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Allowance for Loan Losses - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Billions	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($) Loan	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses [Line Items]
Percentage of loans granted forbearance that migrated to TDR classification	68.00%	65.00%
Payment default period for TDRs	60 days past due
Interest Rate Reduction [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses [Line Items]
TDR loans, Unpaid Principal Balance | $	$ 2.0	$ 1.8
Minimum [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses [Line Items]
Delinquency period (in days)	212 days
Private Education Loans [Member]
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses [Line Items]
Number of classes of loans | Loan	2

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Percentage of loans granted forbearance that migrated to troubled debt restructuring classification.

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Amount of unpaid principal balance of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without related allowance for credit losses.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (a)(4)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84173941&loc=d3e5212-111524

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Threshold period past due for financing receivable to write off as uncollectible, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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