Continuing Involvement with Derecognized Transferred Financial Assets, Recorded Escrow Balance

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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)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82924980&loc=d3e107314-111719

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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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Decrease in servicing assets subsequently measured at fair value resulting from conveyance of servicing rights to unrelated parties.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 50
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68078379&loc=d3e122625-111746

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SERVICING RIGHTS - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Mar. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017	Mar. 31, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]
Unpaid principal balance		$ 4,220,000			$ 4,220,000		$ 7,580,000
Escrow balances		33,600			33,600		$ 34,200
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
MSRs sold		$ 0		$ 0	$ 39,186	$ 3
Discount rate					8.25%
Prepayment speed calculation percentage					8.25%
Banc Home Loan \| Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
MSRs sold	$ 37,800		$ 37,800		$ 37,772