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Non-Interest Revenue and Expense Detail (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Other Cost And Expense Disclosure Operating (Tables) [Abstract] |
Details of other commissions and fees | The following is a deta il of Other commissions and fees:
|  |  |  |  | Three Months Ended |  |  | Nine Months Ended
|  |  |  |  | September 30, |  |  | September 30,
(Millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Foreign currency conversion fee revenue |  | $ | 213 |  | $ | 225 |  | $ | 646 |  | $ | 665
Delinquency fees |  |  | 197 |  |  | 184 |  |  | 586 |  |  | 539
Loyalty coalition-related fees |  |  | 101 |  |  | 100 |  |  | 280 |  |  | 286
Service fees |  |  | 97 |  |  | 94 |  |  | 279 |  |  | 274
Other(a) |  |  | 32 |  |  | 39 |  |  | 100 |  |  | 120
| Total Other commissions and fees |  | $ | 640 |  | $ | 642 |  | $ | 1,891 |  | $ | 1,884
Other primarily includes revenues from fees related to Membership Rewards programs.
Details of other revenues | The following is a detail of O ther revenues:
|  |  |  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  |  |  | September 30, |  | September 30,
(Millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Global Network Services partner revenues |  | $ | 156 |  | $ | 173 |  | $ | 474 |  | $ | 513
Net realized gains on investment securities |  |  | 1 |  |  | 20 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 100
Other(a) |  |  | 347 |  |  | 400 |  |  | 1,018 |  |  | 1,066
| Total Other revenues |  | $ | 504 |  | $ | 593 |  | $ | 1,493 |  | $ | 1,679
Other includes revenues arising from net revenue earned on cross-border Card Member spending, merchant-related fees, insurance premiums earned from Card Member travel and other insurance programs, Travelers Cheques-related revenues, revenues related to the GBT JV transition services agreement, earnings from equity method investments (including the GBT JV) and other miscellaneous revenue and fees.
Detail of other, net expense | The following is a detail of Other expenses:
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  | September 30, |  | September 30,
(Millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Professional services |  | $ | 687 |  | $ | 731 |  | $ | 1,966 |  | $ | 2,240
Occupancy and equipment |  |  | 523 |  |  | 432 |  |  | 1,372 |  |  | 1,361
Card and merchant-related fraud losses(a) |  |  | 64 |  |  | 96 |  |  | 247 |  |  | 282
Communications |  |  | 84 |  |  | 91 |  |  | 257 |  |  | 285
Gain on business travel joint venture transaction |  |  | ― |  |  | (15) |  |  | ― |  |  | (641)
Other(b) |  |  | 277 |  |  | 261 |  |  | 727 |  |  | 866
Total Other expenses |  | $ | 1,635 |  | $ | 1,596 |  | $ | 4,569 |  | $ | 4,393
Beginning January 1, 2015, merchant-related fraud l osses are reported within Other expenses. Other expense includes general operating expenses, gains (losses) on sale of assets or businesses not classified as discontinued operations, litigation, certain internal and regulatory review-related reimbursements and insurance costs or set tlements, certain l oyalty coalition-related expenses and foreign currency-related gains and losses (including the favorable impact from the reassessment of the functional currenc y of certai n UK legal entities in the nine month s ended September 30, 2015).

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