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 2023/8

Spotlight

  • Graham Penn: A wolf in sheep’s clothing: are transfers of economic interests undermining privity of contract in the medium-term loan market? (507)

Features

  • David McIlroy, Ruhi Sethi-Smith: No point preventing fraud? Philipp v Barclays Bank
  • Paul Fradley, Matteo Clarkson-Maciel:The spectre of Spectrum: after Avanti and the sliding scale of floating to fixed charges (517)
  • Mohamed Sacranie:Blue pill or red pill? Into the Tulip Trading rabbit hole (521)
  • Akhil Shah, Daniel Schwennicke:Damages for breach of anti-assignment clauses (525)
  • Edward J Nalbantian, Liz Saxton:Hedging and lending: a practical guide (527)
  • Michael Collett:Illusory security of banks in trade finance (531)
  • Matthew Bisanz, Angela Ulum: A path back to growth for community banks: credit risk transfer trades (535)
  • Hanif Virji:Repos used in LDI should be seen as either loans or derivatives, but not neither! (537)
  • Gretel Scott: Remedies for victims of crypto fraud (539)
  • James Sheesan:Russian sanctions in the English courts (543)
  • Pim Heemskersk, Roger H J Cox:Banks’ climate liability: what to learn from states and oil majors (547)
  • Philine Wehling: A roadmap for legal reform: the future UNCITRAL/UNIDROIT Model Law on Warehouse Receipts (553)
  • William Brydie-Watson: The missing piece of the puzzle: the adoption of the UNIDROIT Model Law on Factoring (556)
  • David Pygott: The future of FCA enforcement (562)

In Practice

  • Christopher Boyd: Implications of proposed legislation in New York for sovereign debt restructuring (564)
  • Charles Kerrigan, Isabel Neelands: Generative AI, banking and financial markets (566)
  • Jeremy Sher, Claire Clayton-Stead, Erin Sculthorpe: Climate derivative actions: over before they began? (567)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Charles Béar KC of Fountain Court Chambers (568)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court (569)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (572)
  • Market Movements by CMS (577)
  • Deals (579)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis®PSL (580)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2022/8

Spotlight

  • Luka Lightfoot, James Clarke, Natalie Butchart: I would if I could, but I can’t: the impact of sanctions on finance party interactions in typical debt-financing transactions (511)

Features

  • Matteo Clarkson-Maciel, Paul Fradley: The Excluded Asset Gap: why floating charges capture realisations of unsecured assets (515)
  • Charlotte Eborall, Sarah Parker: Bragging rights: termination clauses and implied duties of good faith (518)
  • Peter de Verneuil Smith, Shail Patel, William Harman: UK securities fraud litigation gains momentum: Autonomy and G4S (521)
  • Stephan Smoktunowicz: Legal conundrums: taking security from English limited partnerships (524)
  • Hin Liu, Louise Gullifer: Financial collateral arrangements in the digital asset world (527)
  • Hanif Virji: Musk v Twitter, it’s not just lawyers who have an opinion on the likelihood of success of the litigation, the market does too! (536)
  • Amy Held: Cryptoassets as property under English Law: surveying the present lie of the land (538)
  • Daniel May, Ceri Morgan, Nick May, Susannah Cogman, Minolee Shah: Russian sovereign debt default: a disputes perspective (543)
  • John Lee: The endgame: issues in enforcement against cryptoassets (545)
  • Phoebus L Athanassiou: Financial sanctions and the case for digital central bank money (549)
  • Chris Wallace: Take-off for digital bonds? The EU DLT pilot regime (553)
  • Michael Huertas: Supervisory tone sharpens further following ECB’s conclusions on its Desk Mapping Review (556)

In Practice

  • Sanjev Warna-kula-suriya, Mathilde Deschanet: The Draft RTS on ESG disclosures for STS securitisations: a hit or a miss? (559)
  • Fiona Henderson, Laura Collins:Embedded finance: key considerations for funders of platform borrowers (560)
  • Sohail Ali, Suhail Mayor: The “crypto crash”: a catalyst for further crypto litigation? (561)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Charles Ho Wang Mak (562)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and Latham & Watkins (563)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (568)
  • Market Movements by CMS (573)
  • Deals (575)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (576)