Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/2

Spotlight

  • Philip Wood: Smart legal opinions, digitalisation and insolvency netting (79)

Features

  • 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)
  • Rebecca Keating: Low or maximum security? Navigating the risks in taking security over AI-generated materials (86)
  • 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)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: leaving everyone behind (112)
  • 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)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (135)
  • Market Movements by CMS (139)
  • Deals (141)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (142)
  • International Briefing from Finland (143)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/9

Spotlight

  • Graham VirgoFiduciary law in the Supreme Court: equitable orthodoxy (generally) prevails (603)

Feature

  • Deborah Sabalot Deane: Sabalot Fiduciary duties and regulatory rules: are the courts and the regulator on a collision course? (608)
  • Anna Delaud, Nicholas U Jin: Old debt, new terms or new debt, old terms: debt variation re-examined (613)
  • Geoff O’Dea, Tony Horspool: Petrofac: the unanswered question of fair allocation (617)
  • Akhil Shah, Laurentia de Bruyn: How long can a senior lender withhold repayment confirmation to discharge security in an intercreditor agreement? (621)
  • Hamish Patrick, Neil Campbell: The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023: some points from practice six months on (625)
  • Charles Kerrigan: Some updates on TMT finance (629)
  • Adam Pierce, Catherine Astruc, Neil McKnight, David Ferris: Use of the quoted Eurobond exemption in the loan markets: why, when and how? (633)
  • Keith Blizzard: Central clearing in the US Treasury Securities markets: understanding the global legal impact (636)
  • Brad Pomfret, Asa Tolson, Rebecca Jones: Resource-backed loans: a never-ending story? (639)
  • Michael Huertas: The evolution of the ESFS in a time of armed conflict: legal foundations, policy options and practical considerations (643)
  • Claire Harrop, Cyrus Pocha, Emma Probyn, Thomas Clark, Laura Feldman: The challenges of bringing cryptoassets within the UK regulatory perimeter (648)
  • Abdullah Geelah: Governing law, ungovernable questions: the challenge of public international law in the World Bank’s development policy financing agreements (653)
  • Ahmed Abdel Hakam, Jaideep Khanna: Drafting on the edge: ambiguity in hybrid jurisdiction clauses (656)

In Practice

  • Bamdad Shams: Navigating the new landscape of AI-driven credit assessment: legal and regulatory considerations for financial institutions (659)
  • Jack Congdon, James Bell: Supreme Court motor finance commission ruling: what next for lenders? (662)
  • Laura Smith, Danny Peel, Adam Burk: NAV facilities to PERE funds (664)
  • Rob Marsh, Christopher Aird: Project financing co-located renewable assets (667)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells, Outer Temple and Wilberforce Chambers (668)
  • Regulation Update byNorton Rose Fulbright (675)
  • Market Movements by CMS (682)
  • Deals (684)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (685)
  • International Briefings from Finland and Switzerland (686)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/11

Spotlight

  • Leonrd Ng, Qalid Mohamed: Artificial intelligence in financial markets: systemic risk and market abuse concerns (715)

Feature

  • Sarah Paterson: The state of cross-class cramdown in the UK (719)
  • Craig Morrison: Knowing is half the battle: the economic torts and lender liability (722)
  • Matt Dunn, Jason Ewart: How do investors make returns on preferred equity? (726)
  • Michelle Glimore-Parry: The asset sales covenant: sometimes when it’s there it’s barely there at all! (728)
  • Nik Yeo: Crypto exchanges: an update on D’Aloia (731)
  • Louis Doyle: Marshalling by apportionment: a developing doctrine (736)
  • Gareth Old, Young Kim: Growing up or coming down to earth? Broader trends in the US CRT market (738)
  • Sung-Hyui Park, Edward Crane: Loans involving companies limited by guarantee: key issues for consideration (740)
  • Simon Clarke, Sarah Hawes, Ceri Morgan, Thomas Vaughan, Erica MacDonald: UK prospectus regime reform: potential impact on securities litigation (742)
  • Darragh Connell: Draft Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill: laying the foundations for the development of the common law (746)
  • Simon Fisher: Forewarned is forearmed: thoughts on the impact of an IT systems outage on security registrations at Companies House (748)
  • Philip Hertz, Michael Lyons, Rahim Darr, Dilara Topcu, Genevieve Morgan: English schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans, insolvency proceedings and the impact of sanctions legislation (751)
  • Russell Kelsall, Paula Twist: The Financial Conduct Authority, the court and the Financial Ombudsman Service: who is in charge? (755)

In Practice

Embedded law

  • Charles Kerrigan: A thought experiment on the future of legal services (757)
  • Herbert Smith Freehills: The auditor’s duty to report to the FCA when it suspects fraudulent activity (759)
  • Claire Clayton-Stead, Leontia McArdle, Megan Ineson: Is the FOS being fair and reasonable in its approach to unaffordable lending complaints? (760)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Geert van Calster of Governing law risks in international business transactions by Philip Wood CBE KC (Hon) (761)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and a lecturer at Meiji University (Japan) (762)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (767)
  • Market Movements by CMS (771)
  • Deals (773)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (774)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (775)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/3

Spotlight

  • Samantha Richardson: Drafting for sustainable lending: LMA green v SLL loan provisions (155)

Features

  • Nick Daly: “Red flags” and ostensible authority: reflections on Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse & Ors (159)
  • Catherine Gibaud, Emma Hughes: Good faith in English contract law: taking stock a decade or more after Yam Seng (162)
  • Faisal Ramzan, Alice Dawson-Loynes, Andrew Surgey: Deconstructing delayed draw term loans (166)
  • James Sheehan: Waiver and estoppel arguments against debt enforcement (168)
  • Joseph Wren, Nicholas Baines: Derivatives for private capital managers: hot topics and predicted trends for 2025 (172)
  • James MacDonald: The perils of relying on book entries in intra-group loan agreements (176)
  • Hamish Patrick, Rod MacLeod, Andrew Kinnes: Scottish limited partnerships and fund finance (179)
  • Anthony Pavlovich: Protecting shareholders against transactions with an improper purpose (181)
  • Isabel Neelands, Trisha Shah: The lucrative AI debt market – disrupting traditional debt lending: Part 1 (183)
  • Jean Price, Dil-veer Kang: Buy-now, pay-later: what the future will (and might) hold for the sector (186)
  • Daniel Winick, Heba Hazzaa: Across the pond: practitioner’s guide to fortifying LMA forms for cross-Atlantic transactions (189)
  • Allegra Miles, Elli Karaindrou: EU and UK implementation of Basel 3.1: a different approach? (192)
  • Simon Lafferty, John Budd: Changing of the (safe)guard: the FCA’s proposals for payments and e-money firms (200)
  • Jochen Vester: A smarter ring-fencing regime: all change? (204)

In Practice

  • Charles Kerrigan: Agency and AI: types of agents and what they do (207)
  • Shabaz Ahmed, Tony Katz: Court of Appeal decision on Motor Finance: lenders’ secondary liabilities (209)
  • Joseph Paddon: Prudential assessment of acquisitions and increases in control: new-old guidance, particularly relevant for fund managers (211)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland and Ellis (213)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (215)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (219)
  • Market Movements by CMS (222)
  • Deals (224)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (225)
  • International Briefing from Spain (227)

Correction: in the February issue, Professor Nelson Enonchong’s article ‘Secured lending: when is the lender put on inquiry in a „hybrid” transaction?’ contained an erron ith the case citation for One Savings Bank plc v Waller-Edwards. The citation should have read: [2024] Ch 279, in the first key point and footnote 1. We apologise for this inadvertent error.

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/8

Spotlight

  • Leonard Ng: Private credit: exploring systemic risk concerns and regulatory architecture (507)

Features

  • Hodge Malek, Cleon Catsambis: Fixed rate loans: tough break (costs) for borrowers (510)
  • Scott Ralston: Lex situs and its discontents: English security over foreign assets (514)
  • Isabel Neelands, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian: Debt financing of AI companies: identifying “AI assets” for the security net (517)
  • Vasanti Selvaratnam, Paul Schwartfeger, Kaity Crowe: (Un)reasonable endeavours: force majeure clauses and offers of non-contractual performance (521)
  • David Turner, Conor Ewing: Assignment or charge over warranty and indemnity insurance policies as security? (525)
  • Sarah-Jane Denton, Simon Witney: The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: impact on financial services businesses (528)
  • Taraq Zafar Rasheed, Bogomil Kukovski: Mandatory collateralisation of hedging transactions under senior secured facilities (531)
  • Lee Federman, Adam Wolinsky: IOSCO Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Good Practices for Consideration: how will this impact leveraged loan documentation? (534)
  • Karl Clowry, Seán McGuinness: Tacking: what further advances since 2002? (537)
  • Lucy Williams, Linda El-Halabi: Leading the charge (pun intended): international security transactions in the Middle East (542)
  • Roger Gherson, Valeriya Grebenkova, Cong Gao: Financial sanctions and investment treaty arbitration (545)
  • David Siesage: Judicial review in the financial services sector: a question of risk and reward (548)
  • Kit Smith: Anti-suit relief: Bourlakova and Magomedov and the non-contractual jurisdiction (551)
  • Danny Busch, Matthias Lehmann: Turn the Unfair Terms Directive into a Regulation! (554)

In Practice

  • Charles Malpass, Roxanne Paes: Lending transactions: putting the power in powers of attorney (558)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Claire Whittaker: Retrieval augmented generation in LLMs: AI for lawyers (560)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Jack Moore, Cat Dankos: Beware of regulators bearing gifts (562)
  • Jeremy Sher, Benjamin Fellows, Leontia McArdle: SRA warning on the conduct of mass financial mis-selling claims: what will be the impact on motor finance claims? (564)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and 4 Pump Court (565)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (570)
  • Market Movements by CMS (574)
  • Deals (576)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/5

Spotlight

  • Tetyana Nesterchuk: Unlocking the use of Russian Central Bank assets: is collateralisation the answer? (295)

Features

  • Louise Gullifer: Non-notification receivables financing: can the assignor sue without joining the assignee? (299)
  • Jeremy Duffy, Tom Falkus, Richard Lloyd, Sherri Snelson, Samantha Richardson: Fund finance and sustainability: new guidance on the application of the SLLPs (303)
  • Christopher Boardman, Tom Beasley: Pitfalls with board resolutions authorising loan facilities (306)
  • Daniel Lightman, Reuben Comiskey: The rule in Clayton’s Case: its application in non-banking relationships (309)
  • Brie Stevens-Hoare: Delivering valid notices of assignment: s 136 in 2024 (312)
  • Matthew Parker: Does the restoration of Crown preference mean that guarantors can get off the hook? (316)
  • Emmar Radmore, Natalie Caple: Joining the dots: a wider use for AML e-verification tools? (319)
  • Nicholas Broomfield: A mortgagee’s accountability for mortgage valuations following Shokrollah-Babaee v EFG Private Bank (321)
  • Angela Batterson: The dynamics of insurers as lenders in the NAV market (325)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Charlotte Bellamy: Artificial intelligence in syndicated lending (327)
  • Sam Roberts: Channel Islands and statutory fences: obtaining evidence for use overseas (333)
  • Paul Ferguson, Karl Clowry, Harriet Territt, Aziz Abdul: Going cashless: the treatment of cryptoassets in insolvency proceedings (335)
  • Caroline Dawson, Paul Ellison, Sara Evans: Enhancing trust in ESG ratings: welcome moves to fix the ecosystem (337)

In Practice

  • Laura Smith: Rated subscription lines: bringing fund governing documents and finance documents into focus (341)
  • Jon Ford, Michael Tan: CP24/2: a comparison with other International Financial Centres (343)
  • Lee Harding, Prag Sivaguru: Culture and D&I in Financial Services: the latest reforms to shift the dial (344)
  • Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The critical importance of “Shariah compliance” in the Islamic financial services industry: the UK’s need for jurisprudential clarity (346)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (348)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (351)
  • Market Movements by CMS (355)
  • Deals (357)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (358)
  • International Briefing from Finland (360)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/11

Spotlight

  • David Quest: Large language models: a legal liability minefield (735)

Features

  • Charles Kerrigan: What does AI mean for professional services business models? (738)
  • Tom Leary: Regulation 7(4) : when is an entity controlled by a sanctioned person? (742)
  • Jamie Macpherson, Andrew Perkins, Henry-Stewart Brown, Samuel Brooks, Sophie Donnithorne-Tait: Private credit continuation funds: a developing frontier for secondary transactions? (745)
  • Chee Ho Tham: Assignment (or novation) of indemnity policies? (748)
  • Henry O’Connor: The key to harnessing the ownership powr of NFTs: the need for standardised decentralisation protocols (753)
  • George Pelling, Ijeoma Nwala, Samantha Hutchinson, Adam Blakemore, Satvi Vepa, Alix Prentice: Enforcing security over limited partner interests in English limited partnerships (758)
  • Stephanies Tozer, Kavish Shah: Damages for the damnified? What DOES Law of Property Act s 104(2) mean? (763)
  • Andrew Thornton, Ben Shaw: A company’s objects: do they still matter? (765)
  • Tauhid Ijaz, George Kiladze: Significant Risk Transfer’s impact on the output floor under Basel III: the EU’s proposed panacea unveiled (768)
  • Peter Alderdice: Scotland’s new statuory pledge: taking security from individuals and unincorporated organisations (774)
  • Alexia Knight: The Mandatory Reimbursement Scheme: the obvious points of conflict within the proposals (777)
  • Anthea Bowater, Simon Orton: ESG litigation in the context of financial services: a global gear change? (779)
  • Edward F Greene, Jared Gerber, David Lopez, Duane McLaughlin, Emily Arndt, Sabrina Singer, Brandon Welcome: The need for a modernised response to financial product regulation (783)

In Practice

  • Kerry Langton: Lender diligence over Intellectual Property Rights and taking security over domain names (787)
  • Stuart Murdoch, Rory Milkova: Does the „D” in PSD3 stands for „divergence”? PSD3 and payment services in the UK (789)
  • James Barrett: Coaching andd the corporate witness (791)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (792)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (796)
  • Market Movements by CMS (801)
  • Deals (803)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (804)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/8

Spotlight

  • Graham Penn: A wolf in sheep’s clothing: are transfers of economic interests undermining privity of contract in the medium-term loan market? (507)

Features

  • David McIlroy, Ruhi Sethi-Smith: No point preventing fraud? Philipp v Barclays Bank
  • Paul Fradley, Matteo Clarkson-Maciel:The spectre of Spectrum: after Avanti and the sliding scale of floating to fixed charges (517)
  • Mohamed Sacranie:Blue pill or red pill? Into the Tulip Trading rabbit hole (521)
  • Akhil Shah, Daniel Schwennicke:Damages for breach of anti-assignment clauses (525)
  • Edward J Nalbantian, Liz Saxton:Hedging and lending: a practical guide (527)
  • Michael Collett:Illusory security of banks in trade finance (531)
  • Matthew Bisanz, Angela Ulum: A path back to growth for community banks: credit risk transfer trades (535)
  • Hanif Virji:Repos used in LDI should be seen as either loans or derivatives, but not neither! (537)
  • Gretel Scott: Remedies for victims of crypto fraud (539)
  • James Sheesan:Russian sanctions in the English courts (543)
  • Pim Heemskersk, Roger H J Cox:Banks’ climate liability: what to learn from states and oil majors (547)
  • Philine Wehling: A roadmap for legal reform: the future UNCITRAL/UNIDROIT Model Law on Warehouse Receipts (553)
  • William Brydie-Watson: The missing piece of the puzzle: the adoption of the UNIDROIT Model Law on Factoring (556)
  • David Pygott: The future of FCA enforcement (562)

In Practice

  • Christopher Boyd: Implications of proposed legislation in New York for sovereign debt restructuring (564)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Isabel Neelands: Generative AI, banking and financial markets (566)
  • Jeremy Sher, Claire Clayton-Stead, Erin Sculthorpe: Climate derivative actions: over before they began? (567)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Charles Béar KC of Fountain Court Chambers (568)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (569)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (572)
  • Market Movements by CMS (577)
  • Deals (579)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis®PSL (580)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/4

Spotlight

  • Mark Dwyer, Antony Hainsworth: Flight of the deposits – (2023) (207)

Features

  • Simon Salzedo, Tom Wood: Improper leverage? Own interest conflicts and the designation model in leveraged finance transactions (209)
  • Deborah Sabalot Deane: The Great Game: UK financial services and the Edinburgh Reforms programme (212)
  • Philip Morrison: Board minutes after Sequana: practical advice for the corporate drafter (216)
  • Iain Clacher, Con Keating, Philip Bennett: Are leveraged LDI strategies lawful? A rejoinder and a request (219)
  • Edward J. Nalbantian, Caroline A Talbert: Syndicated lending and third-party agents: a practical primer (224)
  • Thomas Papadogiannis Varouchakis: Risks for investors at the post-insolvency stage of the covered bond issuer (227)
  • Hanif Virji: Valuing swaps: what exactly are “hidden costs” and “mark-to-market”? (231)
  • Riz Mokal: What is an insolvency proceeding? (234)
  • Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English law Pt II: ownership, situs and the circular question of jurisdiction (236)
  • Matthew Weaver: Re Duomatic: plugging holes and fixing oversights but not all of the time (241)
  • Tom Marshall, Charles Kerrigan: Warranties in corporate transactions involvng tokens or blockchains: a proposal for a foundational approach (243)
  • Mary Bear, Jon Burke, Christopher P Duerden, John McGrath, Richard Pugh, John M Timperio, Lindsay Trapp, David E Miller, Eric Zeng: Collateralised Fund Obligations (CFOs): th technicolor dreamcoat of fund finance from a US and UK/EU perspective (248)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Laura Prosperetti, Andreas Wildner: A MiCAR for the UK? Or something else altogether? (255)
  • Spyridon V Bazinas, Georgios Psaroudakis: Security interests in insolvency: UNCITRAL instruments and Greek law compared (259)

In Practice

  • Monia Volpato, Rachit Agarwal: Intra-group loan agreements: what do finance lawyers need to know? (262)
  • David Milligan, Daniel Nevzat, Tamara Ubink: “Double materiality”: what does it mean for non-financial reporting? (264)
  • Marc Craggs, Helen Coverdale: UK government consults on new insolvency model laws (267)

Regulars

  • EU Update by Aikaterini Theodosopoulu, Vasiliki Pappgagiannopoulou (269)
  • Case Analysis: by 3 Verulan Buildings, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and South Square (271)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (277)
  • Market Movements by CMS (280)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (282)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (283)

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)