Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/1

Spotlight

  • David Murphy: Financial regulation and the search for growth (3)

Features

  • Lindsay Hingston, Georgina Peters, Alex Thomson, Michael Atkinson: Liability management exercises in England: where are we? (5)
  • Mark Vinall: Does payment into a customer’s bank account enrich the bank? (9)
  • Alan Davies, Brad Taylor: MFN clauses in private credit facility agreements (12)
  • Paul Sinclair: Ending LIBOR: a landmark ruling on Tough Legacy contracts (14)
  • Noel Casey: The cost of further assurance (17)
  • Cecily Crampin, Camilla Chorfi: The Building Safety Act: issues for lenders (19)
  • Edward Cumming, James Fennemore: “Green revolution”? Solicitors’ duties in the light of risks relating to climate change (23)
  • Paul Fradley, Matteo Clarkson-Maciel: Cineworld: contracting out of a restructuring plan (27)
  • Dhananjay Kumar, Abhishek Mukherjee: Enforcement against Indian obligors: key considerations (30)
  • Matthey Lavy, Alex Taylor: Valuation date in cryptoasset claims (35)
  • William Hibbert: The law on undisclosed commissions: ripe for review by the Supreme Court (38)
  • Thomas Lowe: Offshore case law on bondholders as contingent creditors (42)
  • Thomas Wong: Indirect transfers of value “at the expense of” a claimant: comparative perspective (45)

In Practice

  • Charles Bischoff, James Bell: Car finance commission arrangements: implications for speciality finance transactions (49)
  • Pascal Urban: German obligors in cross-border financing transactions (51)
  • Sara Evans, Georgios Pantelias: Paying for investment research: welcome rule relaxations for EU and UK firms (54)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (55)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (60)
  • Market Movements by CMS (65)
  • Deals (67)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (68)
  • International Briefings from Switzerland and Turkey (69)

Editor’s note:

Everyone at JIBFL was saddened to hear of the passing of Dorothy Livingston, a highly respected and prolific contributor. Her articles were always enlightening and incisive. She will be sorely missed.

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/1

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Digital Assets: why the Law Commission are wrong about control (3)


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)
  • Chris Armstrong, Christopher Sullivan: Preparing for a new UK securitisation framework (56)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (58)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (64)
  • Market Movements by CMS (69)
  • Deals (71)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (72)