UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
[ü] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2012
or
[   ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from          to
Commission file number:
1-6523
Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter:
Bank of America Corporation
State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization:
Delaware
IRS Employer Identification Number:
56-0906609
Address of Principal Executive Offices:
Bank of America Corporate Center
100 N. Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28255
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
(704) 386-5681
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On October 31, 2012, there were 10,778,078,165 shares of Bank of America Corporation Common Stock outstanding.
 
 
 
 
 

                

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Bank of America Corporation
 
September 30, 2012
 
Form 10-Q
 
 
 
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Item 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

This report on Form 10-Q, the documents that it incorporates by reference and the documents into which it may be incorporated by reference may contain, and from time to time Bank of America Corporation (collectively with its subsidiaries, the Corporation) and its management may make certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “targets,” “intends,” “plans,” “goal” and other similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “may,” “might,” “should,” “would” and “could.” The forward-looking statements made represent the current expectations, plans or forecasts of the Corporation regarding the Corporation's future results and revenues, and future business and economic conditions more generally, including statements concerning: the achievement of cost savings in certain noninterest expense categories as the Corporation continues to streamline workflows, simplify processes and align expenses with its overall strategic plan and operating principles; with regard to Phase 1 of Project New BAC, the Corporation expects to realize more than $1 billion of cost savings in 2012 and $5 billion of annualized cost savings by the fourth quarter of 2013 with the full impact realized in 2014; the Corporation expects that Phase 2 of Project New BAC will result in an additional $3 billion of annualized cost savings by mid-2015; that during the fourth quarter of 2012 and the second quarter of 2013 the Corporation will redeem $5.1 billion liquidation amount of trust preferred securities issued by various unconsolidated trusts, that redemption of these trust preferred securities will result in a pre-tax charge of approximately $100 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, and pre-tax net interest income savings of approximately $50 million for the fourth quarter of 2012 and approximately $300 million for 2013; that the Corporation may conduct additional redemptions, tender offers, exercises and other transactions in the future depending on prevailing market conditions, liquidity, regulatory and other factors; the expectation that the Corporation would record a charge to income tax expense of approximately $400 million if the income tax rate were reduced to 22 percent by 2014 as suggested in U.K. Treasury announcements and assuming no change in the deferred tax asset balance; the resolution of representations and warranties repurchase and other claims; that there will likely be additional requests for loan files in the future leading to repurchase claims; the final resolution of the BNY Mellon Settlement, including that ongoing costs incurred in connection with the BNY Mellon Settlement will be in line with current expectations; the final resolution of the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement; the estimates of liability and range of possible loss for various representations and warranties claims; the possibility that future representations and warranties losses may occur in excess of the amounts recorded for those exposures; the expectation that unresolved repurchase claims will continue to increase, including those from Fannie Mae and private-label securitization trustees and sponsors; the Corporation's expected response to repurchase requests for which it concludes that a valid basis for repurchase does not exist and the possibility of future settlement actions; that the expiration and mutual non-renewal of certain contractual delivery commitments and variances with Fannie Mae will not have a material impact on our CRES business, as the Corporation expects to rely on other sources of liquidity to actively extend mortgage credit to customers including continuing to deliver such products into Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities pools; that there continues to be a backlog of foreclosure inventory in judicial states; the ability to resolve mortgage insurance rescission notices with the mortgage insurance companies before the expiration of the appeal period prescribed by the Fannie Mae announcement; the disposition and resolution of servicing matters; beliefs and expectations concerning the servicing National Mortgage Settlement, including expectations about the amounts of credits to be generated by various programs, the effects on annual interest income and the fair value of loans in the programs and whether loans modified under programs will be accounted for as troubled debt restructurings, and the likelihood that the Corporation will fail to meet commitments and be required to make additional cash payments, whether material or not; the impacts of foreclosure delays; that implementation of uniform servicing standards will incrementally increase costs associated with the servicing process, but it will not result in material delays or dislocation in the performance of mortgage servicing obligations, including the completion of foreclosures; the Corporation's belief that default-related servicing costs peaked during the third quarter of 2012 and the expectation that they will decline in the fourth quarter of 2012, with the decline accelerating in 2013; the expectation that the Corporation will comply with the final Basel 3 rules when issued and effective; that, if the Corporation's analytical models for capital measurement under Basel 3 are not approved by the U.S. regulatory agencies, it would likely lead to an increase in the Corporation's risk-weighted assets, which in some cases could be significant; that the Market Risk Amendment and the Basel 3 Advanced Approach, if adopted as proposed, are expected to substantially increase the Corporation's capital requirements; the intention to build capital through retaining earnings, actively managing the Corporation's portfolios and implementing other capital-related initiatives, including focusing on reducing both higher risk-weighted assets and assets proposed to be deducted from capital under Basel 3; the expectations that the Corporation will be required to submit its 2013 capital plan in early January 2013, that it will be required to use stress scenario assumptions provided by the Federal Reserve in the fourth quarter, and that results will be received from the Federal Reserve in the first half of 2013; the Corporation's belief that it can quickly obtain cash for certain securities, even in stressed market conditions, through repurchase agreements or outright sales; the Corporation's liquidity risk management strategies; that funding trading activities in broker/dealer subsidiaries is more cost efficient and less sensitive to changes in credit ratings than unsecured financing; that VaR model results will be supplemented if risks associated with positions that are illiquid and/or unobservable are material; the cost and availability of unsecured funding; the Corporation's belief that a portion of structured liability obligations will remain outstanding beyond the earliest put or redemption date; the Corporation's anticipation that debt levels will continue to decline, both from maturities and liability management, through 2013; that, of the loans in the pay option portfolio at September 30, 2012 that have not already experienced a payment reset, one percent are expected to reset during the remainder of 2012 and 22 percent thereafter, and that eight percent are expected to prepay and 69 percent are expected to default prior to being reset, most of which were severely delinquent as of September 30, 2012; that the

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sale of the GWIM international wealth management business is not expected to have a significant impact on the Corporation's balance sheet, results of operations or capital ratios, and the expected timing of the closings of the transaction; effects of the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, including the expectation of continued volatility as long as challenges remain, the expectation that the Corporation will continue to support client activities in the region and that exposures may vary over time as the Corporation monitors the situation and manages its risk profile; that, absent unexpected deterioration in the economy, the Corporation expects that reductions in the allowance for loan and lease losses, excluding the valuation allowance for PCI loans, will continue in the near term, though at a slower pace than in 2011; and other matters relating to the Corporation and the securities that it may offer from time to time. The foregoing is not an exclusive list of all forward-looking statements the Corporation makes. These statements are not guarantees of future results or performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict and are often beyond the Corporation's control. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, any of these forward-looking statements.

You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement and should consider the following uncertainties and risks, as well as the risks and uncertainties more fully discussed elsewhere in this report, under Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in any of the Corporation's subsequent Securities and Exchange Commission filings: the Corporation's resolution of differences with Fannie Mae regarding representations and warranties repurchase claims, including with respect to mortgage insurance rescissions, and foreclosure delays; the Corporation's ability to resolve representations and warranties claims made by monolines and private-label and other investors, including as a result of any adverse court rulings, and the chance that the Corporation could face related servicing, securities, fraud, indemnity or other claims from one or more of the monolines or private-label and other investors; if future representations and warranties losses occur in excess of the Corporation's recorded liability and estimated range of possible loss for its representations and warranties exposures; uncertainties about the financial stability of several countries in the EU, the increasing risk that those countries may default on their sovereign debt or exit the EU and related stresses on financial markets, the Euro and the EU and the Corporation's exposures to such risks, including direct, indirect and operational; the uncertainty regarding the timing and final substance of any capital or liquidity standards, including the final Basel 3 requirements and their implementation for U.S. banks through rulemaking by the Federal Reserve, including anticipated requirements to hold higher levels of regulatory capital, liquidity and meet higher regulatory capital ratios as a result of final Basel 3 or other capital or liquidity standards; the negative impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on the Corporation's businesses and earnings, including as a result of additional regulatory interpretation and rulemaking and the success of the Corporation's actions to mitigate such impacts; the Corporation's satisfaction of its borrower assistance programs under the National Mortgage Settlement with federal agencies and state Attorneys General; adverse changes to the Corporation's credit ratings from the major credit rating agencies; estimates of the fair value of certain of the Corporation's assets and liabilities; unexpected claims, damages and fines resulting from pending or future litigation and regulatory proceedings; the Corporation's ability to fully realize the cost savings and other anticipated benefits from Project New BAC, including in accordance with currently anticipated timeframes; and other similar matters.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Corporation undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statement was made.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements referred to in the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) are incorporated by reference into the MD&A. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to current period presentation. Throughout the MD&A, the Corporation uses certain acronyms and abbreviations which are defined in the Glossary.

The Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 as supplemented by a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 4, 2012 to reflect reclassified business segment information is referred to herein as the 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Executive Summary
 
Business Overview

The Corporation is a Delaware corporation, a bank holding company and a financial holding company. When used in this report, “the Corporation” may refer to the Corporation individually, the Corporation and its subsidiaries, or certain of the Corporation’s subsidiaries or affiliates. Our principal executive offices are located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through our banking and various nonbanking subsidiaries throughout the U.S. and in international markets, we provide a diversified range of banking and nonbanking financial services and products through five business segments: Consumer & Business Banking (CBB), Consumer Real Estate Services (CRES), Global Banking, Global Markets and Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), with the remaining operations recorded in All Other. Effective January 1, 2012, the Corporation changed its basis of presentation from six to the above five segments. For more information on this realignment, see Business Segment Operations on page 32. At September 30, 2012, the Corporation had approximately $2.2 trillion in assets and approximately 272,600 full-time equivalent employees.

As of September 30, 2012, we operated in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 40 countries. Our retail banking footprint covers approximately 80 percent of the U.S. population and we serve more than 55 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,500 banking centers, 16,300 ATMs, nationwide call centers, and leading online and mobile banking platforms. We offer industry-leading support to more than three million small business owners. We are a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.


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Table 1 provides selected consolidated financial data for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, and at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 1
Selected Financial Data
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions, except per share information)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Income statement
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis) (1)
$
20,657

 
$
28,702

 
$
65,344

 
$
69,280

Net income (loss)
340

 
6,232

 
3,456

 
(545
)
Net income, excluding goodwill impairment charge (2)
340

 
6,232

 
3,456

 
2,058

Diluted earnings (loss) per common share (3)
0.00

 
0.56

 
0.22

 
(0.15
)
Diluted earnings (loss) per common share, excluding goodwill impairment charge (2)
0.00

 
0.56

 
0.22

 
0.11

Dividends paid per common share
0.01

 
0.01

 
0.03

 
0.03

Performance ratios
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Return on average assets
0.06
%
 
1.07
%
 
0.21
%
 
n/m

Return on average assets, excluding goodwill impairment charge (2)
0.06

 
1.07

 
0.21

 
0.12
%
Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity (1)
0.84

 
17.03

 
2.89

 
n/m

Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity, excluding goodwill impairment charge (1, 2)
0.84

 
17.03

 
2.89

 
1.83

Efficiency ratio (FTE basis) (1)
84.93

 
61.37

 
82.23

 
87.69

Efficiency ratio (FTE basis), excluding goodwill impairment charge (1, 2)
84.93

 
61.37

 
82.23

 
83.93

Asset quality
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Allowance for loan and lease losses at period end
 
 
 
 
$
26,233

 
$
35,082

Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total loans and leases outstanding at period end (4)
 
 
 
 
2.96
%
 
3.81
%
Nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties at period end (4)
 
 
 
 
$
24,925

 
$
29,059

Net charge-offs (5)
$
4,122

 
$
5,086

 
11,804

 
16,779

Annualized net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans and leases outstanding (4, 5)
1.86
%
 
2.17
%
 
1.77
%
 
2.41
%
Annualized net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans and leases outstanding excluding purchased credit-impaired loans (4)
1.93

 
2.25

 
1.83

 
2.50

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized
net charge-offs (5)
1.60

 
1.74

 
1.66

 
1.56

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized net charge-offs excluding purchased credit-impaired loans
1.17

 
1.33

 
1.21

 
1.20

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Balance sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
 
 
 
 
$
893,035

 
$
926,200

Total assets
 
 
 
 
2,166,162

 
2,129,046

Total deposits
 
 
 
 
1,063,307

 
1,033,041

Total common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
219,838

 
211,704

Total shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
238,606

 
230,101

Capital ratios
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tier 1 common capital
 
 
 
 
11.41
%
 
9.86
%
Tier 1 capital
 
 
 
 
13.64

 
12.40

Total capital
 
 
 
 
17.16

 
16.75

Tier 1 leverage
 
 
 
 
7.84

 
7.53

(1) 
Fully taxable-equivalent (FTE) basis, return on average tangible shareholders’ equity and the efficiency ratio are non-GAAP financial measures. Other companies may define or calculate these measures differently. For additional information on these measures and ratios, and a corresponding reconciliation to GAAP financial measures, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.
(2) 
Net income, diluted earnings per common share, return on average assets, return on average tangible shareholders' equity and the efficiency ratio have been calculated excluding the impact of the goodwill impairment charge of $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2011, and accordingly, these are non-GAAP measures. For additional information on these measures and for a corresponding reconciliation to GAAP financial measures, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.
(3) 
Due to a net loss applicable to common shareholders for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the impact of antidilutive equity instruments was excluded from diluted earnings (loss) per share and average diluted common shares.
(4) 
Balances and ratios do not include loans accounted for under the fair value option. For additional exclusions from nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties, see Nonperforming Consumer Loans and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 106 and corresponding Table 45, and Nonperforming Commercial Loans, Leases and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 118 and corresponding Table 54.
(5) 
Net charge-offs exclude $1.7 billion of write-offs in the Countrywide home equity purchased credit-impaired portfolio for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. These write-offs decreased the purchased credit-impaired valuation allowance included as part of the allowance for loan and lease losses.
n/m = not meaningful

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Third Quarter 2012 Economic and Business Environment

In the U.S., the slow pace of economic growth experienced in Spring 2012 continued through the third quarter. Consumer spending grew slowly, as household deleveraging continued, vehicle sales remained firm and store sales rebounded. Employment rose moderately despite considerable domestic and foreign uncertainty and the unemployment rate ended the quarter at 7.8 percent. Business spending on equipment and software, as well as structures, sustained further weakening. The housing market continued its recent improvement with a sixth consecutive quarterly rise in residential building activity and a rise in home prices. Equity markets partially reversed losses from the previous quarter and ended the third quarter just below their high for the year. Stock prices benefited from an easing in the Eurozone crisis, with the European Central Bank announcing its willingness to intervene in sovereign debt markets under specified conditions, and the announcement in mid-September of further monetary easing by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve). Nevertheless, financial market uncertainty was elevated by recession and political anxieties in Europe, and the scheduled year-end expiration of income tax cuts, extended unemployment insurance, the temporary payroll tax cut and the steadily approaching deadline for automatic federal spending reductions agreed to in last year's debt ceiling bill (referred to as the “fiscal cliff”) in the U.S. Consumer confidence ended the quarter slightly higher than a year earlier and business confidence reversed its early-year gains.

The Federal Reserve announced at its mid-September meeting that, while continuing its program of extending the average maturity of its portfolio by buying longer term U.S. Treasury securities and selling short-term holdings, it would commence a new program in which it would purchase $40 billion per month in agency mortgage-backed securities until substantial labor market improvement was achieved subject to maintaining the Federal Reserve's price stability objective. In addition, the Federal Reserve modified its forward guidance on interest rates, anticipating that exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate would likely be warranted at least through mid-2015. This monetary easing helped push down longer term U.S. Treasury and secondary market mortgage yields. Concerns regarding federal tax and spending policies also continued ahead of the anticipated fiscal cliff.

Recent Events

Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement

On September 28, 2012, the Corporation announced an agreement, subject to the execution of a written settlement agreement and court approval, to settle a class action lawsuit brought in 2009 on behalf of investors who purchased or held Bank of America securities at the time we announced plans to acquire Merrill Lynch (the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement).

Under the terms of the proposed Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement, we will pay a total of $2.4 billion and institute and/or continue certain corporate governance policies until January 1, 2015. The amount to be paid under the proposed Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement will be covered by litigation reserves at September 30, 2012. For additional information, see Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Capital and Liquidity Related Matters

During the three months ended September 30, 2012, we repurchased certain of our debt and trust preferred securities with an aggregate carrying value of $6.0 billion resulting in a pre-tax charge of $25 million.

On October 4, 2012, we announced that during the fourth quarter of 2012 and the second quarter of 2013, we will redeem $5.1 billion liquidation amount of trust preferred securities issued by various unconsolidated trusts. We expect that redemption of these trust preferred securities will result in a pre-tax charge of approximately $100 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, and pre-tax net interest income savings of approximately $50 million for the fourth quarter of 2012 and approximately $300 million for 2013.

We may conduct additional redemptions, tender offers, exercises and other transactions in the future depending on prevailing market conditions, liquidity, regulatory and other factors.

Weather Events

In the last few days in October, the mid-Atlantic and northeast regions of the U.S. experienced a major storm resulting in wide-spread flooding, power outages, transportation and telecommunication service interruptions and other impacts including but not limited to closures of the New York City based securities exchanges. Certain services have been restored and others will require longer periods of recovery time. Our operations in the affected areas have been impacted, including certain branch closures. We are continuing to support the needs of our clients and customers during this difficult time.


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Performance Overview

Summary results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 are presented in Table 2. Certain selected items that affected pre-tax income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 were the following: provision for credit losses of $1.8 billion and $6.0 billion which included reserve reductions of $2.3 billion and $5.8 billion, net gains of $1.7 billion on repurchases of debt and trust preferred securities for the nine-month period, and $339 million and $1.5 billion of gains on sales of debt securities. These items were offset by negative fair value adjustments of $1.3 billion and $4.7 billion on structured liabilities related to improvement in our own credit spreads, debit valuation adjustment (DVA) losses on derivatives of $583 million and $2.2 billion, net of hedges, litigation expense of $1.6 billion and $3.3 billion, which included the incremental litigation reserves recorded during the third quarter of 2012 for the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement, and annual retirement-eligible incentive compensation costs of $892 million recorded in the first quarter of 2012. In addition, the representations and warranties provision increased $29 million to $307 million for the three-month period and decreased $14.3 billion to $984 million for the nine-month period as the prior-year nine-month period included $8.6 billion related to the agreement entered into with the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon Settlement) and $6.7 billion related to other non-government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) exposures, and to a lesser extent, GSE exposures. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, income tax expense included a $788 million charge to remeasure certain deferred tax assets due to decreases in the U.K. corporate tax rate compared to a similar charge of $782 million for the same periods in 2011.

Table 2
Summary Income Statement
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Net interest income (FTE basis) (1)
$
10,167

 
$
10,739

 
$
31,002

 
$
34,629

Noninterest income
10,490

 
17,963

 
34,342

 
34,651

Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis) (1)
20,657

 
28,702

 
65,344

 
69,280

Provision for credit losses
1,774

 
3,407

 
5,965

 
10,476

Goodwill impairment

 

 

 
2,603

All other noninterest expense
17,544

 
17,613

 
53,733

 
58,149

Income (loss) before income taxes
1,339

 
7,682

 
5,646

 
(1,948
)
Income tax expense (benefit) (FTE basis) (1)
999

 
1,450

 
2,190

 
(1,403
)
Net income (loss)
340

 
6,232

 
3,456

 
(545
)
Preferred stock dividends
373

 
343

 
1,063

 
954

Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
$
(33
)
 
$
5,889

 
$
2,393

 
$
(1,499
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Per common share information
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Earnings (loss)
$
0.00

 
$
0.58

 
$
0.22

 
$
(0.15
)
Diluted earnings (loss) (2)
0.00

 
0.56

 
0.22

 
(0.15
)
(1) 
FTE basis is a non-GAAP financial measure. For additional information on this measure and for a corresponding reconciliation to GAAP financial measures, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.
(2) 
Due to a net loss applicable to common shareholders for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the impact of antidilutive equity instruments was excluded from diluted earnings (loss) per share and average diluted common shares.


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Net interest income on a fully taxable-equivalent (FTE) basis decreased $572 million to $10.2 billion, and $3.6 billion to $31.0 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The decreases were primarily driven by lower consumer loan balances and yields. Lower trading-related net interest income also negatively impacted the results. These were partially offset by reductions in long-term debt balances and lower rates paid on deposits. The net interest yield on a FTE basis was 2.32 percent and 2.35 percent for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to 2.32 percent and 2.50 percent for the same periods in 2011.

Noninterest income decreased $7.5 billion to $10.5 billion, and $309 million to $34.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The most significant contributors to the decreases were negative fair value adjustments on structured liabilities for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to positive fair value adjustments for the same periods in 2011, a decrease in equity investment income and net DVA losses. For the nine-month period, these were partially offset by a significantly lower representations and warranties provision and net gains on repurchases of certain debt and trust preferred securities in 2012. For additional information on the repurchases and exchanges, see Liquidity Risk on page 78.

The provision for credit losses decreased $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion, and $4.5 billion to $6.0 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The improvement was primarily in the home equity and residential mortgage loan portfolios due to improved portfolio trends and an improved home price outlook in our purchased credit-impaired (PCI) loan portfolios. The provision for credit losses was $2.3 billion and $5.8 billion lower than net charge-offs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, resulting in a reduction in the allowance for credit losses. This compared to reductions of $1.7 billion and $6.3 billion in the allowance for credit losses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011. For more information on the provision for credit losses, see Provision for Credit Losses on page 129.

Noninterest expense was relatively unchanged for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and decreased $7.0 billion to $53.7 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The decline for the nine-month period was driven by a decrease in other general operating expense primarily related to lower litigation expense and mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays, and a decrease in personnel expense. The decrease in noninterest expense for the nine-month period was also the result of a $2.6 billion non-cash, non-tax deductible goodwill impairment charge recorded during the second quarter of 2011 as well as $537 million of merger and restructuring charges recorded during the nine-month period in 2011.

Income tax expense on a FTE basis was $999 million on pre-tax income of $1.3 billion, and $2.2 billion on pre-tax income of $5.6 billion for three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to income tax expense of $1.5 billion on a pre-tax income of $7.7 billion and a benefit of $1.4 billion on a pre-tax loss of $1.9 billion for same periods in 2011. For more information, see Financial Highlights – Income Tax Expense on page 14.


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Segment Results
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Table 3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Business Segment Results
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
Total Revenue (1)
 
Net Income (Loss)
 
Total Revenue (1)
 
Net Income (Loss)
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Consumer & Business Banking (CBB)
$
7,070

 
$
8,127

 
$
1,285

 
$
1,664

 
$
21,819

 
$
25,274

 
$
3,893

 
$
6,204

Consumer Real Estate Services (CRES)
3,096

 
2,822

 
(877
)
 
(1,121
)
 
8,291

 
(6,430
)
 
(2,786
)
 
(18,023
)
Global Banking
4,147

 
3,951

 
1,295

 
1,206

 
12,882

 
13,311

 
4,292

 
4,709

Global Markets
3,106

 
3,294

 
(359
)
 
(553
)
 
10,664

 
12,980

 
900

 
1,753

Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM)
4,278

 
4,238

 
542

 
362

 
12,954

 
13,229

 
1,639

 
1,424

All Other
(1,040
)
 
6,270

 
(1,546
)
 
4,674

 
(1,266
)
 
10,916

 
(4,482
)
 
3,388

Total FTE basis
20,657

 
28,702

 
340

 
6,232

 
65,344

 
69,280

 
3,456

 
(545
)
FTE adjustment
(229
)
 
(249
)
 

 

 
(670
)
 
(714
)
 

 

Total Consolidated
$
20,428

 
$
28,453

 
$
340

 
$
6,232

 
$
64,674

 
$
68,566

 
$
3,456

 
$
(545
)
(1) 
Total revenue is net of interest expense and is on a FTE basis which for consolidated revenue is a non-GAAP financial measure. For more information on this measure and for a corresponding reconciliation to a GAAP financial measure, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

The following discussion provides an overview of the results of our business segments and All Other for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. For additional information on these results, see Business Segment Operations on page 32.

CBB net income decreased in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. Revenue decreased in both periods driven by the impact of the Durbin Amendment, lower average loan balances, the continued low rate environment and the net impact of charges related to our consumer protection products. Revenue for the nine-month period also decreased driven by the net impact of portfolio sales. The provision for credit losses decreased in the three-month period due to improvements in delinquencies and bankruptcies and increased in the nine-month period as portfolio trends began to stabilize during 2012. Noninterest expense declined due to lower Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and operating expenses, partially offset by an increase in litigation expense in the nine-month period.

CRES net loss decreased in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 primarily driven by an increase in noninterest income and lower provision for credit losses. Noninterest income increased for the three-month period driven by improved mortgage servicing rights (MSR) results, net of hedges, and increases in production revenue. Noninterest income increased in the nine-month period primarily because the prior-year period included provisions recorded in connection with the BNY Mellon Settlement. The provision for credit losses decreased in both periods driven by improved portfolio trends in the home equity portfolio. Noninterest expense increased in the three-month period due to an increase in default-related servicing costs and litigation expense. This was partially offset by lower production expenses and a reduction in mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays. Noninterest expense decreased in the nine-month period due to the absence of a goodwill impairment charge, a decline in litigation expense and lower mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays, partially offset by higher default-related servicing costs.


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Global Banking net income increased in the three months ended and decreased for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. Revenues for the three-month period increased primarily due to gains on fair value option loans compared to the same period in 2011. Revenues for the nine-month period decreased as a result of lower investment banking fees, lower net interest income as a result of spread compression and benefits from accretion on certain acquired portfolios in the year-ago period, partially offset by the impact of higher average loan and deposit balances and gains from certain legacy portfolios. The provision for credit losses increased in both periods primarily driven by stabilization in asset quality and core commercial loan growth in the portfolio. Noninterest expense decreased in both periods primarily due to lower personnel expense and operating costs.

Global Markets net loss decreased in the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. Excluding net DVA, net income increased primarily driven by higher sales and trading revenue, higher investment banking fees from an increase in capital markets underwriting activity and lower noninterest expense due to decreased personnel-related expenses and operational costs. Net income decreased in the nine months ended September 30, 2012. Excluding net DVA, net income increased primarily driven by higher sales and trading revenue as well as lower personnel-related expenses, brokerage, clearing and exchange fees, and operational costs.

GWIM net income increased in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 primarily due to lower noninterest expense driven by lower FDIC expense, lower support and personnel costs, and other expense reductions. Revenue increased in the three-month period due to higher all other income driven by market origination revenue and higher net interest income, partially offset by lower investment and brokerage services revenue. Revenue decreased in the nine-month period due to lower investment and brokerage services revenue resulting from lower transactional activity and lower net interest income. In addition, the provision for credit losses declined for the three- and nine-month periods due to lower delinquencies and improving portfolio trends within the residential mortgage portfolio.

All Other decreased to a net loss in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to net income in the same periods in 2011 primarily due to negative fair value adjustments on structured liabilities for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2012 compared to positive fair value adjustments on structured liabilities for the same periods in 2011 and a decrease in equity investment income, partially offset by a reduction in the provision for credit losses and net gains resulting from the repurchase of certain debt and trust preferred securities in the nine-month period. In addition, for the three- and nine-month periods, the provision for credit losses decreased primarily due to continued improvement in credit quality in the residential mortgage portfolio and noninterest expense increased due to higher litigation expense related to the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement and other litigation.


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Financial Highlights
 
Net Interest Income

Net interest income on a FTE basis decreased $572 million to $10.2 billion, and $3.6 billion to $31.0 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The decreases were primarily driven by lower consumer loan balances and yields. Lower trading-related net interest income also negatively impacted the results. These were partially offset by ongoing reductions in long-term debt balances and lower rates paid on deposits. The net interest yield on a FTE basis was 2.32 percent for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011. The net interest yield on a FTE basis decreased 15 basis points (bps) to 2.35 percent for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same period in 2011 as the yield continued to be under pressure due to the aforementioned items and the low rate environment.

Noninterest Income
 
Table 4
Noninterest Income
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Card income
$
1,538

 
$
1,911

 
$
4,573

 
$
5,706

Service charges
1,934

 
2,068

 
5,780

 
6,112

Investment and brokerage services
2,781

 
3,022

 
8,504

 
9,132

Investment banking income
1,336

 
942

 
3,699

 
4,204

Equity investment income
238

 
1,446

 
1,371

 
4,133

Trading account profits
1,239

 
1,604

 
5,078

 
6,417

Mortgage banking income (loss)
2,019

 
1,617

 
5,290

 
(10,949
)
Insurance income (loss)
(138
)
 
190

 
(71
)
 
1,203

Gains on sales of debt securities
339

 
737

 
1,491

 
2,182

Other income (loss)
(790
)
 
4,511

 
(1,321
)
 
6,729

Net impairment losses recognized in earnings on AFS debt securities
(6
)
 
(85
)
 
(52
)
 
(218
)
Total noninterest income
$
10,490

 
$
17,963

 
$
34,342

 
$
34,651


Noninterest income decreased $7.5 billion to $10.5 billion, and $309 million to $34.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The following highlights the significant changes.

Card income decreased $373 million and $1.1 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 primarily driven by the implementation of interchange fee rules under the Durbin Amendment, which became effective on October 1, 2011.

Investment and brokerage services income decreased $241 million to $2.8 billion, and $628 million to $8.5 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 primarily driven by lower transactional volumes.

Investment banking income increased $394 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 driven by an increase in capital markets underwriting, partially offset by lower advisory fees. Investment banking income for the nine-month period decreased $505 million primarily driven by lower advisory and equity underwriting fees, and an overall decline in global fee pools.

Equity investment income decreased $1.2 billion and $2.8 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. The three-month period a year ago included a $3.6 billion gain from the sale of a portion of our investment in China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB), partially offset by $2.2 billion of net losses related to equity and strategic investments other than CCB. The nine-month period in 2011 also included an $836 million CCB dividend, $500 million of additional impairment write-downs on our merchant services joint venture and a $377 million gain related to the sale of an equity investment.


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Trading account profits decreased $365 million and $1.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. Net DVA losses on derivatives were $583 million and $2.2 billion in the current-year periods compared to net DVA gains of $1.7 billion and $1.5 billion for the same periods in 2011. Excluding net DVA, trading account profits increased $1.9 billion and $2.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 as credit markets improved and volatility declined.

Mortgage banking income increased $402 million and $16.2 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. The increase for the three-month period was primarily driven by an increase in servicing income. The nine-month increase was driven by a $14.3 billion decrease in the representations and warranties provision as the prior-year period included $15.3 billion in provision related to the agreement to resolve nearly all legacy Countrywide Financial Corporation (Countrywide)-issued first-lien non-GSE residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) repurchase exposures, other non-GSE exposures, and to a lesser extent, GSE exposures.

Insurance income decreased $328 million and $1.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. The three- month decrease was driven by provision in the current-year period related to payment protection insurance in the U.K. and the nine-month decrease was also due to the impact of the sale of Balboa Insurance Company's lender-placed insurance business (Balboa) in the second quarter of 2011.

Other income decreased $5.3 billion and $8.1 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 primarily driven by negative fair value adjustments on our structured liabilities of $1.3 billion and $4.7 billion compared to positive fair value adjustments of $4.5 billion and $4.1 billion for the same periods in 2011. The nine months ended September 30, 2012 also included $1.7 billion of gains related to debt repurchases and exchanges of trust preferred securities. The nine-month period in 2011 included a net gain of $752 million on the sale of Balboa.

Provision for Credit Losses

The provision for credit losses decreased $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion, and $4.5 billion to $6.0 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the provision for credit losses was $2.3 billion and $5.8 billion lower than net charge-offs, resulting in reductions in the allowance for credit losses compared to reductions of $1.7 billion and $6.3 billion in the allowance for credit losses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011. The reduction in the allowance for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 included $435 million of reserves on the loans forgiven as a part of the National Mortgage Settlement. For more information on the National Mortgage Settlement, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86. The provision for credit losses related to the PCI loan portfolios was a benefit of $166 million and an expense of $327 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012.

The provision for credit losses related to our consumer portfolio decreased $1.9 billion to $1.6 billion, and $5.2 billion to $6.0 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The improvement was primarily in the home equity and residential mortgage loan portfolios due to improved portfolio trends and an improved home price outlook in our PCI portfolios. This was partially offset by the impact of new regulatory guidance regarding the treatment of loans discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The provision for credit losses related to our commercial portfolio, including the provision benefit for unfunded lending commitments, increased $256 million to $197 million, and $706 million to $11 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 due to stabilization in the credit quality of the core commercial portfolio.

Net charge-offs totaled $4.1 billion, or 1.86 percent, and $11.8 billion, or 1.77 percent of average loans and leases for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $5.1 billion, or 2.17 percent, and $16.8 billion, or 2.41 percent, for the same periods in 2011. Included in net charge-offs in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 were $478 million of charge-offs related to the impact of new regulatory guidance regarding the treatment of loans discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy and $435 million of charge-offs related to loans forgiven as a part of the National Mortgage Settlement. The decrease in net charge-offs was primarily driven by fewer delinquent loans and lower bankruptcy filings across the U.S. credit card and unsecured consumer lending portfolios, as well as lower net charge-offs in the consumer real estate and core commercial portfolios in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. For more information on the provision for credit losses, see Provision for Credit Losses on page 129.


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Noninterest Expense
 
Table 5
Noninterest Expense
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Personnel
 
$
8,431

 
$
8,865

 
$
27,348

 
$
28,204

Occupancy
 
1,160

 
1,183

 
3,419

 
3,617

Equipment
 
561

 
616

 
1,718

 
1,815

Marketing
 
479

 
556

 
1,393

 
1,680

Professional fees
 
873

 
937

 
2,578

 
2,349

Amortization of intangibles
 
315

 
377

 
955

 
1,144

Data processing
 
640

 
626

 
2,188

 
1,964

Telecommunications
 
410

 
405

 
1,227

 
1,167

Other general operating
 
4,675

 
3,872

 
12,907

 
15,672

Goodwill impairment
 

 

 

 
2,603

Merger and restructuring charges
 

 
176

 

 
537

Total noninterest expense
 
$
17,544

 
$
17,613

 
$
53,733

 
$
60,752


Noninterest expense was relatively unchanged for the three months ended September 30, 2012 as an increase in other general operating expense primarily related to costs associated with the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement and other litigation was offset by a decrease in personnel expense as the company continued to streamline processes and achieve cost savings. Noninterest expense decreased $7.0 billion to $53.7 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same period in 2011 with the decrease primarily driven by a $2.8 billion decrease in other general operating expense primarily related to lower litigation expense and mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays and an $856 million decrease in personnel expense as we continue to streamline processes and achieve cost savings. The nine months ended September 30, 2011 also included a $2.6 billion non-cash non-tax deductible goodwill impairment charge as well as $537 million of merger and restructuring charges.

In connection with Project New BAC, we expect to continue to achieve cost savings in certain noninterest expense categories as we continue to further streamline workflows, simplify processes and align expenses with our overall strategic plan and operating principles. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we continued implementation of Phase 1 initiatives, completed Phase 2 evaluations and began implementation of certain Phase 2 initiatives. With regard to Phase 1, we expect to realize more than $1 billion of cost savings in 2012 and $5 billion of annualized cost savings by the fourth quarter of 2013 with the full impact realized in 2014. We expect that Phase 2 will result in an additional $3 billion of annualized cost savings by mid-2015.

Income Tax Expense

Income tax expense was $770 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $1.2 billion for the same period in 2011 and resulted in an effective tax rate of 69.4 percent compared to 16.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. Income tax expense was $1.5 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to an income tax benefit of $2.1 billion for the same period in 2011 and resulted in an effective tax rate of 30.5 percent compared to 79.5 percent in the year-ago period.

The effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2012 was primarily driven by the $788 million impact of the U.K. corporate income tax rate reduction, as described in the next paragraph, partially offset by our recurring tax preference items and by tax benefits related to certain non-U.S. jurisdictions, including an increase in our accumulated earnings presumed to be permanently reinvested offshore. The effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2011 was driven by a $619 million valuation allowance reduction, a $593 million benefit for the recognition of certain deferred tax related assets and recurring tax preference items, partially offset by the $782 million impact of the U.K. corporate income tax rate reduction that was enacted in July 2011. The effective tax rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 were primarily driven by the same factors described in the three-month discussion above and, for the prior-year period, included the impact of the $2.6 billion non-deductible goodwill impairment charge.


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On July 17, 2012, the U.K. 2012 Finance Bill was enacted, which reduced the U.K. corporate income tax rate by two percent to 23 percent. The first one percent reduction was effective on April 1, 2012 and the second reduction will be effective April 1, 2013. These reductions favorably affect income tax expense on future U.K. earnings, but also required us to remeasure our U.K. net deferred tax assets using the lower tax rates. If the corporate income tax rate is reduced to 22 percent by 2014 as suggested in U.K. Treasury announcements and assuming no change in the deferred tax asset balance, we would record a charge to income tax expense of approximately $400 million in the period of enactment.
Balance Sheet Overview
 
 
 
 
 
Table 6
Selected Balance Sheet Data
 
 
 
 
 
Average Balance
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
Three Months Ended
September 30
 
Nine Months Ended
September 30
(Dollars in millions)
 
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Federal funds sold and securities borrowed or purchased under agreements to resell
$
234,034

 
$
211,183

 
$
234,955

 
$
256,143

 
$
234,058

 
$
247,635

Trading account assets
211,090

 
169,319

 
177,075

 
180,438

 
177,846

 
195,931

Debt securities
345,847

 
311,416

 
340,773

 
344,327

 
336,939

 
338,512

Loans and leases
893,035

 
926,200

 
888,859

 
942,032

 
900,650

 
939,848

Allowance for loan and lease losses
(26,233
)
 
(33,783
)
 
(29,478
)
 
(36,429
)
 
(31,377
)
 
(38,632
)
All other assets
508,389

 
544,711

 
561,128

 
614,943

 
566,858

 
642,938

Total assets
$
2,166,162

 
$
2,129,046

 
$
2,173,312

 
$
2,301,454

 
$
2,184,974

 
$
2,326,232

Liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Deposits
$
1,063,307

 
$
1,033,041

 
$
1,049,697

 
$
1,051,320

 
$
1,037,610

 
$
1,036,905

Federal funds purchased and securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase
273,900

 
214,864

 
287,142

 
261,830

 
274,395

 
281,476

Trading account liabilities
72,179

 
60,508

 
77,528

 
87,841

 
78,041

 
89,302

Commercial paper and other short-term borrowings
35,291

 
35,698

 
37,881

 
41,404

 
37,981

 
56,107

Long-term debt
286,534

 
372,265

 
291,684

 
420,273

 
329,320

 
431,902

All other liabilities
196,345

 
182,569

 
193,341

 
216,376

 
192,901

 
201,155

Total liabilities
1,927,556

 
1,898,945

 
1,937,273

 
2,079,044

 
1,950,248

 
2,096,847

Shareholders’ equity
238,606

 
230,101

 
236,039

 
222,410

 
234,726

 
229,385

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
$
2,166,162

 
$
2,129,046

 
$
2,173,312

 
$
2,301,454

 
$
2,184,974

 
$
2,326,232


Period-end balance sheet amounts may vary from average balance sheet amounts due to liquidity and balance sheet management activities, primarily involving our portfolios of highly liquid assets, that are designed to ensure the adequacy of capital while enhancing our ability to manage liquidity requirements for the Corporation and our customers, and to position the balance sheet in accordance with the Corporation’s risk appetite. The execution of these activities requires the use of balance sheet and capital-related limits including spot, average and risk-weighted asset limits, particularly within the market-making activities of our trading businesses. One of our key regulatory metrics, Tier 1 leverage ratio, is calculated based on adjusted quarterly average total assets.


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Assets

At September 30, 2012, total assets were approximately $2.2 trillion, an increase of $37.1 billion, or two percent, from December 31, 2011. This increase was driven by trading account assets due to increases in U.S. Treasuries, EMEA sovereign debt and hedges in leveraged credit trading; debt securities primarily driven by net purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS); and federal funds sold and securities borrowed or purchased under agreements to resell to cover increases in client short positions, customer financing activities through the matched book and collateral requirements. These increases were partially offset by lower consumer loan balances due to continued run-off in targeted portfolios, lower card balances and asset sales, as well as lower cash and cash equivalents.

Average total assets decreased $128.1 billion and $141.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The decreases were driven by lower consumer loan balances as described above and the sale of strategic investments. The nine-month comparison to the same period in 2011 was also impacted by reduced trading account assets.

Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

At September 30, 2012, total liabilities were approximately $1.9 trillion, an increase of $28.6 billion, or two percent, from December 31, 2011 primarily driven by an increase in securities sold under agreements to repurchase due to funding of trading inventory resulting from customer demand and funding of higher trading account assets and securities, and an increase in deposits. Partially offsetting this increase were planned reductions in long-term debt.

Average total liabilities decreased $141.8 billion and $146.6 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. The decreases were primarily driven by planned reductions in long-term debt, lower short-term borrowings due to the Corporation's reduced use of commercial paper and master notes, and lower trading account liabilities. The three-month comparison to the same period in 2011 was also impacted by an increase in securities sold under agreements to repurchase due to funding trading inventory resulting from customer demand and funding of trading account assets and securities, and matched book activity.

At September 30, 2012, shareholders’ equity was $238.6 billion, an increase of $8.5 billion, or four percent, from December 31, 2011 due to earnings, an increase in unrealized gains on available-for-sale (AFS) debt securities in other comprehensive income (OCI), common stock issued under employee plans and exchanges of preferred and trust preferred securities, and a gain on curtailment of the Corporation's Qualified Pension Plans.

Average shareholders' equity increased $13.6 billion and $5.3 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011 driven by earnings, common stock issued under employee plans, and the sale of preferred stock and related warrants to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. in the third quarter of 2011. The nine-month increase was also impacted by exchanges of preferred and trust preferred securities and a gain on curtailment of the Corporation's Qualified Pension Plans. These increases were partially offset by lower unrealized gains on AFS debt securities in accumulated OCI in 2012.

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Table 7
 
 
 
 
Selected Quarterly Financial Data
 
 
 
 
 
2012 Quarters
 
2011 Quarters
(In millions, except per share information)
Third
 
Second
 
First
 
Fourth
 
Third
Income statement
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
9,938

 
$
9,548

 
$
10,846

 
$
10,701

 
$
10,490

Noninterest income
10,490

 
12,420

 
11,432

 
14,187

 
17,963

Total revenue, net of interest expense
20,428

 
21,968

 
22,278

 
24,888

 
28,453

Provision for credit losses
1,774

 
1,773

 
2,418

 
2,934

 
3,407

Goodwill impairment

 

 

 
581

 

Merger and restructuring charges

 

 

 
101

 
176

All other noninterest expense (1)
17,544

 
17,048

 
19,141

 
18,840

 
17,437

Income before income taxes
1,110

 
3,147

 
719

 
2,432

 
7,433

Income tax expense
770

 
684

 
66

 
441

 
1,201

Net income
340

 
2,463

 
653

 
1,991

 
6,232

Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
(33
)
 
2,098

 
328

 
1,584

 
5,889

Average common shares issued and outstanding
10,776

 
10,776

 
10,651

 
10,281

 
10,116

Average diluted common shares issued and outstanding
10,776

 
11,556

 
10,762

 
11,125

 
10,464

Performance ratios
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Return on average assets
0.06
%
 
0.45
%
 
0.12
%
 
0.36
%
 
1.07
%
Four quarter trailing return on average assets (2)
0.25

 
0.51

 
n/m

 
0.06

 
n/m

Return on average common shareholders’ equity
n/m

 
3.89

 
0.62

 
3.00

 
11.40

Return on average tangible common shareholders’ equity (3)
n/m

 
5.95

 
0.95

 
4.72

 
18.30

Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity (3)
0.84

 
6.16

 
1.67

 
5.20

 
17.03

Total ending equity to total ending assets
11.02

 
10.92

 
10.66

 
10.81

 
10.37

Total average equity to total average assets
10.86

 
10.73

 
10.63

 
10.34

 
9.66

Dividend payout
n/m

 
5.60

 
34.97

 
6.60

 
1.73

Per common share data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Earnings
$
0.00

 
$
0.19

 
$
0.03

 
$
0.15

 
$
0.58

Diluted earnings
0.00

 
0.19

 
0.03

 
0.15

 
0.56

Dividends paid
0.01

 
0.01

 
0.01

 
0.01

 
0.01

Book value
20.40

 
20.16

 
19.83

 
20.09

 
20.80

Tangible book value (3)
13.48

 
13.22

 
12.87

 
12.95

 
13.22

Market price per share of common stock
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Closing
$
8.83

 
$
8.18

 
$
9.57

 
$
5.56

 
$
6.12

High closing
9.55

 
9.68

 
9.93

 
7.35

 
11.09

Low closing
7.04

 
6.83

 
5.80

 
4.99

 
6.06

Market capitalization
$
95,163

 
$
88,155

 
$
103,123

 
$
58,580

 
$
62,023

Average balance sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
888,859

 
$
899,498

 
$
913,722

 
$
932,898

 
$
942,032

Total assets
2,173,312

 
2,194,563

 
2,187,174

 
2,207,567

 
2,301,454

Total deposits
1,049,697

 
1,032,888

 
1,030,112

 
1,032,531

 
1,051,320

Long-term debt
291,684

 
333,173

 
363,518

 
389,557

 
420,273

Common shareholders’ equity
217,273

 
216,782

 
214,150

 
209,324

 
204,928

Total shareholders’ equity
236,039

 
235,558

 
232,566

 
228,235

 
222,410

Asset quality (4)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Allowance for credit losses (5)
$
26,751

 
$
30,862

 
$
32,862

 
$
34,497

 
$
35,872

Nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties (6)
24,925

 
25,377

 
27,790

 
27,708

 
29,059

Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total loans and leases outstanding (6)
2.96
%
 
3.43
%
 
3.61
%
 
3.68
%
 
3.81
%
Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases (6)
111

 
127

 
126

 
135

 
133

Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases excluding the PCI loan portfolio (6)
81

 
90

 
91

 
101

 
101

Amounts included in allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans (7)
$
13,978

 
$
16,327

 
$
17,006

 
$
17,490

 
$
18,317

Allowance as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases excluding the amounts included in the allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans (7)
52
%
 
59
%
 
60
%
 
65
%
 
63
%
Net charge-offs (8)
$
4,122

 
$
3,626

 
$
4,056

 
$
4,054

 
$
5,086

Annualized net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans and leases outstanding (6, 8)
1.86
%
 
1.64
%
 
1.80
%
 
1.74
%
 
2.17
%
Nonperforming loans and leases as a percentage of total loans and leases outstanding (6)
2.68

 
2.70

 
2.85

 
2.74

 
2.87

Nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties as a percentage of total loans, leases and foreclosed properties (6)
2.81

 
2.87

 
3.10

 
3.01

 
3.15

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized net charge-offs (8)
1.60

 
2.08

 
1.97

 
2.10

 
1.74

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized net charge-offs, excluding the PCI loan portfolio
1.17

 
1.46

 
1.43

 
1.57

 
1.33

Capital ratios (period end)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Risk-based capital:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tier 1 common
11.41
%
 
11.24
%
 
10.78
%
 
9.86
%
 
8.65
%
Tier 1
13.64

 
13.80

 
13.37

 
12.40

 
11.48

Total
17.16

 
17.51

 
17.49

 
16.75

 
15.86

Tier 1 leverage
7.84

 
7.84

 
7.79

 
7.53

 
7.11

Tangible equity (3)
7.85

 
7.73

 
7.48

 
7.54

 
7.16

Tangible common equity (3)
6.95

 
6.83

 
6.58

 
6.64

 
6.25

(1) 
Excludes merger and restructuring charges and goodwill impairment charges.
(2) 
Calculated as total net income for four consecutive quarters divided by annualized average assets for four consecutive quarters.
(3) 
Tangible equity ratios and tangible book value per share of common stock are non-GAAP financial measures. Other companies may define or calculate these measures differently. For additional information on these ratios and for corresponding reconciliations to GAAP financial measures, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19 and Table 9 on pages 20 through 21.
(4) 
For more information on the impact of the PCI loan portfolio on asset quality, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86.
(5) 
Includes the allowance for loan and lease losses and the reserve for unfunded lending commitments.
(6) 
Balances and ratios do not include loans accounted for under the fair value option. For additional exclusions from nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties, see Nonperforming Consumer Loans and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 106 and corresponding Table 45, and Nonperforming Commercial Loans, Leases and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 118 and corresponding Table 54.
(7) 
Amounts included in allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans primarily include amounts allocated to the U.S. credit card and unsecured consumer lending portfolios in CBB, PCI loans and the non-U.S. credit card portfolio in All Other.
(8) 
Net charge-offs exclude $1.7 billion of write-offs in the Countrywide home equity PCI portfolio for the three months ended September 30, 2012. These write-offs decreased the PCI valuation allowance included as part of the allowance for loan and lease losses.
n/m = not meaningful

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Table 8
 
 
 
Selected Year-to-Date Financial Data
 
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(In millions, except per share information)
2012
 
2011
Income statement
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
30,332

 
$
33,915

Noninterest income
34,342

 
34,651

Total revenue, net of interest expense
64,674

 
68,566

Provision for credit losses
5,965

 
10,476

Goodwill impairment

 
2,603

Merger and restructuring charges

 
537

All other noninterest expense (1)
53,733

 
57,612

Income (loss) before income taxes
4,976

 
(2,662
)
Income tax expense (benefit)
1,520

 
(2,117
)
Net income (loss)
3,456

 
(545
)
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
2,393

 
(1,499
)
Average common shares issued and outstanding
10,735

 
10,096

Average diluted common shares issued and outstanding
10,827

 
10,096

Performance ratios
 
 
 
Return on average assets
0.21
%
 
n/m

Return on average common shareholders’ equity
1.48

 
n/m

Return on average tangible common shareholders’ equity (2)
2.26

 
n/m

Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity (2)
2.89

 
n/m

Total ending equity to total ending assets
11.02

 
10.37
%
Total average equity to total average assets
10.74

 
9.86

Dividend payout
13.79

 
n/m

Per common share data
 
 
 
Earnings (loss)
$
0.22

 
$
(0.15
)
Diluted earnings (loss)
0.22

 
(0.15
)
Dividends paid
0.03

 
0.03

Book value
20.40

 
20.80

Tangible book value (2)
13.48

 
13.22

Market price per share of common stock
 
 
 
Closing
$
8.83

 
$
6.12

High closing
9.93

 
15.25

Low closing
5.80

 
6.06

Market capitalization
$
95,163

 
$
62,023

Average balance sheet
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
900,650

 
$
939,848

Total assets
2,184,974

 
2,326,232

Total deposits
1,037,610

 
1,036,905

Long-term debt
329,320

 
431,902

Common shareholders’ equity
216,073

 
212,512

Total shareholders’ equity
234,726

 
229,385

Asset quality (3)
 
 
 
Allowance for credit losses (4)
$
26,751

 
$
35,872

Nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties (5)
24,925

 
29,059

Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total loans and leases outstanding (5)
2.96
%
 
3.81
%
Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases (5)
111

 
133

Allowance for loan and lease losses as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases excluding the PCI loan portfolio (5)
81

 
101

Amounts included in allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans (6)
$
13,978

 
$
18,317

Allowance as a percentage of total nonperforming loans and leases excluding the amounts included in the allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans (6)
52
%
 
63
%
Net charge-offs (7)
$
11,804

 
$
16,779

Annualized net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans and leases outstanding (5, 7)
1.77
%
 
2.41
%
Nonperforming loans and leases as a percentage of total loans and leases outstanding (5)
2.68

 
2.87

Nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties as a percentage of total loans, leases and foreclosed properties (5)
2.81

 
3.15

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized net charge-offs (7)
1.66

 
1.56

Ratio of the allowance for loan and lease losses at period end to annualized net charge-offs, excluding the PCI loan portfolio
1.21

 
1.20

(1) 
Excludes merger and restructuring charges and goodwill impairment charges.
(2) 
Tangible equity ratios and tangible book value per share of common stock are non-GAAP financial measures. Other companies may define or calculate these measures differently. For additional information on these ratios and for corresponding reconciliations to GAAP financial measures, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19 and Table 9 on pages 20 through 21.
(3) 
For more information on the impact of the PCI loan portfolio on asset quality, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86.
(4) 
Includes the allowance for loan and lease losses and the reserve for unfunded lending commitments.
(5) 
Balances and ratios do not include loans accounted for under the fair value option. For additional exclusions from nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties, see Nonperforming Consumer Loans and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 106 and corresponding Table 45, and Nonperforming Commercial Loans, Leases and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 118 and corresponding Table 54.
(6) 
Amounts included in allowance that are excluded from nonperforming loans primarily include amounts allocated to the U.S. credit card and unsecured consumer lending portfolios in CBB, PCI loans and the non-U.S. credit card portfolio in All Other.
(7) 
Net charge-offs exclude $1.7 billion of write-offs in the Countrywide home equity PCI portfolio for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. These write-offs decreased the PCI valuation allowance included as part of the allowance for loan and lease losses.
n/m = not meaningful

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Supplemental Financial Data

We view net interest income and related ratios and analyses on a FTE basis, which when presented on a consolidated basis, are non-GAAP financial measures. We believe managing the business with net interest income on a FTE basis provides a more accurate picture of the interest margin for comparative purposes. To derive the FTE basis, net interest income is adjusted to reflect tax-exempt income on an equivalent before-tax basis with a corresponding increase in income tax expense. For purposes of this calculation, we use the federal statutory tax rate of 35 percent. This measure ensures comparability of net interest income arising from taxable and tax-exempt sources.

Certain performance measures including the efficiency ratio and net interest yield utilize net interest income (and thus total revenue) on a FTE basis. The efficiency ratio measures the costs expended to generate a dollar of revenue, and net interest yield measures the bps we earn over the cost of funds.

We also evaluate our business based on certain ratios that utilize tangible equity, a non-GAAP financial measure. Tangible equity represents an adjusted shareholders’ equity or common shareholders’ equity amount which has been reduced by goodwill and intangible assets (excluding MSRs), net of related deferred tax liabilities. These measures are used to evaluate our use of equity. In addition, profitability, relationship and investment models all use return on average tangible shareholders’ equity (ROTE) as key measures to support our overall growth goals. These ratios are as follows:

Return on average tangible common shareholders’ equity measures our earnings contribution as a percentage of adjusted common shareholders’ equity. The tangible common equity ratio represents adjusted common shareholders’ equity divided by total assets less goodwill and intangible assets (excluding MSRs), net of related deferred tax liabilities.

ROTE measures our earnings contribution as a percentage of adjusted average total shareholders’ equity. The tangible equity ratio represents adjusted total shareholders’ equity divided by total assets less goodwill and intangible assets (excluding MSRs), net of related deferred tax liabilities.

Tangible book value per common share represents adjusted ending common shareholders’ equity divided by ending common shares outstanding.

The aforementioned supplemental data and performance measures are presented in Tables 7 and 8.

In addition, we evaluate our business segment results based on measures that utilize return on economic capital, a non-GAAP financial measure, including the following:

Return on average economic capital for the segments is calculated as net income, adjusted for cost of funds and earnings credits and certain expenses related to intangibles, divided by average economic capital.

Economic capital represents allocated equity less goodwill and a percentage of intangible assets (excluding MSRs).

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Certain of the information presented in Table 9 excludes the impact of a goodwill impairment charge of $581 million recorded in the fourth quarter of 2011 and certain of the information presented in Table 10 excludes the impact of a goodwill impairment charge of $2.6 billion recorded in the second quarter of 2011. Accordingly, these are non-GAAP financial measures. Tables 9, 10 and 11 provide reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures. We believe the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides additional clarity in assessing the results of the Corporation and our segments. Other companies may define or calculate these measures and ratios differently.

Table 9
Quarterly Supplemental Financial Data and Reconciliations to GAAP Financial Measures
 
2012 Quarters
 
2011 Quarters
(Dollars in millions, except per share information)
Third
 
Second
 
First
 
Fourth
 
Third
Fully taxable-equivalent basis data
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
10,167

 
$
9,782

 
$
11,053

 
$
10,959

 
$
10,739

Total revenue, net of interest expense
20,657

 
22,202

 
22,485

 
25,146

 
28,702

Net interest yield
2.32
%
 
2.21
%
 
2.51
%
 
2.45
%
 
2.32
%
Efficiency ratio
84.93

 
76.79

 
85.13

 
77.64

 
61.37

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Performance ratios, excluding goodwill impairment charge (1)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Per common share information
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Earnings
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
0.21

 
 
Diluted earnings
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.20

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
 
 
 
 
 
 
75.33
%
 
 
Return on average assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.46

 
 
Four quarter trailing return on average assets (2)
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.20

 
 
Return on average common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.10

 
 
Return on average tangible common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
6.46

 
 
Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
6.72

 
 
(1) 
Performance ratios are calculated excluding the impact of the goodwill impairment charge of $581 million recorded during the fourth quarter of 2011.
(2) 
Calculated as total net income for four consecutive quarters divided by annualized average assets for four consecutive quarters.


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Table 9
Quarterly Supplemental Financial Data and Reconciliations to GAAP Financial Measures (continued)
 
2012 Quarters
 
2011 Quarters
(Dollars in millions)
Third
 
Second
 
First
 
Fourth
 
Third
Reconciliation of net interest income to net interest income on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
9,938

 
$
9,548

 
$
10,846

 
$
10,701

 
$
10,490

Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
229

 
234

 
207

 
258

 
249

Net interest income on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
10,167

 
$
9,782

 
$
11,053

 
$
10,959

 
$
10,739

Reconciliation of total revenue, net of interest expense to total revenue, net of interest expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total revenue, net of interest expense
$
20,428

 
$
21,968

 
$
22,278

 
$
24,888

 
$
28,453

Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
229

 
234

 
207

 
258

 
249

Total revenue, net of interest expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
20,657

 
$
22,202

 
$
22,485

 
$
25,146

 
$
28,702

Reconciliation of total noninterest expense to total noninterest expense, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total noninterest expense
$
17,544

 
$
17,048

 
$
19,141

 
$
19,522

 
$
17,613

Goodwill impairment charge

 

 

 
(581
)
 

Total noninterest expense, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
17,544

 
$
17,048

 
$
19,141

 
$
18,941

 
$
17,613

Reconciliation of income tax expense to income tax expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income tax expense
$
770

 
$
684

 
$
66

 
$
441

 
$
1,201

Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
229

 
234

 
207

 
258

 
249

Income tax expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
999

 
$
918

 
$
273

 
$
699

 
$
1,450

Reconciliation of net income to net income, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income
$
340

 
$
2,463

 
$
653

 
$
1,991

 
$
6,232

Goodwill impairment charge

 

 

 
581

 

Net income, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
340

 
$
2,463

 
$
653

 
$
2,572

 
$
6,232

Reconciliation of net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders to net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
$
(33
)
 
$
2,098

 
$
328

 
$
1,584

 
$
5,889

Goodwill impairment charge

 

 

 
581

 

Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
(33
)
 
$
2,098

 
$
328

 
$
2,165

 
$
5,889

Reconciliation of average common shareholders’ equity to average tangible common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Common shareholders’ equity
$
217,273

 
$
216,782

 
$
214,150

 
$
209,324

 
$
204,928

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
 
(70,647
)
 
(71,070
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,194
)
 
(7,533
)
 
(7,869
)
 
(8,566
)
 
(9,005
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,556

 
2,626

 
2,700

 
2,775

 
2,852

Tangible common shareholders’ equity
$
142,659

 
$
141,899

 
$
139,014

 
$
132,886

 
$
127,705

Reconciliation of average shareholders’ equity to average tangible shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
$
236,039

 
$
235,558

 
$
232,566

 
$
228,235

 
$
222,410

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
 
(70,647
)
 
(71,070
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,194
)
 
(7,533
)
 
(7,869
)
 
(8,566
)
 
(9,005
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,556

 
2,626

 
2,700

 
2,775

 
2,852

Tangible shareholders’ equity
$
161,425

 
$
160,675

 
$
157,430

 
$
151,797

 
$
145,187

Reconciliation of period-end common shareholders’ equity to period-end tangible common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Common shareholders’ equity
$
219,838

 
$
217,213

 
$
213,711

 
$
211,704

 
$
210,772

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
 
(70,832
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,030
)
 
(7,335
)
 
(7,696
)
 
(8,021
)
 
(8,764
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,494

 
2,559

 
2,628

 
2,702

 
2,777

Tangible common shareholders’ equity
$
145,326

 
$
142,461

 
$
138,667

 
$
136,418

 
$
133,953

Reconciliation of period-end shareholders’ equity to period-end tangible shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
$
238,606

 
$
235,975

 
$
232,499

 
$
230,101

 
$
230,252

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
 
(70,832
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,030
)
 
(7,335
)
 
(7,696
)
 
(8,021
)
 
(8,764
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,494

 
2,559

 
2,628

 
2,702

 
2,777

Tangible shareholders’ equity
$
164,094

 
$
161,223

 
$
157,455

 
$
154,815

 
$
153,433

Reconciliation of period-end assets to period-end tangible assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assets
$
2,166,162

 
$
2,160,854

 
$
2,181,449

 
$
2,129,046

 
$
2,219,628

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
 
(70,832
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,030
)
 
(7,335
)
 
(7,696
)
 
(8,021
)
 
(8,764
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,494

 
2,559

 
2,628

 
2,702

 
2,777

Tangible assets
$
2,091,650

 
$
2,086,102

 
$
2,106,405

 
$
2,053,760

 
$
2,142,809



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Table 10
Year-to-Date Supplemental Financial Data and Reconciliations to GAAP Financial Measures
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions, except per share information)
2012
 
2011
Fully taxable-equivalent basis data
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
31,002

 
$
34,629

Total revenue, net of interest expense
65,344

 
69,280

Net interest yield
2.35
%
 
2.50
%
Efficiency ratio
82.23

 
87.69

Performance ratios, excluding goodwill impairment charge (1)
 
 
 
Per common share information
 
 
 
Earnings
$
0.22

 
$
0.11

Diluted earnings
0.22

 
0.11

Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
82.23
%
 
83.93
%
Return on average assets
0.21

 
0.12

Return on average common shareholders’ equity
1.48

 
0.70

Return on average tangible common shareholders’ equity
2.26

 
1.11

Return on average tangible shareholders’ equity
2.89

 
1.83

Reconciliation of net interest income to net interest income on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
Net interest income
$
30,332

 
$
33,915

Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
670

 
714

Net interest income on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
31,002

 
$
34,629

Reconciliation of total revenue, net of interest expense to total revenue, net of interest expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
Total revenue, net of interest expense
$
64,674

 
$
68,566

Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
670

 
714

Total revenue, net of interest expense on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
65,344

 
$
69,280

Reconciliation of total noninterest expense to total noninterest expense, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
Total noninterest expense
$
53,733

 
$
60,752

Goodwill impairment charge

 
(2,603
)
Total noninterest expense, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
53,733

 
$
58,149

Reconciliation of income tax expense (benefit) to income tax expense (benefit) on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
 
 
 
Income tax expense (benefit)
$
1,520

 
$
(2,117
)
Fully taxable-equivalent adjustment
670

 
714

Income tax expense (benefit) on a fully taxable-equivalent basis
$
2,190

 
$
(1,403
)
Reconciliation of net income (loss) to net income, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
Net income (loss)
$
3,456

 
$
(545
)
Goodwill impairment charge

 
2,603

Net income, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
3,456

 
$
2,058

Reconciliation of net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders to net income applicable to common shareholders, excluding goodwill impairment charge
 
 
 
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders
$
2,393

 
$
(1,499
)
Goodwill impairment charge

 
2,603

Net income applicable to common shareholders, excluding goodwill impairment charge
$
2,393

 
$
1,104

Reconciliation of average common shareholders’ equity to average tangible common shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
Common shareholders’ equity
$
216,073

 
$
212,512

Goodwill
(69,973
)
 
(72,903
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,531
)
 
(9,386
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,627

 
2,939

Tangible common shareholders’ equity
$
141,196

 
$
133,162

Reconciliation of average shareholders’ equity to average tangible shareholders’ equity
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
$
234,726

 
$
229,385

Goodwill
(69,973
)
 
(72,903
)
Intangible assets (excluding MSRs)
(7,531
)
 
(9,386
)
Related deferred tax liabilities
2,627

 
2,939

Tangible shareholders’ equity
$
159,849

 
$
150,035

(1) 
Performance ratios have been calculated excluding the impact of the goodwill impairment charge of $2.6 billion recorded during the second quarter of 2011.


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Table 11
Segment Supplemental Financial Data Reconciliations to GAAP Financial Measures
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Consumer & Business Banking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
1,285

 
$
1,664

 
$
3,893

 
$
6,204

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)
3

 
6

 
10

 
15

Adjusted net income
$
1,288

 
$
1,670

 
$
3,903

 
$
6,219

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
53,982

 
$
52,381

 
$
53,462

 
$
52,875

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(30,447
)
 
(30,600
)
 
(30,485
)
 
(30,650
)
Average economic capital
$
23,535

 
$
21,781

 
$
22,977

 
$
22,225

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Consumer Real Estate Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net loss
$
(877
)
 
$
(1,121
)
 
$
(2,786
)
 
$
(18,023
)
Adjustment related to intangibles (1)

 

 

 

Goodwill impairment charge

 

 

 
2,603

Adjusted net loss
$
(877
)
 
$
(1,121
)
 
$
(2,786
)
 
$
(15,420
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
13,332

 
$
14,240

 
$
14,077

 
$
16,688

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles (excluding MSRs)

 

 

 
(1,804
)
Average economic capital
$
13,332

 
$
14,240

 
$
14,077

 
$
14,884

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Banking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
1,295

 
$
1,206

 
$
4,292

 
$
4,709

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)
1

 
2

 
3

 
5

Adjusted net income
$
1,296

 
$
1,208

 
$
4,295

 
$
4,714

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
46,223

 
$
47,682

 
$
45,967

 
$
47,820

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(24,852
)
 
(24,724
)
 
(24,856
)
 
(24,529
)
Average economic capital
$
21,371

 
$
22,958

 
$
21,111

 
$
23,291

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Markets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income (loss)
$
(359
)
 
$
(553
)
 
$
900

 
$
1,753

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)
2

 
3

 
7

 
9

Adjusted net income (loss)
$
(357
)
 
$
(550
)
 
$
907

 
$
1,762

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
17,068

 
$
21,609

 
$
17,504

 
$
23,636

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(4,651
)
 
(4,655
)
 
(4,636
)
 
(4,616
)
Average economic capital
$
12,417

 
$
16,954

 
$
12,868

 
$
19,020

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Wealth and Investment Management
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
542

 
$
362

 
$
1,639

 
$
1,424

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)
6

 
7

 
18

 
23

Adjusted net income
$
548

 
$
369

 
$
1,657

 
$
1,447

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
18,871

 
$
17,826

 
$
18,027

 
$
17,772

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(10,600
)
 
(10,691
)
 
(10,620
)
 
(10,708
)
Average economic capital
$
8,271

 
$
7,135

 
$
7,407

 
$
7,064

(1) 
Represents cost of funds, earnings credit and certain expenses related to intangibles.


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Segment Supplemental Financial Data Reconciliations to GAAP Financial Measures (continued)
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Consumer & Business Banking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Deposits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
207

 
$
280

 
$
702

 
$
1,063

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)

 
1

 
1

 
2

Adjusted net income
$
207

 
$
281

 
$
703

 
$
1,065

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
25,047

 
$
23,819

 
$
24,078

 
$
23,692

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(17,920
)
 
(17,947
)
 
(17,926
)
 
(17,952
)
Average economic capital
$
7,127

 
$
5,872

 
$
6,152

 
$
5,740

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Card Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
994

 
$
1,267

 
$
2,962

 
$
4,783

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)
3

 
5

 
9

 
13

Adjusted net income
$
997

 
$
1,272

 
$
2,971

 
$
4,796

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
20,463

 
$
20,755

 
$
20,553

 
$
21,302

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(10,429
)
 
(10,561
)
 
(10,461
)
 
(10,603
)
Average economic capital
$
10,034

 
$
10,194

 
$
10,092

 
$
10,699

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Business Banking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reported net income
$
84

 
$
117

 
$
229

 
$
358

Adjustment related to intangibles (1)

 

 

 

Adjusted net income
$
84

 
$
117

 
$
229

 
$
358

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average allocated equity
$
8,472

 
$
7,807

 
$
8,831

 
$
7,881

Adjustment related to goodwill and a percentage of intangibles
(2,098
)
 
(2,092
)
 
(2,098
)
 
(2,095
)
Average economic capital
$
6,374

 
$
5,715

 
$
6,733

 
$
5,786

(1) 
For footnote see page 23.


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Net Interest Income Excluding Trading-related Net Interest Income

We manage net interest income on a FTE basis and excluding the impact of trading-related activities. As discussed in Global Markets on page 49, we evaluate our sales and trading results and strategies on a total market-based revenue approach by combining net interest income and noninterest income for Global Markets. An analysis of net interest income, average earning assets and net interest yield on earning assets, all of which adjust for the impact of trading-related net interest income from reported net interest income on a FTE basis, is shown below. We believe the use of this non-GAAP presentation in Table 12 provides additional clarity in assessing our results.

Table 12
 
 
 
 
Net Interest Income Excluding Trading-related Net Interest Income
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Net interest income (FTE basis)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As reported (1)
$
10,167

 
$
10,739

 
$
31,002

 
$
34,629

Impact of trading-related net interest income (2)
(847
)
 
(929
)
 
(2,296
)
 
(2,824
)
Net interest income excluding trading-related net interest income (3)
$
9,320

 
$
9,810

 
$
28,706

 
$
31,805

Average earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As reported
$
1,750,275

 
$
1,841,135

 
$
1,763,600

 
$
1,851,736

Impact of trading-related earning assets (2)
(446,934
)
 
(445,431
)
 
(438,640
)
 
(456,102
)
Average earning assets excluding trading-related earning assets (3)
$
1,303,341

 
$
1,395,704

 
$
1,324,960

 
$
1,395,634

Net interest yield contribution (FTE basis) (4)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As reported (1)
2.32
%
 
2.32
%
 
2.35
%
 
2.50
%
Impact of trading-related activities (2)
0.53

 
0.48

 
0.54

 
0.54

Net interest yield on earning assets excluding trading-related activities (3)
2.85
%
 
2.80
%
 
2.89
%
 
3.04
%
(1) 
Net interest income and net interest yield include fees earned on overnight deposits placed with the Federal Reserve and, beginning in the third quarter of 2012, deposits, primarily overnight, placed with certain foreign central banks of $48 million and $147 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and $38 million and $150 million for the same periods in 2011.
(2) 
Represents the impact of trading-related amounts included in Global Markets.
(3) 
Represents a non-GAAP financial measure.
(4) 
Calculated on an annualized basis.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, net interest income excluding trading-related net interest income decreased $490 million to $9.3 billion, and $3.1 billion to $28.7 billion compared to the same periods in 2011. The declines were primarily driven by lower consumer loan balances and yields, partially offset by reductions in long-term debt balances and lower rates paid on deposits. The three-month comparison also reflects lower hedge ineffectiveness in the third quarter of 2012.

Average earning assets excluding trading-related earning assets for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 decreased $92.4 billion to $1,303.3 billion, and $70.7 billion to $1,325.0 billion compared to the same periods in 2011. The decreases were due to declines in consumer loans, securities purchased under agreement to resell, time deposits placed and loans held-for-sale (LHFS).

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, net interest yield on earning assets excluding trading-related activities increased five bps to 2.85 percent and decreased 15 bps to 2.89 percent compared to the same periods in the prior year. The three-month increase was primarily due to lower hedge ineffectiveness and the nine-month decrease was primarily due to the factors noted above for net interest income excluding trading-related net interest income. These impacts include a significant flattening of the yield curve driven by lower long-term rates compared to the same periods in the prior year.

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Table 13
Quarterly Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis
 
Third Quarter 2012
 
Second Quarter 2012
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Time deposits placed and other short-term investments (1)
$
15,849

 
$
58

 
1.47
%
 
$
27,476

 
$
64

 
0.94
%
Federal funds sold and securities borrowed or purchased under agreements to resell
234,955

 
353

 
0.60

 
234,148

 
360

 
0.62

Trading account assets
177,075

 
1,243

 
2.80

 
180,694

 
1,302

 
2.89

Debt securities (2)
340,773

 
2,036

 
2.39

 
342,244

 
1,907

 
2.23

Loans and leases (3):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage (4)
250,505

 
2,317

 
3.70

 
255,349

 
2,462

 
3.86

Home equity
116,184

 
1,097

 
3.77

 
119,657

 
1,090

 
3.66

Discontinued real estate
10,956

 
95

 
3.45

 
11,144

 
94

 
3.36

U.S. credit card
93,292

 
2,353

 
10.04

 
95,018

 
2,356

 
9.97

Non-U.S. credit card
13,329

 
385

 
11.48

 
13,641

 
396

 
11.68

Direct/Indirect consumer (5)
82,635

 
704

 
3.39

 
84,198

 
733

 
3.50

Other consumer (6)
2,654

 
40

 
6.03

 
2,565

 
41

 
6.41

Total consumer
569,555

 
6,991

 
4.89

 
581,572

 
7,172

 
4.95

U.S. commercial
201,072

 
1,752

 
3.47

 
199,644

 
1,742

 
3.51

Commercial real estate (7)
36,929

 
329

 
3.54

 
37,627

 
323

 
3.46

Commercial lease financing
21,545

 
202

 
3.75

 
21,446

 
216

 
4.02

Non-U.S. commercial
59,758

 
401

 
2.67

 
59,209

 
369

 
2.50

Total commercial
319,304

 
2,684

 
3.35

 
317,926

 
2,650

 
3.35

Total loans and leases
888,859

 
9,675

 
4.34

 
899,498

 
9,822

 
4.38

Other earning assets
92,764

 
792

 
3.40

 
88,508

 
719

 
3.26

Total earning assets (8)
1,750,275

 
14,157

 
3.22

 
1,772,568

 
14,174

 
3.21

Cash and cash equivalents (1)
122,716

 
48

 
 
 
116,025

 
52

 
 
Other assets, less allowance for loan and lease losses
300,321

 
 
 
 
 
305,970

 
 
 
 
Total assets
$
2,173,312

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,194,563

 
 
 
 
(1) 
For this presentation, fees earned on overnight deposits placed with the Federal Reserve are included in the cash and cash equivalents line, consistent with the Corporation’s Consolidated Balance Sheet presentation of these deposits. In addition, beginning in the third quarter of 2012, fees earned on deposits, primarily overnight, placed with certain foreign central banks, which are included in the time deposits placed and other short-term investments line in prior periods, have been included in the cash and cash equivalents line. Net interest income and net interest yield are calculated excluding these fees.
(2) 
Yields on AFS debt securities are calculated based on fair value rather than the cost basis. The use of fair value does not have a material impact on net interest yield.
(3) 
Nonperforming loans are included in the respective average loan balances. Income on these nonperforming loans is recognized on a cost recovery basis. PCI loans were recorded at fair value upon acquisition and accrete interest income over the remaining life of the loan.
(4) 
Includes non-U.S. residential mortgage loans of $92 million, $89 million and $86 million in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $88 million and $91 million in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively.
(5) 
Includes non-U.S. consumer loans of $7.8 billion, $7.8 billion and $7.5 billion in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $8.4 billion and $8.6 billion in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively.
(6) 
Includes consumer finance loans of $1.5 billion, $1.6 billion and $1.6 billion in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $1.7 billion and $1.8 billion in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively; other non-U.S. consumer loans of $997 million, $895 million and $903 million in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $959 million and $932 million in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively; and consumer overdrafts of $158 million, $108 million and $90 million in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $107 million in both the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively.
(7) 
Includes U.S. commercial real estate loans of $35.4 billion, $36.0 billion and $37.4 billion in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $38.7 billion and $40.7 billion in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively; and non-U.S. commercial real estate loans of $1.5 billion, $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $1.9 billion and $2.2 billion in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively.
(8) 
Interest income includes the impact of interest rate risk management contracts, which decreased interest income on the underlying assets by $136 million, $366 million and $106 million in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $427 million and $1.0 billion in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively. Interest expense includes the impact of interest rate risk management contracts, which decreased interest expense on the underlying liabilities by $454 million, $591 million and $658 million in the third, second and first quarters of 2012, and $763 million and $631 million in the fourth and third quarters of 2011, respectively. For further information on interest rate contracts, see Interest Rate Risk Management for Nontrading Activities on page 139.


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Table 13
 
 
 
 
 
 
Quarterly Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis (continued)
 
First Quarter 2012
 
Fourth Quarter 2011
 
Third Quarter 2011
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Time deposits placed and other short-term investments (1)
$
31,404

 
$
65

 
0.83
%
 
$
27,688

 
$
85

 
1.19
%
 
$
26,743

 
$
87

 
1.31
%
Federal funds sold and securities borrowed or purchased under agreements to resell
233,061

 
460

 
0.79

 
237,453

 
449

 
0.75

 
256,143

 
584

 
0.90

Trading account assets
175,778

 
1,399

 
3.19

 
161,848

 
1,354

 
3.33

 
180,438

 
1,543

 
3.40

Debt securities (2)
327,758

 
2,732

 
3.33

 
332,990

 
2,245

 
2.69

 
344,327

 
1,744

 
2.02

Loans and leases (3):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage (4)
260,573

 
2,489

 
3.82

 
266,144

 
2,596

 
3.90

 
268,494

 
2,856

 
4.25

Home equity
122,933

 
1,164

 
3.80

 
126,251

 
1,207

 
3.80

 
129,125

 
1,238

 
3.81

Discontinued real estate
12,082

 
103

 
3.42

 
14,073

 
128

 
3.65

 
15,923

 
134

 
3.36

U.S. credit card
98,334

 
2,459

 
10.06

 
102,241

 
2,603

 
10.10

 
103,671

 
2,650

 
10.14

Non-U.S. credit card
14,151

 
408

 
11.60

 
15,981

 
420

 
10.41

 
25,434

 
697

 
10.88

Direct/Indirect consumer (5)
88,321

 
801

 
3.65

 
90,861

 
863

 
3.77

 
90,280

 
915

 
4.02

Other consumer (6)
2,617

 
40

 
6.24

 
2,751

 
41

 
6.14

 
2,795

 
43

 
6.07

Total consumer
599,011

 
7,464

 
5.00

 
618,302

 
7,858

 
5.06

 
635,722

 
8,533

 
5.34

U.S. commercial
195,111

 
1,756

 
3.62

 
196,778

 
1,798

 
3.63

 
191,439

 
1,809

 
3.75

Commercial real estate (7)
39,190

 
339

 
3.48

 
40,673

 
343

 
3.34

 
42,931

 
360

 
3.33

Commercial lease financing
21,679

 
272

 
5.01

 
21,278

 
204

 
3.84

 
21,342

 
240

 
4.51

Non-U.S. commercial
58,731

 
391

 
2.68

 
55,867

 
395

 
2.80

 
50,598

 
349

 
2.73

Total commercial
314,711

 
2,758

 
3.52

 
314,596

 
2,740

 
3.46

 
306,310

 
2,758

 
3.58

Total loans and leases
913,722

 
10,222

 
4.49

 
932,898

 
10,598

 
4.52

 
942,032

 
11,291

 
4.77

Other earning assets
86,382

 
743

 
3.46

 
91,109

 
904

 
3.95

 
91,452

 
814

 
3.54

Total earning assets (8)
1,768,105

 
15,621

 
3.55

 
1,783,986

 
15,635

 
3.49

 
1,841,135

 
16,063

 
3.47

Cash and cash equivalents (1)
112,512

 
47

 
 
 
94,287

 
36

 
 
 
102,573

 
38

 
 
Other assets, less allowance for loan and lease losses
306,557

 
 
 
 
 
329,294

 
 
 
 
 
357,746

 
 
 
 
Total assets
$
2,187,174

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,207,567

 
 

 
 
 
$
2,301,454

 
 
 
 
For footnotes see page 26.


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Table 13
Quarterly Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis (continued)
 
Third Quarter 2012
 
Second Quarter 2012
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Interest-bearing liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Savings
$
41,581

 
$
11

 
0.10
%
 
$
42,394

 
$
14

 
0.13
%
NOW and money market deposit accounts
465,679

 
173

 
0.15

 
460,788

 
188

 
0.16

Consumer CDs and IRAs
94,140

 
172

 
0.73

 
96,858

 
171

 
0.71

Negotiable CDs, public funds and other deposits
19,587

 
30

 
0.61

 
21,661

 
35

 
0.65

Total U.S. interest-bearing deposits
620,987

 
386

 
0.25

 
621,701

 
408

 
0.26

Non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Banks located in non-U.S. countries
13,883

 
19

 
0.56

 
14,598

 
25

 
0.69

Governments and official institutions
1,019

 
1

 
0.31

 
895

 
1

 
0.37

Time, savings and other
52,175

 
78

 
0.59

 
52,584

 
85

 
0.65

Total non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits
67,077

 
98

 
0.58

 
68,077

 
111

 
0.65

Total interest-bearing deposits
688,064

 
484

 
0.28

 
689,778

 
519

 
0.30

Federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings
325,023

 
893

 
1.09

 
318,909

 
943

 
1.19

Trading account liabilities
77,528

 
418

 
2.14

 
84,728

 
448

 
2.13

Long-term debt
291,684

 
2,243

 
3.07

 
333,173

 
2,534

 
3.05

Total interest-bearing liabilities (8)
1,382,299

 
4,038

 
1.16

 
1,426,588

 
4,444

 
1.25

Noninterest-bearing sources:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Noninterest-bearing deposits
361,633

 
 
 
 
 
343,110

 
 
 
 
Other liabilities
193,341

 
 
 
 
 
189,307

 
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
236,039

 
 
 
 
 
235,558

 
 
 
 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
$
2,173,312

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,194,563

 
 
 
 
Net interest spread
 
 
 
 
2.06
%
 
 
 
 
 
1.96
%
Impact of noninterest-bearing sources
 
 
 
 
0.25

 
 
 
 
 
0.24

Net interest income/yield on earning assets (1)
 
 
$
10,119

 
2.31
%
 
 
 
$
9,730

 
2.20
%
For footnotes see page 26.


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Table 13
 
 
 
 
 
 
Quarterly Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis (continued)
 
First Quarter 2012
 
Fourth Quarter 2011
 
Third Quarter 2011
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Interest-bearing liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Savings
$
40,543

 
$
14

 
0.14
%
 
$
39,609

 
$
16

 
0.16
%
 
$
41,256

 
$
21

 
0.19
%
NOW and money market deposit accounts
458,649

 
186

 
0.16

 
454,249

 
192

 
0.17

 
473,391

 
248

 
0.21

Consumer CDs and IRAs
100,044

 
194

 
0.78

 
103,488

 
220

 
0.84

 
108,359

 
244

 
0.89

Negotiable CDs, public funds and other deposits
22,586

 
36

 
0.64

 
22,413

 
34

 
0.60

 
18,547

 
5

 
0.12

Total U.S. interest-bearing deposits
621,822

 
430

 
0.28

 
619,759

 
462

 
0.30

 
641,553

 
518

 
0.32

Non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Banks located in non-U.S. countries
18,170

 
28

 
0.62

 
20,454

 
29

 
0.55

 
21,037

 
34

 
0.65

Governments and official institutions
1,286

 
1

 
0.41

 
1,466

 
1

 
0.36

 
2,043

 
2

 
0.32

Time, savings and other
55,241

 
90

 
0.66

 
57,814

 
124

 
0.85

 
64,271

 
150

 
0.93

Total non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits
74,697

 
119

 
0.64

 
79,734

 
154

 
0.77

 
87,351

 
186

 
0.85

Total interest-bearing deposits
696,519

 
549

 
0.32

 
699,493

 
616

 
0.35

 
728,904

 
704

 
0.38

Federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings
293,056

 
881

 
1.21

 
284,766

 
921

 
1.28

 
303,234

 
1,152

 
1.51

Trading account liabilities
71,872

 
477

 
2.67

 
70,999

 
411

 
2.29

 
87,841

 
547

 
2.47

Long-term debt
363,518

 
2,708

 
2.99

 
389,557

 
2,764

 
2.80

 
420,273

 
2,959

 
2.82

Total interest-bearing liabilities (8)
1,424,965

 
4,615

 
1.30

 
1,444,815

 
4,712

 
1.29

 
1,540,252

 
5,362

 
1.39

Noninterest-bearing sources:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Noninterest-bearing deposits
333,593

 
 
 
 
 
333,038

 
 

 
 
 
322,416

 
 
 
 
Other liabilities
196,050

 
 
 
 
 
201,479

 
 

 
 
 
216,376

 
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
232,566

 
 
 
 
 
228,235

 
 

 
 
 
222,410

 
 
 
 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
$
2,187,174

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,207,567

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,301,454

 
 
 
 
Net interest spread
 
 
 
 
2.25
%
 
 
 
 
 
2.20
%
 
 
 
 
 
2.08
%
Impact of noninterest-bearing sources
 
 
 
 
0.25

 
 
 
 
 
0.24

 
 
 
 
 
0.23

Net interest income/yield on earning assets (1)
 
 
$
11,006

 
2.50
%
 
 
 
$
10,923

 
2.44
%
 
 
 
$
10,701

 
2.31
%
For footnotes see page 26.

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Table 14
Year-to-Date Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
2012
 
2011
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Time deposits placed and other short-term investments (1)
$
24,877

 
$
187

 
1.01
%
 
$
28,428

 
$
281

 
1.33
%
Federal funds sold and securities borrowed or purchased under agreements to resell
234,058

 
1,173

 
0.67

 
247,635

 
1,698

 
0.92

Trading account assets
177,846

 
3,944

 
2.96

 
195,931

 
4,788

 
3.26

Debt securities (2)
336,939

 
6,675

 
2.64

 
338,512

 
7,357

 
2.90

Loans and leases (3):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage (4)
255,458

 
7,268

 
3.79

 
265,345

 
8,500

 
4.27

Home equity
119,579

 
3,351

 
3.74

 
132,308

 
3,834

 
3.87

Discontinued real estate
11,392

 
292

 
3.41

 
14,951

 
373

 
3.32

U.S. credit card
95,540

 
7,168

 
10.02

 
106,569

 
8,205

 
10.29

Non-U.S. credit card
13,706

 
1,189

 
11.59

 
26,767

 
2,236

 
11.17

Direct/Indirect consumer (5)
85,042

 
2,238

 
3.52

 
89,927

 
2,853

 
4.24

Other consumer (6)
2,612

 
121

 
6.23

 
2,764

 
135

 
6.47

Total consumer
583,329

 
21,627

 
4.95

 
638,631

 
26,136

 
5.47

U.S. commercial
198,618

 
5,250

 
3.53

 
191,091

 
5,562

 
3.89

Commercial real estate (7)
37,912

 
991

 
3.49

 
45,664

 
1,179

 
3.45

Commercial lease financing
21,557

 
690

 
4.27

 
21,419

 
797

 
4.96

Non-U.S. commercial
59,234

 
1,161

 
2.62

 
43,043

 
987

 
3.07

Total commercial
317,321

 
8,092

 
3.41

 
301,217

 
8,525

 
3.78

Total loans and leases
900,650

 
29,719

 
4.41

 
939,848

 
34,661

 
4.93

Other earning assets
89,230

 
2,254

 
3.37

 
101,382

 
2,602

 
3.43

Total earning assets (8)
1,763,600

 
43,952

 
3.33

 
1,851,736

 
51,387

 
3.72

Cash and cash equivalents (1)
117,105

 
147

 
 
 
118,792

 
150

 
 
Other assets, less allowance for loan and lease losses
304,269

 
 
 
 
 
355,704

 
 
 
 
Total assets
$
2,184,974

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,326,232

 
 
 
 
(1) 
For this presentation, fees earned on overnight deposits placed with the Federal Reserve are included in the cash and cash equivalents line, consistent with the Corporation’s Consolidated Balance Sheet presentation of these deposits. In addition, beginning in the third quarter of 2012, fees earned on deposits, primarily overnight, placed with certain foreign central banks, which are included in the time deposits placed and other short-term investments line in prior periods, have been included in the cash and cash equivalents line. Net interest income and net interest yield are calculated excluding these fees.
(2) 
Yields on AFS debt securities are calculated based on fair value rather than the cost basis. The use of fair value does not have a material impact on net interest yield.
(3) 
Nonperforming loans are included in the respective average loan balances. Income on these nonperforming loans is recognized on a cost recovery basis. PCI loans were recorded at fair value upon acquisition and accrete interest income over the remaining life of the loan.
(4) 
Includes non-U.S. residential mortgage loans of $89 million and $92 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.
(5) 
Includes non-U.S. consumer loans of $7.7 billion and $8.5 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.
(6) 
Includes consumer finance loans of $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion, other non-U.S. consumer loans of $932 million and $851 million, and consumer overdrafts of $119 million and $88 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.
(7) 
Includes U.S. commercial real estate loans of $36.3 billion and $43.3 billion, and non-U.S. commercial real estate loans of $1.7 billion and $2.4 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.
(8) 
Interest income includes the impact of interest rate risk management contracts, which decreased interest income on the underlying assets by $608 million and $2.2 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011. Interest expense includes the impact of interest rate risk management contracts, which decreased interest expense on the underlying liabilities by $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011. For further information on interest rate contracts, see Interest Rate Risk Management for Nontrading Activities on page 139.

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Table 14
Year-to-Date Average Balances and Interest Rates – FTE Basis (continued)
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
2012
 
2011
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
 
Average
Balance
 
Interest
Income/
Expense
 
Yield/
Rate
Interest-bearing liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Savings
$
41,506

 
$
39

 
0.12
%
 
$
40,618

 
$
84

 
0.28
%
NOW and money market deposit accounts
461,720

 
547

 
0.16

 
476,002

 
868

 
0.24

Consumer CDs and IRAs
97,003

 
537

 
0.74

 
113,428

 
825

 
0.97

Negotiable CDs, public funds and other deposits
21,273

 
101

 
0.63

 
15,478

 
86

 
0.74

Total U.S. interest-bearing deposits
621,502

 
1,224

 
0.26

 
645,526

 
1,863

 
0.39

Non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Banks located in non-U.S. countries
15,544

 
72

 
0.62

 
20,600

 
109

 
0.71

Governments and official institutions
1,067

 
3

 
0.37

 
2,159

 
6

 
0.35

Time, savings and other
53,328

 
253

 
0.63

 
63,212

 
408

 
0.86

Total non-U.S. interest-bearing deposits
69,939

 
328

 
0.63

 
85,971

 
523

 
0.81

Total interest-bearing deposits
691,441

 
1,552

 
0.30

 
731,497

 
2,386

 
0.44

Federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase and other short-term borrowings
312,376

 
2,717

 
1.16

 
337,583

 
3,678

 
1.46

Trading account liabilities
78,041

 
1,343

 
2.30

 
89,302

 
1,801

 
2.70

Long-term debt
329,320

 
7,485

 
3.03

 
431,902

 
9,043

 
2.80

Total interest-bearing liabilities (8)
1,411,178

 
13,097

 
1.24

 
1,590,284

 
16,908

 
1.42

Noninterest-bearing sources:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Noninterest-bearing deposits
346,169

 
 
 
 
 
305,408

 
 
 
 
Other liabilities
192,901

 
 
 
 
 
201,155

 
 
 
 
Shareholders’ equity
234,726

 
 
 
 
 
229,385

 
 
 
 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
$
2,184,974

 
 
 
 
 
$
2,326,232

 
 
 
 
Net interest spread
 
 
 
 
2.09
%
 
 
 
 
 
2.30
%
Impact of noninterest-bearing sources
 
 
 
 
0.24

 
 
 
 
 
0.19

Net interest income/yield on earning assets (1)
 
 
$
30,855

 
2.33
%
 
 
 
$
34,479

 
2.49
%
For footnotes see page 30.


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Business Segment Operations
 
Segment Description and Basis of Presentation

We report the results of our operations through five business segments: CBB, CRES, Global Banking, Global Markets and GWIM, with the remaining operations recorded in All Other. Effective January 1, 2012, we changed the basis of presentation from six segments to the above five segments. The former Deposits and Card Services segments, as well as Business Banking, which was included in the former Global Commercial Banking segment, are now reflected in CBB. The former Global Commercial Banking segment was combined with the Global Corporate and Investment Banking business, which was included in the former Global Banking & Markets (GBAM) segment, to form Global Banking. The remaining global markets business of GBAM is now reported as a separate Global Markets segment. In addition, certain management accounting methodologies and related allocations were refined. Prior period results have been reclassified to conform to current period presentation.

We prepare and evaluate segment results using certain non-GAAP financial measures. For additional information, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

The management accounting and reporting process derives segment and business results by utilizing allocation methodologies for revenue and expense. The net income derived for the businesses is dependent upon revenue and cost allocations using an activity-based costing model, funds transfer pricing, and other methodologies and assumptions management believes are appropriate to reflect the results of the business.

Total revenue, net of interest expense, includes net interest income on a FTE basis and noninterest income. The adjustment of net interest income to a FTE basis results in a corresponding increase in income tax expense. The segment results also reflect certain revenue and expense methodologies that are utilized to determine net income. The net interest income of the businesses includes the results of a funds transfer pricing process that matches assets and liabilities with similar interest rate sensitivity and maturity characteristics. For presentation purposes, in segments where the total of liabilities and equity exceeds assets, which are generally deposit-taking segments, we allocate assets to match liabilities. Net interest income of the business segments also includes an allocation of net interest income generated by certain of our asset and liability management (ALM) activities.

Our ALM activities include an overall interest rate risk management strategy that incorporates the use of various derivatives and cash instruments to manage fluctuations in earnings and capital that are caused by interest rate volatility. Our goal is to manage interest rate sensitivity so that movements in interest rates do not significantly adversely affect earnings and capital. The majority of our ALM activities are allocated to the business segments and fluctuate based on performance. ALM activities include external product pricing decisions including deposit pricing strategies, the effects of our internal funds transfer pricing process and the net effects of other ALM activities.

Certain expenses not directly attributable to a specific business segment are allocated to the segments. The most significant of these expenses include data and item processing costs and certain centralized or shared functions. Data processing costs are allocated to the segments based on equipment usage. Item processing costs are allocated to the segments based on the volume of items processed for each segment. The costs of certain other centralized or shared functions are allocated based on methodologies that reflect utilization.

We allocate economic capital to the business segments and related businesses using a risk-adjusted methodology incorporating each segment’s credit, market, interest rate, strategic and operational risk components. See Managing Risk and Strategic Risk Management on page 70 for more information on the nature of these risks. A business segment's allocated equity includes this economic capital allocation and also includes the portion of goodwill and intangibles specifically assigned to the business segment. We benefit from the diversification of risk across these components which is reflected as a reduction to allocated equity for each segment. The risk-adjusted methodology is periodically refined and such refinements are reflected as changes to allocated equity in each segment.

For more information on selected financial information for the business segments and reconciliations to consolidated total revenue, net income (loss) and period-end total assets, see Note 19 – Business Segment Information to the Consolidated Financial Statements.



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Consumer & Business Banking
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Deposits
 
Card
Services
 
Business
Banking
 
Total Consumer &
Business Banking
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
% Change

Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
1,882

 
$
1,987

 
$
2,479

 
$
2,820

 
$
290

 
$
342

 
$
4,651

 
$
5,149

 
(10
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Card income

 

 
1,325

 
1,720

 

 

 
1,325

 
1,720

 
(23
)
Service charges
1,012

 
1,073

 

 

 
91

 
131

 
1,103

 
1,204

 
(8
)
All other income (loss)
63

 
60

 
(100
)
 
(42
)
 
28

 
36

 
(9
)
 
54

 
n/m

Total noninterest income
1,075

 
1,133

 
1,225

 
1,678

 
119

 
167

 
2,419

 
2,978

 
(19
)
Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
2,957

 
3,120

 
3,704

 
4,498

 
409

 
509

 
7,070

 
8,127

 
(13
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
60

 
52

 
836

 
1,037

 
74

 
43

 
970

 
1,132

 
(14
)
Noninterest expense
2,568

 
2,623

 
1,290

 
1,444

 
203

 
280

 
4,061

 
4,347

 
(7
)
Income before income taxes
329

 
445

 
1,578

 
2,017

 
132

 
186

 
2,039

 
2,648

 
(23
)
Income tax expense (FTE basis)
122

 
165

 
584

 
750

 
48

 
69

 
754

 
984

 
(23
)
Net income
$
207

 
$
280

 
$
994

 
$
1,267

 
$
84

 
$
117

 
$
1,285

 
$
1,664

 
(23
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
1.71
%
 
1.87
%
 
8.95
%
 
8.97
%
 
2.57
%
 
3.06
%
 
3.74
%
 
4.25
%
 
 
Return on average allocated equity
3.29

 
4.67

 
19.33

 
24.22

 
3.89

 
5.93

 
9.47

 
12.60

 
 
Return on average economic capital
11.60

 
19.01

 
39.54

 
49.50

 
5.17

 
8.11

 
21.77

 
30.42

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
86.82

 
84.07

 
34.79

 
32.09

 
50.03

 
54.95

 
57.43

 
53.48

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
n/m

 
n/m

 
$
109,707

 
$
123,547

 
$
23,375

 
$
27,258

 
$
133,881

 
$
151,492

 
(12
)
Total earning assets (1)
$
437,234

 
$
420,876

 
110,233

 
124,766

 
44,974

 
44,342

 
494,485

 
480,312

 
3

Total assets (1)
463,248

 
447,620

 
116,760

 
129,170

 
51,929

 
52,394

 
533,981

 
519,512

 
3

Total deposits
436,688

 
422,331

 
n/m

 
n/m

 
43,294

 
41,622

 
480,342

 
464,256

 
3

Allocated equity
25,047

 
23,819

 
20,463

 
20,755

 
8,472

 
7,807

 
53,982

 
52,381

 
3

Economic capital
7,127

 
5,872

 
10,034

 
10,194

 
6,374

 
5,715

 
23,535

 
21,781

 
8

(1)
For presentation purposes, in segments and businesses where the total of liabilities and equity exceeds assets, we allocate assets to match liabilities. As a result, total earning assets and total assets of the businesses may not equal total CBB.
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Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Deposits
 
Card
Services
 
Business
Banking
 
Total Consumer &
Business Banking
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
% Change

Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
5,916

 
$
6,473

 
$
7,575

 
$
8,737

 
$
945

 
$
1,089

 
$
14,436

 
$
16,299

 
(11
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Card income

 

 
3,934

 
4,983

 

 

 
3,934

 
4,983

 
(21
)
Service charges
2,972

 
2,964

 

 

 
277

 
415

 
3,249

 
3,379

 
(4
)
All other income (loss)
194

 
177

 
(79
)
 
342

 
85

 
94

 
200

 
613

 
(67
)
Total noninterest income
3,166

 
3,141

 
3,855

 
5,325

 
362

 
509

 
7,383

 
8,975

 
(18
)
Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
9,082

 
9,614

 
11,430

 
14,062

 
1,307

 
1,598

 
21,819

 
25,274

 
(14
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
151

 
116

 
2,566

 
1,934

 
261

 
143

 
2,978

 
2,193

 
36

Noninterest expense
7,819

 
7,821

 
4,171

 
4,584

 
682

 
886

 
12,672

 
13,291

 
(5
)
Income before income taxes
1,112

 
1,677

 
4,693

 
7,544

 
364

 
569

 
6,169

 
9,790

 
(37
)
Income tax expense (FTE basis)
410

 
614

 
1,731

 
2,761

 
135

 
211

 
2,276

 
3,586

 
(37
)
Net income
$
702

 
$
1,063

 
$
2,962

 
$
4,783

 
$
229

 
$
358

 
$
3,893

 
$
6,204

 
(37
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
1.83
%
 
2.05
%
 
8.90
%
 
9.06
%
 
2.76
%
 
3.43
%
 
3.93
%
 
4.52
%
 
 
Return on average allocated equity
3.89

 
6.00

 
19.25

 
30.02

 
3.47

 
6.08

 
9.73

 
15.69

 
 
Return on average economic capital
15.27

 
24.82

 
39.32

 
59.92

 
4.55

 
8.28

 
22.69

 
37.42

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
86.09

 
81.35

 
36.49

 
32.60

 
52.15

 
55.42

 
58.08

 
52.59

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
n/m

 
n/m

 
$
112,689

 
$
127,755

 
$
23,998

 
$
27,423

 
$
137,431

 
$
155,829

 
(12
)
Total earning assets (1)
$
430,837

 
$
421,530

 
113,659

 
128,904

 
45,640

 
42,475

 
490,393

 
482,003

 
2

Total assets (1)
457,011

 
447,926

 
119,741

 
131,172

 
52,802

 
50,807

 
529,811

 
518,998

 
2

Total deposits
431,516

 
422,452

 
n/m

 
n/m

 
42,562

 
40,103

 
474,409

 
462,851

 
2

Allocated equity
24,078

 
23,692

 
20,553

 
21,302

 
8,831

 
7,881

 
53,462

 
52,875

 
1

Economic capital
6,152

 
5,740

 
10,092

 
10,699

 
6,733

 
5,786

 
22,977

 
22,225

 
3

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
 
Total loans and leases
n/m

 
n/m

 
$
109,358

 
$
120,668

 
$
23,150

 
$
25,006

 
$
133,308

 
$
146,378

 
(9
)
Total earning assets (1)
$
442,960

 
$
419,215

 
109,865

 
121,991

 
44,532

 
46,516

 
499,604

 
480,972

 
4

Total assets (1)
468,885

 
446,274

 
116,921

 
127,623

 
52,207

 
53,950

 
540,260

 
521,097

 
4

Total deposits
442,875

 
421,871

 
n/m

 
n/m

 
43,055

 
41,519

 
486,857

 
464,264

 
5

(1)
For presentation purposes, in segments and businesses where the total of liabilities and equity exceeds assets, we allocate assets to match liabilities. As a result, total earning assets and total assets of the businesses may not equal total CBB.
n/m = not meaningful

CBB, which is comprised of Deposits, Card Services and Business Banking, offers a diversified range of credit, banking and investment products and services to consumers and businesses. Our customers and clients have access to a franchise network that stretches coast to coast through 32 states and the District of Columbia. The franchise network includes approximately 5,500 banking centers, 16,300 ATMs, nationwide call centers, and online and mobile platforms.

The Federal Reserve adopted a final rule with respect to the Durbin Amendment, which became effective October 1, 2011, that established the maximum allowable interchange fees a bank can receive for a debit card transaction. The interchange fee rules resulted in a reduction of debit card revenue of approximately $420 million in each of the first three quarters of 2012 when compared to the same periods in 2011. For more information on the Durbin Amendment and the final interchange rules, see Regulatory Matters on page 43 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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CBB Results

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for CBB decreased $379 million to $1.3 billion primarily due to lower revenue, partially offset by lower noninterest expense and provision for credit losses. Net interest income decreased $498 million to $4.7 billion due to lower average loan balances primarily in Card Services as well as compressed deposit spreads due to the continued low rate environment. Noninterest income decreased $559 million to $2.4 billion primarily due to a decline in Card Services. The provision for credit losses decreased $162 million to $970 million due to improvements in delinquencies and bankruptcies primarily in Card Services. Noninterest expense decreased $286 million to $4.1 billion primarily due to lower FDIC and operating expenses.

The return on average economic capital decreased primarily due to lower net income.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for CBB decreased $2.3 billion to $3.9 billion primarily due to lower revenue and higher provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower noninterest expense. Net interest income decreased $1.9 billion to $14.4 billion and noninterest income decreased $1.6 billion to $7.4 billion. These changes were driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above. The provision for credit losses increased $785 million to $3.0 billion with the increase largely in Card Services. Noninterest expense decreased $619 million to $12.7 billion primarily due to lower FDIC and operating expenses, partially offset by an increase in litigation expense.

The return on average economic capital decreased due to the same factor as described in the three-month discussion above. For more information regarding economic capital, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

Deposits

Deposits includes the results of consumer deposit activities which consist of a comprehensive range of products provided to consumers and small businesses. Our deposit products include traditional savings accounts, money market savings accounts, CDs and IRAs, noninterest- and interest-bearing checking accounts, as well as investment accounts and products. Deposit products provide a relatively stable source of funding and liquidity for the Corporation. We earn net interest spread revenue from investing this liquidity in earning assets through client-facing lending and ALM activities. The revenue is allocated to the deposit products using our funds transfer pricing process that matches assets and liabilities with similar interest rate sensitivity and maturity characteristics.

Deposits also generates fees such as account service fees, non-sufficient funds fees, overdraft charges and ATM fees, as well as investment and brokerage fees from Merrill Edge accounts. Merrill Edge is an integrated investing and banking service targeted at clients with less than $250,000 in total assets. Merrill Edge provides team-based investment advice and guidance, brokerage services, a self-directed online investing platform and key banking capabilities including access to the Corporation’s network of banking centers and ATMs. Deposits includes the net impact of migrating customers and their related deposit balances between Deposits and GWIM as well as other client-managed businesses. For more information on the migration of customer balances to or from GWIM, see GWIM on page 52.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Deposits decreased $73 million to $207 million primarily driven by lower revenue, partially offset by lower noninterest expense. Net interest income declined $105 million, or five percent, to $1.9 billion driven by compressed deposit spreads due to the continued low rate environment, partially offset by a customer shift to higher spread liquid products and continued pricing discipline. Noninterest income decreased $58 million, or five percent, to $1.1 billion primarily due to a decrease in service charges. Noninterest expense decreased $55 million, or two percent, to $2.6 billion as lower FDIC expense was partially offset by higher operating expense.

Average deposits increased $14.4 billion driven by a customer shift to more liquid products in a low rate environment as checking, traditional savings and money market savings grew $24.3 billion. Growth in liquid products was partially offset by a decline in average time deposits of $9.9 billion. As a result of the shift in the mix of deposits and our continued pricing discipline, rates paid on average deposits declined by five bps to 20 bps.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Deposits decreased $361 million to $702 million primarily driven by lower net interest income. Net interest income declined $557 million, or nine percent, to $5.9 billion driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion. Noninterest income of $3.2 billion and noninterest expense of $7.8 billion remained relatively unchanged. Average deposits increased $9.1 billion driven by the same factor as described in the three-month discussion.

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Key Statistics
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended
September 30
 
Nine Months Ended
September 30
 
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Total deposit spreads (excludes noninterest costs) (1)
 
1.75
%
 
2.09
%
 
1.86
%
 
2.14
%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Client brokerage assets (in millions)
 
 
 
 
 
$
75,852

 
$
61,918

Online banking active accounts (units in thousands)
 
 
 
 
 
29,809

 
29,917

Mobile banking active accounts (units in thousands)
 
 
 
 
 
11,097

 
8,531

Banking centers
 
 
 
 
 
5,540

 
5,715

ATMs
 
 
 
 
 
16,253

 
17,752

(1)
Total deposit spreads include the Deposits and Business Banking businesses.

Mobile banking customers increased 2.6 million from a year ago reflecting a change in our customers' banking preferences. The number of banking centers declined 175 and ATMs declined 1,499 as we continue to improve our cost-to-serve and optimize our consumer banking network.

Card Services

Card Services is one of the leading issuers of credit and debit cards to consumers and small businesses in the U.S. In addition to earning net interest spread revenue on its lending activities, Card Services generates interchange revenue from credit and debit card transactions as well as annual credit card fees and other miscellaneous fees.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Card Services decreased $273 million to $994 million primarily driven by a decrease in revenue, partially offset by a decrease in the provision for credit losses and lower noninterest expense. Net interest income decreased $341 million, or 12 percent, to $2.5 billion driven by lower average loan balances. Noninterest income decreased $453 million, or 27 percent, to $1.2 billion primarily due to lower interchange fees as a result of implementing the Durbin Amendment and the net impact of charges related to our consumer protection products. For information on the Durbin Amendment, see page 34.

The provision for credit losses decreased $201 million to $836 million due to improvements in delinquencies and bankruptcies. For more information, see Provision for Credit Losses on page 129. Noninterest expense decreased $154 million, or 11 percent, to $1.3 billion primarily due to lower operating expenses.

Average loans decreased $13.8 billion, or 11 percent, driven by the impact of portfolio sales, charge-offs and continued run-off of non-core portfolios.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Card Services decreased $1.8 billion to $3.0 billion primarily driven by a decrease in revenue and an increase in the provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower noninterest expense. Net interest income decreased $1.2 billion, or 13 percent, to $7.6 billion driven by lower average loan balances and yields. The net interest yield decreased 16 bps to 8.90 percent due to charge-offs and paydowns of higher interest rate products. Noninterest income decreased $1.5 billion, or 28 percent, to $3.9 billion driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above as well as the net impact of portfolio sales.

The provision for credit losses increased $632 million, or 33 percent, to $2.6 billion as portfolio trends began to stabilize during 2012. Noninterest expense decreased $413 million, or nine percent, to $4.2 billion primarily due to lower operating expenses, partially offset by an increase in litigation expense.

Average loans decreased $15.1 billion, or 12 percent, driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion.


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Key Statistics
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended
September 30
 
Nine Months Ended
September 30
(Dollars in millions)
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
U.S. credit card
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gross interest yield
 
10.04
%
 
10.14
%
 
10.02
%
 
10.29
%
Risk-adjusted margin
 
7.66

 
6.08

 
7.23

 
5.51

New accounts (in thousands)
 
857

 
851

 
2,421

 
2,238

Purchase volumes
 
$
48,189

 
$
48,547

 
$
141,872

 
$
141,457

Debit card purchase volumes
 
64,121

 
62,774

 
192,146

 
186,819


During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the U.S. credit card risk-adjusted margin increased 158 bps and 172 bps from the same periods in 2011, reflecting improvement in credit quality in the portfolio. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, U.S. credit card new accounts grew by 183,000 accounts to 2.4 million accounts compared to the same period in 2011. U.S. credit card purchase volumes remained relatively unchanged for the three- and nine-month periods resulting from the net impact of portfolio sales and higher consumer spending. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, debit card purchase volumes increased $1.3 billion to $64.1 billion, and $5.3 billion to $192.1 billion compared to the same periods in 2011, reflecting higher levels of consumer spending.

Business Banking

Business Banking provides a wide range of lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions to clients through our network of offices and client relationship teams along with various product partners. Our clients include U.S.-based companies generally with annual sales of $1 million to $50 million. Our lending products and services include commercial loans, lines of credit and real estate lending. Our capital management and treasury solutions include treasury management, foreign exchange and short-term investing options. Business Banking also includes the results of our merchant services joint venture.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Business Banking decreased $33 million to $84 million primarily driven by lower revenue and an increase in the provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower noninterest expense. Net interest income decreased $52 million, or 15 percent, to $290 million driven by lower average loan balances. Noninterest income decreased $48 million, or 29 percent, to $119 million primarily due to the transfer of certain processing activities to our merchant services joint venture. The provision for credit losses increased $31 million to $74 million due to an increase in projected losses. Noninterest expense decreased $77 million, or 28 percent, to $203 million driven by lower FDIC and merchant processing expenses.

Average loans decreased $3.9 billion, or 14 percent, primarily driven by the net transfer of certain loans to other businesses, higher prepayments and continued run-off of non-core portfolios. Average deposits increased $1.7 billion, or four percent, due to the current client preference for liquidity and the net transfer of certain deposits from other businesses.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income for Business Banking decreased $129 million to $229 million driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above. Average loans decreased $3.4 billion and average deposits increased $2.5 billion driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.


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Consumer Real Estate Services
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Home Loans
 
Legacy Assets
& Servicing
 
Total Consumer Real
Estate Services
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
2011
 
2012
2011

2012
2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
336

$
446

 
$
393

$
476

 
$
729

$
922

 
(21
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Mortgage banking income
853

656

 
1,339

1,144

 
2,192

1,800

 
22

Insurance income
1

23

 


 
1

23

 
(96
)
All other income (loss)
(11
)
42

 
185

35

 
174

77

 
126

Total noninterest income
843

721

 
1,524

1,179

 
2,367

1,900

 
25

Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
1,179

1,167

 
1,917

1,655

 
3,096

2,822

 
10

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
(23
)
50

 
287

868

 
264

918

 
(71
)
Noninterest expense
783

1,068

 
3,441

2,758

 
4,224

3,826

 
10

Income (loss) before income taxes
419

49

 
(1,811
)
(1,971
)
 
(1,392
)
(1,922
)
 
(28
)
Income tax expense (benefit) (FTE basis)
155

18

 
(670
)
(819
)
 
(515
)
(801
)
 
(36
)
Net income (loss)
$
264

$
31

 
$
(1,141
)
$
(1,152
)
 
$
(877
)
$
(1,121
)
 
(22
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
2.37
%
2.57
%
 
2.45
%
2.35
%
 
2.41
%
2.45
%
 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
66.41

91.52

 
n/m

n/m

 
n/m

n/m

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
49,561

$
54,858

 
$
54,147

$
65,221

 
$
103,708

$
120,079

 
(14
)
Total earning assets
56,285

68,815

 
63,863

80,362

 
120,148

149,177

 
(19
)
Total assets
57,370

71,422

 
84,409

111,421

 
141,779

182,843

 
(22
)
Allocated equity
n/a

n/a

 
n/a

n/a

 
13,332

14,240

 
(6
)
Economic capital
n/a

n/a

 
n/a

n/a

 
13,332

14,240

 
(6
)
n/m = not meaningful
n/a = not applicable


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Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Home Loans
 
Legacy Assets
& Servicing
 
Total Consumer Real
Estate Services
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
2011
 
2012
2011
 
2012
2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
1,013

$
1,444

 
$
1,205

$
954

 
$
2,218

$
2,398

 
(8
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mortgage banking income (loss)
2,394

1,873

 
3,440

(12,396
)
 
5,834

(10,523
)
 
n/m

Insurance income
8

753

 


 
8

753

 
(99
)
All other income (loss)
(22
)
871

 
253

71

 
231

942

 
(75
)
Total noninterest income (loss)
2,380

3,497

 
3,693

(12,325
)
 
6,073

(8,828
)
 
n/m

Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
3,393

4,941

 
4,898

(11,371
)
 
8,291

(6,430
)
 
n/m

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
(5
)
171

 
962

3,352

 
957

3,523

 
(73
)
Goodwill impairment


 

2,603

 

2,603

 
n/m

All other noninterest expense
2,430

3,837

 
9,248

10,782

 
11,678

14,619

 
(20
)
Income (loss) before income taxes
968

933

 
(5,312
)
(28,108
)
 
(4,344
)
(27,175
)
 
(84
)
Income tax expense (benefit) (FTE basis)
357

346

 
(1,915
)
(9,498
)
 
(1,558
)
(9,152
)
 
(83
)
Net income (loss)
$
611

$
587

 
$
(3,397
)
$
(18,610
)
 
$
(2,786
)
$
(18,023
)
 
(85
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
2.37
%
2.65
%
 
2.35
%
1.46
%
 
2.36
%
2.00
%
 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
71.62

77.66

 
n/m

n/m

 
n/m

n/m

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
50,598

$
54,785

 
$
56,453

$
65,987

 
$
107,051

$
120,772

 
(11
)
Total earning assets
57,206

72,765

 
68,498

87,214

 
125,704

159,979

 
(21
)
Total assets
58,202

73,705

 
92,984

122,931

 
151,186

196,636

 
(23
)
Allocated equity
n/a

n/a

 
n/a

n/a

 
14,077

16,688

 
(16
)
Economic capital
n/a

n/a

 
n/a

n/a

 
14,077

14,884

 
(5
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
September 30
2012
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
December 31
2011
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
48,865

$
52,371

 
$
51,025

$
59,988

 
$
99,890

$
112,359

 
(11
)
Total earning assets
56,137

58,819

 
58,088

73,562

 
114,225

132,381

 
(14
)
Total assets
57,335

59,647

 
82,031

104,065

 
139,366

163,712

 
(15
)
n/m = not meaningful
n/a = not applicable

CRES operations include Home Loans and Legacy Assets & Servicing. This alignment allows CRES management to lead the ongoing home loan business while also providing greater focus on legacy mortgage issues and servicing activities. Effective January 1, 2012, servicing activities previously recorded in Home Loans were moved to Legacy Assets & Servicing, and results of MSR activities, including net hedge results, and goodwill were moved from what was formerly referred to as Other within CRES to Legacy Assets & Servicing. Prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.

CRES generates revenue by providing an extensive line of consumer real estate products and services to customers nationwide. CRES products offered by Home Loans include fixed- and adjustable-rate first-lien mortgage loans for home purchase and refinancing needs, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and home equity loans. First mortgage products are either sold into the secondary mortgage market to investors, while we retain MSRs and the Bank of America customer relationships, or are held on our balance sheet in All Other for ALM purposes. HELOC and home equity loans are retained on the CRES balance sheet in Home Loans and Legacy Assets & Servicing. CRES, through Legacy Assets & Servicing, services mortgage loans, including those loans it owns, loans owned by other business segments and All Other, and loans owned by outside investors.

The financial results of the on-balance sheet loans are reported in the business segment that owns the loans or All Other. CRES is not impacted by the Corporation’s first mortgage production retention decisions as CRES is compensated for loans held for ALM purposes on a management accounting basis, with a corresponding offset recorded in All Other, and is also compensated for servicing loans owned by other business segments and All Other.

CRES includes the impact of transferring customers and their related loan balances between GWIM and CRES based on client segmentation thresholds. For more information on the migration of customer balances, see GWIM on page 52.

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CRES Results

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

The net loss for CRES decreased $244 million to $877 million primarily driven by lower provision for credit losses and higher mortgage banking income, partially offset by higher Legacy Assets & Servicing expenses. Mortgage banking income increased $392 million due to more favorable MSR results, net of hedges, and higher production income. The provision for credit losses decreased $654 million due to improved portfolio trends in both the non-PCI and PCI home equity loan portfolios in Legacy Assets & Servicing. Noninterest expense increased $398 million primarily due to higher expenses in Legacy Assets & Servicing, partially offset by lower production expenses in Home Loans.

Average economic capital decreased six percent due to a reduction in credit risk driven by lower loan balances in the home equity portfolio.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

The net loss for CRES decreased $15.2 billion to $2.8 billion primarily driven by higher mortgage banking income due to a significantly lower representations and warranties provision, lower provision for credit losses and a decline in noninterest expense. Mortgage banking income increased $16.4 billion primarily due to a $14.3 billion decrease in representations and warranties expense in Legacy Assets & Servicing. The provision for credit losses decreased $2.6 billion due to improved portfolio trends in both the non-PCI and PCI home equity loan portfolios. Noninterest expense, excluding goodwill impairment, decreased $2.9 billion due to lower expenses in Legacy Assets & Servicing and lower production and insurance expenses in Home Loans.

Average economic capital decreased five percent primarily due to a reduction in operational risk driven by the sale of Balboa and a reduction in credit risk. For more information regarding economic capital, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

Home Loans

Home Loans products are available to our customers through our retail network of approximately 5,500 banking centers, mortgage loan officers in approximately 400 locations and a sales force offering our customers direct telephone and online access to our products. These products were also offered through our correspondent lending channel which we exited in the second half of 2011 and the reverse mortgage origination business which we exited in the first half of 2011. These strategic changes were made to allow greater focus on our direct-to-consumer channels, deepen relationships with existing customers and use mortgage products to acquire new relationships.

Home Loans includes ongoing loan production activities and the CRES home equity portfolio not originally selected for inclusion in the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio. Home Loans also included insurance operations through June 30, 2011, when the ongoing insurance business was transferred to CBB following the sale of Balboa.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Home Loans net income increased $233 million to $264 million primarily driven by lower noninterest expense, higher mortgage banking income and lower provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower net interest income. Net interest income decreased $110 million primarily driven by lower LHFS balances due to our exit from the correspondent lending channel. Mortgage banking income increased $197 million driven by an increase in core loan production due to higher retail originations and margins. The provision for credit losses decreased $73 million driven by improved portfolio trends. Noninterest expense decreased $285 million primarily due to lower production expense driven largely by our exit from the correspondent lending channel and cost efficiencies in the retail channel.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Home Loans net income increased $24 million to $611 million primarily driven by decreases in noninterest expense and the provision for credit losses, offset by lower revenue. The $1.5 billion decline in revenue was the result of $745 million lower insurance income as a result of the Balboa sale and a $431 million decline in net interest income driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above. In addition, a net $752 million gain on the sale of Balboa in 2011 contributed to the decline in revenue. These drivers were offset by an increase of $521 million in mortgage banking income as higher retail margins more than offset lower originations. The $176 million decline in the provision for credit losses and $1.4 billion decline in noninterest expense were driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above. Also contributing to the decline in noninterest expense was lower insurance expense as a result of the sale of Balboa.


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Legacy Assets & Servicing

Legacy Assets & Servicing is responsible for servicing the residential, home equity and discontinued real estate loan portfolios, including owned loans and loans serviced for others. Legacy Assets & Servicing is also responsible for managing mortgage-related legacy exposures, including exposures related to selected owned residential mortgage, home equity and discontinued real estate loan portfolios (collectively, the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio). For additional information, see Legacy Assets & Servicing Portfolio below.

Legacy Assets & Servicing results reflect the net cost of legacy exposures that are included in the results of CRES, including representations and warranties provision, litigation costs, financial results of the CRES home equity portfolio selected as part of the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio, the financial results of the servicing operations and the results of MSR activities, including net hedge results, together with any related assets or liabilities used as economic hedges. The financial results of the servicing operations reflect certain revenues and expenses on loans serviced for others, including owned loans serviced for Home Loans and All Other. Legacy Assets & Servicing is compensated for servicing such loans on a management accounting basis with a corresponding offset recorded in Home Loans and All Other.

Servicing activities include collecting cash for principal, interest and escrow payments from borrowers, and disbursing customer draws for lines of credit and accounting for and remitting principal and interest payments to investors and escrow payments to third parties along with responding to customer inquiries. Our home retention efforts, including single point of contact resources, are also part of our servicing activities, along with supervising foreclosures and property dispositions. In an effort to help our customers avoid foreclosure, Legacy Assets & Servicing evaluates various workout options prior to foreclosure sales which, combined with our temporary halt of foreclosures announced in October 2010, has resulted in elongated default timelines. Although we have resumed foreclosure proceedings in all states, there continues to be a backlog of foreclosure inventory in judicial states. For additional information on our servicing activities, including the impact of foreclosure delays, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Servicing Matters and Foreclosure Processes on page 67 and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Other Mortgage-related Matters on page 40 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

The Legacy Assets & Servicing results were relatively unchanged at a net loss of $1.1 billion as a $345 million increase in noninterest income and a $581 million reduction in the provision for credit losses were largely offset by a $683 million increase in noninterest expense. Noninterest income increased due to higher mortgage banking income of $195 million and an increase of $150 million in other income due to gains on the sales of certain ancillary servicing business units. The provision for credit losses decreased due to improved portfolio trends in the non-PCI home equity portfolio and an improved home price outlook in the home equity PCI loan portfolio, partially offset by the impact of new regulatory guidance regarding the treatment of loans discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. For more information on the new regulatory guidance, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86.

Noninterest expense increased $683 million primarily due to an increase of $768 million in default-related servicing expenses and a $134 million increase in litigation expense, partially offset by a $219 million decline in mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays. We believe default-related servicing costs peaked during the third quarter of 2012 and we expect them to decline in the fourth quarter of 2012, with the decline accelerating in 2013. However, unexpected foreclosure delays in 2013 could impact the rate of decline. Default-related servicing costs include costs related to resources needed for implementing new servicing standards mandated for the industry, including as part of the National Mortgage Settlement, other operational changes and operational costs due to delayed foreclosures.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

The Legacy Assets & Servicing net loss decreased $15.2 billion to $3.4 billion driven by a $15.8 billion increase in mortgage banking income, a $4.1 billion decrease in noninterest expense and a $2.4 billion decrease in the provision for credit losses. The increase in mortgage banking income was due to a decrease of $14.3 billion in representations and warranties expense as the provision of $15.3 billion in the year-ago period included $8.6 billion in provision and other expenses related to the BNY Mellon Settlement to resolve nearly all of the legacy Countrywide-issued first-lien non-GSE repurchase exposures, and $6.7 billion in provision related to other non-GSE, and to a lesser extent, GSE exposures. The provision for credit losses decreased due to the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.

Noninterest expense decreased $4.1 billion primarily due to a $2.6 billion goodwill impairment charge in 2011, a $2.2 billion decline in litigation expense and $1.4 billion lower mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays. These declines were partially offset by an increase of $2.1 billion in default-related servicing expenses due to resources needed to implement new servicing standards mandated for the industry, including as part of the National Mortgage Settlement, other operational changes and costs due to delayed foreclosures.


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Legacy Assets & Servicing Portfolio

The Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio includes owned residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and discontinued real estate loans that would not have been originated under our underwriting standards at December 31, 2010. The Countrywide PCI portfolio as well as certain loans that met a pre-defined delinquency status or probability of default threshold as of January 1, 2011 are also included in the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio. The residential mortgage and discontinued real estate loans are held primarily on the balance sheet of All Other and the home equity loans are held in Legacy Assets & Servicing. Since determining the pool of owned loans to be included in the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio as of January 1, 2011, the criteria have not changed for this portfolio. However, the criteria for inclusion of certain assets and liabilities in the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio will continue to be evaluated over time.

The total owned loans in the Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio decreased $18.2 billion to $136.7 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to $154.9 billion at December 31, 2011, of which $51.0 billion of the September 30, 2012 balance was reflected on the balance sheet of Legacy Assets & Servicing within CRES and the remainder held on the balance sheet of All Other. The decline was primarily related to paydowns and payoffs, but also reflects forgiveness of loans in connection with the National Mortgage Settlement, and charge-offs recorded on loans discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy under new regulatory guidance issued during the third quarter of 2012. For more information on the National Mortgage Settlement and the new regulatory guidance, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86.

Mortgage Banking Income

CRES mortgage banking income is categorized into production and servicing income. Core production income is comprised of revenue from the fair value gains and losses recognized on our interest rate lock commitments (IRLCs) and LHFS, the related secondary market execution, and costs related to representations and warranties in the sales transactions along with other obligations incurred in the sales of mortgage loans. Ongoing costs related to representations and warranties and other obligations that were incurred in the sales of mortgage loans in prior periods are also included in production income.

Servicing income includes income earned in connection with servicing activities and MSR valuation adjustments, net of economic hedge activities. The costs associated with our servicing activities are included in noninterest expense.

The table below summarizes the components of mortgage banking income.

Mortgage Banking Income
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Production income (loss):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Core production revenue
$
942

 
$
803

 
$
2,756

 
$
2,295

Representations and warranties provision
(307
)
 
(278
)
 
(984
)
 
(15,328
)
Total production income (loss)
635

 
525

 
1,772

 
(13,033
)
Servicing income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Servicing fees
1,088

 
1,538

 
3,622

 
4,700

Impact of customer payments (1)
(346
)
 
(664
)
 
(1,149
)
 
(2,009
)
Fair value changes of MSRs, net of economic hedge results (2)
560

 
360

 
948

 
(510
)
Other servicing-related revenue
255

 
41

 
641

 
329

Total net servicing income
1,557

 
1,275

 
4,062

 
2,510

Total CRES mortgage banking income (loss)
2,192

 
1,800

 
5,834

 
(10,523
)
Eliminations (3)
(173
)
 
(183
)
 
(544
)
 
(426
)
Total consolidated mortgage banking income (loss)
$
2,019

 
$
1,617

 
$
5,290

 
$
(10,949
)
(1) 
Represents the change in the market value of the MSR asset due to the impact of customer payments received during the period.
(2) 
Includes gains (losses) on sales of MSRs.
(3) 
Includes the effect of transfers of mortgage loans from CRES to the ALM portfolio in All Other.


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Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

CRES first mortgage loan originations declined $14.9 billion, or 49 percent, primarily as a result of our exit from the correspondent lending channel in 2011. Core production revenue increased $139 million to $942 million due to higher direct retail originations and margins. CRES retail first mortgage loan originations were $15.6 billion compared to $14.5 billion, excluding correspondent lending, reflecting a drop in estimated retail market share as the overall market for mortgages increased. Our decline in market share was primarily due to our decisions to price loan products in order to manage demand. The decline in mortgage originations was offset by the increase in margins on retail originations primarily as a result of these pricing strategies and a change in the mix of loan products. During the three months ended September 30, 2012, 83 percent of our first mortgage production volume was for refinance originations and 17 percent was for purchase originations compared to 53 percent and 47 percent in 2011.

Net servicing income increased $282 million to $1.6 billion primarily due to the reduced impact of customer payments driven by a lower MSR asset, and improved MSR results, net of hedges. The improved MSR results, net of hedges, were partially offset by lower servicing fees primarily due to a reduction in the size of the servicing portfolio and lower servicing fee rates.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

CRES first mortgage loan originations declined $79.3 billion, or 65 percent, primarily as a result of our exit from the correspondent lending channel in 2011 and a decline in retail production. Core production revenue increased $461 million to $2.8 billion due to higher direct retail margins. CRES retail first mortgage loan originations were $42.0 billion compared to $56.2 billion, excluding correspondent lending, reflecting a drop in estimated retail market share as the overall market for mortgages increased. Our decline in market share was primarily due to our decisions to price loan products in order to manage demand. The impact of our exit from the correspondent lending channel and the decline in retail originations were offset by higher retail margins primarily driven by our pricing strategies and a change in the mix of loan products. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, 83 percent of our first mortgage production volume was for refinance originations and 17 percent was for purchase originations compared to 59 percent and 41 percent in 2011. Since March 31, 2012, the estimated retail market share for CRES has increased primarily due to expanded fulfillment capacity.

The representations and warranties provision decreased $14.3 billion to $984 million as the provision of $15.3 billion in the year-ago period included $8.6 billion in provision and other expenses related to the BNY Mellon Settlement to resolve nearly all of the legacy Countrywide-issued first-lien non-GSE repurchase exposures, and $6.7 billion in provision related to other non-GSE, and to a lesser extent, GSE exposures.

Net servicing income increased $1.6 billion to $4.1 billion primarily due to the factors described in the three-month discussion above. For additional information, see Note 18 – Mortgage Servicing Rights to the Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Key Statistics
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions, except as noted)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Loan production
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total Corporation (1):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
First mortgage
$
20,315

 
 
$
33,038

 
 
$
53,558

 
 
$
130,142

 
First mortgage (excluding correspondent lending)
20,315

 
 
17,131

 
 
53,558

 
 
65,159

 
Home equity
933

 
 
847

 
 
2,623

 
 
3,629

 
CRES:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
First mortgage
$
15,566

 
 
$
30,448

 
 
$
41,957

 
 
$
121,220

 
First mortgage (excluding correspondent lending)
15,566

 
 
14,541

 
 
41,957

 
 
56,237

 
Home equity
746

 
 
660

 
 
2,067

 
 
3,114

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Mortgage servicing portfolio (in billions) (2)
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
1,476

 
 
$
1,763

 
Mortgage loans serviced for investors (in billions)
 
 
 
 
 
 
1,142

 
 
1,379

 
Mortgage servicing rights:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance
 
 
 
 
 
 
5,087

 
 
7,378

 
Capitalized mortgage servicing rights (% of loans serviced for investors)
 
 
 
 
 
 
45

bps
 
54

bps
(1) 
In addition to loan production in CRES, the remaining first mortgage and home equity loan production is primarily in GWIM.
(2) 
Servicing of residential mortgage loans, HELOCs, home equity loans and discontinued real estate mortgage loans.

Retail first mortgage production for the total Corporation was $20.3 billion and $53.6 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $17.1 billion and $65.2 billion for the same periods in 2011, excluding correspondent lending. The increase of $3.2 billion for the three-month period was primarily driven by increased volume in the mortgage market. The decrease of $11.6 billion for the nine-month period was primarily driven by a strategic decision to price loan products in order to manage our fulfillment capacity.

Home equity production was $933 million and $2.6 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $847 million and $3.6 billion for the same periods in 2011 primarily due to our decision to exit the reverse mortgage origination business.

Mortgage Servicing Rights

At September 30, 2012, the consumer MSR balance was $5.1 billion, which represented 45 bps of the related unpaid principal balance compared to $7.4 billion or 54 bps of the related unpaid principal balance at December 31, 2011. The consumer MSR balance decreased $621 million during the three months ended September 30, 2012 primarily driven by lower mortgage rates, which resulted in higher forecasted prepayment speeds and the change in the MSR asset value due to customer payments received during the period. Fair value changes of MSRs, net of economic hedge results, were $560 million and $948 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. During the three months ended September 30, 2012, the positive hedge results more than offset the market valuation decline. The hedges outperformed the MSRs due to significant upward price movements in the MBS market near the end of the third quarter. For more information, see Executive Summary – Third Quarter 2012 Economic and Business Environment on page 7. For additional information on our servicing activities, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Servicing Matters and Foreclosure Processes on page 67. For additional information on MSRs, see Note 18 – Mortgage Servicing Rights to the Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Global Banking
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
2012

2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
2,264

 
$
2,323

 
(3
)%
$
6,847

 
$
7,181

 
(5
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Service charges
796

 
828

 
(4
)
2,418

 
2,618

 
(8
)
Investment banking fees
662

 
616

 
7

1,945

 
2,431

 
(20
)
All other income
425

 
184

 
131

1,672

 
1,081

 
55

Total noninterest income
1,883

 
1,628

 
16

6,035

 
6,130

 
(2
)
Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
4,147

 
3,951

 
5

12,882

 
13,311

 
(3
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
68

 
(182
)
 
n/m

(283
)
 
(862
)
 
(67
)
Noninterest expense
2,023

 
2,217

 
(9
)
6,364

 
6,748

 
(6
)
Income before income taxes
2,056

 
1,916

 
7

6,801

 
7,425

 
(8
)
Income tax expense (FTE basis)
761

 
710

 
7

2,509

 
2,716

 
(8
)
Net income
$
1,295

 
$
1,206

 
7

$
4,292

 
$
4,709

 
(9
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
2.92
%
 
3.06
%
 
 
3.02
%
 
3.34
%
 
 
Return on average allocated equity
11.15

 
10.03

 
 
12.47

 
13.17

 
 
Return on average economic capital
24.14

 
20.87

 
 
27.18

 
27.06

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
48.74

 
56.12

 
 
49.40

 
50.70

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
267,390

 
$
268,174

 

$
270,747

 
$
261,766

 
3

Total earning assets
308,357

 
301,384

 
2

302,493

 
287,388

 
5

Total assets
355,670

 
348,087

 
2

348,461

 
333,995

 
4

Total deposits
252,226

 
246,395

 
2

243,028

 
236,151

 
3

Allocated equity
46,223

 
47,682

 
(3
)
45,967

 
47,820

 
(4
)
Economic capital
21,371

 
22,958

 
(7
)
21,111

 
23,291

 
(9
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
 
Total loans and leases
 
 
 
 
 
$
272,052

 
$
278,177

 
(2
)
Total earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
308,370

 
301,662

 
2

Total assets
 
 
 
 
 
355,417

 
348,773

 
2

Total deposits
 
 
 
 
 
260,030

 
246,360

 
6

n/m = not meaningful

Global Banking, which includes Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking, and Investment Banking, provides a wide range of lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions to clients, underwriting and advisory services through our network of offices and client relationship teams along with various product partners. Our lending products and services include commercial loans, leases, commitment facilities, trade finance, real estate lending, asset-based lending and indirect consumer loans. Our treasury solutions business includes treasury management, foreign exchange and short-term investing options. We also work with our clients to provide investment banking products such as debt and equity underwriting and distribution, and merger-related and other advisory services. Underwriting debt and equity issuances, fixed-income and equity research, and certain market-based activities are executed through our global broker/dealer affiliates which are our primary dealers in several countries. Within Global Banking, Global Commercial Banking clients generally include middle-market companies, commercial real estate firms, auto dealerships, federal and state governments, and municipalities. Global Corporate Banking includes large global corporations, financial institutions and leasing clients.


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Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income increased $89 million to $1.3 billion driven by an increase in revenue of $196 million, or five percent, primarily due to gains on the fair value option loan book and lower noninterest expense, partially offset by an increase in the provision for credit losses.

The provision for credit losses was $68 million compared to a benefit of $182 million for the same period in 2011 primarily driven by stabilization in asset quality and core commercial loan growth in the portfolio.

Noninterest expense decreased $194 million, or nine percent, to $2.0 billion primarily due to lower personnel expenses and operational costs.

Average loans and leases were relatively unchanged as managed reductions in the commercial real estate portfolio and run-off of a liquidating auto loan portfolio were partially offset by growth in U.S. and non-U.S. commercial and industrial loans. Average deposits increased $5.8 billion, or two percent, as balances continued to grow from excess market liquidity, growth in international balances and limited alternative investment options.

The return on average economic capital increased due to a decrease in average economic capital and higher net income. Average economic capital decreased seven percent primarily due to a reduction in credit risk.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income decreased $417 million to $4.3 billion driven by an increase in the provision for credit losses and a decrease in revenue, partially offset by lower noninterest expense. Revenue decreased $429 million, or three percent, primarily due to lower investment banking fees, lower net interest income as a result of spread compression and the benefit from accretion on certain acquired portfolios in the prior-year period, partially offset by the impact of higher average loan and deposit balances and gains from certain legacy portfolios.

The provision for credit losses was a benefit of $283 million compared to a benefit of $862 million for the same period in 2011 primarily driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above as well as the accelerated rate of loan resolutions in the commercial real estate portfolio in the prior-year period.

Noninterest expense decreased $384 million, or six percent, to $6.4 billion primarily driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.

Average loans and leases increased $9.0 billion, or three percent, primarily driven by growth in U.S. and non-U.S. commercial and industrial loans in large corporate, middle market and trade finance, partially offset by managed reductions in commercial real estate. Average deposits increased $6.9 billion, or three percent, primarily driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.

The return on average economic capital increased marginally as a decrease in average economic capital was partially offset by lower net income. Average economic capital decreased primarily due to a reduction in credit risk. For more information regarding economic capital, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.


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Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking

Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking includes Global Treasury Services and Business Lending activities. Global Treasury Services includes deposit, treasury management, credit card, foreign exchange, short-term investment and custody solutions to corporate and commercial banking clients. Business Lending includes various loan-related products and services including commercial loans, leases, commitment facilities, trade financing, real estate lending, asset-based lending and indirect consumer loans. The table below presents a summary of Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking results.

Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Global Corporate Banking
 
Global Commercial Banking
 
Total
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Revenue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Treasury Services
$
649

 
$
617

 
$
881

 
$
864

 
$
1,530

 
$
1,481

Business Lending
779

 
775

 
1,137

 
1,161

 
1,916

 
1,936

Total revenue, net of interest expense
$
1,428

 
$
1,392

 
$
2,018

 
$
2,025

 
$
3,446

 
$
3,417

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
107,300

 
$
106,369

 
$
159,206

 
$
160,779

 
$
266,506

 
$
267,148

Total deposits
116,064

 
114,130

 
136,128

 
132,215

 
252,192

 
246,345

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Revenue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Treasury Services
$
1,913

 
$
1,875

 
$
2,731

 
$
2,649

 
$
4,644

 
$
4,524

Business Lending
2,509

 
2,547

 
3,400

 
3,750

 
5,909

 
6,297

Total revenue, net of interest expense
$
4,422

 
$
4,422

 
$
6,131

 
$
6,399

 
$
10,553

 
$
10,821

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
109,526

 
$
98,129

 
$
160,577

 
$
162,501

 
$
270,103

 
$
260,630

Total deposits
110,148

 
109,311

 
132,851

 
126,792

 
242,999

 
236,103

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
107,897

 
$
110,752

 
$
162,541

 
$
161,811

 
$
270,438

 
$
272,563

Total deposits
122,551

 
106,394

 
137,433

 
130,115

 
259,984

 
236,509


Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking revenue was relatively unchanged for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and decreased $268 million to $10.6 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011.

Global Treasury Services revenue increased $32 million in Global Corporate Banking and $17 million in Global Commercial Banking for the three months ended September 30, 2012 as growth in U.S. and non-U.S. deposit volumes was offset by the impact of the low rate environment. Global Treasury Services revenue increased $38 million in Global Corporate Banking and $82 million in Global Commercial Banking for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 primarily driven by the same factors.

Business Lending revenue in Global Corporate Banking was relatively unchanged for the three months ended September 30, 2012 as gains in the fair value option loan book were offset by lower net interest income. Business Lending revenue in Global Corporate Banking declined $38 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 from lower net interest income impacted by the low rate environment and lower accretion on acquired portfolios, partially offset by the gains in the fair value option loan book. Business Lending revenue declined $24 million and $350 million in Global Commercial Banking for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 as managed reductions of commercial real estate criticized assets and run-off of a liquidating auto loan portfolio, and lower accretion on acquired portfolios were partially offset by increases in the commercial and industrial loan portfolio.


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Average loans and leases in Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking were relatively unchanged for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and increased four percent for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. Growth in U.S. and non-U.S. commercial and industrial loans driven by continued international demand and improved domestic momentum was partially offset by managed reductions of commercial real estate criticized assets and run-off of a liquidating auto loan portfolio. Average deposits in Global Corporate and Global Commercial Banking increased two and three percent for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 as balances continued to grow due to excess market liquidity, international growth and limited alternative investment options.

Investment Banking

Client teams and product specialists underwrite and distribute debt, equity and other loan products, and provide advisory services and tailored risk management solutions. The economics of certain investment banking and underwriting activities are shared primarily between Global Banking and Global Markets based on the contribution by and involvement of each segment. To provide a complete discussion of our consolidated investment banking income, the table below presents total Corporation investment banking income as well as the portion attributable to Global Banking.

Investment Banking Fees
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
Global Banking
 
Total Corporation
 
Global Banking
 
Total Corporation
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Products
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Advisory
$
206

 
$
260

 
$
221

 
$
273

 
$
710

 
$
918

 
$
764

 
$
975

Debt issuance
341

 
227

 
867

 
511

 
935

 
1,034

 
2,291

 
2,294

Equity issuance
115

 
129

 
279

 
320

 
300

 
479

 
776

 
1,191

Gross investment banking fees
662

 
616

 
1,367

 
1,104

 
1,945

 
2,431

 
3,831

 
4,460

Self-led
(5
)
 
(76
)
 
(31
)
 
(162
)
 
(30
)
 
(113
)
 
(132
)
 
(256
)
Total investment banking fees
$
657

 
$
540

 
$
1,336

 
$
942

 
$
1,915

 
$
2,318

 
$
3,699

 
$
4,204


Total Corporation investment banking fees, excluding self-led deals, increased $394 million, or 42 percent, and decreased $505 million, or 12 percent, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the same periods in 2011. Fees for the three-month period increased primarily due to strong performance in capital markets underwriting activity during the quarter. Fees for the nine-month period decreased primarily driven by lower equity underwriting and advisory fees due and an overall decline in global fee pools.


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Global Markets
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
 
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
846

 
$
925

 
(9
)%
 
$
2,294

 
$
2,819

 
(19
)%
Noninterest income:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Investment and brokerage services
425

 
584

 
(27
)
 
1,380

 
1,788

 
(23
)
Investment banking fees
553

 
438

 
26

 
1,546

 
1,788

 
(14
)
Trading account profits
1,238

 
1,420

 
(13
)
 
4,981

 
6,048

 
(18
)
All other income (loss)
44

 
(73
)
 
n/m

 
463

 
537

 
(14
)
Total noninterest income
2,260

 
2,369

 
(5
)
 
8,370

 
10,161

 
(18
)
Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
3,106

 
3,294

 
(6
)
 
10,664

 
12,980

 
(18
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
21

 
3

 
n/m

 
(13
)
 
(38
)
 
(66
)
Noninterest expense
2,545

 
2,966

 
(14
)
 
8,333

 
9,343

 
(11
)
Income before income taxes
540

 
325

 
66

 
2,344

 
3,675

 
(36
)
Income tax expense (FTE basis)
899

 
878

 
2

 
1,444

 
1,922

 
(25
)
Net income (loss)
$
(359
)
 
$
(553
)
 
(35
)
 
$
900

 
$
1,753

 
(49
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Return on average allocated equity
n/m

 
n/m

 
 
 
6.87
%
 
9.92
%
 
 
Return on average economic capital
n/m

 
n/m

 
 
 
9.42

 
12.39

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
81.95
%
 
90.02
%
 
 
 
78.15

 
71.97

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total trading-related assets (1)
$
462,138

 
$
489,172

 
(6
)
 
$
456,932

 
$
481,925

 
(5
)
Total earning assets (1)
446,934

 
445,431

 

 
438,640

 
456,102

 
(4
)
Total assets
584,332

 
604,333

 
(3
)
 
574,993

 
603,083

 
(5
)
Allocated equity
17,068

 
21,609

 
(21
)
 
17,504

 
23,636

 
(26
)
Economic capital
12,417

 
16,954

 
(27
)
 
12,868

 
19,020

 
(32
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
 
Total trading-related assets (1)
 
 
 
 


 
$
455,161

 
$
397,876

 
14

Total earning assets (1)
 
 
 
 


 
445,210

 
372,851

 
19

Total assets
 
 
 
 


 
583,203

 
501,824

 
16

(1) 
Trading-related assets include assets which are not considered earning assets (i.e., derivative assets).

Global Markets offers sales and trading services, including research, to institutional clients across fixed-income, credit, currency, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets product coverage includes securities and derivative products in both the primary and secondary markets. Global Markets provides market-making, financing, securities clearing, settlement and custody services globally to our institutional investor clients in support of their investing and trading activities. We also work with our commercial and corporate clients to provide risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit, currency and commodity derivatives, foreign exchange, fixed-income and mortgage-related products. As a result of our market-making activities in these products, we may be required to manage risk in government securities, equity and equity-linked securities, high-grade and high-yield corporate debt securities, commercial paper, MBS, commodities and asset-backed securities (ABS). In addition, the economics of certain investment banking and underwriting activities are shared primarily between Global Markets and Global Banking based on the activities performed by each segment. Global Banking originates certain deal-related transactions with our corporate and commercial clients that are executed and distributed by Global Markets. For additional information on investment banking fees on a consolidated basis, see page 48.


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Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

The net loss decreased $194 million to $359 million. Net DVA losses were $582 million compared to net DVA gains of $1.7 billion. Excluding net DVA, the current-year period reflected net income of $8 million, an increase of $1.6 billion primarily driven by higher sales and trading revenue. Investment banking fees rose $115 million to $553 million due to an increase in capital markets underwriting activity. Noninterest expense decreased $421 million, or 14 percent, to $2.5 billion due to lower personnel-related expenses and operational costs. Income tax expense included a $781 million charge for remeasurement of certain deferred tax assets due to decreases in the U.K. corporate tax rate compared to a similar charge of $774 million in the prior-year period.

Average economic capital decreased due to a decline in trading risk primarily due to lower trading-related balances.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income decreased $853 million to $900 million. Net DVA losses were $2.2 billion compared to net DVA gains of $1.5 billion. Excluding net DVA, net income increased $1.4 billion to $2.3 billion primarily driven by higher sales and trading revenue. Investment banking fees decreased $242 million to $1.5 billion primarily driven by lower equity underwriting fees due to an overall decline in the global fee pools. Noninterest expense decreased $1.0 billion, or 11 percent, to $8.3 billion due to a reduction in personnel-related expenses, brokerage, clearing and exchange fees, and operational costs.

Average earning assets decreased $17.5 billion to $438.6 billion driven by the movement of certain equity securities to non-earning trading-related assets. At September 30, 2012, period-end earning assets were $445.2 billion, an increase of $72.4 billion from December 31, 2011 primarily due to client activity resulting in increases in trading-related assets and securities borrowed transactions.

Average economic capital decreased due to the same factor as described in the three-month discussion above. The return on average economic capital decreased due primarily to lower net income. For more information regarding economic capital, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

Sales and Trading Revenue

Sales and trading revenue includes unrealized and realized gains and losses on trading and other assets, net interest income, and fees primarily from commissions on equity securities. The table below and related discussion present total sales and trading revenue, substantially all of which is in Global Markets with the remainder in Global Banking. Sales and trading revenue is segregated into fixed income (investment and non-investment grade corporate debt obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities, RMBS and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)), currencies (interest rate and foreign exchange contracts), commodities (primarily futures, forwards, swaps and options) and equity income from equity-linked derivatives and cash equity activity.

Sales and Trading Revenue (1, 2)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Sales and trading revenue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fixed income, currencies and commodities
$
2,000

 
$
2,058

 
$
7,261

 
$
8,089

Equity income
664

 
957

 
2,330

 
3,273

Total sales and trading revenue
$
2,664

 
$
3,015

 
$
9,591

 
$
11,362

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sales and trading revenue, excluding net DVA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fixed income, currencies and commodities
$
2,534

 
$
553

 
$
9,219

 
$
6,800

Equity income
712

 
753

 
2,544

 
3,087

Total sales and trading revenue, excluding net DVA
$
3,246

 
$
1,306

 
$
11,763

 
$
9,887

(1) 
Includes a FTE adjustment of $58 million and $163 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $46 million and $145 million for the same periods in 2011. For additional information on sales and trading revenue, see Note 3 – Derivatives to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
(2) 
Includes Global Banking sales and trading revenue of $111 million and $473 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $159 million and $170 million for the same periods in 2011.


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Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) revenue decreased $58 million, or three percent, to $2.0 billion including net DVA. Net DVA losses included in FICC revenue were $534 million compared to net DVA gains of $1.5 billion in the year-ago period. Excluding net DVA, FICC revenue increased $2.0 billion to $2.5 billion due to an improved global economic climate resulting in tightening of spreads in the credit markets and increased investor confidence. Equity income decreased $293 million, or 31 percent, to $664 million including net DVA. Net DVA losses included in equity income were $48 million compared to net DVA gains of $204 million in the year-ago period. Excluding net DVA, equity income decreased $41 million, or five percent, to $712 million as volumes remained at low levels impacting commissions. Sales and trading revenue included total commissions and brokerage fee revenue of $425 million ($409 million from equities and $16 million from FICC) for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and $584 million ($557 million from equities and $27 million from FICC) for the three months ended September 30, 2011. The $159 million decrease in commissions and brokerage fee revenue was primarily due to lower market volumes.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

FICC revenue decreased $828 million, or 10 percent, to $7.3 billion including net DVA. Net DVA losses included in FICC revenue were $2.0 billion compared to net DVA gains of $1.3 billion in the year-ago period. Excluding net DVA, FICC revenue increased $2.4 billion, or 36 percent, to $9.2 billion primarily driven by our rates and currencies business as a result of stronger client flows and improved positioning, a gain on the sale of an equity investment in our mortgage business as well as improvement in the credit markets and trading environment due to the same factors described in the three-month discussion above. This was partially offset by our exit from the stand-alone proprietary trading business in June 2011. Equity income decreased $943 million, or 29 percent, to $2.3 billion including net DVA in the year-ago period. Net DVA losses included in equity income were $214 million compared to net DVA gains of $186 million in the year-ago period. Excluding net DVA, equity income decreased $543 million, or 18 percent, to $2.5 billion driven by the same factors described in the three-month discussion above. Sales and trading revenue included total commissions and brokerage fee revenue of $1.4 billion ($1.3 billion from equities and $41 million from FICC) for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and $1.8 billion ($1.7 billion from equities and $83 million from FICC) for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. The $408 million decrease was due to the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.



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Global Wealth & Investment Management
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
 
2012

2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
1,458

 
$
1,412

 
3
 %
 
$
4,482

 
$
4,555

 
(2
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Investment and brokerage services
2,293

 
2,364

 
(3
)
 
6,922

 
7,120

 
(3
)
All other income
527

 
462

 
14

 
1,550

 
1,554

 

Total noninterest income
2,820

 
2,826

 

 
8,472

 
8,674

 
(2
)
Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
4,278

 
4,238

 
1

 
12,954

 
13,229

 
(2
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
61

 
162

 
(62
)
 
154

 
280

 
(45
)
Noninterest expense
3,355

 
3,500

 
(4
)
 
10,201

 
10,702

 
(5
)
Income before income taxes
862

 
576

 
50

 
2,599

 
2,247

 
16

Income tax expense (FTE basis)
320

 
214

 
50

 
960

 
823

 
17

Net income
$
542

 
$
362

 
50

 
$
1,639

 
$
1,424

 
15

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net interest yield (FTE basis)
2.22
%
 
2.07
%
 
 
 
2.29
%
 
2.23
%
 
 
Return on average allocated equity
11.42

 
8.06

 
 
 
12.14

 
10.72

 
 
Return on average economic capital
26.31

 
20.55

 
 
 
29.88

 
27.40

 
 
Efficiency ratio (FTE basis)
78.45

 
82.58

 
 
 
78.75

 
80.90

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total loans and leases
$
106,092

 
$
102,786

 
3

 
$
104,416

 
$
101,953

 
2

Total earning assets
261,219

 
271,207

 
(4
)
 
261,148

 
272,523

 
(4
)
Total assets
280,840

 
290,974

 
(3
)
 
280,893

 
292,562

 
(4
)
Total deposits
253,942

 
255,882

 
(1
)
 
252,595

 
256,667

 
(2
)
Allocated equity
18,871

 
17,826

 
6

 
18,027

 
17,772

 
1

Economic capital
8,271

 
7,135

 
16

 
7,407

 
7,064

 
5

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
 
Total loans and leases
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
107,500

 
$
103,460

 
4

Total earning assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
263,674

 
263,501

 

Total assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
283,949

 
284,062

 

Total deposits
 
 
 
 
 
 
256,114

 
253,264

 
1


GWIM consists of two primary businesses: Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management (MLGWM) and U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (U.S. Trust).

MLGWM’s advisory business provides a high-touch client experience through a network of financial advisors focused on clients with over $250,000 in total investable assets. MLGWM provides tailored solutions to meet our clients’ needs through a full set of brokerage, banking and retirement products in both domestic and international locations.

U.S. Trust, together with MLGWM’s Private Banking & Investments Group, provides comprehensive wealth management solutions targeted to wealthy and ultra-wealthy clients with investable assets of more than $5 million, as well as customized solutions to meet clients’ wealth structuring, investment management, trust and banking needs, including specialty asset management services.


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In the third quarter of 2012, the Corporation entered into an agreement to sell the GWIM international wealth management business with approximately $84 billion in client balances. The sale is subject to regulatory approval in multiple jurisdictions with the first of a series of closings expected in the first quarter of 2013. The transaction is not expected to have a significant impact on the Corporation's balance sheet, results of operations or capital ratios.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income increased $180 million to $542 million driven by lower noninterest expense, lower provision for credit losses and higher revenue. Revenue increased $40 million, or one percent, to $4.3 billion primarily due to higher all other income driven by market origination revenue and higher net interest income driven by ALM activities. These were partially offset by lower investment and brokerage services revenue due to lower transactional activity. Noninterest expense decreased $145 million, or four percent, to $3.4 billion driven by lower FDIC expense, lower support and personnel costs, and other expense reductions, partially offset by continued investment in the business.

The provision for credit losses decreased $101 million to $61 million due to lower delinquencies and improving portfolio trends within the residential mortgage portfolio.

Revenue from MLGWM was $3.6 billion, up one percent, driven by higher net interest income due to ALM activities. Revenue from U.S. Trust was relatively unchanged at $627 million, as higher net interest income was largely offset by lower noninterest income.

The return on average economic capital increased as higher net income more than offset the increase in average economic capital. Average economic capital was higher primarily due to loan growth.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

Net income increased $215 million to $1.6 billion driven by lower noninterest expense and lower provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower revenue. Revenue decreased $275 million, or two percent, to $13.0 billion driven by lower investment and brokerage services revenue due to lower transactional activity and lower net interest income driven by the impact of the continued low rate environment. Noninterest expense decreased $501 million, or five percent, to $10.2 billion driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.

The provision for credit losses decreased $126 million to $154 million due to the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.

Revenue from MLGWM was $11.0 billion, down two percent, and revenue from U.S. Trust was $1.9 billion, down four percent, driven by lower noninterest income due to lower transactional revenue, and lower net interest income.

The return on average economic capital increased due to the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above. For more information regarding economic capital, see Supplemental Financial Data on page 19.

Migration Summary

GWIM results are impacted by the migration of clients and their related deposit and loan balances to or from CBB, CRES and the ALM portfolio, as presented in the table below. Migration in 2011 included the movement of balances to Merrill Edge, which is in CBB. Subsequent to the date of the migration, the associated net interest income, noninterest income and noninterest expense are recorded in the business to which the clients migrated.

Migration Summary
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total deposits — GWIM from / (to) CBB
$
456

 
$
(2,195
)
 
$
242

 
$
(1,870
)
Total loans — GWIM to CRES and the ALM portfolio
(281
)
 
(231
)
 
(192
)
 
(139
)
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total deposits — GWIM from / (to) CBB
$
5

 
$
(438
)
 
$
656

 
$
(2,938
)
Total loans — GWIM to CRES and the ALM portfolio
(58
)
 
(65
)
 
(281
)
 
(254
)


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Client Balances

The table below presents client balances which consist of assets under management (AUM), client brokerage assets, assets in custody, client deposits, and loans and leases.

Client Balances by Type
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Assets under management
$
707,769

 
$
647,126

Brokerage assets
1,070,785

 
1,024,193

Assets in custody
115,356

 
107,989

Deposits
256,114

 
253,264

Loans and leases (1)
110,862

 
106,672

Total client balances
$
2,260,886

 
$
2,139,244

(1) 
Includes margin receivables which are classified in customer and other receivables on the Corporation's Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The increase of $121.6 billion, or six percent, in client balances was driven primarily by higher market levels and inflows into long-term AUM.

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All Other
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
 
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
 
2012
 
2011
 
% Change
Net interest income (FTE basis)
$
219

 
$
8

 
n/m

 
$
725

 
$
1,377

 
(47
)%
Noninterest income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Card income
93

 
72

 
29
 %
 
264

 
375

 
(30
)
Equity investment income
165

 
1,380

 
(88
)
 
519

 
3,935

 
(87
)
Gains on sales of debt securities
327

 
697

 
(53
)
 
1,393

 
1,996

 
(30
)
All other income (loss)
(1,844
)
 
4,113

 
n/m

 
(4,167
)
 
3,233

 
n/m

Total noninterest income (loss)
(1,259
)
 
6,262

 
n/m

 
(1,991
)
 
9,539

 
n/m

Total revenue, net of interest expense (FTE basis)
(1,040
)
 
6,270

 
n/m

 
(1,266
)
 
10,916

 
n/m

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Provision for credit losses
390

 
1,374

 
(72
)
 
2,172

 
5,380

 
(60
)
Merger and restructuring charges

 
176

 
n/m

 

 
537

 
n/m

All other noninterest expense
1,336

 
581

 
130

 
4,485

 
2,909

 
54

Income (loss) before income taxes
(2,766
)
 
4,139

 
n/m

 
(7,923
)
 
2,090

 
n/m

Income tax benefit (FTE basis)
(1,220
)
 
(535
)
 
128

 
(3,441
)
 
(1,298
)
 
165

Net income (loss)
$
(1,546
)
 
$
4,674

 
n/m

 
$
(4,482
)
 
$
3,388

 
n/m

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance Sheet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Average
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Loans and leases:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage
$
211,018

 
$
230,094

 
(8
)
 
$
216,652

 
$
227,732

 
(5
)
Non-U.S. credit card
13,329

 
25,434

 
(48
)
 
13,706

 
26,767

 
(49
)
Discontinued real estate
9,948

 
11,871

 
(16
)
 
10,322

 
12,403

 
(17
)
Other
15,536

 
19,354

 
(20
)
 
16,387

 
20,723

 
(21
)
Total loans and leases
249,831

 
286,753

 
(13
)
 
257,067

 
287,625

 
(11
)
Total assets (1)
276,710

 
355,705

 
(22
)
 
299,630

 
380,958

 
(21
)
Total deposits
26,742

 
52,742

 
(49
)
 
32,518

 
50,201

 
(35
)
Allocated equity (2)
86,563

 
68,672

 
26

 
85,689

 
70,594

 
21

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Period end
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
 
Loans and leases:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage
 
 
 
 

 
$
207,300

 
$
224,654

 
(8
)
Non-U.S. credit card
 
 
 
 

 
13,319

 
14,418

 
(8
)
Discontinued real estate
 
 
 
 

 
9,876

 
11,095

 
(11
)
Other


 


 

 
15,760

 
17,455

 
(10
)
Total loans and leases
 
 
 
 

 
246,255

 
267,622

 
(8
)
Total assets (1)
 
 
 
 

 
263,967

 
309,578

 
(15
)
Total deposits
 
 
 
 

 
24,960

 
32,834

 
(24
)
(1) 
For presentation purposes, in segments where the total of liabilities and equity exceeds assets, which are generally deposit-taking segments, we allocate assets from All Other to those segments to match liabilities (i.e., deposits) and allocated equity. Such allocated assets were $539.0 billion and $522.6 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $509.8 billion and $499.3 billion for the same periods in 2011, and $539.0 billion and $495.3 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.
(2) 
Represents the economic capital assigned to All Other as well as the remaining portion of equity not specifically allocated to the business segments. Allocated equity increased due to the disposition of certain assets, as previously disclosed.
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All Other consists of ALM activities, equity investments, liquidating businesses and other. ALM activities encompass the whole-loan residential mortgage portfolio and investment securities, interest rate and foreign currency risk management activities including the residual net interest income allocation, gains/losses on structured liabilities, and the impact of certain allocation methodologies and accounting hedge ineffectiveness. For more information on our ALM activities, see Interest Rate Risk Management for Nontrading Activities on page 139. Equity investments includes Global Principal Investments (GPI) which is comprised of a diversified portfolio of equity, real estate and other alternative investments. These investments are made either directly in a company or held through a fund with related income recorded in equity investment income. Equity investments also includes strategic investments, which include our investment in CCB in which we currently hold approximately one percent of the outstanding common shares, and certain other investments. Other includes certain residential mortgage and discontinued real estate loans that are managed by Legacy Assets & Servicing within CRES.

Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2011

The decrease to a net loss of $1.5 billion compared to net income of $4.7 billion was primarily due to negative fair value adjustments on structured liabilities of $1.3 billion related to the improvement in our credit spreads during the 2012 period compared to positive fair value adjustments of $4.5 billion in the same period in 2011 and a $1.2 billion decrease in equity investment income. Partially offsetting these items was a $1.0 billion reduction in the provision for credit losses. Equity investment income decreased as the year-ago quarter included a $3.6 billion gain on the sale of a portion of our investment in CCB, partially offset by $2.2 billion of net losses related to equity and strategic investments other than CCB.

Noninterest expense increased $755 million due to higher litigation expense primarily related to the costs associated with the previously announced Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement and other litigation. For additional information, see Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Excluding litigation expense, noninterest expense decreased compared to the same period in 2011. There were no merger and restructuring expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $176 million in the same period in 2011.

The provision for credit losses decreased $1.0 billion to $390 million primarily driven by continued improvement in credit quality in the residential mortgage portfolio, as well as the sale of the Canadian consumer credit card portfolio in the same period in 2011 and improvements in delinquencies in the remaining non-U.S. credit card portfolio.

The income tax benefit was $1.2 billion compared to a benefit of $535 million and changed primarily as a result of a pre-tax loss compared to pre-tax income, partially offset by the absence of prior-year benefits for a valuation allowance reduction and the recognition of certain deferred tax assets and recurring tax preference items.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011

The decrease to a net loss of $4.5 billion compared to net income of $3.4 billion was primarily due to negative fair value adjustments on structured liabilities of $4.7 billion related to the improvement in our credit spreads during the 2012 period compared to $4.1 billion of positive fair value adjustments in the same period in 2011 and a $3.4 billion decrease in equity investment income. Partially offsetting these items was a $3.2 billion reduction in the provision for credit losses and $1.7 billion of net gains resulting from repurchases of certain debt and trust preferred securities in 2012. The decrease in equity investment income was a result of the same factors described in the three-month discussion above and also included an $836 million CCB dividend and a $377 million gain on the sale of an equity investment, partially offset by an additional impairment write-down of $500 million on our merchant services joint venture in the nine-month period in 2011.

Noninterest expense increased $1.6 billion driven by the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above, partially offset by a decrease in personnel expense. There were no merger and restructuring expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $537 million in the same period in 2011.

The provision for credit losses decreased $3.2 billion to $2.2 billion driven by the same factors described in the three-month discussion above as well as lower provision related to the Countrywide PCI discontinued real estate and residential mortgage portfolios.

The income tax benefit was $3.4 billion compared to a benefit of $1.3 billion and changed primarily due to the same factors as described in the three-month discussion above.


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Equity Investment Activity

The tables below present the components of equity investments in All Other at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, and also a reconciliation to the total consolidated equity investment income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011.

Equity Investments
 
 
 
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Global Principal Investments
 
 
 
 
$
3,674

 
$
5,659

Strategic and other investments
 
 
 
 
1,847

 
1,343

Total equity investments included in All Other
 
 
 
 
$
5,521

 
$
7,002

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Equity Investment Income
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Global Principal Investments
$
156

 
$
(1,580
)
 
$
422

 
$
188

Strategic and other investments
9

 
2,960

 
97

 
3,747

Total equity investment income included in All Other
165

 
1,380

 
519

 
3,935

Total equity investment income included in the business segments
73

 
66

 
852

 
198

Total consolidated equity investment income
$
238

 
$
1,446

 
$
1,371

 
$
4,133


Equity investments included in All Other decreased $1.5 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011, with the decrease due to sales in the GPI portfolio. In connection with the Corporation's strategy to reduce risk-weighted assets, we sold certain investments, including related commitments. GPI had unfunded equity commitments of $237 million and $710 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011 related to certain investments. The increase in equity investment income in the business segments for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was primarily driven by gains on the sale of an equity investment in Global Markets.

At September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, we owned 2.0 billion shares representing approximately one percent of CCB. In the three months ended September 30, 2012, because the sales restrictions on these shares will expire within one year, these securities were accounted for as AFS marketable equity securities and carried at fair value. As a result, a pre-tax unrealized gain of $512 million, or $323 million after-tax, is reflected in accumulated OCI. At September 30, 2012, the cost basis was $716 million and the carrying value and the fair value were $1.2 billion. During the three months ended September 30, 2011, we sold 13.1 billion common shares of our investment in CCB and recorded a gain of $3.6 billion.



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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations

We have contractual obligations to make future payments on debt and lease agreements. Additionally, in the normal course of business, we enter into contractual arrangements whereby we commit to future purchases of products or services from unaffiliated parties. For additional information on our obligations and commitments, see Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements, Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations on page 33 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as Note 13 – Long-term Debt and Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Representations and Warranties

We securitize first-lien residential mortgage loans generally in the form of MBS guaranteed by the GSEs or by Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) in the case of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-guaranteed and Rural Housing Service-guaranteed mortgage loans. In addition, in prior years, legacy companies and certain subsidiaries sold pools of first-lien residential mortgage loans and home equity loans as private-label securitizations (in certain of these securitizations, monolines or financial guarantee providers insured all or some of the securities) or in the form of whole loans. In connection with these transactions, we or certain of our subsidiaries or legacy companies make or have made various representations and warranties. Breaches of these representations and warranties may result in the requirement to repurchase mortgage loans or to otherwise make whole or provide other remedies to the GSEs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with respect to FHA-insured loans, VA, whole-loan investors, securitization trusts, monoline insurers or other financial guarantors (collectively, repurchases). In all such cases, we would be exposed to any credit loss on the repurchased mortgage loans after accounting for any mortgage insurance (MI) or mortgage guarantee payments that we may receive.

Subject to the requirements and limitations of the applicable sales and securitization agreements, these representations and warranties can be enforced by the GSEs, HUD, VA, the whole-loan investor, the securitization trustee or others as governed by the applicable agreement or, in certain first-lien and home equity securitizations where monoline insurers or other financial guarantee providers have insured all or some of the securities issued, by the monoline insurer or other financial guarantor. In the case of loans sold to parties other than the GSEs or GNMA, the contractual liability to repurchase typically arises only if there is a breach of the representations and warranties that materially and adversely affects the interest of the investor, or investors, in the loan, or of the monoline insurer or other financial guarantor (as applicable). Contracts with the GSEs do not contain equivalent language, while GNMA generally limits repurchases to loans that are not insured or guaranteed as required.

For additional information about accounting for representations and warranties and our representations and warranties claims and exposures, see Complex Accounting Estimates – Representations and Warranties on page 149. Additionally, see Note 9 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees and Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Representations and Warranties Bulk Settlement Actions

We have settled, or entered into agreements to settle, certain bulk representations and warranties claims with a trustee (the Trustee) for certain legacy Countrywide private-label securitization trusts (the BNY Mellon Settlement); with two monoline insurers, (1) Assured Guaranty Ltd. (the Assured Guaranty Settlement), and (2) Syncora Guarantee Inc. and Syncora Holdings, Ltd. (the Syncora Settlement); and with each of the GSEs (the GSE Agreements). We have vigorously contested any request for repurchase when we conclude that a valid basis for repurchase does not exist and will continue to do so in the future. However, in an effort to resolve these legacy mortgage-related issues, we have reached bulk settlements, or agreements for bulk settlements, including settlement amounts which have been material, with the above-referenced counterparties in lieu of a loan-by-loan review process. We may reach other settlements in the future if opportunities arise on terms we believe to be advantageous. However, there can be no assurance that we will reach future settlements or, if we do, that the terms of past settlements, such as the Syncora Settlement, can be relied upon to predict the terms of future settlements. For a summary of the larger bulk settlement actions taken in 2010 and 2011 and the related impact on the representations and warranties provision and liability, see Note 9 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees and Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K. These bulk settlements generally did not cover all transactions with the relevant counterparties or all potential claims that may arise, including in some instances securities law, fraud and servicing claims, and our liability in connection with the transactions and claims not covered by these settlements could be material.


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Recent Developments Related to the BNY Mellon Settlement

The BNY Mellon Settlement is subject to final court approval and certain other conditions. Under an order entered by the state court in connection with the BNY Mellon Settlement, potentially interested persons had the opportunity to give notice of intent to object to the settlement (including on the basis that more information was needed) until August 30, 2011. Approximately 44 groups or entities appeared prior to the deadline; seven of those groups or entities have subsequently withdrawn from the proceeding and one motion to intervene was denied. Certain of these groups or entities filed notices of intent to object, made motions to intervene, or both filed notices of intent to object and made motions to intervene. The parties filing motions to intervene include the Attorneys General of the states of New York and Delaware; the Attorneys General's motions were granted on June 6, 2012.

Certain of the motions to intervene and/or notices of intent to object allege various purported bases for opposition to the settlement. These include challenges to the nature of the court proceeding and the lack of an opt-out mechanism, alleged conflicts of interest on the part of the institutional investor group and/or the Trustee, the inadequacy of the settlement amount and the method of allocating the settlement amount among the 525 legacy Countrywide first-lien and five second-lien non-GSE securitization trusts (the Covered Trusts), while other motions do not make substantive objections but state that they need more information about the settlement. Parties who filed notices stating that they wished to obtain more information about the settlement include the FDIC and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

An investor opposed to the settlement removed the proceeding to federal district court, and the federal district court denied the Trustee's motion to remand the proceeding to state court. On February 27, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued an opinion reversing the district court denial of the Trustee's motion to remand the proceeding to state court and ordered that the proceeding be remanded to state court. On April 24, 2012, a hearing was held on threshold issues, at which the court denied the objectors' motion to convert the proceeding to a plenary proceeding. Several status hearings on discovery and other case administration matters have taken place. On August 10, 2012, the Court issued an order setting a schedule for discovery and other proceedings, and setting May 2, 2013 as the date for the final court hearing on the settlement to begin. We are not a party to the proceeding.

It is not currently possible to predict how many of the parties who have appeared in the court proceeding will ultimately object to the BNY Mellon Settlement, whether the objections will prevent receipt of final court approval or the ultimate outcome of the court approval process, which can include appeals and could take a substantial period of time. In particular, conduct of discovery and the resolution of the objections to the settlement and any appeals could take a substantial period of time and these factors could materially delay the timing of final court approval. Accordingly, it is not possible to predict when the court approval process will be completed.

If final court approval is not obtained by December 31, 2015, we and legacy Countrywide may withdraw from the BNY Mellon Settlement, if the Trustee consents. The BNY Mellon Settlement also provides that if Covered Trusts representing an unpaid principal balance exceeding a specified amount are excluded from the final BNY Mellon Settlement, based on investor objections or otherwise, we and legacy Countrywide have the option to withdraw from the BNY Mellon Settlement pursuant to the terms of the BNY Mellon Settlement agreement.

There can be no assurance that final court approval of the BNY Mellon Settlement will be obtained, that ongoing costs we will incur in connection with the BNY Mellon Settlement process will not be higher than we currently anticipate, that all conditions to the BNY Mellon Settlement will be satisfied or, if certain conditions to the BNY Mellon Settlement permitting withdrawal are met, that we and legacy Countrywide will not determine to withdraw from the settlement. If final court approval is not obtained or if we and legacy Countrywide determine to withdraw from the BNY Mellon Settlement in accordance with its terms, our future representations and warranties losses could be substantially different than existing accruals and the estimated range of possible loss over existing accruals as described under Experience with Investors Other than Government-sponsored Enterprises on page 65. For more information about the risks associated with the BNY Mellon Settlement, see Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Syncora Settlement

On July 17, 2012, we, including certain of our affiliates, entered into an agreement with Syncora Guarantee Inc. and Syncora Holdings, Ltd. (Syncora) to resolve all of the monoline insurer's outstanding and potential claims related to alleged representations and warranties breaches involving eight first- and six second-lien private-label securitization trusts where Syncora provided financial guarantee insurance. The agreement, among other things, also resolves historical loan servicing issues and other potential liabilities to Syncora with respect to these trusts. The agreement covers the five second-lien private-label securitization trusts that were the subject of litigation and nine other first- and second-lien private-label securitization trusts, which had an original principal balance of first-lien mortgages of approximately $9.6 billion and second-lien mortgages of approximately $7.7 billion. As of June 30, 2012, $3.0 billion of loans in these first-lien trusts and $1.4 billion of loans in these second-lien trusts had defaulted or were 180 days or more past due (severely delinquent). The agreement provided for a cash payment of $375 million to Syncora. In addition, the parties entered into securities transfers and purchase transactions in connection with the settlement in order to terminate certain other relationships among the parties. The total cost to the Corporation was approximately $400 million and was fully accrued by the Corporation at June 30, 2012.

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Unresolved Claims Status

Unresolved Repurchase Claims

At September 30, 2012, the total notional amount of our unresolved representations and warranties repurchase claims was approximately $25.5 billion compared to $12.6 billion at December 31, 2011. These repurchase claims do not include any repurchase claims related to the Covered Trusts. Unresolved repurchase claims represent the notional amount of repurchase claims made by counterparties, typically the outstanding principal balance or the unpaid principal balance at the time of default. For a table of unresolved repurchase claims, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements. In the case of first-lien mortgages, the claim amount is often significantly greater than the expected loss amount due to the benefit of collateral and, in some cases, mortgage insurance or mortgage guarantee payments. Claims received from a counterparty remain outstanding until the underlying loan is repurchased, the claim is rescinded by the counterparty, or the claim is otherwise resolved. When a claim is denied and we do not receive a response from the counterparty, the claim remains in the unresolved claims balance until resolution. We expect unresolved repurchase claims to continue to increase due to, among other things, our differences with Fannie Mae (FNMA) regarding our interpretation of the governing contracts, ongoing litigation with monoline insurers, the continuing submission of claims related to private-label securitizations, combined with the quality of such claims, and the lack of an established process to resolve disputes related to such claims.

The notional amount of unresolved GSE repurchase claims totaled $12.3 billion at September 30, 2012. We continued to experience elevated levels of new claims from FNMA, including claims related to loans on which borrowers have made a significant number of payments (e.g., at least 25 payments) and, to a lesser extent, loans which defaulted more than 18 months prior to the repurchase request. Unresolved claims from FNMA totaled $11.5 billion at September 30, 2012, including $8.6 billion of claims related to loans on which the borrower has made at least 25 payments. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we received $8.7 billion of claims from FNMA, including $7.1 billion of claims related to loans originated between 2005 and 2007. For the claims related to originations between 2005 and 2007, $5.8 billion were related to loans on which the borrower had made at least 25 payments, including $2.9 billion related to loans on which the borrower had made at least 37 payments. Historically, for those claims that have been approved for repurchase from the GSEs, our loss severity rate on loans originated between 2004 and 2008 has averaged approximately 55 percent of the claim amount, which may or may not be predictive of future loss severity rates. We continue to believe that our interpretation of the governing contracts is consistent with past practices between the parties and our contractual obligations.

The notional amount of unresolved monoline repurchase claims totaled $2.6 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to $3.1 billion at December 31, 2011. The decrease in unresolved claims was driven by resolution of claims through the Syncora Settlement. We have had limited loan-level repurchase claims experience with monoline insurers due to ongoing litigation. We have reviewed and declined to repurchase $2.4 billion of the unresolved claims at September 30, 2012 based on an assessment of whether a breach exists that materially and adversely affected the insurer's interest in the mortgage loan and are still in the process of reviewing the remaining $183 million of these claims. Further, in our experience, the monolines have been generally unwilling to withdraw repurchase claims, regardless of whether and what evidence was offered to refute a claim. Substantially all of the unresolved monoline claims pertain to second-lien loans and are currently the subject of litigation.

The notional amount of unresolved claims from private-label securitization trustees, third-party securitization sponsors, whole-loan investors and others increased to $10.5 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to $3.3 billion at December 31, 2011. The increase in the notional amount of unresolved claims is primarily due to increases in the submission of claims by private-label securitization trustees and a third-party securitization sponsor, claim quality and the lack of an established process to resolve disputes related to these claims. We anticipated an increase in aggregate non-GSE claims at the time of the BNY Mellon Settlement in June 2011, and such increase in aggregate non-GSE claims was taken into consideration in developing the increase in our representations and warranties liability at that time. We expect unresolved repurchase claims related to private-label securitizations to continue to increase as claims continue to be submitted by private-label securitization trustees and third-party securitization sponsors and there is not an established process for the ultimate resolution of claims on which there is a disagreement. At least 25 payments have been made on approximately 64 percent of the defaulted and severely delinquent loans sold to non-GSE securitizations or as whole loans between 2004 and 2008.

During the three months ended September 30, 2012, we received $5.0 billion in new repurchase claims, including $2.7 billion submitted by the GSEs for both legacy Countrywide originations not covered by the GSE Agreements and legacy Bank of America originations, $1.0 billion from whole-loan investors, primarily third-party securitization sponsors, $983 million submitted by private-label securitization trustees and $237 million submitted by monolines. During the three months ended September 30, 2012, $2.2 billion in claims were resolved, primarily with the GSEs and through the Syncora Settlement. Of the claims resolved, $1.9 billion were resolved through rescissions and $322 million were resolved through mortgage repurchases and make-whole payments.


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During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we received $17.9 billion in new repurchase claims, including $10.1 billion submitted by the GSEs for both legacy Countrywide originations not covered by the GSE Agreements and legacy Bank of America originations, $6.2 billion submitted by private-label securitization trustees, $1.3 billion from whole-loan investors, primarily third-party securitization sponsors, and $295 million submitted by monolines. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, $5.0 billion in claims were resolved, primarily with the GSEs and through the Syncora Settlement. Of the claims resolved, $3.5 billion were resolved through rescissions and $1.5 billion were resolved through mortgage repurchases and make-whole payments. For more information on repurchase claims received from the GSEs, monoline insurers, private-label securitization trustees, whole-loan investors and others, and the resolution of such claims, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

In addition and not included in total unresolved repurchase claims of $25.5 billion, we have received repurchase demands from private-label securitization investors and a master servicer where we believe the claimants have not satisfied the contractual thresholds to direct the securitization trustee to take action and/or that these demands are otherwise procedurally or substantively invalid. The total amounts outstanding of such demands were $1.7 billion at both September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. At December 31, 2011, the $1.7 billion of demands outstanding were related to the BNY Mellon Settlement of which $1.4 billion were subsequently resolved through the dismissal of a lawsuit as discussed below. At September 30, 2012, the outstanding demands were comprised of $1.4 billion in claims received during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and approximately $300 million related to the BNY Mellon Settlement. We do not believe that the $1.7 billion in demands outstanding at September 30, 2012 are valid repurchase claims, and therefore it is not possible to predict the resolution with respect to such demands.

A claimant, Walnut Place (11 entities with the common name Walnut Place, including Walnut Place LLC, and Walnut Place II LLC through Walnut Place XI LLC) had filed two lawsuits against the Corporation relating to $1.4 billion of the $1.7 billion in demands outstanding at December 31, 2011. Following determination by the courts that the governing agreements bar repurchase claims by certificateholders and the consequent dismissal of Walnut Place's first lawsuit, the parties stipulated in July 2012 to the dismissal of Walnut Place's second lawsuit (and these demands were accordingly removed from our outstanding demands balance). If the BNY Mellon Settlement is approved by the court, the remaining repurchase demands related to loans underlying securitizations included in the BNY Mellon Settlement will be resolved by the settlement.

Open Mortgage Insurance Rescission Notices

In addition to repurchase claims, we receive notices from mortgage insurance companies of claim denials, cancellations or coverage rescission (collectively, MI rescission notices) and the amount of such notices has remained elevated. At September 30, 2012, we had approximately 111,000 open MI rescission notices compared to 90,000 at December 31, 2011. As of September 30, 2012, 29 percent of the MI rescission notices received have been resolved. Of those resolved, 21 percent were resolved through our acceptance of the MI rescission, 54 percent were resolved through reinstatement of coverage or payment of the claim by the mortgage insurance company, and 25 percent were resolved on an aggregate basis through settlement, policy commutation or similar arrangement. As of September 30, 2012, 71 percent of the MI rescission notices we have received have not yet been resolved. Of those not yet resolved, 44 percent are implicated by ongoing litigation where no loan-level review is currently contemplated nor required to preserve our legal rights. In this litigation, the litigating mortgage insurance companies are also seeking bulk rescission of certain policies, separate and apart from loan-by-loan denials or rescissions. We are in the process of reviewing 37 percent of the remaining open MI rescission notices, and we have reviewed and are contesting the MI rescission with respect to 63 percent of these remaining open MI rescission notices. Of the remaining open MI rescission notices, 37 percent are also the subject of ongoing litigation; although, at present, these MI rescissions are being processed in a manner generally consistent with those not affected by litigation. For additional information, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements.


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In 2011, FNMA issued an announcement requiring servicers to report all MI rescission notices with respect to loans sold to FNMA and confirmed FNMA's view of its position that a mortgage insurance company's issuance of a MI rescission notice constitutes a breach of the lender's representations and warranties and permits FNMA to require the lender to repurchase the mortgage loan or promptly remit a make-whole payment covering FNMA's loss even if the lender is contesting the MI rescission notice. According to FNMA's announcement, through June 30, 2012, lenders had 90 days to appeal FNMA's repurchase request and 30 days (or such other time frame specified by FNMA) to appeal after that date. We also expect that in many cases, particularly in the context of individual or bulk rescissions being contested through litigation, we will not be able to resolve MI rescission notices with the mortgage insurance companies before the expiration of the appeal period prescribed by the FNMA announcement. We have informed FNMA that we do not believe that the new policy is valid under our contracts with FNMA, and that we do not intend to repurchase loans under the terms set forth in the new policy. Our pipeline of unresolved repurchase claims from the GSEs resulting solely from MI rescission notices increased to $2.2 billion at September 30, 2012 from $1.2 billion at December 31, 2011. Approximately 76 percent of this increase relates to loans for which the borrower has made at least 25 payments. If we are required to abide by the terms of FNMA's stated policy regarding MI rescission notices, the amount of loans we are required to repurchase could increase, and if it does, our representations and warranties liability will increase. For additional information on the FNMA policy, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Additionally, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Government-sponsored Enterprises Experience on page 37 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Representations and Warranties Liability

The liability for representations and warranties and corporate guarantees is included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Corporation's Consolidated Balance Sheet and the related provision is included in mortgage banking income. Our estimates of the liability for representations and warranties exposure and the corresponding range of possible loss are based on currently available information, significant judgment and a number of other factors that are subject to change. Changes to any one of these factors could significantly impact the estimate of the liability and could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations for any particular period. For additional information, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements and, for information related to the sensitivity of the assumptions used to estimate our liability for obligations under representations and warranties, see Complex Accounting Estimates – Representations and Warranties on page 149.

The liability for obligations under representations and warranties with respect to GSE and non-GSE exposures and the corresponding estimated range of possible loss for these representations and warranties exposures do not consider any losses related to litigation matters disclosed in Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements or Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K, nor do they include any separate foreclosure costs and related costs, assessments and compensatory fees or any other possible losses related to potential claims for breaches of performance of servicing obligations, except as such losses are included as potential costs of the BNY Mellon Settlement, potential securities law or fraud claims or potential indemnity or other claims against us, including claims related to loans insured by the FHA. We are not able to reasonably estimate the amount of any possible loss with respect to any such servicing, securities law, fraud or other claims against us, except to the extent reflected in the aggregate range of possible loss for litigation and regulatory matters disclosed in Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements, however, such loss could be material.

At September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, the liability for representations and warranties and corporate guarantees was $16.3 billion and $15.9 billion. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the representations and warranties and corporate guarantees provision was $307 million and $984 million compared to $278 million and $15.3 billion for the same periods in 2011. The provision in the three months ended September 30, 2012 included provision related to non-GSE exposures where it was determined that the loss was probable based on recent activity with certain counterparties and, to a lesser extent, GSE exposures. The decrease in the provision for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was primarily due to a higher provision in the prior-year period attributable to the BNY Mellon Settlement, other non-GSE exposures, and to a lesser extent, GSE exposures. For additional information, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Representations and Warranties Liability on page 35 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Estimated Range of Possible Loss

Our estimated liability at September 30, 2012 for obligations under representations and warranties is necessarily dependent on, and limited by, a number of factors, including our historical claims experience with the GSEs, our understanding of our agreements with the GSEs and, for private-label securitizations, the implied repurchase experience based on the BNY Mellon Settlement, as well as certain other assumptions and judgmental factors. Accordingly, future provisions associated with obligations under representations and warranties may be materially impacted if actual experiences are different from historical experience or our understandings, interpretations or assumptions.


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Over time, FNMA's repurchase requests, standards for rescission of repurchase requests and resolution processes have become inconsistent with its own past conduct and with the Corporation's interpretation of the parties' contractual obligations. While we are seeking to resolve our differences with FNMA, whether we will be able to achieve a resolution of these differences on acceptable terms and the timing and cost thereof continues to be subject to significant uncertainty. Due to this uncertainty, we have not previously been able to reasonably estimate the range of possible loss in excess of the recorded liability for GSE loans. However, as a result of continued dialogue and discussions with FNMA, we have obtained additional information from which we are able to determine a reasonable estimate of a range of possible loss for representations and warranties exposures in excess of our recorded representations and warranties liability for the GSEs as of September 30, 2012.

In the case of private-label securitizations, our estimate of the representations and warranties liability and the corresponding range of possible loss considers, among other things, repurchase experience based on the BNY Mellon Settlement with the Bank of New York Mellon as trustee, adjusted to reflect differences between the 525 legacy Countrywide first-lien and five second-lien non-GSE securitization trusts and the remainder of the population of private-label securitizations, and assumes that the conditions to the BNY Mellon Settlement will be met. Where relevant, we also take into account more recent experience, such as increased claims and other facts and circumstances, such as bulk settlements, as we believe appropriate.

We believe that our representations and warranties liability recorded as of September 30, 2012 provides for a substantial portion of our representations and warranties exposures. However, it is reasonably possible that future representations and warranties losses may occur in excess of the amounts recorded for these exposures. In addition, we have not recorded any representations and warranties liability for certain potential private-label securitization and whole-loan exposures where we have little to no claim experience. We currently estimate that the range of possible loss for all representations and warranties exposures could be up to $6 billion over accruals at September 30, 2012 compared to $5 billion over accruals at June 30, 2012 for only non-GSE representations and warranties exposures. The increase in the range of possible loss from June 30, 2012 is the net impact of, among other changes, updated assumptions, the inclusion of GSE representations and warranties exposures and other developments. The estimated range of possible loss related to these representations and warranties exposures does not represent a probable loss, and is based on currently available information, significant judgment and a number of assumptions that are subject to change. For additional information about the methodology used to estimate the representations and warranties liability and the corresponding range of possible loss, see Note 8 – Representations and Warranties Obligations and Corporate Guarantees to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Future provisions and/or ranges of possible loss for representations and warranties may be significantly impacted if actual experiences are different from our assumptions in our predictive models, including, without limitation, those regarding continued differences with FNMA concerning each party's interpretation of the requirements of the governing contracts, ultimate resolution of the BNY Mellon Settlement, estimated repurchase rates, economic conditions, estimated home prices, consumer and counterparty behavior, and a variety of other judgmental factors. Adverse developments with respect to one or more of the assumptions underlying the liability for representations and warranties and the corresponding estimated range of possible loss could result in significant increases to future provisions and/or the estimated range of possible loss. For example, if courts, in the context of claims brought by private-label securitization trustees, were to disagree with our interpretation that the underlying agreements require a claimant to prove that the representations and warranties breach was the cause of the loss, it could significantly impact the estimated range of possible loss. Additionally, if court rulings related to monoline litigation, including one related to us, that have allowed sampling of loan files instead of requiring a loan-by-loan review to determine if a representations and warranties breach has occurred, are followed generally by the courts, private-label securitization counterparties may view litigation as a more attractive alternative compared to a loan-by-loan review. For additional information regarding these issues, see MBIA litigation in Litigation and Regulatory Matters in Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Finally, although we believe that the representations and warranties typically given in non-GSE transactions are less rigorous and actionable than those given in GSE transactions, we do not have significant experience resolving loan-level claims in non-GSE transactions to measure the impact of these differences on the probability that a loan will be required to be repurchased.

Government-sponsored Enterprises Experience

Our current repurchase claims experience with the GSEs is concentrated in the 2004 through 2008 vintages where we believe that our exposure to representations and warranties liability is most significant. Our repurchase claims experience related to loans originated prior to 2004 has not been significant and we believe that changes made to our operations and underwriting policies have reduced our exposure related to loans originated after 2008.


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Bank of America and legacy Countrywide sold approximately $1.1 trillion of loans originated from 2004 through 2008 to the GSEs. As of September 30, 2012, 12 percent of the original funded balance of loans in these vintages have defaulted or are 180 days or more past due (severely delinquent). At least 25 payments have been made on approximately 66 percent of severely delinquent or defaulted loans. As of September 30, 2012, we have received $41.4 billion in repurchase claims associated with these vintages, representing approximately four percent of the original funded balance of loans sold to the GSEs in these vintages. We have resolved $28.8 billion of these claims with a net loss experience of approximately 30 percent, after considering the effect of collateral. Our collateral loss severity rate on approved repurchases has averaged approximately 55 percent. In addition, $839 million of claims were extinguished as a result of the agreement with Freddie Mac (FHLMC) in 2010.

Table 15 highlights our experience with the GSEs related to loans originated from 2004 through 2008.

Table 15
Overview of GSE Balances - 2004-2008 Originations
 
Legacy Originator
(Dollars in billions)
Countrywide
 
Other
 
Total
 
Percent of
Total
Original funded balance
$
846

 
$
272

 
$
1,118

 
 
Principal payments
(493
)
 
(171
)
 
(664
)
 
 
Defaults
(71
)
 
(12
)
 
(83
)
 
 
Total outstanding balance at September 30, 2012
$
282

 
$
89

 
$
371

 
 
Outstanding principal balance 180 days or more past due (severely delinquent)
$
40

 
$
10

 
$
50

 
 
Defaults plus severely delinquent
111

 
22

 
133

 
 
Payments made by borrower
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Less than 13
 
 
 
 
$
15

 
11
%
13-24
 
 
 
 
30

 
23

25-36
 
 
 
 
33

 
25

More than 36
 
 
 
 
55

 
41

Total payments made by borrower
 
 
 
 
$
133

 
100
%
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unresolved GSE representations and warranties claims (all vintages)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As of December 31, 2011
 
 
 
 
$
6.3

 
 
As of September 30, 2012
 
 
 
 
12.3

 
 
Cumulative GSE representations and warranties losses (2004-2008 vintages)
 
 
 
 
$
9.8

 
 

We continued to experience elevated levels of new claims from FNMA, including claims on loans on which borrowers have made a significant number of payments (e.g., at least 25 payments) and, to a lesser extent, loans which defaulted more than 18 months prior to the repurchase request. Over time the criteria and the processes by which FNMA is ultimately willing to resolve claims have changed in ways that are unfavorable to us. In light of our disagreements with FNMA, we have adopted repurchase guidelines in order to be more consistent with past practices between the parties and with our understanding of our contractual obligations. These developments have resulted in an increase in claims outstanding from the GSEs to $12.3 billion at September 30, 2012 from $6.3 billion at December 31, 2011. Outstanding claims related to loans on which the borrower had made at least 25 payments totaled $9.2 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to $3.7 billion at December 31, 2011. We expect outstanding claims to continue to increase until we have resolved our differences with FNMA. While we are seeking to resolve our differences with FNMA, whether we will be able to achieve a resolution of these differences on acceptable terms, and the timing and cost thereof, continues to be subject to significant uncertainty. We have repurchased and continue to repurchase loans to the extent required under the contracts that govern our relationships with the GSEs. For additional information, see Open Mortgage Insurance Rescission Notices on page 61.


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Beginning in February 2012, we stopped delivering purchase money and non-Making Home Affordable (MHA) refinance first-lien residential mortgage products into FNMA MBS pools because of the expiration and mutual non-renewal of certain contractual delivery commitments and variances that permit efficient delivery of such loans to FNMA. While we continue to have a valid agreement with FNMA permitting the delivery of purchase money and non-MHA refinance first-lien residential mortgage products without such contractual variances, the delivery of such products without contractual delivery commitments and variances would involve time and expense to implement the necessary operational and systems changes and otherwise presents practical operational issues. The non-renewal of these variances was influenced, in part, by our ongoing differences with FNMA in other contexts, including repurchase claims, as discussed above. We do not expect this change to have a material impact on our CRES business, as we expect to rely on other sources of liquidity to actively extend mortgage credit to our customers including continuing to deliver such products into FHLMC MBS pools. Additionally, we continue to deliver MHA refinancing products into FNMA MBS pools and continue to engage in dialogue to attempt to address our ongoing differences with FNMA.

Experience with Investors Other than Government-sponsored Enterprises

As detailed in Table 16, legacy companies and certain subsidiaries sold pools of first-lien mortgage loans and home equity loans as private-label securitizations or in the form of whole loans originated from 2004 through 2008 with an original principal balance of $963 billion to investors other than GSEs (although the GSEs are investors in certain private-label securitizations), of which approximately $524 billion in principal has been paid and $245 billion has defaulted or is severely delinquent at September 30, 2012. For additional information, see Experience with Investors Other than Government-sponsored Enterprises on page 38 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Table 16 details the population of loans originated between 2004 and 2008 and the population of loans sold as whole loans or in non-agency securitizations by entity and product together with the defaulted and severely delinquent loans stratified by the number of payments the borrower made prior to default or becoming severely delinquent as of September 30, 2012. As shown in Table 16, at least 25 payments have been made on approximately 64 percent of the defaulted and severely delinquent loans. We believe many of the defaults observed in these securitizations have been, and continue to be, driven by external factors like the substantial depreciation in home prices, persistently high unemployment and other negative economic trends, diminishing the likelihood that any loan defect (assuming one exists at all) was the cause of a loan’s default. As of September 30, 2012, approximately 25 percent of the loans sold to non-GSEs that were originated between 2004 and 2008 have defaulted or are severely delinquent. Of the original principal balance for Countrywide, $409 billion is included in the BNY Mellon Settlement and of this amount $113 billion is defaulted or severely delinquent at September 30, 2012.

Table 16
Overview of Non-Agency Securitization and Whole Loan Balances
 
Principal Balance
 
Defaulted or Severely Delinquent
(Dollars in billions)
Original
Principal Balance
 
Outstanding Principal Balance September 30, 2012
 
Outstanding
Principal
Balance 180 Days
or More Past Due
 
Defaulted
Principal Balance
 
Defaulted
or Severely
Delinquent
 
Borrower Made
Less than 13
Payments
 
Borrower Made
13 to 24
Payments
 
Borrower Made
25 to 36
Payments
 
Borrower Made
More than 36
Payments
By Entity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank of America
$
100

 
$
24

 
$
4

 
$
6

 
$
10

 
$
1

 
$
2

 
$
2

 
$
5

Countrywide
716

 
215

 
66

 
124

 
190

 
24

 
44

 
45

 
77

Merrill Lynch
65

 
17

 
4

 
13

 
17

 
3

 
4

 
3

 
7

First Franklin
82

 
18

 
6

 
22

 
28

 
5

 
6

 
4

 
13

Total (1, 2)
$
963

 
$
274

 
$
80

 
$
165

 
$
245

 
$
33

 
$
56

 
$
54

 
$
102

By Product
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Prime
$
302

 
$
88

 
$
13

 
$
21

 
$
34

 
$
2

 
$
6

 
$
7

 
$
19

Alt-A
172

 
61

 
17

 
33

 
50

 
7

 
12

 
12

 
19

Pay option
150

 
46

 
22

 
35

 
57

 
5

 
14

 
15

 
23

Subprime
245

 
66

 
26

 
57

 
83

 
16

 
19

 
16

 
32

Home equity
88

 
13

 

 
18

 
18

 
2

 
5

 
4

 
7

Other
6

 

 
2

 
1

 
3

 
1

 

 

 
2

Total
$
963

 
$
274

 
$
80

 
$
165

 
$
245

 
$
33

 
$
56

 
$
54

 
$
102

(1) 
Excludes transactions sponsored by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch where no representations or warranties were made.
(2) 
Includes exposures on third-party sponsored transactions related to legacy entity originations.


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Monoline Insurers

Legacy companies sold $184.5 billion of loans originated between 2004 and 2008 into monoline-insured securitizations, which are included in Table 16, including $103.9 billion of first-lien mortgages and $80.6 billion of second-lien mortgages. Of these balances, $48.0 billion of the first-lien mortgages and $51.3 billion of the second-lien mortgages have been paid in full and $35.1 billion of the first-lien mortgages and $17.5 billion of the second-lien mortgages have defaulted or are severely delinquent at September 30, 2012. At least 25 payments have been made on approximately 58 percent of the defaulted and severely delinquent loans. Of the first-lien mortgages sold, $39.1 billion, or 38 percent, were sold as whole loans to other institutions which subsequently included these loans with those of other originators in private-label securitization transactions in which the monolines insured one or more securities. As of September 30, 2012, we have received $6.0 billion of representations and warranties claims associated with these vintages from the monoline insurers related to the monoline-insured transactions, predominately second-lien transactions. Of these repurchase claims, $2.4 billion were resolved through the Assured Guaranty and Syncora Settlements, $816 million were resolved through repurchase or indemnification with losses of $708 million, and $126 million were rescinded by the monoline insurers or paid in full. Our limited experience with most of the monoline insurers has varied in terms of process, and experience with these counterparties has not been predictable. Our limited claims experience with the monoline insurers, other than Assured Guaranty, in the repurchase process is a result of these monoline insurers having instituted litigation against legacy Countrywide and/or Bank of America, which limits our ability to enter into constructive dialogue with these monolines to resolve the open claims.

At September 30, 2012, for loans originated between 2004 and 2008, the unpaid principal balance of loans related to unresolved monoline repurchase claims was $2.6 billion. We have reviewed and declined to repurchase $2.4 billion based on an assessment of whether a material breach exists and are still in the process of reviewing the remaining $183 million of these claims. At September 30, 2012, the unpaid principal balance of loans in these vintages for which the monolines had requested loan files for review but for which no repurchase claim had been received was $5.3 billion, excluding loans that had been paid in full or resolved through settlements. There will likely be additional requests for loan files in the future leading to repurchase claims. In addition, we have received claims from private-label securitization trustees and a third-party securitization sponsor related to first-lien third-party sponsored securitizations that include monoline insurance.

It is not possible at this time to reasonably estimate probable future repurchase obligations with respect to those monolines with whom we have limited repurchase experience and, therefore, no representations and warranties liability has been recorded in connection with these monolines, other than a liability for repurchase claims where we have determined that there are valid loan defects and determined that there is a breach of a representation and warranty and that any other requirements for repurchase have been met. Outside of the standard quality control process that is an integral part of our loan origination process, we do not generally review loan files until we receive a repurchase claim, including with respect to monoline exposures. For additional information, see Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Whole Loans and Private-label Securitizations

Legacy entities, and to a lesser extent Bank of America, sold loans to investors as whole loans or via private-label securitizations. The majority of the loans sold were included in private-label securitizations, including third-party sponsored transactions. The loans sold with total principal balance of $778.2 billion, included in Table 16, were originated between 2004 and 2008, of which $424.4 billion have been paid in full and $192.4 billion are defaulted or severely delinquent at September 30, 2012. We provided representations and warranties to the whole-loan investors and these investors may retain those rights even when the whole loans were aggregated with other collateral into private-label securitizations sponsored by the whole-loan investors. At least 25 payments have been made on approximately 65 percent of the defaulted and severely delinquent loans. We have received approximately $16.2 billion of representations and warranties claims from whole-loan investors, including third-party sponsors, and private-label securitization investors and trustees related to these vintages, including $8.2 billion from private-label securitization trustees, $7.2 billion from whole-loan investors and $817 million from one private-label securitization counterparty. In private-label securitizations, certain presentation thresholds need to be met in order for investors to direct a trustee to assert repurchase claims. Recent increases in new private-label claims are primarily related to repurchase requests received from trustees and third-party sponsors for private-label securitization transactions not included in the BNY Mellon Settlement, including claims related to first-lien third-party sponsored securitizations that include monoline insurance. Over time, there has been an increase in requests for loan files from certain private-label securitization trustees, as well as requests for tolling agreements to toll the applicable statutes of limitation relating to representations and warranties claims, and we believe it is likely that these requests will lead to an increase in repurchase claims from private-label securitization trustees with standing to bring such claims.


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We have resolved $6.2 billion of the claims received from whole-loan investors and private-label securitization investors and trustees with losses of $1.5 billion. The majority of these resolved claims were from third-party whole-loan investors. Approximately $2.9 billion of these claims were resolved through repurchase or indemnification and $3.3 billion were rescinded by the investor. At September 30, 2012, for loans originated between 2004 and 2008, the notional amount of unresolved repurchase claims submitted by private-label securitization trustees and whole-loan investors was $10.1 billion. We have performed an initial review with respect to $9.4 billion of these claims and do not believe a valid basis for repurchase has been established by the claimant and are still in the process of reviewing the remaining $662 million of these claims.

Certain whole-loan investors have engaged with us in a consistent repurchase process and we have used that and other experience to record the liability related to existing and future claims from such counterparties. The BNY Mellon Settlement and recent activity with certain counterparties led to the determination that we had sufficient experience to record a liability related to our exposure on certain private-label securitizations but did not provide sufficient experience related to certain private-label securitizations sponsored by third-party whole-loan investors. As it relates to the other private-label securitizations sponsored by third-party whole-loan investors and certain other whole loan sales, it is not possible to determine whether a loss has occurred or is probable and, therefore, no representations and warranties liability has been recorded in connection with these transactions. Until we receive a repurchase claim, we generally have not reviewed loan files related to private-label securitizations sponsored by third-party whole-loan investors (and are not required by the governing documents to do so). Our estimated range of possible loss related to representations and warranties exposures as of September 30, 2012 included possible losses related to these whole loan sales and private-label securitizations sponsored by third-party whole-loan investors.

Private-label securitization investors generally do not have the contractual right to demand repurchase of loans directly or the right to access loan files. We have received repurchase demands totaling $1.7 billion from private-label securitization investors and a master servicer where in each case we believe the claimant has not satisfied the contractual thresholds to direct the securitization trustee to take action and/or that the demands are otherwise procedurally or substantively invalid.

Servicing Matters and Foreclosure Processes

We service a large portion of the loans we or our subsidiaries have securitized and also service loans on behalf of third-party securitization vehicles and other investors. Servicing agreements with the GSEs generally provide the GSEs with broader rights relative to the servicer than are found in servicing agreements with private investors. For example, each GSE typically claims the right to demand that the servicer repurchase loans that breach the seller's representations and warranties made in connection with the initial sale of the loans even if the servicer was not the seller. The GSEs also claim that they have the contractual right to demand indemnification or loan repurchase for certain servicing breaches. In addition, the GSEs' first mortgage seller/servicer guides provide for timelines to resolve delinquent loans through workout efforts or liquidation, if necessary, and purport to require the imposition of compensatory fees if those deadlines are not satisfied except for reasons beyond the control of the servicer, although we believe that the governing contracts and legal principles should inform resolution of these matters. Under our servicing agreements for loans serviced on behalf of third parties, we are also required to provide certain advances for foreclosure costs which are not reimbursable. Foreclosure delays resulting in high delinquencies have resulted and are likely to continue to result in elevated advances and reserves. In addition, we service VA loans that are partially guaranteed. In the event that a loss on a VA loan exceeds the guarantee, we may be responsible for the loss in excess of the guarantee.

Many non-agency RMBS and whole-loan servicing agreements require the servicer to indemnify the trustee or other investor for or against failures by the servicer to perform its servicing obligations or acts or omissions that involve willful malfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of, or reckless disregard of, the servicer’s duties.

It is not possible to reasonably estimate our liability with respect to certain potential servicing-related claims. While we have recorded certain accruals for servicing-related claims, the amount of potential liability in excess of existing accruals could be material. For additional information, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Servicing Matters and Foreclosure Processes on page 40 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

We continue to be subject to additional borrower and non-borrower litigation and governmental and regulatory scrutiny related to our past and current origination, servicing and foreclosure activities, including those claims not covered by the settlement agreement reached on March 12, 2012 between the Corporation, 49 state Attorneys General, HUD and certain federal agencies (National Mortgage Settlement). This scrutiny may extend beyond our pending foreclosure matters to issues arising out of alleged irregularities with respect to previously completed foreclosure activities. The current environment of heightened regulatory scrutiny may subject us to inquiries or investigations that could significantly adversely affect our reputation and result in material costs to us.


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Servicing Resolution Agreements

The National Mortgage Settlement was entered by the court as a consent judgment (Consent Judgment) on April 5, 2012. The National Mortgage Settlement provides for the establishment of certain uniform servicing standards, upfront cash payments of approximately $1.9 billion to the state and federal governments and for borrower restitution, approximately $7.6 billion in borrower assistance in the form of, among other things, credits earned for principal reduction, short sales, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure and approximately $1.0 billion of credits earned for interest rate reduction modifications. In addition, the settlement with HUD provides for an upfront cash payment of $500 million to settle certain claims related to FHA-insured loans. We will also be obligated to provide additional cash payments of up to $850 million if we fail to earn an additional $850 million of credits stemming from incremental first-lien principal reductions over a three-year period. The liability for upfront payments totaling approximately $2.4 billion was included in our litigation reserves at March 31, 2012 and these payments were made in April 2012.

The borrower assistance program is not expected to result in any incremental credit provision, as we believe that the existing allowance for credit losses is adequate to absorb any costs that have not already been recorded as charge-offs. Under the National Mortgage Settlement, the interest rate modification program will consist of interest rate reductions on first-lien loans originated prior to January 1, 2009 that have a current loan-to-value (LTV) ratio greater than 100 percent and that meet certain eligibility criteria, including the requirement that all payments due for the last twelve months have been made in a timely manner. This program commits us to forego future interest payments that we may not otherwise have agreed to forego, and no loss has been recognized in the financial statements related to such forgone interest. Due to the time required to receive borrower documentation and underwrite the modified loans, a significant number of modifications have not yet been completed. The interest rate modification program is expected to include approximately 20,000 to 25,000 loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $5.4 billion to $6.8 billion. Assuming an average interest rate reduction of approximately two percent, the modifications are expected to result in a reduction of annual interest income of approximately $100 million to $130 million when the program is complete. Assuming a weighted-average loan life of approximately eight years, the fair value of loans in the program is expected to decrease by approximately $700 million to $900 million as a result of the interest rate reductions. The financial impact will vary depending on final terms of modifications offered and the rate of borrower acceptance. We do not expect loans modified under the program to be accounted for as troubled debt restructurings (TDRs). If the program is expanded to include loans that do not meet specified underwriting criteria, such as maximum debt-to-income ratios or minimum FICO scores, the modifications of such loans will be accounted for as TDRs.

We could be required to make additional payments if we fail to meet our borrower assistance and rate reduction modification commitments over a three-year period, in an amount equal to 125 percent to 140 percent of the shortfall, dependent on the two- and three-year commitment target. We also entered into agreements with several states under which we committed to perform certain minimum levels of principal reduction and related activities within those states as part of the National Mortgage Settlement, and under which we could be required to make additional payments if we fail to meet such minimum levels.

We believe that it is likely that we will meet all borrower assistance, rate reduction modification and principal reduction commitments required under the National Mortgage Settlement and, therefore, do not expect to be required to make additional cash payments. Although it is reasonably possible that the cost of fulfilling the commitments could increase, leading to an incremental credit provision, the amount of any such incremental provision is not reasonably estimable. Although we may incur additional operating costs such as servicing costs to implement parts of the National Mortgage Settlement in future periods, we do not expect that those costs will be material.

Under the terms of the National Mortgage Settlement, the federal and participating state governments agreed to release us from further liability for certain alleged residential mortgage origination, servicing and foreclosure deficiencies. In settling origination issues related to FHA-guaranteed loans originated on or before April 30, 2009, the FHA provides us and our affiliates with a release from further liability for all origination claims with respect to such loans if an insurance claim had been submitted to the FHA prior to January 1, 2012 and a release of multiple damages and penalties, but not single damages, if no such claim had been submitted.

The National Mortgage Settlement does not cover certain claims arising out of origination, securitization (including representations made to investors with respect to MBS), criminal claims, private claims by borrowers, claims by certain states for injunctive relief or actual economic damages to borrowers related to the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), and claims by the GSEs (including repurchase demands), among other items. For additional information on MERS, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. on page 42 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Impact of Foreclosure Delays

Foreclosure delays impact our default-related servicing costs. We believe default-related servicing costs peaked during the third quarter of 2012 and we expect them to decline in the fourth quarter of 2012, with the decline accelerating in 2013. However, unexpected foreclosure delays in 2013 could impact the rate of decline. Default-related servicing costs include costs related to resources needed for implementing new servicing standards mandated for the industry, including as part of the National Mortgage Settlement, other operational changes and operational costs due to delayed foreclosures and do not include mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays.

Other areas of our operations are also impacted by foreclosure delays. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, we recorded $131 million and $530 million of mortgage-related assessments, waivers and similar costs related to foreclosure delays. We continue to disagree with the GSEs' attempt to make retroactive changes to the criteria for calculating and assessing compensatory fees for foreclosure delays. The GSEs have claimed compensatory fees significantly in excess of the amounts that we believe can be claimed under the governing contracts and legal principles. It is also possible that the delays in foreclosure sales may result in additional costs and expenses, including costs associated with the maintenance of properties or possible home price declines while foreclosures are delayed. Finally, the time to complete foreclosure sales may continue to be protracted, which may result in a greater number of nonperforming loans and increased servicing advances, and may impact the collectability of such advances and the value of our MSR asset, MBS and real estate owned properties. Accordingly, the ultimate resolution of disagreements with counterparties, delays in foreclosure sales beyond those currently anticipated, and any issues that may arise out of alleged irregularities in our foreclosure process could significantly increase the costs associated with our mortgage operations.

Mortgage-related Settlements – Servicing Matters

In connection with the BNY Mellon Settlement, Bank of America, N.A. (BANA) has agreed to implement certain servicing changes. The Trustee and BANA have agreed to clarify and conform certain servicing standards related to loss mitigation. In particular, the BNY Mellon Settlement clarifies that it is permissible to apply the same loss mitigation strategies to the Covered Trusts as are applied to BANA affiliates' held-for-investment (HFI) portfolios. This portion of the agreement was effective in the second quarter of 2011 and is not conditioned on final court approval. In connection with the National Mortgage Settlement, BANA has agreed to implement certain additional servicing changes. The uniform servicing standards established under the National Mortgage Settlement are broadly consistent with the residential mortgage servicing practices imposed by the OCC consent order; however, they are more prescriptive and cover a broader range of our residential mortgage servicing activities. Implementation of these uniform servicing standards is expected to incrementally increase costs associated with the servicing process, but is not expected to result in material delays or dislocation in the performance of our mortgage servicing obligations, including the completion of foreclosures. For additional information, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Mortgage-related Settlements – Servicing Matters on page 42 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Regulatory Matters

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Financial Reform Act) requires that all bank holding companies (BHCs) with assets greater than $50 billion submit a resolution plan to the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, and file an updated plan annually. The resolution plan is a detailed roadmap for the orderly liquidation of the BHC and material entities under a hypothetical scenario. We submitted our resolution plan to the Federal Reserve and FDIC on June 29, 2012.

The Financial Reform Act provides for new Federal regulation of the derivatives markets. As of October 12, 2012, swaps dealers conducting dealing activity with U.S. persons above a certain threshold will be required to register with the U.S. Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) on or before December 31, 2012. Upon registration, swap dealers will become subject to additional CFTC rules as and when such rules take effect. Those rules include, but are not limited to, measures that require clearing and exchange trading of certain derivatives, new capital and margin requirements for certain market participants, new reporting requirements and new business conduct requirements for derivatives under the jurisdiction of CFTC. There remains some uncertainty as to whether non-U.S. entities will be required to register as swap dealers because CFTC has not yet adopted final cross-border guidance. The ultimate impact of these regulations, and the time it will take to comply, continues to remain uncertain. The final regulations will impose additional operational and compliance costs on us and may require us to restructure certain businesses and negatively impact our revenues and results of operations.

For information regarding other significant regulatory matters, see Note 10 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements herein, Regulatory Matters on page 43 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Managing Risk

Risk is inherent in every material business activity that we undertake. Our business exposes us to strategic, credit, market, liquidity, compliance, operational and reputational risks. We must manage these risks to maximize our long-term results by ensuring the integrity of our assets and the quality of our earnings.

We take a comprehensive approach to risk management. We have a defined risk framework and clearly articulated risk appetite which is approved annually by the Corporation's Board of Directors (the Board). Risk management planning is integrated with strategic, financial and customer/client planning so that goals and responsibilities are aligned across the organization. Risk is managed in a systematic manner by focusing on the Corporation as a whole as well as managing risk across the enterprise and within individual business units, products, services and transactions, and across all geographic locations. We maintain a governance structure that delineates the responsibilities for risk management activities, as well as governance and oversight of those activities. For a more detailed discussion of our risk management activities, see pages 45 through 97 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Strategic Risk Management

Strategic risk is embedded in every business and is one of the major risk categories along with credit, market, liquidity, compliance, operational and reputational risk. It is the risk that results from adverse business decisions, ineffective or inappropriate business plans, failure to respond to changes in the competitive environment, business cycles, customer preferences, product obsolescence, regulatory environment, business strategy execution and/or other inherent risks of the business including reputational and operational risk. In the financial services industry, strategic risk is elevated due to changing customer, competitive and regulatory environments. Our appetite for strategic risk is assessed within the context of the strategic plan, with strategic risks selectively and carefully considered in the context of the evolving marketplace. Strategic risk is managed in the context of our overall financial condition and assessed, managed and acted on by the Chief Executive Officer and executive management team. Significant strategic actions, such as material acquisitions or capital actions, require review and approval from the Board.

For more information on our Strategic Risk Management activities, see page 48 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Capital Management

Bank of America manages its capital position to maintain sufficient capital to support our business activities and maintain capital, risk and risk appetite at levels that are commensurate with one another. Additionally, we seek to maintain safety and soundness under adverse scenarios, take advantage of growth and strategic opportunities, maintain ready access to financial markets, remain a source of strength for its subsidiaries, and satisfy current and future regulatory capital requirements.

To determine the appropriate level of capital, we assess the results of our Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP), the current economic and market environment, and feedback from investors, rating agencies and regulators. Based upon this analysis, we set capital guidelines for Tier 1 common capital and Tier 1 capital to maintain an adequate capital position, including in a severe adverse economic scenario. We also target to maintain capital in excess of the capital required per our economic capital measurement process. For additional information, see Economic Capital on page 76. Management and the Board annually approve a comprehensive capital plan which documents the ICAAP and related results, analysis and support for the capital guidelines, and planned capital actions.

Capital management is integrated into the risk and governance processes, as capital is a key consideration in the development of the strategic plan, risk appetite and risk limits. Economic capital is allocated to each business unit and used to perform risk-adjusted return analysis at the business unit, client relationship and transaction levels.


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Regulatory Capital

As a financial services holding company, we are subject to the risk-based capital guidelines (Basel 1) issued by federal banking regulators. At September 30, 2012, we operated banking activities primarily under two national bank charters: BANA and FIA Card Services, N.A. (FIA). Under these guidelines, the Corporation and its affiliated banking entities measure capital adequacy based on Tier 1 common capital, Tier 1 capital and Total capital (Tier 1 plus Tier 2 capital). Capital ratios are calculated by dividing each capital amount by risk-weighted assets. Additionally, Tier 1 capital is divided by adjusted quarterly average total assets to derive the Tier 1 leverage ratio.

The Corporation has issued notes to certain unconsolidated corporate-sponsored trust companies which issued qualifying trust preferred securities (Trust Securities) and hybrid securities. In accordance with Federal Reserve guidance, Trust Securities continue to qualify as Tier 1 capital with revised quantitative limits. As a result, at September 30, 2012, the Corporation included qualifying Trust Securities in the aggregate amount of $10.5 billion (approximately 88 bps of Tier 1 capital) in Tier 1 capital. Under one of three notices of proposed rulemaking on Basel 3 issued by U.S. banking regulatory agencies (collectively, the Basel 3 NPRs), outstanding Trust Securities will be excluded from Tier 1 capital, with the exclusion to be phased in incrementally over a four-year period, beginning January 1, 2013.

For additional information on these and other regulatory requirements, see Capital Management – Regulatory Capital on page 49 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Note 18 – Regulatory Requirements and Restrictions to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The Federal Reserve requires BHCs to submit a capital plan and requests for capital actions on an annual basis, consistent with the rules governing the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). The CCAR is the central element to the Federal Reserve's approach to ensuring large BHCs have thorough and robust processes for managing their capital. On January 6, 2012, we submitted our 2012 capital plan, and received results on March 13, 2012. The submitted capital plan included the ICAAP and related results, analysis and support for the capital guidelines and planned capital actions. The Federal Reserve's stress scenario projections for the Corporation estimated a minimum Tier 1 common capital ratio of 5.9 percent under severe adverse economic conditions with all proposed capital actions through the end of 2013, exceeding the five percent reference rate for all institutions involved in the CCAR. The capital plan submitted by the Corporation to the Federal Reserve did not include a request to return capital to stockholders in 2012 above the current dividend rate. The Federal Reserve did not object to our capital plan. We expect to be required to submit our 2013 capital plan in early January 2013. Consistent with the 2012 capital plan, we expect to be required to use stress scenario assumptions the Federal Reserve will provide in the fourth quarter of 2012. Results from the Federal Reserve are expected to be received in the first half of 2013.

Capital Composition and Ratios

Tier 1 common capital was $136.4 billion at September 30, 2012, an increase of $9.7 billion from December 31, 2011. The increase was primarily driven by earnings eligible to be included in capital, which positively impacted the Tier 1 common capital ratio by approximately 52 bps, including the impact of repurchases of certain of our debt and Trust Securities. The Tier 1 common capital ratio also benefited seven bps from the issuance of common stock in lieu of cash for a portion of employee incentive compensation. Total capital decreased $9.9 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011 primarily due to a reduction in subordinated debt from repurchases and a reduction in Trust Securities from repurchases and exchanges.

Risk-weighted assets decreased $88.7 billion to $1,196 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The decrease was primarily driven by lower loan levels and decreases in derivatives, letters of credit and other assets. These decreases positively impacted Tier 1 common, Tier 1 and Total capital ratios by 78 bps, 96 bps and 125 bps, respectively. The Tier 1 leverage ratio increased 31 bps at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011 primarily driven by the increase in Tier 1 capital.


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Table 17 presents Bank of America Corporation’s capital ratios and related information at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 17
Bank of America Corporation Regulatory Capital
 
September 30, 2012
 
December 31, 2011
 
Actual
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
Ratio
 
Amount
 
Minimum
Required (1)
 
Ratio
 
Amount
 
Minimum
Required (1)
Tier 1 common capital ratio
11.41
%
 
$
136,406

 
n/a

 
9.86
%
 
$
126,690

 
n/a

Tier 1 capital ratio
13.64

 
163,063

 
$
71,743

 
12.40

 
159,232

 
$
77,068

Total capital ratio
17.16

 
205,172

 
119,572

 
16.75

 
215,101

 
128,447

Tier 1 leverage ratio
7.84

 
163,063

 
83,198

 
7.53

 
159,232

 
84,557

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Risk-weighted assets (in billions)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$
1,196

 
$
1,284

Adjusted quarterly average total assets (in billions) (2)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2,080

 
2,114

(1) 
Dollar amount required to meet guidelines for well capitalized institutions.
(2) 
Reflects adjusted average total assets for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.
n/a = not applicable

Table 18 presents the capital composition at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 18
Capital Composition
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Total common shareholders’ equity
$
219,838

 
$
211,704

Goodwill
(69,976
)
 
(69,967
)
Nonqualifying intangible assets (includes core deposit intangibles, affinity relationships, customer relationships and other intangibles)
(5,231
)
 
(5,848
)
Net unrealized gains on AFS debt and marketable equity securities and net losses on derivatives recorded in accumulated OCI, net-of-tax
(2,824
)
 
682

Unamortized net periodic benefit costs recorded in accumulated OCI, net-of-tax
3,285

 
4,391

Fair value adjustment related to structured liabilities (1)
3,883

 
944

Disallowed deferred tax asset
(14,286
)
 
(16,799
)
Other
1,717

 
1,583

Total Tier 1 common capital
136,406

 
126,690

Qualifying preferred stock
15,850

 
15,479

Trust preferred securities
10,467

 
16,737

Noncontrolling interests
340

 
326

Total Tier 1 capital
163,063

 
159,232

Long-term debt qualifying as Tier 2 capital
25,373

 
38,165

Allowance for loan and lease losses
26,233

 
33,783

Reserve for unfunded lending commitments
518

 
714

Allowance for loan and lease losses exceeding 1.25 percent of risk-weighted assets
(11,615
)
 
(18,159
)
45 percent of the pre-tax net unrealized gains on AFS marketable equity securities
234

 
1

Other
1,366

 
1,365

Total capital
$
205,172

 
$
215,101

(1) 
Represents loss on structured liabilities, net-of-tax, that is excluded from Tier 1 common capital, Tier 1 capital and Total capital for regulatory capital purposes.


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Regulatory Capital Changes

We manage regulatory capital to adhere to internal capital guidelines and regulatory standards of capital adequacy based on our current understanding of the rules and the application of such rules to our business as currently conducted. The regulatory capital rules continue to evolve.

We currently measure and report our capital ratios and related information in accordance with Basel 1. See Capital Management on page 70 for additional information. In December 2007, U.S. banking regulators published final Basel 2 rules (Basel 2). We measure and report our capital ratios and related information under Basel 2 on a confidential basis to U.S. banking regulators during the required parallel period. In June 2012, U.S. banking regulators issued the final Market Risk Amendment that amends the Basel 1 Market Risk rules (Market Risk Amendment) effective January 1, 2013. U.S. banking regulators also issued the Basel 3 NPRs in June 2012 to implement the Basel 3 regulatory capital reforms from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) and changes required by the Financial Reform Act. Under the Basel 3 NPRs, we are subject to the Advanced Approach for measuring risk-weighted assets (Basel 3 Advanced Approach). The Basel 3 Advanced Approach also requires approval by the U.S. regulatory agencies of analytical models used as part of capital measurement. If these models are not approved, it would likely lead to an increase in our risk-weighted assets, which in some cases could be significant. The Market Risk Amendment and Basel 3 Advanced Approach, if adopted as proposed, are expected to substantially increase our capital requirements.

Portions of the Basel 3 Advanced Approach are proposed to be effective on specific dates from January 1, 2013 through January 1, 2018, based on specific transition provisions in the rules. Under the Basel 3 Advanced Approach, Trust Securities will no longer be included in Tier 1 capital on a transition basis from a 25 percent exclusion starting on January 1, 2013, to full exclusion on January 1, 2016 and thereafter. The Basel 3 NPRs also propose material changes to the deduction of certain assets from capital, new minimum capital ratios and buffer requirements, significant changes to the calculation of credit and counterparty credit risk and utilization of a Standardized Approach, as defined, in lieu of Basel 1 that provides a floor to the calculation of risk-weighted assets. Many of the changes to capital deductions are subject to a transition period where the impact is recognized in 20 percent increments beginning on January 1, 2014 through January 1, 2018. The majority of the other aspects of the Basel 3 Advanced Approach are proposed to become effective on January 1, 2013. The phase-in period for the new minimum capital requirements and related buffers is proposed to occur between 2013 and 2019.

Based on Basel 2, the final Market Risk Amendment and our current understanding of the Basel 3 Advanced Approach issued by U.S. regulatory agencies, we estimated our Basel 3 Advanced Approach Tier 1 common capital ratio, on a fully phased-in basis, to be 8.97 percent at September 30, 2012. As of September 30, 2012, we estimated that our Tier 1 common capital would be $135 billion and total risk-weighted assets would be $1,501 billion, also on a fully phased-in basis. This assumes the approval by U.S. banking regulators of our internal analytical models, excluding the removal of the surcharge applicable to the Comprehensive Risk Model (CRM). The CRM is used to determine the risk-weighted assets for correlation trading positions. Under the Basel 3 NPRs, Tier 1 common capital includes components that exhibit heightened sensitivity to changes in interest rates, such as the cumulative change in the fair value of AFS debt securities and at least 10 percent of the fair value of MSRs recognized on the Corporation's Consolidated Balance Sheet. As a result, our estimates of total risk-weighted assets under the Basel 3 Advanced Approach are sensitive to interest rate and credit quality volatility.

Important differences between Basel 1 and Basel 3 include capital deductions related to our MSRs, deferred tax assets and defined benefit pension assets, and the inclusion of unrealized gains and losses on debt and equity securities recognized in accumulated OCI, each of which will be impacted by future changes in both interest rates as well as overall earnings performance. Our estimates under the Basel 3 Advanced Approach will be refined over time as our businesses change, as we continue to refine our models, as our and the industry's understanding and interpretation of the rules evolve, and as a result of further rulemaking or clarification by U.S. regulating agencies. Preparing for the implementation of the new capital rules is a top strategic priority, and we expect to comply with the final rules when issued and effective. We intend to continue to build capital through retaining earnings, actively managing our portfolios and implementing other capital related initiatives, including focusing on reducing both higher risk-weighted assets and assets proposed to be deducted from capital under the Basel 3 Advanced Approach.


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Basel 3 regulatory capital metrics are non-GAAP measures until they are fully adopted and required by U.S. regulatory agencies. Table 19 presents a reconciliation of our Basel 1 Tier 1 common capital and risk-weighted assets to our Basel 3 estimates at September 30, 2012, assuming fully phased-in measures according to the Basel 3 Advanced Approach.

Table 19
Basel 1 to Basel 3 Reconciliation
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
Regulatory capital – Basel 1 to Basel 3 (fully phased-in)
Basel 1 Tier 1 capital
$
163,063

Deduction of preferred stock, non-qualifying preferred stock and minority interest in equity accounts of consolidated subsidiaries
(26,657
)
Basel 1 Tier 1 common capital
136,406

Deduction of defined benefit pension assets
(1,709
)
Change in deferred tax asset and other threshold deductions (MSRs and significant investments)
(1,102
)
Change in all other deductions, net
1,040

Basel 3 (fully phased-in) Tier 1 common capital
$
134,635

 
 
Risk-weighted assets – Basel 1 to Basel 3 (fully phased-in)
 
Basel 1
$
1,195,720

Net change in credit and other risk-weighted assets
216,246

Increase due to market risk amendment
88,881

Basel 3 (fully phased-in)
$
1,500,847

 
 
Tier 1 common capital ratios
 
Basel 1
11.41
%
Basel 3 (fully phased-in)
8.97


Additionally, capital requirements for global, systemically important financial institutions, including the methodology for measuring systemic importance, the additional capital required (the SIFI buffer), and the arrangements by which they will be phased in were proposed by the Basel Committee in 2011. As proposed, the SIFI buffer would increase minimum capital requirements for Tier 1 common capital from one percent to 2.5 percent, and in certain circumstances, 3.5 percent. This is proposed to be phased in from 2016 through 2018. U.S. banking regulators have not yet provided similar rules for the U.S. implementation of a SIFI buffer.

On December 20, 2011, the Federal Reserve issued proposed rules to implement enhanced supervisory and prudential requirements and the early remediation requirements established under the Financial Reform Act. The enhanced standards include risk-based capital and leverage requirements, liquidity standards, requirements for overall risk management, single-counterparty credit limits, stress test requirements and a debt-to-equity limit for certain companies determined to pose a threat to financial stability. The final rules are likely to influence our regulatory capital and liquidity planning process, and may impose additional operational and compliance costs on us.

For additional information regarding Basel 2, the Market Risk Amendment, Basel 3 and other proposed regulatory capital changes, see Note 18 – Regulatory Requirements and Restrictions to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Bank of America, N.A. and FIA Card Services, N.A. Regulatory Capital

Table 20 presents regulatory capital information for BANA and FIA at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 20
Bank of America, N.A. and FIA Card Services, N.A. Regulatory Capital
 
September 30, 2012
 
December 31, 2011
 
Actual
 
 
 
Actual
 
 
(Dollars in millions)
Ratio
 
Amount
 
Minimum
Required (1)
 
Ratio
 
Amount
 
Minimum
Required (1)
Tier 1 capital ratio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.
12.78
%
 
$
119,507

 
$
56,123

 
11.74
%
 
$
119,881

 
$
61,245

FIA Card Services, N.A.
16.41

 
21,244

 
7,769

 
17.63

 
24,660

 
8,393

Total capital ratio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.
15.18

 
141,973

 
93,538

 
15.17

 
154,885

 
102,076

FIA Card Services, N.A.
17.70

 
22,924

 
12,948

 
19.01

 
26,594

 
13,989

Tier 1 leverage ratio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bank of America, N.A.
8.76

 
119,507

 
68,213

 
8.65

 
119,881

 
69,318

FIA Card Services, N.A.
13.47

 
21,244

 
7,885

 
14.22

 
24,660

 
8,669

(1) 
Dollar amount required to meet guidelines for well capitalized institutions.

BANA's Tier 1 capital ratio increased 104 bps to 12.78 percent and the Total capital ratio increased one bp to 15.18 percent at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The Tier 1 leverage ratio increased 11 bps to 8.76 percent at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The increase in the Tier 1 capital ratio was driven by a decrease in risk-weighted assets of $85.4 billion compared to December 31, 2011 and earnings eligible to be included in capital of $3.0 billion and $9.9 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. The increase in the Total capital ratio was driven by the same factor as discussed for the Tier 1 capital ratio above, largely offset by repurchases of subordinated debt of $2.9 billion and $10.1 billion in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. The increase in the Tier 1 leverage ratio was driven by a decrease in adjusted quarterly average total assets of $22.1 billion, partially offset by a decrease in Tier 1 capital.

FIA's Tier 1 capital ratio decreased 122 bps to 16.41 percent and the Total capital ratio decreased 131 bps to 17.70 percent at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The Tier 1 leverage ratio decreased 75 bps to 13.47 percent at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. The decrease in the Tier 1 capital and Total capital ratios was driven by returns of capital of $600 million and $6.6 billion to Bank of America Corporation during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, partially offset by earnings eligible to be included in capital of $1.0 billion and $3.0 billion. The decrease in the Tier 1 leverage ratio was driven by the decrease in Tier 1 capital, partially offset by a decrease in adjusted quarterly average total assets of $15.7 billion.

Broker/Dealer Regulatory Capital

The Corporation’s principal U.S. broker/dealer subsidiaries are Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith (MLPF&S) and Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp (MLPCC). MLPCC is a fully-guaranteed subsidiary of MLPF&S that provides clearing and settlement services. Both entities are subject to the net capital requirements of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 15c3-1. Both entities are also registered as futures commission merchants and are subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Regulation 1.17.

MLPF&S has elected to compute the minimum capital requirement in accordance with the Alternative Net Capital Requirement as permitted by SEC Rule 15c3-1. At September 30, 2012, MLPF&S’s regulatory net capital as defined by Rule 15c3-1 was $10.6 billion and exceeded the minimum requirement of $738 million by $9.9 billion. MLPCC’s net capital of $1.7 billion exceeded the minimum requirement of $264 million by $1.4 billion.

In accordance with the Alternative Net Capital Requirements, MLPF&S is required to maintain tentative net capital in excess of $1.0 billion, net capital in excess of $500 million and notify the SEC in the event its tentative net capital is less than $5.0 billion. At September 30, 2012, MLPF&S had tentative net capital and net capital in excess of the minimum and notification requirements.


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Economic Capital

Our economic capital measurement process provides a risk-based measurement of the capital required for unexpected credit, market and operational losses over a one-year time horizon at a 99.97 percent confidence level. Economic capital is allocated to each business unit, and is used for capital adequacy, performance measurement and risk management purposes. The strategic planning process utilizes economic capital with the goal of allocating risk appropriately and measuring returns consistently across all businesses and activities. Economic capital allocation plans are incorporated into the Corporation’s financial plan which is approved by the Board on an annual basis. For additional information regarding economic capital, credit risk capital, market risk capital and operational risk capital, see page 52 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Common Stock Dividends

Table 21 is a summary of our declared quarterly cash dividends on common stock during 2012 and through November 2, 2012.

Table 21
 
 
Common Stock Cash Dividend Summary
 
 
Declaration Date
Record Date
Payment Date
Dividend Per Share
October 24, 2012
December 7, 2012
December 28, 2012
 
$
0.01

 
July 11, 2012
September 7, 2012
September 28, 2012
 
0.01

 
April 11, 2012
June 1, 2012
June 22, 2012
 
0.01

 
January 11, 2012
March 2, 2012
March 23, 2012
 
0.01

 


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Preferred Stock Dividends

Table 22 is a summary of our cash dividend declarations on preferred stock during the third quarter of 2012 and through November 2, 2012. For additional information on preferred stock, see Note 15 – Shareholders' Equity to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Table 22
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Preferred Stock Cash Dividend Summary
Preferred Stock
Outstanding
Notional
Amount
(in millions)
 
Declaration Date
 
Record Date
 
Payment Date
 
Per Annum
Dividend Rate
 
Dividend Per
Share
Series B (1)
$
1

 
July 11, 2012
 
October 11, 2012
 
October 25, 2012
 
7.00
%
 
$
1.75


 
 
October 24, 2012
 
January 11, 2013
 
January 25, 2013
 
7.00

 
1.75

Series D (2)
$
654

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 31, 2012
 
September 14, 2012
 
6.204
%
 
$
0.38775

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 30, 2012
 
December 14, 2012
 
6.204

 
0.38775

Series E (2)
$
317

 
July 3, 2012
 
July 31, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
0.25556

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
October 31, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
Floating

 
0.25556

Series F
$
141

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 31, 2012
 
September 17, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
1,022.22

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 30, 2012
 
December 17, 2012
 
Floating

 
1,011.11

Series G
$
493

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 31, 2012
 
September 17, 2012
 
Adjustable

 
$
1,022.22

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 30, 2012
 
December 17, 2012
 
Adjustable

 
1,011.11

Series H (2)
$
2,862

 
July 3, 2012
 
July 15, 2012
 
August 1, 2012
 
8.20
%
 
$
0.51250

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
October 15, 2012
 
November 1, 2012
 
8.20

 
0.51250

Series I (2)
$
365

 
July 3, 2012
 
September 15, 2012
 
October 1, 2012
 
6.625
%
 
$
0.41406

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
December 15, 2012
 
January 2, 2013
 
6.625

 
0.41406

Series J (2)
$
951

 
July 3, 2012
 
July 15, 2012
 
August 1, 2012
 
7.25
%
 
$
0.45312

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
October 15, 2012
 
November 1, 2012
 
7.25

 
0.45312

Series K (3, 4)
$
1,544

 
July 3, 2012
 
July 15, 2012
 
July 30, 2012
 
Fixed-to-Floating

 
$
40.00

Series L
$
3,080

 
September 17, 2012
 
October 1, 2012
 
October 30, 2012
 
7.25
%
 
$
18.125

Series M (3, 4)
$
1,310

 
October 1, 2012
 
October 31, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
Fixed-to-Floating

 
$
40.625

Series T (1)
$
5,000

 
September 17, 2012
 
September 24, 2012
 
October 10, 2012
 
6.00
%
 
$
1,500.00

Series 1 (5)
$
98

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
August 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
0.18750

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
November 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
0.18750

Series 2 (5)
$
299

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
August 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
0.19167

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
November 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
0.19167

Series 3 (5)
$
653

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
August 28, 2012
 
6.375
%
 
$
0.39843

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
November 28, 2012
 
6.375

 
0.39843

Series 4 (5)
$
210

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
August 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
0.25556

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
November 28, 2012
 
Floating

 
0.25556

Series 5 (5)
$
422

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 1, 2012
 
August 21, 2012
 
Floating

 
$
0.25556

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 1, 2012
 
November 21, 2012
 
Floating

 
0.25556

Series 6 (6)
$
59

 
July 3, 2012
 
September 14, 2012
 
September 28, 2012
 
6.70
%
 
$
0.41875

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
December 14, 2012
 
December 28, 2012
 
6.70

 
0.41875

Series 7 (6)
$
17

 
July 3, 2012
 
September 14, 2012
 
September 28, 2012
 
6.25
%
 
$
0.39062

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
December 14, 2012
 
December 28, 2012
 
6.25

 
0.39062

Series 8 (5)
$
2,673

 
July 3, 2012
 
August 15, 2012
 
August 28, 2012
 
8.625
%
 
$
0.53906

 
 
 
October 1, 2012
 
November 15, 2012
 
November 28, 2012
 
8.625

 
0.53906

(1) 
Dividends are cumulative.
(2) 
Dividends per depositary share, each representing a 1/1,000th interest in a share of preferred stock.
(3) 
Initially pays dividends semi-annually.
(4) 
Dividends per depositary share, each representing a 1/25th interest in a share of preferred stock.
(5) 
Dividends per depositary share, each representing a 1/1,200th interest in a share of preferred stock.
(6) 
Dividends per depositary share, each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of preferred stock.

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Enterprise-wide Stress Testing

As a part of our core risk management practices, we conduct enterprise-wide stress tests on a periodic basis to better understand balance sheet, earnings, capital and liquidity sensitivities to certain economic and business scenarios, including economic and market conditions that are more severe than anticipated. These enterprise-wide stress tests provide an understanding of the potential impacts from our risk profile on our balance sheet, earnings, capital and liquidity and serve as a key component of our capital, liquidity and risk management practices. Scenarios are selected by a group comprised of senior business, risk and finance executives. Impacts to each business from each scenario are then determined and analyzed, primarily by leveraging the models and processes utilized in everyday management routines. Impacts are assessed along with potential mitigating actions that may be taken. Analysis from such stress scenarios is compiled for and reviewed through our Chief Financial Officer Risk Committee (CFORC), Asset Liability and Market Risk Committee (ALMRC) and the Board’s Enterprise Risk Committee (ERC) and serves to inform decision making by management and the Board.

Liquidity Risk
 
Funding and Liquidity Risk Management

We define liquidity risk as the potential inability to meet our contractual and contingent financial obligations, on- or off-balance sheet, as they come due. Our primary liquidity objective is to provide adequate funding for our businesses throughout market cycles, including periods of financial stress. To achieve that objective, we analyze and monitor our liquidity risk, maintain excess liquidity and access diverse funding sources including our stable deposit base. We define excess liquidity as readily available assets, limited to cash and high-quality, liquid, unencumbered securities that we can use to meet our funding requirements as those obligations arise.

Global funding and liquidity risk management activities are centralized within Corporate Treasury. We believe that a centralized approach to funding and liquidity risk management enhances our ability to monitor liquidity requirements, maximizes access to funding sources, minimizes borrowing costs and facilitates timely responses to liquidity events. For additional information regarding global funding and liquidity risk management, see Funding and Liquidity Risk Management on page 53 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Global Excess Liquidity Sources and Other Unencumbered Assets

We maintain excess liquidity available to Bank of America Corporation, or the parent company, and selected subsidiaries in the form of cash and high-quality, liquid, unencumbered securities. These assets, which we call our Global Excess Liquidity Sources, serve as our primary means of liquidity risk mitigation. Our cash is primarily on deposit with the Federal Reserve and central banks outside of the U.S. We limit the composition of high-quality, liquid, unencumbered securities to U.S. government securities, U.S. agency securities, U.S. agency MBS and a select group of non-U.S. government and supranational securities. We believe we can quickly obtain cash for these securities, even in stressed market conditions, through repurchase agreements or outright sales. We hold our Global Excess Liquidity Sources in entities that allow us to meet the liquidity requirements of our global businesses, and we consider the impact of potential regulatory, tax, legal and other restrictions that could limit the transferability of funds among entities.

Our Global Excess Liquidity Sources were $380 billion and $378 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011 and were maintained as presented in Table 23.

Table 23
Global Excess Liquidity Sources
(Dollars in billions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
Average for Three Months Ended
September 30, 2012
Parent company
$
102

 
$
125

 
$
103

Bank subsidiaries
254

 
222

 
257

Broker/dealers
24

 
31

 
27

Total global excess liquidity sources
$
380

 
$
378

 
$
387


As shown in Table 23, parent company Global Excess Liquidity Sources totaled $102 billion and $125 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. The decrease in parent company liquidity was primarily due to long-term debt maturities, partially offset by dividends and capital repayments from subsidiaries. Typically, parent company cash is deposited overnight with BANA.


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Global Excess Liquidity Sources available to our bank subsidiaries totaled $254 billion and $222 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. The increase in liquidity available to our bank subsidiaries was primarily due to a reduction in loan balances and an increase in deposits. These amounts are distinct from the cash deposited by the parent company presented in Table 23. In addition to their Global Excess Liquidity Sources, our bank subsidiaries hold other unencumbered investment-grade securities that we believe could also be used to generate liquidity. Our bank subsidiaries can also generate incremental liquidity by pledging a range of other unencumbered loans and securities to certain Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs) and the Federal Reserve Discount Window. The cash we could have obtained by borrowing against this pool of specifically-identified eligible assets was approximately $212 billion and $189 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. We have established operational procedures to enable us to borrow against these assets, including regularly monitoring our total pool of eligible loans and securities collateral. Due to regulatory restrictions, liquidity generated by the bank subsidiaries can only be used to fund obligations within the bank subsidiaries and can only be transferred to the parent company or nonbank subsidiaries with prior regulatory approval.

Global Excess Liquidity Sources available to our broker/dealer subsidiaries totaled $24 billion and $31 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. Our broker/dealers also held other unencumbered investment-grade securities and equities that we believe could also be used to generate additional liquidity. Liquidity held in a broker/dealer subsidiary is available to meet the obligations of that entity and can only be transferred to the parent company or to any other subsidiary with prior regulatory approval due to regulatory restrictions and minimum requirements.

Table 24 presents the composition of Global Excess Liquidity Sources at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 24
Global Excess Liquidity Sources Composition
(Dollars in billions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Cash on deposit
$
59

 
$
79

U.S. treasuries
23

 
48

U.S. agency securities and mortgage-backed securities
281

 
228

Non-U.S. government and supranational securities
17

 
23

Total global excess liquidity sources
$
380

 
$
378


Time to Required Funding and Stress Modeling

We use a variety of metrics to determine the appropriate amounts of excess liquidity to maintain at the parent company and our bank and broker/dealer subsidiaries. One metric we use to evaluate the appropriate level of excess liquidity at the parent company is “Time to Required Funding.” This debt coverage measure indicates the number of months that the parent company can continue to meet its unsecured contractual obligations as they come due using only its Global Excess Liquidity Sources without issuing any new debt or accessing any additional liquidity sources. We define unsecured contractual obligations for purposes of this metric as maturities of senior or subordinated debt issued or guaranteed by Bank of America Corporation or Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (Merrill Lynch). These include certain unsecured debt instruments, primarily structured liabilities, which we may be required to settle for cash prior to maturity. The Corporation has established a target minimum for Time to Required Funding of 21 months. Our Time to Required Funding was 35 months at September 30, 2012. For purposes of calculating Time to Required Funding at September 30, 2012, we have also included in the amount of unsecured contractual obligations the $8.6 billion liability related to the BNY Mellon Settlement and the $2.4 billion liability related to the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement. The Time to Required Funding at September 30, 2012 does not include the $5.0 billion carrying value of redemptions of trust preferred securities announced on October 4, 2012. The BNY Mellon Settlement and the Merrill Lynch Class Action Settlement are subject to final court approval and certain other conditions, and the timing of payment is not certain.

We utilize liquidity stress models to assist us in determining the appropriate amounts of excess liquidity to maintain at the parent company and our bank and broker/dealer subsidiaries. These models are risk sensitive and have become increasingly important in analyzing our potential contractual and contingent cash outflows beyond those outflows considered in the Time to Required Funding analysis. We evaluate the liquidity requirements under a range of scenarios with varying levels of severity and time horizons. The scenarios we consider and utilize incorporate market-wide and Corporation-specific events, including potential credit rating downgrades for the parent company and our subsidiaries, and are based on historical experience, regulatory guidance, and both expected and unexpected future events.


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The types of potential contractual and contingent cash outflows we consider in our scenarios may include, but are not limited to, upcoming contractual maturities of unsecured debt and reductions in new debt issuance; diminished access to secured financing markets; potential deposit withdrawals and reduced rollover of maturing term deposits by customers; increased draws on loan commitments, liquidity facilities and letters of credit, including Variable Rate Demand Notes; additional collateral that counterparties could call if our credit ratings were downgraded further; collateral, margin and subsidiary capital requirements arising from losses; and potential liquidity required to maintain businesses and finance customer activities. Changes in certain market factors, including but not limited to credit rating downgrades, could negatively impact potential contractual and contingent outflows and the related financial instruments, and in some cases these impacts could be material to our financial results.

For additional information on Time to Required Funding and liquidity stress modeling, see page 54 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Basel 3 Liquidity Standards

In December 2010, the Basel Committee proposed two measures of liquidity risk which are considered part of Basel 3. The first proposed liquidity measure is the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which is calculated as the amount of a financial institution’s unencumbered, high-quality, liquid assets relative to the net cash outflows the institution could encounter under an acute 30-day stress scenario. The second proposed liquidity measure is the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR), which measures the amount of longer-term, stable sources of funding employed by a financial institution relative to the liquidity profiles of the assets funded and the potential for contingent calls on funding liquidity arising from off-balance sheet commitments and obligations over a one-year period. The Basel Committee expects the LCR requirement to be implemented in January 2015 and the NSFR requirement to be implemented in January 2018, following an observation period that began in 2011. We continue to monitor the development and the potential impact of these proposals, and assuming adoption by U.S. banking regulators, we expect to meet the final standards within the regulatory timelines.

Diversified Funding Sources

We fund our assets primarily with a mix of deposits and secured and unsecured liabilities through a globally coordinated funding strategy. We diversify our funding globally across products, programs, markets, currencies and investor groups.

We fund a substantial portion of our lending activities through our deposits, which were $1.06 trillion and $1.03 trillion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. Deposits are primarily generated by our CBB, GWIM and Global Banking segments. These deposits are diversified by clients, product type and geography, and the majority of our U.S. deposits are insured by the FDIC. We consider a substantial portion of our deposits to be a stable, low-cost and consistent source of funding. We believe this deposit funding is generally less sensitive to interest rate changes, market volatility or changes in our credit ratings than wholesale funding sources. Our lending activities may also be financed through secured borrowings, including securitizations with GSEs, the FHA and private-label investors, as well as FHLB loans.

Our trading activities in broker/dealer subsidiaries are primarily funded on a secured basis through securities lending and repurchase agreements and these amounts will vary based on customer activity and market conditions. We believe funding these activities in the secured financing markets is more cost efficient and less sensitive to changes in our credit ratings than unsecured financing. Repurchase agreements are generally short-term and often overnight. Disruptions in secured financing markets for financial institutions have occurred in prior market cycles which resulted in adverse changes in terms or significant reductions in the availability of such financing. We manage the liquidity risks arising from secured funding by sourcing funding globally from a diverse group of counterparties, providing a range of securities collateral and pursuing longer durations, when appropriate.

We reduced unsecured short-term borrowings at the parent company and broker/dealer subsidiaries, including commercial paper and master notes, to relatively insignificant amounts during the third quarter of 2011. For average and period-end balance discussions, see Balance Sheet Overview on page 15. For more information, see Note 12 – Federal Funds Sold, Securities Borrowed or Purchased Under Agreements to Resell and Short-term Borrowings to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Table 25 presents information on short-term borrowings.

Table 25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Short-term Borrowings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three Months Ended September 30
 
Nine Months Ended September 30
 
Amount
 
Rate
 
Amount
 
Rate
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
 
2012
 
2011
Average during period
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Federal funds purchased
$
211

 
$
1,495

 
0.05
%
 
0.05
 %
 
$
229

 
$
2,072

 
0.05
%
 
0.08
%
Securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase
286,931

 
260,334

 
0.95

 
1.39

 
274,166

 
279,403

 
1.04

 
1.35

Commercial paper (1)
10

 
2,653

 
0.15

 
(2.27
)
 
8

 
11,704

 
1.69

 
0.51

Other short-term borrowings
37,871

 
38,752

 
2.16

 
2.62

 
37,973

 
44,404

 
2.07

 
2.43

Total
$
325,023

 
$
303,234

 
1.09

 
1.51

 
$
312,376

 
$
337,583

 
1.16

 
1.46

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maximum month-end balance during period
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Federal funds purchased
$
207

 
$
1,382

 
 
 
 
 
$
331

 
$
4,133

 
 
 
 
Securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase
291,093

 
258,286

 
 
 
 
 
291,093

 
293,519

 
 
 
 
Commercial paper

 
5,836

 
 
 
 
 
172

 
21,212

 
 
 
 
Other short-term borrowings
40,129

 
38,992

 
 
 
 
 
40,129

 
47,087

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September 30, 2012
 
 
 
December 31, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
Amount
 
Rate
 
 
 
 
 
Amount
 
Rate
 
 
 
 
Period-end balance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Federal funds purchased
$
198

 
0.05
%
 
 
 
 
 
$
243

 
0.06
%
 
 
 
 
Securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase
273,702

 
1.01

 
 
 
 
 
214,621

 
1.08

 
 
 
 
Commercial paper

 

 
 
 
 
 
23

 
1.70

 
 
 
 
Other short-term borrowings
35,291

 
2.71

 
 
 
 
 
35,675

 
2.35

 
 
 
 
Total
$
309,191

 
1.17

 
 
 
 
 
$
250,562

 
1.36

 
 
 
 
(1) 
The interest rate for commercial paper for the three months ended September 30, 2011 included gains of $38 million reclassified from accumulated OCI to net interest income related to discontinuing certain cash flow hedges because it was no longer probable that the original forecasted transaction would occur.

We issue the majority of our long-term unsecured debt at the parent company. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, the parent company issued $2.5 billion and $13.3 billion of long-term unsecured debt, including structured liabilities of $2.0 billion and $7.0 billion. We may also issue long-term unsecured debt at BANA in a variety of maturities and currencies to achieve cost-efficient funding and to maintain an appropriate maturity profile, although there were no new issuances during the nine months ended September 30, 2012. While the cost and availability of unsecured funding may be negatively impacted by general market conditions or by matters specific to the financial services industry or the Corporation, we seek to mitigate refinancing risk by actively managing the amount of our borrowings that we anticipate will mature within any month or quarter.

The primary benefits expected from our centralized funding strategy include greater control, reduced funding costs, wider name recognition by investors and greater flexibility to meet the variable funding requirements of subsidiaries. Where regulations, time zone differences or other business considerations make parent company funding impractical, certain other subsidiaries may issue their own debt.

We use derivative transactions to manage the duration, interest rate and currency risks of our borrowings, considering the characteristics of the assets they are funding. For further details on our ALM activities, see Interest Rate Risk Management for Nontrading Activities on page 139.


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We also diversify our unsecured funding sources by issuing various types of debt instruments including structured liabilities, which are debt obligations that pay investors returns linked to other debt or equity securities, indices, currencies or commodities. We typically hedge the returns we are obligated to pay on these liabilities with derivative positions and/or investments in the underlying instruments, so that from a funding perspective, the cost is similar to our other unsecured long-term debt. We could be required to settle certain structured liability obligations for cash or other securities prior to maturity under certain circumstances, which we consider for liquidity planning purposes. We believe, however, that a portion of such borrowings will remain outstanding beyond the earliest put or redemption date. We had outstanding structured liabilities with a carrying value of $52.5 billion and $50.9 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Substantially all of our senior and subordinated debt obligations contain no provisions that could trigger a requirement for an early repayment, require additional collateral support, result in changes to terms, accelerate maturity or create additional financial obligations upon an adverse change in our credit ratings, financial ratios, earnings, cash flows or stock price.

Prior to 2010, we participated in the FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, which allowed us to issue senior unsecured debt guaranteed by the FDIC in return for a fee based on the amount and maturity of the debt. At September 30, 2012, there were no outstanding borrowings under the program.

Table 26 presents the carrying value of aggregate annual maturities of long-term debt at September 30, 2012 and includes the carrying value of the trust preferred securities that will be redeemed, as previously announced on October 4, 2012. These trust preferred securities that will be redeemed are reflected in the "Thereafter" column in Table 26 as the table is based on contractual maturity. For additional information, see Recent Events – Capital and Liquidity Related Matters on page 7.

Table 26
Long-term Debt By Maturity
(Dollars in millions)
2012
 
2013
 
2014
 
2015
 
2016
 
Thereafter
 
Total
Bank of America Corporation
$
1,350

 
$
11,568

 
$
20,201

 
$
15,227

 
$
20,474

 
$
69,054

 
$
137,874

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and subsidiaries
6,034

 
18,152

 
18,252

 
5,050

 
3,663

 
38,777

 
89,928

Bank of America, N.A. and subsidiaries

 
58

 
16

 

 
1,098

 
8,336

 
9,508

Other debt
2,762

 
4,862

 
1,610

 
266

 
75

 
1,594

 
11,169

Total long-term debt excluding consolidated VIEs
10,146

 
34,640

 
40,079

 
20,543

 
25,310

 
117,761

 
248,479

Long-term debt of consolidated VIEs
1,998

 
13,941

 
8,922

 
1,504

 
2,386

 
9,304

 
38,055

Total long-term debt
$
12,144

 
$
48,581

 
$
49,001

 
$
22,047

 
$
27,696

 
$
127,065

 
$
286,534


Table 27 presents our long-term debt in the following currencies at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.

Table 27
Long-term Debt By Major Currency
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
U.S. Dollar
$
190,421

 
$
255,262

Euro
58,269

 
68,799

Japanese Yen
14,262

 
19,568

British Pound
10,987

 
12,554

Canadian Dollar
3,643

 
4,621

Australian Dollar
2,797

 
4,900

Swiss Franc
1,885

 
2,268

Other
4,270

 
4,293

Total long-term debt
$
286,534

 
$
372,265



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Total long-term debt decreased $85.7 billion, or 23 percent, at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011, primarily driven by maturities and liability management. This reflects our ongoing initiative to reduce our debt balances over time and we anticipate that debt levels will continue to decline, from both maturities and liability management, as appropriate through 2013. We may, from time to time, purchase outstanding debt securities in various transactions, depending on prevailing market conditions, liquidity and other factors. In addition, our broker/dealer subsidiaries may make markets in our debt instruments to provide liquidity for investors. For additional information on long-term debt funding, see Note 13 – Long-term Debt to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K and for additional information regarding funding and liquidity risk management, see pages 53 through 57 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Contingency Planning

We maintain contingency funding plans that outline our potential responses to liquidity stress events at various levels of severity. These policies and plans are based on stress scenarios and include potential funding strategies and communication and notification procedures that we would implement in the event we experienced stressed liquidity conditions. We periodically review and test the contingency funding plans to validate efficacy and assess readiness.

Our U.S. bank subsidiaries can access contingency funding through the Federal Reserve Discount Window. Certain non-U.S. subsidiaries have access to central bank facilities in the jurisdictions in which they operate. While we do not rely on these sources in our liquidity modeling, we maintain the policies, procedures and governance processes that would enable us to access these sources if necessary.

Credit Ratings

Our borrowing costs and ability to raise funds are impacted by our credit ratings. In addition, credit ratings may be important to customers or counterparties when we compete in certain markets and when we seek to engage in certain transactions, including over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Thus, it is our objective to maintain high-quality credit ratings.

Credit ratings and outlooks are opinions on our creditworthiness and that of our obligations or securities, including long-term debt, short-term borrowings, preferred stock and other securities, including asset securitizations. Our credit ratings are subject to ongoing review by the rating agencies which consider a number of factors, including our own financial strength, performance, prospects and operations as well as factors not under our control. The rating agencies could make adjustments to our ratings at any time and they provide no assurances that they will maintain our ratings at current levels.

Other factors that influence our credit ratings include changes to the rating agencies’ methodologies for our industry or certain security types, the rating agencies’ assessment of the general operating environment for financial services companies, our mortgage exposures, our relative positions in the markets in which we compete, reputation, liquidity position, diversity of funding sources, funding costs, the level and volatility of earnings, corporate governance and risk management policies, capital position, capital management practices, and current or future regulatory and legislative initiatives.

On October 10, 2012, Fitch Ratings (Fitch) announced the results of its periodic review of its ratings for 12 large, complex securities trading and universal banks, including Bank of America. As part of this action, Fitch affirmed the Corporation's credit ratings. On June 21, 2012, Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (Moody's) completed its previously-announced review for possible downgrade of financial institutions with global capital markets operations, downgrading the ratings of 15 banks and securities firms, including our ratings. The Corporation's long-term debt rating and BANA's long-term and short-term debt ratings were downgraded one notch as part of this action. The Moody's downgrade has not had a material impact on our financial condition, results of operations or liquidity. Each of the three major rating agencies, Moody's, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) and Fitch, downgraded the ratings for the Corporation and its rated subsidiaries in late 2011.

Currently, the Corporation’s long-term/short-term senior debt ratings and outlooks expressed by the rating agencies are as follows: Baa2/P-2 (negative) by Moody’s, A-/A-2 (negative) by S&P, and A/F1 (stable) by Fitch. BANA’s long-term/short-term senior debt ratings and outlooks currently are as follows: A3/P-2 (stable) by Moody’s, A/A-1 (negative) by S&P, and A/F1 (stable) by Fitch. The credit ratings of Merrill Lynch from the three major credit rating agencies are the same as those of Bank of America Corporation. The major credit rating agencies have indicated that the primary drivers of Merrill Lynch’s credit ratings are Bank of America Corporation’s credit ratings. MLPF&S’s long-term/short-term senior debt ratings and outlooks are A/A-1 (negative) by S&P and A/F1 (stable) by Fitch. Merrill Lynch International’s long-term/short-term senior debt ratings are A/A-1 (negative) by S&P.

The major rating agencies have each indicated that, as a systemically important financial institution, our credit ratings currently reflect their expectation that, if necessary, we would receive significant support from the U.S. government, and that they will continue to assess such support in the context of sovereign financial strength and regulatory and legislative developments. For additional information, see Liquidity Risk – Credit Ratings on page 56 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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A further reduction in certain of our credit ratings or the ratings of certain asset-backed securitizations may have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, potential loss of access to credit markets, the related cost of funds, our businesses and on certain trading revenues, particularly in those businesses where counterparty creditworthiness is critical. In addition, under the terms of certain OTC derivative contracts and other trading agreements, in the event of further downgrades of our or our rated subsidiaries' credit ratings, the counterparties to those agreements may require us to provide additional collateral, or to terminate these contracts or agreements, which could cause us to sustain losses and/or adversely impact our liquidity. If the short-term credit ratings of our parent company, bank or broker/dealer subsidiaries were downgraded by one or more levels, the potential loss of access to short-term funding sources such as repo financing, and the effect on our incremental cost of funds could be material.

At September 30, 2012, if the rating agencies had downgraded their long-term senior debt ratings for the Corporation or certain subsidiaries by one incremental notch, the amount of additional collateral contractually required by derivative contracts and other trading agreements would have been approximately $2.9 billion comprised of $2.3 billion for BANA and $538 million for Merrill Lynch and certain of its subsidiaries. If the agencies had downgraded their long-term senior debt ratings for these entities by a second incremental notch, approximately $4.3 billion in additional collateral comprised of $331 million for BANA and $4.0 billion for Merrill Lynch and certain of its subsidiaries, would have been required.

Also, if the rating agencies had downgraded their long-term senior debt ratings for the Corporation or certain subsidiaries by one incremental notch, the derivative liability that would be subject to unilateral termination by counterparties as of September 30, 2012 was $4.5 billion, against which $3.8 billion of collateral had been posted. If the rating agencies had downgraded their long-term senior debt ratings for the Corporation and certain subsidiaries by a second incremental notch, the derivative liability that would be subject to unilateral termination by counterparties as of September 30, 2012 was an incremental $1.9 billion, against which $1.2 billion of collateral had been posted.

While certain potential impacts are contractual and quantifiable, the full scope of consequences of a credit ratings downgrade to a financial institution is inherently uncertain, as it depends upon numerous dynamic, complex and inter-related factors and assumptions, including whether any downgrade of a firm’s long-term credit ratings precipitates downgrades to its short-term credit ratings, and assumptions about the potential behaviors of various customers, investors and counterparties. For additional information on potential impacts of credit rating downgrades, see Time to Required Funding and Stress Modeling on page 79.

For information regarding the additional collateral and termination payments that could be required in connection with certain OTC derivative contracts and other trading agreements as a result of such a credit rating downgrade, see Note 3 – Derivatives to the Consolidated Financial Statements and Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

On June 8, 2012, S&P affirmed its 'AA+' long-term and 'A-1+' short-term sovereign credit rating on the U.S. The outlook remains negative. On July 10, 2012, Fitch affirmed its 'AAA' long-term and 'F1+' short-term sovereign credit rating on the U.S. The outlook remains negative. All three rating agencies have indicated that they will continue to assess fiscal projections and consolidation measures, as well as the medium-term economic outlook for the U.S. For additional information, see Liquidity Risk – Credit Ratings on page 56 of the MD&A of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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Credit Risk Management

Credit quality continued to show improvement during the third quarter of 2012. Our proactive credit risk management initiatives positively impacted the credit portfolio as charge-offs and delinquencies continued to improve across most portfolios and risk ratings improved in the commercial portfolios. For more information, see Executive Summary – Third Quarter 2012 Economic and Business Environment on page 7.

We proactively refine our underwriting and credit management practices as well as credit standards to meet the changing economic environment. To actively mitigate losses and enhance customer support in our consumer businesses, we have in place collection programs and loan modification and customer assistance infrastructures. We utilize a number of actions to mitigate losses in the commercial businesses including increasing the frequency and intensity of portfolio monitoring, hedging activity and our practice of transferring management of deteriorating commercial exposures to independent special asset officers as credits enter criticized categories.

During 2012, new regulatory guidance issued regarding the treatment of loans discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy and regulatory interagency guidance issued on junior-lien consumer real estate loans as well as the impact of the National Mortgage Settlement adversely impacted the consumer portfolio's nonperforming loan and net-charge off statistics. For more information, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86 and Table 29.

Certain European countries, including Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, have experienced varying degrees of financial stress. For additional information on our exposures and related risks in non-U.S. countries, see Non-U.S. Portfolio on page 124 and Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

For information on our Credit Risk Management activities, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86, Commercial Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 110, Non-U.S. Portfolio on page 124, Provision for Credit Losses on page 129 and Allowance for Credit Losses on page 130.


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Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management

Credit risk management for the consumer portfolio begins with initial underwriting and continues throughout a borrower’s credit cycle. Statistical techniques in conjunction with experiential judgment are used in all aspects of portfolio management including underwriting, product pricing, risk appetite, setting credit limits, and establishing operating processes and metrics to quantify and balance risks and returns. Statistical models are built using detailed behavioral information from external sources such as credit bureaus and/or internal historical experience. These models are a component of our consumer credit risk management process and are used in part to help make both new and existing credit decisions, as well as portfolio management strategies, including authorizations and line management, collection practices and strategies, determination of the allowance for loan and lease losses, and economic capital allocations for credit risk.

Since January 2008, and through the third quarter of 2012, Bank of America and Countrywide have completed approximately 1.1 million loan modifications with customers. During the third quarter of 2012, we completed nearly 38,000 customer loan modifications with a total unpaid principal balance of approximately $8 billion, including approximately 8,100 permanent modifications under the government’s Making Home Affordable Program. Of the loan modifications completed in the three months ended September 30, 2012, in terms of both the volume of modifications and the unpaid principal balance associated with the underlying loans, most were in the portfolio serviced for investors and were not on our balance sheet. The most common types of modifications include a combination of rate reduction and capitalization of past due amounts which represented 44 percent of the volume of modifications completed during the three months ended September 30, 2012, while principal reductions and forgiveness represented 20 percent, principal forbearance represented 18 percent and capitalization of past due amounts represented eight percent. For modified loans on our balance sheet, these modification types are generally considered TDRs. For more information on TDRs and portfolio impacts, see Nonperforming Consumer Loans and Foreclosed Properties Activity on page 106 and Note 5 – Outstanding Loans and Leases to the Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Consumer Credit Portfolio

As a result of the National Mortgage Settlement, in the third quarter of 2012, we incurred charge-offs of $435 million related to fully forgiven non-PCI loans in the home equity portfolio, which resulted in reductions of the same amount in nonperforming loans. Associated with the settlement, in the third quarter of 2012, we also fully forgave home equity loans in the Countrywide PCI portfolio with a carrying value before reserves of $1.6 billion and an unpaid principal balance of $1.8 billion which resulted in a decrease in the corresponding allowance for loan and lease losses. These items had no impact on the provision for credit losses as these loans were fully reserved. For more information on the National Mortgage Settlement, see Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual Obligations – Servicing Matters and Foreclosure Processes on page 67.

During the third quarter of 2012, new regulatory guidance was issued addressing certain consumer real estate loans that have been discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In accordance with this new guidance, we now classify consumer real estate loans that have been discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy and not reaffirmed by the borrower as TDRs, irrespective of payment history or delinquency status, even if the repayment terms for the loan have not been otherwise modified. We continue to have a lien on the underlying collateral. Previously, such loans were classified as TDRs only if there had been a change in contractual payment terms that represented a concession to the borrower. The net impact to the consumer real estate portfolio of adopting this new regulatory guidance was a $478 million increase in net charge-offs as these loans were written-down to collateral value resulting in a provision increase of $339 million and reduced reserves of $139 million. This also resulted in an increase of $3.5 billion in TDRs and $1.1 billion in net new nonperforming loans of which $954 million, or 91 percent, were current on their contractual payments. Of these contractually current nonperforming loans, more than 70 percent were discharged in Chapter 7 bankruptcy more than 12 months ago, and nearly 40 percent were discharged 24 months or more ago. As subsequent cash payments are received, the interest component of the payments will be recorded as interest income on a cash basis and the principal component will be recorded as a reduction in the carrying value of the loan. For more information on the impacts to consumer home loans TDRs as a result of this new regulatory guidance, see Note 5 – Outstanding Loans and Leases to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

During the first quarter of 2012, the bank regulatory agencies jointly issued interagency supervisory guidance on nonaccrual status for junior-lien consumer real estate loans. In accordance with this regulatory interagency guidance, we classify junior-lien home equity loans as nonperforming when the first-lien loan becomes 90 days past due even if the junior-lien loan is performing, and as a result, we reclassified $1.9 billion of performing home equity loans to nonperforming as of March 31, 2012, and $1.4 billion of such loans were included in nonperforming loans at September 30, 2012. The regulatory interagency guidance had no impact on our allowance for loan and lease losses or provision for credit losses as the delinquency status of the underlying first-lien was already considered in our reserving process. For more information, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management – Home Equity on page 97.

Improved credit quality across the consumer portfolio and the impact of the National Mortgage Settlement and the new regulatory guidance on Chapter 7 bankruptcy, as discussed in the following section, drove a $6.6 billion decrease in the consumer allowance for loan and lease losses to $23.1 billion at September 30, 2012 compared to December 31, 2011. For more information, see Allowance for Credit Losses on page 130.

For further information on our accounting policies regarding delinquencies, nonperforming status, charge-offs and TDRs for the consumer portfolio, see Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Principles to the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Corporation's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Improvement in the U.S. economy and labor markets throughout most of 2011 and into the nine months ended September 30, 2012 resulted in lower credit losses in most consumer portfolios compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2011. Although home prices have shown signs of improvement in recent months, the declines over the past several years continued to adversely impact the home loans portfolio.


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Table 28 presents our outstanding consumer loans and the Countrywide PCI loan portfolio. Loans that were acquired from Countrywide and considered credit-impaired were recorded at fair value upon acquisition. In addition to being included in the “Outstandings” columns in Table 28, these loans are also shown separately, net of purchase accounting adjustments, in the “Countrywide Purchased Credit-impaired Loan Portfolio” column. For additional information, see Note 5 – Outstanding Loans and Leases to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The impact of the Countrywide PCI loan portfolio on certain credit statistics is reported where appropriate. See Countrywide Purchased Credit-impaired Loan Portfolio on page 101 for more information. Under certain circumstances, loans that were originally classified as discontinued real estate loans upon acquisition have been subsequently modified from pay option or subprime loans into loans with more conventional terms and are now included in the residential mortgage portfolio, but continue to be classified as PCI loans as shown in Table 28.

Table 28
Consumer Loans
 
Outstandings
 
Countrywide Purchased
Credit-impaired Loan
Portfolio
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
 
September 30
2012
 
December 31
2011
Residential mortgage (1)
$
247,340

 
$
262,290

 
$
9,336

 
$
9,966

Home equity
112,260

 
124,699

 
9,709

 
11,978

Discontinued real estate (2)
9,876

 
11,095

 
8,803

 
9,857

U.S. credit card
93,162

 
102,291

 
n/a

 
n/a

Non-U.S. credit card
13,320

 
14,418

 
n/a

 
n/a

Direct/Indirect consumer (3)
82,404

 
89,713

 
n/a

 
n/a

Other consumer (4)
2,714

 
2,688

 
n/a

 
n/a

Consumer loans excluding loans accounted for under the fair value option
561,076

 
607,194

 
27,848

 
31,801

Loans accounted for under the fair value option (5)
1,202

 
2,190

 
n/a

 
n/a

Total consumer loans
$
562,278

 
$
609,384

 
$
27,848

 
$
31,801

(1) 
Outstandings include non-U.S. residential mortgages of $94 million and $85 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.
(2) 
Outstandings include $8.8 billion and $9.9 billion of pay option loans and $1.1 billion and $1.2 billion of subprime loans at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. We no longer originate these products.
(3) 
Outstandings include dealer financial services loans of $36.0 billion and $43.0 billion, consumer lending loans of $5.6 billion and $8.0 billion, U.S. securities-based lending margin loans of $26.7 billion and $23.6 billion, student loans of $5.0 billion and $6.0 billion, non-U.S. consumer loans of $7.9 billion and $7.6 billion and other consumer loans of $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.
(4) 
Outstandings include consumer finance loans of $1.5 billion and $1.7 billion, other non-U.S. consumer loans of $1.1 billion and $929 million and consumer overdrafts of $152 million and $103 million at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011.
(5) 
Consumer loans accounted for under the fair value option include residential mortgage loans of $160 million and $906 million and discontinued real estate loans of $1.0 billion and $1.3 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. See Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management – Consumer Loans Accounted for Under the Fair Value Option on page 106 and Note 16 – Fair Value Option to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the fair value option.
n/a = not applicable


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Table 29 presents the impacts of the National Mortgage Settlement and the new regulatory guidance on Chapter 7 bankruptcy on nonperforming loans and net charge-offs, and the impact of the regulatory interagency guidance on nonaccrual status for junior-lien consumer real estate loans on nonperforming loans for the Core portfolio and Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio within the home loans portfolio. These impacts are included in the following consumer credit portfolio discussions. For more information on these impacts, see Consumer Portfolio Credit Risk Management on page 86.

Table 29
 
 
 
 
 
 
Impact of the National Mortgage Settlement and Regulatory Agency Guidance
 
National
Mortgage Settlement
 
New Regulatory Guidance on
Treatment of Bankruptcies
 
Regulatory Interagency Guidance (1)
 
Nonperforming
 
Net Charge-offs (2)
 
Nonperforming
 
Net Charge-offs
 
Nonperforming
(Dollars in millions)
September 30
2012
 
Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012
 
September 30
2012
 
Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012
 
September 30
2012
Core portfolio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage
$

 
$

 
$
169

 
$
11

 
$

Home equity
(91
)
 
91

 
153

 
66

 
443

Total Core portfolio
(91
)
 
91

 
322

 
77

 
443

Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage

 

 
388

 
43

 

Home equity
(344
)
 
344

 
330

 
358

 
985

Discontinued real estate

 

 
10

 

 

Total Legacy Assets & Servicing portfolio
(344
)
 
344

 
728

 
401

 
985

Home loans portfolio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Residential mortgage

 

 
557

 
54

 

Home equity
(435
)
 
435

 
483

 
424

 
1,428

Discontinued real estate