The weighted average delinquency rate for servicing assets or liabilities.

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Represents the capitalization multiple used to estimate the fair value of servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Represents the initial capitalization rate for additions to servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Represents the weighted-average servicing fee for servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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Represents the capitalization rate used to estimate the fair value of servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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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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Discount rate which is used to value residual cash flows generated by financial assets of a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer regardless of when the transfer occurred.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (b)(1)
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Estimated rate of prepayment of principal on financial assets regardless of when the transfer occurred.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (b)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82924980&loc=d3e107314-111719

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Weighted average life of financial assets and financial liabilities, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 50
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (d)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68078379&loc=d3e122596-111746

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Fair Value Measurements - Assumptions used in MSRs and MSRs secured liability (Details)	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016
MSRs Secured Liability
Significant assumptions used in estimating fair value
Weighted-average prepayment speed (CPR)	10.50%
Option adjusted spread	9.88%
Weighted-average delinquency rate	3.80%
MSRs Owned
Significant assumptions used in estimating fair value
Initial capitalization rate of additions to MSRs owned	1.10%	1.00%
Capitalization servicing rate	0.67%		0.82%
Capitalization servicing multiple	230.00%		290.00%
Weighted-average servicing fee (in basis points)	0.29%		0.28%
Weighted-average life (years)	6 years		6 years 3 months 18 days
MSRs Owned \| Mortgage servicing rights
Significant assumptions used in estimating fair value
Weighted-average prepayment speed (CPR)	8.40%		9.20%
Option adjusted spread	4.90%		14.30%
Weighted-average delinquency rate	12.00%		5.10%
MSRs Under Secured Borrowing Arrangement
Significant assumptions used in estimating fair value
Capitalization servicing rate	0.85%
Capitalization servicing multiple	320.00%
Weighted-average servicing fee (in basis points)	0.27%
Weighted-average life (years)	5 years 9 months
MSRs Under Secured Borrowing Arrangement \| Mortgage servicing rights
Significant assumptions used in estimating fair value
Weighted-average prepayment speed (CPR)	10.50%
Option adjusted spread	9.88%
Weighted-average delinquency rate	3.80%