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Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies Policy (Policies)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies, Policy [Policy Text Block]
On a quarterly and annual basis, we review relevant information about all pending legal actions and proceedings for the purpose of evaluating and revising our contingencies, reserves and disclosures.
We establish a reserve for those matters when a loss is probable and we can reasonably estimate the amount of such loss.
For the remaining legal actions or proceedings, including those where there is only a reasonable possibility that a loss may be incurred, we are not currently able to estimate the reasonably possible losses or ranges of losses and we have not established a reserve with respect to those actions or proceedings.
Loan and Mortgage Related Securities Commitments, Policy [Policy Text Block]
We have unconditional commitments related to the purchase of loans and mortgage-related securities. These include both on- and off-balance sheet commitments. A portion of these have been recorded as derivatives in our consolidated balance sheets. Unfunded lending represents off-balance sheet commitments for the unutilized portion of lending agreements entered into with multifamily borrower