Exhibit 99.1
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| Alliance Data | |
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| Shelley Whiddon | |
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ALLIANCE DATA PROVIDES CARD SERVICES
PERFORMANCE UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 2015
Dallas, TX, October 15, 2015 – Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS), a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, today provided an update on its Card Services segment.
In conjunction with the release of the Company's Master Trust Monthly Noteholder's Statement, the Company is releasing similar metrics for the overall total managed portfolio. The Master Trust data represents a subset of the Company's total managed portfolio, and the Company believes the information presented below provides a more complete view of the Card Services segment.
For the month ended | For the nine months ended | |||||||
| September 30, 2015 | September 30, 2015 | |||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | ||||||||
Average receivables | $ | 11,558,628 | $ | 10,970,979 | ||||
Year over year change in average receivables | 28 | % | 32 | % | ||||
Net charge-offs | $ | 42,526 | $ | 365,369 | ||||
Net charge-offs as a percentage of average receivables(1) | 4.4 | % | 4.4 | % | ||||
| As of | As of | |||||||||
| September 30, 2015 | September 30, 2014 | |||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | ||||||||||
30 days + delinquencies - principal | $ | 513,931 | $ | 391,630 | ||||||
Period ended receivables - principal | $ | 11,297,882 | $ | 8,849,589 | ||||||
Delinquency rate | 4.5 | % | 4.4 | % | ||||||
(1) Compares to 3.6% and 4.4% for the month and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.
Alliance Data Systems Corporation
October 15, 2015
About Alliance Data
Alliance Data® (NYSE: ADS) is a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys customized solutions, enhancing the critical customer marketing experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior while driving business growth and profitability for some of today's most recognizable brands. Alliance Data helps its clients create and increase customer loyalty through solutions that engage millions of customers each day across multiple touch points using traditional, digital, mobile and emerging technologies. An S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company headquartered in Plano, Texas, Alliance Data consists of three businesses that together employ more than 15,000 associates at approximately 100 locations worldwide.
Alliance Data's Card Services business is a leading provider of marketing-driven branded credit card programs. 1TUEpsilonU1TP®P is a leading provider of multichannel, data-driven technologies and marketing services and also includes Conversant®, the leader in personalized digital marketing. 1TULoyaltyOneU1TP®P owns and operates the 1TUAIR MILESU1TP®P Reward Program, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, and holds a majority interest in Netherlands-based BrandLoyalty, a global provider of tailor-made loyalty programs for grocers.
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Alliance Data's Safe Harbor Statement/Forward Looking Statements
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements may use words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue, " "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend, " "may, " "predict," "project," "would," and similar expressions as they relate to us or our management. When we make forward-looking statements, we are basing them on our management's beliefs and assumptions, using information currently available to us. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, these forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may vary materially from what we projected. Any forward-looking statements contained in this presentation reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We have no intention, and disclaim any obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future results or otherwise, except as required by law.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this presentation regarding Alliance Data Systems Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year. Risk factors may be updated in Item 1A in each of the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for each quarterly period subsequent to the Company's most recent Form 10-K.
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