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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)
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)
Scott Ralston: Lex situs and its discontents: English security over foreign assets (514)
Isabel Neelands, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian: Debt financing of AI companies: identifying “AI assets” for the security net (517)
Vasanti Selvaratnam, Paul Schwartfeger, Kaity Crowe: (Un)reasonable endeavours: force majeure clauses and offers of non-contractual performance (521)
David Turner, Conor Ewing: Assignment or charge over warranty and indemnity insurance policies as security? (525)
Sarah-Jane Denton, Simon Witney: The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: impact on financial services businesses (528)
Taraq Zafar Rasheed, Bogomil Kukovski: Mandatory collateralisation of hedging transactions under senior secured facilities (531)
Lee Federman, Adam Wolinsky: IOSCO Leveraged Loans and Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Good Practices for Consideration: how will this impact leveraged loan documentation? (534)
Karl Clowry, Seán McGuinness: Tacking: what further advances since 2002? (537)
Lucy Williams, Linda El-Halabi: Leading the charge (pun intended): international security transactions in the Middle East (542)
Roger Gherson, Valeriya Grebenkova, Cong Gao: Financial sanctions and investment treaty arbitration (545)
David Siesage: Judicial review in the financial services sector: a question of risk and reward (548)
Kit Smith: Anti-suit relief: Bourlakova and Magomedov and the non-contractual jurisdiction (551)
Danny Busch, Matthias Lehmann: Turn the Unfair Terms Directive into a Regulation! (554)
In Practice
Charles Malpass, Roxanne Paes: Lending transactions: putting the power in powers of attorney (558)
Charles Kerrigan, Claire Whittaker: Retrieval augmented generation in LLMs: AI for lawyers (560)
Hywel Jenkins, Jack Moore, Cat Dankos: Beware of regulators bearing gifts (562)
Jeremy Sher, Benjamin Fellows, Leontia McArdle: SRA warning on the conduct of mass financial mis-selling claims: what will be the impact on motor finance claims? (564)
Regulars
Case Analysis by One Essex Court and 4 Pump Court (565)
Tetyana Nesterchuk: Unlocking the use of Russian Central Bank assets: is collateralisation the answer? (295)
Features
Louise Gullifer: Non-notification receivables financing: can the assignor sue without joining the assignee? (299)
Jeremy Duffy, Tom Falkus, Richard Lloyd, Sherri Snelson, Samantha Richardson: Fund finance and sustainability: new guidance on the application of the SLLPs (303)
Christopher Boardman, Tom Beasley: Pitfalls with board resolutions authorising loan facilities (306)
Daniel Lightman, Reuben Comiskey: The rule in Clayton’s Case: its application in non-banking relationships (309)
Brie Stevens-Hoare: Delivering valid notices of assignment: s 136 in 2024 (312)
Matthew Parker: Does the restoration of Crown preference mean that guarantors can get off the hook? (316)
Emmar Radmore, Natalie Caple: Joining the dots: a wider use for AML e-verification tools? (319)
Nicholas Broomfield: A mortgagee’s accountability for mortgage valuations following Shokrollah-Babaee v EFG Private Bank (321)
Angela Batterson: The dynamics of insurers as lenders in the NAV market (325)
Charles Kerrigan, Charlotte Bellamy: Artificial intelligence in syndicated lending (327)
Sam Roberts: Channel Islands and statutory fences: obtaining evidence for use overseas (333)
Paul Ferguson, Karl Clowry, Harriet Territt, Aziz Abdul: Going cashless: the treatment of cryptoassets in insolvency proceedings (335)
Caroline Dawson, Paul Ellison, Sara Evans: Enhancing trust in ESG ratings: welcome moves to fix the ecosystem (337)
In Practice
Laura Smith: Rated subscription lines: bringing fund governing documents and finance documents into focus (341)
Jon Ford, Michael Tan: CP24/2: a comparison with other International Financial Centres (343)
Lee Harding, Prag Sivaguru: Culture and D&I in Financial Services: the latest reforms to shift the dial (344)
Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The critical importance of “Shariah compliance” in the Islamic financial services industry: the UK’s need for jurisprudential clarity (346)
