Business Combination, Cash Consideration Per Share

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Enterprise value of the company being acquired

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Business Combination, Termination Fee

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Number of new operating segments that separated the previously reported Financial Services segment into two new segments, Domestic Financial Services and International Financial Services.

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The impact on treasury stock used to settle a portion of the stock split.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Ratio applied to the conversion of stock split, for example but not limited to, one share converted to two or two shares converted to one.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (SAB TOPIC 4.C)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187143-122770

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Glossary Stock Split
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6525746

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Description of Business (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
	May 09, 2017	Dec. 31, 2017 segment shares	Jan. 11, 2018 USD ($) $ / shares
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Number of new operating segments \| segment		2
Number of operating segments \| segment		3
Treasury shares, stock split \| shares		16.5
Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Cash consideration per share \| $ / shares			$ 84.00
Enterprise value \| $			$ 5,400.0
Business Combination, Termination Fee \| $			$ 165.0
Common Stock
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Stock split, conversion ratio	2