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Description Of Business (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Description Of Business [Abstract] |
Financing Receivable Credit Quality Indicators [Table Text Block] | The following table shows the percentage of Consumer Loans assigned to us with either FICO® scores below 650 or no FICO® scores:
|  | For the Years Ended December 31,
Consumer Loan Assignment Volume |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Percentage of total unit volume with either FICO® scores below 650 or no FICO® scores |  | 96.1 | % |  | 95.7 | % |  | 95.8 | %
Schedule Of Percentage Of Consumer Loans Assigned Based On Unit Volumes | The following table shows the percentage of Consumer Loans assigned to us based on unit volumes under each of the programs for each of the last three years:
For the Years Ended December 31, |  | Portfolio Program |  | Purchase Program
2013 |  | 93.5 | % |  | 6.5 | %
2014 |  | 90.7 | % |  | 9.3 | %
2015 |  | 87.4 | % |  | 12.6 | %

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of financing receivables by credit quality indicator. The credit quality indicator is a statistic about the credit quality of financing receivables. Examples include, but not limited to, consumer credit risk scores, credit-rating-agency ratings, an entity's internal credit risk grades, loan-to-value ratios, collateral, collection experience and other internal metrics. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Section 55 -Paragraph 19 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=32702940&loc=SL6953803-111525 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49124121&loc=SL6953659-111524 + Details
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