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Deductions From Tier One Capital

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Represents the firm's exclusion of average holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and average deposits at the Federal Reserve from leverage ratio from total leverage exposure calculation as permitted by the FRB.

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Leverage ratio under amended CRR and CRD requirements under the E.U.

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Minimum Supplementary Tier 1 Leverage Ratio Under Basel 3 Rules

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Off Balance Sheet and Other Exposures

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Required leverage ratio under amended CRR and CRD requirements under the E.U.

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Supplementary Leverage Exposure

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Tier One Capital Adjusted Assets Amount

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

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Ratio of Tier 1 risk-based capital to total leverage exposure as defined by regulatory framework.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 505
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (c)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=117337116&loc=SL5958568-112826

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Amount of Tier 1 leverage capital as defined by regulatory framework.