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James Palmer: The urgent need for better law and rule making: challenges and solutions (371)
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Richard Lissack, Robin Lööf: Failure to prevent fraud: making up for failure to prosecute? (397)
Elizabeth Ovey: Subrogation and the case of the dissolved co-debtor (400)
Hannah Fearn: Using guarantees for capital relief: legal characterisation matters (404)
Matthew Watson, Sarah Rutnah: Commercial choices: are Braganza duties path to payment under commission agreements? (407)
Elaine Chan, Sion Yoong Tian: Crypto headwinds: an overview of regulations in Singapore, the EU, UK and US (410)
Phoebus L Athanassiou: Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies: core assumptions and legal implications (414)
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Ayowande A McCunn, Paul L Davies: On the regulatory discretion to write off AT1 capital (302)
Bobby Butcher, Elli Karaindrou: Regulation of small banks in the UK: lessons learned from SVB UK (306)
Ferdisha Snagg, George Bumpus, Andreas Wildner: Reforming the UK’s e-money and payment services safeguarded funds regimes: better safe than sorry (310)
Greg Brown: Sustainability-linked loans: how “green washing” risk is mitigated in documentation (313)
Mark Dwyer, Antony Hainsworth: Flight of the deposits – (2023) (207)
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Simon Salzedo, Tom Wood: Improper leverage? Own interest conflicts and the designation model in leveraged finance transactions (209)
Deborah Sabalot Deane: The Great Game: UK financial services and the Edinburgh Reforms programme (212)
Philip Morrison: Board minutes after Sequana: practical advice for the corporate drafter (216)
Iain Clacher, Con Keating, Philip Bennett: Are leveraged LDI strategies lawful? A rejoinder and a request (219)
Edward J. Nalbantian, Caroline A Talbert: Syndicated lending and third-party agents: a practical primer (224)
Thomas Papadogiannis Varouchakis: Risks for investors at the post-insolvency stage of the covered bond issuer (227)
Hanif Virji: Valuing swaps: what exactly are “hidden costs” and “mark-to-market”? (231)
Riz Mokal: What is an insolvency proceeding? (234)
Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English law Pt II: ownership, situs and the circular question of jurisdiction (236)
Matthew Weaver: Re Duomatic: plugging holes and fixing oversights but not all of the time (241)
Tom Marshall, Charles Kerrigan: Warranties in corporate transactions involvng tokens or blockchains: a proposal for a foundational approach (243)
Mary Bear, Jon Burke, Christopher P Duerden, John McGrath, Richard Pugh, John M Timperio, Lindsay Trapp, David E Miller, Eric Zeng: Collateralised Fund Obligations (CFOs): th technicolor dreamcoat of fund finance from a US and UK/EU perspective (248)
Ferdisha Snagg, Laura Prosperetti, Andreas Wildner: A MiCAR for the UK? Or something else altogether? (255)
Spyridon V Bazinas, Georgios Psaroudakis: Security interests in insolvency: UNCITRAL instruments and Greek law compared (259)
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Monia Volpato, Rachit Agarwal: Intra-group loan agreements: what do finance lawyers need to know? (262)
David Milligan, Daniel Nevzat, Tamara Ubink: “Double materiality”: what does it mean for non-financial reporting? (264)
Marc Craggs, Helen Coverdale: UK government consults on new insolvency model laws (267)
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EU Update by Aikaterini Theodosopoulu, Vasiliki Pappgagiannopoulou (269)
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James Burnie, Meghan Millward, Matthew Kimber: What’s at stake? The legal treatment of staking (594)
Sukhvir Basran, Eoin O’Connor: ESG integration in private debt (599)
Hanif Virji: Capacity: is the question of hedging or speculation mis-stated? (602)
Joshua Crow: ISDA Definitions 2021: Calculation Agent not required to produce objectively reasonable result (604)
Vishal Mawkin, Peter Young, Miguel Torres Caro: Project bonds and energy transition: a proven financing solution (606)
Lara Panahy, Nick Lister: „There is nothing so stable as change”: is the Treasury’s proposed new special admiinstration regim for stablecoin and other systemic DSA firms a change in the right direction? (610)
Anthony Dearing: Base metal traders betting on the courts to enforce their trades in a disorderly market (614)
Meera Ragha, Diego Ballon Ossio: English law in the 21th century: does it need an update to accommodate crypto? (617)
David Murphy: Regualory mandates and review in the 2022 Financial Services and Markets Bill: making their own homework (619)
Ajay Malhotra, Ceri Morgan, Zoe Diepstraten: Interpreting ICC standardised rules in trade finance disputes: courts take an international perspective (622)
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Peter de Verneuil Smith, Shail Patel, William Harman: UK securities fraud litigation gains momentum: Autonomy and G4S (521)
Stephan Smoktunowicz: Legal conundrums: taking security from English limited partnerships (524)
Hin Liu, Louise Gullifer: Financial collateral arrangements in the digital asset world (527)
Hanif Virji: Musk v Twitter, it’s not just lawyers who have an opinion on the likelihood of success of the litigation, the market does too! (536)
Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English Law: surveying the present lie of the land (538)
Daniel May, Ceri Morgan, Nick May, Susannah Cogman, Minolee Shah: Russian sovereign debt default: a disputes perspective (543)
John Lee: The endgame: issues in enforcement against cryptoassets (545)
Phoebus L Athanassiou: Financial sanctions and the case for digital central bank money (549)
Chris Wallace: Take-off for digital bonds? The EU DLT pilot regime (553)
Michael Huertas: Supervisory tone sharpens further following ECB’s conclusions on its Desk Mapping Review (556)
In Practice
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