Servicing Activities (Components Of Mortgage Servicing Fees) (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013	Sep. 30, 2014	Sep. 30, 2013
Servicing Activities [Abstract]
Contractual servicing fees, net of guarantee fees and including subservicing	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 61
Late fees	0	0	0	1
Ancillary fees	0	0	0	4
Total mortgage servicing fees	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 66

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All amounts that are due to the servicer of a financial asset, excluding contractually specified servicing fees and late fees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 860

-SubTopic 50

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=7882072&loc=d3e122596-111746

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All amounts that, per contract, are due to the servicer in exchange for servicing the financial asset and would no longer be received by a servicer if the beneficial owners of the serviced assets (or their trustees or agents) were to exercise their actual or potential authority under the contract to shift the servicing to another servicer. Depending on the servicing contract, those fees may include some or all of the difference between the interest rate collected on the asset being serviced and the rate to be paid to the beneficial owners of the asset.

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- Definition

The total amount of contractually specified servicing fees, late fees, and ancillary fees earned for each period for which results of operations are presented.

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- Definition

All amounts that are due to the servicer of a financial asset as a result of the debt holder not meeting the monthly payment terms.

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