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Allowance for Loan Losses - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Receivables [Abstract]
Allowance of purchase impaired loans	0.74%	0.73%
Additional allowance on credit impaired loans	$ 100,000	$ 500,000
Interest income recognized on impaired loans	$ 0	$ 0

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- Definition

Additional allowance on credit impaired loans.

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- Definition

Percentage of allowance on purchase impaired loans.

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Amount of interest income recognized on a cash-basis method of accounting that the financing receivables (with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses) were impaired.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (c)(3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84173941&loc=d3e5212-111524

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