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Fred Hobson, Vanshaj Jain: Guardrails on contractual discretions: navigating the content and consequences of the Braganza constraint (81)
Isabella Lewis: Security over e-money: the form of security and blocking (84)
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Akber Datoo: The “digital” answer is always netting … (89)
Henry Warwick, Benn Sheridan: Credit Suisse v Ivanishvili: the door opens to fraud-on-the-market claims under s 90A FSMA (93)
Karl Clowry: Do divergent terms across European leveraged finance documentation really create misunderstanding, mischief and mayhem? (97)
Ben Smiley, Helena Spector: The fraught identification of the wealthy investor as a “consumer” and/or “professional” (102)
Giulia Paladini, Charles Kerrigan: When code meets compliance: the institutional turn in Decentralised Finance (105)
Andy Vickery, Alex Shopow, Jördis Heckt-Harbeck, Guillaume Malaty, George Gooderham: Unlocking the potential: why the EU needs a dedicated securitisation special purpose entity (109)
Vincenzo Bavoso: The growth of private credit in the UK: the “new” threat to financial stability (115)
Phoebus L Athanassiou: Multi-issuance schemes for payment stablecoins: an EU-US comparison (119)
Michael Huertas: Supply chain finance in the EU: Part 2 – fixing enforceability: conflicts of law, true sale and an interoperable e‑notice regime (122)
In Practice
Karan Chopra, Bernard Lung, Tessa Mallia: Acquisition documents: overview of lender considerations (126)
Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Isobel Salzedo: The shifting focus of regulatory intervention: from enforcement to assertive supervision (128)
Mona Rothwell, Pragesh Sivaguru, Tony Katz: Is “name and shame” here to stay? Court dismisses challenge to FCA’s decision to publicly name (130)
Regulars
Case Analysis by One Essex Court: Mitchell v Al-Jaber and Beneathco DMCC v R.J. O’ Brien Limited (132)
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Features
Andrew Thompson, Philip MorrisonCarillon: a director’s strict duty to know the company’s true financial position? (5)
Rabin Kok: Third party rights and the LMA suite of Debt Documents (8)
Alan Davies, Michelle Gilmore-Parry: The rise of “hybrids” in the ever-converging PIK and Preferred Equity landscape (11)
Akber Datoo: Offer and acceptance … and sailing into the terms of decentralised networks (15)
Stephen Moverley Smith, Rachel Carver: Can beneficial noteholders commence insolvency proceedings? Diverging views emerge across the offshore world (21)
Dan Hirschovits, Aaron Ferner, Joshua Bunn: Going public: the impact of IPOs on facility agreements (24)
Susan Wong, Lim Wei Lee, Felix Lee: Sanctions clauses in documentary credit transactions: a cautionary tale (28)
David Rouch: Investor duties and sustainability: the turn towards tackling sustainability challenges (31)
Matthew Parfitt: Just a minute: inserting the time into pre-prepared board minutes (36)
Benjamin Pilling, Ruth Bala: Shared appreciation mortgages: how far can the “unfair relationships” regime stretch? (38)
Ciarán McGonagle, Finn Casey Fierro: For whom the code tolls: an integrated, modular architecture for smart derivatives contracts (41)
Simon Crown, Monica Sah, Sara Evans: Third country market access for core banking services in the EU: all change from autumn 2026 (45)
Jacob J Meagher: The implications of the novel “Audit Duty” on professional service firms: Part 2 (49)
In Practice
James Greene, Martin Forbes, Nicola Chapman, Man Hay Yip, : The art of the intercreditor Ripping up the rulebook: financing the energy transition (54)
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