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Charge-offs taken on the additional nonperforming consumer loans where the fair value less costs to sell the collateral was less than the recorded investment of the loan.

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Represents the increase as of period end in nonperforming consonsumer loans, primarily home equity and residential mortgage, for TDRs, net of charge-offs, resulting from bankruptcy where no formal reaffirmation was provided by the borrower and therefore a concession has been granted based upon discharge from personal liability.

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Percentage of additional nonperforming consumer loans added in the period due to bankruptcy, that are current on their payments

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The amount of the outstanding recorded investment related to financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 310

-SubTopic 40

-Section 50

-Paragraph 4

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6951948&loc=d3e18845-111554