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Related-Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related-Party Transactions
Related-Party Transactions
Related-party transactions not otherwise disclosed in these footnotes to the consolidated financial statements include the following:
The Company has a line of credit agreement with Santander — New York Branch (Note 5). Interest expense on these lines of credit totaled $22,709 and $13,957 for the three months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $47,583 and $20,451 for the six months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Accrued interest was $6,146 and $11,435 at June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.
The Company has a line of credit agreement with SHUSA (Note 5). Interest expense on this line of credit totaled $1,299 and $1,662 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, respectively. Accrued interest was $213 as of June 30, 2014.
The Company has a letter of credit facility with Santander — New York Branch (Note 10). Letter of credit fees for the used and unused portions, which are included as a component of interest expense, totaled $126 and $144 for the three months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, and $251 and $270 for the six months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Accrued fees totaled $126 and $128 at June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.
The Company has derivative financial instruments with Santander and affiliates with outstanding notional amounts of $14,619,274 and $10,461,378 at June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively (Note 7). Interest expense on these agreements includes amounts totaling $12,702 and $1,289 for the three months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $21,583 and $6,163 for the six months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
During 2013, the Company sold approximately $222,384 of the Company’s receivables from dealers to SBNA. The Company continues to service these loans but the loans are not subject to the servicer performance payment that applies to dealer loans originated under the SBNA flow agreement, described in Note 10. Servicing fee income recognized on receivables from dealers sold to SBNA or originated by SBNA totaled $3,033 and $4,298 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, including $1,259 and $1,723, respectively, in servicer performance payments. Other information on the dealer loan portfolio serviced for SBNA as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013 is as follows:
 
 
June 30,
2014
 
December 31,
2013
Total serviced portfolio
$
764,869

 
$
513,684

Cash collections due to owner, net
$
10,930

 
$
6,941

Servicing fees receivable
$
1,676

 
$
817


 
The Company also has agreements with SBNA to service auto retail installment contracts and recreational and marine vehicle portfolios. Servicing fee income recognized under these agreements totaled $5,784 and $3,157 for the three months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $6,649 and $9,371 for the six months ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Other information on the serviced auto loan and retail installment contract portfolios for SBNA as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013 is as follows:
 
 
June 30,
2014
 
December 31,
2013
Total serviced portfolio
$
1,017,002

 
$
1,175,566

Cash collections due to owner
$
30,522

 
$
32,831

Servicing fees receivable (refundable)
$
2,566

 
$
(3,163
)

During 2014, the Company entered into a flow agreement with SBNA whereby SBNA has the first right to review and approve Chrysler Capital consumer vehicle lease applications. SCUSA may review any applications declined by SBNA for the Company’s own portfolio. The Company provides servicing and receives an origination fee on all leases originated under this agreement.

On June 27, 2014, the Company executed a bulk sale of Chrysler Capital leases with a depreciated net capitalized cost of $369,114 and a net book value of $317,275 in Chrysler Capital leases to SBNA. This sale was effected through the transfer of a SUBI in SCUSA’s titling trust. Proceeds from the sale were $322,851, for a total gain of $5,576.  SCUSA retained servicing on the sold leases.
Origination and service fee income recognized on leases originated and serviced for SBNA totaled $6,937 and $535, respectively, for the three months ended June 30, 2014, and $10,622 and $629, respectively, for the six months ended June 30, 2014. Other information on the consumer vehicle lease portfolio serviced for SBNA as of June 30, 2014 is as follows:
 
 
June 30,
2014
Total serviced portfolio
$
1,077,111

Cash collections due to owner
$
6,055

Origination and servicing fees receivable
$
2,499



On June 30, 2014, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with SBNA whereby SCUSA indemnifies SBNA for any credit or residual losses on a pool of $48,226 in leases originated under the flow agreement. The covered leases are non-conforming units because they did not meet SBNA’s credit criteria at origination.  In connection with this agreement, SCUSA established a $48,226 collateral account with SBNA that will be released over time to SBNA, in the case of losses, and SCUSA, in the case of payments and sale proceeds.
Produban Servicios Informaticos Generales S.L., a Santander affiliate, is under contract with the Company to provide professional services, telecommunications, and internal and/or external applications. Expenses incurred, which are included as a component of data processing, communications and other expenses, total$22 for each of the three-month periods ended June 30, 2014 and 2013, and $75 for each of the six-month periods ended June 30, 2014 and 2013.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, the Company originated $2,207 and $2,911, respectively, in unsecured revolving loans under terms entered into under a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with a company in which it has a cost method investment and holds a warrant to increase its ownership if certain vesting conditions are satisfied. The MSA enables SCUSA to review credit applications of retail store customers.
The Company paid expenses totaling $97 and $478, respectively, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, on behalf of the former managing member of the investment partnerships described in Note 8. The former managing member is an investor in Auto Finance Holdings. The Company has paid no expenses on behalf of this former managing member in 2014.
The Company paid certain expenses incurred by the Chairman and CEO in the operation of his private plane when used for SCUSA business within the contiguous 48 states of the United States. Under this practice, payment is based on a set flight time hourly rate, and the amount of our reimbursement is not subject to a maximum cap per fiscal year. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, the Company paid $141 and $414, respectively to Meregrass Company, Inc., a 135 charter company that manages this operation, for flight time with an average hourly rate of $5.8 per hour.
On October 21, 2013, we entered into a lease for approximately 373,000 square feet at a property intended to serve as our corporate headquarters, and in which property that the Chairman and CEO, President and Chief Financial Officer, and a member of our Board of Directors who is also a Santander employee each have a minority equity investment. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, the Company paid $54 and $108, respectively for monthly base rent. Future minimum lease payments for the 12-year term of the lease total approximately $83,555.