Allowance for Credit Losses
Allowance for Credit Losses is a credit-risk concept used to measure default exposure, loss severity, or expected lending losses.
Credit Loss Reserves and Recovery terms for delinquency, default, expected loss, reserves, recovery rates, problem assets, and credit-risk models.
Credit Loss Reserves and Recovery terms explain how credit exposure deteriorates, how payment status is tracked, how losses are estimated, and how recoveries affect lender or investor outcomes.
Use this branch when delinquency, default, charge-off, expected loss, allowance, recovery, problem asset status, or credit-risk modeling changes analysis.
| Term | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Allowance for Credit Losses | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Expected Loss | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Loan Loss Provision | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Loan-Loss Reserve | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Loss Given Default | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
| Recovery Rate | Delinquency, default, charge-off, expected-loss, allowance, recovery, problem-asset, or credit-risk model term. |
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Allowance for Credit Losses is a credit-risk concept used to measure default exposure, loss severity, or expected lending losses.
Allowance for loan and lease losses is a reserve for estimated credit losses in a lender's loan and lease portfolio.
Credit-risk measure estimating the average loss a lender expects after combining default probability, exposure, and loss severity.
Loan Loss Provision is a credit-risk concept used to measure default exposure, loss severity, or expected lending losses.
Loan-Loss Reserve is a credit-risk concept used to measure default exposure, loss severity, or expected lending losses.
Credit-risk metric measuring the share of exposure expected to be lost if a borrower defaults, after considering recoveries.
Percentage of a defaulted exposure that is ultimately recovered through collections, collateral proceeds, restructuring, or other workout actions.