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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred including Retention Payments to Financial Advisors

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This element represents the amounts of short term loans or advances to project partnerships on behalf of tax credit funds.

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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.

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Estimated fair value of the purchase commitment asset (liability)

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Joint Ventures

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Net liability fair value

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The number of days that investments in project partnerships are typically held from the date of acquisition prior to being sold.

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Number of open underwriting commitments

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Amount of purchased syndicated loans not yet settled as of the balance sheet date. A syndicated loan is one that is provided by a group of lenders and is structured, arranged, and administered by one or several commercial banks or investment banks known as arrangers.

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The amount of reserve for unfunded lending commitments.

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Unfunded commitments in which we control the general partner

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Minimum amount of other commitment not otherwise specified in the taxonomy. Excludes commitments explicitly modeled in the taxonomy, including but not limited to, long-term and short-term purchase commitments, recorded and unrecorded purchase obligations, supply commitments, registration payment arrangements, leases, debt, product warranties, guarantees, environmental remediation obligations, and pensions.

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