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Rebecca Keating: Low or maximum security? Navigating the risks in taking security over AI-generated materials (86)
Akber Datoo: The “digital” answer is always netting … (89)
Henry Warwick, Benn Sheridan: Credit Suisse v Ivanishvili: the door opens to fraud-on-the-market claims under s 90A FSMA (93)
Karl Clowry: Do divergent terms across European leveraged finance documentation really create misunderstanding, mischief and mayhem? (97)
Ben Smiley, Helena Spector: The fraught identification of the wealthy investor as a “consumer” and/or “professional” (102)
Giulia Paladini, Charles Kerrigan: When code meets compliance: the institutional turn in Decentralised Finance (105)
Andy Vickery, Alex Shopow, Jördis Heckt-Harbeck, Guillaume Malaty, George Gooderham: Unlocking the potential: why the EU needs a dedicated securitisation special purpose entity (109)
Vincenzo Bavoso: The growth of private credit in the UK: the “new” threat to financial stability (115)
Phoebus L Athanassiou: Multi-issuance schemes for payment stablecoins: an EU-US comparison (119)
Michael Huertas: Supply chain finance in the EU: Part 2 – fixing enforceability: conflicts of law, true sale and an interoperable e‑notice regime (122)
In Practice
Karan Chopra, Bernard Lung, Tessa Mallia: Acquisition documents: overview of lender considerations (126)
Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Isobel Salzedo: The shifting focus of regulatory intervention: from enforcement to assertive supervision (128)
Mona Rothwell, Pragesh Sivaguru, Tony Katz: Is “name and shame” here to stay? Court dismisses challenge to FCA’s decision to publicly name (130)
Regulars
Case Analysis by One Essex Court: Mitchell v Al-Jaber and Beneathco DMCC v R.J. O’ Brien Limited (132)
Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 1 (75)
Julius Grower, William Day: Credit brokers as fiduciaries, and consequences for lenders: Part 2
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Avinash Persaud: Climate-related disasters, why insurance is not the solution and what is (85)
Louise Merrett: Conflicts of laws and the ratification of unauthorised acts by agents (87)
Benedict Tompkins: The LMA sovereign immunity clause and enforcement proceedings (90)
Nelson Enonchong: Secured lending: when is the lender put on inquiry in a “hybrid” transaction? (93)
Douglas Deutsch, Michelle McGreal, Tim Lees, Sarah Campbell: Insolvency and automatic acceleration in US Chapter 11: to accelerate, or not to accelerate, that is the question (98)
Reuven Young, Maxim Van de moortel: Private IPOs as a capital raising and exit strategy in today’s market environment (102)
Shail Patel: Reliance revisited: High Court construes statutory requirements for UK securities fraud claims (105)
Matthew Parker: Force majeure in loan agreements: illegality under the standard form LMA clause (107)
Adam Eckersley-Waites: National Security and Investment Act 2021: three years later (112)
Ciarán McGonagle, Andrei Kirilenko: Schrödinger’s property? D’Aloia and the legal superposition of digital assets (115)
John-Patrick Asimakis: Identifying the place of performance in English law transactions involving foreign banks (118)
David McIlroy, Clyde Darrell: Crypto-lending: does the UK’s consumer credit regime offer an avenue for redress? (122)
In Practice
Dean Naumowicz, Delyth Hughes, Nick Surry: Key hedging considerations in negotiating intercreditor terms (126)
Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Elizabeth Stephens: Modernising the redress system: exploring the need for alternative processes (128)
Dominic Stuttaford, Susanna Brain: Interest deductibility: the “unallowable purpose” rule after Blackrock, JTI and Kwik-Fit (129)
Regulars
Book Reviews by Professor Bobby V Reddy (131)
Case Analysis by One Essex Court (133)
Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (137)
Market Movements by CMS (144)
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