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Business Combination, Acquired Receivables, Loans, Carrying Amount

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Business Combination, Acquired Receivables, Loans, Outstanding Principal Balance

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The pro forma basic net income per share for a period as if the business combination or combinations had been completed at the beginning of a period.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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The pro forma diluted net income per share for a period as if the business combination or combinations had been completed at the beginning of a period.

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The pro forma net Income or Loss for the period as if the business combination or combinations had been completed at the beginning of a period.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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The aggregate excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in the loan. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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The amount of the loan's contractually required payments receivable in excess of the amount of its cash flows expected to be collected. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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Fair value at acquisition of acquired loans not accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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Amount of cash flows expected to be collected at acquisition of acquired loans not accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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Amount of contractually required payments receivable at acquisition of acquired loans not accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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Business Combinations - Fair value of loans acquired and pro forma information (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended					12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2013 Foster Bankshares Inc	Aug. 12, 2013 Foster Bankshares Inc	Dec. 31, 2013 Foster Bankshares Inc Merger and integration expense	Dec. 31, 2013 Pacific International Bancorp, Inc.	Feb. 13, 2013 Pacific International Bancorp, Inc.	Dec. 31, 2013 Pacific International Bancorp, Inc. Merger and integration expense	Dec. 31, 2013 Foster Bankshares, Inc and Pacific International Bancorp, Inc.	Dec. 31, 2012 Foster Bankshares, Inc and Pacific International Bancorp, Inc.
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Outstanding principal balances on loans acquired				$ 279,700,000			$ 126,000,000
Carrying amount related to outstanding principal balances acquired				235,100,000			107,600,000
Acquisition-related expenses	5,161,000	3,809,000	4,713,000			4,000,000			1,100,000
Fair value of loans acquired:
Contractually required principal and interest at acquisition					150,430,000			54,462,000
Contractual cash flows not expected to be collected (nonaccretable discount)					37,447,000			9,687,000
Expected cash flows at acquisition					112,983,000			44,775,000
Interest component of expected cash flows (accretable discount)					14,928,000			4,945,000
Fair value of acquired impaired loans					98,055,000			39,830,000
Pro forma: from the beginning of the period
Net Interest Income										264,040,000	264,669,000
Net income, pro forma										$ 84,304,000	$ 74,949,000
Earnings per share - basic, pro forma										$ 1.07	$ 0.88
Earnings per share - diluted, pro forma										$ 1.06	$ 0.88