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balloon payment
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Balloon Payment
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Balloon Payment
The final (large) payment that repays all the remaining principal and interest of a partially amortized or unamortized loan.

balloon payment
A final loan payment that is significantly larger than the payments preceding it. For example, a bond issuer may redeem 3% of the original issue each year for 20 years and then retire the remaining 40% in the year of maturity.


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