Noninterest Expense (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Noninterest Expense [Abstract]

Components of noninterest expense

The following table presents the components of noninterest expense.

	Three months ended March 31,
(in millions)	2015		2014
Compensation expense	$	8,043	$	7,859
Noncompensation expense:
Occupancy expense	933		952
Technology, communications and equipment expense	1,491		1,411
Professional and outside services	1,634		1,786
Marketing	591		564
Other expense(a)(b)	2,191		2,064
Total noncompensation expense	6,840		6,777
Total noninterest expense	$	14,883	$	14,636

(a) Included firmwide legal expense of $687 million for the three months ended March 31, 2015. Firmwide legal expense was not material for the three months ended March 31, 2014.

(b) Included Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-related (“FDIC”) expense of $318 million and $293 million for the three months endedMarch 31, 2015, and 2014, respectively.