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Collateralized Loan Obligations Securitization Assets

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Consumer and Other Loans Securitization Assets

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Represents unpaid principal amount of assets in residential mortgage backed securitization vehicles at the balance sheet date.

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Fair value portion of interest continued to be held by a transferor after transferring financial assets to a third party.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 10
-Section 15
-Paragraph 4
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=7502516&loc=d3e94415-111705

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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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