Continuing Involvement with Derecognized Transferred Financial Assets, Recorded Escrow Balance

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Servicing Asset, Held-For-Sale

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Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost, Discount Rate

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Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost, Prepayment Speed Calculation, Percentage

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Amount of transferred financial assets in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction that have been derecognized. Continuing involvement includes, but is not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 860

-SubTopic 20

-Section 50

-Paragraph 4

-Subparagraph (a)(2)

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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 revenue from servicing real estate mortgages, credit cards, and other financial assets held by others. Includes premiums received in lieu of regular servicing fees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 942

-SubTopic 225

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04.13 (d))

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-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 04

-Paragraph 13

-Article 9

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SERVICING RIGHTS - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2014
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]
Income earned on mortgage servicing rights	$ 2,007	$ 774	$ 1,565	$ 2,027
Unpaid principal balance	3,100,000		3,100,000		$ 1,920,000
Escrow balances	17,700		17,700		8,300
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Servicing rights held for sale, carried at fair value	0		$ 0		5,947
Discount rate			7.25%
Prepayment speed			7.25%
Recurring \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Servicing rights held for sale, carried at fair value	$ 0		$ 0		$ 5,900