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Indemnifications and Guarantees
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Indemnifications and Guarantees
INDEMNIFICATIONS AND GUARANTEES
Secondary Market Loan Sales
Given the current interest rate environment, coupled with our desire not to hold newly originated residential mortgage loans in our portfolio, we generally sell these assets in the secondary market to mortgage loan aggregators and on a more limited basis, to GSEs such as FHLMC, FNMA, and the FHLB. Loans held for sale are reflected on our unaudited Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition at fair value with changes in the value reflected in our unaudited Consolidated Statements of Income. Gains and losses are recognized at the time of sale. We periodically retain the servicing rights on residential mortgage loans sold which results in monthly service fee income. The mortgage servicing rights are included in our intangible assets in our unaudited Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. Otherwise, we sell loans with servicing released on a nonrecourse basis. Rate-locked loan commitments that we intend to sell in the secondary market are accounted for as derivatives under ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging (ASC:815).
We generally do not sell loans with recourse, except for standard loan sale contract provisions covering violations of representations and warranties and, under certain circumstances, early payment default by the borrower. These are customary repurchase provisions in the secondary market for residential mortgage loan sales. These provisions may include either an indemnification from loss or the repurchase of the loans. Repurchases and losses have been rare and no provision is made for losses at the time of sale. There were no such repurchases for the six months ended June 30, 2017.
Swap Guarantees
We entered into agreements with three unrelated financial institutions whereby those financial institutions entered into interest rate derivative contracts (interest rate swap transactions) with customers referred to them by us. Under the terms of the agreements, those financial institutions have recourse to us for any exposure created under each swap transaction in the event that the customer defaults on the swap agreement and the agreement is in a paying position to the third-party financial institution. This is a customary arrangement that allows us to provide access to interest rate swap transactions for our customers without creating the swap ourselves. These swap guarantees are accounted for as credit derivatives
At June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, there were 133 and 134 variable-rate to fixed-rate swap transactions between the third party financial institutions and our customers, respectively. The initial notional aggregate amount was approximately $526.9 million at June 30, 2017 compared to $518.8 million at December 31, 2016. At June 30, 2017 maturities ranged from under one year to ten years. The aggregate market value of these swaps to the customers was a liability of $10.1 million at June 30, 2017 and $10.9 million at December 31, 2016. We had no reserves for the swap guarantees as of June 30, 2017.