 1996 to December 2016, the historical peak percentage of receivables in the Trust Portfolio that were more than 60 days contractually delinquent was 3.9%. During that same period, neither the trustee nor any certificateholder has made a repurchase demand or asserted a breach of a representation or warranty concerning the receivables. We believe that delinquency percentages that do not exceed the historical peak delinquency percentage by a reasonable margin are far less likely to bear either a causal or a correlative relationship to any putative or actual breaches of representations and warranties concerning delinquent receivables, particularly in the case of the issuing entity, where no repurchase demand has ever been made nor breach of a representation or warranty been asserted. Further, we believe that establishing a reasonable margin above the historical peak delinquency percentage will reduce the likelihood that the Delinquency Threshold is breached due to general fluctuations in consumer credit cycles or other factors that are unrelated to breaches of representations and warranties, such as changes in the macro-economic environment or underwriting decisions. Based on these considerations, we believe that the Delinquency Threshold,

calculated as described above, is an appropriate measure to trigger a review by the asset representations reviewer for a securitization platform that was established almost 20 years ago and with no history of repurchase demands.

The Delinquency Threshold will be reviewed and may be adjusted upon the occurrence of either of the following events:

(i) the filing of a registration statement with the SEC relating to any certificates to be offered and sold from time to time by the transferors, on behalf of the issuing entity; and

(ii) a change in law or regulation (including any new or revised interpretation of an existing law or regulation) that, in the judgment of the transferors, could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the delinquency rate for cardholder payments on the credit card accounts comprising the master trust portfolio or the manner by which delinquencies are defined or determined;

provided, however, that, once the 60-Day Delinquency Percentage for any Monthly Period exceeds the Delinquency Threshold, a review of the Delinquency Threshold that would otherwise be undertaken as described above will be delayed until the date on which it is first reported in the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D that the 60-Day Delinquency Percentage for the related Monthly Period no longer exceeds the Delinquency Threshold.

In the case of a review undertaken upon the occurrence of an event described in clause (i) above, we may increase or decrease the Delinquency Threshold, including by increasing or decreasing the multiplier used to calculate the Delinquency Threshold, by any amount we reasonably determine to be appropriate based on the composition of the Trust Portfolio at the time of the review. In the case of a review undertaken upon the occurrence of an event described in clause (ii) above, we may increase or decrease the Delinquency Threshold, including by increasing or decreasing the multiplier used to calculate the Delinquency Threshold, by any amount we reasonably determine to be appropriate as a result of the related change in law or regulation. Any adjustment to the Delinquency Threshold will be disclosed in the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D relating to the Monthly Period in which the adjustment occurs, which report will include a description of how the adjusted Delinquency Threshold rate was determined to be appropriate.

Following the disclosure in a monthly distribution report on Form 10-D that the 60-Day Delinquency Percentage with respect to the related Monthly Period exceeded the Delinquency Threshold, investors in the Series 2017-1 certificates and all other outstanding series issued by the issuing entity will have the right to determine whether or not to initiate a vote to direct an asset representations review by providing written notice to the trustee of their desire to initiate such a vote. If any of the certificateholders providing such notice is not a record holder (including if such certificateholder owns a beneficial interest in a certificates in book-entry form), the trustee may require that certificateholder to provide (i) a written certification that it is a beneficial owner of certificates and (ii) one other form of documentation, such as a trade confirmation, an account statement, a letter from a broker or dealer or other similar document to verify that the certificateholder is, in fact, a beneficial owner of certificates.

If, within 90 days following the date of disclosure that the Delinquency Threshold has been exceeded, certificateholders holding certificates evidencing not less than 5% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all outstanding certificates (excluding any certificates held by the sponsors, the depositors, the servicer or any of their affiliates) provide written notice to the trustee of their desire to initiate a vote, the trustee will promptly provide notice of such occurrence to all certificateholders and commence a solicitation of votes of certificateholders to initiate a review. In addition, the transferors will disclose in the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D relating to the Monthly Period during which the 5% notice threshold was reached that a vote to direct an asset representations review has commenced.

The vote on whether to initiate an asset representations review will be completed within 90 days of the delivery by the trustee of notice to certificateholders that a solicitation of votes has commenced. If, at the end of the 90-day voting period, certificateholders holding certificates evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all outstanding certificates participating in such vote (excluding any certificates held by the sponsors, the

depositors, the servicer or any of their affiliates) elect to direct an asset representations review, the trustee will promptly provide notice of such occurrence to the transferors, the servicer and the sponsors, and the servicer will provide notice to the asset representations reviewer. In addition, the transferors will disclose the results of the vote in the trust’s monthly distribution report on Form 10-D relating to the Monthly Period during which the voting period ended.

Following receipt of notice from the servicer that certificateholders have voted to direct an asset representations review, the asset representations reviewer will perform a review of all receivables in the Trust Portfolio that were more than 60 days contractually delinquent (and the accounts relating to such receivables), as of the last day of the Monthly Period immediately preceding the monthly period during which the 90-day voting period ended, for compliance with the ARR Representations and Warranties on such receivables and the accounts. The asset representations review will be performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in the asset representations review agreement.

The asset representations review agreement provides that, in connection with any asset representations review, the servicer will grant the asset representations reviewer access to documentation related to the performance of its review of the applicable accounts and receivables. The servicer will generally grant access to the review documentation within 60 days of the servicer’s notice to the asset representations reviewer, and the asset representations review will generally be completed within 60 days of the asset representations reviewer receiving access to the necessary documentation.

Upon the completion of an asset representations review, the asset representations reviewer will provide a report to the trustee, the sponsors and the transferors of the findings and conclusions of the review of the receivables and the accounts. A summary of the asset representations reviewer’s report will be included in the trust’s distribution report on Form 10-D for the distribution period in which the report is provided to the trustee, the sponsors and the transferors.

The asset representations reviewer will not be the party to determine whether any noncompliance with representations or warranties constitutes a breach of any contractual provision relating to the receivables or the accounts. With respect to any such noncompliance with representations and warranties identified during the asset representations review, the applicable sponsor will be the party to determine whether a contractual breach has occurred relating to the receivables or the accounts.

Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, will act as the asset representations reviewer under the asset representations review agreement. Clayton is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Radian Group, Inc. (NYSE: RDN), and has provided independent due diligence loan review and servicer oversight services since 1989.

Clayton is a provider of targeted due diligence reviews of securitized assets and policies and procedures of originators and servicers to assess compliance with representations and warranties, regulatory and legal requirements, investor guidelines and settlement agreements. Clayton has performed over 12 million loan reviews and provided ongoing oversight on over $2 trillion of securitization transactions on behalf of investors, sponsors, issuers and originators, including government sponsored enterprises and other governmental agencies. These services have been performed primarily on residential mortgage loan and residential mortgage-backed security transactions, although Clayton has also performed these services for transactions involving auto loans, credit cards, commercial mortgage loans, student loans, timeshare loans and boat and recreational vehicle loans.

The asset representations reviewer is not, and so long as the Series 2017-1 certificates are outstanding will not be, affiliated with Centurion, FSB, RFC III, RFC IV, TRS, the trustee or any of their affiliates. The asset representations reviewer is not the same party or an affiliate of any party hired by any sponsor or any underwriter to perform pre-closing due diligence work on the receivables.

The asset representations review agreement provides that the asset representations reviewer will have no liability for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith or for errors in judgment, whether arising from express or implied duties under the asset representations review agreement, with exceptions for liability imposed by reason of the asset representations reviewer’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence or its reckless disregard of its obligations. In addition, the asset representations reviewer will be entitled to rely in good faith on the documents provided to it in connection with the performance of its duties under the asset representations review agreement.

The asset representations reviewer will be replaced if it no longer meets the eligibility requirements under the asset representations review agreement. In addition, the transferors may remove and replace the asset representations reviewer (i) in connection with a material breach or failure to perform by the asset representations reviewer under the asset representations review agreement, (ii) in connection with certain bankruptcy events with respect to the asset representations reviewer or (iii) if the asset representations reviewer becomes a competitor of, or an affiliate of a competitor of, American Express.

The asset representations reviewer may not resign as asset representations reviewer except (i) upon determination that (A) the performance of its duties under the asset representations review agreement is no longer permitted under applicable law and (B) there is no reasonable action that it could take to make the performance of its obligations under the asset representations review agreement permitted under applicable law, or (ii) on or after July 20, 2021, upon one year’s written notice. No resignation of the asset representations reviewer will become effective until a successor asset representations reviewer is in place. The expenses associated with changing from one asset representations reviewer to another asset representations reviewer will be paid as agreed upon by the transferors and the asset representations reviewer and will not be paid out of collections received on the trust’s assets.

The operations and financial condition of Centurion and FSB are subject to extensive regulation and supervision under federal and state law. The appropriate banking regulatory authorities, including the FDIC, OCC, CFPB and UDFI have broad enforcement powers over Centurion and FSB. These enforcement powers may adversely affect the operation and financial condition of the trust and your rights under the pooling and servicing agreement prior to the appointment of a receiver or conservator.

If United States federal bank regulatory authorities supervising any bank were to find that any obligation of such bank or an affiliate under a securitization or other agreement, or any activity of such bank or affiliate, constituted an unsafe or unsound practice or violated any law, rule, regulation or written condition or agreement applicable to the related bank or affiliate, such federal bank regulatory authorities have the power to order such bank or affiliate, among other things, to rescind such agreement or contract, refuse to perform that obligation, terminate the activity, amend the terms of such obligation or take such other action as such regulatory authorities determine to be appropriate. In such an event, the related bank or affiliate may not be liable to you for contractual damages for complying with such an order and no recourse may be available against the relevant regulatory authority.

In one case of which the banks are aware, after the OCC found that a national bank was, contrary to safe and sound banking practices, receiving inadequate servicing compensation under its securitization agreements, that bank agreed to a consent order with the OCC. Such consent order required that bank, among other things, to immediately

resign as servicer and to cease performing its duties as servicer within approximately 120 days, to immediately withhold and segregate funds from collections for payment of its servicing fee (notwithstanding the priority of payments in the securitization agreements and the perfected security interest of the relevant trust in those funds) and to increase its servicing fee percentage above that which was originally agreed upon in its securitization agreements.

While Centurion, FSB and their affiliates have no reason to believe that any obligation of Centurion, FSB or an affiliate under the securitization agreements is unsafe or unsound or violative of any law, rule or regulation applicable to them, there can be no assurance that any such regulatory authority would not conclude otherwise in the future. If such a bank regulatory authority did reach such a conclusion, and ordered Centurion, FSB or an affiliate to rescind or amend the securitization agreements, payments to you could be delayed or reduced.

See “Risk Factors — Regulatory action could result in losses” and “— Regulatory oversight and supervision could adversely impact the trust or your certificates, including by impeding origination or collection efforts, changing account holder use patterns, or reducing collections” in this prospectus.

The relationship of the consumer and the provider of consumer credit is extensively regulated by federal and state consumer protection laws. With respect to credit accounts issued by Centurion and FSB, the most significant federal laws include the federal Truth in Lending, Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Credit Reporting and Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts. These statutes impose disclosure requirements before and when an account is opened, at the end of monthly billing cycles and on an annual basis, and, in addition, limit account holder liability for unauthorized use, prohibit certain discriminatory practices in extending credit, and regulate practices followed in collections. In addition, account holders are entitled under these laws to have payments and credits applied to the revolving credit account promptly and to request prompt resolution of billing errors.

In addition, pursuant to the Credit CARD Act, the federal Truth in Lending Act was amended to require advance notice of any changes in interest rates or fees (or other significant changes to the terms of a credit card account), and to prohibit generally rate increases on existing credit card account balances. These and additional amendments to the federal Truth in Lending Act may make it more difficult for the banks to originate additional accounts or for the servicer to collect payments on the receivables, and the finance charges and other fees that the account owners or their affiliates can charge on credit card account balances may be reduced. Furthermore, cardholders may choose to use credit cards less as a result of this legislation. Each of these results, independently or collectively, may reduce the effective yield on the credit card accounts in the Trust Portfolio, which could result in accelerated or reduced payments on your certificates. See “Risk Factors — Changes to consumer protection laws, including in the application or interpretation thereof, may impede origination or collection efforts, change account holder use patterns, or reduce collections, any of which may result in acceleration of or reduction in payment on your certificates” in this prospectus for a more complete description of the Credit CARD Act and the risks associated with it.

Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB has broad rulemaking examination and enforcement authority with respect to certain federal consumer financial laws over providers of consumer financial products and services, including American Express, Centurion and FSB, and authority to prevent “unfair, deceptive or abusive” acts or practices. In addition, a number of U.S. states have significant consumer credit protection and disclosure laws (in certain cases more stringent than U.S. federal laws). U.S. federal law also regulates abusive debt collection practices. Bankruptcy and debtor relief laws can affect the ability of American Express to collect amounts owed to it. In October 2012, American Express announced that it and TRS, Centurion and FSB reached settlements with several bank regulators relating to certain aspects of its U.S. consumer card practices. In December 2013, TRS, Centurion and FSB reached settlements with several banking regulators to resolve regulatory reviews of marketing and billing practices related to several credit card add-on products. Internal and regulatory reviews are likely to continue to result in changes to practices, products and procedures.

In 2016, the CFPB outlined proposals that would set forth additional requirements for third-party debt collection agencies, which American Express uses in the ordinary course. This proposal is part of a rulemaking process that may not result in a final rule, if any, becoming effective before 2018. In 2003, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council issued guidance on credit card account management and loss allowance practices. Centurion

and FSB regularly evaluate and discuss the guidance with their respective regulators and, as a result, may refine their practices from time to time based on regulatory input.

The trust may be liable for certain violations of consumer protection laws that apply to the receivables, either as assignee from the transferors with respect to obligations arising before transfer of the receivables to the trust or as the party directly responsible for obligations arising after the transfer. In addition, an account holder may be entitled to assert such violations by way of set-off against the obligation to pay the amount of receivables owing. All receivables that were not created in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of such laws (if such noncompliance has a material adverse effect on the certificateholders’ interest therein) will be reassigned to the transferors. The servicer has also agreed in the pooling and servicing agreement to indemnify the trust, among other things, for any liability arising from such violations caused by its servicing activities. For a discussion of the trust’s rights if the receivables were not created in compliance in all material respects with applicable laws, see “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) allows individuals on active duty in the military to cap the interest rate and fees on debts incurred before the call to active duty at 6%. In addition, subject to judicial discretion, any action or court proceeding in which an individual in military service is involved may be stayed if the individual’s rights would be prejudiced by denial of such a stay. Currently, some accountholders with outstanding balances have been placed on active duty in the military, and more may be placed on active duty in the future. In addition to the requirements of the SCRA, SCRA-covered American Express accountholders receive additional protections for the duration of their active duty status, including: (1) SCRA-eligible balances are subject to an interest rate of 0% for the life of the balance; (2) exclusion from increases to annual fees and annual percentage rates; and (3) exclusion from application of the penalty rate. Additionally, annual membership fees, late payment fees, return payment fees and return ATM fees are waived for covered accountholders for the duration of their active duty status.

Application of federal and state bankruptcy and debtor relief laws would affect the interests of the certificateholders if such laws result in any receivables being charged off as uncollectible. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Defaulted Receivables; Rebates and Fraudulent Charges” in this prospectus.

See “Risk Factors — Regulatory oversight and supervision could adversely impact the trust or your certificates, including by impeding origination or collection efforts, changing account holder use patterns, or reducing collections” and “— Changes to consumer protection laws, including in the application or interpretation thereof, may impede origination or collection efforts, change account holder use patterns, or reduce collections, any of which may result in acceleration of or reduction in payment on your certificates” in this prospectus.

In the ordinary course of business, American Express Company and its subsidiaries (“American Express”) are subject to various claims, investigations, examinations, pending and potential legal actions, and other matters relating to compliance with laws and regulations (collectively, legal proceedings). During the last several years, as regulatory interest in credit card network pricing to merchants or terms of merchant rules and contracts has increased, American Express has responded to many inquiries from banking and competition authorities around the world. In addition, the Department of Justice and various merchants have initiated legal proceedings to challenge aspects of American Express’ card acceptance agreements with merchants on antitrust grounds.

In 2010, the DOJ, along with Attorneys General from Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii (Hawaii has since withdrawn its claim), Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Vermont filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against American Express, MasterCard International Incorporated and Visa, Inc., alleging a violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act (the DOJ case). The complaint included allegations that provisions in American Express’ merchant agreements prohibiting merchants from steering a customer to use another network’s card or another type of general-purpose card (“anti-steering” and “non-discrimination” contractual provisions) violate the antitrust laws. The complaint sought a judgment permanently enjoining American Express from enforcing its anti-steering and non-discrimination contractual provisions. The complaint did not seek monetary damages.

Following a non-jury trial in the DOJ case, the trial court found that the challenged provisions were anticompetitive and on April 30, 2015, the court issued a final judgment entering a permanent injunction. Following American Express’ appeal of this judgment, on September 26, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the trial court decision and directed the trial court to enter a judgment for American Express. Following denial of rehearing en banc by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the trial court entered judgment for American Express on January 25, 2017. The DOJ may seek further review by the Supreme Court.

In addition to the DOJ case, individual merchant cases and a putative class action are pending in the Eastern District of New York against American Express alleging that its anti-steering provisions in merchant card acceptance agreements violate U.S. antitrust laws. The individual merchant cases seek damages in unspecified amounts and injunctive relief. These matters, including a trial previously scheduled in the individual merchant cases, had been stayed pending resolution of the appeal in the DOJ case. Further proceedings are anticipated.

Individual merchants have initiated arbitration proceedings raising similar claims concerning the anti-steering provisions in American Express’ card acceptance agreements and seeking damages. American Express is vigorously defending against those claims.

In July 2004, American Express was named as a defendant in another putative class action filed in the Eastern District of New York, captioned The Marcus Corporation v. American Express Company, et al., in which the plaintiffs allege an unlawful antitrust tying arrangement between certain of American Express’ charge cards and credit cards in violation of various state and federal laws. The plaintiffs in this action seek injunctive relief and an unspecified amount of damages. In December 2013, American Express announced a proposed settlement of the Marcus case and the putative class action challenging American Express’ anti-steering provisions. The settlement, which provides for certain injunctive relief for the proposed classes, received preliminary approval in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. On August 4, 2015, the court denied final approval of the settlement; further proceedings are anticipated.

On March 8, 2016, plaintiffs B&R Supermarket, Inc. d/b/a Milam’s Market and Grove Liquors LLC, on behalf of themselves and others, filed a suit, captioned B&R Supermarket, Inc. d/b/a Milam’s Market, et al. v. Visa Inc., et al., for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, California’s Cartwright Act and unjust enrichment in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, against American Express, other credit and charge card networks, other issuing banks and EMVCo, LLC. Plaintiffs allege that the defendants, through EMVCo, conspired to shift liability for fraudulent, faulty and otherwise rejected consumer credit card transactions from themselves to merchants after the implementation of EMV chip payment terminals. Plaintiffs seek damages and injunctive relief. On June 24, 2016, the court granted American Express’ motion to transfer to the Southern District of New York the claims brought against American Express by merchants who accept American Express cards. The court also granted plaintiffs’ leave to file an amended complaint and, on September 30, 2016, denied American Express’ motion to dismiss as to claims brought by merchants who do not accept American Express cards.

The following is a discussion of material federal income tax consequences relating to the investment in a certificate offered hereunder. This discussion is based on current law, which is subject to changes that could prospectively or retroactively modify or adversely affect the tax consequences summarized below. The discussion does not address all of the tax consequences relevant to a particular certificate owner in light of that certificate owner’s circumstances, and some certificate owners may be subject to special tax rules and limitations not discussed below. Further, certificate owners should be aware that this summary and the opinions contained herein may not be able to be relied upon to avoid any income tax penalties that may be imposed with respect to the certificates. Each prospective certificate owner is urged to consult its own tax adviser in determining the federal, state, local and foreign income and any other tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of a certificate.

For purposes of this discussion, “U.S. person” means a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, or any political subdivision of either (including the District of Columbia), or an estate or trust the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes regardless of its source. The term “U.S. certificate owner” means any U.S. person and any other person to the extent that the income attributable to its interest in a certificate is effectively connected with that person’s conduct of a U.S. trade or business.

The transferors express in the pooling and servicing agreement the intent that for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, the certificates will be debt secured by the receivables. The transferors, by entering into the pooling and servicing agreement, and each investor, by the acceptance of a beneficial interest in a certificate, will agree to treat the certificates as debt for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes. However, the pooling and servicing agreement generally refers to the transfer of receivables as a “sale,” and because different criteria are used in determining the non-tax accounting treatment of the transaction, the transferors will treat the pooling and servicing agreement for certain non-tax accounting purposes as causing a transfer of an ownership interest in the receivables and not as creating a debt obligation.

A basic premise of federal income tax law is that the economic substance of a transaction generally determines its tax consequences. The form of a transaction, while a relevant factor, is not conclusive evidence of its economic substance. In appropriate circumstances, the courts have allowed taxpayers as well as the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) to treat a transaction in accordance with its economic substance, as determined under federal income tax law, even though the participants in the transaction have characterized it differently for non-tax purposes.

The determination of whether the economic substance of a purchase of an interest in property is instead a loan secured by the transferred property has been made by the IRS and the courts on the basis of numerous factors designed to determine whether the transferor has relinquished (and the purchaser has obtained) substantial incidents of ownership in the property. Among those factors, the primary ones examined are whether the purchaser has the opportunity to gain if the property increases in value, and has the risk of loss if the property decreases in value. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, special federal income tax counsel to the transferors (“Special Tax Counsel”), is of the opinion that, under current law as in effect on the series closing date, although no transaction closely comparable to that contemplated herein has been the subject of any Treasury regulation, revenue ruling or judicial decision, for federal income tax purposes the certificates offered hereunder will not constitute an ownership interest in the receivables but will properly be characterized as debt. Except where indicated to the contrary, the following discussion assumes that the certificates offered hereunder are debt for federal income tax purposes.

As more fully described in this “Tax Matters” section, Special Tax Counsel is of the opinion generally to the effect that the trust will not be subject to federal income tax, and further that the certificates will be characterized as debt for federal income tax purposes. Additionally, Special Tax Counsel is of the opinion generally to the effect that

the statements set forth in this section, to the extent that they constitute matters of law or legal conclusions, are correct in all material respects.

Special Tax Counsel has not been asked to opine on any other federal income tax matter, and the balance of this discussion does not purport to set forth any opinion of Special Tax Counsel concerning any other particular federal income tax matter. For example, the discussion of original issue discount below is a general discussion of federal income tax consequences relating to an investment in certificates that are treated as having original issue discount, which discussion Special Tax Counsel opines is correct in all material respects as described above; however, that discussion does not set forth any opinion as to whether any particular series of certificates will be treated as having original issue discount. Additionally, those matters as to which Special Tax Counsel renders opinions should be understood to be subject to the additional considerations in the discussions relating to those opinions set forth below.

Special Tax Counsel has not been asked to, and does not, render any opinion regarding the state or local income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of a beneficial interest in the certificates. See “— State and Local Taxation” below.

This description of the substance of the opinions rendered by Special Tax Counsel is not intended as a substitute for an investor’s review of the remainder of this discussion of income tax consequences, or for consultation with its own advisors or tax return preparer.

The pooling and servicing agreement permits the issuance of certificates and certain other interests (including any collateral interest) in the trust, each of which may be treated for federal income tax purposes either as debt or as equity interests in the trust. If all of the certificates and other interests (other than the original transferor certificate) in the trust were characterized as debt, the trust might be characterized as a security arrangement for debt collateralized by the receivables and issued directly by the transferors (or other holders of the original transferor certificate). Under such a view, the trust would be disregarded for federal income tax purposes. Alternatively, if some of the Transferor Certificates, the certificates and other interests in the trust were characterized as equity therein, the trust might be characterized as a separate entity owning the receivables, issuing its own debt, and jointly owned by the transferors (or other holders of the original transferor certificate) and any other holders of equity interests in the trust. However, special federal income tax counsel is of the opinion that, under current law as in effect on the series closing date, any such entity constituted by the trust will not be an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation.

Possible Treatment of the Trust as a Partnership or a Publicly Traded Partnership

Although, as described above, special federal income tax counsel is of the opinion that the certificates will properly be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes and that the trust will not be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation, such opinion does not bind the IRS and thus no assurance can be given that such treatment will prevail. Further, such opinion is made with respect to current law, which is subject to change. If the IRS were to contend successfully that some or all of the Transferor Certificates, the certificates or any other interests in the trust (including any collateral interest) were equity in the trust for federal income tax purposes, all or a portion of the trust could be classified as a partnership or as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for such purposes. Because special federal income tax counsel is of the opinion that the certificates will be characterized as debt for federal income tax purposes and because any holder of an interest in a collateral interest will agree to treat that interest as debt for such purposes, no attempt will be made to comply with any tax reporting requirements that would apply as a result of such alternative characterizations.

If the trust were treated in whole or in part as a partnership in which some or all holders of interests in the publicly offered certificates were partners, that partnership could be classified as a publicly traded partnership, and so could be taxable as a corporation. Further, regulations published by the Treasury Department under the publicly traded partnership provisions of the Internal Revenue Code could cause the trust to constitute a publicly traded

partnership even if all holders of interests in publicly offered certificates are treated as holding debt. If the trust were classified as a publicly traded partnership, whether by reason of the treatment of publicly offered certificates as equity or by reason of the publicly traded partnership regulations, it would avoid taxation as a corporation if its income was not derived in the conduct of a “financial business”; however, whether the income of the trust would be so classified is unclear.

Under the Internal Revenue Code and the publicly traded partnership regulations, a partnership will be classified as a publicly traded partnership if equity interests therein are traded on an “established securities market,” or are “readily tradable” on a “secondary market” or its “substantial equivalent.” The transferors have taken and intend to take measures designed to reduce the risk that the trust could be classified as a publicly traded partnership by reason of interests in the trust other than the publicly traded certificates. However, certain of the actions that may be necessary for avoiding the treatment of such interests as “readily tradable on a secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” are not fully within the control of the transferors. As a result, there can be no assurance that the measures the transferors intend to take will in all circumstances be sufficient to prevent the trust from being classified as a publicly traded partnership under the publicly traded partnership regulations.

If the trust was treated as a partnership but nevertheless was not treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation, that partnership would not be subject to federal income tax. Rather, each item of income, gain, loss and deduction of the partnership generated through the ownership of the related receivables would be taken into account directly in computing taxable income of the transferors (or the holders of the original transferor certificate) and any certificate owners treated as partners in accordance with their respective partnership interests therein. The amounts and timing of income reportable by any certificate owners treated as partners would likely differ from that reportable by such certificate owners had they been treated as owning debt. In addition, if the trust were treated in whole or in part as a partnership other than a publicly traded partnership, income derived from the partnership by any certificate owner that is a pension fund or other tax-exempt entity may be treated as unrelated business taxable income. Partnership characterization also may have adverse state and local income or franchise tax consequences for a certificate owner. If the trust were treated in whole or in part as a partnership and the number of holders of interests in the publicly offered certificates and other interests in the trust treated as partners equaled or exceeded 100, the transferors may cause the trust to elect to be an “electing large partnership.” The consequence of such election to investors could include the determination of certain tax items at the partnership level and the disallowance of otherwise allowable deductions. No representation is made as to whether such election will be made.

If the arrangement created by the pooling and servicing agreement were treated in whole or in part as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation, that entity would be subject to federal income tax at corporate tax rates on its taxable income generated by ownership of the related receivables. That tax could result in reduced distributions to certificate owners. No distributions from the trust would be deductible in computing the taxable income of the corporation, except to the extent that any certificates were treated as debt of the corporation and distributions to the related certificate owners were treated as payments of interest thereon. In addition, distributions to certificate owners not treated as holding debt would be dividend income to the extent of the current and accumulated earnings and profits of the corporation (and certificate owners may not be entitled to any dividends received deduction in respect of such income).

Subject to the discussion in the immediately following paragraph, stated interest on a beneficial interest in a certificate will be includible in gross income in accordance with a U.S. certificate owner’s method of accounting. If the certificates are issued with original issue discount, the provisions of Sections 1271 through 1273 and 1275 of the Internal Revenue Code will apply to the certificates. Under those provisions, a U.S. certificate owner (including a cash basis holder) generally would be required to accrue the original issue discount on its interest in a certificate in income for federal income tax purposes on a constant yield basis, resulting in the inclusion of original issue discount in income somewhat in advance of the receipt of cash attributable to that income. In general, a certificate will be treated as having original issue discount to the extent that its “stated redemption price” exceeds its “issue price,” if such excess equals or exceeds a “de minimis” amount equal to 0.25 percent multiplied by the weighted average life

of the certificate (determined by taking into account only the number of complete years following issuance until payment is made for any partial principal payments). Under Section 1272(a)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, special provisions apply to debt instruments on which payments may be accelerated due to prepayments of other obligations securing those debt instruments. However, no regulations have been issued interpreting those provisions, and the manner in which those provisions would apply to the certificates is unclear, but the application of Section 1272(a)(6) could affect the rate of accrual of original issue discount and could have other consequences to holders of interests in the certificates. Additionally, the IRS could take the position based on Treasury regulations that none of the interest payable on a certificate is “unconditionally payable” and hence that all of such interest should be included in the certificate’s stated redemption price at maturity. If sustained, such treatment should not significantly affect the tax liability of most certificate owners, but prospective U.S. certificate owners should consult their own tax advisers concerning the impact to them in their particular circumstances. The trust intends to take the position that interest on the certificates constitutes “qualified stated interest” and that the above consequences do not apply.

The transferors may sell all or a portion of certain classes of the certificates (including any tranche or subclass of certificates) to one or more of their affiliates, and may have the right while the certificates are so held, subject to certain conditions, to reset the interest rate on those certificates (such certificates, the “retained certificates”). The analysis of the accrual of stated interest on, and the application of the original issue discount provisions of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to, any retained certificates is not completely certain; however, absent an actual sale at a discount equal to or exceeding the applicable “de minimis” amount of original issue discount, the trust generally does not intend to treat retained certificates as having been issued with original issue discount. Certificate owners acquiring retained certificates should consult their advisers with respect to the reporting of interest income in respect of retained certificates, whether retained certificates will be treated as issued with original issue discount, and the effect of any such treatment on them.

A U.S. certificate owner who purchases an interest in a certificate at a discount that exceeds any unamortized original issue discount may be subject to the “market discount” rules of Sections 1276 through 1278 of the Internal Revenue Code. These rules provide, in part, that gain on the sale or other disposition of a certificate and partial principal payments on a certificate are treated as ordinary income to the extent of accrued market discount. The market discount rules also provide for deferral of interest deductions with respect to debt incurred to purchase or carry a certificate that has market discount.

A U.S. certificate owner who purchases an interest in a certificate at a premium may elect to offset the premium against interest income over the remaining term of the certificate in accordance with the provisions of Section 171 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Upon a disposition of an interest in a certificate, a U.S. certificate owner generally will recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized on the disposition and the U.S. certificate owner’s adjusted basis in its interest in the certificate. A taxable exchange of a certificate could also occur as a result of the transferors’ substitution of money or investments for receivables. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Defeasance” in this prospectus. Additionally, a U.S. certificate owner may recognize gain or loss as a result of any resetting of the interest rate payable on a retained certificate by the trust. The adjusted basis in the interest in the certificate will equal its cost, increased by any original issue discount or market discount includible in income with respect to the interest in the certificate prior to its sale and reduced by any principal payments previously received with respect to the interest in the certificate and any amortized premium. Subject to the market discount rules, gain or loss will be capital gain or loss if the interest in the certificate was held as a capital asset. Capital losses generally may be used only to offset capital gains.

Certain non-corporate U.S. certificate owners will be subject to an additional 3.8% tax on all or a portion of their “net investment income,” which may include the interest payments and any gain realized with respect to the certificates, less certain deductions. U.S. certificate owners should consult their tax advisors with respect to any consequences of this 3.8% Medicare tax.

Under U.S. federal income tax law now in effect, payment of interest by the trust to a certificate owner who, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is a nonresident alien individual or a foreign corporation (a “foreign person”), generally will be considered “portfolio interest” and generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax and withholding tax, provided the interest is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States by the foreign person, unless:

(i) the foreign person actually or constructively owns 10 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of any transferor entitled to vote (or of a profits or capital interest in the trust if characterized as a partnership),

(ii) the foreign person is a controlled foreign corporation that is related to a transferor (or the trust if treated as a partnership) through stock ownership,

(iii) the foreign person is a bank receiving interest described in U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 881(c)(3)(A),

(iv) such interest is contingent interest described in U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 871(h)(4), or

(v) the foreign person bears certain relationships to any holder of either (x) the original transferor certificate other than the transferors or (y) any other interest in the trust not properly characterized as debt.

To qualify for the exemption from taxation, the withholding agent, who generally is the last U.S. person in the chain of payment prior to payment to a foreign person, must have received (in the year in which a payment of interest or principal occurs or in either of the two preceding years) a statement that:

(iii) provides the name and address of, and certain additional information concerning, the foreign person.

The statement generally may be made on a Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E (or substantially similar substitute form), and the foreign person must inform the withholding agent of any change in the information on the statement within 30 days of the change. If a certificate is held through a securities clearing organization or certain other financial institutions, the organization or institution may provide a signed statement to the withholding agent. However, in that case, the signed statement generally must be accompanied by a Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E (or substitute form) provided by the foreign person to the organization or institution holding the certificate on behalf of the foreign person. If interest is not portfolio interest, then it will be subject to U.S. federal income and withholding tax at a rate of 30 percent, unless reduced or eliminated under an applicable tax treaty or interest is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States and, in either case, the appropriate statement has been provided. Special rules apply to partnerships, estates and trusts, and in certain circumstances certifications as to foreign status and other matters may be required to be provided by partners and beneficiaries thereof.

Generally, any gain or income realized by a foreign person upon retirement or disposition of an interest in a certificate will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax, provided that:

(i) in the case of a certificate owner that is an individual, such certificate owner is not present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year in which such retirement or disposition occurs,

(ii) in the case of gain representing accrued interest, the conditions for exemption from withholding described above are satisfied, and

(iii) such gain is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States by the foreign person.

Certain exceptions may be applicable, and an individual foreign person is cautioned to consult a tax advisor.

If the certificates were treated as an interest in a partnership, the recharacterization could cause a non-U.S. certificate owner to be treated as engaged in a trade or business in the United States. In that event, the non-U.S. certificate owner would be required to file a U.S. federal income tax return and, in general, would be subject to U.S. federal income tax (including the branch profits tax) on its net income from the partnership. Further, certain withholding obligations apply with respect to income allocable or distributions made to a foreign partner. That withholding may be at a rate as high as the highest applicable marginal rate. If some or all of the certificates were treated as stock in a corporation, any related dividend distributions to a non-U.S. certificate owner generally would be subject to withholding of tax at the rate of 30 percent, unless that rate were reduced by an applicable tax treaty.

The U.S. Treasury Department has issued final Treasury regulations which revise various procedural matters relating to withholding taxes. Certificate owners are cautioned to consult their tax advisors regarding the procedures whereby they may establish an exemption from withholding.

Payments of principal and interest, as well as payments of proceeds from the sale, retirement or other disposition of a certificate, may be subject to “backup withholding” tax under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code if a recipient of such payments fails to furnish to the payor certain identifying information. Any amounts deducted and withheld would be allowed as a credit against such recipient’s U.S. federal income tax, provided that appropriate proof is provided under rules established by the IRS. Furthermore, certain penalties may be imposed by the IRS on a recipient of payments that is required to supply information but that does not do so in the proper manner. Backup withholding will not apply with respect to payments made to certain exempt recipients, such as corporations and financial institutions. Information may also be required to be provided to the IRS concerning payments, unless an exemption applies. Certificate owners are cautioned to consult their tax advisors regarding their qualification for exemption from backup withholding and information reporting and the procedure for obtaining such an exemption.

Holders of interests in certificates that are not United States persons should be aware of recent legislation commonly known as FATCA and related administrative guidance that impose a 30% United States withholding tax on certain payments (including interest payments in respect of certificates and, beginning January 1, 2019, gross proceeds, including the return of principal, from the sale or other disposition, including redemptions, of certificates) made to a non-United States entity that fails to take required steps to provide information regarding its “United States accounts” or its direct or indirect “substantial United States owners,” as applicable, or to certify that it has no such accounts or owners. Various exceptions are provided under the legislation and related administrative guidance. To comply with the requirements of FATCA, the trustee or the paying agent may, in appropriate circumstances, require holders of interests in certificates to provide information and tax documentation regarding their direct and indirect owners. The trust will not be obligated to pay any additional amounts to “gross up” payments to holders of interests in certificates as a result of any withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or government charges with respect to payments in respect of the certificates. Prospective

investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the application and impact of FATCA based upon their particular circumstances.

The discussion above does not address the taxation of the trust or the tax consequences of the purchase, ownership or disposition of an interest in the certificates under any state or local tax law. Each investor is cautioned to consult its own tax advisor regarding state and local tax consequences.

Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code prohibit a Plan from engaging in certain transactions involving “plan assets” with persons that are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under the Internal Revenue Code, collectively, “parties in interest,” with respect to the Plan. A violation of these “prohibited transaction” rules may generate excise tax and other liabilities under ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code for such persons, unless a statutory, regulatory or administrative exemption is available. Plans that are government plans (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA) and certain church plans (as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA) are not subject to ERISA requirements.

Moreover, prohibited transactions could also arise if the trust assets were deemed to constitute “plan assets” of any Plan that owned certificates. The Department of Labor has issued a final regulation, referred to as the plan asset regulation, concerning the definition of what constitutes “plan assets” of a Plan subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the plan asset regulation, the assets and properties of corporations, partnerships and certain other entities in which a Plan makes an investment in an “equity interest” could be deemed to be “plan assets” of the Plan in certain circumstances. Accordingly, if Plans (or other entities whose assets include “plan assets”) purchase certificates, the trust could be deemed to hold “plan assets” and result in non-exempt prohibited transactions, unless either of the following exceptions applies.

The first exception applies to a “publicly-offered security.” A publicly-offered security is a security that is:

(ii) part of a class of securities that is owned, immediately subsequent to the initial offering, by 100 or more investors who are independent of the issuer and of one another, and

(A) part of a class of securities registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or

(B) sold to the Plan as part of an offering of securities to the public pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the class of securities of which such security is a part is registered under the Exchange Act within 120 days (or such later time as may be allowed by the SEC) after the end of the fiscal year of the issuer during which the offering of such securities to the public occurred.

For purposes of the 100 independent investor criterion, each class of certificates should be deemed to be a “class” of securities that would be tested separately from any other securities that may be issued by the trust.

In addition, a second exception may be available. On July 16, 2000, the Department of Labor authorized Centurion and RFC II (as the transferors to the trust at the time) to rely upon the exemptive relief from certain of the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code available under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 96-62 relating to (i) the initial purchase, the holding and the subsequent resale by Plans of classes of senior certificates representing an undivided interest in a credit card trust with respect to which Centurion, RFC II or any of their affiliates is the sponsor, and (ii) the servicing, operation and management of such trust if, in either case, the general conditions and certain other conditions set forth in the authorization are satisfied.

The authorization will apply to the acquisition, holding and resale of senior certificates by, on behalf of or with “plan assets” of a Plan if the conditions are met.

Among the conditions that must be satisfied for the authorization to apply are the following:

(a) the acquisition of the senior certificates by a Plan is on terms (including the price for such senior certificates) that are at least as favorable to the investing Plan as they would be in an arm’s-length transaction with an unrelated party;

(b) the rights and interests evidenced by the senior certificates acquired by the Plan are not subordinated to the rights and interests evidenced by other certificates of the trust;

(c) the senior certificates acquired by the Plan have received a rating at the time of such acquisition that is either in one of the two highest generic rating categories from a Rating Agency or, for senior certificates that have a maturity of one year or less, the highest short-term generic rating category from a Rating Agency; provided that, notwithstanding such rating, credit support is provided to the senior certificates through a senior-subordinated structure or other form of third-party credit support which, at a minimum, represents 5% of the outstanding principal balance of the senior certificates at the time of such acquisition;

(d) the trustee is not an affiliate of any member of the restricted group (as defined below);

(e) the sum of all payments made to and retained by the underwriters in connection with the distribution of the senior certificates represents not more than reasonable compensation for underwriting such senior certificates; the consideration received by the transferors as a consequence of the assignment of receivables to the trust, to the extent allocable to the senior certificates, represents not more than the fair market value of such receivables; and the sum of all payments made to and retained by the servicer, to the extent allocable to the senior certificates, represents not more than reasonable compensation for the servicer’s services under the related supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement and reimbursement of the servicer’s reasonable expenses in connection therewith;

(f) the Plan investing in the senior certificates is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1) of Regulation D of the Securities Act;

(g) the trustee is a substantial financial institution or trust company experienced in trust activities; is familiar with its duties, responsibilities and liabilities as a fiduciary under ERISA; and, as the legal owner of (or holder of a perfected security interest in) the receivables, enforces all the rights created in favor of the certificateholders, including Plans;

(h) prior to the issuance of any new series, confirmation is received from the Rating Agencies that such issuance will not result in the reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating of the senior certificates held by any Plan pursuant to the authorization;

(i) to protect against fraud, chargebacks or other dilution of the receivables, the pooling and servicing agreement and the Rating Agencies require the transferors to maintain a transferors’ interest of not less than 2% of the principal balance of the receivables contained in the trust;

(j) each receivable is an Eligible Receivable, based on criteria of the Rating Agencies and as specified in the pooling and servicing agreement, and the pooling and servicing agreement requires that any change in the terms of the cardholder agreements must be made applicable to a comparable segment of accounts which are owned or serviced by Centurion, RFC II or any of their affiliates and are part of the same program or have the same or substantially similar characteristics. The pooling and servicing agreement complies with this condition by specifying that any such change either must be required by law, or, if not so required, must not have a material adverse effect on the trust or the certificateholders;

(k) the pooling and servicing agreement must limit the number of receivables in newly originated accounts to be designated to the trust, without the Rating Agencies’ prior written consent, to the following amounts: (i) with respect to any three-month period, 15% of the number of existing accounts designated to the trust as of the first day of such period, and (ii) with respect to any twelve-month period, 20% of the number of existing accounts designated to the trust as of the first day of such twelve-month period. The pooling and servicing agreement complies with this condition by specifying that the Rating Agencies’ prior written consent is required for any designation of newly originated accounts to the trust;

(l) the pooling and servicing agreement requires the transferors to deliver an opinion of counsel semiannually confirming the validity and perfection of the transfer of receivables in newly originated accounts to the trust if such an opinion is not delivered with respect to each interim addition; and

(m) the pooling and servicing agreement requires the transferors and the trustee to receive confirmation from each Rating Agency that such Rating Agency will not reduce or withdraw its then-current rating of the senior certificates as a result of (i) a proposed transfer of receivables in newly originated accounts to the trust, or (ii) will have resulted from the transfer of receivables in all newly originated accounts added to the trust during the preceding three-month period (beginning at quarterly intervals specified in the pooling and servicing agreement and ending in the calendar month prior to the date such confirmation is issued); provided that a rating agency confirmation shall not be required under clause (ii) for any three-month period in which any transfers of newly originated accounts occurred only after receipt of prior rating agency confirmation pursuant to clause (i) above. This condition is complied with because the pooling and servicing agreement currently in effect permits the transferors to transfer newly originated accounts to the trust only in compliance with clause (i) above.

(1) the corpus of the trust must consist only of receivables of the type which have been included in other investment pools;

(2) certificates evidencing interests in such other investment pools have been rated in one of the two highest generic rating categories by at least one of the rating agencies for at least one year prior to the Plan’s acquisition of senior certificates; and

(3) certificates evidencing an interest in such other investment pools have been purchased by investors other than Plans for at least one year prior to any Plan’s acquisition of senior certificates.

Moreover, the authorization provides relief from certain self-dealing/ conflict-of-interest prohibited transactions that may occur when a Plan fiduciary causes a Plan to acquire senior certificates if the fiduciary (or its affiliate) is an obligor on the receivables held in the trust; provided that among other requirements:

(1) in the case of an acquisition in connection with the initial issuance of senior certificates, at least 50% of each class of certificates in which Plans have invested is acquired by persons independent of the

restricted group and at least 50% of the aggregate interest in the trust is acquired by persons independent of the restricted group;

(2) such fiduciary (or its affiliate) is an obligor with respect to 0.5% or less of the fair market value of the obligations contained in the trust;

(3) the Plan’s investment in senior certificates does not exceed 25% of all of the senior certificates outstanding after the acquisition; and

(4) no more than 25% of the assets of the Plan are invested in securities representing an interest in one or more trusts containing assets sold or serviced by the same entity.

The authorization does not apply to Plans sponsored by the “restricted group” which consists of the transferors, any underwriter of the senior certificates, the trustee, the servicer, any obligor with respect to obligations included in the trust constituting more than 0.5% of the fair market value of the aggregate undivided interest in the trust allocated to the senior certificates of a series, determined on the date of the initial issuance of such series, or any affiliate of any such party.

The DOL has designated this authorization as an “underwriter exemption.” As a result, an insurance company investing solely assets of its general account may be able to acquire and hold certain subordinated certificates of a series; provided that (i) the senior certificates of that series are eligible for relief under the authorization and (ii) such acquisition and holding satisfies the conditions applicable under Sections I and III of DOL PTCE 95-60.

The transferors believe that the authorization will apply to the acquisition and holding of the Class A certificates by Plans and that all conditions of the authorization, other than those that are within the control of the investors, will be met.

Moreover, as discussed above, while special federal income tax counsel has given its opinion that the certificates will properly be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes, if any certificates are treated as equity interests in a partnership in which other certificates are debt, all or part of a tax-exempt investor’s share of income from the certificates that are treated as equity could be treated as unrelated debt-financed income under the Internal Revenue Code taxable to the investor.

Subject to the considerations described above, the Class A certificates may be purchased by, on behalf of, or with “plan assets” of any Plan. Any Plan fiduciary that proposes to cause a Plan to acquire any of the Class A certificates should consult with its counsel with respect to the potential consequences of the Plan’s acquisition and ownership of such Class A certificates under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.

The Class B certificates may not be acquired or held by, on behalf of, or with “plan assets” of any Plan other than insurance companies investing solely assets of their general accounts. By its acceptance of a Class B certificate, each Class B certificateholder will be deemed to have represented and warranted that either (i) it is not and will not be, and is not acquiring the Class B certificates with “plan assets” of, a Plan or (ii) it is an insurance company, it acquired and will hold the Class B certificates solely with assets of its general account, and such acquisition and holding satisfies the conditions applicable under Sections I and III of Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60. Each person that proposes to cause an insurance company to acquire any of the Class B certificates should consult with its counsel with respect to the potential consequences of the acquisition and ownership of such Class B certificates under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.

In light of the foregoing, fiduciaries of Plans (or other entities whose assets include “plan assets”) considering the purchase of Class A certificates should consult their own counsel as to whether the acquisition of such Class A certificates would constitute or result in a prohibited transaction, whether trust assets which are represented by such Class A certificates would be considered “plan assets,” the consequences that would apply if the trust assets were considered “plan assets,” the applicability of exemptive relief from the prohibited transaction rules under the two exceptions described above or otherwise and the applicability of the tax on unrelated business income and unrelated debt-financed income.

Finally, Plan fiduciaries and other Plan investors should consider the fiduciary standards under ERISA or other applicable law in the context of the Plan’s particular circumstances before authorizing an investment of a portion of the Plan’s assets in the Class A certificates. Accordingly, among other factors, Plan fiduciaries and other Plan investors should consider whether the investment (i) satisfies the diversification requirement of ERISA or other applicable law, (ii) is in accordance with the Plan’s governing instruments, (iii) is prudent in light of the “Risk Factors” discussed in this prospectus and (iv) where applicable, satisfies the requirements of any other applicable law.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement among the transferors, American Express Centurion Bank, American Express Bank, FSB and the underwriters of the Class A certificates named below and the underwriters of the Class B certificates named below, the transferors have agreed to cause the trust to sell to the underwriters, and the underwriters have agreed to purchase, the principal amount of the Class A certificates and Class B certificates set forth opposite their names:

The underwriting agreement provides that the obligation of the Class A underwriters to pay for and accept delivery of the Class A certificates and the obligation of the Class B underwriters to pay for and accept delivery of the Class B certificates are subject to the approval of certain legal matters by their counsel and to certain other conditions. All of the Series 2017-1 certificates offered hereby will be issued if any are issued. Offering expenses are estimated to be $900,000.

The Class A underwriters propose initially to offer the Class A certificates to the public at the price set forth on the cover page hereof and to certain dealers at such price less concessions not in excess of 0.1500% of the principal amount of the Class A certificates. The Class A underwriters may allow, and such dealers may reallow, concessions not in excess of 0.0750% of the principal amount of the Class A certificates to certain brokers and dealers. After the initial public offering, the public offering price and other selling terms may be changed by the Class A underwriters.

The Class B underwriters propose initially to offer the Class B certificates to the public at the price set forth on the cover page hereof and to certain dealers at such price less concessions not in excess of 0.1800% of the principal amount of the Class B certificates. The Class B underwriters may allow, and such dealers may reallow, concessions not in excess of 0.0900% of the principal amount of the Class B certificates to certain brokers and dealers. After the initial public offering, the public offering price and other selling terms may be changed by the Class B underwriters.

The underwriters may engage in over-allotment transactions, stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids with respect to the Series 2017-1 certificates in accordance with Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Over-allotment transactions involve syndicate sales in excess of the offering size, which creates a syndicate short position. Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the

Series 2017-1 certificates so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum. Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the Series 2017-1 certificates in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the Series 2017-1 certificates originally sold by such syndicate member are purchased in a syndicate covering transaction. Such over-allotment transactions, stabilizing transactions, syndicate-covering transactions and penalty bids may cause the prices of the Series 2017-1 certificates to be higher than they would be in the absence of such transactions. Neither the transferors nor any of the underwriters represent that the underwriters will engage in any such transactions or that such transactions, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice at any time.

In the ordinary course of their respective businesses, the underwriters and their respective affiliates have engaged and may in the future engage in investment banking or commercial banking transactions with the transferors, TRS, Centurion, FSB or any of their affiliates.

Centurion, on behalf of itself and RFC III, and FSB, on behalf of itself and RFC IV, will indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof.

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each a “Relevant Member State”), each underwriter of these Series 2017-1 certificates has agreed that, with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive was implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”), it has not made and will not make an offer of Series 2017-1 certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Series 2017-1 certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State:

provided that no such offer of Series 2017-1 certificates shall require the issuing entity or any underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 16 of the Prospectus Directive.

As used in this prospectus, the expression an “offer of Series 2017-1 certificates to the public” in relation to any Series 2017-1 certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Series 2017-1 certificates to be offered so as to enable an

investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Series 2017-1 certificates, as the same may be varied in that Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State, the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State) and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State, and the expression “2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU.

Certain legal matters relating to the certificates will be passed upon for Centurion, FSB and the trust by Timothy J. Heine, Managing Counsel of TRS, and certain legal matters relating to the certificates will be passed upon for RFC III, RFC IV and the trust by Carol V. Schwartz, Special Securitization Counsel of American Express Company. In addition, an opinion regarding the legality of the certificates being offered has been provided by Ms. Schwartz and filed as an exhibit to the registration statement relating to the certificates. Mr. Heine and Ms. Schwartz each own or have the right to acquire a number of shares of common stock of American Express which in the aggregate is equal to less than 0.05% of the outstanding common stock of American Express. Certain other legal matters will be passed upon for the transferors and the trust by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Certain legal matters will be passed upon for the underwriters by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Certain legal matters relating to the federal income tax consequences of the issuance of the certificates and certain other matters relating thereto will be passed upon for the transferors by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. In addition, an opinion relating to federal income tax matters with respect to the issuance of the certificates has been provided by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and filed as an exhibit to the registration statement relating to the certificates.

Monthly reports containing information on the certificates and the collateral securing the certificates will be filed with the SEC to the extent required by the SEC. These reports will not be sent to certificateholders. See “Description of the Certificates — Book-Entry Registration,” “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Evidence as to Compliance” and “Series Provisions — Reports” in this prospectus.

The transferors will include in each monthly distribution report on Form 10-D any request received during the applicable reporting period from an investor to communicate with other investors related to investors exercising their rights under the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement. The information will include the name of the investor making the request, the date the request was received, a statement from the transferors regarding the receipt of such request stating that such investor is interested in communicating with other investors with regard to the possible exercise of rights under the pooling and servicing agreement and a description of the method other investors may use to contact the requesting investor. The transferors will be responsible for any expenses in connection with the filing of the monthly distribution reports on Form 10-D.

If any requesting investor is a record holder of certificates at the time of such request to communicate, such investor will not be required to provide verification of ownership. If the investor is not a record holder of certificates (including if such investor owns a beneficial interest in a certificates in book-entry form), such investor will be required to provide a (i) written certification that it is a beneficial owner of certificates and (ii) one other form of documentation, such as a trade confirmation, an account statement, a letter from a broker or dealer or similar document to verify that the investor is, in fact, a beneficial owner of certificates.

We have filed a registration statement on Form SF-3 relating to the certificates with the SEC and have met the registrant requirements set forth in General Instruction I.A.1. to Form SF-3. This prospectus is part of the registration statement, but the registration statement includes additional information.

The servicer will file with the SEC all required annual reports on Form 10-K, monthly distribution reports on Form 10-D and current reports on Form 8-K.

You may read and copy any reports, statements or other information we file at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You can request copies of these documents, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by writing to the SEC. Please call the SEC at (800) SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference rooms. Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov). Our SEC filings may be located by using the SEC Central Index Key (CIK) for American Express Credit Account Master Trust, 0001003509.

Reports that are filed with the SEC by the servicer pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, may be accessed by any investor, free of charge, through an Internet Web site at http://ir.americanexpress.com/Credit-Account-Master-Trust/Index?KeyGenPage=208667. In the event this Internet Web site is temporarily unavailable, TRS will provide to investors electronic or paper copies of such reports free of charge upon request. For purposes of any electronic version of this prospectus, the URL in this paragraph is an inactive textual reference only. We have taken steps to ensure that the URL in this paragraph was inactive at the time we created any electronic version of this prospectus.

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus. Information that we file later with the SEC that is incorporated by reference will automatically update the information in this prospectus. In all cases, you should rely on the later information over different information included in this prospectus.

All monthly distribution reports on Form 10-D and current reports on Form 8-K subsequently filed by or on behalf of the issuing entity prior to the termination of this offering shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

As a recipient of this prospectus, you may request a copy of any document we incorporate by reference, except exhibits to the documents (unless the exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference), at no cost, by writing or calling us at: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., 200 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10285-4405, Attention: Secretary; (212) 640-5583.

This prospectus, including information included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In addition, certain statements made in future SEC filings by the transferors or any account owner, in press releases and in oral and written statements made by or with the transferors’ or the account owners’ approval that are not statements of historical fact may constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may relate to, without limitation, the transferors’ or the account owners’ financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives, future performance or business.

Words such as “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the only means to identify these statements.

Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual conditions, events or results may differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause this difference — many of which are beyond the transferors’ or any account owner’s control — include the following, without limitation:

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. The transferors and the account owners undertake no obligations to update any forward-looking statement to reflect subsequent circumstances or events.

“Additional Accounts” are any accounts in the Total Portfolio that are designated to the trust pursuant to an addition.

“Adjusted Invested Amount” for any date of determination means the sum of the Class A Adjusted Invested Amount and the Class B Adjusted Invested Amount and the Collateral Invested Amount as of such date.

“Adverse Effect” means, with respect to any action, that such action will (a) result in the occurrence of a Pay-Out Event or a Reinvestment Event or (b) materially adversely affect the amount or timing of distributions to be made to the investor certificateholders of any series or class under the pooling and servicing agreement.

“Aggregate Addition Accounts” means revolving credit or other charge or credit accounts established pursuant to a revolving credit agreement or other charge or credit agreement, respectively, between an account owner and the person or persons obligated to make payments thereunder, excluding any merchant, which is designated by such account owner to be included as an account.

“ARR Representations and Warranties” means the representations and warranties set forth as an exhibit to the asset representations review agreement.

“Available Principal Collections” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, an amount equal to the sum of:

(i) the Principal Allocation Percentage of the Series Allocation Percentage of all collections of principal receivables received during such Monthly Period (minus certain Reallocated Principal Collections used to fund the Class A Required Amount, the Class B Required Amount and the Collateral Senior Required Amount),

(ii) any Shared Principal Collections with respect to other principal sharing series that are allocated to Series 2017-1 and

(iii) certain other amounts which pursuant to the Series 2017-1 supplement are to be treated as Available Principal Collections with respect to the related Distribution Date.

“Available Reserve Account Amount” means, on each Distribution Date, the amount available to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account equal to the lesser of the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account (before giving effect to any deposit to be made to the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date) and the Required Reserve Account Amount for such Distribution Date.

“Average Rate” means, with respect to any group, the percentage equivalent of a decimal equal to the sum of the amounts for each outstanding series (or each class within a series consisting of more than one class) within such group obtained by multiplying:

(a) the certificate rate for such series or class (adjusted to take into account any payments received or payable pursuant to any interest rate agreements), and

(i) the numerator of which is the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the certificates of such series or class, and

(ii) the denominator of which is the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all certificates within such group.

“Base Rate” means, for any Monthly Period, the annualized percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

“Business Day” means, for purposes of this prospectus (unless otherwise indicated), any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, or (b) any other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York or any other state in which the principal executive offices of Centurion, FSB, any other account owner or the trustee are located, are authorized or are obligated by law or executive order to be closed.

“Class A Additional Interest” means an amount paid on each Distribution Date, if applicable, equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

(ii) the amount payable on interest amounts that were due but not distributed to the Class A certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date.

“Class A Adjusted Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to the Class A Invested Amount minus the funds on deposit in the Principal Funding Account (up to the Class A Invested Amount) on such date.

“Class A Available Funds” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, an amount equal to the sum of:

(i) the Class A Floating Percentage of Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest with respect to such Monthly Period (including any investment earnings and certain other amounts that are to be treated as collections of finance charge receivables allocable to Series 2017-1 in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement and the Series 2017-1 supplement),

(ii) if such Monthly Period relates to a Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period, the Class A Floating Percentage of net investment earnings, if any, in the Principal Funding Account for such Distribution Date,

(iii) amounts, if any, to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account that must be included in Class A Available Funds pursuant to the Series 2017-1 supplement with respect to the related Distribution Date.

“Class A Floating Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

“Class A Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to:

(ii) the amount of principal payments made to the Class A certificateholders on or prior to such date, minus

(iii) the excess, if any, of the aggregate amount of Class A Investor Charge-Offs for all prior Distribution Dates over the aggregate amount of any reimbursements of Class A Investor Charge-Offs for all Distribution Dates prior to such date; plus

(iv) the principal amount of any additional Class A certificates issued after the initial issuance;

provided, however, that the Class A Invested Amount may not be reduced below zero.

“Class A Investor Charge-Off” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs — Class A Investor Charge-Offs” in this prospectus.

“Class A Investor Default Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, the portion of the Investor Default Amount allocated to the Class A certificates in an amount equal to the product of the Class A Floating Percentage applicable during the related Monthly Period and the Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date.

“Class A Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, an amount equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

(ii) the outstanding principal amount of the Class A certificates as of the preceding Record Date;

provided, however, that for the first Distribution Date, Class A Monthly Interest shall be equal to $2,959,333.33.

“Class A Outstanding Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, the amount of Class A Monthly Interest previously due but not paid to Class A certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date.

“Class A Principal Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period:

(i) the numerator of which is the Class A Invested Amount as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Class A Initial Invested Amount), and

(ii) the denominator of which is the Invested Amount as of such day (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Initial Invested Amount), and

(i) the numerator of which is the Class A Invested Amount as of the end of the Revolving Period, and

“Class A Required Amount” means, for any Determination Date, the amount equal to:

(iv) if TRS or an affiliate is no longer the servicer, the Class A Servicing Fee for the related Distribution Date and any unpaid Class A Servicing Fee, plus

(v) the Class A Investor Default Amount, if any, for the related Distribution Date, minus

“Class A Servicing Fee” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus.

“Class B Additional Interest” means an amount paid on each Distribution Date, if applicable, equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

(ii) the amount payable on interest amounts that were due but not distributed to the Class B certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date.

“Class B Adjusted Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to the Class B Invested Amount minus the funds on deposit in the Principal Funding Account (up to the Class B Invested Amount) on such date.

“Class B Available Funds” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, an amount equal to the sum of:

(i) the Class B Floating Percentage of Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections allocated to the Series 2017-1 certificates and the Collateral Interest with respect to such Monthly Period (including any investment earnings and certain other amounts that are to be treated as collections of finance charge receivables allocable to Series 2017-1 in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement and the Series 2017-1 supplement), and

(ii) if such Monthly Period relates to a Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period, the Class B Floating Percentage of net investment earnings, if any, in the Principal Funding Account for such Distribution Date.

“Class B Floating Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

“Class B Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to:

(ii) the amount of principal payments made to Class B certificateholders on or prior to such date, minus

(iii) the aggregate amount of Class B Investor Charge-Offs for all prior Distribution Dates, minus

(iv) the aggregate amount of Reallocated Principal Collections for all prior Distribution Dates which have been used to fund the Class A Required Amount with respect to such Distribution Dates (excluding any Reallocated Principal Collections that have resulted in a reduction of the Collateral Invested Amount), minus

(v) an amount equal to the amount by which the Class B Invested Amount has been reduced to cover the Class A Investor Default Amount on all prior Distribution Dates as described under “Series Provisions — Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs” in this prospectus, plus

(vi) the aggregate amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and applied on all prior Distribution Dates for the purpose of reimbursing amounts deducted as described in clauses (iii), (iv) and (v) above; plus

(vii) the principal amount of any additional Class B certificates issued after the initial issuance;

provided, however, that the Class B Invested Amount may not be reduced below zero.

“Class B Investor Charge-Off” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs — Reductions in Class B Invested Amount and Collateral Invested Amount” in this prospectus.

“Class B Investor Default Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, the portion of the Investor Default Amount allocated to the Class B certificates in an amount equal to the product of the Class B Floating Percentage applicable during the related Monthly Period and the Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date.

“Class B Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, an amount equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

provided, however, that for the first Distribution Date, Class B Monthly Interest shall be equal to $138,000.80.

“Class B Outstanding Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, the amount of Class B Monthly Interest previously due but not paid to Class B certificateholders on a prior Distribution Date.

“Class B Principal Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period:

(i) the numerator of which is the Class B Invested Amount as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Class B Initial Invested Amount), and

(ii) the denominator of which is the Invested Amount as of such day (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Initial Invested Amount), and

(i) the numerator of which is the Class B Invested Amount as of the end of the Revolving Period, and

“Class B Required Amount” means, for any Determination Date, the amount equal to:

(iv) if TRS or an affiliate is no longer the servicer, the Class B Servicing Fee for the related Distribution Date and any unpaid Class B Servicing Fee, plus

(v) the Class B Investor Default Amount, if any, for the related Distribution Date, minus

“Class B Servicing Fee” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus.

“Collateral Available Funds” means, for any Monthly Period, an amount equal to the Collateral Floating Percentage of Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections (including any investment earnings and certain other amounts that are to be treated as collections of finance charge receivables allocable to Series 2017-1 in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement and the Series 2017-1 supplement).

“Collateral Charge-Off” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs — Reductions in Class B Invested Amount and Collateral Invested Amount” in this prospectus.

“Collateral Default Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the product of the Investor Default Amount for such Distribution Date and the Collateral Floating Percentage.

“Collateral Floating Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

“Collateral Initial Invested Amount” means an amount equal to 8.75% of the Initial Invested Amount.

“Collateral Interest” means an uncertificated interest in the trust assets that is subordinated to, and serves as credit enhancement for, the Series 2017-1 certificates.

“Collateral Interest Servicing Fee” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus.

“Collateral Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to:

(ii) the amount of principal payments made to the holder of the Collateral Interest on or prior to such date, minus

(iii) the aggregate amount of Collateral Charge-Offs for all prior Distribution Dates, minus

(iv) the aggregate amount of Reallocated Principal Collections for all prior Distribution Dates, minus

(v) an amount equal to the amount by which the Collateral Invested Amount has been reduced to cover the Class A Investor Default Amount and the Class B Investor Default Amount on all prior Distribution Dates as described under “Series Provisions — Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs” in this prospectus, plus

(vii) the principal amount of any additional Collateral Interest issued after the initial issuance;

provided, however, that the Collateral Invested Amount may not be reduced below zero.

“Collateral Principal Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period:

(i) the numerator of which is the Collateral Invested Amount as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Collateral Initial Invested Amount), and

(ii) the denominator of which is the Invested Amount as of such day (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Initial Invested Amount), and

(i) the numerator of which is the Collateral Invested Amount as of the end of the Revolving Period, and

“Collateral Senior Additional Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, additional interest on Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest due but not paid to the holder of the Collateral Interest in respect of the Collateral Senior Invested Amount on a prior Distribution Date at a rate equal to the Collateral Senior Minimum Interest Rate.

“Collateral Senior Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to the Collateral Senior Initial Invested Amount minus the aggregate amount of principal payments made to the holders of the Collateral Interest in respect of the Collateral Senior Invested Amount on all prior Distribution Dates (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, as of the closing date).

“Collateral Senior Minimum Interest Rate” means an annual rate specified in the agreement among RFC III, RFC IV, TRS and the holder of the Collateral Interest relating to the transfer of the Collateral Interest from RFC III and RFC IV to the holder of the Collateral Interest, which rate will not exceed 2.35%.

“Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, an amount equal to one-twelfth of the product of:

provided, however, that for the first Distribution Date, Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest shall be equal to $205,905.43.

“Collateral Senior Outstanding Minimum Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, the amount of Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest previously due but not paid to the holder of the Collateral Interest on a prior Distribution Date.

“Collateral Senior Required Amount” means, for any Determination Date, the amount equal to the excess of the sum of:

(i) if TRS or an affiliate is no longer the servicer, the Collateral Interest Servicing Fee for the related Distribution Date and any unpaid Collateral Interest Servicing Fee, plus

(ii) Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest for the related Distribution Date, plus

(i) if TRS or an affiliate is no longer the servicer, the amount of Collateral Available Funds to be applied on such Distribution Date to pay the Collateral Interest Servicing Fee and any unpaid Collateral Interest Servicing Fee; plus

(ii) the amount of Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections available to be applied on the related Distribution Date to pay the Collateral Senior Minimum Monthly Interest for such Distribution Date, any Collateral Senior Outstanding Minimum Monthly Interest and any Collateral Senior Additional Interest.

“Collection Account” means the account established as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Collection Account” in this prospectus.

“Controlled Accumulation Amount” means $199,881,000; provided, however, that, if the start of the Controlled Accumulation Period is delayed and, therefore, the length of the Controlled Accumulation Period is shortened as described under “Series Provisions — Principal Payments” in this prospectus, the Controlled Accumulation Amount may be different for each Distribution Date for the Controlled Accumulation Period and will be determined by the servicer in accordance with the Series 2017-1 supplement based on the principal payment rates for the accounts and on the invested amounts of other principal sharing series that are scheduled to be in their revolving periods and able to create Shared Principal Collections during the Controlled Accumulation Period.

“Controlled Deposit Amount” means, for any Distribution Date relating to the Controlled Accumulation Period, an amount equal to the sum of the Controlled Accumulation Amount for such Distribution Date and any Deficit Controlled Accumulation Amount for the immediately preceding Distribution Date.

(i) for Series 2017-1, the period that is scheduled to begin at the close of business on the last day of the January 2019 Monthly Period (which date may be delayed as described under “Series Provisions — Principal Payments” in this prospectus) and will continue until the earliest of:

(ii) for any other applicable series or class of such series, the period that begins on a date certain or on a date determined in the manner described in the related supplement and will continue until the earliest of:

(a) the commencement of the Early Amortization Period or an Early Accumulation Period for that series,

“Controlled Amortization Period” means, for another applicable series or class of such series, the period that begins on a date certain or on a date determined in the manner described in the related supplement and will continue until the earliest of:

“Covered Amount” means, for any Distribution Date with respect to the Controlled Accumulation Period or the first Special Payment Date, if such Special Payment Date occurs prior to the payment in full of the Class A Invested Amount, an amount equal to the sum of:

(b) the aggregate amount on deposit in the Principal Funding Account, if any, as of the preceding Distribution Date that is allocable to the principal of the Class A certificates, plus

(b) the aggregate amount on deposit in the Principal Funding Account, if any, as of the preceding Distribution Date that is allocable to the principal of the Class B certificates.

“Date of Processing” means, with respect to any transaction or receipt of collections, the Business Day after such transaction is first output, in written form pursuant to the servicer’s usual and customary data processing procedures, from the servicer’s computer file of accounts comparable to the accounts (regardless of the effective date of recordation).

“Defaulted Amount,” for any Monthly Period, will be an amount (not less than zero) equal to:

(b) the amount of any Defaulted Receivables with respect to which any transferor or the servicer becomes obligated to accept reassignment or assignment during such Monthly Period (unless an event relating to bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, conservatorship or insolvency has occurred with respect to such transferor or the servicer, in which event the amount of such Defaulted Receivables will not be added to the sum so subtracted).

“Defaulted Receivables,” for any Monthly Period, are principal receivables that were charged off as uncollectible in such Monthly Period.

(a) on the first Distribution Date for the Controlled Accumulation Period, the excess, if any, of the Controlled Accumulation Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount deposited in the Principal Funding Account on such Distribution Date, and

(b) on each subsequent Distribution Date for the Controlled Accumulation Period, the excess, if any, of the Controlled Deposit Amount for such subsequent Distribution Date over the amount deposited in the Principal Funding Account on such subsequent Distribution Date.

“Determination Date” will be, unless otherwise indicated, the third Business Day preceding each Distribution Date.

“Distribution Date” will be, unless otherwise indicated, the 15th day of each month (or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day).

“Early Accumulation Period” means, for any applicable series or class of such series, the period that begins on the day on which a Reinvestment Event for that series occurs or is deemed to occur and continues until the earliest of:

“Early Amortization Period” means, for any applicable series or class of such series, the period that begins on the day on which a Pay-Out Event for that series occurs or is deemed to occur and continues until the earlier of:

“Eligible Account” means each credit or charge account or line of credit (if, with respect to the line of credit, the full receivable balance is not due upon receipt of a monthly billing statement (excluding the billing statement with respect to the final payment of such balance) and the line of credit contains a code designation in the related securitization field as described in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) owned by an account owner and its successors and permitted assignees which, as of the respective date of designation, is a credit or charge account or line of credit:

(i) in existence and maintained by an account owner or such successors or assignees,

(iii) has not been sold or pledged to any other party except for any other account owner that has entered into a purchase agreement, a transferor or an additional transferor,

(iv) does not have receivables which have been sold or pledged to any party other than a transferor,

(v) except as provided below, has an account holder who has not been confirmed by the servicer in its computer files as being involved in any voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy proceeding,

(vi) has an account holder who has provided as his or her most recent billing address an address located in the United States, its territories or possessions or Canada or a United States military address (provided,

however, that, at any time, up to 3% of the accounts may have account holders who have provided as their most recent billing addresses, addresses outside of such jurisdictions),

(vii) has not been identified as an account or product with respect to which the related card has been lost or stolen (if such account or product is a credit card or charge card account or product),

(viii) does not have receivables that are Defaulted Receivables and does not have any receivables that have been identified by the servicer as having been incurred as a result of fraudulent use of any related credit card or charge card, and

(ix) with respect to Aggregate Addition Accounts, certain other accounts or products which shall have satisfied the Rating Agency Condition.

(a) a segregated account with an Eligible Institution (other than any account owner), or

(b) a segregated trust account with the corporate trust department of a depository institution (other than any account owner) organized under the laws of the United States or any one of the states thereof, including the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), and acting as a trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as the rating of any of the unsecured or unguaranteed senior debt securities of such depository institution satisfies the publicly published controlling and applicable ratings criteria established by each Rating Agency.

(a) a depository institution (which may be the trustee) organized under the laws of the United States, any one of the states thereof (including the District of Columbia) or any domestic branch of a foreign bank, so long as such depository institution’s long-term unsecured debt rating or its certificate of deposit rating satisfies the publicly published controlling and applicable ratings criteria established by each Rating Agency; or

(ii) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit of depository institutions or trust companies incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal or state banking or depository institution authorities; provided that, at the time of the trust’s investment therein, the short-term debt of such depository institution or trust company shall be rated at least “A-1+” (or any other rating subject to receipt by the transferors, the servicer and the trustee of written notification from S&P that investments of such type at such other minimum rating will not result in S&P reducing or withdrawing its then existing rating of the certificates of any outstanding series or class with respect to which it is a Rating Agency) by S&P and shall be satisfactory to each other Rating Agency,

(iii) commercial paper that, at the time of the trust’s investment or a contractual commitment to invest therein, shall be rated at least “A-1+” (or any other rating subject to receipt by the transferors, the servicer and the trustee of written notification from S&P that investments of such type at such other minimum rating will not result in S&P reducing or withdrawing its then existing rating of the certificates of any outstanding series or class with respect to which it is a Rating Agency) by S&P and shall be satisfactory to each other Rating Agency,

(iv) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit which are fully insured by the FDIC having, at the time of the trust’s investment therein, a rating satisfactory to each Rating Agency,

(v) bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company described in (ii) above,

(vi) time deposits, other than as referred to in (iv) above (having maturities not later than the business day preceding the next distribution date), with an entity, the commercial paper of which shall be rated at least “A-1+” (or any other rating subject to receipt by the transferors, the servicer and the trustee of written notification from S&P that investments of such type at such other minimum rating will not result in S&P reducing or withdrawing its then existing rating of the certificates of any outstanding series or class with respect to which it is a Rating Agency) by S&P and shall be satisfactory to each other Rating Agency,

(vii) only to the extent permitted by Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (a) money market funds that, at the time of the trust’s investment therein, shall be rated at least “AAA-m” or “AAAm-G” by S&P (or any other rating subject to receipt by the transferors, the servicer and the trustee of written notification from S&P that investments of such type at such other minimum rating will not result in S&P reducing or withdrawing its then existing rating of the certificates of any outstanding series or class with respect to which it is a Rating Agency) and shall be satisfactory to each other Rating Agency, and

(viii) any other investment if the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied; provided, however, that Eligible Investments shall not include securities issued by, or other obligations of, any account owner; and provided further that no Eligible Investments shall be contrary to the status of the trust as a qualified special purpose entity under existing accounting literature.

(b) that was created in compliance in all material respects with all requirements of law applicable to the account owner of such Eligible Account and pursuant to an account agreement that complies in all material respects with all requirements of law applicable to such account owner, in either case, the failure to comply with which would have a material adverse effect on certificateholders;

(c) with respect to which all material consents, licenses, approvals or authorizations of, or registrations or declarations with, any governmental authority required to be obtained, effected or given in connection with the creation of such receivable or the execution, delivery and performance by such account owner of the account agreement pursuant to which such receivable was created, have been duly obtained, effected or given and are in full force and effect;

(d) as to which at the time of the transfer of such receivable to the trust, a transferor or the trust will have good and marketable title thereto, free and clear of all liens (other than any lien for municipal or other local taxes of a transferor or an account owner if such taxes are not then due and payable or if such Transferor or such account owner is then contesting the validity thereof in good faith by appropriate proceedings and has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto);

(e) that has been the subject of either a valid transfer and assignment from a transferor to the trust of all of such transferor’s right, title and interest therein (including any proceeds thereof), or the grant of a first-priority perfected security interest therein (and in the proceeds thereof), effective until the termination of the trust;

(f) that is the legal, valid and binding payment obligation of the obligor thereon, enforceable against such obligor in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity);

(g) that, at the time of transfer to the trust, has not been waived or modified except as permitted in accordance with the credit guidelines and which waiver or modification is reflected in the servicer’s computer file of accounts;

(h) that, at the time of transfer to the trust, is not subject to any right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or any other defense (including defenses arising out of violations of usury laws) of the obligor, other than defenses arising out of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general;

(i) as to which, at the time of transfer to the trust, the transferor thereof has satisfied all its obligations required to be satisfied by such time;

(j) as to which, at the time of transfer to the trust, none of the transferors, Centurion, FSB, or any other account owner, as the case may be, has taken any action which would impair, or omitted to take any action the omission of which would impair, the rights of the trust or the certificateholders therein; and

(k) that constitutes either an “account” or a “general intangible” under and as defined in Article 9 of the UCC as then in effect in any state where the filing of a financing statement is then required to perfect the trust’s interest in the receivables and the proceeds thereof.

“Excess Allocation Series” means any series that, as specified in the related supplement, is entitled to receive Excess Finance Charge Collections as more fully described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections Among Excess Allocation Series” in this prospectus.

“Excess Finance Charge Collections” means collections of finance charge receivables and certain other amounts allocable to the certificateholders’ interest of any Excess Allocation Series in excess of the amounts necessary to make required payments with respect to such series (including payments to the provider of any related Series Enhancement) that are payable out of collections of finance charge receivables.

“Excess Spread” means, for any Distribution Date, an amount equal to the sum of the amounts described in clause (A)(iv), clause (B)(iii) and clause (C)(ii) in “Series Provisions — Application of Collections — Payment of Interest, Fees and Other Items” in this prospectus.

“Expected Final Payment Date” means the February 2020 Distribution Date.

“Floating Allocation Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

(i) the sum of the total amount of the principal receivables in the trust as of such day (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the total amount of principal receivables in the trust on the closing date) and the principal amount on deposit in the Special Funding Account, and

However, the amount calculated above pursuant to clause (i) of the denominator shall be increased by the aggregate amount of principal receivables in Additional Accounts added to the trust during such Monthly Period and decreased by the aggregate amount of principal receivables in Additional Accounts removed from the trust during such Monthly Period, as though such receivables had been added to or removed from, as the case may be, the trust as of the first day of such Monthly Period.

“Group Investor Additional Amounts” means, for any Distribution Date, the sum of the amounts determined with respect to each series in such group equal to:

(a) an amount equal to the amount by which the invested amount of any class of certificates or any collateral invested amounts have been reduced as a result of investor charge-offs, subordination of principal collections and funding the investor default amount for any other class of certificates or collateral invested amounts of such series, and

(b) if the related supplement so provides, the amount of interest at the applicable certificate rate that has accrued on the amount described in the preceding clause (a).

“Group Investor Default Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, the sum of the amounts determined with respect to each series in such group equal to the product of:

“Group Investor Finance Charge Collections” means, for any Distribution Date, the aggregate amount of Investor Finance Charge Collections for such Distribution Date for all series in such group.

“Group Investor Monthly Fees” means, for any Distribution Date, the Servicing Fee payable monthly for each series in such group, any series enhancement fees and any other similar fees which are paid out of Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections for such series pursuant to the applicable supplement.

“Group Investor Monthly Interest” means, for any Distribution Date, the sum of the aggregate amount of monthly interest, including overdue monthly interest and interest on such overdue monthly interest, if applicable, for all series in such group for such Distribution Date.

“Funding Period” means, for the applicable series, a period beginning on the series closing date for that series and ending on a specified date before the start a Controlled Amortization Period or Controlled Accumulation Period for that series.

“Ineligible Receivables” means all receivables with respect to an affected account that has been reassigned to the transferors as a result of a transferor’s breach of certain representations and warranties described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus.

“Interest Period” means, for any Distribution Date, a period from and including the preceding Distribution Date to but excluding such Distribution Date; provided, however, that the initial Interest Period will be the period from and including the closing date to but excluding the March 2017 Distribution Date.

“Invested Amount” for any date of determination means an amount equal to the sum of the Class A Invested Amount as of such date, the Class B Invested Amount as of such date and the Collateral Invested Amount as of such date.

“Investor Default Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, the product of (i) the Floating Allocation Percentage for the related Monthly Period and (ii) the Series Allocable Defaulted Amount for such Monthly Period.

“Investor Finance Charge Collections,” for any series, means the collections of finance charge receivables allocable to the invested amount (including any collateral invested amount) of that series.

“Issuer Rate Fees” has the meaning described in “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses — Issuer Rate Fees” in this prospectus.

“Monthly Period” means, with respect to each Distribution Date, the calendar month immediately preceding such Distribution Date; provided, however, that the initial Monthly Period with respect to any series will commence on the closing date with respect to such series.

“Monthly Receivables Percentage” means, for any day, the percentage equivalent of a fraction:

“Monthly Servicing Fee” has the meaning described in “Series Provisions — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus.

“Pay-Out Event” means, with respect to Series 2017-1, each event described in “Series Provisions — Pay-Out Events” in this prospectus and, with respect to another series, each event specified as such in the related supplement.

“Plans” mean certain pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit plans, individual retirement accounts or annuities and employee annuity plans and Keogh plans regulated under Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, and entities whose underlying assets are deemed to include assets of the foregoing plans, accounts and annuities by reason of the investment by such plans, accounts and annuities in such entities.

“Portfolio Yield” means, with respect to the trust as a whole and, with respect to any Monthly Period, the annualized percentage equivalent of a fraction:

“Prefunding Amount” has the meaning described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Funding Period” in this prospectus.

“Principal Allocation Percentage” means, with respect to any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent (which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

(i) during the Revolving Period, the Series Adjusted Invested Amount for Series 2017-1 as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, the Initial Invested Amount), and

(ii) during the Controlled Accumulation Period or the Early Amortization Period, the Series Adjusted Invested Amount for Series 2017-1 as of the last day of the Revolving Period, and

(i) the sum of the total amount of principal receivables in the trust as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period and the principal amount on deposit in the Special Funding Account as of such last day (or, with respect to the first Monthly Period, as of the closing date), and

(ii) the Series Allocation Percentage for Series 2017-1 as of the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period.

Because the Series 2017-1 certificates are subject to being paired with a future series, if a Pay-Out Event or a Reinvestment Event occurs with respect to a paired series during the Controlled Accumulation Period for Series 2017-1, the transferors may, by written notice to the trustee and the servicer, designate a different numerator for the foregoing fraction, provided that such numerator is not less than the Adjusted Invested Amount as of the last day of the Revolving Period for such paired series and the transferors shall have received written notice from each Rating Agency that such designation will satisfy the Rating Agency Condition and shall have delivered copies of each such written notice to the servicer and the trustee. In addition, each transferor shall have delivered to the trustee a certificate of an authorized officer to the effect that, based on the facts known to such officer at the time, in the reasonable belief of such transferor, such designation will not cause a Pay-Out Event or an event that, after the giving of notice or lapse of time, would constitute a Pay-Out Event, to occur with respect to Series 2017-1.

“Principal Funding Account” means the account established as described under “Series Provisions — Principal Funding Account” in this prospectus.

“Rating Agency” is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization selected by the transferors to rate a series or class of certificates.

“Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any action, that each Rating Agency shall have notified the transferors, the servicer and the trustee in writing that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the then existing rating of any outstanding series or class with respect to which it is a Rating Agency.

“Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections” means the amount of Group Investor Finance Charge Collections allocated to the certificateholders’ interest (including any collateral invested amount) for a particular series offered by this prospectus.

“Reallocated Principal Collections” means, for any Distribution Date, the collections of principal receivables allocable first to the Collateral Interest and then, in the case of the Class A Required Amount, to the Class B certificates that are used to fund the excess, if any, of the Class A Required Amount, the Class B Required Amount and the Collateral Senior Required Amount remaining after Excess Spread and Excess Finance Charge Collections allocated to Series 2017-1 and available for such purpose have been used to fund the Class A Required Amount and the Class B Required Amount.

“Reallocation Group” means, for any series, the group of series that will be subject to reallocations of collections of receivables and other amounts or obligations among the series in that group. Series 2017-1 is included in Group I.

“Record Date” means, for any Distribution Date, the last day of the calendar month immediately preceding that Distribution Date.

“Recoveries” means all amounts received (net of expenses of collection), including insurance proceeds, with respect to Defaulted Receivables, including the net proceeds of any sale of such Defaulted Receivables.

“Regulation RR” means the regulations required under Section 15G of the Securities Exchange Act, added pursuant to Section 941(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act.

“Reinvestment Event” means, with respect to another applicable series, each event specified as such in the related supplement.

“Required Minimum Principal Balance,” as of any date of determination, means the sum of the series invested amounts for all outstanding series plus the sum of the Series Required Transferor Amounts for each such series minus the amount on deposit in the Special Funding Account. The “series invested amount” will generally equal the initial invested amount for a series.

“Required Reserve Account Amount” for any Distribution Date on or after the Reserve Account Funding Date, an amount equal to:

(i) 0.50% of the Class A Invested Amount as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all changes therein on such date), or

(ii) such other amount designated by the transferors, provided that the holder of the Collateral Interest shall have consented to such designation and such designation satisfies the Rating Agency Condition.

“Required Transferor Amount” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the product of (A) the Required Transferor Percentage and (B) the aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust.

“Required Transferor Percentage” shall mean 7% or any other percentage specified in a supplement to the pooling and servicing agreement; provided, however, that the Transferors may reduce the Required Transferor Percentage upon (x) 30 days’ prior notice to the trustee and each Rating Agency, (y) satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect thereto and (z) delivery to the trustee of a certificate of each Transferor stating that such Transferor reasonably believes that such reduction will not, based on the facts known at the time of such certification, have an Adverse Effect; provided further that the Required Transferor Percentage shall not be reduced if such reduction would cause the seller’s interest to fall below the amount required for purposes of satisfying the risk retention requirements of Regulation RR, as described under “Risk Retention” in this prospectus.

“Reserve Account Funding Date” means the Distribution Date which occurs not later than the earliest of:

(a) the Distribution Date with respect to the Monthly Period that commences not later than three months prior to the Distribution Date with respect to the first Monthly Period in the Controlled Accumulation Period,

(b) in the event that the average Excess Spread Percentage for any three consecutive Monthly Periods ending in the February 2018 Monthly Period or any Monthly Period thereafter is less than 2%, the Distribution Date with respect to such Monthly Period,

(c) in the event that the average Excess Spread Percentage for any three consecutive Monthly Periods ending in the August 2018 Monthly Period or any Monthly Period thereafter is less than 3%, the Distribution Date with respect to such Monthly Period and

(d) such earlier Distribution Date as the transferors may determine by written notice to the trustee and the servicer.

For this purpose, the “Excess Spread Percentage” for any Monthly Period will be equal to the Series Adjusted Portfolio Yield for such Monthly Period minus the Base Rate for such Monthly Period.

(a) for Series 2017-1, the period that begins on the series closing date and continues until the earlier of:

(b) for any other series of certificates, the period that begins on the series closing date or another date as specified in the related supplement and continues until the earlier of:

“Series 2017-1” means the series of Class A certificates, Class B certificates and Collateral Interest, the terms of which are described in this prospectus.

“Series 2017-1 Termination Date” means the September 2022 Distribution Date.

“Series Adjusted Invested Amount” means, for any series and for any Monthly Period:

“Series Adjusted Portfolio Yield” means, for any Monthly Period, the annualized percentage equivalent of a fraction:

(i) Reallocated Investor Finance Charge Collections (including any investment earnings and certain other amounts that are to be treated as collections of finance charge receivables allocable to Series 2017-1 in accordance with the pooling and servicing agreement) for such Monthly Period, plus

(ii) the amount of investment earnings, if any, in the Principal Funding Account for the related Distribution Date, plus

(iii) any Excess Finance Charge Collections that are allocated to Series 2017-1, plus

(iv) the amount of funds withdrawn from the Reserve Account and which are required to be deposited into the Collection Account and included as Class A Available Funds for the Distribution Date for such Monthly Period, minus

(v) the Investor Default Amount for the Distribution Date for such Monthly Period, and

“Series Allocable Finance Charge Collections,” “Series Allocable Principal Collections” and “Series Allocable Defaulted Amount” mean, for any series and for any Monthly Period, the product of:

(b) the amount of collections of finance charge receivables deposited in the Collection Account, the amount of collections of principal receivables deposited in the Collection Account and the amount of all Defaulted Amounts with respect to that Monthly Period, respectively.

“Series Allocation Percentage” means, for any series and for any Monthly Period, the percentage equivalent which percentage shall never exceed 100%) of a fraction:

“Series Enhancement” means any credit enhancement for the benefit of the certificateholders of a particular series or class of certificates.

“Series Required Transferor Amount” for any date of determination means 7.0% of the Invested Amount.

(a) failure by the servicer to make any payment, transfer or deposit, or to give instructions to the trustee to make any payment, transfer or deposit, on the date the servicer is required to do so under the pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement, which is not cured within a five Business Day grace period;

(b) failure on the part of the servicer duly to observe or perform in any material respect any other covenants or agreements of the servicer in the pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement which has an Adverse Effect and which continues unremedied for a period of 60 days after written notice, or the servicer assigns its duties under the pooling and servicing agreement, except as specifically permitted thereunder;

(c) any representation, warranty or certification made by the servicer in the pooling and servicing agreement, any supplement or in any certificate delivered pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement or any supplement proves to have been incorrect in any material respect when made, which has an Adverse Effect on the rights of the certificateholders of any series, and which Adverse Effect continues for a period of 60 days after written notice; or

(d) the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, receivership or conservatorship with respect to the servicer.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a delay in or failure of performance referred to under clause (a) above for a period of 10 Business Days after the applicable grace period or referred to under clauses (b) or (c) for a period of 60 Business Days after the applicable grace period, will not constitute a Servicer Default if such delay or failure could not have been prevented by the exercise of reasonable diligence by the servicer and such delay or failure was caused by an act of God or other similar occurrence. Upon the occurrence of any such event, the servicer will not be relieved from using its best efforts to perform its obligations in a timely manner in accordance with the terms of the pooling and servicing agreement. The servicer must provide the trustee, the transferors and any provider of Series Enhancement prompt notice of such failure or delay by it, together with a description of its efforts to so perform its obligations.

“Servicing Base Amount” means, for any Distribution Date, (i) the Adjusted Invested Amount as of the last day of the Monthly Period preceding such Distribution Date, minus (ii) the product of the amount, if any, on deposit

in the Special Funding Account as of the last day of the Monthly Period preceding such Distribution Date and the Series Allocation Percentage with respect to such Monthly Period.

“Servicing Fee” has the meaning described in “Description of the Certificates — Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses” in this prospectus.

“Shared Principal Collections” has the meaning described in “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series” in this prospectus.

“Special Funding Account” means the account established as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Special Funding Account” in this prospectus.

“Special Payment Date” means any Distribution Date in a Monthly Period following a Monthly Period in which a Pay-Out Event occurs.

“Supplemental Certificate” means any certificate that is received by the transferors in exchange for a portion of the Transferor Certificates.

“Tax Opinion” means, with respect to any action, an opinion of counsel to the effect that, for federal income tax purposes, (a) such action will not adversely affect the tax characterization as debt of the certificates of any outstanding series or class that was characterized as debt at the time of its issuance, (b) following such action the trust will not be deemed to be an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation and (c) such action will not cause or constitute an event in which gain or loss would be recognized by any certificateholder.

“Total Portfolio” is the revolving credit account portfolio of consumer American Express credit card accounts and Pay Over Time revolving credit features associated with charge card accounts owned by Centurion and FSB and in the future may include other charge or credit accounts or products owned by Centurion, FSB or other account owners, including revolving credit features of the charge card accounts, but excluding certain accounts owned by Centurion and FSB issued to Latin American obligors.

“Transferor Amount” means, at any time of determination, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the total aggregate amount of principal receivables in the trust and (ii) the amount on deposit in the Special Funding Account at such time minus the aggregate “Adjusted Invested Amounts” for all outstanding series (specified in the prospectuses related to the offering of such series) at such time.

“Transferor Certificates” means, collectively, the original transferor certificate and any outstanding Supplemental Certificates.

“Trust Adjusted Invested Amount” means, for any Monthly Period, the sum of the Series Adjusted Invested Amounts (as adjusted in any supplement) for all outstanding series.

“Trust Portfolio” means certain accounts selected from the Total Portfolio and designated for the trust based on the eligibility criteria specified in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement.

The information provided in this Annex I forms an integral part of the prospectus.

The accounts in the Trust Portfolio were selected from the Total Portfolio based upon the eligibility criteria specified in the purchase agreements and the pooling and servicing agreement applied with respect to the accounts as of their selection date. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Conveyance of Receivables,” “— Addition of Accounts” and “Risk Factors — Addition of accounts to the trust may decrease the credit quality of the assets securing the repayment of your certificates. If this occurs, your receipt of payments of principal and interest may be reduced, delayed or accelerated” in this prospectus for a discussion of those eligibility criteria. Subject only to these criteria and any applicable regulatory guidelines, the account owners have the discretion to select the accounts in the Total Portfolio for addition to the Trust Portfolio. The account owners have in the past considered, and may in the future consider, factors such as product type, tenure of an account and interest rate applicable to an account in determining the accounts to be added to the Trust Portfolio. Set forth below is certain information with respect to the Trust Portfolio. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses” and “The Trust Portfolio — The Accounts” in this prospectus.

The Trust Portfolio’s yield, loss, delinquency and payment rate is comprised of segments which may, when taken individually, have yield, loss, delinquency and payment rate characteristics different from those of the overall Trust Portfolio. There can be no assurance that the yield, loss, delinquency and payment rate experience relating to the receivables in the Trust Portfolio in the future will be comparable to the historical experience relating to the receivables in the Trust Portfolio set forth below.

The following tables set forth the loss and delinquency experience for the Trust Portfolio for each of the periods shown. The loss and delinquency rates at any time reflect, among other factors, the quality of the Trust Portfolio, the average seasoning of the accounts, the success of the account owners’ collection efforts, the product mix of the Trust Portfolio and general economic conditions.

The following table sets forth the loss experience for the Trust Portfolio for each indicated period. Total gross charge-offs include charge-offs of principal receivables only, and do not include any charge-offs of finance charge and fee receivables or the amount of any reductions in principal receivables due to a rebate, refund, error, fraudulent charge or other miscellaneous adjustment described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Defaulted Receivables; Rebates and Fraudulent Charges.” If finance charge and fee receivables that have been charged-off were included in total gross charge-offs, total gross charge-offs would be higher as an absolute number and as a percentage of the average principal receivables outstanding during the periods indicated. Recoveries are collections received in respect of charged-off accounts in the Trust Portfolio during the period indicated in the following table. Total recoveries for each indicated period include recoveries of principal, finance charges and certain fees for that period. Under the pooling and servicing agreement, recoveries are treated as collections of finance charge receivables. Total net charge-offs are an amount equal to total gross charge-offs minus total recoveries, each for the applicable period. Average principal receivables outstanding for each indicated period is the average of the month-end principal receivables balances for that period. We cannot provide any assurance that the loss experience for the receivables in the Trust Portfolio in the future will be similar to the historical experience set forth below.

The following tables set forth the delinquency experience for the Trust Portfolio for each indicated period. With respect to the “Average Receivables Delinquent as a Percentage of the Trust Portfolio” table below, the average receivables delinquent is the average of the month-end delinquent amounts, while the average receivables outstanding is the average of month-end receivables balances, each for the applicable period. With respect to the “Average Number of Delinquent Accounts as a Percentage of the Trust Portfolio” table below, the average number of delinquent accounts is the average of the month-end delinquent accounts, while the average number of outstanding accounts is the average of total month-end accounts, each for the applicable period. We cannot provide any assurance that the delinquency experience for the receivables in the Trust Portfolio in the future will be similar to the historical experience set forth below.

Average Number of Delinquent Accounts as a Percentage of the Trust Portfolio

The following table sets forth the revenue experience for the Trust Portfolio from total finance charge and fee collections for each indicated period. Total finance charge and fee collections set forth in the table below include periodic finance charges, cash advance fees, annual membership fees, other fees, discount option yield, Issuer Rate Fees and recoveries on charged-off accounts. Under the pooling and servicing agreement, recoveries on charged-off accounts are treated as collections of finance charge receivables. Starting in the June 2009 Monthly Period, the transferors began transferring receivables to the trust at a discount based on a discount percentage equal to (i) 6.0% during the June 2009 Monthly Period, (ii) 3.0% during the July 2009 Monthly Period, (iii) 2.0% starting in the August 2009 Monthly Period and continuing through the last day of the January 2010 Monthly Period, and (iv) 1.0% starting in the February 2010 Monthly Period and continuing through the last day of the July 2010 Monthly Period, at which time the discount percentage was reduced to 0.0%. Collections of receivables designated as discount option receivables during this period were first received in the July 2009 Monthly Period, and collections on those discount option receivables ceased in the February 2012 Monthly Period. See “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Discount Option” and “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses — Issuer Rate Fees” in this prospectus. There can be no assurance that the revenues for the Trust Portfolio in the future will be similar to the historical experience of the Trust Portfolio set forth below.

Revenue experience from total finance charge and fee collections results from dividing total finance charges and fee collections by the average principal receivables outstanding. The average principal receivables outstanding for each indicated period is the average of the month-end principal receivables balances for that period.

The historical revenue figures for the Trust Portfolio shown in the table above include interest on purchases and cash advances and fees collected from holders of the accounts during the applicable month. Revenues from finance charges and fees collected will be affected by numerous factors, including the periodic finance charges on the receivables, the amount of fees paid by account holders, the percentage of account holders who pay off their balances in full each month and do not incur periodic finance charges on purchases and change in the level of delinquencies on the receivables. Revenues related to finance charges and fees also depend on the types of charges and fees assessed by the account owners on the accounts in the Trust Portfolio. Accordingly, revenues will be affected by future changes in the types of charges and fees assessed on the accounts and other factors. See “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables — Consumer Protection Laws” in this prospectus. None of the servicer, any account owner or any of their respective affiliates has any basis to predict how future changes in the use of the accounts by account holders or in the terms of accounts may affect the revenue for the Trust Portfolio.

The following table sets forth the highest and lowest account holder monthly principal payment rates for the Trust Portfolio during any month in the period shown and the average account holder monthly principal payment rates for all months during each period shown, calculated as the percentage equivalent of a fraction. The monthly principal payment rates for each month is calculated as the amount of principal payments from account holders (excluding recoveries on charged-off receivables) as posted to the accounts during the applicable month divided by the aggregate amount of principal receivables outstanding as of the beginning of the applicable month, normalized for a 30-day month by dividing the resulting rate by the actual number of days in the applicable month and multiplying the result by 30. In addition, as of the year ended December 31, 2016, and with regard to the prior month’s statement only, 9.48% of the accounts in the Trust Portfolio had account holders that made only the minimum payment due under the terms of the related account agreement, and 54.73% of the accounts in the Trust Portfolio had account holders that paid their full balance under the terms of the related account agreement. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses — Billing and Payments” in this prospectus for a description of how minimum payments are calculated.

As of December 31, 2016, the receivables in the accounts included in the Trust Portfolio totaled $26,129,462,078 comprised of $25,435,689,920 of principal receivables and $693,772,157 of finance charge receivables.

The following tables, together with the paragraph under “— Composition by Geographic Distribution,” summarize the Trust Portfolio by various criteria as of December 31, 2016. Because the future composition of the Trust Portfolio may change over time, these tables are not necessarily indicative of the composition of the Trust Portfolio at any time subsequent to December 31, 2016.

The average account balance as of December 31, 2016 was $1,656 for all accounts and $4,258 for all accounts other than accounts with a zero balance as of that date.

As of December 31, 2016, approximately 12.58%, 11.18%, 8.93%, 7.35%, 5.80% and 5.75% of the receivables related to account holders having billing addresses in California, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey and Georgia, respectively. Not more than 5% of the receivables related to account holders have billing addresses in any other single state.

The following table sets forth the composition of the Trust Portfolio as of December 31, 2016 by FICO^®* score ranges. To the extent available, FICO scores are obtained at origination and monthly thereafter. A FICO score is a measurement determined by Fair Isaac Corporation using information collected by the major credit bureaus to assess consumer credit risk. FICO risk scores rank-order consumers according to the likelihood that their credit obligations will be paid in accordance with the terms of their accounts. Although Fair Isaac Corporation discloses only limited information about the variables it uses to assess credit risk, those variables likely include, but are not limited to, debt level, credit history, payment patterns (including delinquency experience), and level of utilization of available credit. FICO scores of an individual may change over time, depending on the conduct of the individual, including the individual’s usage of his or her available credit and changes in credit score technology used by Fair Isaac Corporation.

FICO scores are based on independent, third-party information, the accuracy of which we cannot verify. The account owners do not use standardized credit scores, such as a FICO score, alone to determine the amount of charges that should be approved on a credit card account. Rather, a FICO score is only one of many factors used by Centurion and FSB, as account owners, to assess an individual’s credit and default risk. In connection with their underwriting and authorization decisions, the account owners use proprietary scoring models, which they generally have found to be more accurate predictors of credit and default risk than any single standardized credit score such as FICO. The use of proprietary models also enables an account owner to extend credit to an account holder with a lower FICO score without changing the account owner’s risk tolerance than would be the case if the account owner relied solely on FICO. See “Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Business — Underwriting and Authorization Procedures” in this prospectus. The FICO scores presented below should not be used alone as a method of forecasting whether account holders will make payments in accordance with the terms of their accounts. References to “Receivables Outstanding” in the following table include both finance charge receivables and principal receivables. Because the future composition of the Trust Portfolio may change over time, this table is not necessarily indicative of the composition of the Trust Portfolio at any specific time in the future.

The information provided in this Annex II forms an integral part of the prospectus.

The Trust Portfolio is comprised of designated consumer American Express credit card accounts and Pay Over Time revolving credit features associated with charge card accounts owned by Centurion and FSB.

The following tables present charge-off, delinquency, payment rate and revenue experience of the Trust Portfolio. Due to the nature of the receivables in the Trust Portfolio, the following tables do not include information relating to (i) prepayments, because the concept of prepayments is not an applicable consideration beyond payment rate data, which is provided, or (ii) standardized credit scores, because credit decisions are being made on an ongoing basis based on continuously evolving obligor credit scores.

Data is presented in the following tables in separate increments based on the calendar year of origination of the accounts, each an “Origination Segment.” Data is presented for the five most recent Origination Segments ended December 31, 2016. As used in the tables, the date of origination is generally either the date the account became effective or was first used. The account aging shows activity through the indicated age of the account (e.g., 0-12 months, 13-24 months), which is referred to in this Annex II as the “performance period.” In the following tables, highlighted data is based on a full 12 months of activity for all accounts in the applicable Origination Segment and, therefore, will not change in future disclosures unless the transferors designate Additional Accounts for inclusion in the trust as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Additions of Accounts” in this prospectus or remove accounts from the trust as described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Removal of Accounts” in this prospectus or a party to the transaction accepts the reassignment of Ineligible Receivables following the breach of certain representations and warranties as described under “Description of the Purchase Agreements — Repurchase Obligations” and “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Representations and Warranties” in this prospectus, and then only if any such addition or removal of accounts or reassignment of Ineligible Receivables involves accounts in the applicable Origination Segments. The data that is not highlighted will change in future disclosures and, in some cases, will reflect activity in an account for less than 12 full months, depending on when the account is originated and when the data for that disclosure is generated.

As of December 31, 2016, the accounts reflected in the following tables had receivables outstanding that were approximately 9.56% of the total receivables outstanding in the Trust Portfolio at such date. Because the accounts reflected in the following tables are only a portion of the Trust Portfolio, the overall performance of the receivables in the Trust Portfolio may be different from the performance reflected in the tables below. There can be no assurance that the performance of receivables in the future will be similar to the historical experience set forth below.

Total gross charge-offs for any Origination Segment include charge-offs of principal receivables only, and do not include any charge-offs of finance charge and fee receivables or the amount of any reductions in principal receivables due to a rebate, refund, error, fraudulent charge or other miscellaneous adjustment described under “The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally — Defaulted Receivables; Rebates and Fraudulent Charges” in this prospectus. The gross charge-off rate, which is an annualized percentage, results from dividing total gross charge-offs by the average of the month-end principal receivables balances for each month in the applicable performance period, which is referred to in this Annex II as the “average month-end principal receivables outstanding.”

Total net charge-offs for any Origination Segment are an amount equal to total gross charge-offs minus total recoveries. The net charge-off rate, which is an annualized percentage, results from dividing total net charge-offs by the average month-end principal receivables outstanding.

The 30 Days+ Delinquency Rate (i.e., accounts 31 days or more delinquent) is the result of dividing the average of the month-end delinquent amounts for each month in the applicable performance period by the average month-end receivables outstanding.

The monthly payment rate results from dividing total principal collections received (excluding recoveries on charged-off receivables) during each month by that month’s opening total principal receivables balance, which is then normalized for a 30-day month.

The percentages set forth above, which are annualized percentages, result from dividing total finance charges and fees billed by the average month-end principal receivables outstanding. Total finance charges and fees billed include periodic finance charges, cash advance fees, annual membership fees, other fees and Issuer Rate Fees.

Historical data for revenue experience as reported with respect to the Trust Portfolio (i) unlike the calculation of total finance charges and fees billed above which is based on the related amounts posted to accounts, is calculated based on the related amounts collected on the accounts including recoveries, (ii) is calculated using discount option yield for periods up to and including the February 2012 Monthly Period and (iii) is calculated using Issuer Rate Fees. As a result, there are limitations to any comparison of the historical data presented in this Annex II and the static pool data presented in the table above.

The information provided in this Annex III forms an integral part of the prospectus.

The table below sets forth the principal characteristics of all other series issued by the trust and currently outstanding.

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information.

We are not offering the Class A certificates or the Class B certificates in any state where the offer is not permitted.

We do not claim the accuracy of the information in this prospectus as of any date other than the date stated on its cover.

Dealers will deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters of the Class A certificates and Class B certificates and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions. In addition, until the date which is 90 days after the date of this prospectus, all dealers selling the Class A certificates or Class B certificates will deliver a prospectus, such delivery obligation generally may be satisfied through the filing of the prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission.



Barclays	MUFG	RBC Capital Markets	Wells Fargo Securities


Issuing Entity:	American Express Credit Account Master Trust

Depositors and Transferors:	American Express Receivables Financing Corporation III LLC and American Express Receivables Financing Corporation IV LLC

Sponsors and Originators:	American Express Centurion Bank and American Express Bank, FSB

Servicer:	American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Trustee:	The Bank of New York Mellon

Asset Representations Reviewer:	Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC

Series Issuance Date:	February 21, 2017

Servicing Fee Rate:	2.0% per year

Clearance and Settlement:	DTC/Clearstream/Euroclear

Primary Trust Assets:	Receivables generated in a portfolio of designated consumer American Express^® credit card accounts and Pay Over Time revolving credit features associated with charge card accounts*

Group:	Group I

Principal Sharing Series:	Yes

Excess Allocation Series:	Yes
	Class A	Class B
Principal Amount:	$2,300,000,000	$98,572,000
Percentage of Series:**	87.50%	3.75%
Credit Enhancement:	Subordination of Class B and collateral interest	Subordination of collateral interest
Certificate Rate:	1.93% per year	2.10% per year
Interest Accrual Method:	30/360	30/360
Distribution Dates:	Monthly (15th)	Monthly (15th)
First Distribution Date:	March 15, 2017	March 15, 2017
Approximate end of Revolving Period and commencement of Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment):	February 1, 2019	February 1, 2019
Expected Final Payment Date:	February 18, 2020	February 18, 2020
Legal Final Maturity:	September 15, 2022	September 15, 2022
ERISA eligibility (investors are cautioned to consult with their counsel):	Yes, subject to important considerations described under “ERISA Considerations” in this prospectus	No, subject to important considerations described under “ERISA Considerations” in this prospectus
Debt for United States Federal Income Tax Purposes (investors are cautioned to consult with their counsel):	Yes, subject to important considerations described under “Tax Matters” in this prospectus	Yes, subject to important considerations described under “Tax Matters” in this prospectus


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ERISA Considerations		111
Publicly-Offered Security		111
The Department of Labor Authorization		112
Class A Certificates		114
Class B Certificates		114
Consultation With Counsel		115
Underwriting		116
Offering Restrictions		117
Legal Matters		118
Reports to Certificateholders		118
Investor Communications		118
Where You Can Find More Information		118
Forward-Looking Statements		119
Glossary of Defined Terms		121
Annex I: The Trust Portfolio		A-I-1
Annex II: Static Pool Information		A-II-1
Annex III: Other Series		A-III-1


Underwriters of the Class A Certificates	Aggregate Principal Amount of Class A Certificates
Barclays Capital Inc.		$460,000,000
MUFG Securities Americas Inc.		460,000,000
RBC Capital Markets, LLC		460,000,000
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC		460,000,000
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.		103,500,000
Lloyds Securities Inc.		103,500,000
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.		103,500,000
TD Securities (USA) LLC		103,500,000
CastleOak Securities, L.P.		23,000,000
Drexel Hamilton, LLC		23,000,000


Total		$2,300,000,000


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Summary of Series Terms		1
Risk Factors		16
The Issuing Entity		31
The Trust Portfolio		32
General		32
Static Pool Information		32
Pool Asset Review		32
Repurchases and Replacements		34
The Accounts		34
Transaction Parties		35
Account Owners and Sponsors		35
Depositors and Transferors		36
Credit Risk Retention		37
Servicer		39
Bank Holding Company Status		39
The Trustee		39
Centurion’s and FSB’s Revolving Credit Businesses		40
General		40
Underwriting and Authorization Process		41
Billing and Payments		42
Collection Efforts		43
Issuer Rate Fees		43
Use of Proceeds		44
Maturity Considerations		45
Series Provisions		46
Interest Payments		47
Principal Payments		48
Credit Enhancement		50
Allocation Percentages		50
Principal Funding Account		51
Reserve Account		51
Reallocation of Cash Flows		52
Application of Collections		54
Defaulted Receivables; Investor Charge-Offs		57
Paired Series		58
Additional Issuances of Series 2017-1 Certificates		58
Pay-Out Events		59
Servicing Compensation and Payment of Expenses		60
Optional Repurchase		61
Series Termination		61
Reports		62
Description of the Certificates		62
General		62
Book-Entry Registration		63
Definitive Certificates		66
The Pooling and Servicing Agreement Generally		67
Conveyance of Receivables		67
Representations and Warranties		67
Resolution of Repurchase Disputes		69
The Transferor Certificates; Additional Transferors		70
Additions of Accounts		71
Removal of Accounts		72


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Discount Option		73
Premium Option		74
Indemnification		75
Collection and Other Servicing Procedures		75
Outsourcing of Servicing		76
New Issuances		77
Collection Account		79
Deposits in Collection Account		79
Allocations		80
Groups of Series		80
Reallocations Among Different Series Within a Reallocation Group		81
Sharing of Excess Finance Charge Collections Among Excess Allocation Series		83
Sharing of Principal Collections Among Principal Sharing Series		83
Paired Series		84
Special Funding Account		84
Funding Period		85
Defaulted Receivables; Rebates and Fraudulent Charges		85
Servicer Covenants		86
Certain Matters Regarding the Servicer		86
Servicer Default		87
Evidence as to Compliance		88
Transferor Insolvency		88
Amendments		89
Defeasance		90
List of Certificateholders		91
The Trustee		91
Merger or Consolidation of a Transferor or the Servicer		92
Assumption of a Transferor’s Obligations		93
Description of the Purchase Agreements		94
Sale of Receivables		94
Representations and Warranties		95
Repurchase Obligations		96
Reassignment of Other Receivables		96
Modifications		97
Amendments		97
Termination		97
Asset Representations Review		97
Delinquency Event		98
Voting Event		99
Asset Representations Review Process		100
Asset Representations Reviewer		100
Other Matters Relating to the Asset Representations Reviewer		101
Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables		101
Certain Regulatory Matters		101
Consumer Financial Products Regulation		102
Legal Proceedings		103
Tax Matters		105
Federal Income Tax Consequences — General		105
Treatment of the Certificates as Debt		105
Description of Opinions		105
Treatment of the Trust		106
Taxation of U.S. Certificate Owners		107
Foreign Certificate Owners		109
Backup Withholding and Information Reporting		110
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act		110
State and Local Taxation		111


Underwriters of the Class B Certificates	Aggregate Principal Amount of Class B Certificates
Barclays Capital Inc.		$24,643,000
MUFG Securities Americas Inc.		24,643,000
RBC Capital Markets, LLC		24,643,000
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC		24,643,000


Total		$98,572,000


	Year Ended December 31,
	2016			2015			2014			2013			2012
Average Principal Receivables Outstanding	$	25,041,699		$	27,191,841		$	28,218,312		$	29,531,690		$	30,933,471
Total Gross Charge-Offs	$	464,101		$	563,166		$	671,920		$	811,750		$	971,288
Total Recoveries		178,720			222,043			228,385			245,891			282,790

Total Net Charge-Offs	$	285,382		$	341,123		$	443,535		$	565,859		$	688,497

Total Gross Charge-Offs as a Percentage of Average Principal Receivables Outstanding		1.85	%		2.07	%		2.38	%		2.75	%		3.14	%
Total Recoveries as a Percentage of Average Principal Receivables Outstanding		0.71			0.82			0.81			0.83			0.91

Total Net Charge-Offs as a Percentage of Average Principal Receivables Outstanding		1.14	%		1.25	%		1.57	%		1.92	%		2.23	%

Number of Accounts Experiencing a Loss		99,648			123,411			143,189			170,950			212,555
Number of Accounts Experiencing a Recovery(1)		551,284			716,145			833,975			921,363			1,012,373
Average Net Loss per Account Experiencing a Loss(2)	$	2.86		$	2.76		$	3.10		$	3.31		$	3.24


Account Balance Range	Number of Accounts		Percentage of Total Number of Accounts			Receivables Outstanding			Percentage of Total Receivables Outstanding
Credit Balance		118,952		0.75	%	$	(25,526,838	)		(0.10	)%
Zero Balance		9,645,210		61.12			0			0.00
$0.01 to $1,000		2,368,746		15.01			841,717,089			3.22
$1,000.01 to $5,000		2,125,757		13.47			5,394,131,261			20.64
$5,000.01 to $10,000		796,751		5.05			5,649,626,298			21.62
$10,000.01 or More		725,996		4.60			14,269,514,268			54.61

Total		15,781,412		100.00	%	$	26,129,462,078			100.00	%


Credit Limit Range	Number of Accounts		Percentage of Total Number of Accounts			Receivables Outstanding		Percentage of Total Receivables Outstanding
Less than $1,000.99		1,193,946		7.57	%	$	70,190,649		0.27	%
$1,001 to $5,000.99		2,031,627		12.87			1,116,324,550		4.27
$5,001 to $10,000.99		2,446,803		15.50			2,294,388,878		8.78
$10,001 to $15,000.99		1,932,232		12.24			2,555,177,368		9.78
$15,001 to $20,000.99		1,376,621		8.72			2,684,500,871		10.27
$20,001 to $25,000.99		826,382		5.24			2,079,210,603		7.96
$25,001 or More(1)		910,908		5.77			5,198,824,306		19.90
Other		2		0.00			0		0.00

Total (Credit Card)		10,718,521		67.92	%	$	15,998,617,225		61.23	%
No Pre-Set Spending Limit (Pay Over Time)		5,062,891		32.08			10,130,844,853		38.77

Grand Total		15,781,412		100.00	%	$	26,129,462,078		100.00	%


Period of Delinquency (Days Contractually Delinquent)	Number of Accounts		Percentage of Total Number of Accounts			Receivables Outstanding		Percentage of Total Receivables Outstanding
Current to 30 days		15,748,149		99.79	%	$	25,904,791,012		99.14	%
31 to 60 Days		11,709		0.07			65,748,219		0.25
61 to 90 Days		7,031		0.04			50,439,916		0.19
91 to 120 Days		5,860		0.04			43,951,154		0.17
121 to 150 Days		4,776		0.03			35,791,967		0.14
151 Days or More		3,887		0.02			28,739,810		0.11

Total		15,781,412		100.00	%	$	26,129,462,078		100.00	%


Account Age (1)	Number of Accounts		Percentage of Total Number of Accounts			Receivables Outstanding		Percentage of Total Receivables Outstanding
Not More than 11 Months		327,440		2.07	%	$	575,202,685		2.20	%
12 Months to 17 Months		435,991		2.76			670,030,520		2.56
18 Months to 23 Months		187,422		1.19			292,049,365		1.12
24 Months to 35 Months		209,460		1.33			383,180,728		1.47
36 Months to 47 Months		152,378		0.97			304,491,441		1.17
48 Months to 59 Months		133,234		0.84			273,784,642		1.05
60 Months to 71 Months		102,365		0.65			213,753,084		0.82
72 Months or More		14,233,122		90.19			23,416,969,614		89.62

Total		15,781,412		100.00	%	$	26,129,462,078		100.00	%


FICO Score Range	Receivables Outstanding		Percentage of Total Receivables Outstanding
Less than 560	$	192,221,753		0.74	%
560 - 659		1,780,141,488		6.81
660 - 699		3,362,378,221		12.87
700 - 759		9,473,422,138		36.26
760 and above		11,281,142,672		43.17
Refreshed FICO Unavailable		40,155,806		0.15

Total	$	26,129,462,078		100.00	%


Origination Year	0-12 Months	13-24 Months	25-36 Months	37-48 Months	49-60 Months
2016 Origination	0.23%
2015 Origination	0.06%	0.59%
2014 Origination	0.00%	0.05%	0.53%
2013 Origination	0.00%	0.00%	0.05%	0.41%
2012 Origination	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.05%	0.30%


Initial Invested Amount		$1,363,638,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,200,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 1.26% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$75,001,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 3.75% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$106,250,083.34
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		February 1, 2017
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$88,637,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		February 2018 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		February 22, 2008
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Invested Amount (as of January 17, 2017)			$90,908,000
Certificate Rate			One-month LIBOR plus 20.00% per year
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage			2.0% per year
Expected Final Payment Date			April 2018 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date			June 5, 2009
Principal Sharing Series			Yes
Excess Allocation Series			Yes
Group			Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$606,062,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$500,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.27% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$36,364,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.80% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$44,697,000
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		June 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$69,698,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		June 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		June 22, 2012
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Maximum Invested Amount		$2,380,953,000
Class A Maximum Invested Amount		$2,000,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		Floating Rate
Class B Maximum Invested Amount		$107,143,000
Class B Certificate Rate		Floating Rate
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Maximum Invested Amount		$273,810,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		Extendable
Series Issuance Date		October 3, 2012
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$1,181,820,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$975,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.24% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$70,910,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.55% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$87,159,166.67
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		October 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$135,910,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		October 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		November 8, 2012
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$1,190,477,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,000,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.42% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$53,572,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.70% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$87,797,666.67
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		July 1, 2017
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$136,905,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		July 2018 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		July 25, 2013
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$714,286,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$600,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.42% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$32,143,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.70% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$52,678,583.34
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		October 1, 2017
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$82,143,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		October 2018 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		November 13, 2013
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$1,488,096,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,250,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.37% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$66,964,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.50% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$109,747,000
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		May 1, 2018
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$171,132,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		May 2019 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		May 19, 2014
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$1,156,070,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,000,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		1.26% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$43,353,000
Class B Certificate Rate		1.42% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$86,946,083.34
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		June 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$112,717,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		June 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		July 1, 2014
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group I


Initial Invested Amount		$1,734,105,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,500,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		1.49% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$65,029,000
Class B Certificate Rate		1.73% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$130,419,083.34
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		September 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$169,076,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		September 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		September 22, 2014
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group I


Initial Invested Amount		$583,092,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$500,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.29% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$16,036,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.45% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$43,003,000
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		October 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$67,056,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		October 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		November 19, 2014
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Initial Invested Amount		$1,142,858,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$1,000,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.29% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$31,429,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.60% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$85,952,416.67
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		June 1, 2016
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$111,429,00
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		June 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		July 20, 2015
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II


Invested Amount (as of January 17, 2017)		$21,677,000
Certificate Rate		4.88% per year
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Expected Final Payment Date		November 2017 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		June 7, 2016
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		N/A


Invested Amount (as of January 17, 2017)		$25,109,000
Certificate Rate		5.23% per year
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Expected Final Payment Date		December 2018 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		June 7, 2016
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		N/A


Initial Invested Amount		$804,599,000
Class A Initial Invested Amount		$700,000,000
Class A Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.45% per year
Class B Initial Invested Amount		$26,150,000
Class B Certificate Rate		One-month LIBOR plus 0.65% per year
Controlled Accumulation Amount (subject to adjustment)		$60,512,500
Approximate Commencement of Controlled Accumulation Period (subject to adjustment)		February 1, 2021
Annual Servicing Fee Percentage		2.0% per year
Collateral Initial Invested Amount		$78,449,000
Enhancement for the Class A and Class B Certificates		Collateral Invested Amount
Other enhancement for the Class A Certificates		Subordination of the Class B Certificates
Expected Final Payment Date		February 2022 Distribution Date
Series Issuance Date		February 21, 2017
Principal Sharing Series		Yes
Excess Allocation Series		Yes
Group		Group II