Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/10

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Taking security over stablecoins (691)

Features

  • Isabel Tinsley, Siân Howes, Tim Hinrichsen: The key characteristics of data centres in the US and Europe: an overview for those involved in financings – Part 1 (694)
  • Nicola Yeomans: Managing currency risk in emerging Asia investment: towards diversification (698)
  • Vanessa Yi Ting Cheok: Arbitration and insolvency in a sliding, multi-creditor context: Sapura and other common law approaches (707)
  • Nicholas Medcroft, Gillian Hughes: Reassessing the Quincecare duty: anti-money laundering obligations and the boundaries of authorised payments (711)
  • Rebecca Zaman: Walking away: lessons from the Vietjet litigation for retiring security trustees (714)
  • Nicolas P Pellicani, Vera Losonci, Jeff Robins, Zhenya Lebedev, Esther Stefanini, Phoebe Steinfeld: Securities lending in the age of PISCES (716)
  • Giles Wheeler: Misrepresentation and the constructive trust: a hunt for clarity (719)
  • Steven Elliott, Marcus Teo: Anti-suit injunctions outside contract: a new beginning (723)
  • Jack Prettejohn: Risky business: brokers and platforms in the UK’s crypto regime (727)
  • Danny Busch, Matthias Lehmann: Uniform prospectus liability rules for Europe now! (731)
  • John Budd, Simon Lafferty: The FCA’s safeguarding reforms for payments and e-money firms: an update (735)
  • Spyridon V Bazinas: Security interests in digital assets under uniform law (737)
  • Iwa Salami, William J Buchanan: Data privacy in a retail CBDC system built on a public blockchain (739)

In Practice

  • Jeremiah Wagner, Christopher Sullivan: Securitisation shake-up: will streamlined due diligence and new sanctions ignite or inhibit the EU market? (746)
  • Joseph Paddon: The future of UK AIFMD: what does this mean for fund managers? (748)

Regulars

  • ESG Update by A&O Shearman (750)
  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis (751)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (753)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (757)
  • Market Movements by CMS (759)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (761)
  • International Briefing from India (763)

Butterworths International Banking and Financial Law 2025/6

Spotlight

  • Richard Salter: Preserving guarantor liability: another look (363)

Feature

  • Lindsay Hingston, Georgina Peters: Waving not drowning: Thames Water clarifies approach to out of the money creditors (367)
  • James Hall, William Golightly: Schrödinger’s Deed: can an instrument be two things at once? (372)
  • Joseph Wigley: The LMA insolvency events of default clause: potential pitfalls and how to avoid them (375)
  • Jenny Doak, Stuart Pibworth: No guarantees: UK corporation and withholding tax complexities of guarantees (378)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Yasmin Frischmeier: Cryptoasset regulation: a comparative analysis of UK and EU regimes (382)
  • Ben Dulieu: Convertible bonds: a valuable funding tool in volatile markets (385)
  • Isabel Tinsley, Ioanna Varra: The Law of Property Act 1925 turns 100 this year: Happy Birthday! (388)
  • James Greeen, Christian Pilkington, Hannah Langley: Splitting the difference: transfer of assets and liabilities in restructurings to reset business profile (392)
  • Cristiano Borgogna: EMIR 3.0, post-trade risk reduction services and the initial margin threshold: an unintended consequence (394)
  • Matt Dunn, Toby Mann: The LMA’s guidance on fallbacks to interbank term rates: a call to arms (396)
  • David Bunting: Ups and downs of the EU Benchmarks Regulation (399)
  • Oliver Völkel: MiCA: unresolved questions (403)
  • Matthew E Schernecke: Climate risk in the commercial real estate market (407)

In Practice

  • Charles Morris: Intermediated guarantees as unfunded credit protection (409)
  • Suzana Sava-Montanari, Christopher Sullivan: EU proposed securitisation disclosure reforms: is the remedy worse than the affliction? (411)
  • Fiona Henderson, James Dickie, Laura Collins: E-money: operational solutions to blocked accounts in financing (413)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis (414)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells and Essex Court Chambers (415)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (420)
  • Market Movements by CMS (423)
  • Deals (425)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (426)
  • International Briefings from the Netherlands (427)

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)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/1

Spotlight

  • David Fox: Digital assets as transactional power (3)

Features

  • Ann Battle: Hedging risk-free rates (4)
  • Peter Burgess: The Lehman litigation: the waterfall keeps falling ( 7)
  • Raza Neem, Peter Bevan: SFDR Commission Q&As: more Qs than As (10)
  • Madeleine Jones: Creditor beware: proving for debts in limited recourse loans following Lendy (12)
  • Dermot Turing: A fresh look at the three Rs: the EU’s CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation (14)
  • Lexa Hilliard: Please release me, let me go: complexities in release provisions (20)
  • Mindy Hauman:The social side of sustainable finance (23)
  • Michael Ryan, James Bailey: Carbon credits under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (27)
  • Amy Kennedy, Clare Cottle, Herman Park: A review of private credit in the immediate wake of COVID-19 (31)
  • James MacDonald: Shanghai v Reignwood: what makes a guarantee “on demand”? (33)
  • Iain Sheridan: Converting fiat money into cryptoassets over a blockchain: what new laws and regulations are required? (35)
  • Elaine Chan, Sion Yoong Tian: Decentralised finance (DeFi): a game-changer or just a passing fad? (39)
  • Willem Van de Wiele: Protection of client assets under Belgian law and trust-like structures (42)

In Practice

  • James Hardy, Ingrid York, Ian Cuillerier, David Ridley, Graham Silnicki: Term SOFR: a non-US market perspective (45)
  • Avril Forbes: UK Pension Schemes Act 2021: new criminal offence in force: lenders take note (48)
  • Jeremiah Wagner, Christopher Sullivan: NPE servicers prepare to retain risk under EU Securitisation Regulation (50)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Roy Goode (51)
  • Case Analysis by Verulam Buildings (53)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (56)
  • Market Movements by CMS (59)
  • Deals (61)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (62)
  • International Briefing from Finland (63)