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1. ''Interest rates - reference rates''.
1. ''Noun.''


A 'fallback' is a specified alternative reference interest rate, for use in the event that the originally envisaged reference rate is unavailable.
An exchange rate system in which exchange rates are either fixed, or managed within a range on either side of a target exchange rate.


"Whilst fallbacks are contained in existing documentation should a reference rate become (temporarily) unavailable, these were not drafted as a long-term solution [to the permanent retirement of LIBOR]."


''ACT Briefing Note, Transition to risk free rate benchmarks.''
2.  ''Verb.''


 
To establish a fixed conversion rate for an asset, into a more widely accepted asset.
2.
 
Similar arrangements in other contexts.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Alternate Base Rate]]
* [[Acceptance]]
* [[Benchmark]]
* [[Exchange rate]]
* [[Bloomberg Index Services Limited]]  (BISL)
* [[Crawling peg system]]
* [[Hardwired]]
* [[Managed float]]
* [[Legacy]]
* [[PayPal USD]]
* [[LIBOR]]
* [[Stablecoin]]
* [[Reference rate]]
* [[Risk-free rates]]
* [[Transition]]
* [[Waterfall]]
* [[Waterfall methodology]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 10:06, 30 July 2024

1. Noun.

An exchange rate system in which exchange rates are either fixed, or managed within a range on either side of a target exchange rate.


2. Verb.

To establish a fixed conversion rate for an asset, into a more widely accepted asset.


See also