Loans Held for Sale - Composition of Loans Held for Sale (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	6 Months Ended	10 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016	Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Receivables Held-for-sale [Abstract]
Mortgage warehouse loans at fair value	$ 2,271,893	$ 2,271,893	$ 1,754,950
Multi-family loans at lower of cost or fair value	27,527	27,527	39,257
Commercial loans held for sale	2,299,420	2,299,420	1,794,207
Residential mortgage loans at fair value	2,401	2,401	2,857
Loans held for sale	$ 2,301,821	2,301,821	$ 1,797,064
Loans held for sale, average life from purchase to sale	19 days
Transfer of loans held for sale to held for investment		$ 30,400

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Mortgage Warehouse Loans Held For Sale

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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of commercial and industrial loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of commercial mortgage loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of mortgage loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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Value of loans held-for-sale transferred to loans held in the entity's portfolio in noncash transactions.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
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