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Financing Receivable, Nonaccrual, Medallion Loans, Contractual Balance

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Financing Receivable, Nonaccrual, Medallion Loans, Fair Value

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Financing Receivable, Valuation Period

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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 financing receivable reclassified to held-for-sale.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 326
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 11
-Subparagraph (i)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=124255953&loc=SL82919244-210447

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 11B
-Subparagraph (f)
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LOANS AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($) qtr	Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Valuation period \| qtr	7
Forecasting revision period	1 year
Commercial loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Financing receivable, reclassification, held for sale	$ 0.0	$ 0.0
Commercial and industrial
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Financing receivable, nonaccrual, medallion loans, fair value	0.5		$ 0.6
Financing receivable, nonaccrual, medallion loans, contractual balance	$ 10.2		$ 10.9