Loans and Allowance for Loan Losses - Schedule of Receivables for which Contractually Required Payments would not be Collected (Detail) - KleinBank [Member] - Minnesota [Member] $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Contractually required payments	$ 18,568
Nonaccretable difference	(4,521)
Cash flows expected to be collected at acquisition	14,047
Accretable yield	(2,384)
Fair value of acquired loans at acquisition	$ 11,663

Amount of contractually required payments on purchased impaired loans at acquisition.

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Fair value at acquisition of acquired loans accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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Amount of cash flows expected to be collected at acquisition of acquired loans accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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The aggregate excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in the loan. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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