Represents the weighted average ancillary income per year, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Represents the weighted average cost to service per year, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Represents the weighted average float rate, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Amount of revenue from servicing real estate mortgages, credit cards, and other financial assets held by others.

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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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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Rate at which loans or a loan portfolio are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Loan Servicing Rights - Assumptions Used in Determining Fair Value (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
Loan servicing rights
Loan servicing fee income	$ 4,500,000	$ 2,100,000	$ 13,600,000	$ 4,700,000
Mortgage
Loan servicing rights
Cost to service/per year			66
Ancillary income/per year			$ 31		$ 28
WA float range			1.20%
Mortgage \| Weighted Average
Loan servicing rights
Discount rate			10.10%		10.10%
WA float range					1.00%
Mortgage \| Minimum
Loan servicing rights
Prepayment speed			0.00%		0.00%
Cost to service/per year					$ 65
Mortgage \| Maximum
Loan servicing rights
Prepayment speed			37.70%		99.80%
Cost to service/per year					$ 90