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Average excess servicing spread on financial assets of a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer regardless of when the transfer occurred.

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Excess servicing spread on average servicing fee rate of underlying mortgage loans.

No definition available.

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Value of input used to measure investment in excess servicing spread financing measured at fair value.

No definition available.

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Represents the excess servicing spread financing unpaid principal balance of underlying mortgage loans.

No definition available.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.

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