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Investment Securities - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
positions
Mar. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2014
positions
Investment Identifier [Line Items]      
Amount of impairment losses reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income into earnings $ 0us-gaap_OtherThanTemporaryImpairmentLossesInvestmentsPortionInOtherComprehensiveIncomeLossBeforeTaxIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest $ 0us-gaap_OtherThanTemporaryImpairmentLossesInvestmentsPortionInOtherComprehensiveIncomeLossBeforeTaxIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest  
Total number of securities in an unrealized loss position 69wal_NumberOfSecuritiesInUnrealizedPosition   109wal_NumberOfSecuritiesInUnrealizedPosition
Available-for-sale Securities, Continuous Unrealized Loss Position, Accumulated Loss 9,184,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesContinuousUnrealizedLossPositionAccumulatedLoss   13,891,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesContinuousUnrealizedLossPositionAccumulatedLoss
Securities with carrying amounts were pledged $ 739,500,000us-gaap_PledgedFinancialInstrumentsNotSeparatelyReportedOtherDebtSecuritiesAvailableForSaleOrHeldForInvestment   $ 755,500,000us-gaap_PledgedFinancialInstrumentsNotSeparatelyReportedOtherDebtSecuritiesAvailableForSaleOrHeldForInvestment