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Investment Securities (Details Textual)	Mar. 31, 2013 Security	Dec. 31, 2012 Security
Investment Securities (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of securities having unrealized holding losses with aggregate depreciation	10	9
Unrealized holding losses depreciation	1.60%	1.90%

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Unrealized holding losses depreciation percentage from amortized cost.

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Disclosure regarding factors used to determine that the impairment of securities not categorized as either held-to-maturity securities or trading securities (hence equal to available for sale securities) where cost exceeds fair value is not an other than temporary impairment (OTTI). This item contains disclosure of the number of investment positions in the available-for-sale investments determined to be temporarily impaired.

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