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Details of Interest Income on Non accrual loans (Detail) - Non-Covered Loans - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Interest income that would have been recorded	$ 3,128	$ 2,288	$ 3,997
Interest income actually recorded	(1,708)	(1,574)	(3,017)
Interest income foregone	$ 1,420	$ 714	$ 980

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Reflects the amount of interest income on impaired and nonperforming loans that would have been recorded during the reporting period.

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Financing Receivable, Impaired, Interest Lost on Non Accrual Loans

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Amount of interest income recognized on a cash-basis method of accounting that the financing receivables (with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses) were impaired.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (c)(3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66008989&loc=d3e5212-111524

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