LOAN SALES AND MORTGAGE SERVICING RIGHTS (Details) - First Foundation Bank - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023	Mar. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2022
Loan Sales And Mortgage Servicing Rights [Line Items]
Mortgage servicing rights	$ 5.9		$ 5.9
Loans serviced for other financial institution	1,000.0		1,100.0
Valuation allowance of mortgage servicing rights	0.8		$ 1.4
Servicing fees earned on loans	$ 0.6	$ 0.9
Contractually Specified Servicing Fee Income, Statement of Income or Comprehensive Income [Extensible Enumeration]	Noninterest Income Other Operating Income	Noninterest Income Other Operating Income

Loan sales and mortgage servicing rights.

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Mortgage servicing rights created from sale of loans serviced for others.

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Amount of valuation allowance associated with mortgage servicing rights.

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Indicates line item in statement of income or comprehensive income that includes contractually specified servicing fee income.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 50
-Section 50
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All amounts that, per contract, are due to the servicer in exchange for servicing the financial asset and would no longer be received by a servicer if the beneficial owners of the serviced assets (or their trustees or agents) were to exercise their actual or potential authority under the contract to shift the servicing to another servicer. Depending on the servicing contract, those fees may include some or all of the difference between the interest rate collected on the asset being serviced and the rate to be paid to the beneficial owners of the asset.

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Fair value of an asset representing net future revenue from contractually specified servicing fees, late charges, and other ancillary revenues, in excess of future costs related to servicing arrangements.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
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