Derivative financial instruments - Information about Interest Rate Swap Agreements (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026	Sep. 30, 2025	Dec. 31, 2025
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional Amount	$ 31,625		$ 31,000
Weighted-Average Maturity (In years)	1 year 9 months 18 days	2 years
Estimated fair value gain (loss)	$ 12	$ (15)
Fair value hedges:
Derivative [Line Items]
Impact of estimated fair value gain (losses) on hedging instruments	(56)	(6)
Fair value hedges: \| Forward-Starting Interest Rate Swap Agreements
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional Amount			1,800
Cash flow hedges:
Derivative [Line Items]
Impact of estimated fair value gain (losses) on hedging instruments	4	$ 96
Cash flow hedges: \| Forward-Starting Interest Rate Swap Agreements
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional Amount	10,500		9,700
Interest Payments On Variable Rate Commercial Real Estate Loans \| Cash flow hedges:
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional Amount	$ 25,525		$ 24,900
Weighted-Average Maturity (In years)	1 year 1 month 6 days	1 year 3 months 18 days
Fixed	3.63%		3.63%
Variable	3.66%		3.81%
Estimated fair value gain (loss)	$ 5	$ (6)
Fixed Rate Long-Term Borrowings \| Fair value hedges:
Derivative [Line Items]
Notional Amount	$ 6,100		$ 6,100
Weighted-Average Maturity (In years)	4 years 7 months 6 days	4 years 9 months 18 days
Fixed	3.56%		3.56%
Variable	3.81%		4.02%
Estimated fair value gain (loss)	$ 7	$ (9)

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Average fixed interest rate related to the group of interest rate derivatives.

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Average variable interest rate related to the group of interest rate derivatives.

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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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