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Bank of New York Mellon Corp – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/13 – ‘XML’

On:  Friday, 2/28/14, at 4:14pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/13   ·   Accession #:  1445305-14-745   ·   File #:  1-35651

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 2/28/14  Bank of New York Mellon Corp      10-K       12/31/13  199:63M                                    Workiva Inc

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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98: R2          Consolidated Income Statement                       HTML    219K 
124: R3          Consolidated Income Statement (Parenthetical)       HTML     59K  
141: R4          Consolidated Comprehensive Income Statement         HTML    112K  
180: R5          Consolidated Comprehensive Income Statement         HTML     60K  
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103: R6          Consolidated Balance Sheet                          HTML    216K  
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154: R14         Securities                                          HTML    606K  
148: R15         Loans and Asset Quality                             HTML    609K  
157: R16         Goodwill and Intangible Assets                      HTML    186K  
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146: R19         Net Interest Revenue (Note)                         HTML     97K  
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171: R21         Restructuring Charges                               HTML     95K  
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115: R36         Supplemental information to the Consolidated        HTML     71K  
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99: R45         Restructuring Charges (Tables)                      HTML     95K 
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170: R51         Stock-Based Compensation (Tables)                   HTML    146K  
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175: R95         Net Interest Revenue (Detail)                       HTML    111K  
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109: R99         Restructuring Charges- by Business Segment          HTML     67K  
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                Taxes (Detail)                                                   
162: R102        Income Taxes - Components of Net Deferred Tax       HTML     92K  
                Liability (Detail)                                               
126: R103        Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail)      HTML     85K  
32: R104        Income Taxes - Reconciliation of Statutory Federal  HTML     88K 
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177: R105        Income Taxes - Unrecognized Tax Positions (Detail)  HTML     74K  
187: R106        Long-term Debt (Detail)                             HTML     86K  
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                Incremental Assets and Liabilities of Variable                   
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                Bank Subsidiary Capital Ratios (Detail)                          
172: R115        Shareholders' Equity - Consolidated and Largest     HTML     74K  
                Bank Subsidiary Capital Ratios (Parenthetical)                   
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75: R116        Shareholders' Equity-Capital Above Guidelines       HTML     63K 
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133: R119        Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) - Components of   HTML    212K  
                Other Comprehensive Income (Detail)                              
159: R120        Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) - Accumulated     HTML     81K  
                Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Detail)                       
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129: R122        Stock-Based Compensation - Weighted Average         HTML     68K  
                Assumptions In Lattice-Based Binomial Method                     
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117: R123        Stock-Based Compensation - Summary of Stock Option  HTML    100K  
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27: R124        Stock-Based Compensation - Stock Options            HTML     91K 
                Outstanding (Detail)                                             
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77: R128        Stock-Based Compensation - Nonvested Restricted     HTML     63K 
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                Domestic and Foreign Defined Benefit Pension and                 
                Post Retirement Healthcare Plans (Detail)                        
193: R130        Employee Benefit Plans - Net Periodic Benefit Cost  HTML    117K  
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                Investment Assets Including Change in Fair Value                 
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