Significant Components of Contract Acquisition Costs (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Acquired Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Conversion costs, net	$ 159,000	$ 159,339
Payments for processing rights, net	88,811	76,966
Total	$ 247,811	$ 236,305

The carrying amount of conversion costs net of accumulated amortization as of the balance sheet date.

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The carrying amount of payments for processing rights net of accumulated amortization as of the balance sheet date.

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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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Amount after amortization of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 350
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26713463&loc=d3e16323-109275

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