Principal-Only Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities (Details) $ in Thousands	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024 USD ($)
Mortgage-backed securities
Fair Value	$ 960,267
Principal-Only-Strip MBS
Mortgage-backed securities
Contractual maturities term	10 years
Principal Balance	$ 1,121,494
Unearned discounts	(193,425)
Cumulative valuation changes	32,198
Fair Value	$ 960,267

Amount of mortgage-backed asset securities measured at fair value pledged to creditors.

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Contractual term of mortgage backed asset securities.

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Amount of gain (loss) from change in value of mortgage-backed asset securities.

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Principal amount of investment mortgage-backed asset securities.

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An unearned discount is interest or a charge that a lending institution has received on a mortgage but has not yet been counted as profits (or earnings).

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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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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 326
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 13
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147479319/326-20-50-13

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