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Income Taxes (Narratives) (Details) (USD $)
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Income Taxes [Abstract]      
Changes due to tax law enacted, Description The Company is subject to the dispositions of the 2011 Internal Revenue Code of the New Puerto Rico, as amended (the Code).  Among others, the Code imposes a maximum corporate tax rate of 39%.  One of the Code’s amendments is Act. 77-2014 known as “Ley de Ajustes al Sistema Contributivo” (Act of Adjustments to the Tax System).  The main purpose of the Act is to increase government collections in order to alleviate the structural deficit. The most relevant provisions of the Act, as applicable to the Company, and effective for transactions held after June 30, 2014 are as follows: (1) the capital tax rate was increased from 15% to 20% and (2) for an asset to be considered long term capital asset, the holding period must be over a year, which before was defined with a holding period of over six months.  Other provisions applicable to tax years commencing after December 31, 2013 is the additional tax on gross income (“patente nacional”) is defined as a separate tax, rather than a component of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) for non-financial institutions and, therefore is not longer accounted for under the provisions of ASC 740.  For financial institutions, the additional tax on gross income remained mostly unaltered at a tax rate of 1% of its gross income of a taxable year, of which fifty percent (50%) may be claimed as a credit against the financial institution’s applicable income tax of that year. Currently, the House of Representatives’ Bill 2329 known as “Ley de Transformación al Sistema Contributivo del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico” (Act of Transformation of the Tax System of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) is under consideration by the Legislature and will introduce a new Internal Revenue Tax Code.  Among the proposed changes are:  1) the reduction of the maximum corporate income tax rate from 39% to 30%, 2) repeals the additional tax on gross income and 3) repeals preferential tax rates of capital gains and dividend income.  Another significant change that the Bill introduces is the substitution of the Sales and Use Tax “Impuesto de Ventas y Uso” of 7%, with a broad base Value Added Tax of 16% with fewer exemptions. Under Puerto Rico law, all companies are treated as separate taxable entities and are not entitled to file consolidated returns. The Company and its subsidiaries are subject to Puerto Rico regular income tax or AMT on income earned from all sources. The AMT is payable if it exceeds regular income tax. The excess of AMT over regular income tax paid in any one year may be used to offset regular income tax in future years, subject to certain limitations. As of December 31, 2014, the tax years that remain subject to examination by the Puerto Rico Treasury Department are 2011 and 2012. Pursuant to the Declaration of Fiscal Emergency and Plan for Economic Stabilization and Restoration of the Puerto Rico Credit Act of March 9, 2009, for the 2009 and 2010 taxable years every taxable corporation engaged in trade or business in Puerto Rico, including banks and insurance companies, was subject to an additional 5% surcharge on corporate income tax, increasing the maximum tax rate from 39% to 40.95%. Also, income earned by international banking entities, which was previously fully exempt, was subject to a 5% income tax for the 2012. These taxes were imposed on a temporary basis as a measure to generate additional revenue to address the fiscal crisis of the government of Puerto Rico.    
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation State And Local Income Taxes 39.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 39.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 30.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Interest on Income Taxes Accrued $ 2,600,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestOnIncomeTaxesAccrued $ 4,000,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsInterestOnIncomeTaxesAccrued  
Reversal income tax contingency 1,000,000ofg_ReversalIncomeTaxContingency    
Statement [Line Items]      
OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossTax 447,000us-gaap_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossTax (831,000)us-gaap_OtherComprehensiveIncomeLossTax  
IBE Tax Rate 5.00%ofg_IbeTaxRate    
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) 37,252,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (8,709,000)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 3,301,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Exempt Income 40,500,000us-gaap_InterestIncomeSecuritiesTaxExempt 11,700,000us-gaap_InterestIncomeSecuritiesTaxExempt  
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Income Tax Penalties and Interest Accrued 470,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued 1,300,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued  
International Banking Entity [Member]      
Statement [Line Items]      
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) 4,700,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
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= ofg_InternationalBankingEntityMember		 4,700,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_InternationalBankingEntityMember		  
Exempt Income 16,500,000us-gaap_InterestIncomeSecuritiesTaxExempt
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_InternationalBankingEntityMember		 12,100,000us-gaap_InterestIncomeSecuritiesTaxExempt
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_InternationalBankingEntityMember		 15,300,000us-gaap_InterestIncomeSecuritiesTaxExempt
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_InternationalBankingEntityMember
Bank [Member]      
Statement [Line Items]      
Operating Loss Carryforwards 41,800,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwards
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= ofg_BankMember		    
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Income Tax Penalties and Interest Accrued $ 694,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_BankMember		 $ 752,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued
/ dei_LegalEntityAxis
= ofg_BankMember