SECURITIZATIONS AND VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES - Municipal Securities Tender Option Bond Trusts (Details)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) trust	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Variable Interest Entity
Number of TOB trusts \| trust	2
Municipal bonds owned by trusts, that have credit guarantee provided by the Company	$ 0	$ 0
Municipal securities tender option bond trusts (TOBs)
Variable Interest Entity
Liquidity agreements, customer TOB trust	4,300,000,000	3,200,000,000
Notional amount of offsetting reimbursement agreements	2,300,000,000	2,000,000,000
Liquidity agreements, other trusts	$ 6,100,000,000	$ 6,100,000,000
Maximum \| Municipal securities tender option bond trusts (TOBs)
Variable Interest Entity
The threshold ownership percentage on Residual value of customers TOBs for which the reimbursement agreement applied	25.00%
Client intermediation
Variable Interest Entity
Proceeds from new securitizations	$ 1,100,000,000

This element represents the amount of liquidity agreements for customer TOB trusts.

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- Definition

Represents the amount of liquidity arrangements for other non-consolidated proprietary trusts.

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- Definition

This element represents the amount of municipal bonds owned by trusts that have a credit guarantee provided by the entity.

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- Definition

The notional amount of reimbursement agreements in place, which offset liquidity agreements for customer TOB trusts.

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- Definition

Number of TOB Trusts

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- Definition

Represent the threshold of ownership percentage on Residual value of customers TOBs in which if the customers own less than the threshold will have to reimburse the entity for any payment made under the liquidity arrangement.

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- Definition

Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to newly transferred assets related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (d)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109247956&loc=d3e107207-111719

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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.

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