Settlement assets and obligations include, 1) funds due from merchants arising from settlement of funds for sales and credits between card issuers, merchants, 2) card settlement funds due from networks due to timing and its related obligations, and 3) Customer/Subscriber account balances and related obligations resulting from licensed money transmitter services.

The merchant solution services of the Company include settlement of funds for sales and credits between card issuers, card networks and merchants. The standards of the card networks require possession of funds during the settlement process by a member bank which controls the clearing transactions. Since settlement funds are required to be in the possession of a member bank until merchants are funded, these funds are not assets of the Company, and the associated obligations are not liabilities of the Company. Therefore, neither is recognized in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Exception items that the Company is still attempting to collect from the merchants through the funds settlement process or merchant reserves are recognized as settlement assets in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets, with an offsetting reserve for those amounts the Company estimates it will not be able to recover. Exception items that the Company has deemed uncollectible are recorded as merchant losses, a component of cost of revenue in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. Expenses for merchant losses net of recoveries for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 were $1.8 million and $2.0 million, respectively.

•Priority accepts card payments for its customers and processes disbursements to their vendors (customers’ payees). The time lag between authorization and settlement of card transactions creates certain receivables (from card networks) and payables (to the vendors of customers). These receivables and payables arise from the settlement activities that the Company performs on behalf of its customers and therefore, are presented as settlement assets and related obligations.

•Priority processes payments to the customers’ payees wherein customers funds are received either in Company-owned bank accounts controlled by the Company or bank-owned FBO accounts controlled by the banks, until such time that the transactions are settled with the customers’ payees. Balances in the bank-owned FBO accounts and related obligations are not considered assets and obligations of the Company. Therefore, neither is recognized in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets. Amounts due to customers’ payees that are held in Company-owned bank accounts are included in restricted cash in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets and related obligations are presented as due to customers’ payees.

The Company provides treasury solutions to its customers through its money transmission licenses in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and 2 territories of the United States and through agency relationships with banks in the remaining states. These services include the acceptance and disbursement of funds. While waiting for disbursement, these funds are held in bank accounts maintained by the Company on behalf of its customers. Per the money transmission regulations, the Company is allowed to invest available balances in these accounts in certain permitted investments, and returns on such investments contribute to the Company's net cash inflows. As such, the Company recognized these balances and related obligations on its balance sheet. Considering these balances are payable on demand and are related to settlement activities, they are presented as settlement assets (as part of the current assets) and the related obligations as settlement obligations (as part of the current liabilities) in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets. The nature of these MTL Customer cash and cash equivalent are restricted in nature and therefore these balances are presented as restricted cash on the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The MTL Short-term investments are included within other investing activities on the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.


(in thousands)	March 31, 2026		December 31, 2025
Settlement Assets, net of estimated losses(1):
Card settlements due from merchants(1)(2)	$	2,239	$	2,455
Card settlements due from networks	10,192		16,092

Subtotal	12,431		18,547
MTL Customer cash and cash equivalents (restricted in nature)(3)	1,343,326		1,252,349
MTL Short-term investments	—		25,000
Total settlement assets	$	1,355,757	$	1,295,896

Settlement Obligations:
MTL Customer account obligations	$	1,319,801	$	1,244,975
Subscriber account obligations	22,386		32,031
Total customer/subscriber account obligations	1,342,187		1,277,006
Due to customers' payees(4)(5)	13,941		20,257
Total settlement obligations	$	1,356,128	$	1,297,263

(3)Excludes funds held under agency arrangement with member banks (in states where the Company does not have a money transmitter license), balances remain under the control of the member banks (therefore not the assets or obligations of the Company). Agency owned accounts held $34.9 million and $50.3 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

(5)Excludes amounts due to customer payees that are held in bank-owned FBO accounts which are not assets of the Company, and the associated obligations are not liabilities of the Company. Therefore, neither is recognized in the Company's Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets. Bank-owned FBO accounts held funds of $177.1 million and $151.8 million at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.