Fair Value - Schedule of Significant Assumptions used in Valuation (Details)	3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015 $ / loan
Mortgage Servicing Rights - Amortized Costs [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Weighted average prepayment speed	12.67%
Weighted average delinquency rate	14.39%
Advance financing cost	5 years
Interest rate for computing float earnings	5 years
Weighted average discount rate	9.30%
Weighted average cost to service (in dollars)	98
Fair Value Agency Mortgage Servicing Rights [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Weighted average prepayment speed	10.80%
Weighted average delinquency rate	1.10%
Advance financing cost	5 years
Interest rate for computing float earnings	5 years
Weighted average discount rate	9.00%
Weighted average cost to service (in dollars)	70
Fair Value Non-Agency Mortgage Servicing Rights [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Weighted average prepayment speed	16.48%
Weighted average delinquency rate	29.80%
Weighted average discount rate	14.94%
Weighted average cost to service (in dollars)	336
Mortgage Servicing Rights Pledged [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Weighted average prepayment speed	16.98%
Weighted average delinquency rate	30.75%
Weighted average discount rate	14.77%
Weighted average cost to service (in dollars)	341
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) [Member] \| Fair Value Non-Agency Mortgage Servicing Rights [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Interest rate for computing float earnings	1 month
Fair value input, interest rate	3.50%
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) [Member] \| Mortgage Servicing Rights Pledged [Member]
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Interest rate for computing float earnings	1 month
Fair value input, interest rate	3.50%

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Fair Value Inputs, Financing Costs, Comparative Derivative Term

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Fair Value Inputs, Financing Costs, Float Earnings

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Fair value inputs, weighted average cost to service (in dollars).

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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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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Rate at which loans or a loan portfolio are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Percentage of likelihood a loan will not be repaid and instead default, used as an input to measure fair value.

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