Securitization Activities - Activity Related to Securitizations Accounted for as Sales (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2015	Feb. 28, 2014
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]
Transferred assets	$ 1,562.9	$ 1,626.9
Proceeds on new securitizations	1,564.5jef_ProceedsOnNewSecuritizations	1,628.1jef_ProceedsOnNewSecuritizations
Cash flows received on retained interests	$ 2.4	$ 8.5

Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to newly transferred assets related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 860

-SubTopic 20

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph b

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=13989330&loc=d3e107207-111719

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