Pledged Assets and Collateral

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Pledged assets and collateral

For a discussion of the Firm’s pledged assets and collateral, refer to Note 28 of JPMorgan Chase’s 2018 Form 10-K.

Pledged assets

The Firm may pledge financial assets that it owns to maintain potential borrowing capacity at discount windows with Federal Reserve banks, various other central banks and FHLBs. Additionally, pledged assets are used for other purposes, including to collateralize repurchase and other securities financing agreements, to cover short sales and to collateralize derivative contracts and deposits. Certain of these pledged assets may be sold or repledged or otherwise used by the secured parties and are parenthetically identified on the Consolidated balance sheets as assets pledged.

The following table presents the Firm’s pledged assets.



(in billions)	March 31, 2019		December 31, 2018
Assets that may be sold or repledged or otherwise used by secured parties	$	166.9	$	104.0
Assets that may not be sold or repledged or otherwise used by secured parties	109.9		83.7
Assets pledged at Federal Reserve banks and FHLBs	453.2		475.3
Total assets pledged	$	730.0	$	663.0

Total assets pledged do not include assets of consolidated VIEs; these assets are used to settle the liabilities of those entities. Refer to Note 13 for additional information on assets and liabilities of consolidated VIEs. For additional information on the Firm’s securities financing activities, refer to Note 10. For additional information on the Firm’s long-term debt, refer to Note 19 of JPMorgan Chase’s 2018 Form 10-K.

Collateral

The Firm accepts financial assets as collateral that it is permitted to sell or repledge, deliver or otherwise use. This collateral is generally obtained under resale and other securities financing agreements, customer margin loans and derivative contracts. Collateral is generally used under repurchase and other securities financing agreements, to cover short sales and to collateralize derivative contracts and deposits.

The following table presents the fair value of collateral accepted.



(in billions)	March 31, 2019		December 31, 2018
Collateral permitted to be sold or repledged, delivered, or otherwise used	$	1,330.5	$	1,245.3
Collateral sold, repledged, delivered or otherwise used	1,046.9		998.3