Loans Receivable (Recorded Investment in loans individually evaluated for impairment) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 154,160	$ 115,937
Originated Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	171,359	162,322
Recorded Investment	153,550	144,789
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 14,747	$ 9,387
Coverage	0.10%	0.06%
Acquired BBVAPR Accounted for under ASC 310-20 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 926	$ 1,184
Recorded Investment	748	1,150
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 12	$ 141
Coverage	0.02%	0.12%
Acquired BBVAPR Accounted under ASC 310-30 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 857,528	$ 887,646
Recorded Investment	824,540	850,454
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 40,110	$ 31,056
Coverage	0.05%	0.04%
Eurobank Acquired Loans
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 139,737	$ 170,038
Recorded Investment	121,739	146,530
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 23,146	$ 21,281
Coverage	0.19%	0.15%
Commercial impaired loans with specific allowance [Member] \| Originated Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 33,159	$ 13,183
Recorded Investment	30,465	11,698
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 5,223	$ 1,626
Coverage	0.17%	0.14%
Commercial impaired loans with specific allowance [Member] \| Acquired BBVAPR Accounted for under ASC 310-20 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 926	$ 944
Recorded Investment	748	929
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 12	$ 141
Coverage	0.02%	0.15%
Residential troubled-debt restructuring impaired loans with specific allowance [Member] \| Originated Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 95,680	$ 100,101
Recorded Investment	86,511	91,650
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 9,524	$ 7,761
Coverage	0.11%	0.08%
Commercial impaired loans with no specific allowance financing receivable \| Originated Loan [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 42,520	$ 49,038
Recorded Investment	$ 36,574	$ 41,441
Coverage	0.00%	0.00%
Commercial impaired loans with no specific allowance financing receivable \| Acquired BBVAPR Accounted for under ASC 310-20 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 0	$ 240
Recorded Investment	$ 0	$ 221
Coverage	0.00%	0.00%
Mortgage impaired loan pool [Member] \| Acquired BBVAPR Accounted under ASC 310-30 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 554,175	$ 595,757
Recorded Investment	532,948	569,250
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 8,931	$ 2,682
Coverage	0.02%	0.00%
Commercial impaired loan pool [Member] \| Acquired BBVAPR Accounted under ASC 310-30 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 254,006	$ 199,092
Recorded Investment	242,334	195,528
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 23,941	$ 23,452
Coverage	0.10%	0.12%
Auto impaired loan pool. \| Acquired BBVAPR Accounted under ASC 310-30 [Member]
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 49,347	$ 92,797
Recorded Investment	49,258	85,676
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 7,238	$ 4,922
Coverage	0.15%	0.06%
Consumer impaired loan pool. \| Eurobank Acquired Loans
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 15	$ 29
Recorded Investment	1,220	1,372
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 5	$ 6
Coverage	0.00%	0.00%
Loans secured by 1-4 family residential properties, covered [Member] \| Eurobank Acquired Loans
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 81,679	$ 88,017
Recorded Investment	68,996	73,018
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 14,219	$ 11,947
Coverage	0.21%	0.16%
Commercial and Other Construction Loan [Member] \| Eurobank Acquired Loans
Financing Receivable, Impaired [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal	$ 58,043	$ 81,992
Recorded Investment	51,523	72,140
Allowance for loan and lease losses	$ 8,922	$ 9,328
Coverage	0.17%	0.13%

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