BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 20, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 20, 2024
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Table of Contents
| Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements | 1 | |
| PART I | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Business | 3 |
| 1A. | Risk Factors | 20 |
| 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 47 |
| 1C. | Cybersecurity | 47 |
| 2. | Properties | 49 |
| 3. | Legal Proceedings | 49 |
| 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 49 |
| PART II | ||
| 5. | Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 50 |
| 6. | [RESERVED] | 51 |
| 7. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 52 |
| 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 72 |
| 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | 72 |
| 9. | Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | 73 |
| 9A. | Controls and Procedures | 73 |
| 9B. | Other Information | 73 |
| 9C. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | 74 |
| PART III | ||
| 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | 75 |
| 11. | Executive Compensation | 75 |
| 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 75 |
| 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 75 |
| 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services | 75 |
| PART IV | ||
| 15. | Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules | 76 |
This report includes trademarks, such as Bread®, Bread Cashback™, Bread Pay™ and Bread Savings™, which are protected under applicable intellectual property laws and are the property of Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. or our subsidiaries. This report also contains trademarks, service marks, copyrights and trade names of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, our trademarks and trade names referred to in this report may appear without the® or ™ symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights or the right of the applicable licensor to these trademarks and trade names.
Throughout this report, unless stated or the context implies otherwise, the terms “Bread Financial”, the “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us” refer to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. and our subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. References to “Parent Company” refer to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. on a parent-only standalone basis. In addition, in this report, we may refer to the retailers and other companies with whom we do business as our “partners”, “brand partners”, or “clients”, provided that the use of the term “partner”, “partnering” or any similar term does not mean or imply a formal legal partnership, and is not meant in any way to alter the terms of Bread Financial’s relationship with any third parties. We offer our credit products primarily through our insured depository institution subsidiaries, Comenity Bank and Comenity Capital Bank, which together are referred to herein as the “Banks”. Bread Financial is also used in this report to include references to transactions and arrangements occurring prior to our name change from Alliance Data Systems Corporation to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. in March 2022.
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