Mortgage Servicing Rights - Quantitative Assumptions Used for MSRs (Details)	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Minimum
Quantitative assumptions used in determining lower of cost or fair value of MSRs
Conditional prepayment rate (as a percent)	8.09%	13.77%
Life in years (of the MSR)	2 years 4 months 20 days	1 year 11 months 26 days
Weighted-average coupon rate (as a percent)	3.55%	3.58%
Discount rate (as a percent)	10.00%	10.00%
Maximum
Quantitative assumptions used in determining lower of cost or fair value of MSRs
Conditional prepayment rate (as a percent)	25.35%	25.19%
Life in years (of the MSR)	7 years 1 month 9 days	5 years 3 months 21 days
Weighted-average coupon rate (as a percent)	6.37%	6.56%
Discount rate (as a percent)	10.01%	10.01%
Weighted Average
Quantitative assumptions used in determining lower of cost or fair value of MSRs
Conditional prepayment rate (as a percent)	8.45%	14.61%
Life in years (of the MSR)	6 years 10 months 13 days	5 years 10 days
Weighted-average coupon rate (as a percent)	3.68%	3.71%
Discount rate (as a percent)	10.00%	10.00%

Weighted average coupon rate used to estimate the fair value of servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Discount rate used to estimate the fair value of servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Estimated rate of prepayments of principal on servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Weighted average life of financial assets and financial liabilities, 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/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
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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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