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Investment Securities - Additional Information (Detail)	Sep. 30, 2013 Security	Dec. 31, 2012 Security
Investments Debt And Equity Securities [Abstract]
Number of securities having unrealized holding losses with aggregate depreciation	11	9
Unrealized holding losses depreciation	3.67%	1.90%

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Unrealized holding losses depreciation percentage from amortized cost.

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Number of investment positions in available-for-sale investments in a continuous unrealized loss position for which an other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI) has not been recognized in the income statement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 320

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 6

-Subparagraph (b)(3)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27724398&loc=d3e27290-111563

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