Sales of Receivables and Servicing Rights - Servicing Rights and Residual Interests Economic Assumptions (Details)	3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2021
Fixed-rate
Schedule of Servicing Assets at Amortized Value
Weighted- Average Life (in years)	7 years 7 months 6 days	5 years 10 months 24 days
Prepayment Speed (annual) (as a percent)	8.40%	12.30%
OAS (bps)	7.95%	61000.00%
Adjustable-rate
Schedule of Servicing Assets at Amortized Value
Weighted- Average Life (in years)	2 years 10 months 24 days	0 years
Prepayment Speed (annual) (as a percent)	27.30%	0.00%
OAS (bps)	7.89%	0.00%

Option adjusted spread basis points.

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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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Weighted average life of securitized assets regardless of when the transfer occurred, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (b)(2)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121570589&loc=d3e107314-111719

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Estimated rate of prepayment of principal on financial assets regardless of when the transfer occurred.

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