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Loan to Value Ratio, Purchased Residential Mortgages

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Overdraft Repayment Period

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Percentage Collateral To Loans

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Percentage of Loans 60 or more Days Past Due

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Percentage of loans 30 days or more past due

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Purchased residential mortgages.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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For an unclassified balance sheet, amounts due from related parties including affiliates, employees, joint ventures, officers and stockholders, immediate families thereof, and pension funds.

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Number of financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months and for which there was a payment default.

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Amount of investment related to financing receivables modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months, for which there was a payment default.

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Net amount of the investment in a contractual right to receive money on demand or on fixed or determinable dates that is recognized as an asset in the creditor's statement of financial position. Examples include, but are not limited to, credit card receivables, notes receivable and receivables relating to lessor's rights to payments from leases other than operating leases that have been recorded as assets. Excludes trade accounts receivable with contractual maturity of one year or less and arose from the sale of goods or services.

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Loans and Asset Quality - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans to directors and executive officers and to entities in which certain of our directors have an ownership interest or direct or indirect subsidiaries of such entities	$ 5	$ 3	$ 3
Loans	46,629	43,979
Number of business days in which overdrafts are generally repaid	2 days
Other Residential Mortgages
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Subsequently defaulted number of contracts	21
Subsequently defaulted recorded investment	6
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loan to value ratio at origination	63.00%
Percentage of past due mortgages	1.00%
Loans	4,142	3,781
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment \| New York State
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Geographic concentrations	22.00%
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment \| California State
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Geographic concentrations	19.00%
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment \| Massachusetts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Geographic concentrations	17.00%
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment \| Florida
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Geographic concentrations	8.00%
Wealth Management Mortgages Portfolio Segment \| Other
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Geographic concentrations	34.00%
Overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	5,298	4,849
Number of business days in which overdrafts are generally repaid	2 days
Domestic
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	36,459	33,971
Domestic \| Other Residential Mortgages
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	1,632	1,923
Purchased mortgages	497
Purchased residential mortgages, loan to value ratio	75.00%
Percentage of purchased residential mortgages that were at least 60 days delinquent	24.00%
Domestic \| Overdrafts
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	2,228	2,958	4,524
Domestic \| Margin Loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 13,397	$ 12,760	$ 6,810
Domestic \| Margin Loans \| Minimum
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Required daily collateral margin	100.00%	100.00%