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.

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/7

Spotlight

  • Sarah Peterson: A current legal problem when private equity is distressed (439)

Features

  • Matthew Watson: Everything settled? Risks for buyers trading on the secondary debt market (441)
  • Riz Mokal: The mysterious pari passu principle (443)
  • Mohamed Sacranie: When AI trading bots go rogue, think outside the (black) box (450)
  • Matthew Padian, Joanna Charter: Security release filings, a rogue filer and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (454)
  • Rosalind Phelps: Does a bank owe a “retrieval duty” to the victims of fraud? (457)
  • Thomas Evans, Vishnu Patel: Amendments to the Payment Services Regulations to combat Authorised Push Payment Fraud (460)
  • Douglas Deutsch, Michelle McGreal, Sarah Campbell, Robert Johnson:_ DIP financing in US Chapter 11 cases: how sponsors are utilising equity conversions to obtain recoveries in reorganised debtors (464)
  • Zara McGlone: Risks for lenders as sole signatories on blocked accounts (468)
  • Julian Craughan, David Palmer, Steven Minke, Jane Griffiths: New originators, are you ready for securitisation? (470)
  • Nicholas Kagan, Paul Eastham, Rachel Stables, Andrea Thomas: Certain key issues in private credit: loan structuring, tax issues and conflict considerations ((473)
  • Pim Rank, Ebbe Rogge: Shortening the settlement cycle to T+1: not if but when (476)
  • Russell Kelsall. High Court dismisses unmeritorious “freeman on the land” claims against mortgage lenders (479)
  • Edward Xuejun Li, Monica Neamtiu, Zhiyuan Tu: Strategic secrecy in loan covenant disclosures (481)
  • Paul Marshall: Electronic trade documents: what is a reliable computer system? and problems in contracting for a “reliable system”: clarification and correction (483)

In Practice

  • James Bell: Advising a guarantor (485)
  • Helen Coverdale, Matthew ThornBe careful what you register: Re VE Global UK Ltd (488)
  • Mark Drury, Jennifer Ellis, Kelly Knight, Ben Kerawala, Uden de Silva: IMN Euro CLO Forum 2024 key takeaways (490)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (491)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (496)
  • Market Movements by CMS (499)
  • Deals (501)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+ UK (502)
  • International Briefing from The Netherlands (503)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/5

Spotlight

  • James Palmer: Risk elimination by legislating: the limits of the law and challanges of reality (287)

Features

  • Justina Stewart, Lucian Ilie, Anson Cheung, Hanif Virji: Credit Suisse, AT1 Bonds and taking the BIT between the teeth (293)
  • Ayowande A McCunn, Paul L Davies: On the regualatory 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)
  • Craig Morrison: Electronic deeds: signed, sealed… delivered? (315)
  • Hin Liu: Transferring legal title to a digital asset (317)
  • Dorothy Livingston: Digital securities: where are we now? (329)
  • Jonathan Schaffer-Goddard: Unknown unknowns: the worldwide development of the Worldwide Freezing Order against persons unknown (332)
  • Hannah Laming, Paul Anderson: Edinburgh Reforms: does the Senior Managers and Certification Regime need changing? (335)
  • Nazeer Chowdhury: „More image than a shade”. the time is ripe for reform of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (338)
  • Timothy McIver: Kayleigh Anderson: How has the UK National Security and Investment Act impacted cross-border M&A? (340)
  • Xavier Foccroulle Ménard, Pierre-Alexandre Chagnon: Taking security over Central Bank Digital Currency (345)

In Practice

  • Donald Lowe, James Bell: What can a borrower do when a lender fails to fund? (350)
  • Kelesi Blundell, Ioannis Asimakopoulos: Capital requirements for banks holding cryptoassets: rushing towards the same direction (352)
  • Sophie Lessar, Katie O’Hara: Buy-Now Pay-Later Regulation: what’s next for third-party lenders? (353)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court, Merton College and a research assisteant at the Law Commission (354)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (359)
  • Market Movements by CMS (363)
  • Deals (365)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+© UK (366)
  • International Briefing from New Zealand (367)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2023/5

Spotlight

  • James Palmer: Risk elimination by legislating: the limits of the law and challenges of reality (287)

Features

  • Justina Stewart, Lucian Ilie, Anson Cheung, Hanif Virji: Credit Suisse, AT1 bonds and taking the BIT between the teeth (293)
  • 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)
  • Craig Morrison: Electronic deeds: signed, sealed … delivered? (315)
  • Hin Liu: Transferring legal title to a digital asset (317)
  • Dorothy Livingston: Digital securities: where are we now? (329)
  • Jonathan Schaffer-Goddard: Unknown unknowns: the worldwide development of the Worldwide Freezing Order against persons unknown (332)
  • Hannah Laming, Paul Anderson: Edinburgh Reforms: does the Senior Managers and Certification Regime need changing? (335)
  • Nazeer Chowdhury: “More image than a shade”: the time is ripe for reform of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (338)
  • Timothy McIver: How has the UK National Security and Investment Act impacted cross-border M&A? (350)
  • Xavier Foccroulle Ménard, Pierre-Alexandre Chagnon: Taking security over Central Bank Digital Currency (345)

In Practice

  • Donald Lowe, James Bell: What can a borrower do when a lender fails to fund? (350)
  • Kelesi Blundell, Ioannis Asimakopoulos. Capital requirements for banks holding cryptoassets: rushing towards the same direction (352)
  • Sophie Lessar, Katie O’Hara: Buy-Now Pay-Later Regulation: what’s next for third-party lenders? (353)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court, Merton College and a research assistand at the Law Commission (354)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (359)
  • Market Movements by CMS (363)
  • Deals (365)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (366)
  • International Briefings from New Zealand (367)