Investment Banking
IB’S REVENUES COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Investment banking feesincludes advisory, equity underwriting, bond underwriting and loan syndication fees.
2. Fixed income marketsincludes client and portfolio management revenue related to both market-making and proprietary risk-taking across global fixed income markets, including government and corporate debt, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodities markets.
3. Equities marketsincludes client and portfolio management revenue related to market-making and proprietary risk-taking across global equity products, including cash instruments, derivatives and convertibles.
4. Credit portfolio revenueincludes Net interest income, fees and loan sale activity for IB’s credit portfolio. Credit portfolio revenue also includes gains or losses on securities received as part of a loan restructuring, and changes in the credit valuation adjustment (“CVA”), which is the component of the fair value of a derivative that reflects the credit quality of the counterparty. Credit portfolio revenue also includes the results of risk management related to the Firm’s lending and derivative activities.
Retail Financial Services
DESCRIPTION OF SELECTED BUSINESS METRICS WITHIN REGIONAL BANKING:
1. Personal bankers - Retail branch office personnel who acquire, retain and expand new and existing customer relationships by assessing customer needs and recommending and selling appropriate banking products and services.
2. Sales specialists - Retail branch product-specific experts who are licensed or specifically trained to assist in the sale of investments, mortgages, home equity lines and loans, and products tailored to small businesses.
NET MORTGAGE SERVICING REVENUE COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING:
1. Production income - Includes net gain or loss on sales of mortgage loans, and other production related fees.
2. Servicing revenue - Represents all revenues earned from servicing mortgage loans for third parties, including stated service fees, excess service fees, late fees, and other ancillary fees.
3. Changes in MSR asset fair value due to:
— inputs or assumptions in the model - Represents MSR asset fair value adjustments due to changes in market-based inputs, such as interest rates and volatility, as well as updates to valuation assumptions used in the valuation model.
— other changes - Includes changes in the MSR value due to servicing portfolio runoff (or time decay). Effective January 1, 2006, the Firm implemented SFAS 156, adopting fair value for the MSR assets. For the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, this amount represents MSR asset amortization expense calculated in accordance with SFAS 140.
4. Derivative valuation adjustments and other - Changes in the fair value of derivative instruments used to offset the impact of changes in market-based inputs to the MSR valuation model.
5. MSR risk management results - Includes “Changes in MSR asset fair value due to inputs or assumptions in model” and “Derivative valuation adjustments and other.”
Retail Financial Services (continued)
MORTGAGE BANKING’S ORIGINATION CHANNELS COMPRISE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Retail - Borrowers who are buying or refinancing a home work directly with a mortgage banker employed by the Firm using a branch office, the Internet or by phone. Borrowers are frequently referred to a mortgage banker by real estate brokers, home builders or other third parties.
2. Wholesale - A third-party mortgage broker refers loan applications to a mortgage banker at the Firm. Brokers are independent loan originators that specialize in finding and counseling borrowers but do not provide funding for loans.
3. Correspondent- Banks, thrifts, other mortgage banks and other financial institutions sell closed loans to the Firm.
4. Correspondent negotiated transactions (“CNT”) - Mid- to large-sized mortgage lenders, banks and bank-owned mortgage companies sell servicing to the Firm on an as-originated basis. These transactions supplement traditional production channels and provide growth opportunities in the servicing portfolio in stable and rising rate periods.
Card Services
DESCRIPTION OF SELECTED BUSINESS METRICS WITHIN CARD SERVICES:
1. Charge volume - Represents the dollar amount of cardmember purchases, balance transfers and cash advance activity.
2. Net accounts opened - Includes originations, purchases and sales.
3. Merchant acquiring business - Represents an entity that processes payments for merchants. JPMorgan Chase is a partner in Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC.
4. Bank card volume - Represents the dollar amount of transactions processed for merchants.
5. Total transactions - Represents the number of transactions and authorizations processed for merchants.