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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable Related to Severance, Number of Shares

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Percentage of Common Stock

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Proceeds from Sale of Noncontrolling Interest

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Special Dividends, Shares

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Amount of operating expense attributable to disposal group, including, but not limited to, discontinued operation.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 205
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5B
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109222650&loc=SL51721673-107760

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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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Discontinued Operations - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended
	Jan. 04, 2021	Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2020
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of non-controlling interest in BMT		$ 23,125	$ 0
Special dividend (shares)		0.15389
Discontinued Operations \| BankMobile Technologies, Inc.
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Proceeds from sale of non-controlling interest in BMT	$ 23,100
Share consideration, shares	4,876,387
Special dividend (shares)	0.15389
Share consideration related to severance, shares	1,348,748
Percentage of common stock	52.00%
Expenses under the deposit servicing agreement		$ 13,700
Discontinued Operations \| BankMobile Technologies, Inc. \| Minimum
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Transition services agreement, term	1 year
Discontinued Operations \| BankMobile Technologies, Inc. \| Maximum
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Transition services agreement, term	10 years