Loans - Certain Loans Acquired In Transfer Not Accounted For As Debt Securities Accretable Yield Movement Schedule Rollforward (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2018
Certain Loans Acquired in Transfer Accounted for as Debt Securities, Accretable Yield Movement Schedule [Roll Forward]
Balance, beginning of period	$ 13,375	$ 15,623
Accretion	(1,673)	(2,137)
Adjustment for payoffs	(462)	(612)
Adjustment for charge-offs	(176)	(551)
Increase/(decrease) in accretable yield	2,718	3,178
Other	0	(178)
Balance, end of period	$ 13,782	$ 15,323

Adjustment to the accretable yield for charge-offs

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- Definition

Changes in the accretable yield due to both transfers from the nonaccretable difference and also due to the impact of changes in actual and expected timing of the cash flows.

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Adjustment to accretable yield due to loans moving out of the PCI population (TDR, etc)

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Adjustment to the accretable yield for loan payoffs

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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.

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- Definition

Amount of the excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in acquired loans not accounted for as debt securities with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 30
-Section 15
-Paragraph 2
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82894903&loc=d3e15032-111544

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Amount of accretion recognized for the excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in acquired loans not accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality.

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