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This represents the income realized from executing cleanup calls on securitization trusts which includes amounts on deposit in spread accounts related to underlying collateral held by the trusts.

No definition available.

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Percentage of non-agency and whole loans servicing agreements with termination rights triggered of servicing portfolio.

No definition available.

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Unpaid principal balance of non-agency and whole loans servicing agreements with minimum servicer ratings.

No definition available.

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Unpaid principal balance of non-agency and whole loans servicing agreements with termination rights triggered.

No definition available.

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The fair value of financial assets, which are not recognized in the financial statements (off-balance sheet) because they fail to meet some other criterion for recognition.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 825
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-Subparagraph (a)
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Amount of the contractual principal due at the origination of the mortgage loan (face amount).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 948
-SubTopic 310
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 205
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 6
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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.

No definition available.