Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/11

Spotlight

  • Thomas Keijser, Eva Micheler: Digital securities, analog problems: how tokenisation undermines the rights of investors (767)

Features

  • Scott Ralston: Legislating virtue: unfair relationships in the Supreme Court (770)
  • Michelle Gilmore-Parry: Challenging the status quo: designated counsel and sponsor blacklists (774)
  • Richard Hanke: Payback time: when lending agreements are silent on key terms (776)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Noah D’Aeth: Loan participations: conflict-of-laws challenges under English and New York law (779)
  • Isabel Trinca: Losing privilege for iniquity short of fraud: implications of recent s 423 cases (781)
  • Roger Laville: Debt relief moratoria: important issues for creditors (783)
  • Isabel Tinsley, Sebastian Oebels, Lauren Kimmel: Financing data centres in the US and Europe: Part 2 (788)
  • Michael Huertas: Supply chain finance in the EU: Part 1 – lessons from recent failures and the case for a targeted SCF Regulation? (791)
  • Nick O’Grady, Philippe Bernier-Cormier, Gabby White: Super senior Revolving Credit Facility: a legacy product? (795)
  • Debashis Dey, Eren Ayanlar, Ola Sanni: Tokenised Islamic finance products: Shariah compliance meets digital innovation (798)
  • Chris Parrot: An Englishman in New York: English law considerations in New York law credit agreements (802)
  • Daniela Janikova: Digitising collateral: the LBMA’s digital gold initiative and UCC Art 12 (805)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable Finance: Newspeak (808)

In Practice

  • James McGachie, Isla Neil, Morven Henderson: Practical considerations for data protection and cybersecurity when deploying AI (810)
  • Euan Reid: The transfer of receivables in cross-border fintech securitisations: key considerations for originators (811)
  • Charlie McGarel-Groves, Kate Patane: 2025: Was consultation involvement key to avoiding regulatory divergence? (812)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Jack Moore: Motor finance: the FCA’s powers, and what the future might hold (814)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Baker McKenzie (815)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (821)
  • Market Movements by CMS (826)
  • Deals (828)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (829)
  • International Briefing from the Netherlands (830)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/10

Spotlight

  • Trevor Clark: Navigating conflicts of interest in European restructurings (647)

Feature

  • Alexia Knight, Sarah Parker: Alternate realities: transactional and economic reality in APP fraud and unjust enrichment (651)
  • James Palmer: Market abuse and restitution orders: challenges for FCA policy (655)
  • Jonathan Haines: Security financial collateral arrangements and the crystallisation of floating charges (660)
  • Priyanka Usmani, William Swan, Gabby White: How much is a word worth? (662)
  • Tom Leary: Sanctions defences after Celestial Aviation: when does s 44 of SAMLA 2018 help? (665)
  • Laura Prosperetti, Ferdisha Snagg, Bernardo Massella, Ducci Teri, Andreas Wildner, Ludovico Scasselati: Sec v Ripple and MiCAR: the classification of cryptoassets as securities (667)
  • Gareth Eagles, Emma Foster, Sylvana Lee, David Ridley: Two continents separated by a common language? Harmonising US and European loans (671)
  • Deborah Zandstra, James Kelton: A new class of debt instruments: carbon credit linked bonds (676)
  • Bryony Widdup, Emily Julier, Leon Yap: Blended finance: funding sustainable development with public and private funding (679)
  • Alex Potts: Potential litigation risk in private credit and fund finance: disclosure, consent and valuation (683)
  • Emeric Prévost: The law applicable to legal tender of the digital euro: the end of the conundrum? (685)
  • Jean-François Adelle: Secured claims in French restructurings: lessons from the 2021 reforms and recent large case precedents (689)

In Practice

  • Sara Evans, Charlotte Chopping: Can the buyside rely on ESG ratings and data without regulatory risk? (693)
  • Abdullah A Alsaeed, Khaled Alhuneidi, Dean Naumowicz, Yana Nastyushenko: The final piece of the G20 netting puzzle (694)
  • Robert Brittain: Retained EU Law: the implication of keeping s 6 dormant (696)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Julian Craughan of Hogan Lovells (697)
  • Competition Law Update by Matthew Sicnlair-Thomson, Loukia Kopitsa, Lauren Murray of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (698)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings and a future pupil at Temple Chambers, Hong Kong (700)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Market Movements by CMS (709)
  • Deals (711)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (712)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/6

Spotlight

  • Ian Wilson: Preserving the pillars of banking law: safeguarding core legal principles in an age of consumer protection (363)

Features

  • Robert Amey: Voting issues in debtor schemes of arrangement and restructuring plans: the rights of sub-participants (366)
  • Eilis Ferran, Narine Lalafaryan: Private finance and financial assistance (369)
  • Tina Kyriakides: Is crystallisation crystal clear? (371)
  • Jonathan Davies-Jones, Christopher Burdin: The correct approach to findings of foreign law: precedent and policy (374)
  • Philip Wood: Ar corporate lawyers interested in governing law? (378)
  • Nick O’Grady, Philippe Bernier-Cormier, Gabby White: Pre-funding: the secret to a smooth closing or a minefield of risks? (380)
  • Andrew Tetley, Romain Farnoux: Assigning receivables on either side of the Channel: a comparative note on French and English law (382)
  • Paul Marshall: Electronic Trade Documents: what is a reliable computer system? and problems in contracting for a „reliable system” (386)
  • Duncan Henderson. Delisting the dead: a UK perspective (395)
  • Tom Marshall: Decentralised Artificial Intelligence (399)
  • Elena Bernal: Will private credit CLOs emerge as a new funding tool in Europe? (404)
  • Iain MacNeil: ESG as a case-study in legal uncertainty (406)
  • Daniel Lühmann, Malcolm Smith, Bastian Kaufhold: The consolidated prudential supervision of investment firm groups in the EU: practical implications on group parent entities (410)

In Practice

  • Sukh Ahark: Key considerations for lenders when lending to individuals (415)
  • Suzana Sava-Montanari, Jaime Hall, Kamal Dalal: US SRT structures require cross-practice and cross-geography legal expertise (417)
  • Fiona Henderson, James Dickie: Secured vs unsecured personal lending by fintechs (419)

Regulars

  • Competition Law Update by Kirkland & Ellis LLP (420)
  • Case Analysis by Hogan Lovells (422)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (425)
  • Market Movements by CMS (428)
  • Deals (430)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+ UK (431)
  • International Briefings form the UAE and France (432)

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)