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Asset Securitizations | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Asset Securitizations [Abstract] |
Asset Securitizations | 6. Asset Securitizations The Company periodically securitizes Card Member receivables and loans arising from its card business through the transfer of those assets to securitization trusts. The trusts then issue securities to third-party investors, collateralized by the transferred assets. The following table provides information on the restricted cash held by the American Express Issuance Trust II (the Charge Trust) and the American Express Credit Account Master Trust (the Lending Trust, and collectively, the Trusts) as of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, included in Other assets on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets:
(Millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Charge Trust |  | $ | 1 |  | $ | 2
Lending Trust |  |  | 747 |  |  | 62
Total |  | $ | 748 |  | $ | 64
These amounts relate to collections of Card Member receivables and loans to be used by the T rusts to fund future expenses and obligations, including interest on investor securities, credit losses and upcoming debt maturities. American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (TRS), which is a consolidated subsidiary of the Company, is the primary beneficiary of both Trusts. Excluding its consolidated subsidiaries, TRS owns approximately $1.0 billion of subordinated securities issued by the Lending Trust as of September 30, 2015. Under the respective terms of the Charge Trust and Lending Trust agreements, the occurrence of certain triggering events associated with the performance of the assets of each trust could result in payment o f trust expenses, establishment of reserve funds, or in a worst-case scenario, early amortiza tion of investor securities. During the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and the year ended December 31, 2014, no such triggering events occurred.

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- Definition This disclosure of financial assets transferred to a trust (for example, cardmember receivables and loans) whereby the trust then issues securities to third-party investors and these securities are collateralized by the transferred assets. The nature of any restrictions on assets reported by an entity in its statement of financial position that relate to a transferred financial asset is also disclosed. The required disclosures may be provided in more than one note to the financial statements, as long as the GAAP disclosure objectives are met. + References No definition available. + Details
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