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Amount of serviced loans for third parties.

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This balances represents the total of funds advanced to investors under servicing agreements. As stated in the note, under these servicing agreements, the Company is required to advance to investors the payment of principal, interest, taxes and insurance, if such payments have not been received from the borrowers.

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Unpaid principal amount of loans repurchased under representation and warranty arrangements.

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Unpaid principal amount of loans repurchased not under representation and warranty arrangements.

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Principal amount of transferred financial assets in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction. Continuing involvement includes, but is not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets.

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Difference between the fair value of payments made and the carrying amount of debt which is extinguished prior to maturity.

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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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Amount of joint and several liability recognized in the balance sheet.

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