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Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustments, Deposit Premiums

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Business Combination, Provisional Information, Initial Accounting Incomplete, Adjustments, Goodwill

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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 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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BUSINESS COMBINATIONS AND ASSET SALES TRANSACTIONS - Narrative (Details) $ in Thousands			3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 25, 2015 USD ($) Branch	Nov. 08, 2014 USD ($) Branch	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2014 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($) Branch	Sep. 30, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2014 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill			$ 39,244		$ 39,244		$ 31,591
Proceeds from sale of property					52,192	$ 30
Gain on sale of building			0	$ 0	$ 9,919	0
Number of branches sold \| Branch					2
Gain on sale of transaction					$ 163	456
Proceeds from sale of loans held for investment					389,944	142,482
Net gain on sale of loans			9,737	$ 10,260	22,047	$ 15,901
Americas United Bank
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of branches sold \| Branch	2
Deposits held for sale	$ 46,900
Proceeds from sale of loans held for investment	40,200
Other Income \| Americas United Bank
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Gain on sale of transaction	163
Net Gain on Sale of Loans \| Americas United Bank
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Net gain on sale of loans	$ 644
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		1,065,088
Deposit liabilities		1,076,906
Other intangible assets		15,777
Direct acquisition costs							$ 4,300
Adjustments related to goodwill			7,653
Adjustments related to loans and leases receivable discount			7,400
Adjustments related to deposit premiums			292
Adjustment related to loan discounts			33
Adjustments related to deposit premium amortization			$ 110
Goodwill		7,653
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