Financing Receivable, 90 Days or More Past Due, Still Accruing, Count

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Impaired Financing Receivable, with No Related Allowance, Recorded Investment, Impaired Prior Year

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Loans And Leases Receivable, Loans Sold

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Loans and Leases Receivable, Allowance, Length of Historical and Industry Loss Factors

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Loans and Leases Receivable, Significant Purchases

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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 of financing receivable modified as troubled debt restructuring.

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Number of financing receivable contracts modified as troubled debt restructuring within previous 12 months, with subsequent payment default.

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Amount of financing receivable 90 days or more past due and still accruing.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale of financing receivable.

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Amount of investment in impaired financing receivables for which there is no related allowance for credit losses.

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Reflects the amount of additional interest income that would have been recorded if impaired or nonperforming loans were instead current, in compliance with their original terms, and outstanding throughout the reporting period or since origination (if held for part of the period).

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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of loans that have been pledged as collateral for borrowings. If the secured party has the right by contract or custom to sell or re-pledge the collateral, then the debtor reclassifies that asset and report that asset in its statement of financial position separately from other assets not so encumbered.

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Loans and Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses - Narrative (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) loan	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Gross loans	$ 1,278,981,000		$ 1,278,981,000		$ 1,126,339,000
Loans and leases receivable sold	5,800,000	$ 3,000,000.0	5,800,000	$ 10,100,000
Gain on sales of loan	535,000	265,000	535,000	866,000
Loans and leases receivable purchased	$ 0	81,000,000.0	$ 0	123,100,000
Loans and leases receivable, allowance, length of historical and industry loss factors			4 years
Loans greater than 90 days and accruing, count \| loan	4		4
Loans greater than 90 days and accruing	$ 3,700,000		$ 3,700,000		0
Impaired loans with no specific reserves	15,808,000		15,808,000		14,577,000
Impaired loans, impaired in prior year	9,200,000		9,200,000
Interest that would have been earned had impaired loans remained current in accordance with original terms	524,000	$ 50,000	1,500,000	$ 54,000
Troubled debt restructurings, totals	$ 130,000		$ 130,000		0
Subsequent default, number of contracts \| loan	0	0	0	0
Commercial loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Gross loans	$ 614,737,000		$ 614,737,000		409,420,000
Loans and leases receivable purchased		$ 81,000,000.0		$ 39,900,000
Impaired loans with no specific reserves	9,244,000		9,244,000		7,996,000
Consumer loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Gross loans	83,736,000		83,736,000		90,867,000
Impaired loans with no specific reserves	261,000		261,000		74,000
PPP \| Commercial loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Gross loans	281,000,000.0		281,000,000.0
Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco \| Commercial loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Loans pledged to secure borrowings obtained from the FHLB and FRB	160,000,000		160,000,000
Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco \| Consumer loans
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Loans pledged to secure borrowings obtained from the FHLB and FRB					210,000,000
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable
Loans pledged to secure borrowings obtained from the FHLB and FRB	$ 443,000,000		$ 443,000,000		$ 278,000,000