Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/8

Spotlight

  • Paul Sidle: AI’s current and emerging impact on restructuring and insolvency (535)

Features

  • Johan Lundberg: What belongs in a local security document? The function of local security documents in cross-border finance (541)
  • Jennifer B. McLellan: Loan-linked hedging for the buy side – Part 1 (of 10): an introduction (547)
  • Vanessa Knapp: Companies Act 2006: time to review? (553)
  • Liisa Lahti, Victor Steinmetz, Emma Hughes: The doctrine of clogs on the equity of redemption: the unruly dog unleashed (557)
  • Robin Springthorpe, Annabelle Wheeler, Emma Giddings: The impact of jet fuel volatility on aviation finance (561)
  • Ian Wilson: Third-party contractual rights in banking and finance: reconsidering the 1999 Act (564)
  • Özge Gizem Yerlikaya: Private credit funds and UK lending: mapping the regulatory perimeter (566)
  • Orbay Çokgör: Enforcement of security over digital assets: the importance of pre-emptive structural design (571)
  • Vanessa Yi Ting Cheok: Bridging public regulations and private rights in the US GENIUS Act and Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance – Part 2: trusts and bankruptcy (574)
  • Dagmar Gold: German share pledges in insolvency: disposal authority, enforcement design and security agent risk (579)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Noah D’Aeth: The smarter regulatory framework: a model of things to come? (582)
  • Britt Miller, Ian McDonald, Matthew Provance, Jan Henning Buschfeld, Mark Hills, Megan Stride, Teresa Gerhold-Kempf, Natalie Holman, Hormis Kallarackel, Ora Nwabueze, Sarah Shearman: The state of third-party litigation funding: what companies facing funded claims need to know – Part I: the UK and EU (586)
  • Elia Ferdinando Clarizia, Marco Mazzola: Lending to Italian obligors in cross-border finance transactions: main legal and tax considerations (590)

In Practice

  • Charles Kerrigan: AI lemons and the economics of unverifiable quality: Part 2 – new kinds of firms (595)
  • Morven Henderson, Abbie Copping, Tony Katz, Sophie Lessar: The proposed reforms to the financial promotions regime for consumer credit: a move to an outcomes-based approach (599)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Ian Thomas, Rashid Ahmed: SMF7 extension: from conduct to control (601)

Obituary

  • Ross Cranston: Professor Sir Royston Goode (603)

Regulars

  • ESG Update by A&O Sherman (604)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court, Gough Square Chambers and NLIU (India) (605)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (613)
  • Market Movements by CMS (617)
  • Deals (619)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (620)
  • International Briefings: The Netherlands and Hong Kong (621)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/2

Spotlight

  • Philip Wood: Smart legal opinions, digitalisation and insolvency netting (79)

Features

  • Fred Hobson, Vanshaj Jain: Guardrails on contractual discretions: navigating the content and consequences of the Braganza constraint (81)
  • Isabella Lewis: Security over e-money: the form of security and blocking (84)
  • 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)
  • Dominic Gregory: Sustainable finance: leaving everyone behind (112)
  • 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)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (135)
  • Market Movements by CMS (139)
  • Deals (141)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK (142)
  • International Briefing from Finland (143)

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 2025/2

Spotlight

  • 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

Feature

  • 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)
  • Deals (146)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (147)
  • International Briefings from the USA and Finland (148)