Long-Term Debt (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 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.

	June 30, 2013						December 31, 2012
($ in millions)	Unsecured		Secured		Total		Unsecured		Secured		Total
Long-term debt
Due within one year	$	4,494	$	10,879	$	15,373	$	1,070	$	11,503	$	12,573
Due after one year (a)	27,749		20,720		48,469		31,486		29,408		60,894
Fair value adjustment	692		—		692		1,094		—		1,094
Total long-term debt	$	32,935	$	31,599	$	64,534	$	33,650	$	40,911	$	74,561

(a) Includes $2.6 billion and $2.6 billion of trust preferred securities at both June 30, 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	$	896		$	5,588		$	5,123		$	1,970		$	3,687		$	16,695		$	692	$	34,651
Original issue discount	(137		)	(188		)	(56		)	(63		)	(75		)	(1,197		)	—		(1,716		)
Total unsecured	759			5,400			5,067			1,907			3,612			15,498			692		32,935
Secured
Long-term debt	4,204			11,935			8,308			3,959			2,490			703			—		31,599
Total long-term debt	$	4,963		$	17,335		$	13,375		$	5,866		$	6,102		$	16,201		$	692	$	64,534

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.

	June 30, 2013				December 31, 2012
($ in millions)	Total		Ally Bank (a)		Total		Ally Bank (a)
Investment securities	$	—	$	—	$	1,911	$	1,911
Mortgage finance receivables and loans	9,353		9,353		9,866		9,866
Consumer automobile finance receivables	21,190		12,628		29,557		14,833
Commercial automobile finance receivables	17,371		17,371		19,606		19,606
Investment in operating leases, net	7,661		4,178		6,058		1,691
Other assets	982		175		999		272
Total assets restricted as collateral (b)	$	56,557	$	43,705	$	67,997	$	48,179
Secured debt (c)	$	32,599	$	22,304	$	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 $12.1 billion and $12.6 billion at June 30, 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 $3.4 billion and $1.9 billion at June 30, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively. These assets were composed of 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 $1.0 billion and $4.2 billion of short-term borrowings at June 30, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively.

Schedule Of Committed Funding Facilities [Table Text Block]

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Committed Funding Facilities

	Outstanding				Unused Capacity (a)				Total Capacity
($ in billions)	June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012		June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012		June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012
Bank funding
Secured	$	1.7	$	3.8	$	1.8	$	4.7	$	3.5	$	8.5
Parent funding
Unsecured (b)	—		0.1		—		—		—		0.1
Secured (c) (d) (e)	9.0		22.5		11.7		7.8		20.7		30.3
Total Parent funding	9.0		22.6		11.7		7.8		20.7		30.4
Shared capacity (f) (g)	—		1.1		4.1		3.0		4.1		4.1
Total committed facilities	$	10.7	$	27.5	$	17.6	$	15.5	$	28.3	$	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 parent funding capacity represents committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business.

(c) Total secured parent funding capacity includes committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business of$2.5 billion and $12.0 billion as of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively, with outstanding debt of $2.0 billion and $9.6 billion, respectively.

(d) Total unused capacity includes$1.5 billion and $2.2 billion as of June 30, 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 facilities includes committed funding for our discontinued international automobile financing business of$0.1 billion as of December 31, 2012, with outstanding debt of $0.1 billion.

Uncommitted Funding

Schedule Of Uncommitted Funding Facilities [Table Text Block]

	Outstanding				Unused Capacity				Total Capacity
($ in billions)	June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012		June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012		June 30, 2013		December 31, 2012
Bank funding
Secured
Federal Reserve funding programs	$	—	$	—	$	1.8	$	1.8	$	1.8	$	1.8
FHLB advances	1.5		4.8		4.0		0.4		5.5		5.2
Total bank funding	1.5		4.8		5.8		2.2		7.3		7.0
Parent funding
Unsecured	1.3		2.1		—		0.4		1.3		2.5
Secured	—		0.1		—		0.1		—		0.2
Total parent funding (a)	1.3		2.2		—		0.5		1.3		2.7
Total uncommitted facilities	$	2.8	$	7.0	$	5.8	$	2.7	$	8.6	$	9.7

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