Transfer Of Financial Assets Accounted For As Sales, Additional Amount Eligible To Be Sold

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Transfer Of Financial Assets Accounted For As Sales, Amount Derecognized, Transaction Fee Received

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Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales, Maximum Amount Eligible To Be Sold

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Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales, Remaining Amount Eligible To Be Sold

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to purchases of previously transferred financial assets (or its underlying collateral) related to a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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The cash outflow for the purchase of amounts due from customers, clients, lessees, borrowers, or others under the terms of its agreements therewith.

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Reflects, by transferred financial asset type, the amount of sales proceeds in excess of or deficient from the sum of the carrying amounts of transferred financial assets plus transaction costs, including those transactions in which the seller/transferor has continuing involvement with the financial assets that have been transferred.

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Amount of derecognized financial assets from transactions which comprise an initial transfer and an agreement entered into in contemplation of the initial transfer resulting in retention of substantially all of the exposure to the economic return throughout the term of the transaction, at the date of derecognition.

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Carrying amount of the assets in the reporting entity's statement of financial position that relate to the reporting entity's variable interest in the Variable Interest Entity (VIE), where the reporting entity is not the VIE's primary beneficiary.

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Finance Receivable Sale Agreements - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)		12 Months Ended
	May 07, 2019	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	May 31, 2019	Apr. 19, 2019	Nov. 02, 2018	Nov. 03, 2017	Nov. 02, 2017
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Beneficial interests in securitizations		$ 98,780,000	$ 0
A&R Loan and Security Agreement \| Revolving Credit Facility \| SART 2017-1 Credit Facility \| Ally Bank
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Line of credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity (up to)	$ 350,000,000.0				$ 350,000,000.0
Consumer Loan
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Payments to acquire certificate of the trust, net of cash acquired	34,000,000.0
Beneficial interests in securitizations	139,700,000
Certificate of the trust acquisition, debt and other liabilities assumed	$ 105,700,000
Purchase of finance receivables		127,700,000
Consumer Loan \| MPSA
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Transfer of financial assets, accounted for as sales, maximum amount eligible to be sold				$ 375,000,000.0				$ 1,500,000,000	$ 375,000,000.0
Commitment of purchaser, current availability financing, principal balances of finance receivables (up to)						$ 1,000,000,000.0	$ 1,250,000,000
Transfer of financial assets accounted for as sales, amount derecognized		418,800,000	733,400,000
Receivable purchase agreement, remaining unused capacity		658,300,000
Consumer Loan \| 2016 Master Transfer Agreement
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Transfer of financial assets, accounted for as sales, maximum amount eligible to be sold				292,200,000
Consumer Loan \| 2017 Master Transfer Agreement
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Transfer of financial assets, accounted for as sales, maximum amount eligible to be sold								$ 357,100,000
Transfer of financial assets accounted for as sales, amount derecognized		139,300,000	348,800,000
Purchase of finance receivables			387,400,000
Transfer of financial assets accounted for as sales, transaction fee received			6,300,000
Consumer Loan \| 2018 Master Transfer Agreement
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Transfer of financial assets accounted for as sales, amount derecognized			115,000,000.0
Consumer Loan \| Master Purchase and Sale Agreement and Master Transfer Agreements
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Gain on loan sales		$ 137,300,000	$ 51,700,000	$ 21,700,000