Charge Off
Lending | Billateral Loan | Maintenance

Borrowers can default on their payments due to economic or other personal crises. Under these circumstances, a bank may deem certain receivable amounts on the loan arrangement to be charged off. A charge off can be for the overdue amounts (partial) or the entire loan amount. Customers are not aware of a charge off and bills are generated as usual. However, the charged off balances are held in a separate account on the banks books (shadow balances).