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SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Feb. 29, 2016
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Offsetting assets and liabilities | As of February 29, 2016 and May 31, 2015, settlement processing assets and obligations consisted of the following (in thousands):
| February 29, 2016 |  | May 31, 2015
Settlement processing assets: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 18,225 |  |  | $ | 186,660 |
Receivable from member sponsors | 6,653 |  |  | 294,837 |
Receivable from networks | 973,963 |  |  | 1,919,148 |
Exception items | 2,114 |  |  | 4,920 |
Merchant reserves | (272 | ) |  | (10,743 | )
| $ | 1,000,683 |  |  | $ | 2,394,822 |
Settlement processing obligations: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 166,824 |  |  | $ | 68,444 |
Liability to member sponsors | (161,494 | ) |  | (628 | )
Liability to merchants | (1,027,904 | ) |  | (1,931,390 | )
Exception items | 11,861 |  |  | 5,331 |
Merchant reserves | (148,364 | ) |  | (169,442 | )
Reserve for operating losses | (1,441 | ) |  | (1,286 | )
Reserve for sales allowances | (433 | ) |  | (4,929 | )
| $ | (1,160,951 | ) |  | $ | (2,033,900 | )

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