Business Acquisition, Cash Consideration, Per Share Amount

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Business Acquisition, Consideration Transferred, Cash Component, Percent

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Business Acquisition, Consideration Transferred, Equity Component, Percent

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Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Assets, Total

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Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Deposits

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Business Acquisition, Pro Forma Loans

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Business Acquisition, Stock for Stock Consideration, Conversion Ratio

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Percentage of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to other nondeductible expenses.

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MERGER AND ACQUISITION ACTIVITY (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended		0 Months Ended
MERGER AND ACQUISITION ACTIVITY (Details) (USD $)	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 27, 2015
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger and acquisition costs	$ 735,000	$ 0
SBM Financial, Inc.
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration transferred			135,000,000
Share price (dollars per share)			$ 38.60
Percentage of shares to be converted (percent)			80.00%
Percentage of shares to be paid in cash			20.00%
Business acquisition, stock for stock consideration, conversion ratio			5.421
Business acquisition, cash consideration, per share amount (dollars per share)			$ 206
Pro forma assets, total			3,600,000,000
Pro forma, loans			2,400,000,000
Pro forma, deposits			2,600,000,000
Merger and acquisition costs	$ 735,000
Effective income tax rate increase (percent)	2.10%