Floating leg

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Of an interest rate swap, the side of it that references a floating rate.

There is some scope for puns and wordplay around floating legs — you know, severed limbs bobbing up and down in a butt of Malmsey, that kind of thing — but not really much.

See also

• 2006 ISDA Definitions