Fair Value Measurements - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Auction rate securities related to settlements with regulators, outstanding	$ 75,000
Auction rate securities, firm purchased and hold	101,900,000
Amount of ARS committed to purchase from clients	9,500,000
Valuation adjustment (unrealized loss) for ARS	$ 5,869,000
Loans held for sale period (in days)	60 days
Maximum period held for sale (in days)	90 days
Book value of loan held for sale	$ 31,500,000
Loans held for sale, at fair value	$ 34,050,000	$ 19,243,000
Forward or delayed delivery of the underlying instrument with settlement (in days)	180 days
Senior Secured Notes [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Interest rate	8.75%
Maximum [Member] \| LIBOR or Treasury Yield [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Auction market preferred securities variable interest rate earned	200.00%
Auction Rate Securities [Member] \| Fair Value, Valuation Scenario Two [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Change in discount rate	0.50%
Decrease in fair value of ARS	$ 2,000,000
Auction Rate Securities [Member] \| Fair Value, Valuation Scenario One [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Change in discount rate	0.25%
Decrease in fair value of ARS	$ 1,000,000
Auction Rate Securities [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Commitment to purchase ARS period maximum	2017
Auction Rate Securities Purchase Commitment [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Valuation adjustment (unrealized loss) for ARS	$ 477,000
Mortgage Servicing Rights [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Permanent and construction loans , discount rate	12.00%
Continuous prepayment rate used up to loans prepayment penalty rate hit 4%	0.00%
Continuous prepayment rate	4.00%
Continuous prepayment rate vast majority range minimum	10.00%
Continuous prepayment rate vast majority range maximum	15.00%
Continuous prepayment rate vast majority range average rate	12.00%
Estimated future cost to service loans on an annual basis per loan, average	$ 1,250
Auction Rate Securities Owned [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Valuation adjustment (unrealized loss) for ARS	5,392,000
Deferred Compensation, Share-based Payments [Member] \| Corporate Equities Liabilities [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value of the corporate equities that are included in securities owned	$ 13,400,000	$ 15,700,000

The total amount of ARS the firm purchased and hold.

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Continuous prepayment rate used before specified loans prepayment penalty rate.

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Estimated future cost to service loans on annual basis per loan average.

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Fair value of corporate equities that are included in securities owned.

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Loan held for sale period.

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Loans prepayment penalty rate.

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Maximum settlement period in case of delayed delivery of underlying instrument.

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Purchase Commitments Outstanding, Auction Rate Securities Related to Settlements with Regulators

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Securities committed to purchase period.

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Sensitivity analysis of fair value of interests continued to be held by transferor servicing assets or liabilities change in discount rate.

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Valuation adjustment for the level 3 assets used for quantitative disclosure.

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The interest (or dividend) rates earned on action market preferred securities (on an annual basis or APY) for the period reported.

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-Article 5

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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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The hypothetical financial impact of a specified adverse percentage change in discount rate on the fair value of transferor's interests in transferred financial assets (including any servicing assets or servicing liabilities) as of the balance sheet date.

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