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 2025/5

Spotlight

  • Suzanne Rab: Between co-operation and collusion? Liability Management Exercises in Europe (291)

Features

  • Vanessa Knapp: Proposed UK corporate redomiciliation: issues for lenders (295)
  • Philip Morrison: ECCTA 2023 and corporate decision-making: considerations for corporate practitioners (298)
  • Michelle Gilmore-Parry: „High water” mark EBIDTA provisions: should lenders fight fires with a pre-agreed „low water” mark EBITDA de minimis? (300)
  • Matthew Padian: So long, farewell: thoughts on transferring security (303)
  • Jonathan Haines: Digital assets and reform of the financial collateral regime (306)
  • Emily Fox, Maura McIntosh, Ceri Morgan, Vanessa Naish, Tiphaine Leverrier: Asymmetric juridiction clauses: when will they be effective? (310)
  • Khrystyna Khanas, Andrii Chornous: Recognition and enforcement of Ukrainian judgments against the Russian Federation in the UK (314)
  • Chris McDermott, Trent E Lindsay, Alix Prentice, Georg Pelling, Eric Starr, John Donnelly: Artice 12 of the US UCC and the draft English Property (Digital Assetsetc) Bill 2024: potential impacts on fund finance transactions (318)
  • Isabel Neelands, Trisha Shah: The lucrative AI debt market – disrupting traditional debt lending: Part 2 (323)
  • Peter Schwartz, Adrian Chiodo, Alexander Clarke: An overview of debt and royalty financing structures for life sciences businesses (327)
  • Jamie Rogers, Ellie Rees, Bethan Savage: Political risk insurance: safeguarding global supply chains amidst geopolitical tensions? (331)
  • Chloe Carpenter: Cross-border privilege (333)
  • Martin Blake, Graham Dunn: Understanding debt finance in football: debt factoring and secured loans (335)

In Practice

  • Fiona Swords: Beware minority shakeholders: lending to the professional services sector (339)
  • Jon Ford, Jack Moore, Clara Browne: Money laundering through the market: enhancing financial crime systems and controls for wholesale firms and trading venues (341)
  • Elenya Ekhaletruo, Claire Clayton-Stead: Merricks v Mastercard settlement: CAT clips litigation funders’ wings (343)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Simon C Y Wong (344)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Forum Chambers (346)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (350)
  • Market Movements by CMS (356)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (358)
  • International Briefing from Finland (359)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/10

Spotlight

  • Trevor Clark: Navigating conflicts of interest in European restructurings (647)

Feature

  • Alexia Knight, Sarah Parker: Alternate realities: transactional and economic reality in APP fraud and unjust enrichment (651)
  • James Palmer: Market abuse and restitution orders: challenges for FCA policy (655)
  • Jonathan Haines: Security financial collateral arrangements and the crystallisation of floating charges (660)
  • Priyanka Usmani, William Swan, Gabby White: How much is a word worth? (662)
  • Tom Leary: Sanctions defences after Celestial Aviation: when does s 44 of SAMLA 2018 help? (665)
  • Laura Prosperetti, Ferdisha Snagg, Bernardo Massella, Ducci Teri, Andreas Wildner, Ludovico Scasselati: Sec v Ripple and MiCAR: the classification of cryptoassets as securities (667)
  • Gareth Eagles, Emma Foster, Sylvana Lee, David Ridley: Two continents separated by a common language? Harmonising US and European loans (671)
  • Deborah Zandstra, James Kelton: A new class of debt instruments: carbon credit linked bonds (676)
  • Bryony Widdup, Emily Julier, Leon Yap: Blended finance: funding sustainable development with public and private funding (679)
  • Alex Potts: Potential litigation risk in private credit and fund finance: disclosure, consent and valuation (683)
  • Emeric Prévost: The law applicable to legal tender of the digital euro: the end of the conundrum? (685)
  • Jean-François Adelle: Secured claims in French restructurings: lessons from the 2021 reforms and recent large case precedents (689)

In Practice

  • Sara Evans, Charlotte Chopping: Can the buyside rely on ESG ratings and data without regulatory risk? (693)
  • Abdullah A Alsaeed, Khaled Alhuneidi, Dean Naumowicz, Yana Nastyushenko: The final piece of the G20 netting puzzle (694)
  • Robert Brittain: Retained EU Law: the implication of keeping s 6 dormant (696)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Julian Craughan of Hogan Lovells (697)
  • Competition Law Update by Matthew Sicnlair-Thomson, Loukia Kopitsa, Lauren Murray of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (698)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings and a future pupil at Temple Chambers, Hong Kong (700)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Market Movements by CMS (709)
  • Deals (711)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (712)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/2

Articles

  • Jonathan Haines: Rethinking rights of use as an English law concept after Brexit (75)

Features

  • Stuart Brinkworth: Liquidity covenants to the fore (80)
  • Nik Yeo: Byers v Saudi National Bank: bona fide purchase, knowing receipt and crypto litigation (83)
  • Paul Cluley: The Bankruptcy Event of Default under ISDA: Part 1 (86)
  • Katie Hoyle, Toby Mann: LMA €STR fallbacks to EURIBOR: use in corporate lending transactions (91)
  • Luke Broadway: Undisclosed agency: characterisation and conflict of laws (93)
  • Simon Mills, Louis Granjouan:Boilerplate terms restricting freedoms in composite transactions: some traps for the unwary (97)
  • Sonya Branch, Jeff Ward: The Nine Cloud Dream: an introduction to the UK’s new oversight regime for critical third parties (100)
  • Sarah Garvey: Hague 2019: extending the lifespan of asymmetric jurisdiction clauses? (104)
  • James Morgan, Zachary Kell: “Trust, not distrust”: can Quincecare apply to cryptocurrency transactions on exchanges? (108)
  • Mark McGuire: Risk retention in securitisations: if not the original lender, who else? (111)
  • Diego Ballon Ossio, Meera Ragha: Unlocking the predictive power of AI in the investment management industry (114)
  • Wojtek Buczynski: Change is the only constant: how to avoid static regulation in the age of AI and other emerging technologies (117)
  • Julian Roberts: Regulating financial innovation: starting from scratch (120)
  • Phoebus L. Athanassiou: Central Bank Digital Currencies, anonymity and privacy: squaring the circle (124)

In Practice

  • Dominic Stuttaford: International financing structures: increased focus on withholding tax (127)
  • Leontia McArdle, Rachel Tookey, Stewart Plant: De-banking: what next for payment service providers? (128)
  • Hywel Jenkins, Clive Cunningham, Cat Dankos: More than meets the eye: a new UK regime for critical third parties: what does it mean for regulated firms? (129)

Regulars

  • Jo Braithwaite: Book Review (131)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (Frischmann/ LLC Eurochem) (132)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (135)
  • Market Movements by CMS (139)
  • Deals (141)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (142)
  • International Briefings from Finland (143)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/5

Spotlight

  • Thomas F. Huertas: Are sanctions sustainable? (295)

Features

  • Philip Wood: Russia and Ukraine: the end of Article VIII 2b? (297)
  • Jamie McDougall, Shan Qureshi, Ben Kovacka, Shweta Rao: Intralot’s drop-down restructuring games: priming pari passu noteholders, circumventing non-consenters and artificially reducing asset values (299)
  • David McIlroy, Ruhi Sethi-Smith: Bankers’ liability for Authorised Push Payment fraud: the evolution of the Quincecare duty (304)
  • Tim Calland: The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022: what does it mean for landlords and their funders? (307)
  • Jonathan Haines: Sanctions test illegality clauses in financial contracts (311)
  • Riz Mokal: Does the liquidator have a duty to deal with trust assets? (313)
  • Jeremiah Wagner, Dan Marcus: Fund finance: the regulatory requirements applicable to securitisations in the EU and UK (319)
  • Christopher Bond: Another roll of the dice: the elusive line between hedging and speculation (323)
  • Hin Liu: Transfers of equitable interests in the digital asset world (325)
  • David Murphy: Saying how versus saying what: the choice of regulatory style in margin policy (335)
  • Chris Wallace: Inside the machine: the European Commission’s proposed consolidated tape for bonds (337)
  • Nakul Dewan: Regulating cryptocurrency by policing advertisements: the approach in the UK, Singapore, India and Spain (340)
  • Richard Calnan: Interpreting statutes and contracts: what are the differences? Part II (344)

In Practice

  • Thomas C. Miller, Aidan E. Lawes: Is it time to review your “standard” increased costs clauses in facility documentation? (347)
  • Ben Thompson: Core-plus infrastructure and leveraged financing: the continued convergence of terms (350)
  • Hugh Evans, Claire Clayton-Stead: The Quincecare duty: 30 years on (352)
  • Book Review by Ross Cranston (353)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Baker McKenzie (354)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (360)
  • Market Movements by CMS (365)
  • Deals (367)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis®PSL (368)