The following table provides a brief description of recent accounting pronouncements that could potentially impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements:

Standard	Description	Date of Adoption	Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
Standards that are not yet adopted
ASU 2016-02 Leases (Topic 842)	The amendments require lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and a liability to make lease payments in the statement of financial position for most leases. The accounting for lessors is largely unchanged.	January 1, 2019 (early adoption permitted)	Not expected to have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2016-01 Financial Instruments - Overall (Subtopic 825-10) Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities	The amendments address certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments.	January 1, 2018 (early adoption permitted for a provision related presentation of instrument-specific credit risk of liabilities accounted for under the fair value option)	Expected to impact disclosures only and not have a significant impact on the consolidated finanical statements.
ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern (Subtopic 205-04) Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern	This ASU requires management to evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.	January 1, 2017 (early adoption permitted)	Not expected to have an impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers	This guidance applies to contracts with customers to transfer goods or services and contracts to transfer nonfinancial assets unless those contracts are within the scope of other standards (for example, lease transactions).	January 1, 2018	Not expected to have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.

Standard	Description	Date of Adoption	Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
Standards that were adopted
ASU 2015-16 Business Combinations (Topic 805) Simplifying the Accounting Measurement-Period Adjustments	This amendment removed the requirement to present adjustments to provisional amounts retrospectively. The update required that an acquirer record, in the same period's financial statements, the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of the change to provisional amounts.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-15, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) Simplifying the Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of-Credit Arrangements - Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to Staff Announcement at June 18, 2015 EITF Meeting (SEC Update)	This amendment provided SEC guidance that it would not object to filers presenting debt issue costs related to line-of-credit arrangements as an asset and ratably amortizing the costs over the term of the arrangement.	June 18, 2015 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have an impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-10, Technical Corrections and Improvements	This perpetual project updated the codification for technical corrections and improvements.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted), for amendments subject to transition guidance	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-07, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosures for Investments in Certain Entities That Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or Its Equivalent)	This update removed the requirement to categorize within the fair value hierarchy all investments for which fair value is measured using the net asset value per share practical expedient and also removes certain disclosure requirements for these investments.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have an impact on the consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2015-05, Customer's Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement	This update clarified that customers should determine whether a cloud computing arrangement includes the license of software by applying the same guidance cloud service providers use. The guidance also eliminated the current requirement that customers analogize to the leasing standard when determining the asset acquired in a software licensing arrangement.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-03, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs	This ASU required that debt issue costs are presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability. The recognition and measurement of debt issue costs were not affected.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Impacted presentation only and did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-02, Consolidation (Topic 810) Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis	This update affected the following areas of the consolidation analysis: limited partnerships and similar entities, evaluation of fees paid to a decision maker or service provider as a variable interest and in determination of the primary beneficiary, effect of related parties on the primary beneficiary determination and for certain investment funds.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-01, Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20)	This update eliminated from GAAP the concept of extraordinary items.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have an impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-16, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in the Form of a Share is More Akin to Debt or Equity	This ASU provided additional guidance for evaluating whether conversion rights, redemption rights, voting rights, liquidation rights and dividend payment preferences and other features embedded in a share, including preferred stock, contain embedded derivatives requiring bifurcation. The update requires that an entity determine the nature of the host contract by considering all stated and implied terms and features in a hybrid instrument.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-13, Consolidation (Topic 810) Measuring the Financial Assets and the Financial Liabilities of a Consolidated Collateralized Financing Entity	This update provided a practical expedient to measure the fair value of the financial assets and financial liabilities of a consolidated collateralized financing entity, which the reporting entity has elected to or is required to measure on a fair value basis.	January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)	The Company adopted this ASU and applied the guidance to commercial mortgage backed securitization transactions. See "Commercial Real Estate Investments" footnote for further disclosure.
ASU 2014-11, Repurchase-to-Maturity Transactions, Repurchase Financings, and Disclosure	This update made limited amendments to the guidance in ASC 860 on accounting for certain repurchase agreements.	January 1, 2015	Impacted disclosures only and did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-08, Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant and Equipment (Topic 360) Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity	This ASU raised the threshold for a disposal to be treated as discontinued operations.	April 1, 2015	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-04 Receivables–Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors, Reclassification of Residential Real Estate Collateralized Consumer Mortgage Loans upon Foreclosure	This update clarified that an in-substance repossession or foreclosure has occurred, and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan, when the creditor obtains legal title to the property upon completion of a foreclosure or the borrower conveys all interest in the property to the creditor through a deed in lieu of foreclosure or similar arrangement.	January 1, 2015	Did not have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements.