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SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS | 6 Months Ended
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SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS | SETTLEMENT PROCESSING ASSETS AND OBLIGATIONS As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, settlement processing assets and obligations consisted of the following:
| June 30, 2019 |  | December 31, 2018
| (in thousands)
Settlement processing assets: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 260,103 |  |  | $ | 154,978 |
Receivable from members | 176,687 |  |  | 228,107 |
Receivable from networks | 2,412,382 |  |  | 1,221,060 |
Exception items | 11,042 |  |  | 7,636 |
Merchant reserves | (15,947 | ) |  | (11,559 | )
| $ | 2,844,267 |  |  | $ | 1,600,222 |
Settlement processing obligations: |  |  |
Interchange reimbursement | $ | 89,895 |  |  | $ | 193,235 |
Liability to members | (23,815 | ) |  | (182,450 | )
Liability to merchants | (2,400,467 | ) |  | (1,144,249 | )
Exception items | 11,505 |  |  | 7,146 |
Merchant reserves | (151,450 | ) |  | (145,826 | )
Reserve for operating losses and sales allowances | (4,041 | ) |  | (4,212 | )
| $ | (2,478,373 | ) |  | $ | (1,276,356 | )

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