Exhibit 4.1
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CAPITAL ONE BANK
as a Seller and the Servicer,
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.
as a Seller,
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as the Trustee
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of September 30, 1993,
as amended and restated on April 9, 2001
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Bank Certificate
Exhibit B Form of Assignment of Receivables in Additional Accounts
Exhibit C Form of Reassignment of Receivables in Removed Accounts
Exhibit D Form of Annual Servicer's Certificate
Exhibit E-1 Private Placement Legend
Exhibit E-2 Representation Letter
Exhibit E-3 ERISA Legend
Exhibit F Form of Depositary Agreement
Exhibit G-1 Form of Certificate of Foreign Clearing Agency
Exhibit G-2 Form of Alternate Certificate to be delivered to Foreign Clearing
Agency
Exhibit G-3 Form of Certificate to be delivered to Foreign Clearing Agency
Exhibit H-1 Form of Opinion of Counsel with respect to Amendments
Exhibit H-2 Form of Opinion of Counsel with respect to Accounts
Exhibit I Form of Assumption Agreement
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1 List of Accounts [Deemed Incorporated]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions............................................................................................... 1
Section 1.01 Definitions........................................................................................ 1
Section 1.02 Other Definitional Provisions and Rules of Construction............................................ 21
ARTICLE II Transfer of Receivables................................................................................... 22
Section 2.01 Transfer of Receivables............................................................................ 22
Section 2.02 Acceptance by Trustee.............................................................................. 24
Section 2.03 Representations and Warranties of Each Seller Relating to Such Seller.............................. 24
Section 2.04 Representations and Warranties of Each Seller Relating to the Agreement and Any Supplement and the
Receivables....................................................................................... 26
Section 2.05 Reassignment of Ineligible Receivables............................................................. 28
Section 2.06 Reassignment of Receivables in Trust Portfolio..................................................... 29
Section 2.07 Covenants of Each Seller........................................................................... 30
Section 2.08 Addition of Accounts............................................................................... 32
Section 2.09 Removal of Accounts................................................................................ 36
Section 2.10 Account Allocations................................................................................ 38
Section 2.11 Discount Option.................................................................................... 38
ARTICLE III Administration and Servicing of Receivables............................................................... 39
Section 3.01 Acceptance of Appointment and Other Matters Relating to the Servicer............................... 39
Section 3.02 Servicing Compensation............................................................................. 40
Section 3.03 Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Servicer.......................................... 41
Section 3.04 Reports and Records for the Trustee................................................................ 44
Section 3.05 Annual Certificate of Servicer..................................................................... 45
Section 3.06 Annual Servicing Report of Independent Public Accountants; Copies of Reports Available............. 45
Section 3.07 Tax Treatment...................................................................................... 45
Section 3.08 Notices to the Banks............................................................................... 46
Section 3.09 Adjustments........................................................................................ 46
Section 3.10 Reports to the Commission.......................................................................... 46
ARTICLE IV Rights of Certificateholders and Allocation and Application or Collections............................... 47
Section 4.01 Rights of Certificateholders....................................................................... 47
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Section 4.02 Establishment of Collection Account and Excess Funding Account..................................... 47
Section 4.03 Collections and Allocations........................................................................ 50
Section 4.04 Shared Principal Collections....................................................................... 52
Section 4.05 Excess Finance Charges............................................................................. 52
ARTICLE V Distributions and Reports to Certificateholders........................................................... 52
ARTICLE VI The Certificates.......................................................................................... 52
Section 6.01 The Certificates................................................................................... 53
Section 6.02 Authentication of Certificates..................................................................... 53
Section 6.03 New Issuances...................................................................................... 53
Section 6.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.............................................. 55
Section 6.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.................................................. 58
Section 6.06 Persons Deemed Owners.............................................................................. 58
Section 6.07 Appointment of Paying Agent........................................................................ 59
Section 6.08 Access to List of Registered Certificateholders' Names and Addresses............................... 59
Section 6.09 Authenticating Agent............................................................................... 60
Section 6.10 Book-Entry Certificates............................................................................ 61
Section 6.11 Notices to Clearing Agency......................................................................... 61
Section 6.12 Definitive Certificates............................................................................ 61
Section 6.13 Global Certificate; Exchange Date.................................................................. 62
Section 6.14 Meetings of Certificateholders..................................................................... 63
ARTICLE VII Other Matters Relating to Each Seller..................................................................... 65
Section 7.01 Liability of each Seller........................................................................... 65
Section 7.02 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, a Seller.......................... 65
Section 7.03 Limitations on Liability of Each Seller............................................................ 66
Section 7.04 Liabilities........................................................................................ 67
Section 7.05 Assumption of a Seller's Obligations............................................................... 67
ARTICLE VIII Other Matters Relating to the Servicer.................................................................... 68
Section 8.01 Liability of the Servicer.......................................................................... 68
Section 8.02 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, the Servicer...................... 68
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Section 8.03 Limitation on Liability of the Servicer and Others................................................. 69
Section 8.04 Servicer Indemnification of the Trust and the Trustee.............................................. 69
Section 8.05 The Servicer Not To Resign......................................................................... 69
Section 8.06 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Receivables.......................... 70
Section 8.07 Delegation of Duties............................................................................... 70
Section 8.08 Examination of Records............................................................................. 70
ARTICLE IX Pay Out Events............................................................................................ 71
Section 9.01 Pay Out Events..................................................................................... 71
Section 9.02 Additional Rights upon the Occurrence of Certain Events............................................ 71
ARTICLE X Servicer Defaults......................................................................................... 72
Section 10.01 Servicer Defaults................................................................................. 72
Section 10.02 Trustee To Act; Appointment of Successor.......................................................... 75
Section 10.03 Notification to Certificateholders................................................................ 76
ARTICLE XI The Trustee............................................................................................... 76
Section 11.01 Duties of Trustee................................................................................. 76
Section 11.02 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee............................................................. 78
Section 11.03 Trustee Not Liable for Recitals in Certificates................................................... 79
Section 11.04 Trustee May Own Certificates...................................................................... 79
Section 11.05 The Servicer To Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses................................................... 79
Section 11.06 Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.............................................................. 79
Section 11.07 Resignation or Removal of Trustee................................................................. 80
Section 11.08 Successor Trustees................................................................................ 80
Section 11.09 Merger or Consolidation of Trustee................................................................ 81
Section 11.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee..................................................... 81
Section 11.11 Tax Returns....................................................................................... 82
Section 11.12 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Certificates..................................... 82
Section 11.13 Suits for Enforcement............................................................................. 82
Section 11.14 Rights of Certificateholders To Direct Trustee.................................................... 83
Section 11.15 Representations and Warranties of Trustee......................................................... 84
Section 11.16 Maintenance of Office or Agency................................................................... 84
Section 11.17 Confidentiality................................................................................... 84
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ARTICLE XII Termination............................................................................................... 85
Section 12.01 Termination of Trust.............................................................................. 85
Section 12.02 Final Distribution................................................................................ 85
Section 12.03 Seller's Termination Rights....................................................................... 86
Section 12.04 Defeasance........................................................................................ 86
ARTICLE XIII Miscellaneous Provisions.................................................................................. 87
Section 13.01 Amendment; Waiver of Past Defaults................................................................ 87
Section 13.02 Protection of Right, Title and Interest to Trust.................................................. 89
Section 13.03 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders........................................................ 90
Section 13.04. GOVERNING LAW..................................................................................... 91
Section 13.05. Notices; Payments................................................................................. 91
Section 13.06. Rule 144A Information............................................................................. 92
Section 13.07. Severability of Provisions........................................................................ 92
Section 13.08. Assignment........................................................................................ 92
Section 13.09. Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid......................................................... 92
Section 13.10. Further Assurances................................................................................ 92
Section 13.11. Nonpetition Covenant.............................................................................. 93
Section 13.12. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.................................................................... 93
Section 13.13. Counterparts...................................................................................... 93
Section 13.14. Third-Party Beneficiaries......................................................................... 93
Section 13.15. Actions by Certificateholders..................................................................... 93
Section 13.16. Merger and Integration............................................................................ 93
Section 13.17. Headings.......................................................................................... 94
Section 13.18. Construction of Agreement......................................................................... 94
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POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of September 30, 1993, as
amended and restated on April 9, 2001, among CAPITAL ONE BANK, a Virginia
banking corporation, as a Seller and the Servicer, CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., a
federal savings bank, as a Seller, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking
corporation, as the Trustee.
In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, each party
agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties, the Certificateholders
and any Series Enhancer to the extent provided herein and in any Supplement:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
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Section 1.01. Definitions. Whenever used in this Agreement, the
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following words and phrases shall have the following meanings.
"Account" shall mean each Initial Account and each Additional Account,
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but shall exclude any Account all the Receivables in which are either reassigned
or assigned to a Seller or its designee or the Servicer in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. The definition of Account shall include any
"MasterCard"(R) or "VISA"(R)/*/ account or accounts (each, a "Related Account")
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having the following characteristics: (a) such Related Account was established
in compliance with the Lending Guidelines pursuant to a Lending Agreement; (b)
the Obligor or obligors with respect to such Related Account are the same Person
or Persons as the Obligor or Obligors of the Account; (c) such Related Account
is originated (i) as a result of the credit card with respect to the Account
being lost or stolen; (ii) as a result of the Obligor requesting a change in his
billing cycle; (iii) as a result of the Obligor requesting the discontinuance of
responsibility with respect to an Account; (iv) as a result of the Obligor
requesting a product change; or (v) for any other reasons permitted by the
Lending Guidelines; and (d) such Related Account can be traced or identified by
reference to or by way of the computer or other records of a Seller. From and
after the date on which an Account replaced by a Related Account is removed from
the computer records of a Seller, such Account shall no longer be an Account
hereunder. The term "Account" shall be deemed to refer to an Additional Account
only from and after the Addition Date with respect thereto, and the term
"Account" shall be deemed to refer to any Removed Account only prior to the
Removal Date with respect thereto.
"Accumulation Period" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the
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period, if any, specified as such in the related Supplement.
"Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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"Addition" shall mean the designation of additional Eligible Accounts
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to be included as Accounts or Participation Interests to be included as Trust
Assets pursuant to Section 2.08(a), (b) or (c).
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/*/ MasterCard and VISA are registered trademarks of Master Card International
Incorporated and of VISA USA, Inc., respectively.
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"Addition Date" shall mean (i) with respect to Additional Accounts,
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the date on which the Receivables in such Additional Accounts are conveyed to
the Trust pursuant to Section 2.08(a), (b) or (c), and (ii) with respect to
Participation Interests, the date from and after-which such Participation
Interests are to be included as Trust Assets pursuant to Section 2.08(a) or (b).
"Addition Discount Receivables" shall mean, as of any applicable
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Additional Cut-Off Date, the amount of Principal Receivables in Additional
Accounts designated by a Seller to be treated as Finance Charge Receivables;
provided, however, that a Seller may not make such designation unless (i) such
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Seller shall have received written notice from each Rating Agency that such
designation will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have delivered copies of
each such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee and (ii) such Seller
shall have delivered to the Trustee and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto
pursuant to the relevant Supplement an Officer's Certificate of such Seller, to
the effect that such Seller reasonably believes that such designation will not,
based on the facts known to such officer at the time of such certification, then
cause a Pay Out Event or any event that, after the giving of notice or the lapse
of time, would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect to any Series.
"Additional Account" shall mean each consumer revolving credit card
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account or other consumer revolving credit account established pursuant to a
Lending Agreement, which account is designated pursuant to Section 2.08(a), (b)
or (c) to be included as an Account and is identified in a computer file or
microfiche list delivered to the Trustee by the Sellers pursuant to Sections
2.01 and 2.08(g).
"Additional Cut-off Date" shall mean the date as of which, any
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Additional Accounts or Participation Interests are to be included in the Trust,
as specified in the related Assignment.
"Additional Seller" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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2.08(f).
"Adjustment Payment" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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3.09(a).
"Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, any
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other Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with such
specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with
respect to any Specified Person shall mean the power to direct the management
and policies of a Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and
"controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Aggregate Addition Limit" shall mean the number of accounts
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designated as Automatic Additional Accounts, without prior Rating Agency
consent, and designated as Additional Accounts pursuant to Section 2.08(a),
without the prior Rating Agency notice described under Section 2.08(d)(v), which
would either (x) with respect to any three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods,
commencing with the three (3) Monthly Periods ending December 1993, equal 15% of
the number of Accounts at the end of the ninth Monthly Period preceding the
commencement of such three (3) Monthly Periods (or, the Trust Cut-Off Date,
whichever is later) and (y) with respect to any twelve (12) Monthly Periods,
equal 20% of the number of
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Accounts as of the first day of such twelve (12) Monthly Periods (or, the Trust
Cut-Off Date, whichever is later).
"Agreement" shall mean this Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as
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amended and restated, and all amendments hereof and supplements hereto,
including, with respect to any Series or Class, the related Supplement.
"Applicants" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.08.
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"Appointment Date" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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9.02(a).
"Assignment" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.08(g).
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"Assumption Agreement" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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7.05.
"Assuming Entity" shall have the meaning specified in Section 7.05.
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"Authorized Newspaper" shall mean any newspaper or newspapers of
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general circulation (including The Bond Buyer or The Wall Street Journal) in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, printed in the English language
(and, with respect to any Series or Class, if and so long as the Investor
Certificates of such Series or Class are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
and such exchange shall so require, in Luxembourg, printed in any language
satisfying the requirements of such exchange) and customarily published on each
Business Day at such place, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or
holidays.
"Automatic Additional Account" shall mean each consumer revolving
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credit card account or other consumer revolving credit account established
pursuant to a Lending Agreement, which account is designated pursuant to Section
2.08(c) to be included as an Account and is identified in a computer file or
microfiche list delivered to the Trustee by the Sellers pursuant to Sections
2.01 and 2.08(g).
"Bank Certificates" shall mean, if either Bank or any Additional
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Seller elects to evidence its interest in the Sellers' Interest in certificated
form pursuant to Section 6.01, a certificate executed by such Bank or any
Additional Seller, as the case may be, and authenticated by or on behalf of the
Trustee, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, as the same may be modified in
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accordance with Section 2.08(f).
"Banks" shall together mean Capital One Bank and Capital One, F.S.B.
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or, if the conditions of Section 7.05 hereof are satisfied with respect to a
transfer of the Accounts, upon the satisfaction of such conditions, the Assuming
Entity, and "Bank" shall mean any of them.
"Bearer Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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6.01.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.04(c).
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"Book-Entry Certificates" shall mean beneficial interests in the
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Investor Certificates, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 6.10.
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"Business Day" shall mean any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday
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or (b) any other day on which national banking associations or state banking
institutions in New York, New York, Richmond, Virginia, Falls Church, Virginia,
or, if an Assuming Entity shall be a Bank or any Additional Seller designated
pursuant to Section 2.08(f), any other State in which the principal executive
offices of such Assuming Entity or Additional Seller are located, are authorized
or obligated by law, executive order or governmental decree to be closed.
"Cash Advance Fees" shall mean fees or charges for cash advances, as
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specified in the Lending Agreement applicable to each Account.
"Certificate" shall mean any one of the Investor Certificates or the
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Seller Certificates.
"Certificate Owner" shall mean, with respect to a Book-Entry
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Certificate, the Person who is the owner of such Book-Entry Certificate, as
reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or on the books of a Person
maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or as an indirect
participant, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Certificate Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Series or Class,
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the certificate rate specified therefor in the related Supplement.
"Certificate Register" shall mean the register maintained pursuant to
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Section 6.04, providing for the registration of the Registered Certificates and
the Seller Certificates and transfers and exchanges thereof.
"Certificateholder" or "Holder" shall mean an Investor
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Certificateholder, a Person in whose name a Seller Certificate is registered in
the Certificate Register, or any Person recorded as the owner of any part of an
interest in the Sellers' Interest.
"Certificateholders' Interest" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 4.01.
"Class" shall mean, with respect to any Series, any one of the classes
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of Investor Certificates of that Series.
"Clearing Agency" shall mean an organization registered as a "clearing
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agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"Clearing Agency Participant" shall mean a broker, dealer, bank, other
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financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency pursuant to the rules and regulations of such Clearing Agency.
"Clearstream" shall mean Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, a
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professional depository incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg, and any
successor thereto.
"Closing Date" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the closing
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date specified in the related Supplement.
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"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from
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time to time.
"Collection Account" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
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"Collections" shall mean (a) all payments by or on behalf of obligors
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(including Insurance Proceeds) received in respect of the Receivables, in the
form of cash, checks, wire transfers, electronic transfers, ATM transfers or any
other form of payment in accordance with the related Lending Agreement in effect
from time to time, (b) amounts, if any, withdrawn from a Deposit Account in
accordance with an Assignment and (c) with respect to any Monthly Period, (i) a
portion, determined pursuant to Section 2.07(i), of the Interchange paid to the
Sellers through "VISA" and "MasterCard" with respect to such Monthly Period,
(ii) all Recoveries received during such Monthly Period and (iii) all payments
of annual membership fees (including in the case of the first Monthly Period the
unamortized portion of annual membership fees relating to the period prior to
the Trust Cut-Off Date determined in accordance with Section 3.04(d) hereof)
with respect to the Accounts during such Monthly Period.
"Commission" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.01(b).
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"Controlled Amortization Period" shall mean, with respect to any
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Series, the period, if any, specified as such in the related Supplement.
"Corporate Trust Office" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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11.16.
"Coupon" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
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"Date of Processing" shall mean, with respect to any transaction, the
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date on which such transaction is first recorded under the Servicer's (or, in
the case of a Seller, such Seller's) computer file of consumer revolving
accounts (without regard to the effective date of such recordation).
"Defaulted Amount" shall mean, with respect to any Monthly Period, an
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amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to (a) the amount of Principal
Receivables which became Defaulted Receivables in such Monthly Period, minus (b)
the sum of (i) the amount of any Defaulted Receivables included in any Account
the Receivables in which a Seller or the Servicer became obligated to accept
reassignment or assignment in accordance with the terms of this Agreement during
such Monthly Period and (ii) the excess, if any, for the immediately preceding
Monthly Period of the sum computed pursuant to this clause (b) for such Monthly
Period over the amount of Principal Receivables which became Defaulted
Receivables in such Monthly Period; provided, however, that, if an Insolvency
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Event occurs with respect to a Seller, the amount of such Defaulted Receivables
which are subject to reassignment to such Seller in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement shall not be added to the sum so subtracted and, if any of the
events described in Section 10.01(d) occur with respect to the Servicer, the
amount of such Defaulted Receivables which are subject to reassignment or
assignment to the Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall
not be added to the sum so subtracted.
"Defaulted Receivables" shall mean, with respect to any Monthly
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Period, all Principal Receivables in any Account which are charged off as
uncollectible in such Monthly
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Period in accordance with the Lending Guidelines and the Servicer's customary
and usual servicing procedures for servicing consumer revolving credit card and
other consumer revolving credit account receivables comparable to the
Receivables other than due to any Adjustment Payment. For purposes of this
definition, a Principal Receivable in any Account shall become a Defaulted
Receivable on the day on which such Principal Receivable is recorded as charged
off on the Servicer's computer master file of consumer revolving credit
accounts.
"Defeasance" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.04.
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"Defeased Series" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.04.
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"Definitive Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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6.10.
"Definitive Euro-Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 6.13.
"Deposit Account" shall mean the deposit account or accounts at the
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Depository into which Funds are deposited by or on behalf of an Obligor pursuant
to the Deposit Documents, together with all money, instruments, investment
property, documents, certificates of deposit, general intangibles and other
properties on deposit therein or credited to such account, and all interest,
dividends, earnings, income and other distributions from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed to or in respect thereof.
"Deposit Date" shall mean each day on which the Servicer deposits
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Collections in the Collection Account.
"Deposit Documents" shall mean the Security Agreement, the
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Supplemental Deposit Agreement and all other documents, books, credit files,
records, and other information (including, without limitation, computer
programs, tapes, discs, punch cards, data processing software and related
property and rights) maintained with respect to the Deposit Account and the
Funds.
"Depositaries" shall mean the Person specified in the applicable
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Supplement, in its capacity as depositary for the respective accounts of any
Clearing Agency or any Foreign Clearing Agencies.
"Depositary Agreement" shall mean, with respect to any Series or
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Class, the agreement among the Sellers, the Trustee and the initial Clearing
Agency substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
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"Depository" shall mean Capital One, F.S.B. and/or any such other
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depositary institution selected by a Seller (which may be a Seller) organized
under the laws of the United States or any one of the states thereof, including
the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), which at
all times is a member of the FDIC.
"Determination Date" shall mean the fourth Business Day prior to each
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Distribution Date.
"Discount Option Receivables" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 2.11.
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"Discount Option Receivables Collections" shall mean on any Date of
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Processing on and after the date on which a Seller's exercise of its discount
option pursuant to Section 2.11 takes effect, the product of (a) a fraction the
numerator of which is the amount of the Discount Option Receivables and the
denominator of which is the sum of the Principal Receivables (other than
Discount Option Receivables) and the Discount Option Receivables in each case
(for both numerator and denominator) at the end of the prior Monthly Period and
(b) collections of Principal Receivables that arise in the Accounts on such day
on or after the date such option is exercised that would otherwise be Principal
Receivables.
"Discount Percentage" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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2.11.
"Distribution Date" shall mean the 15th day of each calendar month
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during the term hereof, or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
succeeding Business Day.
"Document Delivery Date" shall mean the first Closing Date in the case
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of Initial Accounts and the day that is on or prior to the tenth Business Day
after the Addition Date in the case of Additional Accounts or Participation
Interests added to the Trust.
"Early Amortization Period" shall mean, with respect to any Series,
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the period beginning at the close of business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the day on which a Pay Out Event is deemed to have occurred with
respect to such Series, and ending upon the earlier to occur of (i) the payment
in full to the Investor Certificateholders of such Series of the Invested Amount
with respect to such Series and the payment in full to any applicable Series
Enhancer with respect to such Series of the Enhancement Invested Amount, if any,
with respect to such Series and (ii) the Series Termination Date with respect to
such Series.
"Eligible Account" shall mean a "MasterCard" or "VISA" consumer
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revolving credit card account or other consumer revolving credit account owned
by a Seller which as of the Trust Cut-Off Date with respect to an Initial
Account or as of the related Addition Date with respect to an Additional
Account: (a) is in existence and maintained with such Seller on the Trust Cut-
Off Date or the Addition Date, as the case may be; (b) is payable in United
States dollars; (c) has not been identified as an account the credit cards or
checks, if any, with respect to which have been reported to such Seller as
having been lost or stolen; (d) the Obligor of which has provided, as his or her
current billing address, an address located in the United States (or its
territories or possessions or a military address); (e) has not been, and does
not have any Receivables which have been, sold, pledged, assigned or otherwise
conveyed to any Person (except pursuant to this Agreement); (f) except as
provided below, does not have any Receivables which are Defaulted Receivables;
(g) does not have any Receivables which have been identified by such Seller or
the relevant Obligor as having been incurred as a result of fraudulent use of
any related credit card or check; (h) relates to an Obligor who is not
identified by such Seller in its computer files as being the subject of a
voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy proceeding; and (i) is not an account with
respect to which the Obligor has requested discontinuance of responsibility.
Eligible Accounts may include accounts, the receivables of which have been
written off; provided that (a) the balance of all receivables included in such
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accounts is reflected on the books and records of such Seller (and is treated
for purposes of this Agreement) as "zero," and (b) charging privileges with
respect to all such accounts have been
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canceled in accordance with the Lending Guidelines of such Seller and will not
be reinstated by such Seller or the Servicer.
"Eligible Deposit Account" shall mean either (a) a segregated account
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with an Eligible Institution or (b) a segregated trust account with the
corporate trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws
of the United States or any one of the states thereof, including the District of
Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), or a trust company
acceptable to each Rating Agency, and acting as a trustee for funds deposited in
such account, so long as any of the securities of such depository institution or
trust company shall have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of its
generic credit rating categories which signifies investment grade.
"Eligible Institution" shall mean (a) a depository institution (which
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may be the Trustee) organized under the laws of the United States or any one of
the states thereof, including the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch
of a foreign bank), which at all times (i) has either (x) a long-term unsecured
debt rating of A2 or better by Moody's or (y) a certificate of deposit rating of
P-1 by Moody's, (ii) has either (x) a long-term unsecured debt rating of AAA by
Standard & Poor's or (y) a certificate of deposit rating of A-l+ by Standard &
Poor's, (iii) has either (x) if rated by Fitch, a long-term unsecured debt
rating of A- by Fitch or (y) a certificate of deposit rating of F1 by Fitch and
(iv) is a member of the FDIC or (b) any other institution that is acceptable to
Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
"Eligible Investments" shall mean book-entry securities, negotiable
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instruments or securities represented by instruments in bearer or registered
form which evidence:
(a) direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to
timely payment of principal and interest by, the United states of America;
(b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit (having
original maturities of no more than 365 days) of depository institutions or
trust companies incorporated under the laws of the United States of America
or any one of the states thereof, including the District of Columbia (or
any domestic branch of a foreign bank), and subject to supervision and
examination by federal or state banking or depository institution
authorities; provided that at the time of the Trust's investment or
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contractual commitment to invest therein, the short-term debt rating of
such depository institution or trust company shall be in the highest
ratings investment category of each Rating Agency;
(c) commercial paper or other short-term obligations having, at the
time of the Trust's investment or contractual commitment to invest therein,
a rating from each Rating Agency in its highest ratings investment
category;
(d) demand deposits, time deposits and certificates of deposit which
are fully insured by the FDIC, with a Person the commercial paper of which
has a credit rating from each Rating Agency in its highest ratings
investment category;
(e) notes or bankers' acceptances (having original maturities of no
more than 365 days) issued by any depository institution or trust company
referred to in (b) above;
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(f) investments in money market funds rated in the highest ratings
investment category by each Rating Agency or otherwise Approved in writing
by each Rating Agency;
(g) time deposits (having maturities of not more than thirty (30)
days), other than as referred to in clause (d) above, with a Person the
commercial paper of which has a credit rating from each Rating Agency in
its highest ratings investment category; or
(h) any other investments approved in writing by each Rating Agency.
"Eligible Receivable" shall mean each Receivable:
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(a) which has arisen under an Eligible Account;
(b) which was created in compliance in all material aspects with the
Lending Guidelines and all Requirements of Law applicable to the Seller,
the failure to comply with which would have a material adverse effect on
Investor Certificateholders, and pursuant to a Lending Agreement which
complies with all Requirements of Law applicable to the applicable Seller,
the failure to comply with which would have a material adverse effect on
Investor Certificateholders;
(c) with respect to which all material consents, licenses, approvals
or authorizations of, or registrations or declarations with, any
Governmental Authority required to be obtained, effected or given by a
Seller in connection with the creation of such Receivable or the execution,
delivery and performance by such Seller of its obligations, if any, under
the related Lending Agreement have been duly obtained, effected or given
and are in full force and effect as of such date of creation of such
Receivable;
(d) as to which, at the time of its transfer to the Trust, the
applicable Seller or the Trust will have good and marketable title, free
and clear of all Liens (other than any Lien for municipal or other local
taxes if such taxes are not then due and payable or if such Seller is then
contesting the validity thereof in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto);
(e) which has been the subject of either a valid transfer and
assignment from a Seller to the Trust of all of such Seller's right, title
and interest therein (including any proceeds thereof), or the grant of a
first priority perfected security interest therein (and in the proceeds
thereof), effective until the termination of the Trust;
(f) which at and after the time of transfer to the Trust is the legal,
valid and binding payment obligation of the obligor thereon, legally
enforceable against such obligor in accordance with its terms, except as
such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, receivership, conservatorship or other similar
laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors'
rights in general and except as such enforceability may be limited by
general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in
equity) or matters as to which the Servicer is required by Section 3.09 to
make an adjustment;
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(g) which constitutes either an "account" or a "general intangible"
under and as defined in Article 9 of the UCC;
(h) which, at the time of its transfer to the Trust, has not been
waived or modified except as permitted in accordance with Section 3.03(h);
(i) which, at the time of its transfer to the Trust, is not subject to
any right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or any other defense of the
Obligor (including the defense of usury), other than defenses arising out
of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights in general and except as such
enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity (whether
considered in a suit at law or equity) or matters as to which the Servicer
is required by Section 3.09 to make an adjustment;
(j) as to which, at the time of its transfer to the Trust, the
applicable Seller has satisfied all obligations on its part to be fulfilled
at the time it is transferred to the Trust; and
(k) as to which, at the time of its transfer to the Trust, the
applicable Seller has not taken any action which, or failed to take any
action the omission of which, would, at the time of its transfer to the
Trust, impair in any material respect the rights of the Trust or the
Certificateholders therein.
"Eligible Servicer" shall mean the Trustee, a wholly-owned subsidiary
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of the Trustee, or an entity which, at the time of its appointment as Servicer,
(a) is servicing a portfolio of consumer revolving credit card accounts or other
consumer revolving credit accounts, (b) is legally qualified and has the
capacity to service the Accounts, (c) is qualified (or licensed) to use the
software that the Servicer is then currently using to service the Accounts or
obtains the right to use, or has its own, software which is adequate to perform
its duties under this Agreement, (d) has, in the reasonable judgment of the
Trustee, demonstrated the ability to professionally and competently service a
portfolio of similar accounts in accordance with customary standards of skill
and care and (e) has a net worth of at least $50,000,000 as of the end of its
most recent fiscal quarter.
"Enhancement Agreement" shall mean any agreement, instrument or
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document governing the terms of any Series Enhancement or pursuant to which any
Series Enhancement is issued or outstanding.
"Enhancement Invested Amount," with respect to any Series, shall have
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the meaning specified in the related Supplement.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
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1974, as amended.
"Euroclear Operator" shall mean Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator
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of the Euroclear System, and any successor thereto.
"Excess Finance Charges" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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4.05.
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"Excess Funding Account" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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4.02.
"Exchange Date" shall mean, with respect to any Series, any date that
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is after the related Series Issuance Date, in the case of Definitive Euro-
Certificates in registered form, or upon presentation of certification of non-
United States beneficial ownership (as described in Section 6.13), in the case
of Definitive Euro-Certificates in bearer form.
"Excluded Series" shall mean any Series designated as such in the
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relevant Supplement.
"FDIC" shall mean the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any
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successor thereto.
"Finance Charge Receivables" shall mean, with respect to any Monthly
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Period, all amounts billed to the Obligors on any Account at the beginning of
such Monthly Period and in respect of (i) Periodic Rate Finance Charges, (ii)
Cash Advance Fees, (iii) Late Charge Fees, (iv) Overlimit Fees, (v) Returned
Check Charges, (vi) Discount Option Receivables, if any, and (vii) all other
incidental and miscellaneous fees and charges (other than annual membership
fees) billed on the Accounts from time to time. Collections of Finance Charge
Receivables with respect to any Monthly Period shall include (i) a portion,
determined pursuant to Section 2.07(i), of the Interchange paid to the Sellers
through "VISA" and "MasterCard" with respect to such Monthly Period, (ii) all
Recoveries received during such Monthly Period, (iii) the portion, determined
pursuant to Section 3.04(d), of annual membership fees amortized (rather than
billed) with respect to the Accounts during such Monthly Period and (iv) the
portion, determined pursuant to Section 3.04(e), of Addition Discount
Receivables to be deposited into the Collection Account with respect to such
Monthly Period.
"Finance Charge Shortfalls" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 4.05.
"FIRREA" shall mean the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and
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Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
"Fitch" shall mean Fitch, Inc., or any successor thereto.
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"Floating Allocation Percentage" shall mean, with respect to any
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Series, the floating allocation percentage specified in the related Supplement.
"Foreign Clearing Agency" shall mean Clearstream and the Euroclear
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Operator.
"Funds" shall mean the money, instruments and other properties
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provided by an Obligor from time to time under the Security Agreement.
"Funds Collateral" shall mean (a) the Deposit Account and the Funds;
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(b) each Deposit Document, including, without limitation, all monies due or to
become due to a Seller under or in connection with such related Deposit
Document, and all rights, remedies, powers, privileges, benefits and claims of
such Seller under or with respect to such related Deposit Document (whether
arising pursuant to the terms of such related Deposit Document or otherwise
available at law or in equity; (c) all guarantees, indemnities, warranties,
insurance policies and
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proceeds and premium refunds and other arrangements of whatever character from
time to time under or with respect to the Funds, the Secured Account, the
Deposit Account or the Deposit Documents; (d) all other security interests or
liens from time to time purporting to secure an Obligor's obligations under or
with respect to the Secured Account; and (e) all substitutions for and proceeds
or any of the foregoing.
"Global Certificate" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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6.13(a).
"Governmental Authority" shall mean the United States of America, any
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state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or
pertaining to government and having jurisdiction over the applicable Person.
"Group" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the group of Series,
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if any, in which the related Supplement specifies such Series is to be included.
"Ineligible Receivables" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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2.05(a).
"Initial Account" shall mean each "MasterCard" and "VISA" account, in
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each case established pursuant to a Lending Agreement, chosen from Eligible
Accounts of the Sellers and identified in the computer file or microfiche list
delivered to the Trustee by the Sellers on or prior to the first Closing Date
pursuant to Section 2.01.
"Insolvency Event" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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9.01(a).
"Insolvency Proceeds" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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9.02(c).
"Insurance Proceeds" shall mean any amounts recovered by the Servicer
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pursuant to any credit life, credit disability or unemployment insurance
policies covering any Obligor with respect to Receivables under such Obligor's
Account.
"Interchange" shall mean interchange fees received by a Seller, in its
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capacity as credit card-issuing bank, from VISA, MasterCard or any other similar
entity or organization with respect to any other type of revolving credit card
accounts included as Accounts (except as otherwise provided in the initial
Assignment with respect to any such other type of Accounts), in connection with
cardholder charges for goods and services.
"Invested Amount" shall mean, with respect to any Series and for any
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date, an amount equal to the invested amount specified in the related
Supplement.
"Investment Company Act" shall mean the Investment Company Act of
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1940, as amended.
"Investor Certificateholder" shall mean, subject to Section 6.06, the
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Person in whose name a Registered Certificate is registered in the Certificate
Register or the bearer of any Bearer Certificate (or the Global Certificate, as
the case may be) or Coupon.
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"Investor Certificates" shall mean any one of the certificates
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(including the Bearer Certificates, the Registered Certificates or any Global
Certificate) executed by the Sellers and authenticated by or on behalf of the
Trustee, substantially in the form attached to the related Supplement, other
than the Seller Certificates.
"Late Charge Fees" shall have the meaning specified in the Lending
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Agreement applicable to each Account for late payment fees or similar terms with
respect to such Account.
"Lending Agreement" shall mean, with respect to an Account, the
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agreements between a Seller and the related Obligor, governing the terms and
conditions of such Account, as such agreements may be amended, modified or
otherwise changed from time to time in conformance with all Requirements of Law,
the failure to comply with which would have a material adverse effect on
interests hereunder of Investor Certificateholders, and as distributed
(including any amendments and revisions thereto) to holders of such Accounts.
"Lending Guidelines" shall mean each Seller's established policies and
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procedures relating to the operation of its credit card business, which are
applicable to its entire portfolio of "VISA" and "MasterCard" and other consumer
revolving accounts and are consistent with reasonably prudent practice,
including the established policies and procedures for determining the
creditworthiness of credit card or other revolving credit account customers, and
the extension of credit to credit card and other revolving credit account
customers and relating to the maintenance of credit card and other revolving
credit accounts and collection of receivables with respect thereto, as such
policies and procedures may be amended, modified, or otherwise changed from time
to time in conformance with all Requirements of Law, the failure to comply with
which would have a material adverse effect on interests hereunder of Investor
Certificateholders.
"Lien" shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
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assignment, participation or equity interest, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), preference, priority or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever, including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing and the filing of
any financing statement under the UCC (other than any such financing statement
filed for informational purposes only) or comparable law of any jurisdiction to
evidence any of the foregoing, excluding any lien or filing pursuant to this
Agreement; provided, however, that any assignment or transfer pursuant to
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Section 6.03(c), Section 7.02 or Section 7.05 shall not be deemed to constitute
a Lien.
"Manager" shall mean the lead manager, manager or co-manager or person
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performing a similar function with respect to an offering of Definitive Euro-
Certificates.
"MasterCard" shall mean MasterCard International Incorporated or any
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successor thereto.
"Miscellaneous Payments" shall mean, with respect to any Monthly
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Period, the sum of Adjustment Payments and Transfer Deposit Amounts deposited in
the Collection Account with respect to such Monthly Period.
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"Monthly Period" shall mean, with respect to each Distribution Date, a
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period of approximately thirty (30) days, that (a) contains a full set of
processing cycles with respect to the Accounts, as defined by the Servicer, (b)
commences on the day immediately succeeding the last day of the immediately
preceding Monthly Period and (c) ends prior to the Determination Date for such
Distribution Date; provided, however, that the initial Monthly Period with
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respect to any Series will commence on the Cut-Off Date with respect to such
Series.
"Monthly Servicing Fee" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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3.02.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., or any successor
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thereto.
"Non-Code Entity" shall mean a savings and loan association, a
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national banking association, a bank or other entity that is not subject to
Title 11 of the United States Code.
"Notices" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.05(a).
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"Obligor" shall mean, with respect to any Account, the Person or
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Persons obligated to make payments with respect to such Account, including any
guarantor thereof.
"Officer's Certificate" shall mean, unless otherwise specified in this
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Agreement, a certificate delivered to the Trustee signed by any Vice President
or more senior officer of a Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, or, in
the case of a Successor Servicer, a certificate signed by any Vice President or
more senior officer or the financial controller (or an officer holding an office
with equivalent or more senior responsibilities) of such Successor Servicer, and
delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" shall mean a written opinion of counsel, who may
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be counsel for, or an employee of, the Person providing the opinion and who
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
"Overlimit Fees" shall have the meaning specified in the Lending
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Agreement applicable to each Account.
"Participation Interests" shall mean participations representing
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undivided interests in a pool of assets primarily consisting of revolving credit
card accounts or other revolving credit accounts owned by a Seller or any
Affiliate thereof and collections thereon.
"Pay Out Event" shall mean, with respect to any Series, each event
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specified in Section 9.01 and each additional event, if any, specified in the
relevant Supplement as a Pay Out Event with respect to such Series.
"Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent and co-paying agent
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appointed pursuant to Section 6.07, which shall be, as of the date hereof, The
Bank of New York.
"Periodic Rate" shall mean the periodic rate or rates determined in
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the manner described in the Lending Agreement applicable to each Account.
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"Periodic Rate Finance Charges" shall mean finance charges based on
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the Periodic Rate or any similar term specified in the Lending Agreement
applicable to each Account.
"Permitted Activities" means the primary activities of the Trust,
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which are:
(a) holding Receivables and the other Trust Assets, which assets
cannot be contrary to the status of the Trust as a qualified special
purpose entity under existing accounting literature, including passive
derivative financial instruments that pertain to beneficial interests
issued or sold to parties other than the Sellers, their affiliates or their
agents;
(b) issuing Certificates and other interests in the Trust;
(c) receiving Collections and making payments on such Certificates and
interests in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and any
Supplement; and
(d) engaging in other activities that are necessary or incidental to
accomplish these limited purposes, which activities cannot be contrary to
the status of the Trust as a qualified special purpose entity under
existing accounting literature.
"Person" shall mean any legal person, including any individual,
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corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization, Governmental Authority or other entity of
similar nature.
"Principal Allocation Percentage" shall mean, with respect to any
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Series, the principal allocation percentage specified in the related Supplement.
"Principal Receivables" shall mean all amounts, other than amounts
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which represent Finance Charge Receivables, billed to the obligors on any
Account in respect of (a) purchase of goods and services and (b) cash advances,
but shall not include Defaulted Receivables or amounts billed as annual
membership fees. In calculating the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables
on any day, the amount of Principal Receivables shall be reduced by the
aggregate amount of credit balances in the Accounts on such day. Any Principal
Receivables which a Seller is unable to transfer as provided in Section 2.10
shall not be included in calculating the aggregate amount of Principal
Receivables, except to the extent so provided in Section 2.10.
"Principal Sharing Series" shall mean a Series that, pursuant to the
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Supplement therefor, is entitled to, receive Shared Principal Collections.
"Principal Shortfalls" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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4.04.
"Principal Terms" shall mean, with respect to any Series, (i) the name
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or designation; (ii) the initial principal amount (or method for calculating
such amount) and the Invested Amount of such Series; (iii) the Certificate Rate
(or method for the determination thereof) and the manner, if any, in which such
rate may be adjusted from time to time; (iv) the interest payment date or dates
and the manner, if any, in which the interest payment date or dates
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may be reset from time to time and the date or dates from which interest shall
accrue; (v) the method for allocating collections to Certificateholders of such
Series; (vi) the designation of any Series Accounts and the terms governing the
operation of any such Series Accounts; (vii) the method of calculating the
servicing fee with respect thereto; (viii) the provider and the terms of any
form of Series Enhancement with respect thereto; (ix) the terms on which the
Investor Certificates of such Series may be exchanged for Investor Certificates
of another Series, repurchased by the Banks or remarketed to other investors;
(x) the Series Termination Date; (xi) the number of Classes of Investor
Certificates of such Series and, if such Series consists of more than one Class,
the rights and priorities of each such Class; (xii) the extent to which the
Investor Certificates of such Series will be issuable in temporary or permanent
global form (and, in such case, the depositary for such Global Certificate or
Certificates, the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global
Certificate may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for Definitive Certificates,
and the manner in which any interest payable on a temporary or Global
Certificate will be paid); (xiii) whether the Investor Certificates of such
Series may be issued as Bearer Certificates and any limitations imposed thereon;
(xiv) the priority of such Series with respect to any other Series; (xv) the
Rating Agency or Rating Agencies, if any, rating the Series; (xvi) the name of
the Clearing Agency, if any; (xvii) the base rate applicable to any Series;
(xviii) the minimum amount of Principal Receivables required to be maintained
through the designation of Additional Accounts; (xix) any deposit into any
account maintained for the benefit of Certificateholders; (xx) the rights of the
holders of the Sellers' Interest that have been transferred to the holders of
such Series; (xxi) the Group, if any, to which such Series belongs; (xxii)
whether or not such Series is a Principal Sharing Series; and (xxiii) any other
terms of such Series.
"Rating Agency" shall mean, with respect to any outstanding Series or
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Class, each statistical rating agency, as specified in the applicable
Supplement, selected by the Sellers to rate the Investor Certificates of such
Series or Class.
"Ratings Effect" shall mean, with respect to any action and any Rating
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Agency, that such action will hot result in such Rating Agency reducing or
withdrawing its rating of any outstanding Series or Class of Certificates with
respect to which it is a Rating Agency.
"Reassignment" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.09.
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"Receivables" shall mean all amounts shown on the Servicer's records
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as amounts payable by obligors on any Account, from time to time, including
amounts payable for Principal Receivables and amounts payable for Finance Charge
Receivables; provided, however, that such amounts shall not be included as or
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deemed Receivables on and after the day on which they become Defaulted
Receivables; provided further, however, that for purposes of determining the
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amount of Principal Receivables in the Trust and the deduction of the principal
amount of (x) Ineligible Receivables from such total amount of Principal
Receivables as required by subsection 2.05(b) and (y) Defaulted Receivables from
such total amount of Principal Receivables as required by Section 3.03, the
foregoing proviso shall not apply.
"Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution Date, the
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last Business Day of the preceding Monthly Period, except as otherwise provided
with respect to a Series in the related Supplement.
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"Recoveries" shall mean all amounts, excluding Insurance Proceeds,
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received by the Servicer with respect to Receivables which have previously
become Defaulted Receivables (including any related Finance Charge Receivables),
net of any out-of-pocket costs and expenses of collection (including attorneys'
fees and expenses) deducted therefrom, plus the net proceeds of any sale or
securitization of such Defaulted Receivables (plus any related Finance Charge
Receivables), plus any residual payments from any such securitization, but
excluding any interest, principal and servicing fees or other fees payable with
respect to the securitization of such Defaulted Receivables and the related
Finance Charge Receivables.
"Registered Certificateholder" shall mean the Holder of a Registered
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Certificate.
"Registered Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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6.01.
"Related Account" shall have the meaning specified in the definition
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of "Account."
"Removal Date" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).
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"Removal Notice Date" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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2.09(a).
"Removed Accounts" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.09.
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"Required Designation Date" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 2.08(a).
"Required Principal Balance" shall mean, as of any date of
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determination, (a) the sum of the "Initial Invested Amount" (as defined in the
relevant Supplement) of the Investor Certificates of each Series outstanding on
such date plus, as of such date of determination, the aggregate amounts of any
increases in the Invested Amounts of each prefunded Series outstanding (in each
case, other than any Series or portion thereof which is designated in the
relevant Supplement as then being an Excluded Series) minus (b) the principal
amount on deposit in the Excess Funding Account on such date; provided, however,
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if at any time the only Series outstanding are Excluded Series and a Pay Out
Event has occurred with respect to one or more of such Series, the Required
Principal Balance shall mean (a) the sum of the "Invested Amount" (as defined in
the relevant Supplement) of each such Excluded Series as of the earliest date on
which any such Pay Out Event is deemed to have occurred, minus (b) the principal
amount on deposit in the Excess Funding Account.
"Required Sellers' Interest" shall mean, with respect to any date, an
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amount equal to the product of the Required Sellers' Percentage and the
aggregate amount of Principal Receivables in the Trust.
"Required Sellers' Percentage" shall mean 5%; provided, however, that
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the Sellers may reduce the Required Sellers' Percentage upon (w) thirty (30)
days prior notice to the Trustee, each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer
entitled to receive such notice pursuant to the relevant Supplement, (x) receipt
of written notice by the Sellers from each Rating Agency that such reduction
will not have a Ratings Effect, (y) delivery by the Sellers of copies of each
such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee and (z) delivery to the
Trustee and each such Series Enhancer of an Officer's Certificate of each Seller
stating that such Seller reasonably
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believes that such reduction will not, based on the facts known to such officer
at the time of such certification, then cause a Pay Out Event or any event that,
after the giving of notice or the lapse of time, would constitute a Pay Out
Event to occur with respect to any Series; provided further that the Required
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Sellers' Percentage shall not at any time be less than the Specified Percentage.
"Requirements of Law" with respect to any Person shall mean the
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certificate of incorporation or articles of association and by-laws or other
organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule
or regulation, or determination of an arbitrator or Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or to which such Person is
subject, whether federal, state or local (including usury laws, the Federal
Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z and Regulation B of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System).
"Responsible Officer" shall mean any Vice President, any Assistant
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Vice President, any Assistant Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer, or any other
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above-designated officers and also, with respect to a
particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of
such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Returned Check Charges" shall mean the charges specified in the
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Lending Agreement payable for returned payment checks drawn on an Account.
"Revolving Period" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the period
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specified as such in the related Supplement.
"Rule 144A" shall mean Rule 144A under the Act, as such Rule may be
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amended from time to time.
"Secured Account" shall mean an Account owned by a Seller under which
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the payment obligations of the Obligor are secured by the Funds Collateral.
"Security Agreement" shall mean each security agreement between a
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Seller and an Obligor of a Secured Account pursuant to which such Obligor
pledges the Funds, the Deposit Account and any other Funds Collateral to secure
its obligations to such Seller under its Secured Account, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Sellers" shall mean the Banks and any Additional Seller.
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"Seller Certificates" shall mean, collectively, the Bank Certificates
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and any outstanding Supplemental Certificates.
"Sellers' Interest" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.01.
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"Sellers' Participation Amount" shall mean at any time of
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determination an amount equal to the total amount of Principal Receivables and
the principal amount on deposit in the Excess Funding Account and any Principal
Funding Account (as defined in any Supplement) in the Trust at such time minus
the aggregate Invested Amounts and Enhancement Invested Amounts, if any, for all
outstanding Series at such time.
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"Series" shall mean any series of Investor Certificates established
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pursuant to a Supplement.
"Series Account" shall mean any deposit, trust, escrow or similar
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account maintained for the benefit of the Investor Certificateholders of any
Series or Class, as specified in any Supplement.
"Series Enhancement" shall mean the rights and benefits provided to
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the Investor Certificateholders of any Series or Class pursuant to any letter of
credit, surety bond, cash collateral guaranty, cash collateral account,
insurance policy, spread account, reserve account, guaranteed rate agreement,
maturity liquidity facility, tax protection agreement, interest rate swap
agreement, interest rate cap agreement, currency exchange agreement, other
derivative securities agreement or other similar arrangement. The subordination
of any Class or Series to another Class or Series shall be deemed to be a Series
Enhancement.
"Series Enhancer" shall mean the Person or Persons providing any
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Series Enhancement, other than the Investor Certificateholders of any Class or
Series which is subordinated to another Class or Series.
"Series Issuance Date" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the
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date on which the Investor Certificates of such Series are to be originally
issued in accordance with Section 6.03 and the related Supplement.
"Series Termination Date" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the
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termination date specified in the related Supplement.
"Service Transfer" shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
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"Servicer" shall mean Capital One Bank, in its capacity as Servicer
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pursuant to this Agreement, and, after any Service Transfer, the Successor
Servicer.
"Servicer Default" shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
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"Servicing Fee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.02.
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"Servicing Fee Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Series, the
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servicing fee rate specified in the related Supplement.
"Servicing Officer" shall mean any officer or duly appointed attorney-
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in-fact of the Servicer who in either case is involved in, or responsible for,
the administration and servicing of the Receivables and whose name appears on a
list of servicing officers furnished to the Trustee by the Servicer, as such
list may from time to time be amended.
"Shared Principal Collections" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 4.04.
"Specified Percentage" shall mean 2%.
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"Standard & Poor's" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, or
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any successor thereto.
"Successor Servicer" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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10.02(a).
"Supplement" shall mean, with respect to any Series, a Supplement to
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this Agreement, executed and delivered in connection with the original issuance
of the Investor Certificates of such Series pursuant to Section 6.03, and all
amendments thereof and supplements thereto.
"Supplemental Certificate" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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6.03(c).
"Supplemental Deposit Agreement" shall mean an agreement with respect
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to the Deposit Account at the Depository, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
to any Assignment, or such other form as may be acceptable to the Sellers, as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Tax Opinion" shall meant with respect to any action, an Opinion of
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Counsel to the effect that, for federal and Virginia income and franchise tax
purposes (and, if there has been an assumption of a Seller's obligations
pursuant to Section 7.05, for income and franchise tax purposes of the
jurisdiction in which the Assuming Entity engages in its principal servicing
activities, if other than Virginia) (a) such action will not affect the tax
characterization as debt of Investor Certificates of any outstanding Series or
Class that were characterized as debt at the time of their issuance, (b)
following such action the Trust will not be deemed to be an association (or
publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation and (c) such action will
not cause a taxable event to any Investor Certificateholders.
"Termination Notice" shall have the meaning specified in Section
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10.01.
"Transfer Agent and Registrar" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 6.04.
"Transfer Date" shall mean the Business Day immediately preceding each
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Distribution Date.
"Transfer Deposit Amount" shall mean, with respect to any Distribution
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Date, the amount, if any, deposited into the Collection Account on such
Distribution Date in connection with the reassignment of an Ineligible
Receivable pursuant to Section 2.05 or 2.07(a) or the reassignment or assignment
of a Receivable pursuant to Section 3.03.
"Transfer Restriction Event" shall have the meaning specified in
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Section 2.10.
"Trust" shall mean the Capital One Master Trust created by this
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Agreement.
"Trust Assets" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
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"Trust Cut-Off Date" shall mean July 30, 1993.
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"Trustee" shall mean The Bank of New York in its capacity as trustee
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on behalf of the Trust, or its successor in interest, or any successor trustee
appointed as herein provided.
"UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code, as amended from time to
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time, as in effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia and in any other state where
the filing of a financing statement is required to perfect the Trust's interest
in the Receivables and the proceeds thereof or in any other specified
jurisdiction.
"Unallocated Principal Collections" shall have the meaning specified
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in Section 4.03(c).
"unamortized annual membership fees" shall have the meaning specified
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in Section 3.04(d).
"United States" shall mean the United States of America (including any
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one of the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories, its
possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"U.S. Alien" or "United States Alien" shall mean any corporation,
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partnership, individual or fiduciary that, as to the United States, and for
United States income tax purposes, is (i) a foreign corporation, (ii) a foreign
partnership one or more of the members of which is, as to the United States, a
foreign corporation, a nonresident alien individual or a nonresident alien
fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, (iii) a nonresident alien individual or
(iv) a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"U.S. person" or "United States person" shall mean a citizen or
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resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, or an estate or
trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation
regardless of its source.
"VISA" shall mean VISA U.S.A., Inc., or any successor thereto.
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Section 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions and Rules of Construction.
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(a) With respect to any Series, all terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein shall have meanings ascribed to them in the related
Supplement.
(b) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(c) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings
given to them under generally accepted accounting principles or regulatory
accounting principles, as applicable. To the extent that, the definitions of
accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document
are inconsistent with the meanings of
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such terms under generally accepted accounting principles or regulatory
accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or in any
such certificate or other document shall control.
(d) The agreements, representations and warranties of Capital One
Bank, Capital One, F.S.B. and any Additional Seller in this Agreement in each of
their respective capacities as Sellers and, in the case of Capital One Bank, as
Servicer, shall be deemed to be the agreements, representations and warranties
of Capital One Bank, Capital One, F.S.B. and such Additional Seller solely in
each such capacity for so long as Capital One Bank, Capital One, F.S.B. and such
Additional Seller act in each such capacity under this Agreement.
(e) The words "hereof," "herein" and "hereunder" and words of
similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a
whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; references to any
Section, Schedule or Exhibit are references to Sections, Schedules and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
means "including without limitation."
(f) All references herein to laws, statutes, acts and regulations
shall mean such laws, statutes, acts and regulations as amended or recodified
from time to time.
(g) All references herein (including the terms defined in Section
1.01) to the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, unless the
context requires otherwise.
(h) All references herein to the masculine, feminine or neuter
gender shall include all other genders.
ARTICLE II
Transfer of Receivables
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Section 2.01. Transfer of Receivables. By execution of this Agreement,
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each Seller hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to
the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, for the benefit of the Certificateholders,
all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the Receivables existing
at the close of business on the Trust Cut-Off Date, in the case of Receivables
arising in the Initial Accounts, and on each Additional Cut-Off Date, in the
case of Receivables arising in the Additional Accounts, and in each case
thereafter created from time to time until the termination of the Trust, the
Funds Collateral relating to any Account, all monies due or to become due and
all amounts received or receivable with respect thereto and all proceeds
(including "proceeds" as defined in the UCC and including Insurance Proceeds and
Recoveries) thereof, and all its right, title and interest in, to and under the
Interchange payable pursuant to Section 2.07(i). Such property, together with
all monies and other property on deposit in the Collection Account, the Excess
Funding Account, the Series Accounts and any Series Enhancement shall constitute
the assets of the Trust (the "Trust Assets"). The foregoing does not constitute
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and is not intended to result in the creation or assumption by the Trust, the
Trustee, any Investor Certificateholder or any Series Enhancer of any obligation
of any Seller, the Servicer or any other Person in connection with the Accounts,
the Receivables or the Funds
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Collateral or under any agreement or instrument relating thereto, including any
obligation to Obligors, merchant banks, merchants' clearance systems, VISA,
MasterCard or insurers.
Each Seller agrees to record and file, at its own expense, financing
statements (and continuation statements when applicable) with respect to the
Receivables and the Funds Collateral now existing and hereafter created in the
Accounts meeting the requirements of applicable state law in such manner and in
such jurisdictions as are necessary to perfect, and maintain the perfection of,
the sale and assignment of such Receivables and Funds Collateral to the Trust,
and to deliver a file stamped copy of each such financing statement or other
evidence of such filing (which may, for purposes of this Section 2.01, consist
of telephone confirmation of such filing) to the Trustee on or prior to the
first Closing Date, in the case of such Receivables arising in the Initial
Accounts, and (if any additional filing is so necessary) the applicable Addition
Date, in the case of such Receivables and Funds Collateral arising in Additional
Accounts. The Trustee shall be under no obligation whatsoever to file such
financing or continuation statements or to make any other filing under the UCC
in connection with such sale and assignment.
Each Seller further agrees, at its own expense, (a) on or prior to (x)
the first Closing Date, in the case of the Initial Accounts, (y) the applicable
Addition Date, in the case of Additional Accounts, and (z) the applicable
Removal Date, in the case of Removed Accounts, to indicate clearly and
unambiguously in its computer files, and to cause the Depository to indicate in
its files, that Receivables created in connection with, and all Funds Collateral
relating to, the Accounts (other than Removed Accounts) have been conveyed to
the Trust pursuant to this Agreement for the benefit of the Certificateholders
and (b) on or prior to the applicable Document Delivery Date, to deliver to the
Trustee a computer file on media and in a file format reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee or microfiche list containing a true and complete list of all such
Accounts specifying for each such Account, as of the Trust Cut-Off Date, in the
case of the Initial Accounts, the applicable Additional Cut-Off Date, in the
case of Additional Accounts, and the applicable Removal Date, in the case of
Removed Accounts, its account number, the collection status, the aggregate
amount outstanding in such Account, the aggregate amount of Principal
Receivables outstanding in such Account and any amount on deposit in or credited
to any Deposit Account. Such file or list, as supplemented from time to time to
reflect Additional Accounts and Removed Accounts, shall be marked as Schedule 1
to this Agreement and is hereby incorporated into and made a part of this
Agreement.
The parties hereto intend that each transfer of Receivables, any Funds
Collateral, and other property pursuant to this Agreement or any Assignment
constitute a sale, and not a secured borrowing, for accounting purposes. If the
transfer pursuant to this Section 2.01 is not deemed to be a sale, each Seller
shall be deemed hereunder to have granted and does hereby grant to the Trustee,
on behalf of the Trust and for the benefit of the Certificateholders, a security
interest in all of its right, title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, in, to and under all of the Trust Assets, and this Agreement
constitutes a security agreement under the UCC.
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Section 2.02. Acceptance by Trustee.
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(a) The Trustee hereby acknowledges its acceptance on behalf of the
Trust of all right, title and interest to the property, now existing and
hereafter created, conveyed to the Trust pursuant to Section 2.01 and declares
that it shall maintain such right, title and interest, upon the trust herein set
forth, for the benefit of all Certificateholders. The Trustee further
acknowledges that, prior to or simultaneously with the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the Sellers delivered to the Trustee the computer file or
microfiche list relating to the Initial Accounts described in the last paragraph
of Section 2.01.
(b) The Trustee hereby agrees not to disclose to any Person any of
the account numbers or other information contained in the computer files or
microfiche lists marked as Schedule 1 or otherwise delivered to the Trustee from
time to time, except (i) to a Successor Servicer or as required by a Requirement
of Law applicable to the Trustee, (ii) in connection with the performance of the
Trustee's duties hereunder or (iii) in enforcing the rights of
Certificateholders. The Trustee agrees to take such measures as shall be
reasonably requested by any Seller to protect and maintain the security and
confidentiality of such information and, in connection therewith, will allow
each Seller to inspect the Trustee's security and confidentiality arrangements
from time to time during normal business hours. The Trustee shall provide the
applicable Seller with notice thirty (30) days prior to any disclosure pursuant
to this Section 2.02.
(c) The Trustee shall have no power to create, assume or incur
indebtedness or other liabilities in the name of the Trust other than as
contemplated in this Agreement or any Supplement.
(d) The Trustee hereby agrees not to use any information it obtains
pursuant to this Agreement, including any of the account numbers or other
information contained in the computer files or microfiche lists marked as
Schedule 1 or otherwise delivered by a Seller to the Trustee pursuant to Section
2.01, 2.08, 2.09 or 3.04(c), directly or indirectly, to compete or assist any
person in competing with such Seller in its business.
Section 2.03. Representations and Warranties of Each Seller Relating
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to Such Seller. Each Seller hereby severally represents and warrants to the
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Trust as of each Closing Date (but only if it was a Seller on such Closing Date)
that:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. Such Seller is a Virginia
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banking corporation, a state banking association, a national banking
association, a federal savings bank or a corporation validly existing under the
laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, and has, in all material respects,
full power and authority to own its properties and conduct its consumer
revolving lending business as such properties are presently owned and such
business is presently conducted, and to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and each Supplement and to execute and deliver
to the Trustee the Certificates pursuant hereto.
(b) Due Qualification. Such Seller is duly qualified to do business
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and is in good standing as a foreign corporation (or is exempt from such
requirements), and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in each
jurisdiction in which failure to so qualify or to obtain such licenses and
approvals would render any Lending Agreement relating to an Account
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or any Receivable unenforceable by such Seller, the Servicer or the Trustee or
would have a material adverse effect on the interests of the Certificateholders
hereunder or under any Supplement; provided, however, that no representation or
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warranty is made with respect to any qualifications, licenses or approvals which
the Trustee has or may be required at any time to obtain, if any, in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby.
(c) Due Authorization. The execution and delivery of this Agreement
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and each Supplement to which such Seller is a party, the execution and delivery
to the Trustee of the Certificates and the consummation of the transactions
provided for in this Agreement and each Supplement have been duly authorized by
such Seller by all necessary corporate action on the part of such Seller.
(d) No Conflict. The execution and delivery by such Seller of this
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Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates, the performance of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each Supplement and the
fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof applicable to such Seller will not
conflict with or violate the articles of incorporation, articles of association
or by-laws of such Seller or conflict with, result in any breach of any of the
terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time
or both) a material default under, any indenture, contract, agreement, mortgage,
deed of trust, or other instrument to which such Seller is a party or by which
it or any of its properties are bound.
(e) No Violation. The execution and delivery by such Seller of this
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Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates, the performance of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each Supplement and the
fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof applicable to such Seller will not
conflict with or violate any Requirements of Law applicable to such Seller.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
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pending or, to the best knowledge of such Seller, threatened against such
Seller, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other
tribunal or governmental instrumentality (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement, any Supplement or the Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent the
issuance of the Certificates or the consummation by such Seller of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any Supplement or the Certificates,
(iii) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of
such Seller, would materially and adversely affect the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement or any Supplement, (iv) seeking any
determination or ruling that would materially and adversely affect the validity
or enforceability of this Agreement, any Supplement or the Certificates or (v)
seeking to affect adversely the income tax attributes of the Trust under the
federal or any state income or franchise tax systems.
(g) All Consents Required. All authorizations, consents, orders or
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other actions of any Person or of any Governmental Authority required to be
obtained in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, each
Supplement and the Certificates, the performance of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and each Supplement and the fulfillment of the
terms hereof and thereof, have been obtained, except such as are required by
state securities or "Blue Sky" laws in connection with the distribution of the
Certificates.
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(h) Insolvency. No Insolvency Event with respect to such Seller has
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occurred and the transfer of the Receivables by such Seller to the Trust has not
been made in contemplation of the occurrence thereof.
The representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.03
shall survive the transfer and assignment of the Receivables to the Trust. Upon
discovery by a Seller, the Servicer or the Trustee of a breach of any of the
representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.03, the party
discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others and to
each Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement within
three (3) Business Days following such discovery. The applicable Seller agrees
to cooperate with the Servicer and the Trustee in attempting to cure any such
breach. For purposes of the representations and warranties set forth in this
Section 2.03, each reference to a Supplement shall be deemed to refer only to
those Supplements in effect as of the relevant Closing Date.
Section 2.04. Representations and Warranties of Each Seller Relating to
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the Agreement and Any Supplement and the Receivables.
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(a) Representations and Warranties. Each Seller hereby severally
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represents and warrants to the Trust as of the date of this Agreement and the
date of each Supplement, as of each Closing Date and, with respect to Additional
Accounts, as of the related Addition Date (but only if, in the case of Capital
One, F.S.B. and any other Additional Seller, it was a Seller on such date) that:
(i) this Agreement, each Supplement and, in the case of
Additional Accounts, the related Assignment, each constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of such Seller enforceable against such Seller in accordance
with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights in general and the rights of creditors of a
state banking corporation or a federal savings bank, as the case may be, and
except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity
(whether considered in a suit at law or in equity);
(ii) as of the first Closing Date, as of the related Addition
Date, with respect to Additional Accounts, and as of the applicable Removal
Date, with respect to the Removed Accounts, Schedule 1 to this Agreement and the
related computer file or microfiche list delivered pursuant to this Agreement,
as supplemented to such date, is an accurate and complete listing in all
material respects of all the Accounts as of the Trust Cut-Off Date, such
Additional Cut-Off Date or such Removal Date, as the case may be, and the
information contained therein with respect to the identity of such Accounts and
the Receivables existing in such Accounts is true and correct in all material
respects as of the Trust Cut-Off Date, such Additional Cut-Off Date or such
Removal Date, as the case may be;
(iii) each Receivable has been transferred to the Trust free and
clear of any Lien (other than Liens permitted under subsection 2.07(b));
(iv) with respect to each Receivable, all consents, licenses or
approvals of or registrations or declarations with any Governmental Authority
required to be obtained, effected
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or given by such Seller in connection with the transfer by such Seller of
Receivables to the Trust have been duly obtained, effected or given and are in
full force and effect;
(v) subject, in each case pertaining to proceeds, to Section 9-
306 of the UCC, and further subject to any liens permitted under subsection
2.07(b), each of this Agreement and, in the case of Additional Accounts, the
related Assignment constitutes a valid sale, transfer and assignment to the
Trust of all right, title and interest of such Seller in the Receivables and the
proceeds thereof or, if this Agreement or, in the case of Additional Accounts,
the related Assignment does not constitute a sale of such property, it
constitutes a grant of a "security interest" (as defined in the UCC) in such
property to the Trust, which, in the case of existing Receivables and the
proceeds thereof, is enforceable upon execution and delivery of this Agreement,
or, with respect to then existing Receivables in Additional Accounts, as of the
applicable Addition Date, and which will be enforceable with respect to such
Receivables hereafter and thereafter created and the proceeds thereof upon such
creation. Upon the filing of the financing statements pursuant to Section 2.01
and, in the case of Receivables hereafter created and the proceeds thereof, upon
the creation thereof, the Trust shall have a first priority perfected security
or ownership interest in such property and proceeds except for Liens permitted
under Section 2.07(b);
(vi) except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or
any Supplement, neither such Seller nor any Person claiming through or under
such Seller has any claim to or interest in the Collection Account, any Series
Account or any Series Enhancement;
(vii) on the Trust Cut-Off Date, each Account was an Eligible
Account and, in the case of Additional Accounts, on the Additional Cut-Off Date
with respect thereto, each such Account will be an Eligible Account;
(viii) on the Trust Cut-Off Date, each Receivable then existing
was an Eligible Receivable and, in the case of Additional Accounts, on the
Addition Date with respect thereto, each Receivable contained therein will be an
Eligible Receivable;
(ix) upon the creation of any new Receivable, such Receivable
will be an Eligible Receivable; and
(x) no selection procedure reasonably believed by such Seller to
be materially adverse to the interests of the Investor Certificateholders were
used in selecting the Initial Accounts (from among the available Eligible
Accounts originated by such Seller in the solicitations designated by such
Seller as "Associate 11" and "Associate 93" and owned by the Seller on the Trust
Cut-Off Date).
(b) Notice of Breach. The representations and warranties of each
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Seller set forth in this Section 2.04 shall survive the transfer and assignment
by such Seller of Receivables to the Trust. Upon discovery by a Seller, the
Servicer or the Trustee of a breach of any of the representations and warranties
by a Seller set forth in this Section 2.04, the party discovering such breach
shall give prompt written notice to the others and to each Series Enhancer
entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement within three (3) Business
Days following such discovery. The applicable Seller agrees to cooperate with
the Servicer and the Trustee in
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attempting to cure any such breach. For purposes of the representations and
warranties set forth in this Section 2.04, each reference to a Supplement shall
be deemed to refer only to those Supplements in effect as of the date of the
relevant representations or warranties.
Section 2.05. Reassignment of Ineligible Receivables.
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(a) Reassignment of Receivables. In the event (i) any representation
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or warranty of a Seller contained in Section 2.04(a)(ii), (iii), (iv), (vii),
(viii), (ix) or (x) is not true and correct in any material respect as of the
date specified therein (individually or together with any other breach or
breaches then existing) and such breach has a material adverse effect on the
Certificateholders' Interest of all Series in any Receivables transferred to the
Trust (which determination shall be made without regard to the availability of
funds under any Series Enhancement) and remains uncured for sixty (60) days (or
such longer period, not in excess of 150 days, as may be agreed to by the
Trustee) after the earlier to occur of the discovery thereof by the Seller that
transferred such Receivables to the Trust or receipt by such Seller of notice
thereof given by the Trustee, or (ii) it is so provided in Section 2.07(a) with
respect to any Receivables transferred to the Trust by such Seller, then such
Seller shall accept reassignment of all Receivables in the related Account
("Ineligible Receivables") on the terms and conditions set forth in paragraph
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(b) below; provided, however, that such Receivables will not be deemed to be
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Ineligible Receivables and will not be reassigned to such Seller if, on any day
prior to the end of such 60-day or longer period, (x) either (A) in the case of
an event described in clause (i) above the relevant representation and warranty
shall be true and correct in all material respects as if made on such day or (B)
in the case of an event described in clause (ii) above the circumstances causing
such Receivable to become an Ineligible Receivable shall no longer exist and (y)
such Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate of the
Seller describing the nature of such breach and the manner in which the relevant
representation and warranty became true and correct.
(b) Price of Reassignment. The Servicer shall deduct the portion of
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such Ineligible Receivables reassigned to each Seller which are Principal
Receivables from the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables used to calculate
the Sellers' Participation Amount, the Sellers' Interest and the Floating
Allocation Percentage and the Principal Allocation Percentage applicable to any
Series. In the event that, following the exclusion of such Principal Receivables
from the calculation of the Sellers' Participation Amount, the Sellers'
Participation Amount would be a negative number, not later than 12:00 noon,
Richmond, Virginia time, on the first Distribution Date following the Monthly
Period in which such reassignment obligation arises, the applicable Seller shall
make a deposit in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the
principal portion and the interest portion of the amount by which the Sellers'
Participation Amount would be below zero (up to the amount of such Principal
Receivables) into the Excess Funding Account and the Collection Account,
respectively. Any amount deposited into the Excess Funding Account and the
Collection Account, respectively, in connection with the reassignment of an
Ineligible Receivable shall be considered a Transfer Deposit Amount and shall be
applied in accordance with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement.
Upon the deposit, if any, required to be made to the Excess Funding
Account and the Collection Account, respectively, as provided in this Section
2.05 and the reassignment of Ineligible Receivables, the Trustee, on behalf of
the Trust, shall automatically and without
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further action be deemed to transfer, assign, set-over and otherwise convey to
the applicable Seller or its designee, without recourse, representation or
warranty, all the right, title and interest of the Trust in and to such
Ineligible Receivables, all monies due or to become due with respect thereto and
all proceeds thereof. The Trustee shall execute such documents and instruments
of transfer or assignment and take such other actions as shall reasonably be
requested by such Seller to effect the transfer of such Ineligible Receivables
pursuant to this Section 2.05. The obligation of each Seller to accept
reassignment of any Ineligible Receivables, and to make the deposits, if any,
required to be made to the Excess Funding Account and the Collection Account,
respectively, as provided in this Section 2.05, shall constitute the sole remedy
respecting the event giving rise to such obligation available to Investor
Certificateholders (or the Trustee on behalf of the Investor Certificateholders)
or any Series Enhancer.
Section 2.06. Reassignment of Receivables in Trust Portfolio. In the
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event any representation or warranty of a Seller set forth in Section 2.03 or
Section 2.04(a)(i), (v) or (vi) is not true and correct in any material respect
and such breach has a material adverse effect on the Certificateholders'
Interest of all Series in the Receivables, then either the Trustee or the
Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing not less than 50% of the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Investor Certificates, by notice then
given to such Seller, the Servicer (and the Trustee if given by the Investor
Certificateholders), may direct such Seller to accept a reassignment of the
Receivables if such breach and any material adverse effect caused by such breach
is not cured within sixty (60) days of such notice (or within such longer
period, not in excess of 150 days, as may be specified in such notice), and upon
those conditions such Seller shall be obligated to accept such reassignment on
the terms set forth below; provided, however, that such Receivables will not be
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reassigned to such Seller if, on any day prior to the end of such 60-day or
longer period (i) the relevant representation and warranty shall be true and
correct in all material respects as if made on such day and (ii) such Seller
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate of such Seller
describing the nature of such breach and the manner in which the relevant
representation and warranty became true and correct and the breach of such
representation and warranty shall no longer materially adversely affect the
interests of the Investor Certificateholders.
The applicable Seller shall deposit in the Collection Account in
immediately available funds not later than 12:00 noon, Richmond, Virginia time,
on the first Distribution Date following the Monthly Period in which such
reassignment obligation arises, in payment for such reassignment, an amount
equal to the sum of the amounts specified therefor with respect to each
outstanding Series in the related Supplement. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, such amounts shall be distributed on such
Distribution Date in accordance with Article IV and the terms of each
Supplement.
Upon the deposit, if any, required to be made to the Collection
Account as provided in this Section 2.06 and the reassignment of the applicable
Receivables, the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall automatically and
without further action be deemed to sell, transfer, assign, set over and
otherwise convey to the Seller or its designee, without recourse, representation
or warranty, all the right, title and interest of the Trust in and to such
Receivables, all moneys due or to become due and all amounts received with
respect thereto and all proceeds thereof. The Trustee shall execute such
documents and instruments of transfer or assignment
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and take such other actions as shall reasonably be requested by such Seller to
effect the conveyance of such Receivables pursuant to this Section 2.06. The
obligation of each Seller to accept reassignment of any Receivables and to make
the deposits, if any, required to be made to the Collection Account as provided
in this Section 2.06 shall constitute the sole remedy respecting the event
giving rise to such obligation available to the Certificateholders (or the
Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders) or any Series Enhancer.
Section 2.07. Covenants of Each Seller. Each Seller hereby covenants as
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follows:
(a) Receivables Not to be Evidenced by Promissory Notes. Each Seller
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will take no action to cause or permit any Receivable to be evidenced by any
instrument or chattel paper (as defined in the UCC) and, if any such Receivable
is so evidenced it shall be deemed to be an Ineligible Receivable in accordance
with Section 2.05(a) and shall be reassigned to the Seller in accordance with
Section 2.05(b); provided, however, that Receivables evidenced by notes taken
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from obligors in the ordinary course of business of the Servicer's collection
efforts shall not be deemed Ineligible Receivables solely as a result thereof.
(b) Security Interests. Except for the conveyances hereunder, such
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Seller will not sell, pledge, assign or transfer to any other Person, or grant,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any Receivable, whether now
existing or hereafter created, or any interest therein; such Seller will
immediately notify the Trustee of the existence of any Lien on any Receivable;
and such Seller shall defend the right, title and interest of the Trust in, to
and under the Receivables, whether now existing or hereafter created, against
all claims of third parties claiming through or under such Seller; provided,
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however, that nothing in this Section 2.07(b) shall prevent or be deemed to
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prohibit such Seller from suffering to exist upon any of the Receivables any
Liens for municipal or other local taxes if such taxes shall not at the time be
due and payable or if such Seller shall currently be contesting the validity
thereof in good faith by appropriate proceedings and shall have set aside on its
books adequate reserves with respect thereto.
(c) Sellers' Interest. Except for the conveyances hereunder, in
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connection with any transaction permitted by Section 7.02 or 7.05 and as
provided in Sections 2.08(f) and 6.03, each Seller agrees not to transfer,
assign, exchange or otherwise convey or pledge, hypothecate or otherwise grant a
security interest in the Sellers' Interest, whether represented by the Bank
Certificate or any Supplemental Certificate or by any uncertificated interest in
the Sellers' Interest, and any such attempted transfer, assignment, exchange,
conveyance, pledge, hypothecation or grant shall be void; provided, however,
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that nothing in this Section 2.07(c) shall prevent the recorded owner of an
interest in the Sellers' Interest, whether uncertificated or represented by a
certificate, from granting to an Affiliate a participation interest or other
beneficial interest in the rights to receive cash flows related to the Sellers'
Interest, if (i) such interest does not grant such Affiliate any rights
hereunder or delegate to such Affiliate any obligations or duties hereunder and
(ii) the transferor of such interest obtains the prior written consent of the
Sellers and (iii) after giving effect to such transfer, the aggregate interest
in the Sellers' Interest owned directly by the Sellers represents an undivided
ownership interest in two percent (2.0%) or more of the Trust Assets.
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(d) Delivery of Collections. In the event that such Seller receives
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Collections, such Seller agrees to pay the Servicer all such Collections as soon
as practicable after receipt thereof but in no event later than two (2) Business
Days after the Date of Processing by such Seller.
(e) Notice of Liens. Such Seller shall notify the Trustee and each
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Series Enhancer entitled to such notice pursuant to the relevant Supplement
promptly after becoming aware of any Lien on any Receivable other than the
conveyances hereunder or Liens permitted under Section 2.07(b).
(f) Periodic Rate Finance Charges And Other Fees. Such Seller hereby
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agrees that, except as otherwise required by any Requirement of Law, or as is
deemed by such Seller to be necessary in order to maintain its lending business
on a competitive basis based on a good faith assessment by it of the nature of
its competition in the lending business, it shall not at any time reduce the
annual percentage rate of the Periodic Rate Finance Charges assessed on the
Receivables or other fees charged on any of the Accounts if, as a result of any
such reduction, either (i) such Seller's reasonable expectation is that such
reduction will cause a Pay Out Event to occur or (ii) such reduction is not also
applied to any comparable segment of consumer revolving accounts owned by such
Seller which have characteristics the same as, or substantially similar to, such
Accounts.
(g) Lending Agreements and Guidelines. Such Seller shall comply with
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and perform its obligations under the Lending Agreements relating to the
Accounts and the Lending Guidelines and all applicable rules and regulations of
MasterCard and VISA or their respective substantial equivalents except insofar
as any failure so to comply or perform would not materially and adversely affect
the rights of the Trust or the Certificateholders hereunder or under the
Certificates. Subject to compliance with all Requirements of Law, such Seller
may change the terms and provisions of the Lending Agreements or the Lending
Guidelines with respect to any of the Accounts in any respect (including the
calculation of the amount, or the timing, of charge-offs and the Periodic Rate
Finance Charges and other fees to be assessed thereon) only if in the reasonable
judgment of such Seller such change is made applicable to any comparable segment
of the consumer revolving accounts owned by such Seller which have
characteristics the same as, or substantially similar to, such Accounts.
(h) "MasterCard" and "VISA". Such Seller shall use all commercially
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reasonable efforts to remain, either directly or indirectly, a member in good
standing of the "MasterCard" System, the "VISA" System and any other similar
entity's or organization's system relating to any other type of revolving credit
card accounts included as Accounts.
(i) Interchange. On or prior to each Determination Date, such Seller
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shall notify the Servicer of the amount of Interchange to be included as
Collections of Finance Charge Receivables with respect to the preceding Monthly
Period, which shall be equal to the amount of Interchange paid to such Seller
with respect to such Monthly Period multiplied by a fraction the numerator of
which is the aggregate amount of cardholder charges for goods and services in
the "MasterCard" and "VISA" consumer revolving credit card accounts included in
the Accounts with respect to such Monthly Period and the denominator of which is
the aggregate amount of cardholder charges for goods and services in all the
"MasterCard" and "VISA" consumer
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revolving credit card accounts (including the Accounts) owned by such Seller
with respect to such Monthly Period.
(j) Conveyance of Accounts. Such Seller covenants and agrees that it
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will not convey, assign, exchange or otherwise transfer the Accounts to any
Person prior to the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article XII;
provided, however, that such Seller shall not be prohibited hereby from
conveying, assigning, exchanging or otherwise transferring the Accounts in
connection with a transaction complying with the provisions of Section 7.02.
Section 2.08. Addition of Accounts.
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(a) Required Additions. (i) If, as of the close of business on the
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last Business Day of any Monthly Period, (x) the Sellers' Participation Amount
is less than the Required Sellers' Interest or (y) the aggregate amount of
Principal Receivables is less than the Required Principal Balance, each on such
date, the Sellers shall on or prior to the close of business on the tenth
Business Day following the last Business Day of such Monthly Period (the
"Required Designation Date"), unless the Sellers' Participation Amount exceeds
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the Required Sellers' Interest as of the close of business on any day after the
last Business Day of such Monthly Period and prior to the Required Designation
Date, designate additional Eligible Accounts to be included as Accounts as of
the Required Designation Date or any earlier date in a sufficient amount such
that, after giving effect to such addition, (x) the Sellers' Participation
Amount as of the close of business on the Addition Date is at least equal to the
Required Sellers' Interest and (y) the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables
equals or exceeds the Required Principal Balance, each on such date. The failure
of any condition set forth in paragraph (c) or (d) below, as the case may be,
shall not relieve the Sellers of their obligation pursuant to this
paragraph; provided, however, that the failure of the Sellers to transfer
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Receivables to the Trust as provided in this paragraph solely as a result of the
unavailability of a sufficient amount of Eligible Receivables shall not
constitute a breach of this Agreement; provided further that any such
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failure which has not been timely cured (as specified in the related Supplement)
will nevertheless result in the occurrence of a Pay Out Event with respect to
each Series for which, pursuant to the Supplement therefor, a failure by the
Sellers to convey Receivables in Additional Accounts or Participation Interests
to the Trust by the day on which it is required to convey such Receivables or
Participation Interests pursuant to Section 2.08(a) constitutes a "Pay Out
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(ii) In lieu of, or in addition to, designating Additional
Accounts pursuant to clause (i) above, the Sellers may, subject to the
conditions specified in paragraph (d) below, convey to the Trust Participation
Interests. The addition of Participation Interests in the Trust pursuant to this
paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) below shall be effected by an amendment hereto,
dated the applicable Addition Date, pursuant to Section 13.01(a).
(b) Permitted Additions. Each Seller may from time to time, at its
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sole discretion, subject to the conditions specified in paragraph (c) or (d)
below, as the case may be, designate additional Eligible Accounts to be included
as Accounts or Participation Interests to be included as Trust Assets, in either
case as of the applicable Additional Cut-Off Date.
(c) Automatic Additional Accounts. (i) Each Seller may from time to
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time, at its sole discretion, subject to and in compliance with the limitations
specified in clause (ii) below and the applicable conditions specified in
paragraph (d) below, designate Eligible Accounts to be included as Accounts as
of the applicable Additional Cut-off Date. For purposes of this paragraph,
Eligible Accounts shall be deemed to include only consumer revolving credit card
accounts or other consumer revolving credit accounts which are (x) originated by
such Seller or any Affiliate of such Seller and (y) of a type included as
Initial Accounts or which have
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previously been included in any Addition which has been effected in accordance
with all of the conditions specified in paragraph (d) below.
(ii) A Seller shall not be permitted to designate Automatic
Additional Accounts pursuant to clause (i) above with respect to any of the
three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods commencing in January, April, July and
October of each calendar year unless on or before the first Business Day of such
three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods, such Seller shall have requested each
Rating Agency to notify, and each Rating Agency shall have notified, such
Seller, the Servicer and the Trustee of the limitations (other than the
limitations described in this Agreement), if any, to the right of such Seller to
designate Automatic Additional Accounts during such three (3) consecutive
Monthly Periods; provided, however, that on or before twenty (20) days following
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the last Business Day of such three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods, such Seller
shall have received written confirmation from each Rating Agency that each such
designation of Automatic Additional Accounts will not have a Ratings Effect and
shall have delivered copies of each such confirmation to the Servicer and the
Trustee. Unless Standard & Poor's otherwise consents, the number of Automatic
Additional Accounts plus the number of Accounts added pursuant to Section
2.08(a), without the prior notice of Standard & Poor's as described under
Section 2.08(d)(v), shall not at any time exceed the Aggregate Addition Limit;
provided, however, if the Aggregate Addition Limit is exceeded for purposes of
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Section 2.08(a), the applicable Seller shall have delivered written notice to
Moody's of any such Addition. Unless Moody's otherwise consents, the number of
Automatic Additional Accounts added pursuant to Section 2.08(c), without prior
notice of Moody's as described under Section 2.08(d)(v), shall not at any time
exceed the Aggregate Addition Limit.
(iii) On or before March 31, June 30, September 30 and December
31 of each calendar year, commencing on December 31, 1993, the applicable Seller
shall have delivered to the Trustee, each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer
entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an Opinion of Counsel in
accordance with Section 13.02(d), with respect to the Automatic Additional
Accounts included as Accounts during the preceding three-month period confirming
the validity and perfection of each transfer of such Automatic Additional
Accounts; provided, however, if the long-term unsecured debt rating or
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certificate of deposit rating of such Seller is withdrawn or reduced below BBB-
by Standard & Poor's (and only for so long as such rating is below BBB- by
Standard & Poor's), such Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee, each Rating
Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement an Opinion of Counsel in accordance with Section 13.02(d) on or
before the last Business Day of each calendar month, commencing on the last
Business Day of the calendar month immediately following the month in which such
withdrawal or reduction occurs, with respect to the Automatic Additional
Accounts included as Accounts during the preceding one-month period confirming
the validity and perfection of each transfer of such Automatic Additional
Accounts. Such Opinion of Counsel shall be provided by outside counsel. If such
Opinion of Counsel with respect to any Automatic Additional Accounts is not so
received, the ability of the Sellers to designate Automatic Additional Accounts
will be suspended until such time as each Rating Agency otherwise consents in
writing or such accounts are removed from the Trust. If the applicable Seller is
unable to deliver such Opinion of Counsel with respect to any Additional Account
which has been the subject of an Automatic Addition, such inability shall be
deemed to be a breach of the representation in Section 2.04(a)(viii) with
respect to the Receivables in such Additional Account for purposes of Section
2.05.
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(d) Conditions to Addition. On the Addition Date with respect to any
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Additional Accounts or Participation Interests, the Trust shall purchase the
Receivables in such Additional Accounts (and such Additional Accounts shall be
deemed to be Accounts for purposes of this Agreement) or shall purchase such
Participation Interests, in each case as of the close of business on the
applicable Additional Cut-Off Date, subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions (provided, however, that the conditions set forth in clauses (i),
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(v), (vi) and (vii) shall not apply to the transfer to the Trust of Receivables
in Automatic Additional Accounts which are governed by Section 2.08(c)):
(i) on or before the fifth Business Day immediately preceding
the Addition Date, the applicable Seller shall have given the Trustee, the
Servicer, each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant
to the relevant Supplement written notice that the Additional Accounts or
Participation Interests will be included and specifying the applicable Addition
Date, the Additional Cut-Off Date, the approximate number of accounts or other
assets expected to be added and the approximate aggregate balances expected to
be outstanding in the accounts or other assets to be added;
(ii) in the case of Additional Accounts, the applicable Sel ler
shall have delivered to the Trustee copies of UCC-1 financing statements
covering such Additional Accounts, if necessary to perfect the Trust's interest
in the Receivables arising therein;
(iii) in the case of Additional Accounts, to the extent required
by Section 4.03, the applicable Seller shall have deposited in the Collection
Account all Collections with respect to such Additional Accounts since the
Additional Cut-Off Date (plus an amount representing unamortized annual
membership fees for such Additional Accounts determined as of such Additional
Cut-Off Date in accordance with Section 3.04(d)) ;
(iv) as of each of the Additional Cut-Off Date and the Addition
Date, no Insolvency Event with respect to the applicable Seller shall have
occurred nor shall the transfer of the Receivables arising in the Additional
Accounts or of the Participation Interests to the Trust have been made in
contemplation of the occurrence thereof;
(v) (A) except in the case of an Addition pursuant to Section
2.08(a), the applicable Seller shall have received written notice from each
Rating Agency that such Addition will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have
delivered copies of each such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee,
and (B) in the case of an Addition pursuant to Section 2.08(a) during any of the
three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods commencing in January, April, July and
October of each calendar year, if applicable, the Sellers shall have received,
to the extent not previously received, not later than 20 days following the last
Business Day of the relevant three (3) consecutive Monthly Periods, written
notice from each Rating Agency that such Addition will not have a Ratings Effect
and shall have delivered copies of each such written notice to the Servicer and
the Trustee; provided, however, that in the case of an Addition pursuant to
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Section 2.08(a) which would exceed the Aggregate Addition Limit, the Sellers
shall have provided each Rating Agency with at least 15 days prior written
notice of such Addition and at or prior to the end of such 15-day period, each
Rating Agency shall have notified the Sellers in writing that such Addition will
not have a Ratings Effect, and the Sellers shall have delivered copies of such
written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee;
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(vi) the applicable Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee,
each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the
relevant Supplement an Opinion of Counsel that for federal and Virginia income
and franchise tax purposes (and, if there has been an assumption of a Seller's
obligations pursuant to Section 7.05, for income and franchise tax purposes of
the jurisdiction in which the Assuming Entity engages in its principal servicing
activities, if other than Virginia), such Addition will not cause a taxable
event to the holders of the Certificates;
(vii) the applicable Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee,
each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the
relevant Supplement an Opinion of Counsel, dated the Addition Date, in
accordance with Section 13.02(d);
(viii) the applicable Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee
and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an
Officer's Certificate of such Seller, dated the Addition Date, to the effect
that (A) such Seller reasonably believes that such Addition will not, based on
the facts known to such officer at the time of such certification, then cause a
Pay Out Event or any event that, after the giving of notice or the lapse of time
would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect to any Series and (B) in
the case of Additional Accounts no selection procedure was utilized by such
Seller that would result in a selection of Additional Accounts (from the
available Eligible Accounts owned by such Seller) that would be materially
adverse to the interests of the Certificateholders of any Series as of the date
of the Addition; and
(ix) within ten (10) Business Days of the date on which any
such Receivables or Participation Interests are added to the Trust, the
applicable Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee a written assignment and a
computer file or a microfiche list containing a true and complete list of the
related Additional Accounts or Participation Interests specifying for each such
Account its account number, the collection status, the aggregate amount
outstanding in such Account and the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables
outstanding in such Account or comparable information in the case of
Participation Interests and, for any Funds Collateral relating to such Account,
the account number for, and the amount of funds on deposit in, the applicable
Deposit Account.
(e) Representations and Warranties. Each Seller hereby represents
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and warrants to the Trust as of the related Addition Date as to the matters
relating to it set forth in paragraph (d)(iv) and (viii) above and that, in the
case of Additional Accounts, the file or list delivered pursuant to paragraph
(g) below is, as of the applicable Additional Cut-Off Date, true and complete in
all material respects.
(f) Additional Sellers. Any Seller may designate Affiliates of such
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Seller to be included as a Seller ("Additional Sellers") under this Agreement by
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an amendment hereto pursuant to Section 13.01(a). Any Additional Seller may
cease to transfer newly arising Receivables to the Trust so long as each Rating
Agency provides written notice that such cessation will not have a Ratings
Effect. If any Seller elects to have all or a portion of its interest in the
Sellers' Interest evidenced by the Bank Certificate as provided in Section 6.01
hereof, then in connection with such designation, such Seller shall surrender
the Bank Certificate to the Trustee in exchange for a newly issued Bank
Certificate modified to reflect such Additional Sellers' Interest. If any Seller
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interest in the Sellers' Interest be uncertificated as provided in Section 6.01,
such Seller shall instruct the Trustee in writing to register the Additional
Seller as the owner of the appropriate interest in the Sellers' Interest on the
books and records of the Trust. Prior to any such designation of an Additional
Seller and, if applicable, exchange of certificates, the conditions set forth in
Section 6.03(c) shall have been satisfied.
(g) Delivery of Documents. In the case of the designation of
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Additional Accounts, the Seller designating such Accounts shall deliver to the
Trustee (i) the computer file or microfiche list required to be delivered
pursuant to Section 2.01 with respect to such Additional Accounts on the
applicable Document Delivery Date and (ii) a duly executed, written Assignment
(including an acceptance by the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders), substantially in the form of Exhibit B (the "Assignment"),
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o on the Document Delivery Date; and, in the case of an Addition of
Participation Interests, the Seller adding such Participation Interests shall
deliver comparable information and documents with respect to such Participation
Interests, on the Document Delivery Date.
Section 2.09. Removal of Accounts. (a) On any day of any Monthly
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Period each Seller shall have the right to require the reassignment to it or its
designee of all the Trust's right, title and interest in, to and under the
Receivables then existing and thereafter created, all moneys due or to become
due and all amounts received with respect thereto and all proceeds thereof in or
with respect to the Accounts owned and designated by such Seller (the "Removed
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Accounts"), upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
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(i) on or before the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the
Removal Date (the "Removal Notice Date"), such Seller shall have given the
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Trustee, the Servicer, each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled
thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement written notice of such removal and
specifying the date for removal of the Removed Accounts (the "Removal Date");
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(ii) on or prior to the date that is ten (10) Business Days after
the Removal Date, such Seller shall have amended Schedule 1 by delivering to the
Trustee a computer file or microfiche list containing a true and complete list
of the Removed Accounts specifying for each such Account, as of the Removal
Date, its account number, the aggregate amount outstanding in such Account,
the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables outstanding in such Account and,
for any Funds Collateral relating to such Account, the account number for, the
amount of funds on deposit in, the applicable Deposit Account;
(iii) such Seller shall have represented and warranted as of the
Removal Date that the list of Removed Accounts delivered pursuant to paragraph
(ii) above, as of the Removal Date, is true and complete in all material
respects ;
(iv) such Seller shall have received written notice from each
Rating Agency that such removal will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have
delivered copies of each such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee;
(v) as of the Removal Notice Date, either (A) the Receivables in
the Accounts are not more than 15% delinquent by estimated principal amount and
the weighted average delinquency of such Receivables is not more than sixty (60)
days or (B) the Receivables in the
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Accounts are not more than 7% delinquent by estimated principal amount and the
weighted average delinquency of such Receivables does not exceed ninety (90)
days;
(vi) such Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee and any
Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an
Officer's Certificate of such Seller, dated the Removal Date, to the effect that
such Seller reasonably believes that such removal will not based on the facts
known to such officer at the time of such certification, then cause a Pay Out
Event or any event that, after the giving of notice or the lapse of time, would
constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect to any Series; and
(vii) the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables to be removed
shall not equal or exceed 5% of the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables in
the Trust.
(b) Upon satisfaction of the above conditions, the Trustee shall
execute and deliver to the applicable Seller a written reassignment in
substantially the form of Exhibit C (the "Reassignment") and shall, without
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further action, be deemed to sell, transfer, assign, set over and otherwise
convey to such Seller or its designee, effective as of the Removal Date, without
recourse, representation or warranty, all the right, title and interest of the
Trust in and to the Receivables arising in the Removed Accounts and all proceeds
thereof. In addition, the Trustee shall execute such other documents and
instruments of transfer or assignment and take such other actions as shall
reasonably be requested by such Seller to effect the conveyance of Receivables
pursuant to this Section 2.09.
In addition to the foregoing, on the date when any Receivable in an
Account becomes a Defaulted Receivable (including any related Finance Charge
Receivables), the Trust shall automatically and without further action or
consideration transfer, set over and otherwise convey to the applicable Seller
with respect to such Account, without recourse, representation or warranty, all
right, title and interest of the Trust in and to the Defaulted Receivables
(including any related Finance Charge Receivables) in such Account, all Funds
Collateral related thereto, all monies due or to become due with respect
thereto, all proceeds thereof and any Insurance Proceeds relating thereto;
provided that Recoveries of such Account shall be applied as provided herein.
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The Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments of transfer and
assignment (including any UCC termination statements), in each case without
recourse, as shall be reasonably requested by the applicable Seller to vest in
such Seller or its designee all right, title and interest that the Trust had in
such Defaulted Receivables (including any related Finance Charge Receivables).
In addition to the foregoing, each Seller may designate Removed
Accounts as provided in and subject to the terms and conditions contained in
this Section 2.09 if the Removed Accounts are designated in response to a third-
party action or decision not to act and not the unilateral action of any Seller.
(c) In addition to the foregoing requirements, except for Removed
Accounts described in the second paragraph of Section 2.09(b), there shall be no
more than one Removal Date in any Monthly Period; for each Removal Date, the
Accounts to be designated as Removed Accounts shall be selected at random by the
Seller and the Removed Accounts shall not, as of the Removal Notice Date,
contain Principal Receivables which in the aggregate exceed
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an amount equal to the positive difference, if any, between the Sellers'
Interest and the Required Sellers' Interest.
Section 2.10. Account Allocations. In the event that any Seller is
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unable for any reason to transfer Receivables to the Trust in accordance with
the provisions of this Agreement, including by reason of the application of the
provisions of Section 9.02 or any binding order of any Governmental Authority (a
"Transfer Restriction Event"), then, in any such event, (a) such Seller and the
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Servicer agree (except as prohibited by any such order) to allocate and pay to
the Trust, after the date of such inability, all Collections, including
Collections of Receivables transferred to the Trust prior to the occurrence of
such event, and all amounts which would have constituted Collections but for
such Seller's inability to transfer Receivables (up to an aggregate amount equal
to the amount of Receivables in the Trust on such date), (b) such Seller and the
Servicer agree that such amounts will be applied as Collections in accordance
with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement and (c) for so long as the
allocation and application of all Collections and all amounts that would have
constituted Collections are made in accordance with clauses (a) and (b) above,
Principal Receivables and all amounts which would have constituted Principal
Receivables but for such Seller's inability to transfer Receivables to the Trust
and Principal Receivables and all amounts which would have constituted Principal
Receivables as aforesaid that are written off as uncollectible in accordance
with this Agreement shall continue to be allocated in accordance with Article IV
and the terms of each Supplement. For the purpose of the immediately preceding
sentence, such Seller and the Servicer shall treat the first received
Collections with respect to the Accounts as allocable to the Trust until the
Trust shall have been allocated and paid Collections in an amount equal to the
aggregate amount of Principal Receivables in such Accounts as of the date of the
occurrence of such event. If such Seller or the Servicer is unable pursuant to
any Requirements of Law to allocate Collections as described above, such Seller
and the Servicer agree that, after the occurrence of such event, payments on
each Account with respect to the principal balance of such Account shall be
allocated first to the oldest principal balance of such Account and shall have
such payments applied as Collections in accordance with Article IV and the terms
of each Supplement. The parties hereto agree that Finance Charge Receivables,
whenever created, accrued in respect of Principal Receivables which have been
conveyed to the Trust shall continue to be a part of the Trust notwithstanding
any cessation of the transfer of additional Principal Receivables to the Trust
and Collections with respect thereto shall continue to be allocated and paid in
accordance with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement.
Section 2.11. Discount Option.
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(a) The Sellers shall have the option to designate at any time a
percentage, which may be a fixed percentage or a variable percentage based on a
formula (the "Discount Percentage"), of the amount of Receivables arising in the
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Accounts on or after the date such designation becomes effective that would
otherwise constitute Principal Receivables to be treated as Finance Charge
Receivables ("Discount Option Receivables"). The Sellers shall also have
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the option of reducing or withdrawing the Discount Percentage, at any time from
time to time, on and after the date such designation becomes effective. The
Sellers shall provide to the Servicer, the Trustee, any Series Enhancer and each
Rating Agency thirty (30) days prior written notice of such designation (or
reduction or withdrawal), and such designation (or reduction or withdrawal)
shall become effective on the date designated therein only if (i) each
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Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee and each Series Enhancer entitled
thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an Officer's Certificate of such
Seller stating that such Seller reasonably believes that such designation (or
reduction or withdrawal) will not, based on the facts known to such officer at
the time of such certification, then cause a Pay Out Event or any event that,
after the giving of notice or the lapse of time, would constitute a Pay Out
Event to occur with respect to any Series, (ii) the Sellers shall have received
written notice from each Rating Agency that such designation (or reduction or
withdrawal) will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have delivered copies of
each such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee and (iii) in the case
of a reduction or withdrawal, each Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to the effect that, in the reasonable belief of such
Seller, such reduction or withdrawal shall not have adverse regulatory or other
accounting implications for such Seller.
(b) On each Date of Processing after the date on which the Sellers'
exercise of their discount option takes effect, the Sellers shall, to the extent
required by Section 4.03, (i) deposit into the Collection Account in immediately
available funds an amount equal to the product of (a) the aggregate Floating
Allocation Percentages with respect to all Series and (b) the aggregate amount
of the Discount Option Receivable Collections processed on such day and (ii) pay
to the Holders of the Seller Certificates, and if any owner of an interest in
the Sellers' Interest elects to have such interest be uncertificated as provided
in Section 6.01 hereof, then to the recorded owner of such uncertificated
interest in the Sellers' Interest, the balance of such Discount Option
Receivables Collections. The deposit made by the Sellers into the Collection
Account under the preceding sentence shall be considered a payment of such
Discount option Receivables and shall be applied as Finance Charge Receivables
in accordance with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement.
ARTICLE III
Administration and Servicing of Receivables
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Section 3.01. Acceptance of Appointment and Other Matters Relating to
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the Servicer.
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(a) Capital One Bank agrees to act as the Servicer under this
Agreement and the Certificateholders by their acceptance of Certificates consent
to Capital One Bank acting as Servicer.
(b) The Servicer shall service and administer the Receivables, shall
collect payments due under the Receivables and shall charge off as uncollectible
Receivables, all in accordance with its customary and usual servicing procedures
for servicing consumer credit card and other consumer revolving credit
receivables comparable to the Receivables and in accordance with the Lending
Guidelines. The Servicer shall have full power and authority, acting alone or
through any Person properly designated by it hereunder, to do any and all things
in connection with such servicing and administration which it may deem necessary
or desirable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, subject to
Section 10.01 and provided Capital One Bank is the Servicer, the Servicer or its
designee (other than the Trustee) is hereby authorized and empowered (i) to make
withdrawals and payments or to instruct the Trustee to make withdrawals and
payments from the Collection Account and any Series Account, as set
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forth in this Agreement or any Supplement, and (ii) to take any action required
or permitted under any Series Enhancement, as set forth in this Agreement or any
Supplement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and subject to
Section 10.01, the Servicer or its designee is hereby authorized and empowered
to make any filings, reports, notices, applications and registrations with, and
to seek any consents or authorizations from, the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") and any state securities authority
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on behalf of the Trust as may be necessary or advisable to comply with any
federal or state securities laws or reporting requirements. The Trustee shall
furnish, within a reasonable period of time, the Servicer with any powers of
attorney or other documents necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to
carry out its servicing and administrative duties hereunder.
(c) The Servicer shall not be obligated to use separate servicing
procedures, offices, employees or accounts for servicing the Receivables from
the procedures, offices, employees and accounts used by the Servicer in
connection with servicing other credit card and consumer revolving credit
receivables.
(d) The Servicer shall comply with and perform its servicing
obligations with respect to the Accounts and Receivables in accordance with the
Lending Agreements relating to the Accounts and the Lending Guidelines and all
applicable rules and regulations of VISA, MasterCard and any other similar
entity or organization relating to any other type of revolving credit card
accounts included as Accounts, except insofar as any failure to so comply or
perform would not materially and adversely affect the Trust or the Investor
Certificateholders.
(e) The Servicer shall pay out of its own funds, without
reimbursement, all expenses incurred in connection with the Trust and the
servicing activities hereunder including expenses related to enforcement of the
Receivables, fees and disbursements of the Trustee, any Paying Agent and any
Transfer Agent and Registrar (including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel) in accordance with Section 11.05, fees and disbursements of independent
accountants and all other fees and expenses, including the costs of filing UCC
continuation statements and the costs and expenses relating to obtaining and
maintaining the listing of any Investor Certificates on any stock exchange, that
are not expressly stated in this Agreement to be payable by the Trust or a
Seller (other than federal, state, local and foreign income, franchise and other
taxes, if any, or any interest or penalties with respect thereto, assessed on
the Trust).
(f) The Servicer agrees that upon a request by the Sellers it will
use its best efforts to obtain and maintain the listing of the Investor
Certificates of any Series or Class on any specified securities exchange. If any
such request is made, the Servicer shall give notice to the Sellers and the
Trustee on the date on which such Investor Certificates are approved for such
listing and within three (3) Business Days following receipt of notice by the
Servicer of any actual, proposed or contemplated delisting of such Investor
Certificates by any such securities exchange. The Trustee or the Servicer, each
in its sole discretion, may terminate any listing on any such securities
exchange at any time subject to the notice requirements set forth in the
preceding sentence.
Section 3.02. Servicing Compensation. As full compensation for its
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servicing activities hereunder and as reimbursement for any expense incurred by
it in connection therewith, the Servicer shall be entitled to receive a
servicing fee (the "Servicing Fee") with
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respect to each Monthly Period, payable monthly on the related Distribution
Date, in an amount equal to one-twelfth of the product of (a) the weighted
average of the Servicing Fee Rates with respect to each outstanding Series
(based upon the Servicing Fee Rate for each Series and the outstanding principal
amount of each Series) and (b) the amount of Principal Receivables on the last
day of the prior Monthly Period. The share of the Servicing Fee allocable to (i)
the Certificateholders' Interest of a particular Series with respect to any
Monthly Period (the "Monthly Servicing Fee") and (ii) the Enhancement Invested
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Amount, if any, of a particular Series with respect to any Monthly Period will
each be determined in accordance with the relevant Supplement. The portion of
the Servicing Fee with respect to any Monthly Period not so allocated to the
Certificateholders' Interest or the Enhancement Invested Amount, if any, of a
particular Series shall be paid by the Sellers on the related Distribution Date
and in no event shall the Trust, the Trustee, the Investor Certificateholders of
any Series or any Series Enhancer be liable for the share of the Servicing Fee
with respect to any Monthly Period to be paid by the Sellers.
Section 3.03. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the
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Servicer. Capital One Bank, as Servicer, hereby makes, and any Successor
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Servicer by its appointment hereunder shall make, on each Closing Date (and on
the date of any such appointment), the following representations, warranties and
covenants:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer is a state banking
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corporation validly existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia or
another state, a state banking association, a national banking association or a
corporation validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation
and has, in all material respects, full power and authority to execute, deliver
and perform its obligations under this Agreement and each Supplement and to own
its properties and conduct its consumer revolving lending business as such
properties are presently owned and as such business is presently conducted.
(b) Due Qualification. The Servicer is duly qualified to do business
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and is in good standing as a foreign corporation (or is exempt from such
requirements), and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in each
jurisdiction in which the servicing of the Receivables as required by the
Agreement requires such qualification except where failure to so qualify or to
obtain such licenses and approvals would not have a material adverse effect on
its ability to perform its obligations hereunder or under any Supplement.
(c) Due Authorization. The execution, delivery, and performance of
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this Agreement, each Supplement and the other agreements and instruments
executed or to be executed by the Servicer as contemplated hereby, have been
duly authorized by the Servicer by all necessary corporate action on the part of
the Servicer and this Agreement and each Supplement will remain, from the time
of its execution, an official record of the Servicer.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement and each Supplement
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constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Servicer, enforceable
in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereinafter in effect, affecting
the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and, if applicable, the rights
of creditors
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of state banking corporations or associations or national banking associations
and to general principles of equity.
(e) No Conflict and No Violation. The execution and delivery of this
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Agreement and each Supplement by the Servicer, and the performance of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each Supplement and the
fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof applicable to the Servicer, will not
conflict with or violate or result in any breach of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, any indenture,
contract, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument to which the
Servicer is a party or by which it or any of its properties are bound. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Servicer, the performance by the
Servicer of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment
of the terms hereof applicable to the Servicer will not conflict with or violate
any Requirements of Law applicable to the Servicer.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
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pending or, to the best knowledge of the Servicer, threatened against the
Servicer before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other
Governmental Authority seeking to prevent the issuance of the Certificates or
the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
any Supplement, seeking any determination or ruling that would materially and
adversely affect the performance by the Servicer of its obligations under this
Agreement or any Supplement.
(g) Compliance with Requirements of Law. The Servicer shall duly
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satisfy all obligations on its part to be fulfilled under or in connection with
the Receivables and the related Accounts, will maintain in effect all
qualifications required under Requirements of Law in order to properly service
the Receivables and the related Accounts and will comply in all material
respects with all other Requirements of Law in connection with servicing the
Receivables and the related Accounts, the failure to comply with which would
have a material adverse effect on the interests of the Certificateholders.
(h) No Rescission or Cancellation. The Servicer shall not permit any
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rescission or cancellation of a Receivable except as ordered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Authority or in accordance with the
Lending Guidelines.
(i) Protection of Certificateholders' Rights. The Servicer shall
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take no action which, nor omit to take any action the omission of which, would
substantially impair the rights of Certificateholders in any Receivable or
Account, nor shall it, except in the ordinary course of its business and in
accordance with the Lending Guidelines, reschedule, revise or defer Collections
due on the Receivables.
(j) Receivables Not To Be Evidenced by Promissory Notes. The
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Servicer will take no action to cause or permit any Receivable to be evidenced
by any instrument (as defined in the UCC) and, if any Receivable is so evidenced
it shall be deemed to be an Ineligible Receivable and shall be reassigned or
assigned to the servicer as provided in this Section 3.03; provided,
however, that Receivables evidenced by notes taken from obligors in the
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ordinary course of the Servicer's collection efforts shall not be deemed of
Ineligible Receivables solely as a result thereof.
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(k) All Consents. All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders or
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other actions of any Person or of any Governmental Authority required to be
obtained by the Servicer in connection with the execution and delivery by the
Servicer of this Agreement and each Supplement, the performance by the Servicer
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each Supplement and the
fulfillment by the Servicer of the terms hereof and thereof, have been obtained.
For purposes of the representations and warranties set forth in this
Section 3.03, each reference to a Supplement shall be deemed to refer only to
those Supplements in effect as of the relevant Closing Date or the date of
appointment of a Successor Servicer, as applicable.
In the event any of the representations, warranties or covenants of
the Servicer contained in paragraph (g), (h), (i) or (j) with respect to any
Receivable or the related Account is breached, and such breach has a material
adverse effect on the Certificateholders' Interest of all Series in the
Receivables (which determination shall be made without regard to the
availability of funds under any Series Enhancement) and remains uncured for
sixty (60) days (or such longer period, not in excess of 150 days, as may be
agreed to by the Trustee) from the earlier to occur of the discovery of such
event by the Servicer, or receipt by the Servicer of written notice of such
event given by the Trustee, all Receivables in the Account or Accounts to which
such event relates shall be reassigned or assigned to the Servicer on the terms
and conditions set forth below; provided, however, that such Receivables will
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not be reassigned or assigned to the Servicer if, on any day prior to the end of
such 60-day or longer period, (i) the relevant representation and warranty shall
be true and correct, or the relevant covenant shall have been complied with, in
all material respects and (ii) the Servicer shall have delivered to the Trustee
a certificate of an authorized officer describing the nature of such breach and
the manner in which such breach was cured.
If Capital One Bank is the Servicer, such reassignment or assignment
shall be accomplished in the manner set forth in Section 2.05(b) as if the
reassigned or assigned Receivables were Ineligible Receivables (including the
requirement, if applicable, to reduce the aggregate amount of Principal
Receivables used to calculate the Sellers' Participation Amount, the Sellers'
Interest, the Floating Allocation Percentage and the Principal Allocation
Percentage applicable to any Series and to make deposits into the Collection
Account) and any amounts deposited into the Collection Account in connection
with such reassignment or assignment pursuant to this Section 3.03 shall be
considered a Transfer Deposit Amount and shall be applied in accordance with
Article IV and the terms of each Supplement. If Capital One Bank is not the
Servicer, the Servicer shall effect such assignment by making a deposit into the
Collection Account in immediately available funds on the Transfer Date following
the Monthly Period in which such assignment obligation arises in an amount equal
to the amount of such Receivables, which deposit shall be considered a Transfer
Deposit Amount and shall be applied in accordance with Article IV and the terms
of each Supplement.
Upon each such reassignment or assignment to the Servicer, the
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall automatically and without further action
be deemed to sell, transfer assign, set over and otherwise convey to the
Servicer, without recourse, representation or warranty, all right, title and
interest of the Trust in and to such Receivables, all moneys due or to become
due and all amounts received with respect thereto and all proceeds thereof. The
Trustee
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shall execute such documents and instruments of transfer or, assignment
and take such other actions as shall be reasonably requested by the Servicer to
effect the transfer of any such Receivables pursuant to this Section 3.03. The
obligation of the Servicer to accept reassignment or assignment and transfer of
any such Receivables, and to make the deposits, if any, required to be made to
the Collection Account as provided in the preceding paragraph, shall constitute
the sole remedy respecting the event giving rise to such obligation available to
Investor Certificateholders (or the Trustee on behalf of Certificateholders) or
any Series Enhancer, except as provided in Section 8.04.
Section 3.04. Reports and Records for the Trustee.
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(a) Daily Records. On each Business Day, the Servicer shall make or
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cause to be made available at the office of the Servicer during normal business
hours for inspection by the Trustee upon request a record setting forth (i) the
Collections in respect of Principal Receivables and in respect of Finance Charge
Receivables processed by the Servicer on the second preceding Business Day in
respect of the Accounts and (ii) the amount of Receivables as of the close of
business on the second preceding Business Day in each Account. The Servicer
shall, at all times, maintain its computer files with respect to the Accounts in
such a manner so that the Accounts may be specifically identified and shall make
available to the Trustee at the office of the Servicer on any Business Day
during normal business hours any computer programs necessary to make such
identification.
(b) Monthly Servicer's Certificate. Not later than the third
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Business Day preceding each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall, with respect
to each outstanding Series, deliver to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, each
Rating Agency and each Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement a certificate of a Servicing Officer in substantially the form set
forth in the related Supplement.
(c) Related Accounts. The Servicer covenants and agrees hereby to
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deliver to the Trustee, within a reasonable time period after any Related
Account is created, but in any event not later than 15 days after the end of the
month within which the Related Account is created, a notice specifying the new
account number for any Related Account.
(d) Annual Membership Fees. On or prior to each Determination Date,
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the Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate of a Servicing Officer
setting forth (or shall set forth in the Monthly Servicer's Certificate) (a) the
amount of annual membership fees to be included as Collections of Finance Charge
Receivables with respect to the preceding Monthly Period, which shall be equal
to the amount of annual membership fees billed during the preceding 12 Monthly
Periods (or during the equivalent monthly periods occurring prior to the first
Monthly Period) divided by 12 and (b) the portion of such annual membership fees
("unamortized annual membership fees") which have not been treated as
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Collections of Finance Charge Receivables with respect to the preceding Monthly
Period.
(e) Addition Discount Receivables. On or prior to each Determination
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Date, the Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate of a Servicing
Officer setting forth (or shall set forth in the Monthly Servicer's Certificate)
(a) the amount of Addition Discount Receivables to be included as Collection of
Finance Charge Receivables with respect to the preceding
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Monthly Period, as calculated in accordance with the formula set forth in the
applicable Assignment or accretion designation letter delivered to the Trustee
and (b) the portion of such Addition Discount Receivables which have not been
treated as Collections of Finance Charge Receivables with respect to the
preceding Monthly Period.
(f) Certain Recoveries. On or prior to each Determination Date, the
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Servicer shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate of a Servicing Officer
setting forth (or shall set forth in the Monthly Servicer's Certificate) (a) the
amount of Recoveries equal to the net proceeds of any sale or initial
securitization (excluding any residual payments from such securitization) of
Defaulted Receivables (including the related Finance Charge Receivables) to be
included as Collections of Finance Charge Receivables with respect to the
preceding Monthly Period, which shall be equal to the amount of any such
Recoveries received during the preceding three (3) Monthly Periods divided by
three (3) and (b) the portion of any such Recoveries ("unamortized Recoveries")
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which have not been treated as Collections of Finance Charge Receivables with
respect to the preceding Monthly Period.
Section 3.05. Annual Certificate of Servicer. The Servicer shall
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deliver to the Trustee, each Rating Agency and each Series Enhancer entitled
thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement, on or before May 31 of each
calendar year, beginning with May 31, 1994, an Officer's Certificate (with
appropriate insertions) substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
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Section 3.06. Annual Servicing Report of Independent Public
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Accountants; Copies of Reports Available.
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(a) On or before May 31 of each calendar year, beginning with May
31, 1995, the Servicer shall cause a firm of nationally recognized independent
public accountants (who may also render other services to the Servicer or the
Banks) to furnish a report (addressed to the Trustee) to the Trustee, the
Servicer and each Rating Agency to the effect that they have attested to the
assertion of authorized officers of the Servicer that the Servicer is in
compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in Sections 3.02, 3.04, 3.09,
4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05 and 8.08 of the Agreement and the applicable provisions
of each Supplement and such assertion is fairly stated in all material respects.
A copy of such report shall be delivered by the Servicer to each Series Enhancer
entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement .
(b) On or before May 31 of each calendar year, beginning with May
31, 1995, the Servicer shall cause a firm of nationally recognized independent
public accountants (who may also render other services to the Servicer or the
Banks) to furnish a report to the Trustee, the Servicer and each Rating Agency
to the effect that they have applied certain procedures agreed upon with the
Servicer to compare the mathematical calculations of certain amounts set forth
in the Servicer's certificates delivered pursuant to Section 3.04(b) during the
period covered by such report with the Servicer's computer reports, which were
the source of such amounts and report all differences regardless of materiality.
A copy of such report shall be delivered by the Servicer to each Series Enhancer
entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement.
Section 3.07. Tax Treatment. The Sellers have entered into this
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Agreement, and the Certificates will be issued, with the intention that, for
federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes only, the Investor
Certificates of each Series which are characterized as
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indebtedness at the time of their issuance will qualify as indebtedness of the
Sellers secured by the Receivables. The Sellers, by entering into this
Agreement, and each Certificateholder, by the acceptance of any such Certificate
(and each Certificate Owner, by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable
Certificate), agree to treat such Investor Certificates for federal, state and
local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Sellers.
Section 3.08. Notices to the Banks. In the event that Capital One Bank
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is no longer acting as Servicer, any Successor Servicer shall deliver to the
Banks each certificate and report required to be provided thereafter pursuant to
Section 3.04(b), 3.05 or 3.06.
Section 3.09. Adjustments.
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(a) If the Servicer adjusts downward the amount of any Principal
Receivable (other than any Ineligible Receivable to be reassigned or assigned to
a Seller or the Servicer pursuant to this Agreement) because of a rebate,
refund, unauthorized charge or billing error to an accountholder, or because
such Principal Receivable was created in respect of merchandise which was
refused or returned by an accountholder, or if the Servicer otherwise adjusts
downward the amount of any Principal Receivable without receiving Collections
therefor or charging off such amount as uncollectible, then, in any such case,
the amount of Principal Receivables used to calculate the Sellers' Participation
Amount, the Sellers' Interest and the Floating Allocation Percentage and the
Principal Allocation Percentage applicable to any Series will be reduced by the
amount of the adjustment. Similarly, the amount of Principal Receivables used to
calculate the Sellers' Participation Amount, the Sellers' Interest and the
Floating Allocation Percentage and the Principal Allocation Percentage
applicable to any Series will be reduced by the amount of any Principal
Receivable which was discovered as having been created through a fraudulent or
counterfeit charge. Any adjustment required pursuant to either of the two (2)
preceding sentences shall be made on or prior to the end of the Monthly Period
in which such adjustment obligation arises. In the event that, following the
exclusion of such Principal Receivables from the calculation of the Sellers'
Participation Amount, the Sellers' Participation Amount would be a negative
number, not later than 12:00 noon, Richmond, Virginia time, on the Distribution
Date following the Monthly Period in which such adjustment obligation arises,
the Seller shall make a deposit into the Collection Account in immediately
available funds in an amount equal to the amount by which the Sellers'
Participation Amount would be below zero (up to the amount of such Principal
Receivables). Any amount deposited into the Collection Account pursuant to the
preceding sentence shall be considered an "Adjustment Payment" and shall be
applied in accordance with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement.
(b) If (i) the Servicer makes a deposit into the Collection Account
in respect of a Collection of a Receivable and such Collection was received by
the Servicer in the form of a check which is not honored for any reason or (ii)
the Servicer makes a mistake with respect to the amount of any Collection and
deposits an amount that is less than or more than the actual amount of such
Collection, the Servicer shall appropriately adjust the amount subsequently
deposited into the Collection Account to reflect such dishonored check or
mistake. Any Receivable in respect of which a dishonored check is received shall
be deemed not to have been paid.
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Section 3.10. Reports to the Commission. The Servicer shall, on behalf
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of the Trust, cause to be filed with the Commission any periodic reports
required to be filed under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
The Banks shall, at the expense of the Servicer, cooperate in any reasonable
request of the Servicer in connection with such filings.
ARTICLE IV
Rights of Certificateholders and Allocation
and Application or Collections
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Section 4.01. Rights of Certificateholders. The Investor Certificates
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shall represent fractional undivided interests in the Trust, which, with respect
to each Series, shall consist of the right to receive, to the extent necessary
to make the required payments with respect to such Series at the times and in
the amounts specified in the related Supplement, the portion of Collections
allocable to such Series pursuant to this Agreement and such Supplement, funds
on deposit in the Collection Account or the Excess Funding Account allocable to
such Series pursuant to this Agreement and such Supplement, funds on deposit in
any related Series Account and funds available pursuant to any related Series
Enhancement (collectively, with respect to all Series, the "Certificateholders'
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Interest"), it being understood that the Investor Certificates of any Series or
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Class shall not represent any interest in any Series Account or Series
Enhancement for the benefit of any other Series or Class. The Seller
Certificates shall represent the ownership interest in the remainder of the
Trust Assets not allocated pursuant to this Agreement or any Supplement to the
Certificateholders' Interest, including the right to receive Collections with
respect to the Receivables and other amounts at the times and in the amounts
specified in this Agreement or any Supplement to be paid to the Sellers on
behalf of all of the holders of the Seller Certificates (the "Sellers'
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Interest"); provided, however, that if any Seller or any Additional Seller
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elects to have all or a portion of its interest in the Sellers' Interest be
uncertificated as provided in Section 6.01 hereof, then such uncertificated
interest, together with any Seller Certificates, shall represent the "Sellers'
Interest"; provided further that the Seller Certificates, or any uncertificated
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interest in the Sellers' Interest, shall not represent any interest in the
Collection Account, the Excess Funding Account, any Series Account or any Series
Enhancement, except as specifically provided in this Agreement or any
Supplement; provided further that the foregoing shall not be construed to limit
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the Trustee's obligation to make payments to the Sellers and the Servicer as and
when required under this Agreement and any Supplement.
Section 4.02. Establishment of Collection Account and Excess Funding
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Account. The Servicer, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall
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establish and maintain in the name of the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, an
Eligible Deposit Account bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds
deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders (the
"Collection Account"). The Collection Account currently is maintained with The
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Bank of New York. The Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Collection Account and in all proceeds
thereof. The Collection Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of
the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. Except as expressly
provided in this Agreement, the Servicer agrees that it shall have no right of
setoff or banker's lien against, and no right to otherwise deduct from, any
funds held in the
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Collection Account for any amount owed to it by the Trustee, the Trust, any
Certificateholder or any Series Enhancer. If, at any time, the Collection
Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Trustee (or the Servicer
on its behalf) shall within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not
to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent)
establish a new Collection Account meeting the conditions specified above,
transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Collection Account and from
the date such new Collection Account is established, it shall be the "Collection
Account."
Unless otherwise agreed by each Rating Agency, if at any time neither
Capital One Bank nor any other Affiliate of Capital One Bank is the Servicer,
the Collection Account will be moved from Capital One Bank if then maintained
there.
Funds on deposit in the Collection Account (other than amounts
deposited pursuant to Section 2.06, 9.02, 10.01 or 12.02) shall at the direction
of the Servicer be invested by the Trustee in Eligible Investments selected by
the Servicer. All such Eligible Investments shall be held by the Trustee for
the benefit of the Certificateholders. The Trustee shall (i) hold each Eligible
Investment that constitutes investment property through a securities
intermediary, which securities intermediary shall agree with the Trustee that
(A) such investment property shall at all times be credited to a securities
account of the Trustee, (B) such securities intermediary shall treat the Trustee
as entitled to exercise the rights that comprise each financial asset credited
to such securities account, (C) all property credited to such securities account
shall be treated as a financial asset, (D) such securities intermediary shall
comply with entitlement orders originated by the Trustee without the further
consent of any other person or entity, (E) such securities intermediary shall
not agree with any person or entity other than the Trustee to comply with
entitlement orders originated by such other person or entity, (F) such
securities accounts and the property credited thereto shall not be subject to
any lien or encumbrance on, security interest in, or right of set-off in favor
of such securities intermediary or anyone claiming through it (other than the
Trustee), and (G) such agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of
New York; and (ii) maintain possession of each other Eligible Investment not
described in clause (i) above in the State of New York. Terms used in clause
(i) above that are defined in the New York UCC and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meaning set forth in the New York UCC. Investments of funds
representing Collections collected during any Monthly Period shall be invested
in Eligible Investments that will mature so that all funds will be available at
the close of business on the Transfer Date following such Monthly Period. No
Eligible Investment shall be disposed of prior to its maturity. Unless directed
by the Servicer, funds deposited in the Collection Account on a Transfer Date
with respect to the next following Distribution Date are not required to be
invested overnight. On each Distribution Date, all interest and other
investment earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on deposit
in the Collection Account shall be paid to or at the direction of the Sellers,
except as otherwise specified in any Supplement. For purposes of determining
the availability of funds or the balances in the Collection Account for any
reason under this Agreement, all investment earnings net of investment expenses
and losses on such funds shall be deemed not to be available or on deposit.
The Servicer, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall
establish and maintain in the name of the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, an
Eligible Deposit Account bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds
deposited therein are held for the benefit of the
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Certificateholders (the "Excess Funding Account"). The Excess Funding Account
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currently is maintained with The Bank of New York. The Trustee shall possess all
right, title and interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in the
Excess Funding Account and in all proceeds thereof. The Excess Funding Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Trustee for the benefit of
the Certificateholders. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the
Servicer agrees that it shall have no right of setoff or banker's lien against,
and no right to otherwise deduct from, any funds held in the Excess Funding
Account for any amount owed to it by the Trustee, the Trust, any
Certificateholder or any Series Enhancer. If, at any time, the Excess Funding
Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Trustee (or the Servicer
on its behalf) shall within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not
to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent)
establish a new Excess Funding Account meeting the conditions specified above,
transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Excess Funding Account and
from the date such new Excess Funding Account is established, it shall be the
"Excess Funding Account."
Unless otherwise agreed by each Rating Agency, if at any time neither
Capital One Bank nor any other Affiliate of Capital One Bank is the Servicer,
the Excess Funding Account will be moved from Capital One Bank if then
maintained there. Funds on deposit in the Excess Funding Account shall at the
direction of the Servicer be invested by the Trustee in Eligible Investments
selected by the Servicer. All such Eligible Investments shall be held by the
Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. The Trustee shall (i) hold
each Eligible Investment that constitutes investment property through a
securities intermediary, which securities intermediary shall agree with the
Trustee that (A) such investment property shall at all times be credited to a
securities account of the Trustee, (B) such securities intermediary shall treat
the Trustee as entitled to exercise the rights that comprise each financial
asset credited to such securities account, (C) all property credited to such
securities account shall be treated as a financial asset, (D) such securities
intermediary shall comply with entitlement orders originated by the Trustee
without the further consent of any other person or entity, (E) such securities
intermediary shall not agree with any person or entity other than the Trustee to
comply with entitlement orders originated by such other person or entity, (F)
such securities accounts and the property credited thereto shall not be subject
to any lien or encumbrance on, security interest in, or right of set-off in
favor of such securities intermediary or anyone claiming through it (other than
the Trustee), and (G) such agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State
of New York; and (ii) maintain possession of each other Eligible Investment not
described in clause (i) above in the State of New York. Terms used in clause
(i) above that are defined in the New York UCC and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meaning set forth in the New York UCC. Funds on deposit in the
Excess Funding Account on any Distribution Date will be invested in Eligible
Investments that will mature so that all funds will be available at the close of
business on the Transfer Date following such Monthly Period. No Eligible
Investment shall be disposed of prior to its maturity. Unless directed by the
Servicer, funds deposited in the Excess Funding Account on a Transfer Date with
respect to the next following Distribution Date are not required to be invested
overnight. On each Distribution Date, all interest and other investment
earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) on funds on deposit in the
Excess Funding Account shall be treated as Collections of Finance Charge
Receivables with respect to the last day of the related Monthly Period. Funds on
deposit in the Excess Funding Account will be withdrawn and paid to the Sellers
on any Business Day to the extent that the Sellers' Participation Amount exceeds
the Required Sellers' Interest and the aggregate amount of
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Principal Receivables exceeds the Required Principal Balance on such date;
provided, however, that, if an Accumulation Period, Controlled Amortization
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Period or Early Amortization Period has commenced and is continuing with respect
to one or more outstanding Series, any funds on deposit in the Excess Funding
Account shall be treated as Shared Principal Collections and shall be allocated
and distributed in accordance with Section 4.04 and the terms of the Supplements
for the Principal Sharing Series. For purposes of determining the availability
of funds or the balances in the Excess Funding Account for any reason under this
Agreement, all investment earnings net of investment expenses and losses on such
funds shall be deemed not to be available or on deposit.
Section 4.03. Collections and Allocations.
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(a) The Servicer will apply or will instruct the Trustee to apply
all funds on deposit in the Collection Account as described in this Article IV
and in each Supplement. Except as otherwise provided below, the Servicer shall
deposit Collections into the Collection Account no later than the second
Business Day following the Date of Processing of such Collections or, in the
case of any Collections consisting of Interchange, not later than 12:00 noon,
Richmond, Virginia time, on each Distribution Date. Subject to the express terms
of any Supplement, but notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the
contrary, for so long as Capital One Bank remains the Servicer and (x) maintains
a certificate of deposit rating of A-1 or better by Standard & Poor's and P-1 by
Moody's, or (y) Capital One Bank has provided to the Trustee a letter of credit
covering collection risk of the Servicer acceptable to the Rating Agency (as
evidenced by a letter from the Rating Agency), the Servicer need not make the
daily deposits of Collections into the Collection Account as provided in the
preceding sentence, but may make a single deposit in the Collection Account in
immediately available funds not later than 12:00 noon, Richmond, Virginia time,
on the Transfer Date immediately preceding the Distribution Date or, in the case
of any Collections consisting of Interchange, not later than 12:00 noon,
Richmond, Virginia time, on each Distribution Date. Subject to the first proviso
in Section 4.04, but notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the
contrary, with respect to any Monthly Period, whether the Servicer is required
to make deposits of Collections pursuant to the first or the second preceding
sentence, (i) the Servicer will only be required to deposit Collections into the
Collection Account up to (x) the aggregate amount of Collections required to be
deposited into any Series Account or, without duplication, distributed on or
prior to the related Distribution Date to Investor Certificateholders or to any
Series Enhancer pursuant to the terms of any Supplement or Enhancement Agreement
plus (y) the aggregate amount of the portion of Collections representing annual
membership fees (including any annual membership fees relating to the period
prior to the Trust Cut-Off Date) which will not have been amortized in
accordance with Section 3.04(d) with respect to the end of such Monthly Period
plus (z) the aggregate amount of the portion of Collections representing
Recoveries which will not have been amortized in accordance with Section 3.04(f)
with respect to the end of such Monthly Period and (ii) if at any time prior to
such Distribution Date the amount of Collections deposited in the Collection
Account exceeds the amount required to be deposited pursuant to clause (i)
above, the Servicer will be permitted to withdraw the excess from the Collection
Account.
(b) (i) Collections of Finance Charge Receivables will be allocated
to the Certificateholders' Interest of a Series in an amount equal to the
product of the amount of such Collections and the Floating Allocation Percentage
of such Series, (ii) the Defaulted Amount will
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be allocated to the Certificateholders' Interest of a Series in an amount equal
to the product of such Defaulted Amount and the Floating Allocation Percentage
of such Series, (iii) Collections of Principal Receivables will be allocated to
the Certificateholders' Interest of such Series in an amount equal to the
product of the amount of such Collections and the Principal Allocation
Percentage of such Series and (iv) Miscellaneous Payments will be allocated to
the Certificateholders' Interest of such Series in an amount equal to the
product of the amount of such Miscellaneous Payments and a fraction the
numerator of which is the Invested Amount and Enhancement Invested Amount, if
any, of such Series and the denominator of which is the sum of the Invested
Amounts and the Enhancement Invested Amount, if any, for all outstanding Series,
in each case for such Monthly Period. Collections of Receivables with respect to
any Monthly Period will be allocated by the Servicer first to annual membership
fees billed during the preceding Monthly Period, second to Finance Charge
Receivables, to the extent of Finance Charge Receivables billed during the
preceding Monthly Period, and third to Principal Receivables. Subject to
Sections 4.03(c) and 4.04, amounts not allocated to the Certificateholders'
Interest of any Series will be allocated to the Sellers' Interest.
(c) On the earlier of (A) the second Business Day after the Date of
Processing and (B) the day on which the Servicer actually deposits any
Collections into the Collection Account or, in the case of any Collections
consisting of Interchange, not later than 12:00 noon, Richmond, Virginia time,
on each Distribution Date, the Servicer will pay to each Seller (i) such
Seller's allocable portion of Collections of Finance Charge Receivables and (ii)
such Seller's allocable portion of Collections of Principal Receivables;
provided, however, that in the case of Collections of Principal Receivables
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allocated to the Sellers' Interest, such amount shall only be paid to each
Seller if the Sellers' Participation Amount exceeds the Required Sellers'
Interest and the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables exceeds the Required
Principal Balance, but otherwise such amounts shall be deposited into the Excess
Funding Account. Collections consisting of annual membership fees or Recoveries
resulting from the sale or securitization of Defaulted Receivables (including
the related Finance Charge Receivables) which have not yet been amortized in
accordance with Section 3.04(d) or (e), as the case may be, and which are
therefore not treated as Collections of Finance Charge Receivables or Principal
Receivables, shall not be paid to the Sellers or allocated to the
Certificateholders' Interest.
The payments to be made to the Sellers pursuant to this Section
4.03(c) do not apply to deposits to the Collection Account or other amounts that
do not represent Collections, including Miscellaneous Payments, payment of the
purchase price for Receivables pursuant to Section 2.06 or 10.01, proceeds from
the sale, disposition or liquidation of Receivables pursuant to Section 9.02 or
12.02 or payment of the purchase price for the Certificateholders' Interest of a
specific Series pursuant to the related Supplement.
(d) The Principal Receivables in Additional Accounts added during
any Monthly Period having an Additional Cut-Off Date as of any day during the
preceding Monthly Period shall be treated as Principal Receivables outstanding
on and after such Additional Cut-Off Date for purposes of calculating the
Floating Allocation Percentage and Principal Allocation Percentage for the
Monthly Period in which such Additional Accounts are added. Any such
recalculation of the Floating Allocation Percentage and Principal Allocation
Percentage for a Monthly Period shall be effective only on And after the
Addition Date, but the Servicer shall determine the amounts of Collections and
the Defaulted Amounts which would have been
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allocated to the Certificateholders' Interest of each Series for the portion of
such Monthly Period preceding such Addition Date as if such recalculated
Floating Allocation Percentage and Principal Allocation Percentage had been in
effect and shall adjust the amounts to be allocated for the remainder of such
Monthly Period so that the amounts allocated to the Certificateholders' Interest
of each Series and the Sellers' Interest are equal to the amounts which would
have been allocated to them if such recalculated percentages had been in effect
for the entire Monthly Period.
Section 4.04. Shared Principal Collections. On each Distribution Date,
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(a) the Servicer shall allocate Shared Principal Collections to each Principal
Sharing Series, pro rata, in proportion to the Principal Shortfalls, if any,
with respect to each such Series and (b) the Servicer shall withdraw from the
Collection Account or the Excess Funding Account and pay to the Sellers an
amount equal to the excess, if any, of (x) the aggregate amount for all
outstanding Series of Collections of Principal Receivables and Miscellaneous
Payments which the related Supplements or this Agreement specify are to be
treated as "Shared Principal Collections" for such Distribution Date over (y)
the aggregate amount for all outstanding Principal Sharing Series which the
related Supplements specify are "Principal Shortfalls" for such Distribution
Date; provided, however, that such amounts shall be paid to the Sellers only if
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the Sellers' Participation Amount for such Distribution Date exceeds the
Required Sellers' Interest and the aggregate amount of Principal Receivables
exceeds the Required Principal Balance, but otherwise such amounts shall be
deposited into the Excess Funding Account.
Section 4.05. Excess Finance Charges. On each Distribution Date, (a)
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the Servicer shall allocate Excess Finance Charges with respect to the Series in
a Group to each Series in such Group, pro rata, in proportion to the Finance
Charge Shortfalls, if any, with respect to each such Series and (b) the Servicer
shall withdraw (or shall instruct the Trustee to withdraw) from the Collection
Account and pay to the Sellers an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (x) the
aggregate amount for all outstanding Series in a Group of the amounts which the
related Supplements specify are to be treated as "Excess Finance Charges" for
such Distribution Date over (y) the aggregate amount for all outstanding Series
in such Group which the related Supplements specify are "Finance Charge
Shortfalls" for such Distribution Date; provided, however, that the sharing of
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Excess Finance Charges among Series in a Group will continue only until such
time, if any, at which each Seller shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate to the effect that the continued sharing of Excess Finance Charges
among Series in any Group would have adverse regulatory implications with
respect to such Seller. Following the delivery by each Seller of such an
Officer's Certificate to the Trustee there will not be any further sharing of
Excess Finance Charges among Series in any Group.
ARTICLE V
Distributions and Reports to Certificateholders
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Distributions shall be made to, and reports shall be provided to,
Certificateholders as set forth in the applicable Supplement.
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ARTICLE VI
The Certificates
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Section 6.01. The Certificates. The Investor Certificates of any
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Series or Class may be issued in bearer form ("Bearer Certificates") with
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attached interest coupons and any other applicable coupon (collectively, the
"Coupons") or in fully registered form ("Registered Certificates") and shall be
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substantially in the form of the exhibits with respect thereto attached to the
applicable Supplement. Any Seller may elect at any time, by written notice to
the Trustee, to have all or a portion of its interest in the Sellers' Interest
be (i) an uncertificated interest or (ii) evidenced by a certificate. If any
Seller elects to have all or a portion of its interest in the Sellers' Interest
be uncertificated, it shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Bank
Certificate previously issued. If any Seller elects to have all or a portion of
its interest in the Sellers' Interest be evidenced by a certificate, the Bank
Certificate will be issued in registered form, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A, and shall upon issue be executed and delivered by the relevant Bank
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to the Trustee for authentication and redelivery as provided in Section 6.02.
The Trustee shall keep with the books and records of the Trust a register, in
book-entry form, of each Person owning any uncertificated interest in the
Sellers' Interest. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.03 or in any
Supplement, Bearer Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$1,000 and Registered Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. If specified in
any Supplement, the Investor Certificates of any Series or Class shall be issued
upon initial issuance as a single certificate evidencing the aggregate original
principal amount of such Series or Class as described in Section 6.13. The Bank
Certificate shall be a single certificate and shall initially represent the
entire Sellers' Interest. Each Certificate shall be executed by manual or
facsimile signature on behalf of each Bank by its respective President or any
Vice President. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an
individual who was, at the time when such signature was affixed, authorized to
sign on behalf of such Bank shall not be rendered invalid, notwithstanding that
such individual ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Certificates or does not hold such office at the date of such
Certificates. No Certificates shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears on such Certificate
a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by or on behalf of the Trustee by the manual signature of a duly
authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. Bearer Certificates shall be dated the
Series Issuance Date. All Registered Certificates and the Seller Certificates
shall be dated the date of their authentication.
Section 6.02. Authentication of Certificates. The Trustee shall
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authenticate and deliver the Investor Certificates of each Series and Class that
are issued upon original issuance to or upon the order of the Sellers against
payment to the Sellers of the purchase pride therefor. The Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver the Bank Certificate to the Sellers simultaneously with
its delivery of the Investor Certificates of the first Series to be issued
hereunder. If specified in the related Supplement for any Series or Class, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver outside the United States the Global
Certificate that is issued upon original issuance thereof.
Section 6.03. New Issuances.
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(a) The Sellers may from time to time direct the Trustee, on behalf
of the Trust, to authenticate one or more new Series of Investor Certificates.
The Investor Certificates of all outstanding Series shall be equally and ratably
entitled as provided herein to the benefits of this Agreement without
preference, priority or distinction, all in accordance with the terms and
provisions of this Agreement and the applicable Supplement except, with respect
to any Series or Class, as provided in the related Supplement.
(b) On or before the Series Issuance Date relating to any new
Series, the parties hereto will execute and deliver a Supplement which will
specify the Principal Terms of such new Series. The terms of such Supplement may
modify or amend the terms of this Agreement solely as applied to such new
Series. The obligation of the Trustee to authenticate the Investor Certificates
of such new Series and to execute and deliver the related Supplement is subject
to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) on or before the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the
Series Issuance Date, the Sellers shall have given the Trustee, the Servicer,
each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the
relevant Supplement notice of such issuance and the Series Issuance Date ;
(ii) the Sellers shall have delivered to the Trustee the related
Supplement, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed by each party hereto
other than the Trustee;
(iii) the Sellers shall have delivered to the Trustee any related
Enhancement Agreement executed by each of the parties thereto, other than the
Trustee;
(iv) the Sellers shall have received written notice from each
Rating Agency that such issuance will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have
delivered copies of each such written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee;
(v) each Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee and any
Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an
Officer's Certificate of such Seller, dated the Series Issuance Date, to the
effect that such Seller reasonably believes that such issuance will not, based
on the facts known to such officer at the time of such certification, then cause
a Pay Out Event or any event that, after the giving of notice or the lapse of
time, would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect to any Series;
(vi) the Sellers shall have delivered to the Trustee, each Rating
Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement a Tax Opinion, dated the Series Issuance Date, with respect to such
issuance; and
(vii) each Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee and any
Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an
Officer's Certificate of such Seller, dated the Series Issuance Date to the
effect that the Sellers' Participation Amount (excluding the interest
represented by any Supplemental Certificate) shall not be less than the
Specified Percentage of the total amount of Principal Receivables, in each case
as of the Series Issuance Date, and after giving effect to such issuance.
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Upon satisfaction of the above conditions, the Trustee shall execute the
Supplement and authenticate the Investor Certificates of such Series upon
execution thereof by the Sellers.
(c) If any Seller elects to have all or a portion of its interest in
the Sellers' Interest evidenced by the Bank Certificate as provided in Section
6.01 hereof, then such Seller may surrender the Bank Certificate to the Trustee
in exchange for a newly issued Bank Certificate and one or more additional
certificates (each, a "Supplemental Certificate"), the terms of which shall be
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defined in a Supplement (which Supplement shall be subject to Section 13.01(a)
to the extent that it amends any of the terms of this Agreement), to be
delivered to or upon the order of the Sellers (or the Holder of a Supplemental
Certificate, in the case of the transfer or exchange thereof, as provided
below), upon satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) the Sellers shall have received written notice from each
Rating Agency that such exchange (or transfer or exchange as provided below)
will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have delivered copies of each such
written notice to the Servicer and the Trustee; and
(ii) the Sellers shall have delivered to the Trustee, each Rating
Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement a Tax Opinion dated the date of such exchange (or transfer or
exchange as provided in the next sentence), with respect thereto.
Any Supplemental Certificate may be transferred or exchanged only upon
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary and subject
to the related Supplement, any Holder of a Supplemental Certificate that is an
Affiliate of any Seller may elect at any time, by written notice to the Trustee,
to have its interest in the Sellers' Interest be (i) an uncertificated interest
or (ii) evidenced by a certificate. If the Holder of a Supplemental Certificate
elects to have its interest in the Sellers' Interest be uncertificated, it shall
deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Supplemental Certificate previously
issued and the Trustee shall make the appropriate entry in the books and records
of the Trust registering such uncertificated interest in the Sellers' Interest.
If the recorded owner of any such uncertificated interest elects to have its
interest in the Sellers' Interest be evidenced by a certificate, a Supplemental
Certificate will be issued in registered form and in the form provided in the
related Supplement.
Section 6.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
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(a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the office or agency to be
maintained in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.16 a register (the
"Certificate Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
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it may prescribe, a transfer agent and registrar (which may be the Trustee)
(the "Transfer Agent and Registrar") shall provide for the registration of
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the Registered Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Registered
Certificates as herein provided. The Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be, as
of the date hereof, The Bank of New York and any co-transfer agent and co-
registrar chosen by the Sellers and acceptable to the Trustee, including if and
so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and
such exchange shall so require, a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in
Luxembourg. So long as any Investor Certificates are outstanding, the Sellers
shall
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maintain a co-transfer agent and co-registrar in New York City. Any
reference in this Agreement to the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall include
any co-transfer agent and co-registrar unless the context requires otherwise.
The Trustee may revoke such appointment and remove any Transfer Agent
and Registrar if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that such
Transfer Agent and Registrar failed to perform its obligations under this
Agreement in any material respect. Any Transfer Agent and Registrar shall be
permitted to resign as Transfer Agent and Registrar upon thirty (30) days notice
to the Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that such
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resignation shall not be effective and such Transfer Agent and Registrar shall
continue to perform its duties as Transfer Agent and Registrar until the Sellers
have appointed a successor Transfer Agent and Registrar reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee.
Subject to paragraph (c) below, upon surrender for registration of
transfer of any Registered Certificate at any office or agency of the Transfer
Agent and Registrar maintained for such purpose, one or more new Registered
Certificates (of the same Series and Class) in authorized denominations of like
aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest
shall be executed, authenticated and delivered, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees.
At the option of a Registered Certificateholder, Registered
Certificates (of the same Series and Class) may be exchanged for other
Registered Certificates of authorized denominations of like aggregate fractional
undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest, upon surrender of the
Registered Certificates to be exchanged at any such office or agency; Registered
Certificates, including Registered Certificates received in exchange for Bearer
Certificates, may not be exchanged for Bearer Certificates. At the option of
the Holder of a Bearer Certificate, subject to applicable laws and regulations,
Bearer Certificates may be exchanged for other Bearer Certificates or Registered
Certificates (of the same Series and Class) of authorized denominations of like
aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Certificateholders' Interest,
upon surrender of the Bearer Certificates to be exchanged at an office or agency
of the Transfer Agent and Registrar located outside the United States. Each
Bearer Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Section shall have attached
thereto all unmatured Coupons; provided that any Bearer Certificate, so
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surrendered after the close of business on the Record Date preceding the
relevant payment date or distribution date after the expected final payment date
need not have attached the Coupon relating to such payment date or distribution
date (in each case, as specified in the applicable Supplement).
Whenever any Investor Certificates are so surrendered for exchange,
the Sellers shall execute, the Trustee shall authenticate and the Transfer Agent
and Registrar shall deliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the
United States) the Investor Certificates which the Investor Certificateholder
making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Investor Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form satisfactory to the
Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar duly executed by the Investor
Certificateholder or the attorney-in-fact thereof duly authorized in writing.
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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Investor Certificates, but the Transfer Agent and Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any such transfer or exchange.
All Investor Certificates (together with any Coupons) surrendered for
registration of transfer and exchange or for payment shall be canceled and
disposed of in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee shall cancel
and destroy any Global Certificate upon its exchange in full for Definitive
Euro-Certificates and shall deliver a certificate of destruction to the Sellers.
Such certificate shall also state that a certificate or certificates of a
Foreign Clearing Agency to the effect referred to in Section 6.13 was received
with respect to each portion of the Global Certificate exchanged for Definitive
Euro-Certificates.
The Sellers shall execute and deliver to the Trustee Bearer
Certificates and Registered Certificates in such amounts and at such times as
are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its responsibilities under this
Agreement, each Supplement and the Certificates.
(b) The Transfer Agent and Registrar will maintain at its expense in
each of the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, and, if and so long as
any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, an
office or agency where Investor Certificates may be surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange (except that Bearer Certificates may not be surrendered
for exchange at any such office or agency in the United States).
(c) (i) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates
containing a legend substantially to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-1 shall
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be effected only if such transfer (x) is made pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Act, or is exempt from the registration
requirements under the Act, and (y) is made to a Person which is not an employee
benefit plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that
is subject to ERISA or that is described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or an
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in such entity (a "Benefit Plan"). In the event that registration of
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a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the registration
requirements under the Act, the transferor or the transferee shall deliver, at
its expense, to the Sellers, the Servicer and the Transfer Agent and Registrar,
an investment letter from the transferee, substantially in the form of the
investment and ERISA representation letter attached hereto as Exhibit E-2, and
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no registration of transfer shall be made until such letter is so delivered.
Investor Certificates issued upon registration or transfer of, or
Investor Certificates issued in exchange for, Investor Certificates bearing the
legend referred to above shall also bear such legend unless the Sellers, the
Servicer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar receive an opinion of
counsel, satisfactory to each of them, to the effect that such legend may be
removed.
Whenever an Investor Certificate containing the legend referred to
above is presented to the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of
transfer, the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall promptly seek instructions from
the Servicer regarding such transfer and shall be
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entitled to receive instructions signed by a Servicing Officer prior to
registering any such transfer. The Sellers hereby agree to indemnify the
Transfer Agent and Registrar and the Trustee and to hold each of them harmless
against any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith
on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by
them in relation to any such instructions furnished pursuant to this clause (i).
(ii) Registration of transfer of Investor Certificates containing
a legend to the effect set forth on Exhibit E-3 shall be effected only if such
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transfer is made to a Person which is not a Benefit Plan. By accepting and
holding any such Investor Certificate, an Investor Certificateholder shall be
deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan. By
acquiring any interest in a Book-Entry Certificate which contains such legend, a
Certificate Owner shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is
not a Benefit Plan.
(iii) If so requested by the Sellers, the Trustee will make
available to any prospective purchaser of Investor Certificates who so requests,
a copy of a letter provided to Trustee by or on behalf of the Sellers relating
to the transferability of any Series or Class to a Benefit Plan.
Section 6.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates. If
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(a) any mutilated Certificate (together, in the case of Bearer Certificates,
with all unmatured Coupons (if any) appertaining thereto) is surrendered to the
Transfer Agent and Registrar, or the Transfer Agent and Registrar receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Transfer Agent and Registrar and
the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each
of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that such
Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Sellers shall
execute, the Trustee shall authenticate and the Transfer Agent and Registrar
shall deliver (in the case of Bearer Certificates, outside the United States),
in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate, a new Certificate of like tenor and aggregate fractional undivided
interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate under this
Section 6.05, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar may require the
payment by the Certificateholder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee and Transfer Agent and
Registrar) connected therewith. Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section 6.05 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of
ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen
or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any time.
Section 6.06. Persons Deemed Owners. The Trustee, the Paying Agent,
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the Transfer Agent and Registrar and any agent of any of them may (a) prior to
due presentation of a Registered Certificate for registration of transfer, treat
the Person in whose name any Registered Certificate is registered as the owner
of such Registered Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions
pursuant to the terms of the applicable Supplement and for all other purposes
whatsoever, and (b) treat the bearer of a Bearer Certificate or Coupon as the
owner of such Bearer Certificate or Coupon for the purpose of receiving
distributions pursuant to the terms of the applicable Supplement and for all
other purposes whatsoever; and, in any such case, neither the Trustee, the
Paying Agent, the Transfer Agent and Registrar nor any agent of any of them
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
in determining
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whether the Holders of the requisite Investor Certificates have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
certificates owned by any Seller, the Servicer, any other holder of a Seller
Certificate, the Trustee or any Affiliate thereof, shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Certificates which the Trustee
actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Certificates so owned
which have been pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded and may be
regarded as outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Certificates and that
the pledgee is not a Seller, the Servicer, any other holder of a Seller
Certificate or any Affiliate thereof.
Section 6.07. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
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distributions to Investor Certificateholders from the Collection Account or any
applicable Series Account pursuant to the provisions of the applicable
Supplement and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Trustee.
Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the
Collection Account or any applicable Series Account for the purpose of making
the distributions referred to above. The Trustee may revoke such power and
remove the Paying Agent if the Trustee determines in its sole discretion that
the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this
Agreement or any Supplement in any material respect. The Paying Agent shall be,
as of the date hereof, The Bank of New York and any co-paying agent chosen by
the Sellers and acceptable to the Trustee, including, if and so long as any
Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and such exchange so
requires, a co-paying agent in Luxembourg or another western European city. Any
Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days
notice to the Trustee. In the event that any Paying Agent shall resign, the
Sellers shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent, reasonably acceptable
to the Trustee. The initial and each successor or additional Paying Agent shall
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such successor or
additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee that: (i) it will hold all
sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Investor Certificateholders in trust
for the benefit of the Investor Certificateholders entitled thereto until such
sums shall be paid to such Investor Certificateholders and (ii) during the
continuance of any Pay Out Event or Servicer Default, upon the written request
of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Investor Certificates. The
Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Trustee and upon removal
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Trustee. If and for so long
as the Trustee shall act as Paying Agent, the provisions of Sections 11.01,
11.02, 11.03 and 11.05 shall apply to the Trustee also in its role as Paying
Agent. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-
paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
Section 6.08. Access to List of Registered Certificateholders' Names
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and Addresses. The Trustee will furnish or cause to be furnished by the Transfer
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Agent and Registrar to the Servicer or the Paying Agent, within five (5)
Business Days after receipt by the Trustee of a request therefor, a list in such
form as the Servicer or the Paying Agent, may reasonably require, of the names
and addresses of the Registered Certificateholders. If any Holder or group of
Holders of Investor Certificates of any Series or all outstanding Series, as the
case may be, evidencing not less than 10% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of such Series or all outstanding Series, as applicable (the
"Applicants"), apply to the Trustee, and such
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application states that the Applicants desire to communicate with other Investor
Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or any
Supplement or under the Investor Certificates and is accompanied by a copy of
the communication which such Applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee,
after having been adequately indemnified by such Applicants for its costs and
expenses shall afford or shall cause the Transfer Agent and Registrar to afford
such Applicants access during normal business hours to the most recent list of
Registered Certificateholders of such Series or all outstanding Series, as
applicable held by the Trustee, within five (5) Business Days after the receipt
of such application. Such list shall be as of a date no more than forty-five
(45) days prior to the date of receipt of such Applicants' request.
Every Registered Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a
Registered Certificate, agrees with the Trustee that neither the Trustee, the
Transfer Agent and Registrar, nor any of their respective agents, shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names
and addresses of the Registered Certificateholders hereunder regardless of the
sources from which such information was derived.
Section 6.09. Authenticating Agent. (a) The Trustee may appoint one or
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more authenticating agents with respect to the Certificates which shall be
authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee in authenticating the Certificates in
connection with the issuance, delivery, registration of transfer, exchange or
repayment of the Certificates. Whenever reference is made in this Agreement to
the authentication of Certificates by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate
of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication on
behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent and certificate of
authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent.
Each authenticating agent must be acceptable to the Sellers and the Servicer.
(b) Any institution succeeding to the corporate agency business of
an authenticating agent shall continue to be an authenticating agent without the
execution or filing of any power or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or such authenticating agent. An authenticating agent may at any time resign by
giving notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Sellers. The Trustee may
at any time terminate the agency of an authenticating agent by giving notice of
termination to such authenticating agent and to the Sellers. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time an
authenticating agent shall cease to be acceptable to the Trustee or a Seller,
the Trustee promptly may appoint a successor authenticating agent. Any successor
authenticating agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as an authenticating agent. No successor
authenticating agent shall be appointed unless acceptable to the Trustee and the
Sellers. The Sellers agree to pay to each authenticating agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 6.09. The provisions
of Sections 11.01, 11.02 and 11.03 shall be applicable to any authenticating
agent.
(c) Pursuant to an appointment made under this Section 6.09, the
Certificates may have endorsed thereon, in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in substantially the
following form:
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This is one of the Certificates described in the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
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as Authenticating Agent
for the Trustee
by
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Authorized Officer
Section 6.10. Book-Entry Certificates. Unless otherwise specified in
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the related Supplement for any Series or Class, the Investor Certificates, upon
original issuance, shall be issued in the form, of one or more typewritten
Investor Certificates representing the Book-Entry Certificates, to be delivered
to the Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Sellers. The Investor
Certificates shall initially be registered on the Certificate Register in the
name of the Clearing Agency or its nominee, and no Certificate Owner will
receive a definitive certificate representing such Certificate Owner's interest
in the Investor Certificates, except as provided in Section 6.12. Unless and
until definitive, fully registered Investor Certificates ("Definitive
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Certificates") have been issued to the applicable Certificate owners pursuant to
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Section 6.12 or as otherwise specified in any such Supplement:
(a) the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall be in full force and
effect;
(b) the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee may deal with the
Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency Participants for all purposes
(including the making of distributions) as the authorized representatives
of the respective Certificate owners;
(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 6.10 conflict
with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section 6.10
shall control; and
(d) the rights of the respective Certificate owners shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency Participants
and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such
Certificate owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency
Participants. Pursuant to the Depositary Agreement, unless and until Definitive
Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 6.12, the Clearing Agency will make
book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and
transmit distributions of principal and interest on the related Investor
Certificates to such Clearing Agency Participants.
For purposes of any provision of this Agreement requiring or
permitting actions with the consent of, or at the direction of, Investor
Certificateholders evidencing a specified percentage of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of Investor Certificates, such direction or consent may be
given by Certificate Owners (acting through the Clearing Agency and the Clearing
Agency Participants) owning Investor Certificates evidencing the requisite
percentage of principal amount of Investor Certificates.
Section 6.11. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever any notice or other
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communication is required to be given to Investor Certificateholders of any
Series or Class with respect to which Book-Entry Certificates have been issued,
unless and until Definitive
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Certificates shall have been issued to the related Certificate Owners, the
Trustee shall give all such notices and communications to the applicable
Clearing Agency.
Section 6.12. Definitive Certificates. If Book-Entry Certificates have
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been issued with respect to any Series or Class and (a) the Sellers advise the
Trustee that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to discharge
properly its responsibilities under the Depositary Agreement with respect to
such Series or Class and the Trustee or the Sellers are unable to locate a
qualified successor, (b) the Sellers, at their option, advise the Trustee that
they elect to terminate the book-entry system with respect to such Series or
Class through the Clearing Agency or (c) after the occurrence of a Servicer
Default, Certificate Owners of such Series or Class evidencing not less than 50%
of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Series or Class advise the
Trustee and the Clearing Agency through the Clearing Agency Participants that
the continuation of a book-entry system with respect to the Investor
Certificates of such Series or Class through the Clearing Agency is no longer in
the best interests of the Certificate Owners with respect to such Certificates,
then the Trustee shall notify all Certificate Owners of such Certificates,
through the Clearing Agency, of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of Definitive Certificates to Certificate Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Trustee of any such Certificates by the Clearing
Agency, accompanied by registration instructions from the Clearing Agency for
registration, the Sellers shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver such Definitive Certificates. Neither the Sellers nor the Trustee shall
be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively
rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the
issuance of such Definitive Certificates all references herein to obligations
imposed upon or to be performed by the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to be
imposed upon and performed by the Trustee, to the extent applicable with respect
to such Definitive Certificates and the Trustee shall recognize the Holders of
such Definitive Certificates as Investor Certificateholders hereunder.
Section 6.13. Global Certificate; Exchange Date.
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(a) If specified in the related supplement for any Series or Class,
the Investor Certificates for such Series or Class will initially be issued in
the form of a single temporary global Certificate (the "Global
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Certificate") in bearer form, without interest coupons, in the denomination of
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the entire aggregate principal amount of such Series or Class and substantially
in the form set forth in the exhibit with respect thereto attached to the
related Supplement. The Global Certificate will be executed by the Bank and
authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions, in substantially the same
manner and with the same effect as the Definitive Certificates. The Global
Certificate may be exchanged as described below for Bearer or Registered
Certificates in definitive form (the "Definitive Euro-Certificates").
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(b) The Manager shall, upon its determination of the date of
completion of the distribution of the Investor Certificates of such Series or
Class, so advise the Trustee, the Sellers, the Depositaries, and each Foreign
Clearing Agency forthwith. Without unnecessary delay, but in any event not prior
to the Exchange Date, the Sellers will execute and deliver to the Trustee at its
London office or its designated agent outside the United States definitive
Bearer Certificates in an aggregate principal amount equal to the entire
aggregate principal amount of such Series or Class. All Bearer Certificates so
issued and delivered will have Coupons attached. The Global Certificate may be
exchanged for an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Euro-
Certificates only on or after the Exchange Date. An institutional investor that
is a U.S. Person may exchange the portion of the Global Certificate beneficially
owned by it only for an equal aggregate principal amount of Registered
Certificates bearing the applicable legend set forth in the form of Registered
Certificate attached to the related Supplement and having a minimum denomination
of $500,000, which may be in temporary form if the Sellers so elect. The Sellers
may waive the $500,000 minimum denomination requirement if they so elect. Upon
any demand for exchange for Definitive Euro-
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Certificates in accordance with this paragraph, the Sellers shall cause the
Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Definitive Euro-Certificates to the
Holder (x) outside the United States, in the case of Bearer Certificates, and
(y) according to the instructions of the Holder, in the case of Registered
Certificates, but in either case only upon presentation to the Trustee of a
written statement substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1 with respect to the
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Global Certificate or portion thereof being exchanged signed by a Foreign
Clearing Agency and dated on the Exchange Date or a subsequent date, to the
effect that it has received in writing or by tested telex a certification
substantially in the form of (i) in the case of beneficial ownership of the
Global Certificate or a portion thereof being exchanged by a United States
institutional investor pursuant to the second preceding sentence, the
certificate in the form of Exhibit G-2 signed by the Manager which sold the
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relevant Certificates or (ii) in all other cases, the certificate in the
form of Exhibit G-3, the certificate referred to in this clause (ii) being
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dated on the earlier of the first actual payment of interest in respect of such
Certificates and the date of the delivery of such Certificate in definitive
form. Upon receipt of such certification, the Trustee shall cause the Global
Certificate to be endorsed in accordance with paragraph (d) below. Any exchange
as provided in this Section 6.13 shall be made free of charge to the holders and
the beneficial owners of the Global Certificate and to the beneficial owners of
the Definitive Euro-Certificates issued in exchange, except that a person
receiving Definitive Euro-Certificates must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like in the event that such person does not receive such
Definitive Euro-Certificates in person at the offices of a Foreign Clearing
Agency.
(c) The delivery to the Trustee by a Foreign Clearing Agency of any
written statement referred to above may be relied upon by the Sellers and the
Trustee as conclusive evidence that a corresponding certification or
certifications has or have been delivered to such Foreign Clearing Agency
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
(d) Upon any such exchange of all or a portion of the Global
Certificate for a Definitive Euro-Certificate or Certificates, such Global
Certificate shall be endorsed by or on behalf of the Trustee to reflect the
reduction of its principal amount by an amount equal to the aggregate principal
amount of such Definitive Euro-Certificate or Certificates. Until so exchanged
in full, such Global Certificate shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Agreement as Definitive Euro-Certificates authenticated and
delivered hereunder except that the beneficial owners of such Global Certificate
shall not be entitled to receive payments of interest on the Certificates until
they have exchanged their beneficial interests in such Global Certificate for
Definitive Euro-Certificates.
Section 6.14. Meetings of Certificateholders.
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(a) If at the time any Bearer Certificates are issued and
outstanding with respect to any Series or Class to which any meeting described
below relates, the Servicer or the
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Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Investor Certificateholders of any
Series or Class or of all Series, to be held at such time and at such place as
the Servicer or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall determine, for the
purpose of approving a modification of or amendment to, or obtaining a waiver of
any covenant or condition set forth in, this Agreement, any Supplement or the
Investor Certificates or of taking any other action permitted to be taken by
Investor Certificateholders hereunder or under any Supplement. Notice of any
meeting of Investor Certificateholders, setting forth the time and place of such
meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting,
shall be given in accordance with Section 13.05, the first mailing and
publication to be not less than twenty (20) nor more than 180 days prior to the
date fixed for the meeting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Investor
Certificateholders a person shall be (i) a Holder of one or more Investor
Certificates of the applicable Series or Class or (ii) a person appointed by an
instrument in writing as proxy by the Holder of one or more such Investor
Certificates. The only persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak
at any meeting of Investor Certificateholders shall be the persons entitled to
vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Sellers,
the Servicer and the Trustee and their respective counsel.
(b) At a meeting of Investor Certificateholders, persons entitled to
vote Investor Certificates evidencing a majority of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of the applicable Series or Class or all outstanding Series, as
the case may be, shall constitute a quorum. No business shall be transacted in
the absence of a quorum, unless a quorum is present when the meeting is called
to order. In the absence of a quorum at any such meeting, the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than ten (10) days; in the absence of a
quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further
adjourned for a period of not less than ten (10) days; at the reconvening of any
meeting further adjourned for lack of a quorum, the persons entitled to vote
Investor Certificates evidencing at least 25% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the applicable Series or Class or all outstanding Series, as the case
may be, shall constitute a quorum for the taking of any action set forth in the
notice of the original meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned
meeting shall be given as provided above except that such notice must be given
not less than five (5) days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled
to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state
expressly the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
applicable Investor Certificates which shall constitute a quorum.
(c) Any Investor Certificateholder who has executed an instrument in
writing appointing a person as proxy shall be deemed to be present for the
purposes of determining a quorum and be deemed to have voted; provided that such
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Investor Certificateholder shall be considered as present or voting only with
respect to the matters covered by such instrument in writing. Subject to the
provisions of Section 13.01, any resolution passed or decision taken at any
meeting of Investor Certificateholders duly held in accordance with this Section
6.14 shall be binding on all Investor Certificateholders whether or not present
or represented at the meeting.
(d) The holding of Bearer Certificates shall be proved by the
production of such Bearer Certificates or by a certificate, satisfactory to the
Servicer, executed by any bank, trust company or recognized securities dealer,
wherever situated, satisfactory to the Servicer. Each such certificate shall be
dated and shall state that on the date thereof a Bearer Certificate bearing a
specified serial number was deposited with or exhibited to such bank, trust
company or recognized securities dealer by the person named in such certificate.
Any such certificate may be issued in respect of one or more Bearer Certificates
specified therein. The holding by the person named in any such certificate of
any Bearer Certificate specified therein shall be presumed to continue for a
period of one year from the date of such certificate unless at the time of any
determination of such holding (i) another certificate bearing a later date
issued in respect of the same Bearer Certificate shall be produced, (ii) the
Bearer Certificate
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specified in such certificate shall be produced by some other person or (iii)
the Bearer Certificate specified in such certificate shall have ceased to be
outstanding. The appointment of any proxy shall be proved by having the
signature of the person executing the proxy guaranteed by any bank, trust
company or recognized securities dealer satisfactory to the Trustee.
(e) The Trustee shall appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting. A
permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by
vote of the holders of Investor Certificates evidencing a majority of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of Investor Certificates of the applicable
Series or Class or all outstanding Series, as the case may be, represented at
the meeting. No vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any
Investor Certificate challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of
the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no
right to vote except as an Investor Certificateholder or proxy. Any meeting of
Investor Certificateholders duly called at which a quorum is present may be
adjourned from time to time, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without
further notice.
(f) The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of
Investor Certificateholders shall be by written ballot on which shall be
subscribed the signatures of Investor Certificateholders or proxies and on which
shall be inscribed the serial number or numbers of the Investor Certificates
held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint
two (2) inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or
against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the
meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the
meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Investor
Certificateholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there
shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes
on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was published as provided above. The record shall be
signed and verified by the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and
one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Servicer and the other to the
Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the
ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be
conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
ARTICLE VII
Other Matters Relating to Each Seller
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Section 7.01. Liability of each Seller. Each Seller shall be
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severally, and not jointly, liable in all respects for the obligations,
covenants, representations and warranties of such
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Seller arising under or related to this Agreement or any Supplement. Each Seller
shall be liable only to the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken by
it in its capacity as a Seller.
Section 7.02. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
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Obligations of, a Seller.
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(a) No Seller shall consolidate with or merge into any other
corporation or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person unless:
(i) (x) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into
which the applicable Seller is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance
or transfer the properties and assets of such Seller substantially as an
entirety shall be, if such Seller is not the surviving entity, a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
State or the District of Columbia, and, if such Seller is not the surviving
entity, such corporation shall expressly assume, by an agreement supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the performance of every covenant and obligation of such Seller
hereunder, including its obligations under Section 7.04; and (y) such Seller has
delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such
supplemental agreement comply with this Section 7.02, that such supplemental
agreement is a valid and binding obligation of such surviving entity enforceable
against such surviving entity in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws
affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and except as
such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity (whether
considered in a suit at law or in equity), and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with;
(ii) if the surviving entity is a Non-Code Entity, the applicable
Seller shall have delivered notice of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or
transfer to each Rating Agency or, if the surviving entity is not a Non-Code
Entity, such Seller shall have received written notice from each Rating Agency
that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer will not have a Ratings
Effect and shall have delivered copies of each such written notice to the
Servicer and the Trustee; and
(iii) the applicable Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee,
each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the
relevant Supplement a Tax Opinion, dated the date of such consolidation, merger,
conveyance or transfer, with respect thereto.
(b) The obligations of each Seller hereunder shall not be assignable
nor shall any Person succeed to the obligations of the Sellers hereunder except
in each case in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing paragraph or
Section 7.05.
Section 7.03. Limitations on Liability of Each Seller. Subject to
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Sections 7.01 and 7.04, neither any Seller nor any of the directors, officers,
employees or agents of any Seller acting in such capacity shall be under any
liability to the Trust, the Trustee, the
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Certificateholders, any Series Enhancer or any other Person for any action
taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith in such
capacity pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that this provision
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shall not protect any Seller or any such Person against any liability which
would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of
obligations and duties hereunder. Each Seller and any director, officer,
employee or agent of such Seller may rely in good faith on any document of any
kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person (other than such
Seller) respecting any matters arising hereunder.
Section 7.04. Liabilities. Notwithstanding Section 7.03 (and
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notwithstanding Sections 8.03 and 8.04), by entering into this Agreement, each
Seller agrees to be liable, directly to the injured party, for the entire amount
of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (other than those incurred by an
Investor Certificateholder in the capacity of an investor in the Investor
Certificates or those which arise from any action by any Investor
Certificateholder) arising out of or based on the arrangement created by this
Agreement (to the extent Trust Assets remaining after the Investor
Certificateholders and Series Enhancers have been paid in full are insufficient
to pay such losses, claims, damages or liabilities) and the actions of the
Servicer taken pursuant hereto as though this Agreement created a partnership
under the New York Uniform Partnership Act in which each Seller was a general
partner. In the event of the appointment of a Successor Servicer, the Successor
Servicer will (from its own assets and not from the assets of the Trust)
indemnify and hold harmless each Seller against and from any losses, claims,
damages and liabilities of the Seller as described in this Section 7.04 arising
from the actions or omissions of such Successor Servicer.
Section 7.05. Assumption of a Seller's Obligations. Notwithstanding
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the provisions of Section 7.02, each Seller may assign, convey and transfer all
of its consumer revolving credit card accounts and other revolving credit
accounts and the receivables arising thereunder, which may include all, but not
less than all of the Accounts and such Seller's remaining interest in the
Receivables arising thereunder, its interest in the Participation interests and
its Sellers' Interest (collectively, the "Assigned Assets"), together with all
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servicing functions and other obligations under this Agreement or relating to
the transactions contemplated hereby (collectively, the "Assumed Obligations"),
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to another entity (the "Assuming Entity") which may be an entity that is not
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affiliated with such Seller, and such Seller may assign, convey and transfer the
Assigned Assets and the Assumed Obligations to the Assuming Entity, without the
consent or approval of the holders of any Certificates, upon satisfaction of the
following conditions:
(a) the Assuming Entity, such Seller and the Trustee shall have
entered into an assumption agreement (the "Assumption Agreement") providing
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for the Assuming Entity to assume the Assumed Obligations, including the
obligation under this Agreement to transfer the Receivables arising under the
Accounts and the Receivables arising under any Additional Accounts to the Trust,
and such Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate and
an opinion of Counsel each stating that such transfer and assumption comply with
this Section 7.05, that such Assumption Agreement is a valid and binding
obligation of such Assuming Entity enforceable against such Assuming Entity in
accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
conservatorship or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
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generally from to time in effect and except as such enforceability may be
limited by general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or
in equity), and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with;
(b) each provider of Series Enhancement, if any, shall have
consented to such transfer and assumption;
(c) such Seller or the Assuming Entity shall have delivered to the
Trustee copies of UCC-1 financing statements covering such Accounts to perfect
the Trust's interest in the Receivables arising herein;
(d) if the Assuming Entity is a Non-Code Entity, such Seller shall
have delivered notice of such transfer and assumption to each Rating Agency or,
if the Assuming Entity is not a Non-Code Entity, such Seller shall have received
written notice from each Rating Agency that such transfer and assumption will
not have a Ratings Effect and shall have delivered copies of each such written
notice to the Servicer and the Trustee;
(e) the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel with
respect to clause (c) above and as to certain other matters specified in
Exhibit H-2; and
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(f) the Trustee shall have received a Tax Opinion.
Upon such transfer to and assumption by the Assuming Entity, such Seller shall
surrender the Bank Certificate, if any, evidencing its interest in the Trust to
the Transfer Agent and Registrar for registration of transfer and the Transfer
Agent and Registrar shall issue a new Bank Certificate, if applicable, in the
name of the Assuming Entity. Notwithstanding such assumption, such Seller shall
continue to be liable for all representations and warranties and covenants made
by it and all obligations performed or to be performed by it in its capacity as
a Seller prior to such transfer.
ARTICLE VIII
Other Matters Relating to the Servicer
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Section 8.01. Liability of the Servicer. The Servicer shall be liable
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under this Article only to the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken
by the Servicer in its capacity as Servicer.
Section 8.02. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
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Obligations of, the Servicer. The Servicer shall not consolidate with or merge
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into any other corporation or convey or transfer its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(a) (i) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
the Servicer is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer
the properties and assets of the Servicer substantially as an entirety shall be,
if the Servicer is not the surviving entity, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State or the
District of Columbia, and, if the Servicer is not the surviving entity, such
corporation shall expressly assume, by an agreement supplemental hereto,
executed and
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delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the
performance of every covenant and obligation of the Servicer hereunder;
(ii) the Servicer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance or transfer and such supplemental agreement comply with this
Section 8.02, that such supplemental agreement is a valid and binding obligation
of such surviving entity enforceable against such surviving entity in accordance
with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership or
conservatorship or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally from
time to time in effect and except as such enforceability may be limited by
general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity),
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with;
(b) if the surviving entity is a Non-Code Entity, the Servicer shall
have delivered notice of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer to
each Rating Agency or, if the surviving entity is not a Non-Code Entity, the
Servicer shall have received written notice from each Rating Agency that such
assignment and succession will not have a Ratings Effect and shall have
delivered copies of each such notice to the Sellers and the Trustee; and
(c) the corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the
Servicer is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer the
properties and assets of the Servicer substantially as an entirety shall be an
Eligible Servicer.
Section 8.03. Limitation on Liability of the Servicer and Others.
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Except as provided in Section 8.04, neither the Servicer nor any of the
directors, officers, employees or agents of the Servicer in its capacity as
Servicer shall be under any liability to the Trust, the Trustee, the
Certificateholders, any Series Enhancer or any other person for any action taken
or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith in its capacity as
Servicer pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that this provision
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shall not protect the Servicer or any such Person against any liability which
would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of
obligations and duties hereunder. The Servicer and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Servicer may rely in good faith on any document of any
kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person (other than the
Servicer) respecting any matters arising hereunder. The Servicer shall not be
under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action which is
not incidental to its duties as Servicer in accordance with this Agreement and
which in its reasonable judgment may involve it in any expense or liability. The
Servicer may, in its sole discretion, undertake any such legal action which it
may deem necessary or desirable for the benefit of the Certificateholders with
respect to this Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties hereto and
the interests of the Certificateholders hereunder.
Section 8.04. Servicer Indemnification of the Trust and the
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Trustee. The Servicer shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trust and the
Trustee from and against any loss, liability, expense, damage or injury suffered
or sustained by reason of any acts or omissions of the Servicer with respect to
the Trust pursuant to this Agreement, including any judgment, award, settlement,
reasonable attorneys' fees and other costs or expenses incurred in connection
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with the defense of any action, proceeding or claim. Indemnification pursuant to
this Section 8.04 shall not be payable from the Trust Assets.
Section 8.05. The Servicer Not To Resign. Except as provided in
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Section 7.05 with respect to the transfer of servicing to an Assuming Entity,
the Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on
it except upon determination that (i) the performance of its duties hereunder is
no longer permissible under Requirements of Law (other than the charter and by-
laws of the Servicer) and (ii) there is no reasonable action which the Servicer
could take to make the performance of its duties hereunder permissible under
such Requirements of Law. Any determination permitting the resignation of the
Servicer shall be evidenced by an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel to such effect delivered to the Trustee. No resignation shall become
effective until the Trustee or a Successor Servicer shall have assumed the
responsibilities and obligations of the Servicer in accordance with Section
10.02. If within 120 days of the date of the determination that the Servicer may
no longer act as Servicer the Trustee is unable to appoint a Successor Servicer,
the Trustee shall serve as Successor Servicer. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Trustee shall, if it is legally unable so to act, petition a court of
competent jurisdiction to appoint any established institution having a net worth
of not less than $50,000,000 and whose regular business includes the servicing
of credit card accounts and who has the ability to service the Receivables as
the Successor Servicer hereunder. The Trustee shall give prompt notice to each
Rating Agency and each Series Enhancer entitled thereto under the terms of the
applicable Supplement upon the appointment of a Successor Servicer.
Section 8.06. Access to Certain Documentation and Information
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Regarding the Regarding the Receivables. The Servicer shall provide to the
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Trustee access to the documentation regarding the Accounts and the Receivables
in such cases where the Trustee is required in connection with the enforcement
of the rights of Certificateholders or by applicable statutes or regulations to
review such documentation, such access being afforded without charge but only
(a) upon reasonable request, (b) during normal business hours, (c) subject to
the Servicer's normal security and confidentiality procedures and (d) at the
Servicer's principal office or at the Servicer's office in the continental
United States where the documentation regarding the Accounts and the Receivables
normally is kept. Nothing in this Section 8.06 shall derogate from the
obligation of the Sellers, the Trustee and the Servicer to observe any
applicable law prohibiting disclosure of information regarding the Obligors and
the failure of the Servicer to provide access as provided in this Section 8.06
as a result of such obligation shall not constitute a breach of this Section
8.06.
Section 8.07. Delegation of Duties. In the ordinary course of
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business, the Servicer may at any time delegate any duties hereunder to any
Person who agrees to conduct such duties in accordance with the Lending
Guidelines; provided, however, in the case of significant delegation to a Person
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other than any Affiliate of a Seller or Electronic Data Services, (i) at least
thirty (30) days prior written notice shall be given to the Trustee, each Rating
Agency and each Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement, of such delegation and (ii) at or prior to the end of such 30-day
period the Servicer shall not have received a notice in writing from a Rating
Agency that such delegation will have a Ratings Effect. Any such delegation
shall not relieve the Servicer of its liability and responsibility with
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respect to such duties, and shall not constitute a resignation within the
meaning of Section 8.05 hereof.
Section 8.08. Examination of Records. Each Seller and the
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Servicer shall clearly and unambiguously indicate in their computer files or
other records that the Receivables arising in the Accounts have been conveyed to
the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, pursuant to this Agreement for the benefit
of the Certificateholders. Each Seller and the Servicer shall, prior to the sale
or transfer to a third party of any receivable held in its custody, examine its
computer and other records to determine that such receivable is not a
Receivable.
ARTICLE IX
Pay Out Events
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Section 9.01. Pay Out Events. If any one of the following events shall
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occur with respect to any Series:
(a) any Seller (including any Additional Seller) shall consent to
the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency,
readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar
proceedings of or relating to such Seller or of or relating to all or
substantially all of its property, or a decree or order of a court or agency or
supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of
a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the
winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered against such
Seller; or such Seller shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts
generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any
applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make any assignment for the
benefit of its creditors or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations (any
such event, an "Insolvency Event"); provided that an Insolvency Event shall be a
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Pay Out Event with respect to any Seller only if, at the time such Insolvency
Event occurs, Receivables transferred by such Seller are then included in the
Trust; or
(b) the Trust shall become an "investment company" within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act; then, in the case of any such event, a
Pay Out Event shall occur with respect to such Series without any notice or
other action on the part of the Trustee or the Investor Certificateholders,
immediately upon the occurrence of such event.
Section 9.02. Additional Rights upon the Occurrence of Certain Events.
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(a) If an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to Capital One Bank
or Capital One Bank violates Section 2.07(c) for any reason, Capital One Bank
shall on the day any such Insolvency Event or violation occurs (the "Appointment
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Date"), immediately cease to transfer Principal Receivables to the Trust
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and shall promptly give notice to the Trustee thereof. Notwithstanding any
cessation of the transfer to the Trust of additional Principal Receivables,
Principal Receivables transferred to the Trust prior to the occurrence of such
Insolvency Event and Collections in respect of such Principal Receivables and
Finance Charge Receivables whenever created, accrued in respect of such
Principal Receivables, shall continue to be a part of the Trust. So long as any
Series issued prior to April 1, 2001 remains outstanding, within fifteen (15)
days after receipt of such notice by the Trustee of the occurrence
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of such Insolvency Event or violation of Section 2.07(c), the Trustee shall (i)
publish a notice in an Authorized Newspaper that an Insolvency Event or
violation has occurred and that the Trustee intends to sell, dispose of or
otherwise liquidate the Receivables and (ii) give notice to Investor
Certificateholders and each Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the
relevant Supplement describing the provisions of this Section 9.02 and
requesting instructions from such Holders. Unless the Trustee shall have
received instructions within ninety (90) days from the date notice pursuant to
clause (i) above is first published from (x) Holders of Investor Certificates
evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of each Series
or, with respect to any Series with two (2) or more Classes, of each Class, to
the effect that such Investor Certificateholders disapprove of the liquidation
of the Receivables and wish to continue having Principal Receivables transferred
to the Trust as before such Insolvency Event or violation, (y) to the extent
provided in the relevant Supplement, the Series Enhancer with respect to such
Series, to such effect, and (z) each holder (other than the Banks) of a Seller
Certificate to such effect, the Trustee shall promptly use its best efforts to
sell, dispose of or otherwise liquidate the Receivables by the solicitation of
competitive bids and on terms equivalent to the best purchase offer as
determined by the Trustee. The Trustee may obtain a prior determination from any
such conservator, receiver or liquidator that the terms and manner of any
proposed sale, disposition or liquidation are commercially reasonable. The
provisions of Sections 9.01 and 9.02 shall not be deemed to be mutually
exclusive.
(b) If an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to Capital One,
F.S.B. or any Additional Seller or Capital One, F.S.B. or any such Additional
Seller violates Section 2.07(c) for any reason, Capital One, F.S.B. or such
Additional Seller, as the case may be, shall on the day any such Insolvency
Event or violation occurs (the "Appointment Date"), immediately cease to
transfer Principal Receivables to the Trust and shall promptly give notice to
the Trustee thereof. Notwithstanding any cessation of the transfer to the Trust
of additional Principal Receivables, Principal Receivables transferred to the
Trust prior to the occurrence of such Insolvency Event and Collections in
respect of such Principal Receivables and Finance Charge Receivables whenever
created, accrued in respect of such Principal Receivables, shall continue to be
a part of the Trust.
(c) The proceeds from the sale, disposition or liquidation of the
Receivables pursuant to paragraph (a) ("Insolvency Proceeds") shall be
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immediately deposited in the Collection Account. The Trustee shall determine
conclusively the amount of the Insolvency Proceeds which are deemed to be
Finance Charge Receivables and Principal Receivables. The Insolvency Proceeds
shall be allocated and distributed to Investor Certificateholders in accordance
with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement and the Trust shall terminate
immediately thereafter.
ARTICLE X
Servicer Defaults
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Section 10.01. Servicer Defaults. If any one of the following events
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(a "Servicer Default") shall occur and be continuing:
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(a) any failure by the Servicer to make any payment, transfer or
deposit or to give instructions or notice to the Trustee pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement or any Supplement on or before the date occurring ten (10)
Business Days after the date such payment, transfer or deposit or such
instruction or notice is required to be made or given, as the case may be, under
the terms of this Agreement or any Supplement;
(b) failure on the part of the Servicer duly to observe or perform
in any material respect any other covenants or agreements of the Servicer set
forth in this Agreement or any Supplement which has a material adverse effect on
the interests hereunder of the Investor Certificateholders of any Series or
Class (which determination shall be made without regard to whether funds are
then available pursuant to any Series Enhancement) and which continues
unremedied for a period of sixty (60) days after the date on which written
notice of such failure,
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requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Servicer by the
Trustee, or to the Servicer and the Trustee by Holders of Investor Certificates
evidencing not less than 10% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all
Investor Certificates (or, with respect to any such failure that does not relate
to all Series, 10% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Series to
which such failure relates); or the Servicer shall delegate its duties under
this Agreement, except as permitted by Sections 8.02 and 8.07, a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge of such delegation and such
delegation continues unremedied for 15 days after the date on which written
notice thereof, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the
Servicer by the Trustee, or to the Servicer and the Trustee by Holders of
Investor Certificates evidencing not less than 10% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Investor Certificates;
(c) any representation, warranty or certification made by the
Servicer in this Agreement or any Supplement or in any certificate delivered
pursuant to Agreement or any Supplement shall prove to have been incorrect when
made, which has a material adverse effect on the rights of the Investor
Certificateholders of any Series or Class (which determination shall be made
without regard to whether funds are then available pursuant to any Series
Enhancement) and which continues to be incorrect in any material respect for a
period of sixty (60) days after the date on which written notice of such
failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the
Servicer by the Trustee, or to the Servicer and the Trustee by the Holders of
Investor Certificates evidencing not less than 10% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Investor Certificates (or, with respect to any such
representation, warranty or certification that does not relate to all Series,
10% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Series to which such
representation, warranty or certification relates); or
(d) the Servicer shall consent to the appointment of a conservator
or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling
of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings of or relating to the Servicer
or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property, or a decree or
order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the
premises for the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any
insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities or
similar proceedings, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall
have been entered against the Servicer, and such decree or order shall have
remained in force undischarged or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days; or
the Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency
or reorganization statute, make any assignment for the benefit of its creditors
or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations; then, in the event of any
Servicer Default, so long as the Servicer Default shall not have been remedied,
either the Trustee, or the Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than
50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Series, by
written notice then given to the Servicer (and to the Trustee and any Series
Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement if given by the
Investor Certificateholders) (a "Termination Notice"), may terminate all but not
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less than all the rights and obligations of the Servicer as Servicer under this
Agreement and in and to the Receivables and the proceeds thereof; provided,
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however, if within sixty (60) days of receipt of a Termination Notice the
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Trustee does not receive any bids from Eligible Servicers in accordance with
Section 10.02(c) to act as a Successor Servicer and receives an Officer's
Certificate of the Sellers to the effect that the Servicer cannot in good faith
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cure the Servicer Default which gave rise to the Termination Notice, the Trustee
shall grant a right of first refusal to the Sellers which would permit the
Sellers at their option to purchase the Certificateholders' Interest on the
Distribution Date in the next calendar month; provided further, however, the
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foregoing right of first refusal shall not apply in the case of a Servicer
Default set forth in subsection 10.01(d). The purchase price for the
Certificateholders' Interest shall be equal to the sum of the amounts specified
therefor with respect to each outstanding Series in the related Supplement. The
Sellers shall notify the Trustee prior to the Record Date for the Distribution
Date of the purchase if they are exercising such option. If it exercises such
option, the Sellers shall (x) deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
(which must be an independent outside counsel) to the effect that, in reliance
on certain certificates to the effect that the Receivables constitute fair value
for consideration paid therefor and as to the solvency of the Sellers, the
purchase would not be considered a fraudulent conveyance and (y) deposit the
purchase price into the Collection Account not later than 12:00 noon, Richmond,
Virginia time, on such Distribution Date in immediately available funds. The
purchase price shall be allocated and distributed to Investor Certificateholders
in accordance with Article IV and the terms of each Supplement.
After receipt by the Servicer of such Termination Notice, and on the
date that a Successor Servicer shall have been appointed by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 10.02, all authority and power of the Servicer under this Agreement
shall pass to and be vested in a Successor Servicer; and, without limitation,
the Trustee is hereby authorized and empowered (upon the failure of the Servicer
to cooperate) to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Servicer, as attorney-in-
fact or otherwise, all documents and other instruments upon the failure of the
Servicer to execute or deliver such documents or instruments, and to do and
accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the,
purposes of such transfer of servicing rights. The Servicer agrees to cooperate
with the Trustee and such Successor Servicer in effecting the termination of the
responsibilities and rights of the Servicer to conduct servicing hereunder
including the transfer to such Successor Servicer of all authority of the
Servicer to service the Receivables provided for under this Agreement, including
all authority over all Collections which shall on the date of transfer be held
by the Servicer for deposit, or which have been deposited by the Servicer, in
the Collection Account, or which shall thereafter be received with respect to
the Receivables, and in assisting the Successor Servicer and in enforcing all
rights to Insurance Proceeds. The Servicer shall promptly transfer its
electronic records relating to the Receivables to the Successor Servicer in such
electronic form as the Successor Servicer may reasonably request and shall
promptly transfer to the Successor Servicer all other records, correspondence
and documents necessary for the continued servicing of the Receivables in the
manner and at such times as the Successor Servicer shall reasonably request. To
the extent that compliance with this Section 10.01 shall require the Servicer to
disclose to the Successor Servicer information of any kind which the Servicer
reasonably deems to be confidential, the Successor Servicer shall be required to
enter into such customary licensing and confidentiality agreements as the
Servicer shall deem necessary to protect its interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any delay in or failure of performance
under Section 10.01(a) for a period of five (5) Business Days or under Section
10.01(b) or (c) for a period of sixty (60) days (in addition to any period
provided in Section 10.01(a), (b) or (c)) shall not constitute a Servicer
Default until the expiration of such additional five (5) Business Days or sixty
(60) days, respectively, if such delay or failure could not be prevented by the
exercise of
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reasonable diligence by the Servicer and such delay or failure was caused by an
act of God or the public enemy, acts of declared or undeclared war, public
disorder, rebellion or sabotage, epidemics, landslides, lightning, fire,
hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or similar causes. The preceding sentence shall
not relieve the Servicer from using its best efforts to perform its respective
obligations in a timely manner in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and any Supplement and the Servicer shall provide the Trustee, each Rating
Agency, any Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant
Supplement, each Holder of a Seller Certificate and the Investor
Certificateholders with an Officer's Certificate giving prompt notice of such
failure or delay by it, together with a description of its efforts to so perform
its obligations.
Section 10.02. Trustee To Act; Appointment of Successor.
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(a) On and after the receipt by the Servicer of a Termination Notice
pursuant to Section 10.01, the Servicer shall continue to perform all servicing
functions under this Agreement until the date specified in the Termination
Notice or otherwise specified by the Trustee or until a date mutually agreed
upon by the Servicer and Trustee. The Trustee shall as promptly as possible
after the giving of a Termination Notice appoint an Eligible Servicer as a
successor servicer (the "Successor Servicer"), and such Successor Servicer shall
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accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the
Trustee. In the event that a Successor Servicer has not been appointed or has
not accepted its appointment at the time when the Servicer ceases to act as
Servicer, the Trustee without further action shall automatically be appointed
the Successor Servicer. The Trustee may delegate any of its servicing
obligations to an Affiliate of the Trustee or agent in accordance with Sections
3.01(b) and 8.07. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee shall, if it is
legally unable so to act, petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint
any established institution having a net worth of not less than $50,000,000 and
whose regular business includes the servicing of credit card receivables and who
has the ability to service the Receivables as the Successor Servicer hereunder.
The Trustee shall give prompt notice to each Rating Agency and each Series
Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the applicable Supplement upon the
appointment of a Successor Servicer.
(b) Upon its appointment, the Successor Servicer shall be the
successor in all respects to the Servicer with respect to servicing functions
under this Agreement and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties
and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Servicer by the terms and
provisions hereof, and all references in this Agreement to the Servicer shall be
deemed to refer to the Successor Servicer.
(c) In connection with any Termination Notice, the Trustee will
review any bids which it obtains from Eligible Servicers and shall be permitted
to appoint any Eligible Servicer submitting such a bid as a Successor Servicer
for servicing compensation not in excess of the aggregate Servicing Fees for all
Series; provided, however, that the Sellers shall be responsible for payment
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of the Sellers' portion of such aggregate Servicing Fees and that no such
monthly compensation paid out of Collections shall be in excess of such
aggregate Servicing Fees. Each holder of a Seller Certificate agrees that, if
Capital One Bank (or any Successor Servicer) is terminated as Servicer
hereunder, the portion of the Collections in respect of Finance Charge
Receivables that the Sellers are entitled to receive pursuant to this Agreement
or any Supplement shall be reduced by an amount sufficient to pay the Sellers'
share (determined by
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reference to the Supplements with respect to any outstanding Series) of the
compensation of the Successor Servicer.
(d) All authority and power granted to the Successor Servicer under
this Agreement shall automatically cease and terminate upon termination of the
Trust pursuant to Section 12.01 and shall pass to and be vested in the Sellers
and, without limitation, the Sellers are hereby authorized and empowered to
execute and deliver, on behalf of the Successor Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or
otherwise, all documents and other instruments, and to do and accomplish all
other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such
transfer of servicing rights. The Successor Servicer agrees to cooperate with
the Sellers in effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of
the Successor Servicer to conduct servicing on the Receivables. The Successor
Servicer shall transfer its electronic records relating to the Receivables to
the Sellers in such electronic form as the Sellers may reasonably request and
shall transfer all other records, correspondence and documents to the Sellers in
the manner and at such times as the Sellers shall reasonably request. To the
extent that compliance with this Section 10.02 shall require the Successor
Servicer to disclose to the Sellers information of any kind which the Successor
Servicer deems to be confidential, the Sellers shall be required to enter into
such customary licensing and confidentiality agreements as the Successor
Servicer shall deem necessary to protect its interests.
Section 10.03. Notification to Certificateholders. Within two (2)
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Business Days after the Servicer becomes aware of any Servicer Default, the
Servicer shall give notice thereof to the Trustee, each Rating Agency and any
Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement and the
Trustee shall give notice to the Investor Certificateholders. Upon any
termination or appointment of a Successor Servicer pursuant to this Article X,
the Trustee shall give prompt notice thereof to the Investor Certificateholders.
ARTICLE XI
The Trustee
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Section 11.01. Duties of Trustee. (a) The Trustee, prior to the
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occurrence of a Servicer Default and after the curing of all Servicer Defaults
which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Agreement. If a Servicer Default has
occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the Trustee shall exercise such of
the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and use the same degree of
care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs.
(b) The Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates,
statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished
to the Trustee which are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any
provision of this Agreement, shall examine them to determine whether they
conform to the requirements of this Agreement. The Trustee shall give prompt
written notice to the Certificateholders of any material lack of conformity of
any such instrument to the applicable requirements of this Agreement discovered
by the Trustee which would entitle a specified percentage of the
Certificateholders to take any action pursuant to this Agreement.
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(c) Subject to Section 11.01(a), no provision of this Agreement
shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent
action, its own negligent failure to act or its own misconduct; provided,
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(i) the Trustee shall not be personally liable for an error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of
the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be personally liable with respect to
any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing
more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Investor
Certificates (or, with respect to any such action that does not relate to all
Series, 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Investor
Certificates of all Series to which such action relates) relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Agreement; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
failure by the Servicer referred to in clauses (a) and (b) of Section 10.01
unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge of such
failure or the Trustee receives written notice of such failure from the
Servicer, any Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing not less than 10% of
the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Investor Certificates (or, with
respect to any such failure that does not relate to all Series, 10% of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Investor Certificates of all Series to
which such failure relates, or the Series Enhancers for all Series to which such
failure relates).
(d) The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its
duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder or
thereunder, if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of
such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it, and none of the provisions contained in this Agreement
shall in any event require the Trustee to perform, or be responsible for the
manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Servicer under this
Agreement except during such time, if any, as the Trustee shall be the successor
to, and be vested with the rights, duties, powers and privileges of, the
Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) Except for actions expressly authorized by this Agreement, the
Trustee shall take no action reasonably likely to (i) impair the interests of
the Trust in any Receivable now existing or hereafter created or (ii) impair the
value of any Receivable now existing or hereafter created.
(f) The Trustee shall have no power to vary the corpus of the Trust,
except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
(g) Subject to Section 11.01(d), in the event that the Paying Agent
or the Transfer Agent and Registrar shall fail to perform any obligation, duty
or agreement in the manner or on the day required to be performed by the Paying
Agent or the Transfer Agent and
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Registrar, as the case may be, under this Agreement, the Trustee shall be
obligated as soon as possible upon knowledge of a Responsible Officer thereof
and receipt of appropriate records, if any, to perform such obligation, duty or
agreement in the manner so required.
(h) If a Seller has agreed to transfer any of its receivables (other
than the Receivables) to another Person, upon the written request of such
Seller, the Trustee will enter into such intercreditor agreements with the
transferee of such receivables as are customary and necessary to separately
identify the rights of the Trust and such other Person in such Seller's
receivables; provided that the Trustee shall not be required to enter into
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any intercreditor agreement which could adversely affect the interests of the
Certificateholders and, upon the request of the Trustee, such Seller will
deliver an Opinion of Counsel on any matters relating to such intercreditor
agreement, reasonably requested by the Trustee.
Section 11.02. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee. Except as
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otherwise provided in Section 11.01:
(a) the Trustee may rely on and shall be protected in acting on, or
in refraining from acting in accord with, any resolution, Officer's Certificate,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond or other paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented to
it pursuant to this Agreement by the proper party or parties;
(b) the Trustee may consult with counsel, and any advice of such
counsel, or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken or suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(c) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or any Enhancement Agreement, or
to institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or thereunder or in
relation to this Agreement or any Enhancement Agreement, at the request, order
or direction of any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of
this Agreement or any Enhancement Agreement, unless such Certificateholders
shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligations,
upon the occurrence of any Servicer Default (which has not been cured) to
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and to
use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own
affairs;
(d) the Trustee shall not be personally liable for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;
(e) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts of matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or
other paper or document, unless requested in writing so to do by Holders of
Investor Certificates evidencing more than 25% of the aggregate unpaid
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principal amount of all Investor Certificates (or, with respect to any such
matters that do not relate to all Series, 25% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the Investor Certificates of all Series to which such matters relate);
(f) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys or a custodian, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any
misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent, attorney or custodian
appointed with due care by it hereunder; and
(g) except as may be required by Section 11.01(a) hereof, the
Trustee shall not be required to make any initial or periodic examination of any
documents or records related to the Receivables or the Accounts for the purpose
of establishing the presence or absence of defects, the compliance by each
Seller with its representations and warranties or for any other purpose.
Section 11.03. Trustee Not Liable for Recitals in Certificates. The
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Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the recitals contained
herein and in the Certificates (other than the certificate of authentication on
the Certificates). Except as set forth in Section 11.15, the Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or any
Supplement or of the Certificates (other than the certificate of authentication
on the Certificates) or of any Receivable or related document. The Trustee shall
not be accountable for the use or application by the Sellers of any of the
Certificates or of the proceeds of such Certificates, or for the use or
application of any funds paid to the Seller or the Holders of the Seller
Certificates in respect of the Receivables or deposited in or withdrawn from the
Collection Account, any Series Accounts or any other accounts hereafter
established to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Section 11.04. Trustee May Own Certificates. Subject to Section 6.06,
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the Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Investor Certificates with the same rights as it would have if it
were not the Trustee.
Section 11.05. The Servicer To Pay Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The
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Servicer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, reasonable compensation (which shall not
be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of
an express trust) for all services rendered by it in the execution of the trust
hereby created and in the exercise and performance of any of the powers and
duties hereunder of the Trustee, and the Servicer will pay or reimburse the
Trustee (without reimbursement from the Collection Account or otherwise) upon
its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Agreement
or any Enhancement Agreement (including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
agents, any co-trustee and counsel) except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may arise from its own negligence or bad faith and except as provided
in the following sentence. If the Trustee is appointed Successor Servicer
pursuant to Section 10.02, the provisions of this Section 11.05 shall not apply
to expenses, disbursements and advances made or incurred by the Trustee in its
capacity as Successor Servicer.
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The obligations of the Servicer under Section 8.04 and this Section
11.05 shall survive the termination of the Trust and the resignation or removal
of the Trustee.
Section 11.06. Eligibility Requirements for Trustee. The Trustee
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hereunder shall at all times be a bank or a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or state authority and maintain any credit or deposit
rating required by any Rating Agency (as of the date hereof Baa3 for Xxxxx'x).
If such bank or corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purpose of this Section 11.06, the combined capital and
surplus of such bank or corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital
and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 11.06, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the
manner and with the effect specified in Section 11.07.
Section 11.07. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
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(a) The Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the
trust hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Servicer. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Seller shall promptly appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation,
the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor trustee.
(b) If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 11.06 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Servicer or any Seller, or if at any time the
Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed,
or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, the Servicer shall remove the Trustee and promptly appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the
successor trustee.
(c) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 11.07 shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as
provided in Section 11.08 and any liability of the Trustee arising hereunder
shall survive such appointment of a successor trustee.
Section 11.08. Successor Trustees.
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(a) Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 11.07
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Sellers, to the Servicer and to
its predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
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obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally
named as Trustee herein. The predecessor Trustee shall deliver to the successor
trustee all documents and statements held by it hereunder, and the Seller and
the predecessor Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such
other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and
confirming in the successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations.
(b) No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in
this Section 11.08 unless at the time of such acceptance such success or trustee
shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 11.06.
(c) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as
provided in this Section 11.08, such successor trustee shall provide notice of
such succession hereunder to all Investor Certificateholders and the Servicer
shall provide such notice to each Rating Agency and any Series Enhancer entitled
thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement.
Section 11.09. Merger or Consolidation of Trustee. Any Person into
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which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to
the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the
Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be eligible under the
provisions of Section 11.06, without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Section 11.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
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(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust may at the time be located, the Trustee shall have
the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate
trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person or
Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Certificateholders, such
title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section 11.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Trustee may consider necessary or desirable; provided, however, that the Trustee
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shall exercise due care in the appointment of any co-trustee. No co-trustee or
separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as
a successor trustee under Section 11.06 and no notice to Certificateholders of
the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under
Section 11.08.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions :
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it
being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to
act separately without the Trustee joining in such act) except to the extent
that under any laws of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are
to be performed
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(whether as Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Servicer hereunder) the
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in
which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding
of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be
exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but
solely at the direction of the Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of
any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or
remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall
to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as
effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any
separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions
of this Article XI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of
the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in
its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately, as
may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement,
specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct
of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every
such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee and a copy thereof given to the
Servicer.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute
the Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect to this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee.
Section 11.11. Tax Returns. In the event the Trust shall be required
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to file tax returns, the Servicer shall prepare or shall cause to be prepared
any tax returns required to be filed by the Trust and shall remit such returns
to the Trustee for signature at least five (5) days before such returns are due
to be filed; the Trustee shall promptly sign such returns and deliver such
returns after signature to the Servicer and such returns shall be filed by the
Servicer. The Servicer in accordance with the terms of each Supplement shall
also prepare or shall cause to be prepared all tax information required by law
to be distributed to Investor Certificateholders. The Trustee, upon request,
will furnish the Servicer with all such information known to the Trustee as may
be reasonably required in connection with the preparation of all tax returns of
the Trust. In no event shall the Trustee or the Servicer (except as provided in
Section 8.04) be liable for any liabilities, costs or expenses of the Trust or
the Investor Certificateholders arising under any tax law, including federal,
state, local or foreign income or excise taxes or any other tax imposed on or
measured by income (or any interest or penalty with respect thereto or arising
from a failure to comply therewith).
Section 11.12. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
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Certificates. All rights of action and claims under this Agreement or the
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Certificates may be prosecuted and
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enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Certificates or the
production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee. Any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Certificateholders in respect of
which such judgment has been obtained .
Section 11.13. Suits for Enforcement.
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(a) If a Servicer Default shall occur and be continuing, the
Trustee, in its discretion may, subject to the provisions of Sections 10.01 and
11.14, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Certificateholders under this Agreement by a suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law or otherwise, whether for the specific performance of any
covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or in aid of the execution of
any power granted in this Agreement or for the enforcement of any other legal,
equitable or other remedy as the Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of the rights of the Trustee or the
Certificateholders.
(b) If the FDIC or any equivalent governmental agency or
instrumentality or any designee of any of them shall have been appointed as
receiver, conservator, assignee, trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or custodian with respect to any Seller (the
"receiver"), the Trustee shall, irrespective of whether the principal of any
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Series or Class of Investor Certificates shall then be due and payable:
(i) unless prohibited by applicable law or regulation or unless
under FIRREA the receiver is required to participate in the process as a
defendant or otherwise, promptly take or cause to be taken any and all necessary
or advisable commercially reasonable action as a secured creditor on behalf of
the Certificateholders to recover, repossess, collect or liquidate the
Receivables or any other Trust Assets on a "self-help" basis or otherwise and
exercise any rights or remedies of a secured party under the applicable UCC and
take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies
of the Trustee and the Certificateholders;
(ii) promptly, and in any case within any applicable claims bar
period specified under FIRREA or otherwise, file and prove a claim or claims
under FIRREA or otherwise, by filing proofs of claim, protective proofs of claim
or otherwise, for the whole amount of unpaid principal and interest in respect
of the Investor Certificates and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders allowed in any judicial, administrative, corporate or other
proceedings relating to any Seller, its creditors or its property, including any
actions relating to the preservation of deficiency claims or for the protection
against loss of any claim in the event the Trustee's or the Certificateholders'
status as secured creditors are successfully challenged; and
(iii) collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and distribute all amounts with respect to the
claims of the Certificateholders to the Certificateholders.
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(c) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Certificateholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Investor Certificates or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Certificateholder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the
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Trustee may, on behalf of the Investor Certificateholders, vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of
a creditor's or other similar committee.
Section 11.14. Rights of Certificateholders To Direct Trustee. Holders
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of Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Investor Certificates (or, with respect to any remedy,
trust or power that does not relate to all Series, 50% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of the Investor Certificates of all Series to which such
remedy, trust or power relates) shall have the right to direct the time, method,
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee,
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee relating to such
proceeding; provided, however, that, subject to Section 11.01, the Trustee shall
have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee being
advised by counsel determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be
taken, or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or
Responsible officers of the Trustee, determine that the proceedings so directed
would be illegal or involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to
the rights of Certificateholders not parties to such direction; and provided
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further that nothing in this Agreement shall impair the right of the Trustee to
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take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent with
such direction.
Section 11.15. Representations and Warranties of Trustee. The Trustee
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represents and warrants as of each Closing Date that:
(a) the Trustee is a banking corporation organized, existing and in
good standing under the laws of the State of New York;
(b) the Trustee has full power, authority and right to execute,
deliver and perform this Agreement and each Supplement, and has taken all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of
this Agreement and each Supplement; and
(c) this Agreement and each Supplement has been duly executed and
delivered by the Trustee.
Section 11.16. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Trustee will
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maintain at its expense an office or agency (the "Corporate Trust Office") where
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notices and demands to or upon the Trustee in respect of the Certificates and
this Agreement may be served (a) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, in the case of Registered Certificates and Holders thereof, and (b) in
London or Luxembourg, in the case of Bearer Certificates and Holders thereof, if
and for so long as any Bearer Certificates are outstanding. The Corporate Trust
Office shall initially be located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000. The Trustee will give prompt notice to the Servicer and to Investor
Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or
any such office or agency.
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Section 11.17. Confidentiality. Information provided by the Banks to
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the Trustee related to the transaction effected hereunder, including all
information related to the Obligors with respect to the Receivables, and any
computer software provided to the Trustee in connection with the transaction
effected hereunder or under any Supplement, in each case whether in the form of
documents, reports, lists, tapes, discs or any other form, shall be
"Confidential Information." The Trustee and its agents, representatives or
employees shall at all times maintain the confidentiality of all Confidential
Information and shall not, without the prior written consent of the applicable
Bank, disclose to third parties (including Certificateholders) or use such
information, in any manner whatsoever, in whole or in part, except as expressly
permitted under this Agreement or under any Supplement or as required to fulfill
an obligation of the Trustee under this Agreement or under any Supplement, in
which case such Confidential Information shall be revealed only to the extent
expressly permitted or only to the Trustee's agents, representatives and
employees who need to know such Confidential Information to the extent required
for the purpose of fulfilling an obligation of the Trustee under this Agreement
or under any Supplement. Notwithstanding the above, Confidential Information may
be disclosed to the extent required by law or legal process, provided that the
Trustee gives prompt written notice to the applicable Bank of the nature and
scope of such disclosure.
ARTICLE XII
Termination
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Section 12.01. Termination of Trust. The Trust and the respective
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obligations and responsibilities of the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee
created hereby (other than the obligation of the Trustee to make payments to
Investor Certificateholders as hereinafter set forth) shall terminate, except
with respect to the duties described in Sections 7.04, 8.04 and 12.02(b), upon
the earlier of (i) September 1, 2014, (ii) the day following the Distribution
Date on which the Invested Amount and Enhancement Invested Amount for each
Series is zero and (iii) the time provided in Section 9.02(c).
Section 12.02. Final Distribution.
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(a) The Servicer shall give the Trustee at least thirty (30) days
prior notice of the Distribution Date on which the Investor Certificateholders
of any Series or Class may surrender their Investor Certificates for payment of
the final distribution on and cancellation of such Investor Certificates (or, in
the event of a final distribution resulting from the application of Section
2.06, 9.02 or 10.01, notice of such Distribution Date promptly after the
Servicer has determined that a final distribution will occur, if such
determination is made less than thirty (30) days prior to such Distribution
Date). Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officer's Certificate setting
forth the information specified in Section 3.05 covering the period during the
then-current calendar year through the date of such notice. Not later than the
fifth day of the month in which the final distribution in respect of such Series
or Class is payable to Investor Certificateholders, the Trustee shall provide
notice to Investor Certificateholders of such Series or Class specifying (i) the
date upon which final payment of such Series or Class will be made upon
presentation and surrender of Investor Certificates of such Series or Class at
the office or offices therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final
payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such payment date
is not applicable, payments being made only
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upon presentation and surrender of such Investor Certificates at the office or
offices therein specified (which, in the case of Bearer Certificates, shall be
outside the United States). The Trustee shall give such notice to the Transfer
Agent and Registrar and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to
Investor Certificateholders.
(b) Notwithstanding a final distribution to the Investor
Certificateholders of any Series or Class (or the termination of the Trust),
except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, all funds then on deposit in the
Collection Account and any Series Account allocated to such Investor
Certificateholders shall continue to be held in trust for the benefit of such
Investor Certificateholders and the Paying Agent or the Trustee shall pay such
funds to such Investor Certificateholders upon surrender of their Investor
Certificates (and any excess shall be paid in accordance with the terms of any
relevant Enhancement Agreement). In the event that all such Investor
Certificateholders shall not surrender their Investor Certificates for
cancellation within six (6) months after the date specified in the notice from
the Trustee described in paragraph (a), the Trustee shall give a second notice
to the remaining such Investor Certificateholders to surrender their Investor
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto (which surrender and payment, in the case of Bearer Certificates, shall
be outside the United States). If within one year after the second notice all
such Investor Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the
Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate
steps, to contact the remaining such Investor Certificateholders concerning
surrender of their Investor Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out
of the funds in the Collection Account or any Series Account held for the
benefit of such Investor Certificateholders. The Trustee and the Paying Agent
shall pay to the Seller any moneys held by them for the payment of principal or
interest that remains unclaimed for two (2) years. After payment to the Sellers,
Investor Certificateholders entitled to the money must look to the Sellers for
payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law
designates another Person.
(c) In the event that the Invested Amount (or Enhancement Invested
Amount) with respect to any Series is greater than zero on the related Series
Termination Date or such earlier date as is specified in the related Supplement
(after giving effect to deposits and distributions otherwise to be made on such
date), the Trustee will sell or cause to be sold on such Series Termination
Date, in accordance with the procedures and subject to the conditions described
in such Supplement, Principal Receivables and the related Finance Charge
Receivables (or interests therein) in an amount equal to the Invested Amount and
the Enhancement Invested Amount, if any, with respect to such Series on such
date (after giving effect to such deposits and distributions; provided, however,
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that in no event shall such amount exceed such Series' allocable share of
Receivables on such Series Termination Date). The proceeds from any such sale
shall be allocated and distributed in accordance with the terms of the
applicable Supplement.
Section 12.03. Seller's Termination Rights. Upon the termination of
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the Trust pursuant to Section 12.01 and, if any part of the Sellers' Interest is
then evidenced by a certificate, the surrender of such part of the Seller
Certificates, the Trustee shall sell, assign and convey to the applicable Seller
or its designee, without recourse, representation or warranty, all right, title
and interest of the Trust in the Receivables, whether then existing or
thereafter created, all monies due or to become due and all amounts received
with respect thereto and all proceeds thereof, except for amounts held by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 12.02(b). The Trustee shall
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execute and deliver such instruments of transfer and assignment, in each case
without recourse, as shall be reasonably requested by the Sellers to vest in the
Sellers or their designee all right, title and interest which the Trust had in
the Receivables and such other related assets.
Section 12.04. Defeasance. If the deposit referred to in subsection
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12.04(c)(i) below is funded solely from Collections of Receivables or, if funded
from any other sources, if so provided in the applicable Supplement:
(a) The Sellers may at their option be discharged from their
obligations hereunder with respect to any Series or all outstanding Series (the
"Defeased Series") on the date the applicable conditions set forth in Section
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12.04(c) are satisfied ("Defeasance"); provided, however, that the following
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rights, obligations, powers, duties and immunities shall survive with respect to
the Defeased Series until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (i) the
rights of Holders of Investor Certificates of the Defeased Series to receive,
solely from the trust fund provided for in Section 12.04(c), payments in respect
of principal of and interest on such Investor Certificates when such payments.
are due; (ii) the Sellers' obligations with respect to such Certificates under
Sections 6.04 and 6.05; (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Transfer Agent and Registrar hereunder;
and (iv) this Section 12.04.
(b) Subject to Section 12.04(c), the Sellers at their option may
cause Collections allocated to the Defeased Series and available to purchase
additional Receivables to be applied to purchase Eligible Investments rather
than additional Receivables.
(c) The following shall be the conditions to Defeasance under
Section 12.04(a): (i) the Sellers irrevocably shall have deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee, under the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement
in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust funds in trust for
making the payments described below, (A) Dollars in an amount, or (B) Eligible
Investments which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in
respect thereof will provide, not later than the due date of payment thereon,
money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient to pay
and discharge, and, which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and discharge,
all remaining scheduled interest and principal payments on all outstanding
Investor Certificates of the Defeased Series on the dates scheduled for such
payments in this Agreement and the applicable Supplements and all amounts owing
to the Series Enhancers with respect to the Defeased Series; (ii) prior to its
first exercise of its right pursuant to this Section 12.04 with respect to a
Defeased Series to substitute money or Eligible Investments for Receivables, the
Sellers shall have delivered to the Trustee a Tax Opinion with respect to such
deposit and termination of obligations and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such deposit and termination of obligations will not result in the Trust
being required to register as an "investment company" within the meaning of the
Investment Company Act; (iii) each Seller shall have delivered to the Trustee
and each Series Enhancer entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement an
Officer's Certificate of such Seller stating that such Seller reasonably
believes that such deposit and termination of obligations will not, based on the
facts known to such officer at the time of such certification, then cause a Pay
Out Event or any event that, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time,
would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect to any Series; and (iv)
the Sellers shall have received written notice from each
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Rating Agency that such deposit and termination of obligations will not have a
Ratings Effect and shall have delivered copies of each such written notice to
the Servicer and the Trustee.
ARTICLE XIII
Miscellaneous Provisions
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Section 13.01 Amendment; Waiver of Past Defaults.
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(a) This Agreement or any Supplement may be amended from time to
time (including in connection with (v) the issuance of a Supplemental
Certificate, (w) the addition of Participation Interests to the Trust, (x) the
designation of an Additional Seller, (y) the assumption by an Assuming Entity of
a Seller's obligations hereunder, or (z) the provision of additional Series
Enhancement for the benefit of Certificateholders of any Series) by the
Servicer, the Sellers and the Trustee without the consent of any of the
Certificateholders; provided that (i) the Sellers shall have received written
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notice from each Rating Agency that such amendment will not have a Ratings
Effect and shall have delivered copies of each such written notice to the
Servicer and the Trustee, (ii) if such amendment relates to the provision of
additional Series Enhancement for any Series, each Seller shall have delivered
to the Trustee and each provider of Series Enhancement an Officer's Certificate
of such Seller stating that such Seller reasonably believes that such amendment
will not based on the facts known to such officer at the time of such
certification, have a material adverse effect on the interests of the
Certificateholders, (iii) in the case of an amendment relating to the assumption
by the Assuming Entity of a Seller's obligation or all other conditions to such
assumption specified herein shall have been satisfied and (iv) the conditions
set forth in Section 13.02(d) shall have been satisfied; provided further that
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an amendment pursuant to this Section 13.01(a) shall not effect a significant
change in the Permitted Activities of the Trust.
(b) This Agreement or any Supplement may also be amended from time
to time by the Servicer, the Sellers and the Trustee, (A) in the case of a
significant change in the Permitted Activities of the Trust, with the consent of
Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing Undivided Interests aggregating not
less than 50% of the Invested Amount of each outstanding Series affected by such
change, and (B) in all other cases with the consent of the Holders of Investor
Certificates evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the Investor Certificates of all adversely affected Series, for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any
of the provisions of this Agreement or any Supplement or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such
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amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the amount of or delay the timing of
any distributions to be made to Investor Certificateholders or deposits of
amounts to be so distributed or the amount available under any Series
Enhancement without the consent of each affected Certificateholder, (ii) change
the definition of or the manner of calculating the interest of any Investor
Certificateholder without the consent of each affected Investor
Certificateholder, (iii) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to
any such amendment without the consent of each Investor Certificateholder or
(iv) adversely affect the rating of any Series or Class by any Rating Agency
without the consent of the Holders of Investor Certificates of such Series or
Class evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount
of the Investor Certificates of such Series or Class. Any amendment to be
effected pursuant to this
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paragraph shall be deemed to adversely affect all outstanding Series, other than
any Series with respect to which such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel for the Sellers, addressed and delivered to the Trustee,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Investor
Certificateholder of such Series. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated
to, enter into any such amendment which affect the Trustee's rights, duties or
immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
(c) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent
(other than an amendment pursuant to paragraph (a)), the Trustee shall furnish
notification of the substance of such amendment to each Investor
Certificateholder, and the Servicer shall furnish notification of the substance
of such amendment to each Rating Agency and each Series Enhancer entitled
thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement.
(d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Investor
Certificateholders under this Section 13.01 to approve the particular form of
any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve
the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing
the authorization of the execution thereof by Investor Certificateholders shall
be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Trustee may prescribe.
(e) Any Supplement executed in accordance with the provisions of
Section 6.03 shall not be considered an amendment to this Agreement for the
purposes of this Section 13.01.
(f) The Holders of Investor Certificates evidencing more than
66-2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Investor Certificates of
each Series, or, with respect to any Series with two (2) or more Classes, of
each Class (or, with respect to any default that does not relate to all Series,
66-2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Investor Certificates of
each Series to which such default relates or, with respect to any such Series
with two (2) or more classes, of each Class) may, on behalf of all
Certificateholders, waive any default by the Sellers or the Servicer in the
performance of their obligations hereunder and its consequences, except the
failure to make any distributions required to be made to Investor
Certificateholders or to make any required deposits of any amounts to be so
distributed. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to
exist, and any default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied
for every purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon except to the
extent expressly so waived.
Section 13.02 Protection of Right, Title and Interest to Trust.
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(a) The Servicer shall cause this Agreement, all amendments and
supplements hereto and/or all financing statements and continuation statements
and any other necessary documents covering the Certificateholders' and the
Trustee's right, title and interest to the Trust to be promptly recorded,
registered and filed, and at all times to be kept recorded, registered and
filed, all in such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to
preserve and protect the right, title and interest of the Certificateholders and
the Trustee hereunder to all property comprising the Trust. The Servicer shall
deliver to the Trustee file stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any
document recorded, registered or filed as provided above, as soon as
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available following such recording, registration or filing. The Sellers shall
cooperate fully with the Servicer in connection with the obligations set forth
above and will execute any and all documents reasonably required to fulfill the
intent of this paragraph.
(b) Within thirty (30) days after any Seller makes any change in its
name, identity or corporate structure which would make any financing statement
or continuation statement filed in accordance with paragraph (a) seriously
misleading within the meaning of Section 9-402(7) (or any comparable provision)
of the UCC, such Seller shall give the Trustee notice of any such change and
shall file such financing statements or amendments as may be necessary to
continue the perfection of the Trust's security interest in the Receivables and
the proceeds thereof.
(c) Each Seller and the Servicer will give the Trustee prompt notice
of any relocation of any office from which it services Receivables or keeps
records concerning the Receivables or of its principal executive office and
whether, as a result of such relocation, the applicable provisions of the UCC
would require the filing of any amendment of any previously filed financing or
continuation statement or of any new financing statement and shall file such
financing statements or amendments as may be necessary to perfect or to continue
the perfection of the Trust's security interest in the Receivables and the
proceeds thereof. Each Seller and the Servicer will at all times maintain each
office from which it services Receivables and its principal executive offices
within the United States.
(d) The Servicer will deliver to the Trustee and any Series Enhancer
entitled thereto pursuant to the relevant Supplement: (i) upon the execution and
delivery of each amendment of this Agreement or any Supplement, an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect specified in Exhibit H-1; (ii) on each Addition
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Date on which any Additional Accounts (other than Automatic Additional
Accounts) are to be designated as Accounts pursuant to Section 2.08(a) or
(b) and on each date specified in Section 2.08(c)(iii) with respect to the
inclusion of Automatic Additional Accounts as Accounts, an Opinion of
Counsel substantially in the form of Exhibit H-2, and on each Addition Date
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on which any Participation Interests are to be included in the Trust
pursuant to Section 2.08(a) or (b), an Opinion of Counsel covering the same
substantive legal issues addressed by Exhibit H-2 but conformed to the
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extent appropriate to relate to Participation Interests; and (iii) on or
before April 30 of each year, beginning with April 30, 1994, an Opinion of
Counsel substantially in the form of Exhibit H-2.
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Section 13.03 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.
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(a) The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not
operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor shall such death or
incapacity entitle such Certificateholders' legal representatives or heirs to
claim an accounting or to take any action or commence any proceeding in any
court for a partition or winding-up of the Trust, nor otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
(b) No Investor Certificateholder shall have any right to vote
(except as expressly provided in this Agreement) or in any manner otherwise
control the operation and management of the Trust, or the obligations of the
parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms
of the Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Investor
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Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association,
nor shall any Investor Certificateholder be under any liability to any third
person by reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant
to any provision hereof.
(c) No Investor Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue of
any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless such
Investor Certificateholder previously shall have made, and unless the Holders of
Investor Certificates evidencing more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of all Investor Certificates (or, with respect to any such action, suit
or proceeding that does not relate to all Series, 50% of the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of the Investor Certificates of all Series to which such
action, suit or proceeding relates) shall have made, a request to the Trustee to
institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder
and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may
require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or
thereby, and the Trustee, for sixty (60) days after such request and offer of
indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or
proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by
each Investor Certificateholder with every other Investor Certificateholder and
the Trustee, that no one or more Investor Certificateholders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself or themselves of
any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
the holders of any other of the Investor Certificates, or to obtain or seek to
obtain priority over or preference to any other such Investor Certificateholder,
or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Investor
Certificateholders except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement. For
the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 13.03, each and
every Investor Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such
relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Section 13.04. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
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ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 13.05. Notices; Payments.
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(a) All demands, notices, instructions, directions and
communications (collectively, "Notices") under this Agreement shall be in
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writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered at,
mailed by registered mail, return receipt requested, or sent by facsimile
transmission or by such other means acceptable to the recipient (i) in the case
of Capital One Bank, as a Seller or as the Servicer, to Capital One Bank, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, XxXxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel, with a
copy to Director of Securitization (facsimile nos. 000-000-0000 and 703-875-
1389), (ii) in the case of Capital One, F.S.B., as a Seller, to Capital One,
F.S.B., 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
General Counsel, with a copy to Director of Securitization (facsimile nos. 703-
875-1589 and 703-875-1389), (iii) in the case of the Trustee, to The Bank of New
York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Department (facsimile no. 212-815-5544), (iv) in the case of
Xxxxx'x, to 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
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Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: ABS Monitoring (facsimile no. 212-298-7139),
(v) in the case of Standard & Poor's, to 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Asset Backed Group (facsimile nos. 212-438-2648 and 617-557-
5197), (vi) in the case of Fitch, to Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance (facsimile no. 212-635-0476), (vii)
in the case of the Paying Agent or the Transfer Agent and Registrar, to The Bank
of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Department (facsimile no. 212-815-5544), and (viii)
to any other Person as specified in any Supplement; or, as to each party, at
such other address or facsimile number as shall be designated by such party in a
written notice to each other party.
(b) Any Notice required or permitted to be given to a Holder of
Registered Certificates shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at
the address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. No Notice shall
be required to be mailed to a Holder of Bearer Certificates or Coupons but shall
be given as provided below. Any Notice so mailed within the time prescribed in
this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether
or not the Investor Certificateholder receives such Notice. In addition, (a) if
and so long as any Series or Class is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
and such exchange shall so require, any Notice to Investor Certificateholders
shall be published in an Authorized Newspaper of general circulation in
Luxembourg within the time period prescribed in this Agreement and (b) in the
case of any Series or Class with respect to which any Bearer Certificates are
outstanding, any Notice required or permitted to be given to Investor
Certificateholders of such Series or Class shall be published in an Authorized
Newspaper within the time period prescribed in this Agreement.
(c) All Notices to be given to Capital One Bank, as a Seller or as
the Servicer, shall be deemed given if one Notice is provided to the address of
Capital One Bank. All payments hereunder to Capital One Bank, whether as a
Seller or as the Servicer, or the Capital One, F.S.B., as a Seller, shall be
made to such account as such party may specify in writing. All payments
hereunder to the Sellers shall be deemed made if made to the account of Capital
One Bank or Capital One, F.S.B., as the case may be, as provided above.
Section 13.06. Rule 144A Information. For so long as any of the
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Investor Certificates of any Series or Class are "restricted securities" within
the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Act, the Sellers, the Trustee, the
Servicer and any Series Enhancer agree to cooperate with each other to provide
to any Investor Certificateholders of such Series or Class and to any
prospective purchaser of Certificates designated by such an Investor
Certificateholder, upon the request of such Investor Certificateholder or
prospective purchaser, any information required to be provided to such holder or
prospective purchaser to satisfy the condition set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4)
under the Act.
Section 13.07. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the
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covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall for any
reason whatsoever be held invalid, then such provisions shall be deemed
severable from the remaining provisions of this Agreement and shall in no way
affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions or of the
Certificates or the rights of the Certificateholders.
Section 13.08. Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
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herein, except as provided in Section 7.05 or Section 8.02, this Agreement may
not be assigned by the Servicer without the prior consent of Holders of Investor
Certificates evidencing not less than 66-2/3% of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of all outstanding Investor Certificates.
Section 13.09. Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid. It is the
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intention of the parties to this Agreement that the Certificateholders shall not
be personally liable for obligations of the Trust, that the interests in the
Trust represented by the Certificates shall be nonassessable for any losses or
expenses of the Trust or for any reason whatsoever and that Certificates upon
authentication thereof by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.02 are and shall be
deemed fully paid.
Section 13.10. Further Assurances. The Sellers and the Servicer
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agree to do and perform, from time to time, any and all acts and to execute any
and all further instruments required or reasonably requested by the Trustee more
fully to effect the purposes of this Agreement, including the execution of any
financing statements or continuation statements relating to the Receivables for
filing under the provisions of the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction.
Section 13.11. Nonpetition Covenant. Notwithstanding any prior
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termination of this Agreement, the Servicer, the Trustee, any Seller, each
Series Enhancer and each holder of a Supplemental Certificate shall not, prior
to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this
Agreement with respect to the Trust, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or
cause the Trust to invoke the process of any Governmental Authority for the
purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Trust under any federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official
of the Trust or any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding-up
or liquidation of the affairs of the Trust.
Section 13.12. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to
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exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Trustee or the
Certificateholders, any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement
shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of
any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided under this
Agreement are cumulative and not exhaustive of any rights, remedies, powers and
privileges provided by law.
Section 13.13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two
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(2) or more counterparts (and by different parties on separate counterparts),
each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
Section 13.14. Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement will inure
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to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, the
Certificateholders, any Series Enhancer (to the extent provided in this
Agreement and the related Supplement) and their respective successors and
permitted assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, no
other Person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
Section 13.15. Actions by Certificateholders.
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(a) Wherever in this Agreement a provision is made that an action
may be taken or a Notice given by Certificateholders, such action or Notice may
be taken or given by any Certificateholder, unless such provision requires a
specific percentage of Certificateholders.
(b) Any Notice, request, authorization, direction, consent, waiver
or other act by the Holder of a Certificate shall bind such Holder and every
subsequent Holder of such Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the Trustee or the Servicer in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Certificate.
Section 13.16. Merger and Integration. Except as specifically stated
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otherwise herein, this Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the
parties relating to the subject matter hereof, and all prior understandings,
written or oral, are superseded by this Agreement. This Agreement may not be
modified, amended, waived or supplemented except as provided herein.
Section 13.17. Headings. The headings herein are for purposes of
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reference only and shall not otherwise affect the meaning or interpretation of
any provision hereof.
Section 13.18. Construction of Agreement. Each Seller hereby grants
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to the Trustee a security interest for the benefit of (i) the Certificateholders
and (ii) any Series Enhancer to the extent of the Enhancement Invested Amount,
if any, provided for in the relevant Supplement (which interest, in the case of
any Series Enhancer, will be subordinated to the interest of the
Certificateholders of such Series in accordance with the relevant Supplement),
in all of the Seller's right, title and interest in, to and under the
Receivables now existing and hereafter created, all moneys due or to become due
and all amounts received with respect thereto and all "proceeds" thereof and any
other Trust Assets, to secure all the Sellers' and Servicer's obligations
hereunder, including each Seller's obligation to sell or transfer Receivables
hereafter created to the Trust. This Agreement shall constitute a security
agreement under applicable law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Sellers, the Servicer and the Trustee have
caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the
day and year first above written.
CAPITAL ONE BANK,
as a Seller and the Servicer
By /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
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Title: Director of Securitization
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.
as a Seller
By /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
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Title: Director of Securitization
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as the Trustee
By /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF BANK CERTIFICATE
THIS BANK CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED. NEITHER THIS BANK CERTIFICATE NOR ANY PORTION HEREOF MAY
BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION PROVISIONS OF SUCH
ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION PROVISIONS.
THIS BANK CERTIFICATE IS NOT PERMITTED TO BE TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED,
EXCHANGED OR OTHERWISE PLEDGED OR CONVEYED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS
OF THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
No. R- One Unit
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST
BANK CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS AN INTEREST
IN CERTAIN ASSETS OF THE
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST
Evidencing an interest in a trust, the corpus of which consists primarily of
receivables generated from time to time in the ordinary course of business in a
portfolio of revolving credit card accounts and other revolving credit accounts
owned by Capital One Bank (the "Bank"), as a seller, Capital One, F.S.B. (the
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"Savings Bank"), as a seller (the Bank and the Savings Bank are collectively
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referred to herein as the "Sellers"), and, in certain circumstances, certain
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Additional Sellers (as defined in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement referred
to below).
(Not an interest in or obligation of the Seller
or any affiliate thereof)
This certifies that CAPITAL ONE BANK and CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B. are the
registered owners of a fractional interest in the assets of a trust (the
"Trust") not allocated to the Certificateholders' Interest or the interest of
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any holder of a Supplemental Certificate pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and restated as of April
9, 2001 (as amended and supplemented, the "Agreement"), among the Bank, a
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Virginia banking corporation, as a Seller and the Servicer, the Savings Bank, a
federal savings bank, as a Seller, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking
corporation, as Trustee (the "Trustee"). The corpus of the Trust consists of
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(i) a portfolio of all receivables (the "Receivables") existing in the consumer
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revolving credit card accounts and other consumer revolving credit accounts
identified under the Agreement from time to time (the "Accounts"), (ii) all
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Receivables generated under the Accounts from time to time thereafter,
(iii) funds collected or to be collected from accountholders in respect of the
Receivables, (iv) all funds which are from time to time on deposit in the
Collection Account and in the Series Accounts, (v) an interest in any Funds
Collateral relating to secured accounts, (vi) the benefits of any Series
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Enhancements issued and to be issued by Series Enhancers with respect to one or
more Series of Investor Certificates and (vii) all other assets and interests
constituting the Trust. Although a summary of certain provisions of the
Agreement is set forth below, this Certificate does not purport to summarize the
Agreement and reference is made to the Agreement for information with respect to
the interests, rights, benefits, obligations, proceeds and duties evidenced
hereby and the rights, duties and obligations of the Trustee. A copy of the
Agreement may be requested from the Trustee by writing to the Trustee at the
Corporate Trust Office. To the extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms
used herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.
This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which Agreement, as amended and
supplemented from time to time, the Sellers by virtue of the acceptance hereof
assent and are bound.
The Receivables consist of Principal Receivables which arise generally
from the purchase of goods and services and amounts advanced to cardholders as
cash advances and Finance Charge Receivables which arise generally from Periodic
Finance Charges, Late Charges and other fees and charges with respect to the
Accounts.
This Certificate is the Bank Certificate, which represents the
Sellers' Interest in certain assets of the Trust, including the right to receive
a portion of the Collections and other amounts at the times and in the amounts
specified in the Agreement. The aggregate interest represented by the Bank
Certificate at any time in the Receivables in the Trust shall not exceed the
Sellers' Interest at such time. In addition to the Bank Certificate,
(i) Investor Certificates will be issued to investors pursuant to the Agreement,
which will represent the Certificateholders' Interest, and (ii) Supplemental
Certificates may be issued pursuant to the Agreement, which will represent that
portion of the Sellers' Interest not allocated to the Sellers. This Bank
Certificate shall not represent any interest in the Collection Account or the
Series Accounts, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, or any Series
Enhancements.
The Sellers have entered into the Agreement, and this Certificate is
issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income and
franchise tax purposes only, the Investor Certificates will qualify as
indebtedness of the Sellers secured by the Receivables. Each Seller, by
entering into the Agreement and by the acceptance of this Certificate, agrees to
treat the Investor Certificates for federal, state and local income and
franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of such Seller.
Subject to certain conditions and exceptions specified in the
Agreement, the obligations created by the Agreement and the Trust created
thereby shall terminate upon the earlier of (i) September 1, 2014, (ii) the day
following the Distribution Date on which the Invested Amount and Enhancement
Invested Amount, if any, for each Series is zero and (iii) the time provided in
Section 9.02(c) of the Agreement.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
or on behalf of the Trustee, by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Seller has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
CAPITAL ONE BANK,
as a Seller
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.,
as a Seller
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
Dated: _______ __, 20__
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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is the Bank Certificate described in the within-mentioned
Agreement.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee,
By _____________________________________
Authorized Officer
Or
By ________________________,
as Authenticating Agent
for the Trustee
By _____________________________________
Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT OF RECEIVABLES IN ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS
(As required by Section 2.08 of
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement)
ASSIGNMENT No. ___ OF RECEIVABLES IN ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS, dated as of
_______ __, 20__/1/ (the "Assignment"), by and among CAPITAL ONE BANK, a
Virginia banking corporation, as a Seller and the Servicer (a "Bank" and the
"Servicer," respectively), CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., a federal savings bank, as a
Seller (a "Bank" and, together with Capital One Bank acting in such capacity,
the "Banks"), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as
Trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement
referred to below.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Banks, the Servicer and the Trustee are parties to the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and
restated as of April 9, 2001 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the
"Agreement");
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Agreement, [Capital One Bank] [Capital One,
F.S.B.] (the "Seller") wishes to designate Additional Accounts (which may
include Secured Accounts) owned by the Seller to be included as Accounts and to
convey the (i) Receivables of such Additional Accounts, whether existing on the
Additional Cut-Off Date or thereafter created, and (ii), with respect to
Additional Accounts that are Secured Accounts, the Funds Collateral relating to
such Additional Accounts, to the Trust as part of the corpus of the Trust; and
WHEREAS, the Trustee is willing to accept such designation and
conveyance subject to the terms and conditions hereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Banks, the Servicer and the Trustee hereby agree
as follows:
1. Defined Terms. All capitalized terms used herein shall have the
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meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
"Additional Account" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2 of
this Assignment.
"Addition Date" shall mean, with respect to the Additional Accounts
designated hereby, _______ __, 20__.
"Additional Cut-Off Date" shall mean, with respect to the Additional
Accounts designated hereby, _______ __, 20__.
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/1/ To be dated as of the applicable Document Delivery Date
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2. Designation of Additional Accounts. The Seller does hereby
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deliver to the Trustee a computer file or a microfiche list containing a true
and complete list of the Additional Accounts (including any Secured Accounts)
designated hereby (the "Additional Accounts") specifying for each Additional
Account, as of the Additional Cut-Off Date, its account number, the collection
status, the aggregate amount outstanding in such Additional Account, the
aggregate amount of Principal Receivables outstanding in such Additional Account
and, for any Funds Collateral with respect to Additional Accounts that are
Secured Accounts, if any, the account number for, and the amount of funds on
deposit in, the Deposit Account with respect to such Additional Account, which
computer file or microfiche list shall supplement Schedule 1 to the Agreement.
Such computer file or microfiche list is marked as Schedule 1 to this
Assignment.
3. Conveyance. (a) The Seller does hereby sell, transfer, assign,
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set over and otherwise convey to the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, all of its right, title and interest in, to
and under the Receivables of the Additional Accounts existing at the close of
business on the Additional Cut-Off Date and thereafter created from time to time
until the termination of the Trust, the Funds Collateral, if any, relating to
such Additional Accounts, all moneys due or to become due and all amounts
received or receivable with respect thereto and all proceeds (including
"proceeds" as defined in the UCC and including Insurance Proceeds and
Recoveries) thereof, and the related Interchange payable pursuant to Section
2.07(i) of the Agreement. This paragraph 3(a) does not constitute and is not
intended to result in the creation or assumption by the Trust, the Trustee, any
Investor Certificateholder or any Series Enhancer of any obligation of the
Servicer, the Seller or any other Person in connection with the Accounts, the
Receivables, the Funds Collateral or under any agreement or instrument relating
thereto, including any obligation to Obligors, merchant banks, merchants
clearance systems, VISA, MasterCard or insurers.
(b) The Seller agrees to record and file, at its own expense,
financing statements (and continuation statements when applicable) with respect
to the Receivables and the Funds Collateral, if any, now existing or hereafter
created in such Additional Accounts, meeting the requirements of applicable
state law in such manner and in such jurisdictions as are necessary or
appropriate to perfect, and maintain the perfection of, the sale and assignment
of such Receivables and Funds Collateral to the Trust, and to deliver a file
stamped copy of each such financing statement or other evidence of such filing
to the Trustee on or prior to the Addition Date. The Trustee shall be under no
obligation whatsoever to file such financing or continuation statements or to
make any other filing under the UCC in connection with such sale and assignment.
(c) In connection with such sale, the Seller further agrees, at its
own expense, on or prior to the date of this Assignment, to indicate clearly and
unambiguously in its computer files, and to cause the Depository to indicate in
its files, that Receivables created in connection with, and all Funds
Collateral, if any, relating to, the Additional Accounts have been conveyed to
the Trust pursuant to the Agreement and this Assignment for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
(d) In connection with such sale, each Seller further agrees, at its
own expense, on or prior to the date of this Assignment, to deliver to the
Trustee a fully executed
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consent and agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the
"Acknowledgment and Consent"), from each Depository.
(e) The parties hereto intend that the transfer of Receivables, any
Funds Collateral, and other property pursuant to this Assignment constitute a
sale, and not a secured borrowing, for accounting purposes. If the transfer
pursuant to this Assignment is not deemed to be a sale, the Seller shall be
deemed hereunder to have granted and does hereby grant to the Trustee a security
interest in all of its right, title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, in, to and under the Receivables of the Additional Accounts existing
at the close of business on the Additional Cut-Off Date and thereafter created
from time to time until the termination of the Trust, the Funds Collateral, if
any, relating to the Additional Accounts, all moneys due or to become due and
all amounts received or receivable with respect thereto and all proceeds
(including "proceeds" as defined in the UCC and including Insurance Proceeds and
Recoveries) thereof and the related Interchange payable pursuant to Section
2.07(i) of the Agreement. This Assignment constitutes a security agreement
under the UCC.
(f) The Seller hereby appoints the Trustee as its attorney-in-fact
with full authority in the place and stead of the Seller and in the name of the
Seller or otherwise from time to time in the Trustee's discretion to take any
action and to execute any instrument that the Trustee may deem necessary or
advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Assignment, including, without
limitation, to ask, demand, collect, xxx for, recover, compromise, receive and
give acquittances and receipts for moneys due or to become due under or in
connection with the Funds Collateral, receive, endorse and collect all drafts or
other instruments and documents made payable to the Seller in connection
therewith or representing any payment, dividend or other distribution in respect
of the Funds Collateral or any part thereof and to give full discharge for the
same and the Trustee may as such attorney-in-fact, file any claims or take any
action or institute any proceedings which the Trustee may deem to be necessary
or desirable for the collection thereon or to enforce compliance with the terms
and conditions of this Assignment and the Agreement.
4. Acceptance by Trustee. The Trustee hereby acknowledges its
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acceptance on behalf of the Trust of all right, title and interest to the
property, now existing and hereafter created, conveyed to the Trust pursuant to
Section 3 of this Assignment, and declares that it shall maintain such right,
title and interest, upon the trust set forth in the Agreement for the benefit of
all Certificateholders. The Trustee further acknowledges that, prior to or
simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Assignment, the Seller
delivered to the Trustee the computer file or microfiche list described in
Section 2 of this Assignment.
5. Withdrawal of Funds from the Deposit Account. (a) Acting in
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accordance with its customary and usual servicing procedures for servicing
Secured Accounts and in accordance with the Lending Guidelines, the Servicer
shall, upon withdrawing funds from a Deposit Account, apply an amount up to the
aggregate amount of Principal Receivables outstanding in the Additional Account
for which such amounts are being withdrawn, plus any Finance Charge Receivables
related to such Additional Account, and deposit such amount into the Collection
Account for treatment as Collections of Principal Receivables and Finance Charge
Receivables, respectively. Any proceeds of the Funds Collateral received by the
Seller shall be
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held in trust by the Seller for and as the Trustee's property and shall not be
commingled with the Seller's other funds or properties.
(b) The Seller shall, at its own cost and expense, maintain
satisfactory and complete records of the Funds Collateral, including, without
limitation, a record of all deposits made by or on behalf of each Obligor into
the Deposit Account, all credits granted and debits made with respect to such
Obligor's interest in the Deposit Account, and all other dealings with the
Deposit Account. The Seller will deliver and turn over to the Trustee or to its
representatives at any time on demand of the Trustee the Deposit Documents.
6. Representations and Warranties of the Seller. The Seller hereby
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represents and warrants to the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, as of the date
of this Assignment and as of the Addition Date, that:
(a) Legal, Valid and Binding Obligation. This Assignment constitutes
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a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable against the
Seller in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in
effect affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general or the
rights of creditors of [a Virginia banking corporation] [a federal savings
bank] and except as such enforceability may be limited by general
principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).
(b) Eligibility of Accounts. Each Additional Account designated
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hereby is an Eligible Account.
(c) No Lien. Each Receivable created in connection with, and all
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Funds Collateral relating to, the Additional Accounts have been transferred
to the Trust free and clear of any Lien other than (i) Liens permitted
under subsection 2.07(b) of the Agreement, (ii) any tax or governmental
lien or other nonconsensual lien and (iii) with respect to Funds
Collateral, Liens granted in favor of the Seller by an Obligor.
(d) Classification. The Receivables created in connection with the
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Additional Accounts (together with the Seller's interest in the related
Funds Collateral) constitute "accounts" or "general intangibles" under and
as defined in Article 9 of the UCC;
(e) Federal Deposit Insurance. Each Obligor of a Secured Account
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holds a beneficial ownership interest in the Funds sufficient to afford
such Obligor separate federal deposit insurance with respect to the portion
of the Deposit Account attributable to such Obligor.
(f) Insolvency. As of each of the Additional Cut-Off Date and the
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Addition Date, no Insolvency Event with respect to the Seller has occurred
and the transfer by the Seller of Receivables arising in the Additional
Accounts to the Trust has not been made in contemplation of the occurrence
thereof.
(g) Pay Out Event. The Seller reasonably believes that the addition
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of the Receivables arising in the Additional Accounts will not, based on
the facts known to the
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Seller, cause a Pay Out Event or any event that, after giving of notice or
the lapse of time, would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur with respect
to any Series.
(h) Security Interest. This Assignment constitutes a valid sale,
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transfer and assignment to the Trustee of all right, title and interest of
the Seller in the Receivables now existing or hereafter created in the
Additional Accounts and the Funds Collateral, if any, relating to the
Additional Accounts, all moneys due or to become due and all amounts
received with respect thereto and the proceeds (including "proceeds" as
defined in the UCC as in effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia and
including Insurance Proceeds and Recoveries) thereof, and the Interchange
payable pursuant to Section 2.07(i) of the Agreement or, if this Assignment
does not constitute a sale of such property, it constitutes a grant of a
security interest in such property to the Trustee, which, in the case of
existing Receivables, Funds Collateral and the proceeds thereof is
enforceable upon execution and delivery of this Assignment, and which will
be enforceable with respect to such Receivables and Funds Collateral
hereafter created and the proceeds thereof upon such creation. Upon the
filing of the financing statements described in Section 3 of this
Assignment and, in the case of the Receivables and Funds Collateral
hereafter created and the proceeds thereof, upon the creation thereof, the
Trustee shall have a first priority perfected security or ownership
interest in the Seller's rights in such property and proceeds.
(i) No Conflict. The execution and delivery by the Seller of this
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Assignment, the performance of the transactions contemplated by this
Assignment and the fulfillment of the terms hereof applicable to the
Seller, will not conflict with or violate the articles of incorporation or
bylaws of the Seller or conflict with, result in any breach of any of the
terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of
time or both) a material default under, any indenture, contract, agreement,
mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument to which the Seller is a party
or by which it or its properties are bound.
(j) No Proceedings. There are no Proceedings or investigations
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pending or, to the best knowledge of the Seller, threatened against the
Seller, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other
tribunal or governmental instrumentality (i) asserting the invalidity of
this Assignment, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Assignment, (iii) seeking any
determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Seller,
would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Seller of its
obligations under this Assignment or (iv) seeking any determination or
ruling that would materially and adversely affect the validity or
enforceability of this Assignment.
(k) All Consents. All authorizations, consents, orders or other
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actions of any Person or of any Governmental Authority required to be
obtained by the Seller in connection with the execution and delivery of
this Assignment by the Seller and the performance of the transactions
contemplated by this Assignment by the Seller, have been obtained.
(l) No Material Adverse Effect. None of the terms of this Assignment,
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including the addition to the Trust of the Receivables created in
connection with, and the
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Funds Collateral relating to, the Additional Accounts, will have a material
adverse effect on the interests of the Certificateholders.
7. Covenants of the Seller. The Seller hereby covenants and agrees
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with the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, as follows:
(a) Transfers, Liens, Etc. Except for the conveyances hereunder, and
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except as otherwise provided under the Agreement, the Seller shall not
sell, pledge, assign or transfer to any other Person, or grant, create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any
Receivable created in connection with, or the Funds Collateral relating to,
the Additional Accounts, whether now existing or hereafter created.
(b) Notice of Liens. The Seller shall notify the Trustee and each
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Series Enhancer entitled to such notice pursuant to the relevant Supplement
promptly after becoming aware of any Lien on any Receivable created in
connection with, or on the Funds Collateral relating to, the Additional
Accounts, other than (i) the conveyances hereunder, (ii) Liens permitted
under Section 2.07(b) of the Agreement, (iii) any tax or governmental lien
or other nonconsensual lien or (iv) with respect to Funds Collateral, Liens
granted in favor of the Seller by an Obligor.
(c) Federal Deposit Insurance. The Seller will maintain or cause to
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be maintained records regarding each Obligor's beneficial ownership
interest in the Funds sufficient to afford such Obligor separate federal
deposit insurance with respect to the portion of the Deposit Account
attributable to such Obligor.
(d) Location of Deposit Account. The Seller shall not move the
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location of any Deposit Account without the prior written consent of
Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
(e) Servicer Default. If the Servicer is the Depository, the Seller
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shall, upon the occurrence of a Servicer Default, immediately move the
location of the Deposit Account to an Eligible Institution.
8. Covenant of Servicer. The Servicer hereby covenants and agrees
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with the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, that it will take no action which, nor
omit to take any action the omission of which, would substantially impair the
rights of the Certificateholders in the Receivables created in connection with,
or the Funds Collateral relating to, the Additional Accounts.
9. Reassignment of Receivables and Funds Collateral.
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(a) The parties hereto hereby agree that any reassignment or
assignment of Receivables to the Seller or the Servicer required pursuant
to Section 2.05, 2.06 or 3.03 of the Agreement shall include the
Receivables of the Additional Accounts and the Funds Collateral, if any,
related to such Receivables.
(b) In the event any representation or warranty of the Seller
contained in Section 6(c), (d) or (e) hereof is not true and correct in any
material respect as of the date
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hereof or the date specified therein, as applicable, and such breach
(individually or together with any other breach or breaches then existing)
has a material adverse effect on the Certificateholders' Interests of all
Series in the Receivables of the Additional Accounts or related Funds
Collateral, if any, transferred to the Trust (which determination shall be
made without regard to the availability of funds under any Series
Enhancement) and remains uncured for 60 days (or such longer period, not in
excess of 150 days, as may be agreed to by the Trustee) after the earlier
to occur of the discovery thereof by the Seller or receipt by the Seller of
notice thereof given by the Trustee, then the remedy provided under Section
2.05 of the Agreement (including the proviso thereto) shall apply with
respect to each of the Receivables and the related Funds Collateral, if
any, transferred to the Trust pursuant to this Assignment as if set forth
herein.
(c) In the event any representation or warranty of the Seller
contained in Section 6(h) hereof is not true and correct in any material
respect and such breach has a material adverse effect on the
Certificateholders' Interests of all Series in the Receivables of the
Additional Accounts or the related Funds Collateral, if any, then the
remedy provided under Section 2.06 of the Agreement (including the proviso
thereto) shall apply with respect to each of the Receivables and the
related Funds Collateral, if any, transferred to the Trust pursuant to this
Assignment as if set forth herein.
10. Ratification of Agreement. As amended and supplemented by this
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Assignment, the Agreement is in all respects ratified and confirmed and the
Agreement as so supplemented by this Assignment shall be read, taken and
construed as one and the same instrument.
11. Counterparts. This Assignment may be executed in two or more
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counterparts (and by different parties on separate counterparts), each of which
shall be an original, but all of which shall constitute one and the same
instrument.
12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
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WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Banks, the Servicer and the Trustee have
caused this Assignment to be duly executed by their respective officers as of
the day and year first above written.
CAPITAL ONE BANK,
as a Bank and the Servicer
By
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Name:
Title:
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.,
as a Bank
By
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Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF REASSIGNMENT OF RECEIVABLES IN REMOVED ACCOUNTS
(As required by Section 2.09 of
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement)
REASSIGNMENT OF RECEIVABLES, dated as of _______ __, 20__, by and
among CAPITAL ONE BANK, a Virginia banking corporation, as a Seller and the
Servicer (a "Bank" and the "Servicer," respectively), CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., a
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federal savings bank, as a Seller (a "Bank" and, together with Capital One Bank
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acting in such capacity, the "Banks"), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York
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banking corporation, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), pursuant to the Pooling and
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Servicing Agreement referred to below.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Banks, the Servicer and the Trustee are parties to the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and
restated as of April 9, 2001 (as amended and supplemented, the "Agreement");
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Agreement, [Capital One Bank] [Capital One,
F.S.B.] (the "Seller") wishes to remove from the Trust all Receivables in
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certain designated Accounts and to cause the Trustee to reconvey the Receivables
of such Removed Accounts, whether now existing or hereafter created, from the
Trust to the Seller; and
WHEREAS, the Trustee is willing to accept such designation and to
reconvey the Receivables in the Removed Accounts subject to the terms and
conditions hereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Banks and the Trustee hereby agree as follows:
1. Defined Terms. All terms defined in the Agreement and used herein
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shall have such defined meanings when used herein, unless otherwise defined
herein.
"Removal Date" shall mean, with respect to the Removed Accounts
designated hereby, _______ __, 20__.
2. Designation of Removed Accounts. On or before the date that is 10
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Business Days after the Removal Date, the Seller will deliver to the Trustee a
computer file or microfiche list containing a true and complete list of the
Accounts designated for removal hereby (the "Removed Accounts") specifying for
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each such Account, as of the Removal Date, its account number, the aggregate
amount outstanding in such Account, the aggregate amount of Principal
Receivables in such Account and, for any Funds Collateral relating to such
Account, the account number for, and the amount of funds on deposit in, the
applicable Deposity Account, which computer file or microfiche list shall be
marked as Schedule 1 to this Reassignment and shall supplement Schedule 1 to the
Agreement.
3. Conveyance of Receivables. (a) The Trustee does hereby release
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its lien on and security interest in, and does hereby sell, transfer, assign,
set over and otherwise convey
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to the Seller, without recourse, all of its right, title and interest of the
Trust in, to and under the Receivables existing at the close of business on the
Removal Date and thereafter created from time to time in the Removed Accounts,
the Funds Collateral, if any, relating to such Additional Accounts, all moneys
due or to become due and all amounts received or receivable with respect thereto
and all proceeds (including "proceeds" as defined in the UCC and including
Insurance Proceeds and Recoveries) thereof, and the related Interchange
otherwise payable pursuant to Section 2.07(i) of the Agreement.
(b) In connection with such transfer, the Trustee agrees to execute
and deliver to the Seller on or prior to the date this Reassignment is
delivered, applicable termination statements with respect to the Receivables
existing at the close of business on the Removal Date and thereafter created
from time to time in the Removed Accounts and the proceeds thereof evidencing
the release by the Trust of its interest in such Receivables and proceeds, and
meeting the requirements of applicable state law, in such manner and such
jurisdictions as are necessary to terminate such interest.
4. Representations and Warranties of the Seller. The Seller hereby
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represents and warrants to the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, as of the
Removal Date:
(a) Legal, Valid and Binding Obligation. This Reassignment
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constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable
against the Seller, in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability
may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general or the rights of
creditors of a [Virginia banking corporation] [a federally chartered savings
bank], and except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of
equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity); and
(b) Pay Out Event. The Seller reasonably believes that (A) the
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removal of the Receivables existing in the Removed Accounts will not, based on
the facts known to the Seller, cause a Pay Out Event or any event that, after
giving of notice or the lapse of time, would constitute a Pay Out Event to occur
with respect to any Series and (B) no selection procedure reasonably believed by
the Seller to be materially adverse to the interests of the Investor
Certificateholders was used in selecting the Removed Accounts.
(c) List of Removed Accounts. The list of Removed Accounts delivered
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pursuant to Section 2.09(a) of the Agreement, as of the Removal Date, is true
and complete in all material respects.
5. Ratification of Agreement. As amended and supplemented by this
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Reassignment, the Agreement is in all respects ratified and confirmed and the
Agreement as so supplemented by this Reassignment shall be read, taken and
construed as one and the same instrument.
6. Counterparts. This Reassignment may be executed in two or more
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counterparts (and by different parties on separate counterparts), each of which
shall be an original, but all of which shall constitute one and the same
instrument.
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7. GOVERNING LAW. THIS REASSIGNMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
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WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Banks and the Trustee have caused this
Reassignment to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and
year first above written.
CAPITAL ONE BANK,
as a Bank
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.,
as a Bank
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF ANNUAL SERVICER'S CERTIFICATE
(To be delivered on or before May 31 of
each calendar year beginning with May 31, 1994,
pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement referred to below)
CAPITAL ONE BANK
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CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST
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The undersigned, a duly authorized representative of Capital One Bank,
as Servicer (the "Bank"), pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated
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as of September 30, 1993, as amended and restated as of April 9, 2001 (as
amended and supplemented, the "Agreement"), among the Bank, as a Seller and the
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Servicer, Capital One, F.S.B., as a Seller, and The Bank of New York, as
Trustee, does hereby certify that:
1. The Bank is, as of the date hereof, the Servicer under the
Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this Certificate have their respective
meanings as set forth in the Agreement.
2. The undersigned is a Servicing Officer who is duly authorized
pursuant to the Agreement to execute and deliver this Certificate to the
Trustee.
3. A review of the activities of the Servicer during the calendar
year ended December 31, 20__, and of its performance under the Agreement was
conducted under my supervision.
4. Based on such review, the Servicer has, to the best of my
knowledge, performed in all material respects its obligations under the
Agreement throughout such year and no default in the performance of such
obligations has occurred or is continuing except as set forth in paragraph 5
below.
5. The following is a description of each default in the performance
of the Servicer's obligations under the provisions of the Agreement known to me
to have been made by the Servicer during the year ended December 31, 20__, which
sets forth in detail (i) the nature of each such default, (ii) the action taken
by the Servicer, if any, to remedy each such default and (iii) the current
status of each such default: [If applicable, insert "None."]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate
this ____ day of _______, 20__.
CAPITAL ONE BANK,
as Servicer
By ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT E-1
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "1933 ACT"). NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY PORTION
HEREOF MAY BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION
PROVISIONS OF THE 1933 ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF ANY STATE BLUE SKY
OR SECURITIES LAWS OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION
PROVISIONS. THE TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS
SET FORTH IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A
BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED BELOW).
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EXHIBIT E-2
[FORM OF REPRESENTATION LETTER]
[Date]
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
Capital One Bank
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
XxXxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Capital One, F.S.B.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Purchase of $ /1/ principal amount of Capital One
Master Trust Series [ ] [ %] [Floating Rate] Asset
Backed Certificates
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our purchase of the above Asset Backed Certificates
(the "Certificates") we confirm that:
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(i) we understand that the Certificates are not being registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and are
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being sold to us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration
requirements of the 1933 Act;
(ii) any information we desire concerning the Certificates or any
other matter relevant to our decision to purchase the Certificates is or
has been made available to us;
(iii) we have such knowledge and experience in financial and business
matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an
investment in the Certificates, and we (and any account for which we are
purchasing under paragraph (iv) below) are able to bear the economic risk
of an investment in the Certificates; we (and any account for which we are
purchasing under paragraph (iv) below) are an "accredited investor" (as
such term is defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2) or (3) of Regulation D under
the 0000 Xxx); and we are not, and none of such accounts is, a Benefit
Plan;
(iv) we are acquiring the Certificates for our own account or for
accounts as to which we exercise sole investment discretion and not with a
view to any distribution of
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/1/ Not less than $250,000 minimum principal amount.
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the Certificates, subject, nevertheless, to the understanding that the
disposition, of our property shall at all times be and remain within our
control;
(v) we agree that the Certificates must be held indefinitely by us
unless subsequently registered under the 1933 Act or an exemption from any
registration requirements of that Act and any applicable state securities
law is available;
(vi) we agree that in the event that at some future time we wish to
dispose of or exchange any of the Certificates (such disposition or
exchange not being currently foreseen or contemplated), we will not
transfer or exchange any of the Certificates unless:
(A)(1) the sale is of at least U.S. $250,000 principal amount of
Certificates to an Eligible Purchaser (as defined below), (2) a letter
to substantially the same effect as paragraphs (i), (ii), (iii), (iv),
(v) and (vi) of this letter is executed promptly by the purchaser and
(3) all offers or solicitations in connection with the sale, whether
directly or through any agent acting on our behalf, are limited only
to Eligible Purchasers and are not made by means of any form of
general solicitation or general advertising whatsoever; or
(B) the Certificates are transferred pursuant to Rule 144
under the 1933 Act by us after we have held them for more than three
(3) years; or
(C) the Certificates are sold in any other transaction that
does not require registration under the 1933 Act and, if the Sellers,
the Servicer, the Trustee or the Transfer Agent and Registrar so
requests, we theretofore have furnished to such party an opinion of
counsel satisfactory to such party, in form and substance satisfactory
to such party, to such effect; or
(D) the Certificates are transferred pursuant to an exception
from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act under Rule 144A
under the 1933 Act; and
(vii) we understand that the Certificates will bear a legend to
substantially the following effect:
"THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "1933 ACT"). NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY
PORTION HEREOF MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION PROVISIONS OF THE 1933 ACT AND
ANY APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF ANY STATE BLUE SKY OR SECURITIES LAWS OR
PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM SUCH PROVISIONS. THE TRANSFER OF
THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THE POOLING
AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN."
["THE HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF REPRESENTS
AND WARRANTS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF CAPITAL ONE BANK
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AND CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., THAT SUCH HOLDER IS NOT (1) AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF
1974, AS AMENDED, (2) A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT (INCLUDING AN INDIVIDUAL
RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR XXXXX PLAN) THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, OR (3) AN ENTITY WHOSE
UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" UNDER THE PLAN ASSET REGULATION BY
REASON OF ANY SUCH PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY."]
The first paragraph of this legend may be removed if the Sellers, the Servicer,
the Trustee and the Transfer Agent and Registrar have received an opinion of
counsel satisfactory to them, in form and substance satisfactory to them, to the
effect that such paragraph may be removed.
"Eligible Purchaser" means either an Eligible Dealer or a corporation,
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partnership or other entity which we have reasonable grounds to believe and do
believe can make representations with respect to itself to substantially the
same effect as the representations set forth herein. "Eligible Dealer" means
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any corporation or other entity the principal business of which is acting as a
broker and/or dealer in securities. "Benefit Plan" means any employee benefit
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plan, trust or account, including an individual retirement account, that is
subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or that is
described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or an
entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in such entity. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall
have the meanings given to such terms in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement,
dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and restated as of April 9, 2001,
among Capital One Bank, as a seller and the servicer, Capital One, F.S.B., as a
seller, and The Bank of New York, as trustee.
Very truly yours,
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(Name of Purchaser)
by
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(Authorized Officer)
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EXHIBIT E-3
THE HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF CAPITAL ONE BANK AND CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., THAT SUCH HOLDER IS
NOT (1) AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, (2) A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT
(INCLUDING AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR XXXXX PLAN) THAT IS SUBJECT TO
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, OR (3) AN ENTITY
WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" UNDER THE PLAN ASSET REGULATION BY
REASON OF ANY SUCH PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY.
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EXHIBIT G-1
(FORM OF CLEARANCE SYSTEM CERTIFICATE
TO BE GIVEN TO THE TRUSTEE BY EUROCLEAR OR
CLEARSTREAM FOR DELIVERY OF DEFINITIVE CERTIFICATES
IN EXCHANGE FOR A PORTION OF A
TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY]
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST,
Series [ ] [ %] [Floating Rate]
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Asset Backed Certificates
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[Insert title or sufficient description
of Certificates to be delivered]
We refer to that portion of the temporary Global Certificate in
respect of the above-captioned issue which is herewith submitted to be exchanged
for definitive Certificates (the "Submitted Portion") as provided in the Pooling
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and Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and restated
as of April 9, 2001 (as amended and supplemented, the "Agreement") in respect of
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such issue. This is to certify that (i) we have received a certificate or
certificates, in writing or by tested telex, with respect to each of the-persons
appearing in our records as being entitled to a beneficial interest in the
Submitted Portion and with respect to such persons beneficial interest either
(a) from such person, substantially in the form of Exhibit G-2 to the Agreement,
or (b) from _________, substantially in the form of Exhibit G-3 to the
Agreement, and (ii) the Submitted Portion includes no part of the temporary
Global Certificate excepted in such certificates.
We further certify that as of the date hereof we have not received any
notification from any of the persons giving such certificates to the effect that
the statements made by them with respect to any part of the Submitted Portion
are no longer true and cannot be relied on as of the date hereof.
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We understand that this certificate is required in connection with
certain securities and tax laws in the United States of America. If
administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection
with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize
you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in
such proceedings.
Dated: , /1/ [Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V.,
as operator of the
Euroclear System]/2/
[Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme]/2/
by
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/1/ To be dated on the Exchange Date.
/2/ Delete the inappropriate reference.
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EXHIBIT G-2
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED
TO EUROCLEAR OR CLEARSTREAM
BY [INSERT NAME OF MANAGER]
WITH RESPECT TO REGISTERED CERTIFICATES SOLD TO
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS]
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST,
Series [ ] [ %] [Floating Rate]
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Asset Backed Certificates
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In connection with the initial issuance and placement of the above
referenced Asset Backed Certificates (the "Certificates"), an institutional
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investor in the United States ("institutional investor") is purchasing U.S.
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$___________ aggregate principal amount of the Certificates held in our account
at [Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System] [Clearstream
Banking, societe anonyme] on behalf of such investor.
We reasonably believe that such institutional investor is a qualified
institutional buyer as such term is defined under Rule 144A of the Securities
Act of 1933.
[We understand that this certificate is required in connection with
United States laws. We irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or
a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings
or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered by this certificate.]
The Definitive Certificates in respect of this certificate are to be
issued in registered form in the minimum denomination of U.S. $500,000 and such
Definitive Certificates (and, unless the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or
Supplement relating to the Certificates otherwise provides, any Certificates
issued in exchange or substitution for or on registration of transfer of
Certificates) shall bear the following legend:
"THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY PORTION
HEREOF MAY BE OFFERED OR SOLD, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN THE UNITED STATES OR
TO U.S. PERSONS (EACH AS DEFINED HEREIN), EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
REGISTRATION PROVISIONS OF SUCH ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM
SUCH REGISTRATION PROVISIONS. THE TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN. THIS CERTIFICATE CANNOT BE EXCHANGED FOR A BEARER CERTIFICATE."
Dated: _______ __, 20__
[ ],
by
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Authorized Officer
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EXHIBIT G-3
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED
TO EUROCLEAR OR CLEARSTREAM BY A BENEFICIAL OWNER
OF CERTIFICATES, OTHER THAN A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER]
CAPITAL ONE MASTER TRUST,
Series [ ] [ %] [Floating Rate]
Asset Backed Certificates
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This is to certify that as of the date hereof and except as provided
in the third paragraph hereof, the above-captioned Certificates held by you for
our account (i) are owned by a person that is a United States person, or
(ii) are owned by a United States person that is (A) the foreign branch of a
United States financial institution (as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations
Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v)) (a "financial institution") purchasing for its own
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account or for resale, or (B) a United States person who acquired the
Certificates through the foreign branch of a financial institution and who holds
the Certificates through the financial institution oh the date hereof (and in
either case (A) or (B), the financial institution hereby agrees to comply with
the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) are owned by
a financial institution for purposes of resale during the Restricted Period (as
defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(6)(2)(i)(D)(7)). In
addition, financial institutions described in clause (iii) of the preceding
sentence (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) certify that they
have not acquired the Certificates for purposes of resale directly or indirectly
to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its
possessions.
We undertake to advise you by tested telex if the above statement as
to beneficial ownership is not correct on the date of delivery of the above-
captioned Certificates in bearer form with respect to such of said Certificates
as then appear in your books as being held for our account.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to U.S. $_______
principal amount of Certificates held by you for our account, as to which we are
not yet able to certify beneficial ownership. We understand that delivery of
Definitive Certificates in such principal amount cannot be made until we are
able to so certify.
We understand that this certificate is required in connection with
certain securities and tax laws in the United States of America. If
administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection
with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize
you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in
such proceedings. As used herein, "United States" means the United States of
America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories,
its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction; and "United States
person" means a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation,
partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the
United States, or any political subdivision thereof, or an estate or trust the
income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless
of its source.
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Dated: /1/ by
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As, or as agent for, the
beneficial owner(s) of the
interest in the Certificates to
which this certificate relates.
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/1/ This Certificate must be dated on the earliest of the date of the first
actual payment of interest in respect of the Certificates and the date of the
delivery of the Certificates in definitive form.
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EXHIBIT H-1
FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL
WITH RESPECT TO AMENDMENTS
Provisions to be included in
Opinion of Counsel to be delivered pursuant
to Section 13.02(d)(i)
The opinions to the effect of the matters set forth below may be
subject to all the qualifications, assumptions, limitations and exceptions taken
or made in the Opinions of Counsel delivered on any applicable Closing Date and
may reflect the form and substance of such previously delivered Opinions of
Counsel.
(i) The amendment to the [Pooling and Servicing Agreement],
[Supplement], attached hereto as Schedule 1 (the "Amendment"), has been duly
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authorized, executed and delivered by the Seller and constitutes the legal,
valid and binding agreement of the Seller, enforceable in accordance with its
terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws from time to time in effect
affecting creditors' rights generally or the rights of creditors of Virginia
banking corporations or federal savings banks, as the case may be. The
enforceability of the Sellers' obligations is also subject to general principles
of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).
(ii) The Amendment has been entered into in accordance with the terms
and provisions of Section 13.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
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FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL
WITH RESPECT TO ACCOUNTS
Provisions to be included in
opinion of Counsel to be
delivered pursuant to
Section 13.02(d)(ii) or (iii)
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The opinions to the effect of the matters set forth below may be
subject to all the qualifications, assumptions, limitations and exceptions taken
or made in the Opinions of Counsel delivered on any applicable Closing Date and
may reflect the form and substance of such previously delivered Opinions of
Counsel.
1. The Receivables will constitute either "general intangibles" or
"accounts," in each case as defined under Section 9-106 of the UCC.
2. If the transfer of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement constitutes a true sale of the Receivables to
the Trust:
(i) with respect to Receivables in existence on the date hereof, such
sale transfers all of the right, title and interest of the applicable Seller in
and to such Receivables to the Trust, free and clear of any Liens now existing
or hereafter created, but subject to the rights of such Seller as holder of a
Seller Certificate;
(ii) with respect to Receivables which come into existence after the
date hereof, upon the creation of such Receivables and the subsequent transfer
of such Receivables to the Trust in accordance with the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement and receipt by the Sellers of the consideration therefor required
pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, such sale will transfer all of
the right, title and interest of the applicable Seller in and to such
Receivables to the Trust, free and clear of any Liens, but subject to the rights
of such Seller as holder of the Seller Certificate;
and, in either case, no further action will thereafter be required to protect
the Trust's ownership interest in the Receivables against creditors of, or
subsequent purchasers from, such Seller. We note, however, that if the
Receivables constitute "general intangibles" rather than "accounts", in equity
principles, but subject to the matters discussed in paragraph 4 below. Such
perfection, priority and enforceability of the security interest of the Trustee,
for the benefit of the Certificateholders, would not be affected by an increase
or decrease in the relative interests in the Receivables of the Investor
Certificateholders and the Sellers as holders of the Seller Certificates.
[3]4. Should the FDIC be appointed as a receiver or conservator for a
Seller and should a court characterize the transfers of the Receivables and the
proceeds thereof pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement as a transfer
of collateral as security for the obligations of such Seller under the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement rather than a sale, no statute, case or regulation
would, of its own force, cause the security interest of the Trustee for the
benefit of the
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Certificateholders in the Receivables and the proceeds thereof to be subject to
avoidance by the FDIC as receiver or conservator for such Seller.
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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT (the "Agreement"), dated as of _______ __, 20__
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(the "Assumption Date"), by and among CAPITAL ONE BANK, a Virginia banking
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corporation (the "Bank"),CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B., a federally chartered savings bank
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(the "Savings Bank" and, together with the Bank, the "Banks"), [____________]
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(the "Assuming Entity"), a [_________], and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York
banking corporation (the "Trustee"), pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement referred to below.
WHEREAS, the Bank and the Trustee are parties to the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, dated as of September 30, 1993, as amended and restated as
of April 9, 2001 (hereinafter as such agreement may have been, or from time to
time be, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the "Pooling and Servicing
Agreement");
WHEREAS, the [Bank] [Savings Bank] wishes to assign; transfer and
convey all of its consumer revolving credit card accounts and other revolving
credit accounts and the receivables arising thereunder, which may include all,
but not loss than all, of the Accounts and the [Bank's] [Savings Bank's]
remaining interest in the receivables arising thereunder, its interest in the
Participation Interests and its Sellers' Interest (collectively, the "Assigned
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Assets"), together with all servicing functions and other obligations under the
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Pooling and Servicing Agreement or relating to the transactions contemplated
thereby (collectively, the "Assumed Obligations") pursuant to Section 7.05 of
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the Pooling and Servicing Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Assuming
Entity and the Banks must comply with the provisions of Section 7.05 thereof in
order for the bank to transfer such Assigned Assets and Assumed obligations to
the Assuming Entity; and
WHEREAS, the Trustee is willing to accept an assumption by the
Assuming Entity subject to the terms and conditions hereof and of the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Banks, the Assuming Entity and the Trustee hereby
agree as follows:
1. Defined Terms. All terms defined in the Pooling and Servicing
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Agreement and used herein shall have such defined meanings when used herein,
unless otherwise defined herein.
2. Designation of Accounts. In connection with such conveyance, the
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Assuming Entity agrees, at its own expense, on or prior to the Assumption Date,
to deliver to the Trustee, a computer file or microfiche list containing a true
and complete list of all such Accounts or Participation Interests transferred by
the [Bank] [Savings Bank] to the Assuming Entity pursuant to this Agreement,
specifying (x) for each such Account, as of the Assumption
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Date, (i) its account number, (ii) the collection status, (iii) the aggregate
amount of Receivables outstanding in such Account and (iv) the aggregate amount
of Principal Receivables outstanding in such Account and (y) for each such
Participation Interests, as of the Assumption Date, information comparable to
the information delivered under (x) above. Such file shall be marked as Schedule
I to this Agreement and, as of the Assumption Date, shall be incorporated into
and made a part of this Agreement.
3. Assumption of Assigned Assets and Assumed Obligations. (a) The
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Assuming Entity hereby agrees that on and after the Assumption Date it shall be
bound by all the provisions and requirements of and assume all of the
responsibilities and duties under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement applicable
to the Servicer.
(b) In connection with such assumption, the Assuming Entity agrees to
record and file at its own expense, any financing statements (and continuation
statements with respect to such financing statements when applicable) with
respect to (i) the Receivables now existing and created on or after the
Assumption Date in the Accounts designated hereby (which may be a single
financing statement with respect to all such Receivables) for the transfer of or
the grant of a security interest in "accounts" or "general intangibles" as
defined in Section 9-106 of the UCC as in effect in the State of [ ] and
(ii) all other Trust Assets as defined In Section 2.01 of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement now existing and created an or after the Assumption Date,
meeting the requirements of applicable state law in such manner and In such
jurisdiction as are necessary to perfect the transfer and assignment of such
Receivables and other Trust Assets to the Trust, and to deliver a file-stamped
copy of such financing statement or financing statements or other evidence of
such filing (which may, for purposes of this Section 3, consist of telephone
confirmation of such filing, confirmed within 24 hours in writing) to the
Trustee on or prior to the Assumption Date.
(c) In connection with such transfer, the Assuming Entity further agrees,
at its own expense, on or prior to the date of this Agreement to clearly
indicate in its computer files that Receivables created In connection with the
Accounts or Participation Interests designated hereby have been conveyed to the
Trust pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this Agreement for the
benefit of the Investor Certificateholders.
4. Accepted by Trustee. The Trustee hereby acknowledges its
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acceptance on behalf of the Trust of such assumption. The Trustee further
acknowledges that, prior to or simultaneously with the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the Assuming Entity delivered to the Trustee the computer, file,
or microfiche list described in Section 2 of this Agreement. The foregoing
assumption does not constitute and is not intended to result in a creation or an
assumption by the Trust, the Trustee or any Investor Certificateholder of any
obligation of the Servicer, the Banks, the Assuming Entity or any other Person
in connection with the Account, the Receivables or any agreement or instrument
relating thereto, including, without limitation, any obligation to any obligors,
merchant banks, merchants clearance system, VISA, MasterCard or insurers, except
as expressly provided herein.
5. Representations and Warranties of the Assuming Entity and the
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Banks. In addition to the representations and warranties deemed to have been
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made by the Assuming Entity in respect of the Accounts and Receivables
thereunder pursuant to Section 7.05 of the Pooling
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and Servicing Agreement, the Assuming Entity and the Banks hereby also represent
and warrant to the Trust as of the Assumption Date:
(a) Legal, Valid and Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a
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legal, valid, and binding Obligation of the Assuming Entity and the Banks,
enforceable against the Assuming Entity and the Banks in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership, conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in affect
affecting creditors' rights in general and the rights of creditors of a Virginia
banking corporation or a federal savings bank, as the case may be, and except as
such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity (whether
considered in a suit at law or in equity).
(b) Insolvency. None of the Assuming Entity or the Bank is insolvent;
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and, after giving effect to the conveyance of the Assigned Assets and the
Assumed Obligations to the Assuming Entity by the [Bank] [Savings Bank], neither
the Assuming Entity nor the [Bank] [Savings Bank] will be insolvent;
(c) Security Interest. The security interest of the Trustee in the
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Receivables and other Trust Assets continues to remain in full force and effect
and has not been interrupted or impaired by the signing of this Agreement and
such security interest remains prior to all others except as set forth in the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement; and
(d) Qualification. The Assuming Entity (i) is legally qualified to
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service the Accounts, (ii) is eligible to maintain the Collection Account as set
forth in Section 4.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and (iii) is
qualified to use the software that the Servicer is currently using to service
the Account or has obtained the right to use or has its own software that is
adequate to perform its duties as Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
6. Conditions Precedent. The acceptance of the Trustee set forth in
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Section 4 and the amendment of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement set forth in
Section 7 are subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Assumption Date,
of the conditions precedent referred to in Section 7.05 of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement and of the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Bank shall have transferred the Bank Certificate to the
Assuming Entity as set forth in Section 7.05 of the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement and references to the Bank as it relates to the Bank Certificate shall
refer to only the Assuming Entity.
(b) The payment of any other consideration has been completed as
certified by the Assuming Entity to the Trustee.
(c) The Assuming Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate, dated the Assumption Date, stating that the Assuming
Entity is eligible to maintain the Collection Account pursuant to section 4.02
of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(d) The Assuming Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate, dated the Assumption Date, in which an officer of the
Assuming Entity shall state that the representations and warranties of the
Assuming Entity in its capacities as Seller under
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Section 2.03 and Section 7.04 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and
Servicer under Section 3.03 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement are true and
correct.
7. Amendment of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Pooling and
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Servicing Agreement is hereby amended to provide that all references therein to
the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement," to "this Agreement" and "herein" shall be
deemed from and after the Assumption Date to be a dual reference to the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement as supplemented by this Agreement and all other
Supplements thereto. The Assuming Entity and the Banks hereby agree that from
and after the Assumption Date the terms "Seller" and "Servicer" in the Pooling
and Servicing Agreement shall refer to the Assuming Entity. Except as expressly
amended hereby, all of the representations, warranties, terms, covenants and
conditions of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall remain unamended and
shall continue to be, and shall remain, in full force and effect in accordance
with its terms and, except as expressly provided herein, the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the Trustee shall not constitute or be deemed to
constitute a waiver of compliance with or a consent to non-compliance with any
term or provision of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
8. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
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WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
9. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two (2) or more
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counterparts (and by different parties on separate counterparts), each of which
shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed and delivered by their respective duly authorized officers on the
day and year first above written.
CAPITAL ONE BANK
By
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Name:
Title:
CAPITAL ONE, F.S.B.
By
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Name:
Title:
[ASSUMING ENTITY],
By
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Name:
Title:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as
Trustee,
By
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Title:
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SCHEDULE I
List of Accounts
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[Original list delivered to Trustee]
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