Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/5

Spotlight

  • Wael Zaki: Ijara and Murabaha under wartime stress: Shariah-compliant real estate financing in the 2026 Gulf conflict (295)

Features

  • Craig Morrison: One size fits all? Default interest applicable to multiple events of default and the law of penalties (299)
  • Daniel Winick, Abigail Simon, Dana O’Shea: The rise of anti-cooperation provisions in US credit documents (302)
  • Jessica Walker, Stuart Davis, Thomas Vogel, Jeremy Green, Tim Robinson, Ivan Pizeta, Jasmine Hopkinson: An analysis of the application of property and insolvency laws to DeFi lending structures (305)
  • Eric Fiszelson: Cross-border security releases: navigating the patchwork of local law requirements (310)
  • Ciarán McGonagle: From Zeno to Novat: programmable finality in tokenised settlement (314)
  • Susan Dunn: Law firm financing: options and pointers to give you the best chance of securing the financing (318)
  • Jonathan Haines, Julia Lu: Digital assets as collateral in England and the US: priority and super-priority of security interests (322)
  • George Kiladze, Jane Griffiths: Pricing the increased costs: Basel’s latest invoice (327)
  • Claire Harrop, Rachael Annear, Lauren Moorin, Noah Schmidt: Agentic AI in the payments chain: regulatory challenges for financial institutions (331)
  • Lu Yu: Securities fraud litigation: the erosion of “common reliance” in the AI age (334)
  • Tim Akkouh, John Patrick Asimakis: Dealing with “group think”: when the wrong group entity assigns receivables to lenders (339)
  • Anna Iversen: Digital property, digital claims and regulatory clarity: why legal structure must precede classification (343)
  • Laurent Deckers: Transparency under MiFID II: Consolidated Tape Provider, algorithmic trading and the risk of regulatory overexposure (348)

In Practice

  • James Bell, Sarah Lauder: ECCTA 2023: implications for finance transactions (353)
  • Jeremy Sher: Beyond the nuclear option: collective action problems in fund governance (356)
  • Jon Ford, Cat Dankos, Wilkie Hollens: Referral to the Upper Tribunal: worth the risk? (357)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (358)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (362)
  • Market Movements by CMS (365)
  • ESG Update by Ying-Peng Chin of A&O Shearman (367)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (369)
  • International Briefings: Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Finland (371)

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 2023/9

Spotlight

  • Sarah Worthington: Fixed and floating charges: still favouring absolutism over multi-factored nuance (583)


Features

  • Geoffrey Wynne, Jacqueline Cook: The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023: the key to the future? (587)
  • Richard Boynton, Kon Asimacopoulos, Sean Lacey, Hannah Crawford, Kate Stephenson: Galapagos: proper construction of Distressed Disposal provisions in intercreditor agreement (590)
  • James Hall, William Golightly: The risks of attempting to rectify mistakes in security documents, without seeking a court order (594)
  • Daniel Winick, Mark Presso, Andrew Young, Heba Hazzaa: Wall Street-led secondary trading of private credit loans: considerations for stakeholders (599)
  • Hamish Patrick, Andrew Kinnes: Moveable transactions: Scotland v England: Round 1 – assigning receivables (602)
  • Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman: New challenges for tackling Authorised Push Payment fraud (605)
  • Lee Federman, Tom Miller: Don’t put all your debt in one basket: debt incurrence flexibility in leveraged finance transactions (610)
  • Richard Hoyle: The fiduciary’s divestment dilemma: ESG and the age of climate change (612)
  • Rachel Tandy, Chris Haan: Collective stress or collective redress? Examining available mechanisms for securities litigation in England and Wales (616)
  • Tim Lees, Sarah Jane O’Leary, Kasia Lorenc: In sync across borders: embracing parallel processes for successful restructurings (620)
  • Thomas Wong: English law-governed Keepwell Deeds enforced by Hong Kong courts against PRC insolvent companies (623)
  • Chris Wallace: The Digital Securities Sandbox (627)
  • Giovanni Bandi, Yasser Nasser: The Cambridge Regulatory Genome Project: a must in a world of regulation technologies (629)

In Practice

  • Michael Leadbeater: Super senior facilities: a recap on key documentary terms (632)
  • Rebecca Oliver: Taking effective security over future acquired assets: the importance of contractual intention (634)
  • Matthew Cox. Lana Ahern, Gabby White: Can the consent of an obligor be taken at face value? (636)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston, LSE (638)
  • EU Update by Mauro Megliani, Catholic University of Milan (639)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells and Volterra Fietta (641)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (646)
  • Market Movements by CMS (649)
  • Deals (651)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis® PSL (652)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (654)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/3

Spotlight

  • William Edwards: Decentralised Autonomuos Organisations: unincorporated companies by another name? (147)

Features

  • Edward Cumming, Harry Samuels: Seeing the world differently: litigation arising from ESG-related disclosure (150)
  • Daniel Winick, Andrew Young, Peter Dahlen, Thomas Critchley, Heba Hazzaa, Neil Cavanagh: Across the pond and back again: What direct lenders shold know before deploying historic dry powder (154)
  • Penny Angell, Dorothy Livingston: Reform of the law on deeds: options for the Law Commission (157)
  • Hin Liu: Digital Assets: the mystery of the „link” (161)
  • Timothy Cleary: Synthetic securitisation made simple: The EU STS Securitisation framework embraces synthetic securitisation (171)
  • Lodewijk van Setten, Charles Kerrigan: Digitised trading and settlement: Exchange 4.0 (176)
  • Piers Reynolds, Laura Feldman, Jack Helyar: The new FCA consumer duty: the interrelationship with regulatory and common law obligations (179)
  • Rumen Cholakov: Takeover Code Changes 2021: can lenders be forced to fund an illegal deal? (182)
  • Andrew Henderson: Prudential consolidation under the IFPR: Making sense of the ancillary services undertakings concept (184)
  • Chris Wallace, Charles Kerrigan: Something in the ether? The allure of digital bonds (186)
  • Anya Proops, Rupert Paines: Lloyd vs Google: the end of class action data privacy claim s or just the beginning? (189)
  • Richard Calnan: Interpreting stautes and contracts: what are the differences? Part 1 (192)
  • Spyridon V Bazinas: Secured finance law reform: the Joint Coordination Network (195)

In Practice

  • Jeremiah Wagner, Dan Marcus: Fund finance: the securisation question (198)
  • Charles Kerrigan: Crypto yield (199)
  • Hugh Evans, Sohail Ali: Section 32 Limitation Act: an evolving yet difficult route for claimants (202)
  • Carl Baker: The Bank of England’s first ever bail-in recognition (203)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis International LLP (204)
  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (206)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (207)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (211)
  • Market Movements by CMS (215)
  • Deals (217)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (218)
  • International Briefing from Denmark (219)