Continuing Involvement with Derecognized Transferred Financial Assets, Recorded Escrow Balance

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Gain (Loss) from Sale of Mortgage Servicing RIghts (MSR)

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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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Servicing Asset at Fair Value, Amount, Held-For-Sale

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Transfer Of Financial Assets Accounting For As Sales, Principal Amount Outstanding

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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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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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The cash inflow from the sale of servicing rights, which contractually entitle the servicer to receive fees and ancillary revenues for performing billing, collection, disbursement and recordkeeping services in connection with a mortgage portfolio. Rights may be obtained via (1) acquisition or assumption of a servicing obligation that does not relate to financial assets of the servicer or its consolidated affiliates; or (2) by originating mortgage loans and then (a) transferring the loans to a Variable Interest Entity (VIE) in a transaction that meets the necessary transfer and classification requirements, or (b) transferring the loans in a transaction that meets the requirements for sale accounting.

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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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SERVICING RIGHTS - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		15 Months Ended
	Mar. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
MSRs sold		$ 0	$ 0	$ 28,549,000	$ 39,186,000
Unpaid principal balances of conventional agency mortgage loans				3,550,000,000
Proceeds from sale of mortgage servicing rights				30,056,000	0
Gain on sale of mortgage servicing rights		24,000	0	(2,426,000)	0
Unpaid principal balance		223,600,000		223,600,000			$ 3,940,000,000
Escrow balances		479,000		479,000			17,800,000
Fair value of held-for-sale MSRs		66,000		$ 66,000			29,793,000
Discount rate				9.25%
Prepayment speed calculation percentage				9.25%
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	$ 37,800,000	0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 37,772,000	$ 37,772,000
SBA
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Unpaid principal balance		$ 99,000,000		$ 99,000,000			$ 101,000,000