Alliance Data Provides Card Services Performance Update For February 2017

DALLAS, March 15, 2017

In conjunction with the release of the Company's Master Trust Monthly Noteholder's Statement, the Company is releasing similar metrics for the overall total managed portfolio. The Master Trust data represents a subset of the Company's total managed portfolio, and the Company believes the information presented below provides a more complete view of the Card Services segment.

	For the month ended February 28, 2017			For the two months ended ARIVA.DE Börsen-Geflüster Kurse Bread Financial Inc 30,16 € -0,13% February 28, 2017
	(dollars in thousands)
Average receivables	$	15,599,473		$	15,796,164
Year over year change in average receivables		15%			17%
Net charge-offs	$	84,158		$	166,114
Net charge-offs as a percentage of average receivables(1) (2)		6.5%			6.3%
(1)  The net loss rate is consistent with maintaining the Company's full year guidance of $7.7 billion in        total revenue, $18.50 in core EPS, and a net loss rate in a mid-5% range.  Net loss rates are expected        to be higher in the first half of 2017 and are tracking to improve significantly in the second half of the year.
(2)  Compares to 5.0% and 5.3% for the month and two months ended February 29, 2016, respectively.
	As of February 28, 2017			As of February 29, 2016
	(dollars in thousands)
30 days + delinquencies - principal	$	768,325		$	576,576
Period ended receivables - principal	$	14,969,512		$	12,985,599
Delinquency rate		5.1%			4.4%

About Alliance Data

Alliance Data^® (NYSE: ADS) is a leading global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions serving large, consumer-based industries. The Company creates and deploys customized solutions, enhancing the critical customer marketing experience; the result is measurably changing consumer behavior while driving business growth and profitability for some of today's most recognizable brands. Alliance Data helps its clients create and increase customer loyalty through solutions that engage millions of customers each day across multiple touch points using traditional, digital, mobile and emerging technologies. An S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company headquartered in Plano, Texas, Alliance Data consists of three businesses that together employ more than 16,000 associates at approximately 100 locations worldwide.

Alliance Data's Card Services business is a leading provider of marketing-driven branded credit card programs. Epsilon^® is a leading provider of multichannel, data-driven technologies and marketing services, and also includes Conversant^®, a leader in personalized digital marketing. LoyaltyOne^® owns and operates the AIR MILES^® Reward Program, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, and Netherlands-based BrandLoyalty, a global provider of tailor-made loyalty programs for grocers.

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