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Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2013
Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk [Abstract] |
Summary of the contractual amounts of financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk | A summary of the contractual amounts of our financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk at June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 follows:
|  | June 30, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Commercial unused lines of credit |  | $ | 231,892,000 |  |  | $ | 222,237,000 |
Unused lines of credit secured by 1 – 4 family residential properties |  |  | 23,490,000 |  |  |  | 24,250,000 |
Credit card unused lines of credit |  |  | 8,552,000 |  |  |  | 8,512,000 |
Other consumer unused lines of credit |  |  | 7,020,000 |  |  |  | 4,613,000 |
Commitments to extend credit |  |  | 100,018,000 |  |  |  | 64,565,000 |
Standby letters of credit |  |  | 13,550,000 |  |  |  | 10,591,000 |
|  | $ | 384,522,000 |  |  | $ | 334,768,000 |

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