Mortgage Servicing Rights - Fair Value of Mortgage Servicing Rights (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Servicing Assets at Fair Value [Line Items]
Contractually specified servicing fees, late fees and ancillary fees earned	$ 517	$ 534
Weighted-average prepayment speed (CPR)	11.60%	13.00%
Weighted-average discount rate	10.00%	10.00%
Mortgage Servicing Rights [Member]
Servicing Assets at Fair Value [Line Items]
Balance at beginning of period	$ 7,618	$ 7,378	$ 7,378
Additions	220	185
Change in fair value	(698)	(506)
Balance at end of period	7,140	7,057	7,618
Loans [Member]
Servicing Assets at Fair Value [Line Items]
Balance at beginning of period	817,917	840,288	840,288
Balance at end of period	$ 813,800	$ 832,143	$ 817,917

The total amount of contractually specified servicing fees, late fees, and ancillary fees earned for each period for which results of operations are presented.

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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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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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The value of new servicing assets, subsequently measured at fair value, acquired or created during the current period through purchases or from transfers of financial assets.

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Fair value of an asset representing net future revenue from contractually specified servicing fees, late charges, and other ancillary revenues, in excess of future costs related to servicing arrangements.

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The increase (decrease) in the fair value of servicing assets that are subsequently measured at fair value.

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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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