Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/4

Spotlight

  • Julia Lu, Ru-Woei Foong: Minority creditors beware: the LME may not be a restructuring under European corporate CDS (219)

Features

  • Jonathan Haines: Can an English limited partnership create a floating charge? (223)
  • Paul MacMahon: The effect of restrictions on assignment on attempts to grant charges (227)
  • Helen Pugh: “Not your key, not your coin”: the private key and ownership (230)
  • Jason Ewart, Thomas McGowan: Control as economics: the new preferred equity playbook (232)
  • Alexandra Kosta-Foti: Primary and secondary rights in the Quincecare litigation arena: another dimension of the debt versus damages debate (235)
  • Lee Federman, Danté Adams: The lender’s reset right: change of control in modern exits (239)
  • Nigel Jones, Thomas Bell: Succumbing to wrongful payment demands: what can borrowers do? (242)
  • Nicholas U Jin, William Cooke: Tracing through the Ether: legal and technical barriers to cryptoasset recovery (245)
  • Kate Stephenson, Mallika Abidi: When shareholders sue: a comparative view of the ranking of shareholder claims in insolvency (250)
  • Lisa Lee Lewis, Sam Krips: Overseas firms carrying out cryptoasset business in the UK: what you need to know (254)
  • Teen Jui Chow, Alex Forzani: Providence and party intention: the Supreme Court on industry-wide standard forms (258)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: transparency and its misapprehension (262)
  • Georgios Pantelias: The EU’s emerging accountability regime: borrowing the SMCR without its foundations (265)

In Practice

  • Ana Biloglav, Paola Bahari: NAV facilities in 2026: structuring, governance and market practice considerations for sponsors (269)
  • Robert Brittain: Redressing the balance in competition class actions (272)
  • Aditi Sanyal, Jennifer Hanna: A new era in the UAE: the significance of removing gambling provisions under the 2025 Civil Code (273)
  • Cristiano Borgogna: Stablecoins: what could hinder their rise? (274)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (276)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (277)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (281)
  • Market Movements by CMS (285)
  • Deals (287)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (288)
  • International Briefing from Canada (290)

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.