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Troubled Debt Restructuring, Interest Rate Concession Period

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Amount of financing receivable modified as troubled debt restructuring.

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Amount of financing receivable modified as troubled debt restructuring within previous 12 months, with subsequent payment default.

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Amount of unfunded portion of contractual agreement to lend funds to borrower for financing receivable modified as troubled debt restructuring.

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Reflects the amount of additional interest income that would have been recorded if impaired or nonperforming loans were instead current, in compliance with their original terms, and outstanding throughout the reporting period or since origination (if held for part of the period).

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Reflects the percentage derived from dividing impaired loans on which interest has ceased to be accrued by total loans.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of loans that have been pledged as collateral for borrowings. If the secured party has the right by contract or custom to sell or re-pledge the collateral, then the debtor reclassifies that asset and report that asset in its statement of financial position separately from other assets not so encumbered.

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