Long-Term Debt (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Long-term Debt, Unclassified [Abstract]

Long-term Debt Portfolio [Table Text Block]

The following tables present the composition of our long-term debt portfolio.

	March 31, 2013						December 31, 2012
($ in millions)	Unsecured		Secured		Total		Unsecured		Secured		Total
Long-term debt
Due within one year	$	3,809	$	10,964	$	14,773	$	1,070	$	11,503	$	12,573
Due after one year (a)	28,448		23,444		51,892		31,486		29,408		60,894
Fair value adjustment	956		—		956		1,094		—		1,094
Total long-term debt	$	33,213	$	34,408	$	67,621	$	33,650	$	40,911	$	74,561

(a) Includes $2.6 billion and $2.6 billion of trust preferred securities at both March 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.

Scheduled Remaining Maturity of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

The following table presents the scheduled remaining maturity of long-term debt, assuming no early redemptions will occur. The actual payment of secured debt may vary based on the payment activity of the related pledged assets.

Year ended December 31, ($ in millions)	2013			2014			2015			2016			2017			2018 and thereafter			Fair value adjustment		Total
Unsecured
Long-term debt	$	1,008		$	5,588		$	5,092		$	1,970		$	3,681		$	16,698		$	956	$	34,993
Original issue discount	(201		)	(188		)	(56		)	(63		)	(75		)	(1,197		)	—		(1,780		)
Total unsecured	807			5,400			5,036			1,907			3,606			15,501			956		33,213
Secured
Long-term debt	7,109			12,005			8,137			3,574			2,722			861			—		34,408
Total long-term debt	$	7,916		$	17,405		$	13,173		$	5,481		$	6,328		$	16,362		$	956	$	67,621

Pledged assets for the payment of the related secured borrowings and repurchase agreements [Table Text Block]

The following summarizes assets restricted as collateral for the payment of the related debt obligation primarily arising from securitization transactions accounted for as secured borrowings and repurchase agreements.

	March 31, 2013				December 31, 2012
($ in millions)	Total		Ally Bank (a)		Total		Ally Bank (a)
Investment securities	$	500	$	500	$	1,911	$	1,911
Mortgage assets held-for-investment and lending receivables	9,715		9,715		9,866		9,866
Consumer automobile finance receivables	23,953		12,673		29,557		14,833
Commercial automobile finance receivables	18,574		18,574		19,606		19,606
Investment in operating leases, net	6,872		2,966		6,058		1,691
Other assets	973		252		999		272
Total assets restricted as collateral (b)	$	60,587	$	44,680	$	67,997	$	48,179
Secured debt (c)	$	38,790	$	25,864	$	45,111	$	29,162

(a) Ally Bank is a component of the total column.

(b) Ally Bank has an advance agreement with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLB) and had assets pledged to secure borrowings that were restricted as collateral to the FHLB totaling $12.5 billion and $12.6 billion at March 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively. These assets were composed primarily of consumer and commercial mortgage finance receivables and loans, net. Ally Bank has access to the Federal Reserve Bank Discount Window. Ally Bank had assets pledged and restricted as collateral to the Federal Reserve Bank totaling $3.1 billion and $1.9 billion at March 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively. These assets were composed of consumer mortgage finance receivables and loans, net; consumer automobile finance receivables and loans, net; and investment securities. Availability under these programs is only for the operations of Ally Bank and cannot be used to fund the operations or liabilities of Ally or its subsidiaries.

(c) Includes $4.4 billion and $4.2 billion of short-term borrowings at March 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively.

Schedule Of Committed Funding Facilities [Table Text Block]

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	Outstanding				Unused Capacity (a)				Total Capacity
($ in billions)	March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012
Bank funding
Secured	$	1.7	$	3.8	$	1.8	$	4.7	$	3.5	$	8.5
Nonbank funding
Unsecured (b)	0.1		0.1		—		—		0.1		0.1
Secured (c) (d) (e)	13.9		22.5		11.8		7.8		25.7		30.3
Total nonbank funding	14.0		22.6		11.8		7.8		25.8		30.4
Shared capacity (f) (g)	1.1		1.1		3.0		3.0		4.1		4.1
Total committed facilities	$	16.8	$	27.5	$	16.6	$	15.5	$	33.4	$	43.0

(a) Funding from committed secured facilities is available on request in the event excess collateral resides in certain facilities or is available to the extent incremental collateral is available and contributed to the facilities.

(b) Total unsecured nonbank funding capacity represents committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business.

(c) Total secured nonbank funding capacity includes committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business of$6.9 billion and $12.0 billion as of March 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively, with outstanding debt of $5.1 billion and $9.6 billion, respectively.

(d) Total unused capacity includes$2.1 billion and $2.2 billion as of March 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively, from certain committed funding arrangements that are generally reliant upon the origination of future automotive receivables and that are available in 2013.

(e) Includes the secured facilities of our Commercial Finance Group.

(f) Funding is generally available for assets originated by Ally Bank or the parent company, Ally Financial Inc.

(g) Total shared bank facilities includes committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business of$0.1 billion and $0.1 billion as of March 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively with outstanding debt of $0.1 billion and $0.1 billion, respectively.

Uncommitted Funding

Schedule Of Uncommitted Funding Facilities [Table Text Block]

	Outstanding				Unused Capacity (a)				Total Capacity
($ in billions)	March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012		March 31, 2013		December 31, 2012
Bank funding
Secured
Federal Reserve funding programs	$	—	$	—	$	1.8	$	1.8	$	1.8	$	1.8
FHLB advances	4.5		4.8		0.8		0.4		5.3		5.2
Repurchase agreements	0.5		—		—		—		0.5		—
Total bank funding	5.0		4.8		2.6		2.2		7.6		7.0
Nonbank funding
Unsecured	2.2		2.1		0.4		0.4		2.6		2.5
Secured	—		0.1		0.1		0.1		0.1		0.2
Total nonbank funding (a)	2.2		2.2		0.5		0.5		2.7		2.7
Total uncommitted facilities	$	7.2	$	7.0	$	3.1	$	2.7	$	10.3	$	9.7

(a) Total nonbank funding capacity represents uncommitted funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business.