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Represents amount of cash, and if applicable, U.S. government securities and/or mortgage-backed securities, pledged under master netting and other collateral agreements to collateralize net derivative liabilities owed to counterparties.

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Cash Flow Hedge Gain (Loss) to be Reclassified within Twelve Months, Net of Tax

No definition available.

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The estimated net amount of existing gains or losses on cash flow hedges at the reporting date expected to be reclassified to earnings within the next 12 months.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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Maximum length of time over which the entity is hedging its exposure to the variability in future cash flows for forecasted transactions, excluding those forecasted transactions related to the payment of variable interest on existing financial instruments, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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