VARIABLE INTERESTS AND AFFILIATES

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

VARIABLE INTERESTS AND AFFILIATES

Variable Interest and Affiliates

2.  VARIABLE INTERESTS AND AFFILIATES

Variable Interest Entities

New Jersey Trusts

New Jersey regulation requires that annuitized WAP jackpot payments to winners be administered through an individual trust set up for each WAP system. These trusts are VIEs and IGT is the primary consolidating beneficiary, because these VIE trusts are designed for the sole purpose of administering jackpot payments for IGT WAP winners and IGT guarantees all liabilities of the trusts. The assets of these consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle trust obligations and have been segregated on our balance sheet.

The consolidation of these VIEs primarily increases jackpot liabilities and related assets, as well as interest income and equivalent offsetting interest expense. Consolidated VIE trust assets and equivalent liabilities totaled $45.7 million at December 31, 2013 and $48.6 million at September 30, 2013.

Latin America Distributor

In March 2012, we contracted with a third party distributor in Latin America to sell IGT products. The distributor is a VIE as it was unable to finance its activities without additional support from IGT; however, the distributor was not consolidated because IGT does not have contractual or implied control.  This arrangement was terminated by mutual agreement in January 2014.

Under the agreement, our maximum exposure at December 31, 2013 consisted of $0.5 million in note financing provided for operating costs and contract financing under a revolving line of credit of $13.0 million for IGT product purchases. Revenues recognized related to this distributor totaled $2.2 million for the 2014 first quarter. Contracts and notes receivable due from this distributor totaled $12.0 million at December 31, 2013 ($9.8 million current and $2.2 million non-current).