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The contractual amount of these financial instruments represents the maximum possible credit risk should the counterparties draw down the commitment or the Firm fulfill its obligation under the guarantee, and the counterparties subsequently fail to perform according to the terms of the contract. Most of these commitments and guarantees expire without a default occurring or without being drawn. As a result, the total contractual amount of these instruments is not, in the Firm&#8217;s view, representative of its actual future credit exposure or funding requirements. Further, certain commitments, predominantly related to consumer financings, are cancelable, upon notice, at the option of the Firm. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">To provide for the risk of loss inherent in wholesale-related contracts, an allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments is maintained. See Note 14 on pages 196&#8211;198 of this Annual Report for further discussion of the allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The following table summarizes the contractual amounts of off-balance sheet lending-related financial instruments and guarantees and the related allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments at December&#160;31, 2009 and 2008. The amounts in the table below for credit card and home equity lending-related commitments represent the total available credit for these products. The Firm has not experienced, and does not anticipate, that all available lines of credit for these products will be utilized at the same time. 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For the year ended December&#160;31, 2008, Chase Paymentech incurred aggregate credit losses of $13&#160;million on $713.9&#160;billion of aggregate volume processed, and at December&#160;31, 2008, it held $222&#160;million of collateral. The Firm believes that, based on historical experience and the collateral held by Chase Paymentech, the fair value of the Firm&#8217;s charge back-related obligations, which are representative of the payment or performance risk to the Firm is immaterial. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Credit card association, exchange and clearinghouse guarantees</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt">The Firm holds an equity interest in VISA Inc. During October&#160;2007, certain VISA-related entities completed a series of restructuring transactions to combine their operations, including VISA USA, under one holding company, VISA Inc. Upon the restructuring, the Firm&#8217;s membership interest in VISA USA was converted into an equity interest in VISA Inc. VISA Inc. sold shares via an initial public offering and used a portion of the proceeds from the offering to redeem a portion of the Firm&#8217;s equity interest in Visa Inc. Prior to the restructuring, VISA USA&#8217;s by-laws obligated the Firm upon demand by VISA USA to indemnify VISA USA for, among other things, litigation obligations of Visa USA. The accounting for that guarantee was not subject to initial recognition at fair value. Upon the restructuring event, the Firm&#8217;s obligation to indemnify Visa Inc. was limited to certain identified litigations. Such a limitation is deemed a modification of the indemnity by-law and, accordingly, became subject to initial recognition at fair value. The value of the litigation guarantee has been recorded in the Firm&#8217;s financial statements based on its then fair value; the net amount recorded (within other liabilities) did not have a material adverse effect on the Firm&#8217;s financial statements. In addition to Visa, the Firm is a member of other associations, including several securities and futures exchanges and clearinghouses, both in the United States and other countries. Membership in some of these organizations requires the Firm to pay a pro rata share of the losses incurred by the organization as a result of the default of another member. Such obligations vary with different organizations. These obligations may be limited to members who dealt with the defaulting member or to the amount (or a multiple of the amount) of the Firm&#8217;s contribution to a member&#8217;s guarantee fund, or, in a few cases, the obligation may be unlimited. It is difficult to estimate the Firm&#8217;s maximum exposure under these membership agreements, since this would require an assessment of future claims that may be made against the Firm that have not yet occurred. However, based on historical experience, management expects the risk of loss to be remote. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>Residual value guarantee</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt">In connection with the Bear Stearns merger, the Firm succeeded to an operating lease arrangement for the building located at 383 Madison Avenue in New York City (the &#8220;Synthetic Lease&#8221;). Under the terms of the Synthetic Lease, the Firm is obligated to make periodic payments based on the lessor&#8217;s underlying interest costs. The Synthetic Lease expires on November&#160;1, 2010. Under the terms of the Synthetic Lease, the Firm has the right to purchase the building for the amount of the then outstanding indebtedness of the lessor, or to arrange for the sale of the building, with the proceeds of the sale to be used to satisfy the lessor&#8217;s debt obligation. If the sale does not generate sufficient proceeds to satisfy the lessor&#8217;s debt obligation, the Firm is required to fund the shortfall, up to a maximum residual value guarantee. As of December&#160;31, 2009, there was no expected shortfall and the maximum residual value guarantee was approximately $670&#160;million. </div> </div> </div> <!--DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" --> <!-- Begin Block Tagged Note false false Description of lending related instruments and the allowance recorded to reflect obligations, contingent liabilities, guarantees, and other exposures relating to off-balance sheet arrangements such as unfunded loan commitments, contractual obligations, recourse from loans securitized, and variable interest entities. No authoritative reference available. false false 1 2 false UnKnown UnKnown UnKnown false true