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Fees accreted into income during interest rate swap agreements years.

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Loan loss reserve for off balance sheet activities.

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Reserve or liability balance for financial instruments with off balance sheet risk.

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Fair value of the assets less the liabilities of a derivative or group of derivatives.

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Aggregate notional amount of interest rate derivatives, which relates to the currency amount specified in the interest rate derivative instruments.

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Provision charged for the period based on estimated losses to be realized from loan transactions.

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Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Details Textual) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Jun. 30, 2011
Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Additional Textual) [Abstract]
Reserve or liability balance for financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk	$ 0
Provision for loan losses expended for financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk	0.5	0.4
Loan loss reserve for off balance sheet activities		0.4
Notional amount of the underlying interest rate swap agreements entered into by commercial loan customers with correspondent banks	30.0		100.0
Net fair value of interest rate swaps entered into by commercial loan customer's with correspondent banks	$ (4.4)
Maximum [Member]
Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Textual) [Abstract]
Fees accreted into income during interest rate swap agreements years	15 years
Minimum [Member]
Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Textual) [Abstract]
Fees accreted into income during interest rate swap agreements years	4 years