EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1128250
Filing Year: 2025
Filename: 1128250_10-K_2025_0001140361-25-010196.json

---

ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1:
Business.

---

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A:
Risk Factors.
Item 1C:
Cybersecurity.
Item 2:
Properties.
Item 3:
Legal Proceedings.

---

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B.
Unresolved Staff Comments.
Not Applicable.

---

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

---

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

---

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4.
Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not Applicable.
Substitute information provided in accordance with General Instruction J to Form 10-K:
Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB. Significant Obligors of Pool Assets (Financial Information).
The primary asset of BA Credit Card Trust is the collateral certificate, Series 2001-D, representing an undivided interest in BA Master Credit Card Trust II, whose assets include the receivables arising in a portfolio of unsecured consumer revolving credit card accounts. BA Master Credit Card Trust II, therefore, may be considered a significant obligor in relation to BA Credit Card Trust. Pursuant to Instruction 2.b. to Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB, the information required by Instruction J to Form 10-K in respect of BA Master Credit Card Trust II has been disclosed in this report on Form 10-K in lieu of the information otherwise contemplated by Item 1112(b).
The pool assets held by BA Master Credit Card Trust II do not include any significant obligors.
Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB: Credit Enhancement and Other Support, Except for Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Based on the standards set forth in Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB, no information is required in response to this Item.
Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB: Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Based on the standards set forth in Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB, no information is required in response to this Item.
Item 1117 of Regulation AB: Legal Proceedings.
Industry Developments
Bank of America, National Association (“BANA”) issues credit cards on MasterCard’s and Visa’s networks. MasterCard and Visa are subject to settlement obligations relating to certain litigations and continue to be subject to significant ongoing litigations, including class actions, and increased competition. These settlements and litigations are based on, among other things, claimed violations of United States federal antitrust laws, claims that currency conversion fees were wrongly applied on purchases of goods and services in foreign countries, and claims alleging that the interchange charged by MasterCard and Visa is impermissible. The costs associated with these settlements, litigations and other matters could cause MasterCard and Visa to invest less in their networks and marketing efforts and could adversely affect the interchange paid to their member banks, including BANA.
Litigation
In 2005, a group of merchants filed a series of putative class actions and individual actions directed at interchange fees associated with Visa and MasterCard payment card transactions. These actions, which were consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York under the caption In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Anti-Trust Litigation (Interchange), named Visa, MasterCard and several banks and bank holding companies, including Bank of America Corporation (“BAC”), as defendants. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to fix the level of default interchange rates and that certain rules of Visa and MasterCard were unreasonable restraints of trade. Plaintiffs sought compensatory and treble damages and injunctive relief.
On October 19, 2012, defendants reached a settlement with respect to the putative class actions that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected. In 2018, defendants reached a settlement with the representatives of the putative Rule 23(b)(3) damages class to contribute an additional $900 million to the approximately $5.3 billion held in escrow from the prior settlement. The District Court approved that settlement with the putative Rule 23(b)(3) damages class on December 13, 2019, but that approval was appealed. On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court’s approval of that settlement, but certain objectors have filed a petition for rehearing of that appeal. On March 26, 2024, Visa and Mastercard announced a settlement covering the injunctive relief component of the class action litigation, which must be approved by the District Court before it becomes final. Plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement on March 26, 2024. On June 25, 2024, the Court denied the Motion for Preliminary Approval of the injunctive relief settlement.
In addition, the Rule 23(b)(2) action seeking injunctive relief is pending with a class certified on September 27, 2021, and a number of individual merchant actions continue against the defendants, including one against BAC. As a result of various loss-sharing agreements, however, BAC remains liable for a portion of any settlement or judgment in individual actions where it is not named as a defendant.
Legal Proceedings Involving The Bank of New York Mellon
In the ordinary course of business, The Bank of New York Mellon, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., and BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware (collectively, “BNY Mellon”) are named as a defendant in legal actions. In connection with its role as trustee of certain residential mortgage-backed securitization (“RMBS”) transactions, BNY Mellon has been named as a defendant in a number of legal actions brought by RMBS investors. These lawsuits allege that the trustee had expansive duties under the governing agreements, including the duty to investigate and pursue breach of representation and warranty claims against other parties to the RMBS transactions. While it is inherently difficult to predict the eventual outcomes of pending actions, BNY Mellon denies liability and intends to defend the litigations vigorously.
The Bank of New York Mellon has provided us with the information in the paragraph above in response to the requirements of Regulation AB. Other than the above paragraph and the information concerning The Bank of New York Mellon specified in this Form 10-K under the caption Item 1122 of Regulation AB: Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria and in Exhibit 33.2 to this Form 10-K, The Bank of New York Mellon has not participated in the preparation of, and is not responsible for, any other information contained in this Form 10-K.
PART II
The following Items have been omitted in accordance with General Instruction J to Form 10-K:

---

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5:
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

---

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6:
[Reserved]

---

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Item 7:
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

---

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A:
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.

---

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8:
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

---

ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9:
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

---

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A:
Controls and Procedures.

---

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B:
Other Information.
None.

---

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10:
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

---

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11:
Executive Compensation.

---

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12:
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

---

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13:
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

---

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14:
Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
Substitute information provided in accordance with General Instruction J to Form 10-K:
Item 1119 of Regulation AB: Affiliations and Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
Information required by Item 1119 of Regulation AB has been omitted from this report on Form 10-K in reliance on the Instruction to Item 1119.
Item 1122 of Regulation AB: Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria.
Each of BANA, with respect to itself and its affiliated servicing participants, and The Bank of New York Mellon (each, a “Servicing Participant”) has been identified by the registrant as a party participating in the servicing function with respect to the pool assets held by each of BA Master Credit Card Trust II and BA Credit Card Trust. Each Servicing Participant has completed a report on assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to such Servicing Participant (each, a “Report on Assessment”), which Reports on Assessment are attached as exhibits to this Form 10-K. In addition, each of the Servicing Participants has provided an attestation report (each, an “Attestation Report”) by a registered independent public accounting firm regarding its related Report on Assessment. Each Attestation Report is attached as an exhibit to this Form 10-K. We have not independently verified the accuracy of The Bank of New York Mellon’s assertions or the related attestations of its registered independent public accounting firm.
A Servicing Participant may engage one or more vendors to perform specific and limited activities that address all or a portion of one or more servicing criteria applicable to such Servicing Participant. Each Servicing Participant indicates that it has instituted policies and procedures to monitor whether its vendors’ activities comply in all material respects with such servicing criteria, and has elected to take responsibility for assessing compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to its vendors’ activities in such Servicing Participant’s Report on Assessment.
Except as disclosed below, no Report on Assessment or related Attestation Report has identified (i) any material instance of noncompliance with the servicing criteria identified in such Report on Assessment as applicable to the related Servicing Participant or (ii) any material deficiency in such Servicing Participant’s policies and procedures to monitor vendor compliance.
Exceptions:
The Bank of New York Mellon: The Bank of New York Mellon’s Report on Assessment and the related Attestation Report prepared by KPMG LLP have identified material noncompliance with one servicing criterion applicable to The Bank of New York Mellon.
Servicing criterion 1122(d)(3)(ii) contemplates that amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements.
Noncompliance: The Bank of New York Mellon indicates that during the reporting period, a material instance of noncompliance occurred with respect to the servicing criterion set forth in Item 1122(d)(3)(ii) with respect to remittances as follows: amounts due to investors were not remitted in accordance with timeframes set forth in the transaction agreements. More specifically, The Bank of New York indicates that the first distribution for the Consumers 2023 Securitization Funding LLC transaction due on September 3, 2024 ($82,421,673.75) was remitted one day late.
Remediation: The Bank of New York Mellon indicates that it has implemented a daily report, which is distributed daily to its management, that identifies outstanding deal onboarding items serving as a reminder of tasks not yet completed as another check in the process aimed at preventing missed payments. Additionally, The Bank of New York Mellon indicates that programmers are working to build a status report at an individual level, rather than a group level, flagging individuals that have deal onboarding tasks to complete.
The Bank of New York Mellon indicates that none of the identified instances of noncompliance involved the servicing of pool assets held by either BA Credit Card Trust or by BA Master Credit Card Trust II.
We have not independently verified the accuracy of The Bank of New York Mellon’s assertions or the adequacy of its remediation efforts.
Platform-Level Reports:
Regulations of the SEC require that each servicing participant complete a report on assessment at a “platform” level, meaning that the transactions covered by the report on assessment should include all asset-backed securities transactions involving such servicing participant that are backed by the same asset type. Subsequent guidance from the SEC staff identifies additional parameters that a servicing participant may apply to define and further limit its platform. For example, a servicing participant may define its platform to include only transactions that were completed on or after January 1, 2006 (the effective date for Regulation AB) and that were registered with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933. Each servicing participant is responsible for defining its own platform, and each platform will naturally differ based on various factors, including the servicing participant’s business model, the transactions in which it is involved and the range of activities performed in those transactions.
Item 1123 of Regulation AB: Servicer Compliance Statement.
BANA has been identified by the registrant as a servicer meeting the criteria of Item 1108(a)(2)(i), (ii) or (iii) of Regulation AB with respect to the pool assets held by each of BA Master Credit Card Trust II and BA Credit Card Trust. BANA has provided a statement of compliance with the related servicing agreement (the “Compliance Statement”), signed by an authorized officer of BANA. The Compliance Statement is attached as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.
PART IV

---

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15.
Exhibit and Financial Statement Schedules.
(a)(1)
Not Applicable.
(a)(2)
Not Applicable.
(a)(3)
Not Applicable.
(b)
Exhibits
Exhibit Index
Exhibit
Number
Description
3.1
Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of BA Credit Card Funding, LLC (included as Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 8, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
3.2
Certificate of Formation of BA Credit Card Funding, LLC (included as Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form SF-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2025, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.1
Fourth Amended and Restated Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.2 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.2
First Amendment to Fourth Amended and Restated Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2016 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.3
Fifth Amended and Restated Series 2001-D Supplement to Fourth Amended and Restated Pooling and Servicing Agreement relating to the Collateral Certificate, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.3 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.4
Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the BA Credit Card Trust, dated as of October 1, 2014 (included as Exhibit 4.3 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.5
First Amendment to Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.6 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.6
Fourth Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.4 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.7
Third Amended and Restated BAseries Indenture Supplement, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.5 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.8
Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.7 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.9
First Amendment to Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of May 25, 2016 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 25, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.10
Dispute Resolution Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2015 (included as Exhibit 4.8 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.11
Second Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 8, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.12
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.1
Class A(2021-1) Terms Document, dated as of May 14, 2021 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2021, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.2
Class A(2022-1) Terms Document, dated as of June 16, 2022 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2022, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.3
Class A(2022-2) Terms Document, dated as of November 23, 2022 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2022, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.4
Class A(2023-1) Terms Document, dated as of June 16, 2023 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.5
Class A(2023-2) Terms Document, dated as of December 14, 2023 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 14, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference).
4.13.6
Class A(2024-1) Terms Document, dated as of June 13, 2024 (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2024, which is incorporated herein by reference).
31.1
Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
33.1
Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria for Bank of America, National Association and its affiliated servicing participants.
33.2
Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria for The Bank of New York Mellon as of, and for the twelve months ended, December 31, 2024.
34.1
Attestation Report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria relating to Bank of America, National Association and its affiliated servicing participants.
34.2
Attestation Report of KPMG LLP on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria relating to The Bank of New York Mellon filed as Exhibit 33.2.
35.1
Servicer Compliance Statement of Bank of America, National Association.
99.1
Amended and Restated Defaulted Receivables Supplemental Servicing Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2014, between Bank of America, National Association and BA Credit Card Funding, LLC (included as Exhibit 4.8 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference).
99.2
First Amendment to Amended and Restated Defaulted Receivables Supplemental Servicing Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2015, between Bank of America, National Association and BA Credit Card Funding, LLC (included as Exhibit 4.4 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 8, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
99.3
Delegation of Servicing Activities Agreement (included in Exhibit 99.1 to the registrant’s Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference).
(c)
Not Applicable.