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Represents rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value pertaining to servicing costs.

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Reflects the fair value of the de-securitized and reconsolidated lower-tier credit card receivables.

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Assets that reflects the fair value of the consolidation of our securitization trusts presenting certain non-recourse, asset-backed structured financing debt facilities that is secured by these credit card receivables that are held within such trusts.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Rate at which loans or a loan portfolio are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Percentage of likelihood a loan will not be repaid and instead default, used as an input to measure fair value.

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