Fair Value - Carrying Amounts and Estimated Fair Values of Financial Instruments, Not Carried at Fair Value (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Mar. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2019
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash, due from banks, money market, and other interest-earning investments	$ 343,177	$ 276,337
Total loans	12,384,612	12,117,524
Accrued interest receivable	77,810	85,123
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits	4,058,559	4,042,286
Time deposits	1,541,694	1,682,230
Federal funds purchased and interbank borrowings	560,770	350,414
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	318,067	327,782	$ 342,480
Federal Home Loan Bank advances	2,130,263	1,822,847
Other borrowings	236,114	243,685
Carrying Value
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash, due from banks, money market, and other interest-earning investments	343,177	276,337
Accrued interest receivable	77,810	85,123
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits	4,058,559	4,042,286
Checking, NOW, savings, and money market interest-bearing deposits	8,705,109	8,828,881
Time deposits	1,541,694	1,682,230
Federal funds purchased and interbank borrowings	560,770	350,414
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	318,067	327,782
Federal Home Loan Bank advances	2,130,263	1,822,847
Other borrowings	236,114	243,685
Accrued interest payable	6,113	8,272
Standby letters of credit	459	573
Commitments to extend credit	0	0
Carrying Value \| Commercial
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	3,012,704	2,867,711
Carrying Value \| Commercial real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	5,226,694	5,145,204
Carrying Value \| Residential real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	2,318,214	2,331,990
Carrying Value \| Consumer
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	1,720,620	1,718,000
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash, due from banks, money market, and other interest-earning investments	343,177	276,337
Accrued interest receivable	41	15
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits	4,058,559	4,042,286
Checking, NOW, savings, and money market interest-bearing deposits	8,705,109	8,828,881
Time deposits	0	0
Federal funds purchased and interbank borrowings	560,770	350,414
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	318,067	327,782
Federal Home Loan Bank advances	0	0
Other borrowings	0	0
Accrued interest payable	0	0
Standby letters of credit	0	0
Commitments to extend credit	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) \| Commercial
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) \| Commercial real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) \| Residential real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1) \| Consumer
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash, due from banks, money market, and other interest-earning investments	0	0
Accrued interest receivable	23,744	28,185
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits	0	0
Checking, NOW, savings, and money market interest-bearing deposits	0	0
Time deposits	1,563,286	1,692,569
Federal funds purchased and interbank borrowings	0	0
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	0	0
Federal Home Loan Bank advances	2,279,323	1,875,089
Other borrowings	242,995	254,519
Accrued interest payable	6,113	8,272
Standby letters of credit	0	0
Commitments to extend credit	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) \| Commercial
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) \| Commercial real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) \| Residential real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) \| Consumer
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	0	0
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Cash, due from banks, money market, and other interest-earning investments	0	0
Accrued interest receivable	54,025	56,923
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits	0	0
Checking, NOW, savings, and money market interest-bearing deposits	0	0
Time deposits	0	0
Federal funds purchased and interbank borrowings	0	0
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase	0	0
Federal Home Loan Bank advances	0	0
Other borrowings	0	0
Accrued interest payable	0	0
Standby letters of credit	459	573
Commitments to extend credit	15,647	4,302
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Commercial
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	2,984,123	2,831,298
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Commercial real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	5,184,989	5,130,848
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Residential real estate
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	2,334,673	2,357,341
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement \| Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) \| Consumer
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Total loans	$ 1,718,474	$ 1,676,253

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Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.

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The fair value of financial liabilities, which are not recognized in the financial statements (off-balance sheet) because they fail to meet some other criterion for recognition.

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Amount of short term borrowing where a bank borrows, at the federal funds rate, from another bank.

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of interest earned but not received. Also called accrued interest or accrued interest receivable.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Amount before allowance and after deduction of deferred interest and fees, unamortized costs and premiums and discounts from face amounts, of loans and leases held in portfolio, including but not limited to, commercial and consumer loans. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements.

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