LOANS - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Accretable yield for PCI loans	$ 2,900	$ 3,400
TDR balance	27,500	32,000	$ 14,300
Additional amount committed on TDR loans	0
TDR Period Increase (Decrease), Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses	127	1,400	105
Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses Write-offs, Net	0	0	0
TDRs for increased allowance for loan losses	81	1,300	99
PPP Loans	239,700
PCI Loans
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Outstanding purchased credit impaired loan, Balance	11,600	14,500
Lease financing receivable
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment [Line Items]
Interest income not recorded due to loans in non-accrual status	1,500	348	$ 782
Non- Accrual	$ 0	$ 0

Additional amount committed on any loans classified as a troubled debt restructuring.

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Recorded investment in financing receivables that are on nonaccrual status as of the balance sheet date.

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The gross interest income that would have been recorded if the nonaccrual loan had been current and in accordance with the original terms and had been outstanding throughout the period or since origination.

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The amount represents the paycheck protection program loans.

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The amount represents the TDRs for increase allowance for loan losses.

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Amount of increase (decrease) of allowance reserve for credit loss.

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Amount, after recoveries, of loans and leases that have been written-off.

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The aggregate excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in the loan for loans accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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The undiscounted sum of all amounts, including amounts deemed principal, interest, fees, penalties, and other under the loan, owed to the investor at the reporting date, whether or not currently due and whether or not any such amounts have been written or charged off by the investor. This relates to loans not accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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Amount of financing receivable modified as troubled debt restructuring.

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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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