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Business Combination, Acquisition Related Costs, Early Contract Termination Fees

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interests Issued And Issuable, Share Exchange Rate

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Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired And Liabilities Assumed, Financial Assets, Fair Value Adjustment, Homogeneous Loans, Credit Discount

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Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired And Liabilities Assumed, Financial Assets, Fair Value Adjustment, Homogeneous Loans, Interest Rate Discount

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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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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 23
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84229725&loc=d3e1043-128460

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Amount of addition (reduction) to the amount at which a liability could be incurred (settled) in a current transaction between willing parties.

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Acquisition of IA Bancorp, Inc. (Narrative) (Details)		3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Acquisition of IA Bancorp, Inc. (Narrative) (Details)	Apr. 17, 2018	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger related costs		$ 2,039,000	$ 2,184,000
Certificates of Deposit [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Amortization period of fair value adjustment			5 years
IA Bancorp [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Share exchange rate	0.189
Fair value adjustment on pools of homogeneous loans, interest rate discount			$ 1,900,000
Fair value adjustment on pools of homogeneous loans, credit discount			3,900,000
Merger related costs			2,200,000	$ 800,000
Merger related costs, early termination fees			2,000,000
IA Bancorp [Member] \| Certificates of Deposit [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair value adjustment, liabilities			$ 751,000