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Loans, Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses, and Reserve for Off-Balance Sheet Credit Commitments (Details 2) (USD $)	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2011	Jun. 30, 2010	Apr. 08, 2011	Mar. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	$ 1,724,633,000	$ 2,080,846,000			$ 1,857,522,000
Less: Allowance for loan losses	(67,629,000)	(46,255,000)		(82,016,000)	(67,389,000)
Covered loans, net of allowance for loan losses	1,657,004,000	2,034,591,000			1,790,133,000
Acquired loans from NCB
Preliminary estimates of the contractually required payments receivable for all acquired impaired covered loans of NCB			107,400,000
Cash flows expected to be collected			66,200,000
Fair value of the acquired non-covered impaired loans			55,300,000
Fair value of acquired loans not accounted for as acquired impaired loans at acquisition date			1,100,000
Certain Loans Acquired in Transfer Not Accounted for as Debt Securities, Accretable Yield Movement Schedule
Balance at the beginning of the period	562,826,000	687,126,000
Additions	10,871,000	48,644,000
Accretion	(54,558,000)	(58,776,000)
Reclassifications to nonaccretable yield	13,461,000	(114,883,000)
Disposals and other	(27,127,000)	5,926,000
Balance at the end of the period	505,473,000	568,037,000
FDIC indemnification asset	261,734,000	394,012,000			295,466,000
Commercial
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	41,135,000	85,638,000			55,082,000
Commercial real estate mortgages
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	1,482,186,000	1,710,159,000			1,569,739,000
Residential mortgage
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	19,494,000	21,680,000			18,380,000
Real estate construction
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	173,263,000	250,162,000			204,945,000
Equity lines of credit
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	5,791,000	9,780,000			6,919,000
Installment loan
Accounts notes and loans receivable
Covered loans	$ 2,764,000	$ 3,427,000			$ 2,457,000