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Revenue from Contracts with Clients
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Revenue from Contracts with Clients Revenue from Contracts with Clients
Trust, Investment, and Other Servicing Fees. Custody and Fund Administration income is comprised of revenues received from our core asset servicing business for providing custody, fund administration, and middle-office-related services, primarily to C&IS clients. Investment Management and Advisory income contains revenue received from providing asset management and related services to Wealth Management and C&IS clients and to Northern Trust sponsored funds. Securities Lending income represents revenues generated from securities lending arrangements that Northern Trust enters into as agent, mainly with C&IS clients. Other income largely consists of revenues received from providing employee benefit, investment risk and analytic and other services to C&IS and Wealth Management clients.

Other Noninterest Income. Treasury management income represents revenues received from providing cash and liquidity management services to C&IS and Wealth Management clients. The portion of Security Commissions and Trading Income that relates to revenue from contracts with clients is primarily comprised of commissions earned from providing securities brokerage services to Wealth Management and C&IS clients. The portion of Other Operating Income that relates to revenue from contracts with clients is mainly comprised of service fees for banking-related services provided to Wealth Management and C&IS clients.

Performance Obligations. Clients are typically charged monthly or quarterly in arrears based on the fee arrangement agreed to with each client; payment terms will vary depending on the client and services offered.
Substantially all revenues generated from contracts with clients for asset servicing, asset management, securities lending, treasury management and banking-related services are recognized on an accrual basis, over the period in which services are provided. The nature of Northern Trust’s performance obligations is to provide a series of distinct services in which the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits of the promised services as they are performed. Fee arrangements are mainly comprised of variable amounts based on market value of client assets managed and serviced, transaction volumes, number of accounts, and securities lending volume and spreads. Revenue is recognized using the output method in an amount that reflects the consideration to which Northern Trust expects to be entitled in exchange for providing each month or quarter of service. For contracts with multiple performance obligations, revenue is allocated to each performance obligation based on the price agreed to with the client, representing its relative standalone selling price.
Security brokerage revenue is primarily represented by securities commissions received in exchange of providing trade execution related services. Control is transferred at a point in time, on the trade date of the transaction, and fees are typically variable based on transaction volumes and security types.
Northern Trust’s contracts with its clients are typically open-ended arrangements and are therefore considered to have an original duration of less than one year. Northern Trust has elected the practical expedient to not disclose the value of remaining performance obligations for contracts with an original expected duration of one year or less.
The following table presents revenues disaggregated by major revenue source.

TABLE 96: REVENUE DISAGGREGATION
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
(In Millions)202120202019
Noninterest Income
       Trust, Investment and Other Servicing Fees
Custody and Fund Administration$1,917.5 $1,674.3 $1,636.4 
Investment Management and Advisory2,140.0 2,029.3 1,930.6 
Securities Lending76.9 88.3 87.7 
Other226.7 203.1 197.4 
Total Trust, Investment and Other Servicing Fees$4,361.1 $3,995.0 $3,852.1 
Other Noninterest Income
       Foreign Exchange Trading Income$292.6 $290.4 $250.9 
       Treasury Management Fees44.3 45.4 44.5 
       Security Commissions and Trading Income140.2 133.2 103.6 
       Other Operating Income243.9 194.0 145.5 
       Investment Security Losses, net(0.3)(0.4)(1.4)
Total Other Noninterest Income$720.7 $662.6 $543.1 
Total Noninterest Income$5,081.8 $4,657.6 $4,395.2 

On the consolidated statements of income, Trust, Investment and Other Servicing Fees and Treasury Management Fees represent revenue from contracts with clients. For the year ended December 31, 2021, revenue from contracts with clients also includes $112.1 million of the $140.2 million total Security Commissions and Trading Income and $53.9 million of the $243.9 million total Other Operating Income. For the year ended December 31, 2020, revenue from contracts with clients also includes $102.4 million of the $133.2 million total Security Commissions and Trading Income and $42.8 million of the $194.0 million total Other Operating Income. For the year ended December 31, 2019, revenue from contracts with clients also includes $87.1 million of the $103.6 million total Security Commissions and Trading Income and $41.8 million of the $145.5 million total Other Operating Income.

Receivables Balances. The following table represents receivables balances from contracts with clients, which are included in Other Assets on the consolidated balance sheets, at December 31, 2021 and 2020.

TABLE 97: CLIENT RECEIVABLES
DECEMBER 31,
(In Millions)20212020
Trust Fees Receivable, net(1)
$925.2 $819.3 
Other126.9 116.5 
Total Client Receivables$1,052.1 $935.8 
(1) Trust Fees Receivable is net of a $10.9 million and $7.2 million fee receivable allowance as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.