In general, the period of time that home equity lines of credit are open-ended revolving loans.

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This item represents the percentage of loans 30 plus days past due as compared to total retained loans.

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The percentage of the financing receivables that consists of senior liens.

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Amount before allowance and after deduction of deferred interest and fees, unamortized costs and premiums and discounts from face amounts, of loans and leases held in portfolio, including but not limited to, commercial and consumer loans. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
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Loans - Consumer, Excluding Credit Card Loan Portfolio, PCI Delinquency Statistics (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 947,651	$ 924,838	$ 909,182
Consumer, excluding credit card
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	375,958	372,553	$ 369,413
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Total
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 29,318	$ 33,450
Total 30 day delinquency rate	2.61%	3.17%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Total \| Senior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Percentage of senior liens to total financing receivables	37.00%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Total \| Junior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 18,568	$ 21,266
Total 30 day delinquency rate	2.04%	2.64%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| HELOANs \| Junior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 1,104	$ 1,371
Total 30 day delinquency rate	2.99%	3.50%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| Total
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 9,393	$ 10,799
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| Total \| Senior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Percentage of senior liens to total financing receivables	25.00%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| Total \| Junior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 7,139	$ 8,286
Total 30 day delinquency rate	3.77%	4.65%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| HELOCs \| Junior lien \| Within the revolving period
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 6	$ 51
Total 30 day delinquency rate	0.00%	1.96%
Open-ended revolving period	10 years
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| HELOCs \| Junior lien \| Beyond the revolving period
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 6,837	$ 7,875
Total 30 day delinquency rate	3.79%	4.63%
Consumer, excluding credit card \| Residential real estate – PCI \| HELOANs \| Junior lien
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans	$ 296	$ 360
Total 30 day delinquency rate	3.38%	5.28%