Intangible Assets (Details 1) - Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Assumptions used in estimating the fair value of mortgage service rights
Weighted average constant prepayment rate	8.29%	10.30%
Weighted average note rate	3.85%	3.91%
Weighted average discount rate	9.72%	9.19%
Weighted average expected life (in years)	6 years 6 months	5 years 8 months 12 days

The weighted average note rate used to estimate the fair value of servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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

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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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Estimated rate of prepayments of principal on servicing assets and servicing liabilities.

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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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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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