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Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed Deposit Liabilities

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Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Loans and Leases Receivable

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Selling Costs

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Number Of Branches Sold.

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Payments to Acquire Businesses, Deposit Premiums Received

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Payments to Acquire Businesses, Net of Deposit Premiums Received

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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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Amount of intangible assets, excluding goodwill, acquired at the acquisition date.

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Amount classified as property, plant and equipment attributable to disposal group held for sale or disposed of.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of property, plant and equipment assets, excluding oil and gas property and timber property.

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BUSINESS COMBINATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS - Narrative (Details) $ in Thousands			3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Jul. 03, 2015 Branch	Nov. 08, 2014 USD ($) Branch	Jun. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2014 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2014 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill			$ 31,591		$ 31,591		$ 31,591
Proceeds from sale of property					52,250	$ 0
Gain on sale of building			9,919	$ 0	9,919	$ 0
Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of branches sold \| Branch	2
Americas United Bank \| Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of branches sold \| Branch	2
Building
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of property			52,300
Gain on sale of building			9,900
Carrying value of property			42,300		$ 42,300
Building \| Professional Fees and All Other Expenses
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Selling costs			$ 2,300
Banco Popular Branches
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of branches \| Branch		20
Payments to acquire businesses, deposit premiums received		$ 3,900
Payments to acquire businesses, net of deposit premiums received		24,000
Loans and leases receivable		1,072,449
Deposit liabilities		1,076,614
Other intangible assets		15,777
Direct acquisition costs							$ 4,300
Goodwill		0
Banco Popular Branches \| Core deposit intangibles
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Other intangible assets		$ 15,777
Amortization period of other intangible assets		10 years
Renovation Ready
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Loans and leases receivable								$ 0
Deposit liabilities								0
Other intangible assets								761
Goodwill								$ 2,239