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BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 14, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Feb 14, 2025

BFH$98.61-3.2%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Contents

Table of Contents

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements1
PART I
1.Business3
1A.Risk Factors21
1B.Unresolved Staff Comments51
1C.Cybersecurity51
2.Properties52
3.Legal Proceedings52
4.Mine Safety Disclosures52
PART II
5.Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities53
6.[RESERVED]54
7.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations55
7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk79
8.Financial Statements and Supplementary Data79
9.Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure79
9A.Controls and Procedures79
9B.Other Information80
9C.Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections80
PART III
10.Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance81
11.Executive Compensation81
12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters81
13.Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence81
14.Principal Accounting Fees and Services81
PART IV
15.Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules82

This report includes trademarks, such as Bread®, Bread Financial®, Bread Cashback®, Bread Rewards™, Bread Pay® and Bread Savings®, which are protected under applicable intellectual property laws and are the property of Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. or our subsidiaries. This report also contains trademarks, service marks, copyrights and trade names of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, our trademarks and trade names referred to in this report may appear without the® or ™ symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights or the right of the applicable licensor to these trademarks and trade names.

Throughout this report, unless stated or the context implies otherwise, the terms “Bread Financial”, “BFH”, the “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us” refer to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. References to “Parent Company” refer to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. on a parent-only standalone basis. In addition, in this report we may refer to the retailers and other companies with whom we do business as our “partners”, “brand partners”, or “clients”, provided that the use of the term “partner”, “partnering” or any similar term does not mean or imply a formal legal partnership, and is not meant in any way to alter the terms of Bread Financial’s relationship with any third parties. We offer our credit products through our insured depository institution subsidiaries, Comenity Bank and Comenity Capital Bank, which together are referred to herein as the “Banks”. Bread Financial or other of the terms listed above are also used in this report to include references to transactions and arrangements occurring prior to our name change from Alliance Data Systems Corporation to Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. in March 2022.

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