That is a neat marketing trick

One week ago, we showed in one chart why the global economic recovery that so many expect is just a few months away, won't happen: as the chart below shows, China's credit intensity since 1994 has exploded. This means that before the Global Financial Crisis, China needed on average one unit of credit to create one unit of GDP. Since 2008, 2½ units of credit are required to create one unit of GDP. In other words, that China needs much more credit than 10 years ago to have the exact same amount of GDP. Injecting more credit in the economy is not the miracle solution it used to be, and the disadvantages of credit push tend to surpass the advantages.

Get the customer to over borrow, collect interest charges, then give him a break.  The balloon payment was up front.