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SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
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SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS | SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, settlement processing assets and obligations consisted of the following:
| September 30, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
| (in thousands)
Settlement processing assets: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 288,923 |  |  | $ | 150,612 |
Receivable from members | 14,483 |  |  | 71,590 |
Receivable from networks | 1,546,821 |  |  | 1,325,029 |
Exception items | 9,570 |  |  | 6,450 |
Merchant reserves | (12,565 | ) |  | (6,827 | )
| $ | 1,847,232 |  |  | $ | 1,546,854 |
Settlement processing obligations: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 74,970 |  |  | $ | 199,202 |
Liability to members | (20,340 | ) |  | (177,979 | )
Liability to merchants | (1,472,221 | ) |  | (1,358,271 | )
Exception items | 11,018 |  |  | 21,194 |
Merchant reserves | (140,327 | ) |  | (158,419 | )
Reserve for operating losses and sales allowances | (3,727 | ) |  | (2,939 | )
| $ | (1,550,627 | ) |  | $ | (1,477,212 | )

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