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Settlement Processing Assets and Obligations (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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May. 31, 2015
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Offsetting Assets and Liabilities | As of May 31, 2015 and 2014, settlement processing assets and obligations consisted of the following:
| 2015 |  | 2014
| (in thousands)
Settlement processing assets: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 186,660 |  |  | $ | 217,806 |
Receivable from Members | 294,837 |  |  | 206,322 |
Receivable from networks | 1,919,148 |  |  | 430,763 |
Exception items | 4,920 |  |  | 5,573 |
Merchant Reserves | (10,743 | ) |  | (79,547 | )
| $ | 2,394,822 |  |  | $ | 780,917 |
Settlement processing obligations: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 68,444 |  |  | $ | 54,459 |
Liability to Members | (628 | ) |  | (5,490 | )
Liability to merchants | (1,931,390 | ) |  | (407,651 | )
Exception items | 5,331 |  |  | 6,313 |
Merchant Reserves | (169,442 | ) |  | (96,622 | )
Reserve for operating losses | (1,286 | ) |  | (1,725 | )
Reserve for sales allowances | (4,929 | ) |  | (601 | )
| $ | (2,033,900 | ) |  | $ | (451,317 | )

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