NON-COVERED LOANS AND ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN LOSSES (Off-Balance Sheet) (Details) (USD $)	Dec. 31, 2011	Sep. 30, 2011
Allowance for unfunded loan commitments, off-balance sheet credit exposures and recourse provisions [Abstract]
Allowance for unfunded loan commitments, off-balance sheet credit exposures, and recourse provisions	$ 10,000,000	$ 11,200,000
Off-balance sheet loans serviced for others	2,510,000,000	2,190,000,000
Portion of allowance for unfunded loan commitments, off-balance sheet credit exposures, and recourse provisions related to off-balance sheet loans serviced for others	$ 4,700,000	$ 4,500,000

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This includes only the derecognized portion of the total principal amount of financial assets which have been either securitized, used in an asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfers which are accounted for as sales and in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets).

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