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SECURITIZATION OF FINANCING RECEIVABLES
9 Months Ended
Jul. 28, 2024
SECURITIZATION OF FINANCING RECEIVABLES  
SECURITIZATION OF FINANCING RECEIVABLES

(9)  Securitization of Financing Receivables

Our funding strategy includes receivable securitizations, which allows us to receive cash for financing receivables immediately. While these securitization programs are administered in various forms, they are accomplished in the following basic steps:

1.We transfer financing receivables into a bankruptcy-remote special purpose entity (SPE).
2.The SPE issues debt to investors. The debt is secured by the financing receivables.
3.Investors are paid back based on cash receipts from the financing receivables.

As part of step 1, these receivables are legally isolated from the claims of our general creditors. This ensures cash receipts from the financing receivables are accessible to pay back securitization program investors. The structure of these transactions does not meet the accounting criteria for a sale of receivables. As a result, they are accounted for as a secured borrowing. The receivables and borrowings remain on our balance sheet and are separately reported as “Financing receivables securitized – net” and “Short-term securitization borrowings,” respectively.

The components of securitization programs were as follows:

 

  

July 28

    

October 29

    

July 30

 

2024

2023

2023

 

Financing receivables securitized (retail notes)

 

$

8,313

$

7,357

$

7,019

Allowance for credit losses

(39)

 

(22)

 

(18)

Other assets (primarily restricted cash)

178

 

152

 

153

Total restricted securitized assets

 

$

8,452

$

7,487

$

7,154

Short-term securitization borrowings

$

7,869

$

6,995

$

6,608

Accrued interest on borrowings

14

13

 

15

Total liabilities related to restricted securitized assets

$

7,883

$

7,008

$

6,623