Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/2

Spotlight

  • Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 1 (75)
  • Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 2

Feature

  • Avinash Persaud: Climate-related disasters, why insurance is not the solution and what is (85)
  • Louise Merrett: Conflicts of laws and the ratification of unauthorised acts by agents (87)
  • Benedict Tompkins: The LMA sovereign immunity clause and enforcement proceedings (90)
  • Nelson Enonchong: Secured lending: when is the lender put on inquiry in a “hybrid” transaction? (93)
  • Douglas Deutsch, Michelle McGreal, Tim Lees, Sarah Campbell: Insolvency and automatic acceleration in US Chapter 11: to accelerate, or not to accelerate, that is the question (98)
  • Reuven Young, Maxim Van de moortel: Private IPOs as a capital raising and exit strategy in today’s market environment (102)
  • Shail Patel: Reliance revisited: High Court construes statutory requirements for UK securities fraud claims (105)
  • Matthew Parker: Force majeure in loan agreements: illegality under the standard form LMA clause (107)
  • Adam Eckersley-Waites: National Security and Investment Act 2021: three years later (112)
  • Ciarán McGonagle, Andrei Kirilenko: Schrödinger’s property? D’Aloia and the legal superposition of digital assets (115)
  • John-Patrick Asimakis: Identifying the place of performance in English law transactions involving foreign banks (118)
  • David McIlroy, Clyde Darrell: Crypto-lending: does the UK’s consumer credit regime offer an avenue for redress? (122)

In Practice

  • Dean Naumowicz, Delyth Hughes, Nick Surry: Key hedging considerations in negotiating intercreditor terms (126)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Elizabeth Stephens: Modernising the redress system: exploring the need for alternative processes (128)
  • Dominic Stuttaford, Susanna Brain: Interest deductibility: the “unallowable purpose” rule after Blackrock, JTI and Kwik-Fit (129)

Regulars

  • Book Reviews by Professor Bobby V Reddy (131)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (133)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (137)
  • Market Movements by CMS (144)
  • Deals (146)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (147)
  • International Briefings from the USA and Finland (148)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/6

Spotlight

  • James Palmer: The urgent need for better law and rule making: challenges and solutions (371)

Features

  • Avinash Persaud: Lesson from the SVG collapse for banking reputation (380)
  • Kate Sumpter: Re-fencing: the pitfalls, and opportunities, of M&A ofr ring-fenced banks (382)
  • Jo Windsor: The impact of Pt 26A Restructuring Plans on intercreditor dynamics (385)
  • Hanif Virji: Wht is collateral special value? (389)
  • Richard Aikens, Andrew Dinsmore: The practicalities of pleading and proving foreign law in modern financial litigation (392)
  • Isobel Bull, Brenda Rweyemamu: Time to hit the road: considerations when replacing trustees on secured debt transactions (395)
  • Richard Lissack, Robin Lööf: Failure to prevent fraud: making up for failure to prosecute? (397)
  • Elizabeth Ovey: Subrogation and the case of the dissolved co-debtor (400)
  • Hannah Fearn: Using guarantees for capital relief: legal characterisation matters (404)
  • Matthew Watson, Sarah Rutnah: Commercial choices: are Braganza duties path to payment under commission agreements? (407)
  • Elaine Chan, Sion Yoong Tian: Crypto headwinds: an overview of regulations in Singapore, the EU, UK and US (410)
  • Phoebus L Athanassiou: Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies: core assumptions and legal implications (414)

In Practice

  • Rebecca Hoskins, Katie Hoyle, Julia Machin: Practical Implications of USD LIBOR panel cessation for „tough legacy” contracts: a brief refresher (416)
  • Alex Martin, Ellen Marks, Kristine Kozicki: Conflicting signals? Potential impacts of the SEC’s proposed conflicts of interest rule on UK and EU CLO managers (418)
  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins: Embedded finance: Dear CEO (420)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis International LLP (421)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells, 3 Verulam Buildings and a restructuring attorney based in Hong Kong (423)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (429)
  • Market Movements by CMS (433)
  • Deals (435)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis© PSL (436)
  • International Briefings from the Netherlands and China (437)


Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/11

Spotlight

  • Avinash Persaud: The bubbling emerging market crisis and what the world should do about it (719)

Features

  • Ben Hubble, Saman Pourghadiri: Pension scheme’s liability driven investment strategies: what went wrong? A lawyer’s guide (721)
  • Carlo de Vito Piscicelli, Sarah Haddad: Erroneous payments in syndicated loans: the future of the „Revlon blockers” (723)
  • Andrew Thornton, Ben Shaw: The doctrine of universal succession in English law and its impact on the transfer of finance arrangements (725)
  • Amy Kennedy, Clare Cottle, Colin Kavanaugh, Rebecca Davies: The growing emergence of competitive tension in the liquidity market (729)
  • Philip Wood: What really happened in legal history (731)
  • David Sawtell:The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act2022 and English land registration (733)
  • Matthew Parker: Claiming subrogation where a debt owed by a third party is discharged by a payment made by mistake (736)
  • Charles Kerrigan: The point of DAOs; and of crypto lawyers (739)
  • Diana Stoean, Matthew Kimber: Bind to law: Soulbound tokens and property law (744)
  • David Milne: The vexed and litigious question of „unallowable purpose” (747)
  • Lisa Curran: Law v policy: judicial review and judicial deference in the age of hyper-regulation (750)
  • Rebecca Keating: Dojima rice and digital assets: new tech, old problems? Market manipulation by cryptocurrency exchanges (755)
  • Marcin Krzemien: From Poland with no trust: protection of securities held by financial intermediaries (758)

In Practice

  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins: Embedded finance: market challanges and market changes (761)
  • Karen Butler, Erin Sculthorpe: Corporate climate-related disclosures: what’s next? (762)
  • Karen Anderson, Jon Ford: When AI meets the consumer duty (763)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (765)
  • Case Analysis by one Essex Court and Merton College (766)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (772)
  • Market Movements by CMS (775)
  • Deals (777)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (778)
  • International Briefing from China (779)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/2

Spotlight

  • Avinash Persaud: Re-imagining safe assets (67)

Features

  • Venessa Parekh, Chhavi Sinha: The UK’s bank ring-fencing legislation: legal uncertainties and potential solutions (70)
  • James Sheehan: Anticipating an FX spot trade: front running or just trading ahead? (74)
  • Antony Hainsworth: Going green: global finance and the UK green taxonomy (77)
  • Charlotte Thomas: Secondary obligations and disguised penalties: where does the law stand following Makdessi? (81)
  • Michael Brown: Transfers of risk or risky transfers? Transferring hedging positions in respect of non-performing loans (86)
  • Hanif Virji: It is dangerous to use pithy terms to describe the complex risks of a fund (88)
  • Stefanie Wilkins: Unanswered questions regarding the Restructuring Plan (91)
  • Heather Waters Borthwick, Tomasz Kulawik, Andrew Mavers: Rise of the jumbo unitranche: a continuing trend in 2022? (93)
  • Amy Held: Baking, staking, Tezos and trusts: crypto sale and repurchase transactions analysed by the High Court (96)
  • Tim Akkouh, Freddie Popplewell: Sinking the Siskina? The Privy Council on the jurisprudential nature of freezing orders (102)
  • Matthew Lavy, Laura Wright: Limitation periods and cryptocurrency fraud (105)
  • Phoebus L. Athanassiou: Non-fungible tokens: select legal issues (107)
  • Emma Giddings, Imogen Garner, Daniel Nevzat: Developing policies for green and sustainable finance for the aviation industry (109)
  • Lisa Curran: Why Italy does not need the trust (for now) (115)

In Practice

  • Eleanor Dole Sheaf, Rupert Lewis: Overview of anticipated focus areas for BBLS litigation (117)
  • Leon Stephenson: The ESG revolution in funds finance (119)
  • Andrew Bryan, Julia Machin: The EU’s AML blacklist nad SSPE’s (121)

Regulars

  • Case analysis by One Essex Court (122)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (126)
  • Market Movements by CMS (133)
  • Deals (135)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (136)
  • International Briefings from China, Brazil and France (137)