Butterorths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2026/7

Spotlight

  • William E Eye, Andrew de Mestre: Hybrid debt agreements and cross-border enforcement risk (459)

Features

  • Richard Salter: The right for a chargor entity to request enforcement (464)
  • Louise Hutton, Mohamed Sacranie: Service out of anti-suit injunction arbitration claims: two areas of uncertainty (466)
  • Georgia Quenby: Entirely unco-operative, Part 2: if an LME becomes a Restructuring Plan will anti-co-ops limit the Plan’s likelihood of approval or fracture the class? (470)
  • Dan Harris: An equity repo trapped in the body of a secured loan agreement? Equity finance after Shukla (472)
  • James Sheehan, James Clarke, Julian Godfray: Celestial v UniCredit: the Supreme Court decision and its ramifications (476)
  • Tim Lees, Alexander Hutcheson, Lewis Cymbal, Harini Viswanathan: Insolvency in English limited partnerships: considerations for fund finance lenders (480)
  • Oliver Heiland, Christopher Gardner: Governance-by-design for private markets: from platforms to capital infrastructure (484)
  • Daniel Hendon, Andrew Surgey, Alice Dawson-Loynes: Dodgy financial reporting or financial covenant breach (490)
  • John Corrie, Jon Ford, Nic Patmore, Ceri Morgan, Emma Bridgeman: Behind the Synthetic Capital Relief: understanding the litigation risk landscape (493)
  • Ferdisha Snagg, Noah D’Aeth: Prediction markets in the UK: betting the house or hedging your bets? (496)
  • Vanessa Yi Ting Cheok: Bridging public regulations and private rights in the US GENIUS Act and Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance: Part 1 – contractual right to redeem (501)
  • Adam Sanitt: UK Jurisdiction Taskforce publishes Report on Control of Digital Assets (506)
  • Ahmed Ashfaq: Critical services disruption: the importance of financial institutions’ ability to demonstrate their response and how (508)

In Practice

  • John Lee: DeFi exploits, on-chain interventions and the private key: recent developments in cryptoasset recovery (511)
  • Dominic Stuttaford, Matthew Hodkin: Withholding tax: treaty shopping – or not? (513)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings and Gough Square Chambers (515)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (522)
  • Market Movements by CMS (525)
  • Deals (527)
  • Legal Ease by Lexis+® UK: Navigating the Gulf crisis (528)
  • International Briefing from France (530)

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 2023/8

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)