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 2023/3

Spotlight

  • Simon CY Wong: Governance to keep net zero transitions on track (143)

Features

  • Raquel Agnello: What is the effect on a transaction if the Pensions Regulator brings successful proceedings under the Pension Schemes Act 2021? (148)
  • Lisa Lacob: When is a third party on notice of an agent’s lack of ostensible authority? (152)
  • Michael Brown, Thea Gausel: Synthetic risk, real issues: secondary transfers of credit risk instruments (154)
  • Nick Lister, Sian Perez, Andrew Denny, Nick Gomes: Credit defaults: practical tips when pressing the accelerator (156)
  • Sophia Hurst: Decrypting conflict of laws (158)
  • Edward Cumming, Tom Stewart Coats: Referring to legislation in finance documents: more than you bargained for? (162)
  • Andrew Fulton: Swaps litigation: the continuing search for certainty (164)
  • Moeiz Farban, Richard Firth: In context: the FMLC and its paper on good faith (168)
  • Leon Stephenson, Brendan Gallen: The impact of rated note feeder funds on subscription-line facilities (172)
  • Rita Hunter, Melanie Johnson: Sustainability related disclosures: EU SFDR vs UK SDR (174)
  • Nicholas Williams, Bronwen Jones, Thomas Webley: LMA Defaulting Lender provisions in today’s growing non-bank loan market (178)
  • Roger Laville: Enforcing judgments against pension assets: a developing juridiction (181)
  • Tim Lees, Michelle McGreal: COMing apart? Centre of Main Interests under Chapter 15 and the EUIR (184)

In Practice

  • Patrick Leftley, Becky Critchley, Tracy Dariane: The FCA’s new consumer duty could affect FCA regulated investors in asset backed financing of products offered to retail customers (187)
  • William Sutton: European commercial real estate CLOs: some thoughts on a developing asset class (189)
  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins, Alexis Alexander: Embedded finance: revenue-based financing and responsible lending (190)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis LLP (191)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (193)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (196)
  • Market Movements by CMS (199)
  • Deals (201)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis PSL (202)
  • International Briefing from the Netherlands (203)

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)