Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2025/4

Spotlight

  • Duncan Sheehan: Cryptoassets are choses in action (231)

Features

  • Stephen M Blank, Ken Rothenberg, Phillip D Taylor: Understanding co-operation agreements: current boom, fundamental issues and latest trends (234)
  • Nik Yeo: Cryptoassets as loan security (237)
  • Simon Clarke, Nihar Lovell, Catherine Bagge: Hedging: where is the dividing line? (242)
  • Nick Cusack, Susan Whitehead, Alistair Handy: In sickness and in health: a review of transfer provisions in European leveraged loan agreements (244)
  • Andrew Kinnes, Hamish Patrick: Scotland’s new statutory pledge: taking security over shares (247)
  • Qalid Mohamed, Mhairi Caminiti: Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs): leverage, liquidity and interconnectedness (251)
  • Giles Allison, Haafiz Suleman, Laura Hasson, Jack Robinson, Seraphina Monson: The expanding nature of undervalue transactions: recent cases and practical issues (255)
  • Cameron Roper, Paul Tannenbaum: Navigating the impact of portfolio company distress events under NAV facilities (259)
  • Faizal Khan, Teha Gausel: Transfer restrictions in the age of synthetic credit risk transfer: time for a re-assessment? (261)
  • Stephen Tobin: Considerations for lenders to infrastructure assets (263)
  • Andrew McClurg: Debt financing transactions in Northern Ireland: what practitioners need to know (265)
  • David Shone, Rufus Sachdev-Wood: Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill: good policy, bad politics? (268)
  • Callum Reid-Hutchings: Freezing the status quo: a critical analysis of 2024’s watershed moments in freezing injunction jurisprudence (270)

In Practice

  • Robert Brittain: Wirral v Indivior: a setback for securities law class actions (273)
  • Tirsh O’ Donnell, Mahrnaz AFshar, India Peterson: A defining moment for US digital asset policy (274)
  • Stuart Neely, Lise Smit: Business and human rights developments in the financial sector (275)

Regulars

  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (276)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (280)
  • Market Movements by CMS (284)
  • Deals (286)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (287)

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 2024/11

Spotlight

  • Leonrd Ng, Qalid Mohamed: Artificial intelligence in financial markets: systemic risk and market abuse concerns (715)

Feature

  • Sarah Paterson: The state of cross-class cramdown in the UK (719)
  • Craig Morrison: Knowing is half the battle: the economic torts and lender liability (722)
  • Matt Dunn, Jason Ewart: How do investors make returns on preferred equity? (726)
  • Michelle Glimore-Parry: The asset sales covenant: sometimes when it’s there it’s barely there at all! (728)
  • Nik Yeo: Crypto exchanges: an update on D’Aloia (731)
  • Louis Doyle: Marshalling by apportionment: a developing doctrine (736)
  • Gareth Old, Young Kim: Growing up or coming down to earth? Broader trends in the US CRT market (738)
  • Sung-Hyui Park, Edward Crane: Loans involving companies limited by guarantee: key issues for consideration (740)
  • Simon Clarke, Sarah Hawes, Ceri Morgan, Thomas Vaughan, Erica MacDonald: UK prospectus regime reform: potential impact on securities litigation (742)
  • Darragh Connell: Draft Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill: laying the foundations for the development of the common law (746)
  • Simon Fisher: Forewarned is forearmed: thoughts on the impact of an IT systems outage on security registrations at Companies House (748)
  • Philip Hertz, Michael Lyons, Rahim Darr, Dilara Topcu, Genevieve Morgan: English schemes of arrangement, restructuring plans, insolvency proceedings and the impact of sanctions legislation (751)
  • Russell Kelsall, Paula Twist: The Financial Conduct Authority, the court and the Financial Ombudsman Service: who is in charge? (755)

In Practice

Embedded law

  • Charles Kerrigan: A thought experiment on the future of legal services (757)
  • Herbert Smith Freehills: The auditor’s duty to report to the FCA when it suspects fraudulent activity (759)
  • Claire Clayton-Stead, Leontia McArdle, Megan Ineson: Is the FOS being fair and reasonable in its approach to unaffordable lending complaints? (760)

Regulars

  • Book Review by Geert van Calster of Governing law risks in international business transactions by Philip Wood CBE KC (Hon) (761)
  • Case Analysis by One Essex Court and a lecturer at Meiji University (Japan) (762)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (767)
  • Market Movements by CMS (771)
  • Deals (773)
  • Legal Ease with Lexis+® UK (774)
  • International Briefing from Switzerland (775)

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 2022/7

Spotlight

  • Richard Blakeley: Frozen Russian funds: can the courts let it go? (443)

Features

  • Charlotte Eborall: Waiving goodbye to termination rights in default scenario negotiations (446)
  • Matthey McGhee: Orthodoxy prevails? How receiving banks avoid liability for their customers’ frauds (450)
  • Alex Haines: Licence to Quill: legal services licences following the recent wave of Russian sanctions (453)
  • Hanif Virji: Pre-hedging versus front-running: six of one, and half a dozen of the other? (455)
  • Dionne Brown, Tibor Korman: Anything but equity! Structuring considerations for a debt for equity swap (4579
  • Karl Clowry: Loan defaults: untimely remedies and potential hangovers in credit agreements (461)
  • Scott Ralston: Cryptoassets, consumers and foreign arbitration (464)
  • Katherine Ratcliffe: The classification of interest rate swaps as contingent liability cases (468)
  • Tom Marshall: Blockchain interoperability: connecting decentralised infrastructure for traditional finance (470)
  • Nik Yeo: Tiptoe through the tulips: fiduciary and common law duties of care in cryptocurrency (474)
  • Daniel Benedyk: Extending the cloak: individual immunity for foreign officials (477)
  • Nora Beausang: Brass in pocket: the developing benchmark for establishing “consumer” status (479)
  • Isabel Aguilar Alonso: Protection of securities under custody in Spain (484)

In Practice

  • Matthew Ayre, Jason Larkins: Recurring revenue-based deals (487)
  • Shane McDonald, Oliver Trotman, Chiagozie Ezennia: Recent trends in leveraged financing: the ever more borrower friendly market (489)
  • Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi: The Bank of England’s loose understanding of Islamic financial law (490)

Regulars

  • ESG Update by Oriol Espar and César Herrero (494)
  • Case Analysis by 3 Verulam Buildings (498)
  • Regulation Update by Norton Rose Fulbright (501)
  • Market Movements by CMS (504)
  • Deals (506)
  • Legal Ease with LexisPSL (508)