Business Combination, Agreement Price in Acquisition

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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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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Cash outflow representing an adjustment to the purchase price of a previous acquisition.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of a business, net of the cash acquired from the purchase.

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The cash outflow associated with the purchase of or advances to an equity method investments, which are investments in joint ventures and entities in which the entity has an equity ownership interest normally of 20 to 50 percent and exercises significant influence.

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Acquisition - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Thousands, BRL in Millions		3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Mar. 14, 2016 BRL	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 BRL	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Deferred payments of previous acquisitions		$ 3,400				$ 3,400
Aggregate purchase price		9,006	$ 851
Servicos e Technologia de Pagamentos S.A. [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Price in purchase agreement \| BRL	BRL 4,086
Masternaut Group Holdings Limited [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Additional investment		$ 4,900				8,400
2015 Acquisitions [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price						$ 45,700
Scenario, Forecast [Member] \| Servicos e Technologia de Pagamentos S.A. [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price				BRL 4,200	$ 1,140,000