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Related Party Transactions (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended
		Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Affiliated Dealer Loan balances		$ 0.0		$ 1.4
Percentage of Affiliated Dealer Loan balances		0.00%
New Consumer Loan assignments		$ 536.9	$ 562.7
Accelerated Dealer Holdback payments		10.2	14.8
Dealer Holdback payments		35.2	39.9
Affiliated Dealer Activity [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Dealer Loan revenue		$ 0.0	$ 0.7
Dealer Loan revenue, percentage		0.00%	0.40%
New Consumer Loan assignments	[1]	$ 0.0	$ 4.6
New Consumer Loan assignments, percentage	[1]	0.00%	0.60%
Accelerated Dealer Holdback payments		$ 0.0	$ 0.1
Accelerated Dealer Holdback payments, percentage		0.00%	0.90%
Dealer Holdback payments		$ 0.0	$ 0.3
Dealer Holdback payments, percentage		0.00%	0.80%
[1] Represents advances paid to Dealers on Consumer Loans assigned under our Portfolio Program and one-time payments made to Dealers to purchase Consumer Loans assigned under our Purchase Program.

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The cash outflow for payments made to dealers under our Portfolio Program at the time a pool of 100 or more consumer loans is closed by dealers with a single open pool or at the time 100 consumer loans have been collectively assigned by dealers with multiple open pools.

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The cash outflow for non-recourse payments made to dealers under a portfolio program in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loans.

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The cash outflow for payments made to dealers under our Portfolio Program from the portion of the collections on the underlying consumer loans that exceed amounts retained by us to recover the advance balance, certain collection costs, and our servicing fee.

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Percentage Of Due From Affiliates

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For an unclassified balance sheet, amount of receivables due from an entity that is affiliated with the reporting entity by means of direct or indirect ownership.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of revenue, fees and commissions earned from transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiaries; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) an entity and trusts for the benefit of employees, for example, but not limited to, pension and profit-sharing trusts that are managed by or under the trusteeship of the entity's management; (d) an entity and its principal, owners, management, or members of their immediate families; and (e) affiliates.

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